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Dublab 13th Anniversary Party - Echoplex - 9/22/12

Dublab 13th Anniversary Party Echoplex 9-22-12 Better than...waiting in a Wendy's drive-through congested with D.U.I. candidates at 2 a.m. At the 13th anniversary party for Dublab -- L.A.'s beloved nonprofit web radio collective -- there were nine DJs on one stage in roughly five hours. The party ... More >>

Dublab Anniversary Party Moved to Echoplex

For our music feature this week Rebecca Haithcoat profiled Freak City, the Hollywood dance club that throws, perhaps, the best parties in the cities. They don't like to call themselves a club, however, partly because they're not zoned as one and don't have a liquor license. See also: The Freaks Com ... More >>

Kurt Vile, Santigold, Rusko

Also, Star & Dagger, Charli XCX, Church of Misery and others

Mike D of the Beastie Boys on Curating His New Show at MOCA

Mike D, Beastie Boy, recent Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame inductee, mad collector of modern furniture and in general, the man with all the fly juice, has now found the time to curate his own museum show. "Transmission LA: AV Club" is a free, 17-day festival of art, music and food, opening to the publi ... More >>

Why Highland Park Is the New Echo Park

Over the last couple of months I've been doing a lot of what a writer does best -- hanging out in bars and listening to people talk. I live in Echo Park, and around these parts the bar banter is usually centered around one question: what's cool. In L.A., the answer to that changes as quickly as the ... More >>

Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List

Timothy Norris​California knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... More >>

Top Ten Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #10 - #6

Timothy Norris​California knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... More >>

R.I.P. Jovan "J-1" Coleman, Drummer in Dam-Funk's Group Master Blazter

Jovan "J-1" Coleman, producer and drummer in Dam-Funk's band Master Blazter, passed away Sunday. He was 32 years old. The cause of death is unknown. Late yesterday afternoon Dam-Funk tweeted, "At this time we send our most deep condolences 2 family & friends of @THEDEER (aka J-1/Jovan Coleman) who ... More >>

Mayer Hawthorne Is Back: Just Don't Call Him Retro

Todd Cooper​Despite the doo-wop sound of his ditties, his silky old-soul croon, and the fact that he hails from the state that birthed Motown, Mayer Hawthorne swears he's not retro. The voice of Hawthorne may be golden, but it's untrained. In fact, the man born Andrew Cohen in Ann Arbor ... More >>

Egyptian Lover & Arabian Prince - Freak City - 9-17-11

Lina Lecaro The Prince and the Lover....​Egyptian Lover & Arabian Prince Freak City September 17, 2011 Better Than: Old school hip-hop Serato DJ sets we've seen lately. Though the sound and style of West Coast rap music has evolved over the years, the lyrical bravado and the boldness of bea ... More >>

No Age - MOCA - 8/7/11

David GreenwaldNo Age performs at MOCA​No Age MOCA 8/7/11 Better than... A Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Sunday night's show was a strangely modern intersection of corporate invasion and countercultural retaliation: No Age, L.A.'s leading independent experimentalists, clos ... More >>

Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down

Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others

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 >>

A Cure for the Monday Funk

Between the Mundane and the Arcane

Small-time, big-heart local labels reissue classics that never got their chance

Music Picks: The Hangmen, Brother Ali, Tommy Rock-A-Shacka, Weezer

Also, Hellride, Bonobo, New Kingdom and others

Dâm-Funk and Nite Jewel Gear Up for Stones Throw Collabo EP, Launch 'Nite Funk' Twitter Account

L.A. cats are cooler. Nite Jewel Dâm-Funk = Nite Funk in the citay.​There's been movement from the highly anticipated Nite Jewel and Dâm-Funk collaboration, Nite Funk. This, from Dâm's Twitter about an hour ago: *Announcing the 'official' twitter account 4: NITEFUNK (@NITEFUNK). This is ... More >>

This weekend: Jonsi, LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, the National, Die Antwoord, Paul Oakenfold, Hoodoo Gurus

Jonsi​Fans who witnessed Jónsi in the 93-degree heat at the Outdoor Theatre at Coachella in April fairly swooned over the Sigur Rós frontman's gorgeously orchestrated pop-prog anthems. Those people ain't seen nothin' yet. The falsetto-wielding singer-guitarist is touring behind his solo alb ... More >>

