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Blogs
July 13, 2012
The Five Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend
Friday, July 13 Aesop Rock EL REY THEATRE A heavy hitter in the early-aughts' onslaught of brainy indie-rap word-slingers, Aesop Rock now is 15 years into a nearly blemishless career. This New York native and San Fran transplant is celebrated for his nearly unmatched ability to braid colorful verbi ... More >>
Blogs
May 28, 2012
Aloe Blacc, Maya Jupiter, La Sera - Silver Lake Jubilee - 5/27/2012
Aloe Blacc, Maya Jupiter, La Sera, Incan Abraham Silver Lake Jubilee 5/27/2012 See also: *Our review of Jubilee on Saturday: Kinky, La Santa Cecilia, Las Cafeteras *La Sera's Katy Goodman: Ya Gotta Have Heartbreak Better than... your uncle's Memorial Day barbecue. On another quintessentially b ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2012
Dum Dum Girls Have Left The Building
See also: *A Girl Group of One: Unveiling the mystery of Dee Dee and the Dum Dum Girls *Top 10 LA Albums of 2011 A brief history of Dum Dum Girls and their fearless leader, Dee Dee. Act I (2010): The Dum Dum Girls help popularize the throwback girl-group sound, along with acts like Vivian Girl ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2012
Katy Goodman: Ya Gotta Have Heartbreak
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Katy Goodman makes breakup albums. Her latest, Sees the Light, largely concerns her failed relationships with two former beaux. Sure, there are some happy tracks, about a third ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Henry's Dedication to Jason Bentley
KCRW Broadcast #154 for Saturday, March 3, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Alone in My Man Box, Listening to Al Green Fanatics! Here we are, once again all together. As many of you probably know, I am already on the road again and this is a pre-taped show that Engineer X, Will "The Doub ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2012
The Slits Tribute - The Echo - 1/15/12
The Slips The Slits Tribute The Echo 1-15-12 See also: R.I.P. Ari Up of the Slits, Dead at 48 One of The Slits' earliest and most iconic songs was their 1979 single "Typical Girls," but there was never anything typical about the way the British coven infused their punk-pop ditties with subversive ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2011
The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums Of 2011
The best albums of 2011 from Los Angeles artists came from a suitably diverse Angeleno cast of characters; there are rappers and singers, legends and transplants, folks with great careers in front of them, and those who may have peaked this year. One thing's clear: it was unquestionably a gre ... More >>
Calendar
May 26, 2011
The House of Ella
The best albums of 2011 from Los Angeles artists came from a suitably diverse Angeleno cast of characters; there are rappers and singers, legends and transplants, folks with great careers in front of them, and those who may have peaked this year. One thing's clear: it was unquestionably a gre ... More >>
Music
April 28, 2011
The Ballad of Kickball Katy
The best albums of 2011 from Los Angeles artists came from a suitably diverse Angeleno cast of characters; there are rappers and singers, legends and transplants, folks with great careers in front of them, and those who may have peaked this year. One thing's clear: it was unquestionably a gre ... More >>
Music
April 28, 2011
Music Picks: The Psychedelic Furs, Orgone, Raekwon, Beach Fossils, The Raveonettes
Also, Thao & Mirah, Sun Araw, Cass McCombs, Trinket and others
Music
April 21, 2011
New Garage Explosion: Garage, Part 2
Also, Thao & Mirah, Sun Araw, Cass McCombs, Trinket and others
Blogs
March 8, 2011
SXSW Bands from A-Z: I - L
As SXSW gets ever closer, we figured we'd continue being servicey and give you a guide to some of the highlights of the official showcases, alphabet style. Yesterday we gave you E - H, today it's I - L. So here we go: five more awesome bands to see in SXSW's official lineup.
