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March 16, 2009
SXSW Design of the Day: The Periodic Table of Twitter
SXSW Design of the Day: The Periodic Table of Twitter Victor Broadley We've stumbled across some cool gadgets thus far at SXSW Interactive (like the Poken) but this Twitter avatar design, created by Interactive and Film participant Victor Broadley, is our pick of the day. We LOL'd and wished we wer ... More >>
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March 18, 2009
Notes from the Road: Yak Ballz and Kosha Dillz Survive Root Canal, Arrive at SXSW
Though I just returned to L.A. from Austin, Texas after a week working SXSW Interactive with the top players in tech and social media, it doesn't mean I'm not rocking SXSW Music in spirit. When I found out that my early return home meant I'd be missing hip hop acts like Yak Ballz, Kosha Dillz and Ca ... More >>
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March 19, 2009
SXSW Snapshot: Kosha Dillz Choked by Boa Constrictor
Last night I posted a "SXSW Notes from the Road" update courtesy of rappers Yak Ballz and Kosha Dillz who are keeping me updated on their SXSW experience via e-mail. Today Dillz sent in this SXSW snapshot of him walking down what appears to be 6th Street with a boa constrictor around his neck. Yes, ... More >>
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March 23, 2009
Over the Weekend: SXSW Music, Metallica's "Not So Secret" Show, Mad Tea Party, Puppet Up! Uncensored For Adults Only
After 10 long days (and nights) we can finally say South by Southwest 2009 is a wrap. Though we still haven't unpacked, we've dragged our road weary and hungover bodies out of Austin, Texas and back into the office to bring you a play-by-play of this year's SXSW Music and Interactive. But just becau ... More >>
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September 25, 2008
Havana Comes to Hollywood
After 10 long days (and nights) we can finally say South by Southwest 2009 is a wrap. Though we still haven't unpacked, we've dragged our road weary and hungover bodies out of Austin, Texas and back into the office to bring you a play-by-play of this year's SXSW Music and Interactive. But just becau ... More >>
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March 20, 2008
Droog's Sun Sessions
Ringing in spring at the Standard
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August 2, 2007
Detour 2007
LA Weekly's Detour Music Festival returning to Downtown LA on October 6th, 2007
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May 17, 2007
Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Loads of BBQ
Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Fields, Indio, May 5-6
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April 19, 2007
Coachella And the Cure for the Common Festivalitis
Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Fields, Indio, May 5-6
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March 29, 2007
Super Fun Music Hour Podcast #11
Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Fields, Indio, May 5-6
Music
March 15, 2007
Super Fun Music Hour Podcast #10
It's not officially summer, but it sounds like it is
Music
April 27, 2006
Festivus Maximus
Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?
Music
March 23, 2006
Nightranger at SXSW
Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?
Music
July 28, 2005
Snakebites
Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?
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September 23, 2004
A Small New Future
ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers
Music
August 28, 2003
Viva la Revolu�ion
Sound and sedition at the LAMC
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September 13, 2001
Perry Farrell's Mystical Musical Tour
The hedonist at 42
Art+Books
March 2, 2000
From Lollapalooza to IPO
Festival founder Marc Geiger bets on online music
Music
October 14, 1999
Tribal Gathering
Coachella festival: It's all in the mix
Music
September 16, 1999
Good Friday
Coachella festival: It's all in the mix
LA Life
May 27, 1999
Mob Rule
Swept away in New Orleans
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April 11, 2008
SXSW Flashback: Even Jandek is a SXSW whore
It's quite possible that Jandek -- more than any artist in history -- has milked the obscurity thing for all that it's worth.
