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Additional reporting by Liz Ohanesian
Sunset Junction's cancellation -- and the organizers' seeming subsequent disappearance -- has had folks scrambling to get their tickets refunded. Now, a week later, there has been some progress.
We reported ear...
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Glasses Malone
(See also "Pop Bottles: Glasses Malone's Debut Album Finally Drops")
Glasses Malone just released Beach Cruiser on Cash Money Records, which is having itself quite a week, what with Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV hitting stores.
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Scott Rosenquist
By Pamela Chelin
"Recently we moved a woman who typically dates rocker guys," says Scott Rosenquist, the owner of the Real Rock 'n' Roll Movers. "She wanted a list in advance of the guys who were coming over to move her, to make...
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Adrian Younge always has movies on his mind. Actually, he always has the music that plays in movies on his mind.
The 33-year-old Angelino musician, DJ and record-store proprietor -- who DJs at Verdugo Bar tonight -- rose to prominence when he scor...
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I'm OK, but my belt sick
Young Jeezy & Freddie Gibbs
House of Blues
August 30, 2011
Better than: Thug Motivation 301: Advanced Quantum Theory with lab
There was a whiff of condescending concern as well as good old-fashioned indignation amongst t...
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There's a full moon, and the Tijuana Panthers are thirsty for tequila.
There have be...
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Sunset Junction Fallout, Part I: Charles Bradley Lost A "Major Financial Anchor" Of His Tour
Sunset Junction Fallout, Part III: Art Brut Feared They'd Been "Bankrupted"
Many Silver Lake businesses expected to take a financial hit when Sunset Juncti...
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Lots of side-eyed glances and hip-hop blog grousing followed the announcement last spring that L.A.-via-Gary, Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs had signed with Atlanta trap star Young Jeezy's label, CTE.
But was Gangsta Gibbs signing his death sentence?...
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*Top Five Rappers (Including Drake) In Absolutely Ridiculous Sweaters
*Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Drake Is An Incredible Lyricist
Lil Wayne's magnum crapus Tha Carter IV came out yesterday; first up in our Weezy coverage was Daniel Kohn's really funny p...
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L.A. rap mainstay OMNI's new project with Tricky is available for free download today. Titled IamOMNI, it sees the trip-hop icon handling production duties while the MC raps what is being pitched as a rousing "call to arms for the youth to claim cont...
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Glasses Malone's Beach Cruiser finally comes out today. But the Watts gangsta rapper was offered a deal more than four years ago by Cash Money Records co-founder Birdman on the strength of the single "Certified," and Beach Cruiser was originally slot...
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Charles Bradley at The Echo
Sunset Junction Fallout, Part II: Local Businesses Got Screwed
Sunset Junction Fallout, Part III: Art Brut Feared They'd Been "Bankrupted"
Last week's Sunset Junction fiasco left many folks disappointed, but the crowd ...
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Stay tuned to West Coast Sound for more updates until this matter is resolved.
Wednesday afternoon update: Origami Vinyl has begun refunding folks who bought tickets there.
Wednesday morning update: Silver Lake Farmer's Market manager Edwin Gomez is...
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Summertramp
So, yeah, Sunset Junction was canceled, but the parties went on anyway, and yesterday we told you about all of Saturday's action.
So how about Sunday? We noticed a decrease on Sunset Boulevard from the day before, but packs still ga...
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So, yesterday should have been perhaps the best day of Kreayshawn's life. Fresh off of a quite-compelling performance before a sold out crowd at the Roxy in her adopted hometown on Saturday, she was nominated for best new artist at the VMA's last nig...
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By Javier Cabral
The Casualties, Angry Samoans and JFA
House of Blues
8-28-2011
Better Than...staying home and getting ready for the first day of school.
What happens when you bring together the most fundamental old school and new school punk roc...
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Beck
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Beck, Sean Lennon, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Lulu Gainsbourg, Mike Patton, Zola Jesus, Victoria Legrand, Ed Droste, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Hollywood Bowl
August 28, 2011
Better Than: Remaining ignorant of where bands like ...
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Tha Carter IV is out today. Big news, right? Well, it turns out that I'm one Kevin Bacon link away from the man himself. It's true. My brother and Lil Wayne once shared a blunt.
The story takes place in early 2005, about nine months before Tha Carte...
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In our cover story this week, Jeff Weiss investigates the life and times of rapper Game, finding the prankster and West coast hip hop titan to be "an open book with an unreliable narrator." With his fourth record The R.E.D. Album released last Tuesda...
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Butch Walker and the Black Widows
Strolling through the events that popped up in the wake of Sunset Junction's cancellation, it was clear that folks were upset.
The maelstrom of negativity against the fair and its director Michael McKinley -- as...
