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  Tonight in LA: Ghanian Hip Hop, Blowfly and Les Nubians, Among Others

  Okay, so on the surface perhaps a slow Thursday night in LA. No grand slams, it would seem, few hipster throw-downs. But I would like to present a few pieces of evidence that might provide a little nudge out the door tonight. Item one: BLOWFLY. ...

  @ West Coast Sound by Randall Roberts on May 15, 2008 @ 5:17 pm

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  Newspaper industry death watch vs. music industry death watch: Why did the NY Times fire music biz reporter Jeff Leeds?

  It's been a bad month or two for music industry reporters at America's major daily newspapers. You probably remember the LA Times' retraction of Chuck Phillips' story on P. Diddy's responsibility for Tupac's shooting death. Now, the New York Times h...

  @ West Coast Sound by Alec Hanley Bemis on May 15, 2008 @ 1:00 pm

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  Metallica and Scars on Broadway Unload at Benefit for Silverlake Conservatory of Music

  Metallica / Scars on Broadway: Benefit for Silverlake Conservatory of Music The Wiltern, May 14. By Paul Rogers Metallica, with Flea, at last night's benefit, simultaneously filling their diapers. (Photo by Gary Leonard) There's an irony to a be...

  @ West Coast Sound by LA Weekly on May 15, 2008 @ 10:14 am

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  LA Weekly Interviews Mark Eitzel of American Music Club

  American Music Club, circa 2008 American Music Club's new album, The Golden Age (Merge), begins with what seems to me two perfect Southern California couplets that capture a particular feeling and a particular breeze: "I wish that we were always hi...

  @ West Coast Sound by Randall Roberts on May 15, 2008 @ 9:40 am

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  Shiny, Happy People: El-P's Weareall goingtoburninhell megamixx 2

  Currently, barnstorming the country with Dizzee Rascal, Kidz in the Hall and Busdriver on the Stuff White People Like Tour 2008, the Def Jux chieftain has been peddling the next installment of his limited edition 500-only Weareallgoingtoburninhellmeg...

  @ West Coast Sound by Jeff Weiss on May 14, 2008 @ 5:00 pm

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  Neil Hamburger Spins Bing Crosby Live at Dublab.com NOW!

  No, really, you should listen to Neil Hamburger's guest DJ slot at Dublab right now.

  @ West Coast Sound by Randall Roberts on May 14, 2008 @ 1:18 pm

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  KCRW Launches New Guest DJ Sessions featuring Conan O'Brien, Jason Reitman and others

  Everybody has an opinion about music, especially celebrities, and KCRW is harnessing this intrinsic reality with a new online series which launches today called the Guest DJ Project. Each week, a member of KCRW's on-air staff interviews a person of n...

  @ West Coast Sound by Randall Roberts on May 14, 2008 @ 7:43 am

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  The Islands' "Arms Way," Islands' Kona Pie and The Pros of "Miscenegenation"

  Ultimately, it was a ballsy essay with some valid points and some not-so-valid ones. Despite their obvious talent, I've quite often found myself disinterested in the more vanilla "indie groups" like The Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie* and Sufjan St...

  @ West Coast Sound by Jeff Weiss on May 13, 2008 @ 5:00 pm

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  Hot Week at Dublab: Live Neil Hamburger, Peanut Butter Wolf, Anticon, Lucky Dragons and others

  Our favorite local music collective/studio/radio station/creative non-profit/record label/DJ team/inspiration to us all, Dublab, is offering an amazing schedule of talent and mixes this week. Mindblowing, actually, and we've a mind to tune in, turn o...

  @ West Coast Sound by Randall Roberts on May 13, 2008 @ 3:49 pm

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  Stew's Passing Strange Receives Seven Tony Award Nominations

  From Spaceland to Broadway: Stew Passing Strange, the Broadway musical created by longtime fixture on the LA music scene Stew, received seven Tony Award nominations this morning. The show, which started Off Broadway but moved to the Big Dance in th...

  @ West Coast Sound by Randall Roberts on May 13, 2008 @ 9:27 am

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  Tonight in LA: Le Switch at the Echo, Harvey Sid Fisher at Pehrspace and Mezzanine Owls at Spaceland

  Big ass night for Los Angeles music. If you're in from out of town, you picked a good frickin' Monday to be here. Fortify with a big dinner cuz there's no cover and you can whoop it up tonight and spend all your money on booze and cigarettes. Le S...

  @ West Coast Sound by Randall Roberts on May 12, 2008 @ 4:37 pm

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  The Duke Spirit, Troubadour, 5/10

  The Duke Spirit, Ohhlas Troubadour, May 10, 2008 By Timothy Norris Liela Moss of The Duke Spirit at the Troubadour. The band's new album, Neptune is out now. More after the jump. All photos by Timothy Norris

  @ West Coast Sound by LA Weekly on May 12, 2008 @ 1:16 pm

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  Elbow, Avalon, 5/9

  Elbow, Air Traffic Avalon, May 9, 2008 Photos and words by Timothy Norris Shortly before Elbow took the stage Friday night for the final show of their latest North American tour, someone asked me, "Why aren't Elbow bigger than they are?" I've got...

  @ West Coast Sound by LA Weekly on May 12, 2008 @ 12:47 pm

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  Silver Daggers @ Part Time Punks, The Echo 5.11.08

  The Silver Daggers were on the bill to play at the Part Time Punks' Third Anniversary show Sunday night. This is what they did for 20 minutes instead (a few of them--not all members were present): At least if you're going to do nothing, m...

  @ West Coast Sound by Rena Kosnett on May 12, 2008 @ 2:10 am

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  Record Reviews: Bodies of Water, Conor Oberst - Also, the Pinker Tones

  Bodies of Water | A Certain Feeling | Secretly Canadian (Click to enlarge) ...

  by L.A. Weekly Music Critics on August 14, 2008

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  Rock Picks: Warped Tour, Pop Levi, Valient Thorr - Also, Previously on Lost, Raphael Saadiq, Liz Pappademas

  THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 Gary Copeland (Click to enlarge) Hammer of the gods: Valient Thorr Selena Salfen ...

  by L.A. Weekly Music Critics on August 14, 2008

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  The Anime Collective: Baka Deshi Productions - Where the otaku world and music geekdom collide

  Anneke knew that she hadn't won the competition. She said this to a group of four people -- a friend, a reporter and two random college students, one wearing blue plastic sunglasses and another dressed as the lead character of the vampire anime ser...

  by Liz Ohanesian on August 14, 2008

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  From Decor to Door Whores - A peek inside some Hollywood hot spots. Plus, LCD Soundsystem and Mondo Hollywood shows

  In a Flash Photo by Lina Lecaro (Click to enlarge) The Woolly Bandits' Christa DeErynn Collins goes Mondo Hollywood at the Knitting Factory. ...

  by Lina Lecaro on August 14, 2008

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  Brick's Picks: Requiem for a Heavy Cat - A tribute to Dave Carpenter, and more

  Damn, man ... there's so much great jazz around town this week that choosing the best seems impossible. We'll select a few here, but you'll find plenty more marked "GO" in the listings. So for starters, we'll recommend Peter Erskine at LACMA on Fri...

  by Brick Wahl on August 14, 2008

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  Blow Up L.A. Turns Two - Party is off the Wallpaper

  Local club kids who like wack(y) electro pop are probably already familiar with Wallpaper. S.F. Weekly's "best party band" swathed Cinespace Tuesday, Filter's Coachella party and the last Check Yo Ponytail with their voice-box-driven dance sillines...

  by Lina Lecaro on August 14, 2008