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June 17, 2008
Tonight at Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre: Dublab Goes Dark
This should be fantastic tonight: installment five of Dublab After Dark, an ongoing visual extension of the aurally amazing Dublab collective. They explain what will happen tonight better than we could: "The web radio super station your ears love also loves your eyes. This fifth in dublab’s scre ... More >>
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June 1, 2009
Over the Weekend: Jacuzzi Parties, Animal Collective, David Lynch and Danger Mouse's Dark Night of the Soul, Pro-Gay Marriage Rally in Fresno
While some might argue that the most exciting thing that happened this weekend was Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" sitting bare-assed on Eminem's face at the MTV Movie Awards, there was more to take in (and take off) in Los Angeles this weekend that didn't involve well-played publicity stunts. Friday ni ... More >>
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August 26, 2004
Slack Dreams
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December 10, 2008
Let the Listing Begin: Ten Great Folk Records of the Past Decade
You're going to be seeing a lot of lists in the next few weeks. Lists of bests and worsts of year, lists of disappointments, lists of dance mixes and YouTube clips. We figured we'd begin our weeks of lists with one that captures not the year in music, but one aspect of the decade in music: new wei ... More >>
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November 22, 2007
Blackouts, Sellouts and Freakouts
You're going to be seeing a lot of lists in the next few weeks. Lists of bests and worsts of year, lists of disappointments, lists of dance mixes and YouTube clips. We figured we'd begin our weeks of lists with one that captures not the year in music, but one aspect of the decade in music: new wei ... More >>
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January 14, 2009
Coachella Rumor Mill Works Overtime, but the Confirmations Continue to Trickle In
(Michel Gondry's video for the Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be.") Here's a list of "confirmed" (so far) acts to appear at Coachella 2009, according to the very reliable Monklish blog. His guarantee: "I've been told that these have been making arrangements to attend the festival as contractuall ... More >>
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January 26, 2009
Department of Eagles and Cave Singers at the Troubadour: Adorers, and Harmonies, Galore
(Photos by Timothy Norris. View more photos in the Department of Eagles slideshow.) This was supposed to be the weekend that New York took over da clubs with its uniquely American sounds. The Animal Collective was gigging two sold out shows on Friday and Saturday, and Department of Eagles and th ... More >>
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February 5, 2009
Nico Vega Pulls Out of Tonight's Roxy Gig Due to Illness
First it was Animal Collective out sick and now this (someone add Emergen-C to their tour riders, stat). Word just came in via Buzzbands.la that Nico Vega has postponed tonight's appearance at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip due to illness. The bad news is that the show was the local trio's record rele ... More >>
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February 27, 2009
SMMoA on Sunday: Mike Watt, Lee Ranaldo, Raymond Pettibon, others Celebrate Rock, Paper, Scissors Opening
FROM FRIDAY: Seriously. Take John Payne's advice below. Go to this. First of all, Animal Collective is sold out, and all your friends who will be there will be bragging in tomorrow about the AMAZING SHOW they saw at the Troubadour. You, however, will have a trump card. Background: Mike Watt, Ray ... More >>
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March 2, 2009
Over the Weekend: Fast and Fierce Derby Dolls, Darkmatter Soundsystem Secret Show, Animal Collective at Troubadour
At approximately 5:32 p.m. on Sunday, stuck in traffic on the 101 South, the exhaustion hit me. You've been there -- the weekend comes to a close and you realize you're more wiped out than you were on Friday going into it. Plans to "do laundry," "call the fam" or "go to bed early" get to ... More >>
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February 5, 2009
Google's New Killer App? Why Are Music Bloggers' Posts Disappearing, and Who Is Deleting Them?
At approximately 5:32 p.m. on Sunday, stuck in traffic on the 101 South, the exhaustion hit me. You've been there -- the weekend comes to a close and you realize you're more wiped out than you were on Friday going into it. Plans to "do laundry," "call the fam" or "go to bed early" get to ... More >>
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January 22, 2009
Parsing the Mysterious Lyrical Challenges of the Animal Collective, This Year's "New Radiohead"
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November 13, 2008
Record Reviews: The Knux, Robin Thicke, Gang Gang Dance
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September 16, 2004
Breakfast with Tiffany
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December 23, 2004
Call me Nostradamus
10 signs of the apocalypse
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August 2, 2007
The (Ugly, Nasty, Pissed) Men Among Children
With Deerhunter, The Horrors and Pissed Jeans
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April 23, 2009
LA People 2009: Banshee Foodies — Amanda Brown and Diva Dompe
With Deerhunter, The Horrors and Pissed Jeans
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January 19, 2006
Pick for Friday, February 10
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December 1, 2005
Lost And Found
The future is history to an obsessive prodigy and heartbroken shut-in called Ariel Pink
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September 2, 2004
Gimme Sheltered
Post-revolutionary Patti
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May 21, 2008
Damien Hirst, Tom Waits, the Beatles, and the birth of the ubiquitous contemporary persona. PLUS, some cool shit I saw while I was in London and some thoughts on the Amerindie aesthetic vs. the Anglophile aesthetic.
