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Hip Hop contender and LA Weekly-cover pinup guy Freddie Gibbs will be playing Spaceland on Saturday, May 8.
From Jeff Weiss' profile of Gibbs for the Weekly last December:
"My uncle went from a king to a fiend, before he got murdered," Gibbs lamen...
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[From LAWeekly's column The Beat]
Caetano Veloso plays the Greek this Thursday, April 15, marking the belated U.S. release of his 2009 album, Zii e Zie, a challenging collection of new songs co-produced by his son Moreno.
Veloso is 67, a y...
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nearly seriously injured Galeon.
In 2001, Death Angel returned to recording brutal albums and hit the road again. On Wednesday night, Death Angel (with original members Rob Cavestany and Mark Osegueda) makes a rare stop in Los Angeles for the always...
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The whereabouts of Jneiro Jarel are a bit of a mystery.
Though the prolific underground producer first made his name in Houston opening for groups like the Pharcyde and the Geto Boys, he rose to prominence in New York as part of the extended Okaypl...
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Friday:
It's Fever Ray vs. PiL
Gil Scott-Heron vs. Specials
Saturday
It's Tiesto vs. Dead Weather (heh heh, "Tiesto")
and both of them vs. Die Antwoord (no contest)
It's The Gossip vs. The Raveonettes (catfight!)
Sunday
It's Gary Numan vs. Pave...
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We don't know if this announcement had anything to do with it, but the 3-day passes at Coachella are now sold out, according to Ticketmaster.
Thus, you might be forced to do some demeaning stuff in an Indio parking lot to make a weekending yuppie ge...
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The Scenestar reports that South African hip-hop internet sensation Die Antwoord (The Answer) has been added to the Coachella lineup.
Most of you are squealing like little inbred albino girls in excitement. Many of you are sporting huge boners withi...
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PK-14
The China Invasion tour made it all the way from Beijing to Highland Park's American Legion Hall, a community center that doubles as a venue for little rock shows. Carsick Cars, PK-14, and AV Okubo arrived from Beijing via Austin with press ...
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Flocks of vinyl junkies filled the Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown on Sunday and transformed the indoor/outdoor space into the Beat Swap Meet, a treasure-trove for record collectors.
Sunday marked two years since the start of the 12-inch and 7-in...
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The slightly controversial band (read more after the jump) has the new music on lockdown, so WCS will instead debut the new video by Eric Wareheim of Crystal Castles collaborators and local heroes, Health. Witness the continuation of Health's NSFW fi...
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Last month we hipped you to the pending Take full-length, Only Mountain forthcoming on Alpha Pup, and shared the West Coast Sound exclusive "Don't Look Down."
With only a week until that excellent album's release, Take has teamed up with his Low End...
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If you felt like giving or receiving an award this weekend, L.A. was the place to be. Metal magazine Revolver celebrated the best of the genre with their annual Golden Gods Awards. Meanwhile, the tech community selected the best in web television for...
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"I was upset when I heard the news, as I've always had a soft spot for Malcolm. I knew him since I was 17 before the Pistols formed--I used to drive him around in Vivienne Westwood's car to the tailors in London in the days of the 'Let It Rock' clot...
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File under "How Cool Is This":
Local icon-maker (much like Echo Park's own Andrei Rublev!) Shepard Fairey has just released a very limited edition print of Iggy and the Stooges celebrating Columbia Record's revamping of the Raw Power franchise.
Pri...
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[Ed's Note: Today KCRW is airing last Tuesday's very exclusive concert benefit at Vibiana by Corinne Bailey Rae. Here's our eyewitness review of the show.]
There wasn't a lot of between-song banter last night as Corinne Bailey Rae kicked off her Nor...
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That faint sound you just heard is the controlled explosion of thousands of heads of hipsters (aka Pabstafarians) and Silver Lake stroller mommies bursting in artsy joy at the very thought of two of their favorite things making twee art together.
(I...
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Vli, Norse god of vengeance paid Los Angeles a visit, and he brought his boys.
Last night, under Hoth's moon, Sweden's melodic-death-metal sons of Thor, Amon Amarth, (and Swiss folk-metal outfit Eluveitie) played House of Blues.
Everyone looking ...
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Tijuana-based electronic musician Pepe Mogt, aka Fussible from the outstanding Nortec Collective (and his Latinsizer project) has gotten his hands on an iPad with the Electribe app, and the results are more than promising.
Mogt is no stranger to cu...
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Much has been written about Devo's return to the spotlight after a relatively quiet two decades.
Following a retro tour that found the band performing its two biggest records on back-to-back nights, the strange brains behind the now L.A.-based band...
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Here's what he posted about his find at Los Feliz's amazing metalhead-run-and-operated mecca for used and new vinyl Vacation Records:
I got this record I picked up at the excellent Los Angeles all-vinyl store called Vacation. It's an old compilatio...