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February 13, 2008
Add three more SXSW bands from L.A. to the list
Last week we offered an extensive list of L.A.-based bands hitting South by Southwest in Austin this year (March 13-16). Alas, we missed three of them, all from the beautiful township of Midcity, Cali. This from Brian Miller: Noticed on the la weekly sxsw blog that 3 la acts are missing. I have a ... More >>
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February 6, 2009
F Yeah Fest Releases Partial List of SXSW 'Mess With Texas' Day-Party Line-Up
Last year one of the most buzzed about parties at South By Southwest was the big-ass Mess With Texas party at Waterloo park. Organized by Sean Carlson and Keith Morris of the F Yeah Fest, along with Austin promoter Transition Transmission Entertainment (which does the great fall Fun Fun Fun Festiv ... More >>
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July 6, 2009
The Henry Clay People to Convene A "Mustache Circus" Featuring Fol Chen, Flying Tourbollin Orchestra
Timothy Norris Last Thursday we got a note from Andy Siara, he of the Henry Clay People, to inform us of an upcoming HCP show at the Echo and Echoplex that has the potential to be a great event: A Mustache Circus, slated for Friday, August 14. Says Siara: We're callin it the "Rock n Roll Mustache ... More >>
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July 23, 2007
Siren Music Festival in NYC
The Village Voice's Siren Music Festival took place over the weekend with performances from M.I.A., New York Dolls, Elvis Perkins, The Black Lips and a lot more. Click here to visit the Voice's music blog Sound of the City and read more about it. Or go straight to all the photos. M.I.A. actually ... More >>
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March 15, 2007
Southern (Cali) Comfort
I passed on South By Southwest this year, but that doesn't mean I'm not there in spirit... and apparently some minds. I've already received 5 text messages from fellow music heads asking if can get them into this or that party and one asking for a promoter friend's cell #. SOS: band missed flight! ... More >>
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September 8, 2009
Festivals Then and Now: Lou Adler and Nic Adler Talk Monterey Pop and the Sunset Strip
The Adler posse knows a thing or two about the concert business. Lou Adler, the patriarch, is responsible for some of the great American cultural touchstones of the past 40 years, and a few of these moments are showcased on the wall of his home office in Malibu. There's the movie poster for The ... More >>
Music
September 10, 2009
Promote This: The Adler Effect
On the eve of the Sunset Strip Music Festival, Lou Adler and his son Nic talk about the concert business
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November 5, 2009
Yo, Procrastinator! SXSW 2010 Application Due Tomorrow Night
Sid Vicious never filled one of theseTomorrow at midnight is the deadline to submit your application for you and/or your awesome LA band to play at the 2010 South By South West conference/festival/music-biz-clusterfuck. Yeah, we know. Part of the reason you got into music was because you don ... More >>
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February 1, 2010
LA Weekly at SXSW: Party with Us at La Zona Rosa with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The xx, Superchunk and Surfer Blood
Well, we're going to be very popular in Austin come South by Southwest time. The reason? Our annual SXSW fete, held each year at La Zona Rosa, will feature -- get this -- the xx, Superchunk, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Surfer Blood. It will take place on Friday, March 19, from 12pm - 5pm. ... More >>
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February 5, 2010
Louis Armstrong: Good Evening Ev'rybody
Well, we're going to be very popular in Austin come South by Southwest time. The reason? Our annual SXSW fete, held each year at La Zona Rosa, will feature -- get this -- the xx, Superchunk, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and Surfer Blood. It will take place on Friday, March 19, from 12pm - 5pm. ... More >>
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March 15, 2010
7 Questions with @ScrewYouSXSW
There's a new tweeter in town and she's mad as hell. In the last week, @ScrewYouSXSW, the self-proclaimed pissed off wife of a SXSW attendee, has been tweeting about happenings she's been learning about from her husband via text. A number of people at SXSW think this enigmatic person is of ... More >>
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March 20, 2010
SXSW Interview: The Henry Clay People on Getting Signed, NoFX's 'Punk in Drublic,' and Being Really, Really Tired
Glendale's Henry Clay People may end this South By Southwest able to brag that they were the hardest-working band in Austin. The sibling-led shout-rockers (who were just signed to TBD records, home of Radiohead) will have played 11 shows in 4 days. They've still got two more to go today. We ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
Five Ways Organizers Can Make Coachella A Better Experience
Dennis RomeroFollowing reports of three-hour waits to get in, a bizarre appearance by Sly Stone and a dirt-lot parking situation that had festival-goers walking for up to an hour in desert dust to get to their cars, the Los Angeles Times declared the 11th annual Coachella festival a rousing s ... More >>
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July 12, 2010
M.I.A.-Headlined HARD LA Festival Has Been Cancelled, Some Acts to Be Rescheduled for August 7th (UPDATE: Not M.I.A.)