This post RIYL: Damien Hirst, Amerindie record labels, Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Islington's Union Chapel, pretentious statements about life.
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January 28, 2008
Beards, Blazers & Glasses, Or Yeasayer, The Indie Spin Doctors
Yeasayer are a jam band, they just aren't aware of it yet. At one point during the Brooklyn four-piece's set Saturday night at the Echoplex, lead singer Chris Keating even paused to extemporaneously inform the crowd that "people call us hippies, but that's just not true. We're from Baltimore." Thi ... More >>
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December 13, 2007
10 Haikus About 2007's Most Overhyped Albums
Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam Sounds Like Bad Acid Trip At arcade in New Jersey Let Panda roam solo. Arcade Fire-Neon Bible Right now in heaven Toole Composes Lengthy Indictment Against Neon Bible.
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June 11, 2009
Busdriver: Crushed Groove
"Your least favorite rapper/With a haircut like a pineapple/Wearing khakis torn/With a voice like a high soprano."
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August 6, 2009
ROCK PICKS: Black Francis, Bob Dylan, Caroline Weeks, Casiokids
Also, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, The Dodos, Buddy Guy and others
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August 15, 2009
West Coast Sound Interviews Silk Flowers re: Christian Bale, the Smell and Sun-Bleached Chicken Bones
New York's proud sons Silk Flowers make the kind of mood music you can loose yourself in on a sunny winter day, traversing the long open roads of your neighborhood trying figure out what it all means. A most excellent mix of the hypnotic 80s electronic sounds and bizarre noises, the band is ... More >>
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September 3, 2009
HEALTH: Color-Coded
L.A. noiseniks reveal the hidden inspirations behind their remarkable new album
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November 6, 2009
60 Seconds of Video Terror by 60 Watt Kid (MP3)
Long Beach's 60 Watt Kid is a band on the rise. Since moving to Southern California from San Francisco, the trio has become a regular fixture at art-oriented, all-ages venues like The Smell and Echo Curio. Both live and on record, the group maintains an odd but enticing duality, vacillating between ... More >>
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November 30, 2009
Ariel Pink Signs To 4AD, Readies Euro Tour
Ariel goes Juggalo?Local freak-folk ambassadors Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti only just returned from touring Europe, and they're looking to head back across the pond on Friday. Consider this trip a victory lap, however, as the psychedelic five-piece has just been announced as the latest sign ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Tonight at the Silent Movie Theater: LA Premiere of 'All Tomorrow's Parties' Documentary
Tonight Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater will host the Los Angeles premiere of what looks to be a pretty amazing movie on the All Tomorrow's Parties festival -- at least judging by the trailer below. Those featured in the film, in case your eyes can't register all that stuff so quickly, in ... More >>
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December 29, 2009
Snoop Dogg to Lead the 2010 Countdown at YOUR New Year's Party [MP3]
'Malice N Wonderland'Staying in for New Year's Eve? Playing laptop DJ to an intimate set of friends? Completely lacking television, radio, Internet radio, or any other method of access to the party-happy outside world? Boy, has Snoop Dogg got the thing for you. Via his Twitter account this ... More >>
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December 30, 2009
Attn. Musicians: Craigslist Offers Hope for Your 2010 Rock Dreams
Musicians, wannabe musicians, unemployable "lead singers," drummers, "producers," flautists, cello players: 2010 IS YOUR YEAR TO SHINE. Dude, you can do it. You just need to find the right situation. West Coast Sound is here to help. We've scoured Craigslist over the past few weeks looking for g ... More >>
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December 30, 2009
INCHES reviews Baron Zen, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Soft Circle High Places, I Heart Lung [MP3]
In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>
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January 7, 2010
Rock Picks: Al Kooper, Year Long Disaster, Steven Severin, the Phenomenal Handclap Band
Also, Kimya Dawson, the Cigarette Bums, Willi Williams and others
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March 19, 2010
BREAKING!: Second Deakin Show Added in Eagle Rock for Sunday
Deakin communes with natureThe good folks behind FYF Fest, which promotes events year-round, have just announced that Animal Collective's Deakin will be adding a second early show to his long since sold-out Sunday gig at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts. The 6 p.m. performance will surely ... More >>
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March 26, 2010
Interview: LA Video Directors Radical Friend on Yeasayer's 'O.N.E.' and Shape-Shifting Aliens
The band-playing-in-a-club remains a classic music video form. More than half the videos that aired on MTV's first day, August 18, 1981, were performance videos. So when local futuristic director duo Radical Friend and pop apocalypse band Yeasayer decided to make a performance video, they pla ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
Everything In Between: White Squalls and Whiteboy Blues
A first look at No Age's new album
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September 9, 2010
Daglas Drive-in: Hamburger Stand By Me
Home of the West Valley, Greco-American french fry
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September 29, 2010
Tonight: Jimmy Eat World, Surfer Blood, UB40, Buck 65, Deakin, the Hounds Below
Jimmy Eat WorldJimmy Eat World shouldn't get dinged for the ostensibly presumptuous title of their new album and first in three years, Invented. In the minds of the many, the Arizona quartet did pioneer its brand of radio-friendly emo-rock -- taut and anthemic guitar music with an honesty th ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
Today's New Releases: Jonathan Richman, Congotronics Remixes, Gary Wilson and Groove Merchant
Being a selective selection of some of today's new releases--this week, we'll look at a modern lover, a man you think you really know, a new take on Congotronics and soul songs with the spirit of the Beach Boys' SMiLE.