Vinyl of the Week: Two Slabs of Stone-Cold '80s Funk from Tony Cook, ft. Dâm-Funk [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, believing that good music deserves much more than a handfu ... More >>

Tonight: Circa Survive, Cold War Kids, Eels, Rademacher, PB Wolf, William Fitzsimmons

Circa Survive​When vocalist Anthony Green broke away from the Orange County screamo outfit Saosin six years ago, it didn't look like the best of career moves. Saosin was a rising star on the post-hardcore scene and poised to sign a major-label contract; Green was headed back home to Pennsylvan ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Neon Indian ( Peanut Butter Wolf) at the Natural History Museum

Andrea Whiting​If you ever need even more proof that Los Angeles is more than its glittery and/or augmented parts, take your (San Franciscan?) friends to First Fridays: the first weekend of every month, sans summers, a couple hundred of L.A.'s smartest and most stylish hipsters take over the h ... More >>

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 >>

Tonight: DJ Skee Reinvents the Wheels of Steel with "Skeetox"

Via DJ Skee's TwitpicNo word if J. Lo is one of the surprise guests at Skeetox (Probably not). ​Taking the DJ performance to a new level is a tall task. Since DJs stepped outside of the club and onto the stage, they've struggled with making the often-obscure craft translate to their crowd. Wha ... More >>

Oh-Nine at Night

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 >>

INCHES reviews Lambo, Marshmallow Ghosts (mbrs of BMSR, Appleseed Cast), Bipolar Bear, and Pink Noise (MP3s)

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 >>

Busy LA Weekend: Dudamel, Yorke, Byrne, Eagle Rock Music Fest, Faithfull

Busy weekend of music ahead, one of the most action-packed of the season. We, in fact, are being pulled in about six different directions. Tonight, if you're lucky and/or connected, you may be at Thom Yorke and band's first ever show, which is at the Echoplex. Across town in Pasadena, David Byrn ... More >>

Os Hermeticos: Triorganico

Three Angelenos make a modern-day bossa nova classic (just don’t call it that)

INCHES002: Five More L.A. Vinyl Exclusives Revealed and Reviewed ( MP3s)

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (one populate ... More >>

Don't Knock The Rock Fest Continues Tonight at The Cinefamily with Wesley Willis and Bruce Haack Docs

Wesley Willis' Joyrides Don't Knock the Rock, the music and film festival organized by Allison and Tiffany Anders, continues tonight at The Cinefamily with a documentary double-feature. Tonight's installment is dedicated to the iconoclasts with documentary tributes to Wesley Willis and Bruce Haac ... More >>

Lightning Bolt, Black Lips, Tim & Eric, No Age to Headline Festival Formerly Known as F Yeah Fest

Lightning Bolt at WFMU​ It's been a crazy past few months for F Yeah Fest principals Sean Carlson, Keith Morris and Phil Hoelting. The annual summer music festival, which changed its name from the Fuck Yeah Fest two years ago for obvious reasons, has been the sturdy little engine of the punk/ ... More >>

Funk Spirit Rising: Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins' Dueling Soul Excursions

Inside the Energy and Funk of L.A.'s Weirdest Music-Making Couple.

Light in the Attic Interviews Echo Park Producer Dave Cooley

Echo Park producer and mastering engineer Dave Cooley, who owns Elysian Masters, has worked with a lot of LA bands you know. He's produced Silversun Pickups, Darker My Love and Mickey Avalon, among others. But it's as a mastering engineer that Cooley really seems to thrive. He's been the final ear ... More >>

He’s Out of Our Life ... Not

Intelligentsia's New Stones Throw Blend: Good Beat, Robust Beans, You Can Dance To It

There are many kinds of awesome in this world, and this blend of beats and beans is one of the better varieties of it. Apparently they won't be selling this at the Silverlake store, but we're busy trying to track down a pound of Intelligentsia's Stones Throw Blend to taste for ourselves.

Up With People Under the Stairs

Hip-hop duo celebrates a decade in L.A.

Tonight at the El Rey: People Under the Stairs Come Up for Some Air

"We'd been around the world ten times and done Glastonbury, Redding, and Leeds before people had even thought about leaving LA. And we've never been heralded by any local media."

Nightranger: Thriller Nights Before, During and After Halloween

Steel Wheels, Darling Stilettos and the Boo-Over

Kiss and Makeup

In the Ghetto; Peanut Butter party; English food; Capture scratch

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