[UPDATE: HARD fest publicists are confirming that M.I.A. will not be playing the August 7th date.] The publicists for next weekend's HARD LA festival have released the following statement: Due to events beyond our control, HARD LA M.I.A. July 17 has been cancelled. Thanks to the continued ... More >>
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August 31, 2010
What Exactly Is A Rave? $1 Million Lawsuit Against City Of L.A. By 'EDC' Promoter Claims Trance Show Is Not A Rave
Among some of the more interesting points of a rave promoter's $1million-plus lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles for canceling a planned Halloween weekend show featuring superstar DJ Tiesto at the Convention Center is the argument that the event is a concert rather than a rave. The suit ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Beat Scene Babe Tokimonsta Remixes TAKE (MP3), Low End Theory to Invade Eagle Rock Music Festival
Tokimonsta remixes TAKE; Low End Theory hits the Eagle Rock Music Fest.The world-famous Low End Theory club will host a stage at the Eagle Rock Music Festival this Saturday. That's the reason for the season, but do we really need an excuse to debut a track combining the talents of two beat sc ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
NPR Claims Electric Daisy Carnival Rave Was Bigger Than Coachella in 2010
Timothy NorrisBigger (and more rollin') than Coachella? NPR's blog The Record just published an interesting end-of-the-year survey of the current rise of dubstep, and it's frattier doppelganger "bro-step" (read the comments thread for that post for a kinda pointless debate about the nuanced d ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
LinA in LA: In Line At Low End Theory, and DJs From France, LA and Beyond (Wonderland)
We don't wanna hear the phrase, "everybody's at South By" this week, okay? Yes, Austin's mega music fest, South By Southwest, is well underway and many LA promoters, bands, DJs and musicheads are there BBQ-ing and boozing their brains out. No doubt, many turntablists and producers are still recoveri ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
If You Can't Join 'Em, Block 'Em: "There Is No SXSW" Twitter App
Judging from the chorus of preemptive groans heard (RT!) round our Twitter timelines this weekend, many of you not going to SXSW are dreading the takeover of Twitter by those who are. But thanks to Lanyard, a directory of conferences, now you don't have to make like a kindergartener and squ ... More >>
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March 29, 2011
Sex Crime and Violence During DJ-Driven 'Ultra Weekend' in Miami -- And, Yes, Californians Were in the Thick of It
YouTubeHeadquarters, we have a wedgie.The just-wrapped "Miami Music Week/Ultra Weekend" in South Beach was marred by violence, and allegations of rape. Our sister publication Miami New Times reports that three Californians were arrested on suspicion of gang raping a college student at the Fon ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
Lollapalooza Lineup: L.A. Bands Make a Strong Showing!
Is it already time to think about summer music festivals? Indeed, with SXSW and Coachella firmly behind us, we must now turn to the upcoming festival of festivals that has come to mark every summer. First major fest to reveal its lineup is Lollapalooza, which celebrates its 20th anniversary ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
Coachella Festival to Be Held on Two Consecutive Weekends in 2012
Colin Young-WolffSounds like twice the fun. Big news for fans of desert music: Next year the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will be over two consecutive weekends. Tickets go on sale this Friday. That's right. Almost a full year away. The reason for both the expansion and the early ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other: Our Off-the-Beaten Path Guide To Summer Festivals
One of the best parts about being at a festival are those moments you walk by a stage and have that "what the fuck" moment. It's when you hear something that just doesn't fit. It's the feeling some people probably had at Chaos In Tejas this summer when, coming from Unbroken's set, they stumble ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Urban Nomad Interviews Fitz and the Tantrums at Lollapalooza
Jeremiah Alexis Fitz and the Tantrums at LollapaloozaUrban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, shoots exclusive video for West Coast Sound. Check out the previous installments here. Urban Nomad caught up with L.A.'s finest hybrid rockers Fitz and the Tantrums at Lollapalooza this past wee ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
Warped Tour - Cal State Dominguez Hills - 8/10/11 (With Gifs!)
Andrew CourtienWarped Tour, featuring The Devil Wears Prada, Gym Class Heroes, SHARKS, Yelawolf, and more Cal State Dominguez Hills 8/10/11 Warped Tour is the longest running touring festival in the United States, older than the now dead Ozzfest and the immobile Lollapalooza. Throughout its ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Whew! Coachella 2012 Back On As Planned
Mason MagruderSee also: Coachella Status Uncertain As Indio Delays Contract With Goldenvoice Following a vote by the Indio city council last night to approve the city's two year contract with festival promoter Goldenvoice, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is back on as scheduled. ... More >>
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November 24, 2011
Le Butcherettes
Teri Gender Bender is the most volatile woman in rock
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