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The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Tuesday, May 28 Lissie HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY When Elisabeth Corrin Maurus first came to attention with early releases Catching a Tiger and EP Why You Runnin', her folk-pop songs had a restlessly rootsy intimacy. Lissie ... More >>

Music Picks: Gilles Peterson, Boris, Gothic Tropic

Our Ten Most Anticipated Indie Albums For 2013

With the anticipated return of big-name indie bands like Phoenix, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend this year, 2013 is shaping up to be big. But aside from the usual suspects, there are also some newcomers and reunited acts expected to make noise this year. Here are some albums we speculate may end up ... More >>

The Ten Best EDM Singles of 2012

The term "electronic dance music" means so many things to so many people, and this year things only got more complicated. Dubstep continued its dance floor takeover, mainstream pop-oriented EDM ruled the radio, and the beat scene pushed on. Although divergent in style and ethos, here are the ten dan ... More >>

S.S. Coachella Gossip: We Stalk Jarvis Cocker

No one's really interested in reading about the actual performances taking place on this musical ship of contradictions, the S.S. Coachella, amirite? (Well, if I'm wrong, here's our report from the first day.) Instead, you want a spoonful of gossipy anecdotal sugar, straight from the decks of this f ... More >>

S.S. Coachella Cruise: Our Review From the High Seas

By Liz Tracy The maiden voyage of the S.S. Coachella departed Sunday from Ft. Lauderdale, bound for the Bahamas. It set out to sea rather unceremoniously. There weren't horns, not a streamer in sight, and no one smashed bottles against the body of the ship. But we'd all been aboard the Celebrity ... More >>

The Comedy Review: Film Satirizes Hipsters in Ways They’ll Likely Enjoy

Music Cruises Hit the High Seas, But Who Can Afford Them?

All aboard a tiny, star-packed boat

Top Five Girls From Hard Summer Who Are Out Of My League

See also: *Ten EDC Girls Who Are Out Of My League *Skrillex, James Murphy - Hard Summer, Day Two - 8/4/12 Hard Summer -- Los Angeles' biggest, brightest, and boobiest EDM festival -- took place this past weekend. Among the throngs of EDM revelers were a number of gorgeous ladies whom I'd love to ... More >>

Skrillex, James Murphy - Hard Summer, Day Two - 8/4/12

Our review of HARD Summer, Day 1 Claude Vonstroke Got in the EDM Game Late and Now He's Taking It Over HARD Summer 8/4/2012 Los Angeles State Historic Park Better than... A night without dance jams. Earlier this week, Forbes Magazine published a list of top 10 highest paid DJ/producers on the ... More >>

LuckyRice Night Market Debuts in Los Angeles

It looks likes 2012 might well be remembered as the year of the Asian-inspired "night market." After a successful second round of Pasadena's 626 Night Market, New York-based festival LuckyRice hosted its first L.A. market at the Helms Bakery complex with help from Lukshon chef Sang Yoon. Guests we ... More >>

HARD Summer Festival Sees 105 Arrests, 9 Felony Collars For Drugs

See also: *Pictures, some maybe NSFW, from the HARD Summer festival. There were 105 arrests at the HARD Summer festival downtown over the weekend, officials told the Weekly. Authorities listed those as "arrests" but it would appear that most involved citations in which suspects were released on the ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, August 3 Rusko AVALON Quite possibly the most honest man in dubstep, Leeds-born, L.A.-dwelling producer Rusko has taken responsibility for the existence of the much-maligned "brostep" trend -- which is to say, injecting the dark atmospherics and effects of the original genre with a distinct ... More >>

Music Picks: Rusko, HARD Summer, SMOD

Also, Beachwood Sparks, Jesca Hoop, Ravi Coltrane and others

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: L.A. Taco Fest, Lucky Rice Night Market, Plate by Plate Fundraiser, Chichen Itza Seafood Class L.A. Weekly Pancake Breakfast

Los Angeles Taco Festival Enjoy some of Boyle Heights' and East L.A.'s best tacos, from birria to carne asada to shrimp, as well as live mariachi music, arts and crafts at this new outdoor event. Proceeds go to support Jovenes Inc., a nonprofit that provides housing for homeless youth. WHAT: L.A. T ... More >>

James Murphy on Never Being Recognized, Directing the Directors of LCD's New Concert Doc and Why He Can't Live in L.A.

