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December 14, 2012
The Best Beat Tapes From L.A. Producers This Year
Instrumental albums -- also known as beat tapes -- give hip-hop producers a direct connection with fans, without any of those annoying lyrics on top of them. These can often be a nice change of pace. But make no mistake, they aren't albums to zone out to, or to put on while you do a crossword puzz ... More >>
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November 15, 2012
Milo Greene Aren't Just Hopeful; They're Working Their Asses Off
For a newly-signed band criss-crossing the U.S. touring, maintaining exuberance shouldn't be hard for Milo Greene to do. But the Silver Lake dream pop quintet, having just started their biggest tour, is already a bit road worn.
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July 27, 2012
King Tuff Recorded His Album in an Abandoned, Haunted High School
The Problem With Lana Del Rey (Is You) How Boris Fucks With Their Fans -- In A Good Way Hanni El Khatib Makes an Album With Dan Auerbach, Gets Drunk Wavves of Pleasure: Indie Poster Boy Nathan Williams Makes Time For Recreation Portlandia Was Partly Inspired by Los Angeles Top 20 Worst Bands of All ... More >>
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July 26, 2012
The Dirty Projectors' David Longstreth on Wearing a Haz-Mat Suit in the Largest Landfill in the Country
To listen to Swing Lo Magellan is to hear David Longstreth holding something back. Released on July 10 on Domino Records, Magellan is the seventh full-length album Longstreth has recorded as the Dirty Projectors, and the third since 2007's Rise Above, an idiosyncratic interpretation of a Black Fla ... More >>
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July 25, 2012
Imagine Dragons' Dan Reynolds and Nico Vega's Aja Volkman-Reynolds' Weirdly Perfect Romance
The rock and roll fairy tale has more to do with booze-fueled, groupie-filled nights than it does babies and happily-ever-after romances. But for Dan Reynolds and Aja Volkman-Reynolds, the latter is proving to be true. At first glance the pair are a bit of an odd couple, Reynolds towering over Vol ... More >>
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June 19, 2012
Mark Our Words: Blink-182 Will Be Critics' Darlings In The End
[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] Critics do their best to ignore Blink-182. After all, it's not easy to get scrunched up with deep opinions about lip-ring ... More >>
Music
May 10, 2012
The Branding of Best Coast
The Duo's Singer Bethany Cosentino Partners With Urban Outfitters, Inspires Internet Wrath
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September 23, 2011
Best Posts of the Week
Kelly ClancyLionel BoyceTGIF. Who's ready for a drink? We're here to offer you a bit of pregame entertainment, by way of our best West Coast Sound posts of the week. Let's start by bringing you up to date on our new columns. If you haven't yet, be sure to check out Odd Future member Lionel B ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
Wavves of Pleasure: Indie Poster Boy Nathan Williams Makes Time For Recreation
Pooneh GhanaNathan WilliamsSee also: Wavves On How They Managed To Get Kicked Out Of Both The VMAs and Lil Wayne's Afterparty The decor of the Eagle Rock home Nathan Williams shares with his girlfriend, Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, looks kind of like how his music sounds: fun, a little gr ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Wavves On How They Managed To Get Kicked Out Of Both The VMAs and Lil Wayne's Afterparty
Emily ToremWe
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June 28, 2011
Kinfolk Magazine Launches July 15th
Kinfolk Magazine Martha Stewart will tell you how to make a frilly, cream-colored wedding bouquet and prepare shrimp salad tea sandwiches for twenty. Set to publish its first issue in July, the new Kinfolk Magazine takes a more relaxed approach to entertaining, offering articles and photogra ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
Wavves Drops New Song About How Much He Loves TV
"I'm wasting away, in every way / I'm wasting my time, all of my time / I'm wasted again, with none of my friends / ... but that's alright with me / ... I got TV." We love Wavves. No one does slacker better, and it seems appropriate that as news spreads about Beavis & Butthead's return to the ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Time Machine: See What Ten LA Musicians (and Betty White!) Will Look Like 20 Years From Now
LA is famous for a lot of things, but perhaps nothing says Hollywood magic quite like the ubiquitous, desperate quest to stay young forever and ever and ever. Think you're above it? Live east of Alameda for a 2 years and you'll be staring emptily into every mirror you see, desperately trying to perf ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Top 10 Bizarre and Awesome Musician Twitter Feeds of 2010 (Part 2)
Top 10 Bizarre and Awesome Musician Twitter Feeds of 2010 (Part 2)
