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Music Picks: Hard Summer, Sunset Strip Music Festival and Bob Dylan

Hard Summer 2013 Lineup Announced

This year's lineup for Hard Summer is out. Headliners include Knife Party, Duck Sauce, Dog Blood (ie Skrillex and Boys Noize), and Bassnectar See also: Our Hard 2012 slideshow This sixth annual edition of the two-day, EDM-focused festival takes place in downtown's Los Angeles State Historic Park ... More >>

Music Picks: Ravi Shankar, Marilyn Scott, Duran Duran, Burkina Electric

Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others

Music Picks: Shunda K, SebastiAn, Fleet Foxes, Miles Evans Band

Also, Ray LaMontagne, Kissing Cousins, the Kills and others

Meet Whiteqube: New Electronic Duo Brings LED Dance Party to Das Bunker

Liz OhanesianWhiteqube live at Das Bunker​On June 17 at Das Bunker, electronic duo Whiteqube played inside a white, LED lit cube on the stage in the largest room of the multi-dance floor club. The duo of Jason Schary and T. Ryan Arnold jumped up and down behind laptops, their LED jackets flash ... More >>

Music Picks: Liz Phair, DeVotchKa, Peter Murphy, Fergus & Geronimo

Also Whitechapel, Motorhead, Juanes and others

Page Two: EsotErykah

Dance Documentary 'The Electro Wars' Nearly Neglects Los Angeles Scene for a NY-Centric View

​ If the frustrating new documentary The Electro Wars gets any kind of notable media attention (it gives major shout-outs to the significance of music blogs, so we're guessing it will), we guarantee "the war" will end with more than a few artist and DJ casualties and no Jedi mind trick will pr ... More >>

Halloween in LA: The Recap

Patrick Range McDonald​Now that the costume stress and sugar rush are history, take some time to check out LA Weekly's Halloween party coverage.

Who Do You Love: Spleen United Vs. Mr. Oizo

Who Do You Love: Spleen United Vs. Mr. Oizo Tonight!

Larry Tee Talks: 'L.A. Has a Better Club Scene Than New York'

Larry Tee has floated through contemporary club history like Forrest Gump on ecstasy, seemingly everywhere you'd want to be. Growing up in Atlanta, he hung out with R.E.M. and co-wrote fellow Atlantan Ru Paul's 1992 hit "Supermodel (You Better Work)." In 1990s New York he became a DJ on the club kid ... More >>

Ooh La-La Festival

Rock Picks: Pink, the Grates, Doug Paisley, Ooh La L.A. Festival

Also, Slavic Soul Party, Pet Shop Boys, the Humpers and others

The French Invade L.A.: Sébastien Tellier, Gonzales, Nouvelle Vague, Emilie Simon, and More

What's that wafting this way? The stink of well-aged cheese? A ripe bouquet of sex and spilled wine? The craven stench of wartime neutrality? It's far too easy to skewer the French for a cheap laugh, which might help explain why the Consulate General Of France In Los Angeles and the French Embassy h ... More >>

Post-Coachella Recovery at Shadowscene, Linda Perry's Evening With Women

The Ding Bat Show (Starring Clown College Alumni)

The Kidz In the Hall Demonstrate the Power of A Good Rolodex

When ex-Just Blaze proteges, Kidz in the Hall released their debut album, School Was My Hustle on the newly revived Rawkus Records, I didn't listen to it for a variety of reasons. Chief among them was the "Ivy League Rap" label critics ascribed to the duo of Nawledge and Double-O. Still scarred f ... More >>

Super Tuesday

Ed Banging; Ponytail checks out; rock-star mash-up; Lemmy see that

Crystal Castles: Not Total Hipster Bullshit

You'll have to forgive me this one. I know I'm late. Ian Cohen tossed a 7.8 to Crystal Castles' in his Pitchfork review of their eponymous debut back in March and the blogosphere had been incessantly buzzing about the Toronto duo of Ethan Kath and Alice Glass for well over a year prior. But dance ... More >>

Wallflowers of the Polo Field

Why you won't see L.A.'s dance underground at Coachella

Modeselektor: Dance-Floor Saviors

Saving the spirit of techno

Felli Fel: Feel the Power

106 FM star hooks up with Jermaine Dupri, rides wave of renewed interest in DJ culture

Wale: Actually Worth the Hype

The buzz surrounding the 23-year old Washington DC rapper Wale has grown pretty loud in the last month or two. Everyone from Entertainment Weekly to Rolling Stone and XXL have profiled the guy. Hell, Urb even put him on the cover of their150th issue (Though I'll admit that when I saw Wale surround ... More >>

Detour DJ Pix: Ed Banger, Justice, DJ Medhi

Detour's over, but I just got sent a link to a ton of great shots from the DJ stage, including the Ed Banger set, including DJ Medhi and Justice. Great shots of the spinning, crowd surfing, fist-pumping action taken by Cesar Alvarado. Click the link to see the Flickr set from him.

And Justice for All

Parisian duo wins the West

Too Much Sexy

Pedro Winter and the French funk of Ed Banger Records