See also: Lost His Edge | James Murphy and a New Concert Documentary Reflect on the End of LCD Soundsystem In our music feature this week, we spoke with former frontman James Murphy about Shut Up and Play the Hits, a new film documenting LCD Soundsystem's sold-out April 2011 farewell concert at Mad ... More >>

Lost His Edge | James Murphy and a New Concert Documentary Reflect on the End of LCD Soundsystem

Pulp to Headline Coachella Cruise: Here's the Full Lineup

All aboard. Let the Coachella branding begin! Goldenvoice today announced a pair of Coachella boat tours; each will leave in December from Fort Lauderdale. Pulp will headline, with Hot Chip, Yeasayer, Girl Talk and Sleigh Bells among the bigger names.

Meet Poolside: L.A.'s Newest Monster Truck-Driving Disco Duo

See also: Allah-Las and Chicano Batman Headline KCRW's Summer Music Series at the Hammer Yes, Poolside has a swimming pool in front of their Los Feliz studio, which which doubles as an apartment. But it's not the one you might have expected to inspire their chill-as-hell "daytime disco." It's small ... More >>

Lucky Rice Night Market Coming to L.A.

Lucky Rice, the New York-based Asian food festival whose "culinary council" includes the like of Anthony Bourdain, David Chang, Marcus Samuelsson, and Masharu Morimoto, is moving out west -- well, further west that is. On the heels of its Las Vegas event back in June, Lucky Rice laid out plans for i ... More >>

Boiler Room: Live Streaming Phenomenon Touches Down in L.A.

Fans of the streaming music site Boiler Room have seen performances from folks like James Murphy, Thom Yorke, A-Trak, Animal Collective and Sun Araw. Founded in 2010 by promoter Blaise Belville, the site first started in London, but this month Boiler Room arrived in Los Angeles.

James Murphy - Geffen Contemporary at MOCA - May 3, 2012

James Murphy The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA May 3, 2012 Better Than: Dancing Yrself Clean. There are two James Murphys: the one who likes to make you think and the one who likes to make you dance. During Murphy's DJ set at MOCA Geffen, part of the Mike-D curated "Transmission: AV Club" series, th ... More >>

White Fence's Tim Presley Moves Retro Rock Forward

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Top 5 L.A. Garage Rock Bands Not everything needs to sound like the future. Not everyone wants to dwell in the present. In fact, some aim to a ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6 5. Animal Collective I really wanted to like Merriweather Post Pavilion, even going far out of my way to appreciate the record as it was surely intended: super-stoned, mi ... More >>

Anonymous Hacker Investigation Nets Two Arrests in Southern California, FBI Says

​Updated at the bottom with details linking the arrests to WikiLeaks. First posted at 2:56 p.m. Two people were arrested in Southern California today as part of FBI raids against the loose-knit hacker crew Anonymous that were conducted in SoCal, New York and other regions, FBI spokeswoman Lau ... More >>

Nightranger: Music & Passion Were Always the Fashion

Who Needs The Concert? LCD Soundsystem and Rye Rye After-Parties End Show Nights With A 'Bang'

Lina Lecaro Rye Rye Rocks The Shocker​ Yep, it's all about after-concert shindigs for Nightranger lately. They've become a frequently more-fun alternative to sitting through an entire arena spectacle, not to mention the disco nap factor. We were tempted to go see M.I.A. and Rye Rye at the Ma ... More >>