Music
February 17, 2011
Music Picks: Balkan Beat Box, Cake, Ted Leo, Vanessa Paradis
Also Red Cortez, Troy Walker, Bun B and others
Blogs
January 10, 2011
Top Ten Ways to Make Your Band an Epic Fail in 2011
Our Epic Fail Band could be your life! Here's how. We're gonna start 2011 by being servicey. We have seen too many talented bands (and the PR people they pay) squander opportunities and/or generally make our lives in the music press difficult. We thought we'd give you our (100% unsolicited) ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2010
Top 10 Most Exciting L.A. Indie Labels of 2010
Top 10 Most Exciting L.A. Indie Labels of 2010
Blogs
December 20, 2010
Top 10 L.A. Bands to Watch in 2011
Top Ten This, That, and the Other Thing of 2010, yadda yadda. As 2010 becomes more and more "the year that was," we'd like to push the fast-forward button a bit and tell you the Top 10 LA Bands to Watch in 2011. Come next December these are gonna be the bands on those ubiquitous end-of-the-ye ... More >>
Music
December 9, 2010
Rock Picks: DJ Spinna, Bodega Girls, Andre Nickatina, Elevated Suspects
Also, Hilary Hahn, People Under the Stairs, KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas and others
Blogs
November 17, 2010
Interview: La Sera: "More Eerie, Hopefully More Angelic"
courtesy hardly art La Sera is Kickball Katy, the ginger-haired Vivian Girls bass player who sings the high parts and who now lives in L.A. With her released-yesterday single "Never Come Around" (on Hardly Art) and its subsequent video, Katy displays her eviscerating talent. Here she talks a ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2010
Best Coast Is Best California Band of 2010 (According to Bostonians)
Drew TewksburyA few years ago, The Phoenix, Boston's leading alt-weekly, came up with a neat annual music future: they surveyed the US state-by-state and had their music critics pick the best "new" band from each state. The first year they did this, 2008, they also picked the best group and s ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2010
Listen: Edward Sharpe & Magnetic Zeroes Cover David Bowie for Charity, Due Out on Manimal
"Repetition: A Tribute to David Bowie"Manimal Vinyl's charitable David Bowie tribute album, Repetition, is due out any day now. All proceeds from the 2CD set (including MP3 sales) will go to War Child International, with a hugely impressive list of artists making musical contributions to the ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2010
Live in L.A.: Woodsist Festival, Thurston Moore, Sting, Justin Currie, Abandoned Pools
Sarah McKayKurt VileIn case your lifeline to Brooklyn is broken: Woodsist is a four-year-old record label, founded by Woods guitarist Jeremy Earl, that caters to fans who like things gloriously unvarnished, or who think the Vivian Girls are original. The label has brought a small army of lo-f ... More >>
Music
June 10, 2010
Free the Robots, Dr. John. Alex Cuba and Merle Haggard
Also, Bestial Mouths, The Dreaming, Echo Lush and Elevaters
Blogs
May 12, 2010
MP3 Exclusive: Machinedrum Remixes Ninjasonik's "Somebody Gonna Get Pregnant"
Diana LevineBrooklyn crunk-punk freaks Ninjasonik play Spaceland on Thursday night, which almost undoubtedly means that, in the words of frontman Telli Gramz, "Somebody Gonna Get Pregnant." The group's mix of hard-partying beats and hyper-sexual irreverence makes for a wild and bawdy soup th ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2010
MGMT Track for Manimal Vinyl Bowie Tribute Finally Revealed
We've told you before about the upcoming eclectic, star-studded tribute to David Bowie that LA's Manimal Vinyl has put together. Up until now, "It" band MGMT was said to have recorded the opening track for the double album, but Manimal was teasing us with a TBA as to which track the prep-roc ... More >>
Music
April 1, 2010
A Girl Group of One
Unveiling the mystery of Dee Dee and the Dum Dum Girls
Blogs
March 15, 2010
EXCLUSIVE MP3: "Belt of Orion" by Wounded Lion (Forthcoming on In the Red)
Little known fact: In the Red Records--founded in 1991 and responsible for great releases from Vivian Girls, Jay Reatard, Black Lips, Strange Boys and Blank Dogs, etc.--is run by one man out of a garage in little old Eagle Rock. Owner Larry Hardy occasionally gets help, but the guy has a sin ... More >>
Music
February 5, 2010
Rock Picks: Daedelus, Beth Thornley, Yeasayer
Also, Ohioan, Hepcat, Vivian Girls and others
Blogs
January 4, 2010
Duran Duran Announce Track Listing of Manimal Vinyl's Upcoming David Bowie Tribute (Featuring Carla Bruni!)