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December 6, 2010
Wavves Associate Jeans Wilder Releases New Video, Makes Vintage Naked Ladies Dance for Him (NSFW)
A dancing lady from Jeans Wilder's "Sparkler" video. Ooh la la.We dig Jeans Wilder. The San Diego one-man beach-pop/noise band has a helluva knack for hauntingly beautiful soundscapes that speak to the foamy glory of the surf as much as to the watery death that lurks underneath. (If you miss ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Haiku News: Wavves' Williams Arrested in Germany, Joan Baez Falls From Treehouse, Peter Hook Talks Joy Division Tour, Michael Jackson's Lost Video
Haiku News: Wavves' Williams Arrested in Germany, Joan Baez Falls From Treehouse, Peter Hook Talks Joy Division Tour, Michael Jackson's Lost Video
Music
November 4, 2010
The L.A. Weekly Interview: Best Coast
A few songs about her crazy, lazy, hazy L.A. world turned Bethany Cosentino into a global icon of cool. Yeah, she's as surprised as you are
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September 28, 2010
East Meets West: Jersey Shore's Snooki Tours with Best Coast, Parties with Wavves
This just in: Last night via Twitter, Best Coast's So. Cal surf-pop queen Bethany Cosentino revealed that the band has an unexpected fan (stalker, more like it) in Jersey Shore, erm, icon Snooki, a.k.a. Nicole Polizzi. Unlikely, sure, but it's hard to argue with the evidence: photos of Snooki with ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Drug Paraphernalia May Not Be the Most Illegal Thing Wavves Are Selling Through Their Website
Wavves: they like weed. and cats. and cartoons. and the public domain...So, recent LA Weekly feature subject Nathan Williams, aka "King Skinny Shitster," of buzzband extraordinaire Wavves picked up some blogosphere love from Pitchfork (and people who link back to Pitchfork) when he tweeted ab ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
The Best of FYF Fest: Best Fashions, Surprising Bands to Watch, Biggest Bummers (oh, and Ariel Pink: Still Crazy)
Timothy NorrisThere's a thin line between hipster and furry, wethink[See also Timothy Norris' slideshow "FYF Fest 2010 with The Rapture, Dead Man's Bones, Panda Bear and More".] Given that I refuse to pair a word as lovely as "summer" near detractors such as cruel "end" or the gentler "fade, ... More >>
Music
September 2, 2010
Wavves: All Hail King Skinny Shitster
Does frontman Nathan Williams speak for the loser in us all?
Blogs
August 3, 2010
UPDATED: Wavves to Play Historic L.A. Punk/New Wave Venue Madame Wong's Before it Closes for Good
"Madame" Esther Wong, founder of the former restaurant and eventual punk venue in ChinatownUPDATE: L.A.-based noise-pop artist Wavves, a.k.a. Nathan Williams, will be playing one of Madame Wong's' final shows on Wednesday, August 3. Commenters have pointed out that the venue never officially ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
Now Streaming: The Entire New Wavves Album, 'King of the Beach,' Forthcoming on Fat Possum
Wavves, "King of the Beach"We've got to admit, we were sold at the album art. There's something about cats holding fat spliffs (or chomping on the green leaf) that gets us going every time. While it's not clear whether Wavves' Nathan Williams -- now a resident of Eagle Rock, we here -- has d ... More >>
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June 1, 2010
Best Coast Covers Wavves at Primavera Festival
Drew TewksburyBest Coast's Bethany CosentinoPitchfork reports that during Best Coast's appearance at the amazingly well-booked Primavera festival in Spain, the LA band covered Wavves' "So Bored." The performance was apparently a cheeky reference to last year's infamous onstage meltdown at th ... More >>
Music
September 3, 2009
FYF Fest 2009: Parks and Inspiration
Event's new mission: Save Our State Parks (and deliver a mind-bending roster of punk, electronics and noise)
Music
April 9, 2009
Rock Picks: Leonard Cohen, Wavves, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Britney Spears
Also, The Henry Clay People, Vetiver, Mad Professor and others
Blogs
March 20, 2009
SXSW '09, Day 2: On Applying for Secret Canadian Citizenship, The Tidal Wave of Tastemaking, and Dirty Projecting
Last year was my first year in Austin, so I can't really speak to nebulous notions of the SXSW "good ol' days." Anecdotal evidence suggests that the place has expanded exponentially each year since the rise of the Internet, and the demolition of the quasi-mythological monoculture. In layman's term ... More >>
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January 22, 2009
No Age Releases Ultra-Limited 10" EP (With a Clothing Catalog?), Gigs the Smell's Pancake Brunch on Sunday
Well ... this is weird. The spring catalog by skate clothiers Altamont just arrived in the mail, and has a big-ass picture of No Age's Dean Spunt on the cover. On the back is a photo of Randy Randall being doused with water. Bully for them, getting their pics on the cover of a fancy catalog. Oh, w ... More >>

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