Music Picks: Laurie Anderson, Onibaba, Superchunk

Also, Hoodoo Gurus, Die Antwoord, Jonsi and others

Across the Universe: Tupac Film Gets Fuqua'ed, LCD Will Record Again, 50 Cent Crazies Up Twitter

Across the Universe: Tupac Film Gets Fuqua'ed, LCD Will Record Again, 50 Cent Crazies Up Twitter

You Gotta Hear This: Secret LCD Soundsystem Remix by Dave Dresden

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy gets remixed​Ace LA Weekly news blogger (and our Dance Culture secret weapon) Dennis Romero tips us to a brand new, for-the-love-of-art secret remix of LCD Soundsystem's ennui-filled "You Wanted a Hit" by revered DJ Dave Dresden (formerly of Gabriel & Dresden, no ... More >>

Over the Weekend: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium

Live Review: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium

Live in L.A.: LCD Soundsystem, 50 Cent, Peanut Butter Wolf, Isis, The xx, Local Natives

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem​Hope you don't feel slighted, Los Angeles. Two weekends ago on That Other Coast, LCD Soundsystem brought the house -- or, rather, Terminal 5 -- down with an eye-popping, ear-decimating, 2 1/2-hour show that wound up with "New York I Love You" and a cover of Alic ... More >>

Music Picks: Buzzcocks, Diana Ross, Isis, the xx

Also, Compton Metal Night, Health, Thao and Mirah

Day 2: Hannibal Moncrief, Hot Chip & Flying Lotus & The Ascent of Nerd-Chic

​ Hannibal Moncrief saw the future last night. No, he didn't brew mushroom tea and watch Doc Brown tinker with the fabric of the space-time continuum. And no, he didn't spend three hours inside the glowing pink origami bird mumbling the phrase, "cool colors, man." The double-stacks of white ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem Takes Coachella A Step Back

New York hipster-dance band LCD Soundsystem hit the main stage at Coachella Friday night at prime time, performing under a massive disco ball. In a year when dance music was strangely underrepresented at the traditionally electronic-flavored event, LCD stood up for the beat-crazed mass of people tha ... More >>

Day 1: Silver Apples, LCD Soundsystem and Brett Favre

Roadie music--the tunes that play in between sets while band techs hustle an act's gear onstage--by rule tend to gravitate towards an artist's musical influence. In an almost assured first for Coachella, obscure psychedelic rock group Silver Apples greeted the Main Stage leading up to LCD Soundsyst ... More >>

Man Who Attempted To Bomb Pasadena Condo Complex Pleads Guilty

​A man who claimed to working on behalf of the radical environmental group Earth Liberation Front when he attempted to bomb a Pasadena condominium complex that was under construction pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit arson. Federal authorities say sometime Los Angeles-area residen ... More >>

Moving Up

LCD Soundsystem's LA Love: Haunted Mansions, Secret (& Not So Secret) Club Gigs

LCD Soundsystem have been in town the past several weeks recording their latest record, and they're not laying down tracks in any ol' Hollywood abode either. Mutual pals tell us that leader James Murphy has been living in and making new music at the Laurel Canyon estate owned by Rick Rubin called "T ... More >>

Rock Picks: Fol Chen, Moonrats, Brightblack Morning Light, Bachelorette

Also, the Curious Mystery, Graham Parker, Miss Derringer, Marduk and others

L.A. Weekly's Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

From Decor to Door Whores

A peek inside some Hollywood hot spots. Plus, LCD Soundsystem and Mondo Hollywood shows

DFA'S 'DISCO' AT THE ROOSEVELT NOT CANCELED

Ah, the internet… shit spreads faster than herpes on a roadrunner these days, don’t it? Purveyors of fine electro-punk dance weirdness know that this weekend’s double-whammy gigs from DFA Records/LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Pat Mahoney are can’t misses, but for those of us who decid ... More >>

Love Festival, Droog Collective and DFA's Special Disco Version

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