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November 30, 2010
Jacob Safari Remixes Dead Western Plains, Channels Animal Collective and Jesus Christ [Exclusive MP3]
Fort Lowell presents Dead Western Plains reworked by Jacob SafariWe like Fort Lowell Records. They aren't based in L.A., but we don't hold that against 'em. The year-old Tuscon seven-inch label has a commitment to both purty packaging and top tuneage, and they've tapped local scene star Jacob ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Coachella Lineup Announced: We Told You Odd Future Was in There!
This is the official press release: Coachella 2011. Music. Art. Culture. Community. With the Coachella line-up announcement serving as the official kick-off to the annual U.S. festival season, festival organizers Goldenvoice can now reveal details for the 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Art ... More >>
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February 12, 2011
Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.
Yes, it is Valentine's Day Weekend. Couples will be canoodling in a desperate attempt to prove to themselves and everyone else that they still have it; singletons, meanwhile, will be in defensive party mode, making Marrieds jealous, or weeping themselves to sleep after engaging in a helpin ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
In Like a Lion, Even in L.A.: Our Favorite Songs about Lions
There is an old-wives/Farmer's Almanac weather adage that says March "comes in like a lion, out like a lamb." As residents of Southern California, we are pretty much disqualified from every saying about weather ever, although a few days ago we actually experienced gusting winds that fittingly ... More >>
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March 29, 2011
New Coachella Passes Go On Sale! (If You Got $975 to Spare for VIP Service)
We're in the money! We're in the money! We're in the money and we got what it takes to get to Indiooooo!While for you, me, and everyone we know Coachella has been sold-out for months, for members of an exclusive VIP website called GiltCity, this might not be the case. A tipster pointed us to ... More >>
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April 1, 2011
DJ of the Week: Dublab's Co-Founder Frosty
dublab has been an internet radio station for over ten years now, pioneering the format and introducing L.A.--and the world--to up-and-coming acts from all genres of music. Hip hop, psyche, jazz, funk, punk, beat--you name it, and it's streamed on dublab.com. Flying Lotus, the Gaslamp Kille ... More >>
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April 17, 2011
Day 2: Coachella's GOODs, BADs and UGLYs (feat. The Kills, Animal Collective, Paul Van Dyk, Arcade Fire and Mariachi El Bronx)
Without road trips lingering or looming, and with just the right amount of hangover, the Coachella crowd attacked the grounds on Saturday, and the bands fought along heroically. The only real loser was the grass, which is starting to get sticky, but more on that in a little bit. Let's take a look a ... More >>
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April 17, 2011
Coachella 2011: Same Festival, Polar Opposite Crowds
photo by Wendy GilmartinThis guys wasn't at Duran Duran Coachella is all about variety and sure there are those fleeting chocolate-in-my-peanut butter moments when scenesters, hippies and douchebags all get down together (see Animal Collective, Saturday night). But right now we're talking ab ... More >>
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April 18, 2011
Day 3: Coachella's GOODs, BADs and UGLYs (feat. Kanye West, Duran Duran, PJ Harvey and the Hilton Sisters)
Timothy Norris We came, we saw, we sweated off four pounds of water. Kudos to the Coachella organizers for turning the Empire Polo Grounds into a people-organizing machine. Lines were long, but everything kept moving. Let's look at Sunday's GOODs, BADs and UGLYs...
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July 29, 2011
Simon Reynolds' Retromania: Critic Talks About Pop's Obsession with the Past and the Digiculture of Tomorrow
Courtesy of Simon ReynoldsThe cover of Retromania, released in May Isn't it ridiculous that it's now fair game to recycle the nineties and call your product retro? We've entered a phase where mashing up the sixties and the seventies is overdone -- now, the recent decades are up for grabs in t ... More >>
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