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Whatever your favorite things in L.A., it's time to share your wealth of knowledge and make sure the coolest places and things are honored. How, you ask? Easy. Vote in the Best of L.A. Readers Poll! Time is running out to make your voice heard, so vo...
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The Weeknd
Greek Theatre
9/16/13
Towards the end of his show last night Abel Tesfaye, the singer known as The Weeknd, launched into the title track from his new album Kiss Land. "This song sums up the last year of my life," he said before singing pa...
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The latest game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V, drops today and takes place in a fictionalized version of L.A. The music is predictably amazing, featuring curated music from Flying Lotus, Twin Shadow, Wavves and Soulwax, plus new, unreleased songs...
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A chance meeting at an artist colony on the island of Crete brought together the five members of Grouplove, and the Laurel Canyon-based act's blend of indie pop and alt rock turned their first single, "Tongue Tied," into a surprise hit last year. (It...
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Dear Fan,
I'm in a relatively new band inMinneapolis. We're about two years old, and things have been going very well for us. We're not a buzz band by any means, butthe EP has gotten us a fair amount of attention, at least locally. We've opened for...
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Scene from the Mad Decent block party
Mad Decent Block Party
L.A. Center Studios
9/14/13
Better than: Decent
At the L.A. stop for the annual Mad Decent Block Party on Saturday, there was more booty shakin' and molly poppin' than you could sha...
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Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson and bassist Steve Harris
Iron Maiden, Megadeth, and others
San Manuel Amphitheater
September 13, 2013
Better Than: Commemorating the day by playing the shitty NES game, Friday The 13th.
Some of our fondest l...
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By Jaime-Paul Falcon
Not sure if anyone told you, but football is back! Did you know that, sometimes, when the players score, they do dances in the "end zone"? It's true. We can probably expect to see some twerking before long, in fact, but in the m...
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Laura Mvula -- See Tuesday
Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar
Monday, September 16
The Weeknd
GREEK THEATRE
No matter what Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, sings about, there's often an air of me...
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Scribes
A native of Seattle, Scribes has an album engineered by Macklemore -- 2007's Sleepwalk -- in his catalog. But he left his devoted fan base behind and has been in L.A. for a year now. But he's finding a home here; he has a unique, half-R&B,...
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See also: Henry Rollins: End of Summer Rituals
Fanatics! Sometimes, I have to wonder how in the hell it keeps staying so great week after week. No, really. No matter how hard we try, we cannot run out of amazing music to bring to you. We have been a...
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Death in June Unmasked
Death In June
The Vex Arts
September 12, 2013
Better Than: The actual death of the west.
Death In June kicked off their Death of the West American tour last night at Vex Arts. The arrangements were sparse, emphasizing fou...
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Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar
Friday, September 13
Monophonics
THE MINT
Monophonics are like a whole section of the record store come to life -- especially that wall above the register where they keep the...
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Star Girls
Los Globos
3040 W. Sunset Blvd., Silver Lake, Fri., Sept. 13, 9 p.m.-3 a.m., 21+; RSVP for $5 entry before 10 p.m.
Dragonfly
6510 Santa Monica Blvd., Hlywd., Fri., Sept. 13, 9 p.m.
Catch One
4067 W. Pico Blvd., Arlington Heights | F...
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During its formative years, rock n' roll was attacked by critics who thought it was the devil's music. We suspect that to not actually be the case, and that those among the genre's pioneers who have passed on are, in fact, jamming with the man upstai...
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See also: Henry Rollins: Music Keeps You Young
On the last day of last month, my inner emo-boy said it was the last day of summer. I felt the need to cram in all of my loose-end summer music listening before the Sept. 1 self-imposed cutoff. There ar...
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Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson (third from left)
Legendary British metallers Iron Maiden return to Southern California tomorrow, headlining San Manuel Amphitheater with Megadeth, Anthrax, and Testament. Now 35 years into their career, they ...
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It's 100 degrees, and Gavin Turek is drinking iced coffee in a North Hollywood pie shop. All curly hair, brown eyes and toothy smiles, Turek has the poise of an industry vet but the unjaded enthusiasm of a music-scene newbie. The 26-year-old singer g...
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The internet has made the dream of becoming a rapper attainable for many poseurs, ridiculous characters and shameless self promoters. Even comedians.
Take Los Angeles-based comic Chris D'Elia, most famous for his role as Alex Miller on the NBC show...
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Chester Watson
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.]
Before "the rap game" became the operative clich, there were freestyle routines in...
