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(See also: Our Band of Horses and Brett Netson slideshow)?
Band of Horses
The Wiltern
September 8, 2011
Better Than: Sitting on the porch of a cabin in the woods with loved ones drinking a beer and listening to cicadas.
Band of Horses has...
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Circle One
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By Javier Cabral
The Vibrators and Circle One
The Airliner
9-8-2011
Better than: Going to Artwalk!
You know it's going to be a decent show when the parking lot behind the venue is packed with a bunch of tailgating teenage pu...
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Back in February Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett cryptically commented to Rolling Stone that the band was crafting something that was "not really 100 percent a Metallica record."
Indeed, it turned out that the band was working with Lou Reed on a fu...
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By Michael Christopher
Criss cross continents for as long as the National has and weird shit is bound to happen.Take, for instance, an incident lastsummer in Honolulu when the band's frontman, Matt Berninger, was taken into federal custody under s...
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For those who like to party, Summer's soiree schedule still shines pretty bright even as the seasonal shift begins. This week offers plenty of opportunities to get down 'ti' the leaves turn brown. It's in fact a very colorful week in L.A., club-wise,...
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Ramn Amezcua (Bostich) and Pepe Mogt (Fussible)
It's surely not their city's architectural beauty that keeps a firm grip on Tijuana-based folk-tronic duo Bostich + Fussible. But the city's well-guarded Bohemian underpinnings -- independent art ga...
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So & So
Viper Room
September 7, 2011
Better than: Being stuck in a steam room with 98.7 FM on the radio.
Los Angeles-based folk-rockers So & So performed a triumphant gig at the center of a nuclear reactor last night. . . oh, wait. It was actu...
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Tim Armstrong
Rancid, Agnostic Front
House of Blues Anaheim
Downtown Disney
September 7, 2011
Better than: Knocking down brews with your bros at ESPN Zone.
Sing the song of shirtless guy, he's sweating all over you...
The House of Blues is sma...
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Now that we have been released from the grips of August and go deeper into September, I am changing my listening selections, putting some bands back on the shelf and taking others to the turntable. At this point, these changes are probably nothing mo...
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Long before there was rap vixen Nicki Minaj, and almost a decade prior to Lil Kim and Foxy Brown introducing the world to their sexed-up shopping spree lyrics, two female rappers from the heart of Queens named Salt-N-Pepa helped craft the idea of sas...
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By Craig D. Lindsey
Detroit soul/funk guitarist Dennis Coffey was supposed to do a show at the Troubadour this week. Unfortunately, it was canceled. But considering how fascinating the man is, we decided to profile him anyway.
After all, Coffey bro...
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The La Habra 21-year-old toys with that notion on his latest, just-released rap mixtape, the very good I Don't Care, but only to a point: He might be opening the door, but admission's free. The mixtape's intensely personal lyrics seem to be more of a...
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It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a permit to cry. As local indie-music fans know, City Councilman Eric Garcetti's office has not been kind to live-music practitioners in recent months: The Sunset Junction festival's last-minute permit denial followe...
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Born legally blind, Mickey Schiff experienced his surroundings as though they were a Monet landscape -- all colors and shapes and softness. When he was 11 his vision was corrected, turning the word into edges, hard angles and lines so sharp that he w...
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I cain't quit yew.
Last month I posed the question: Which Is Better: Spotify or Grooveshark? Though my comparison of the two music subscription services wasn't entirely conclusive, I reckoned that, in the end, "Grooveshark just has too many glitch...
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But give Wayne a little credit. Though his wordplay inspires facepalms, the themes of his songs don't plumb the depths of rap cliche hell like those of many of his contemporaries. Today's hip-hop songs generally tackle the same handful of topics, iss...
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But, guess what? They've rescheduled. Details below, as well as info for those who want refunds. The show is back on for December 1st at the Palladium. Press release below.
IGGY AND THE STOOGES SHOW RESCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 1ST AT HOLLYWOOD PALL...
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Power pop, like bubblegum before it, is often viewed as the domain of skinny-tie moptoppers singing ditties about girls and cars. Longtime power pop icon Tommy Keene, however, doesn't fit this stereotype. His moodier music accentuates the "power" in ...
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Spazzing out
The Spazmatics
The Dragonfly
9-4-11
Better than... getting the high score on Ms. Pac-Man.
Recently, nerdcore '80s band The Spazmatics have been bringing their cover song chaos to L.A. clubs including Playhouse, The Key Club, and Rol...
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I assume he brings a change of clothes when he's on tour with Suicidal Tendencies
Thundercat
The Echo
September 5, 2011
See also Ian Cohen's feature profile: Thundercat Emerges With His Debut, Co-produced by Flying Lotus
Better than: The Gobots...