While you were sleeping off NYE on Friday, LA-based Manimal Vinyl and Brit-based Duran Duran teamed up to announce the details of the label's forthcoming David Bowie tribute, which, as of this writing, is still unnamed. Among the many potential highlights are covers of Bowie songs by the aforeme ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2009
Best Coast Abuzz: An LA Noise Pop Artist Pops Nationally
If you've been paying attention to the underground noise pop scene lately -- and who wouldn't be? -- the name Best Coast may mean something to you. In one of those coming-storm moments, the whisper through the blog world on LA-based Best Coast has been gradually turning into a bonafide moan. Pitchfo ... More >>
Articles
September 10, 2009
Rock Picks: Broken Nobles, Anny Celsi, Seu Jorge, the Killers
If you've been paying attention to the underground noise pop scene lately -- and who wouldn't be? -- the name Best Coast may mean something to you. In one of those coming-storm moments, the whisper through the blog world on LA-based Best Coast has been gradually turning into a bonafide moan. Pitchfo ... More >>
Music
September 10, 2009
Rock Picks: Broken Nobles, Anny Celsi, Seu Jorge, the Killers
Also, Destroy L.A., Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Drones and others
Blogs
July 20, 2009
Tonight in LA: Devendra Curates, Japanese Motors Revs, Girls Pop Pills, Last American Buffalo Rises, Andy Clockwise
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, from the revived and consistently interesting Slumberland Records roster, is at the Echo. They're playing with San Francisco band Girls, newly signed to Matador Records, who made a splash this week with a great interview they did with the Guardian UK (via The Daily ... More >>
Music
June 4, 2009
All in the Family With the EC Twins and the Boulet Brothers
Plus: Kidrockers playdate
Music
April 30, 2009
In the Red Records: On Fire with Kid Congo, Strange Boys, Thee Oh Sees, Vivian Girls
Eagle Rock label defies the odds and sells records. Says its owner: “I always shoot for that ‘Holy fuck!’ response”
Music
April 16, 2009
Ten Coachella Picks: Ariel Pink, Genghis Tron, Vivian Girls, Mastodon
Plus, A Place to Bury Strangers, Mexican Institute of Sound, Gui Boratto, MSTRKFT and more
Blogs
April 13, 2009
Coachella Tip: Vivian Girls Fuzzy Grungy Fun (MP3)
Vivian Girls When Brooklyn's fuzz-pop queens Vivian Girls bring their grungy West Coast surf and girl-group sound to the desert, lead singer Cassie Ramone will probably utter her lyrics with the disaffected look of someone simultaneously bored and saddened by the fact that she has to be singing at ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2009
Mess With Texas Party at Waterloo Park: The F-Yeah Fest Posse Hits SXSW, Pulls It Off Again?
Randall RobertsSaturday afternoon at the Mess with Texas party. Yes, they pulled it off. For the past three years, Sean Carlson and Keith Morris, in conjunction with Transmission Entertainers, the founders of Austin's renegade summer autumn Fun Fun Fun Fest, have thrown the Mess With Texas party ... More >>
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 >>
Blogs
March 19, 2009
Kid Congo Powers Covers Cramps and Gun Club at SXSW, Thrills Imo's
The first official night of South By Southwest music, you'd think, would be kind of a pace-setter, a warm-up night. But no, even if you arrive late and think you're going to do some stretching and calisthenics, grab an easy dinner, before really cooking it on Thursday, something calls you from bey ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2009
SXSW '09, Day 1: On Max Tundra, Mojoe, and Mediocrity
I have this theory: like most things, greatness at music generally* requires an alloy of natural talent, providence, and an Outliers-like tenacity requiring 10 years hard labor in dingy crackerbox clubs, or snagging a Best New Music on Pitchfork--whichever comes first. The corollary being that for ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Music
February 5, 2009
Maybe We're Amazed: Notes on the Fairly Odd Coachella 2009 Lineup
Our only hope — that Macca gets Ram tough
Blogs
January 30, 2009
Coachella 2009 Announced: Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney, My Bloody Valentine ... Throbbing Gristle! Leonard Cohen!
Yeah, so all the silly speculation probably isn't done yet, as Goldenvoice always adds a few heavy-hitters after the initial announcement, but the initial line-up is up. Click through to see it in all it's glory. We'll start analyzing it soon, but for now: Throbbing Gristle! No Pavement? Let the ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2008
The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#30-21) (Sponsored By Medieval Times)
You better believe they serve Pepsi at Medieval Times. 30. Los Campesinos-Hold On Now, Youngster (Wichita/Arts and Crafts) Gareth Campesinos and Co. clearly grew up not just liking music but being obsessed by bands, and they've done the only honourable thing you can in that position: they've ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2008
The Week in LA Music: Scott Weiland, GnR, Vivian Girls at Part Time Punks, Jason Bentley
Cassie Ramone of the Vivian Girls (photo by Timothy Norris) These things happened in LA music this week: Erin Broadley sat down with Scott Weiland at his Lavish Studios for an interview, and the former Pilot, former Revolver, was, well, in a sentimental mood. KCRW announced that DJ Jason Bentle ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2008
Part Time Punks Festival: A Certain Ratio, Pylon, Love is All, Daytime Television Tear a Hole in History
A Certain Ratio's Jeremy Kerr: still dark and menacing Old men acting weird. That’s one way to look at it, and if I were one of the four pre-teen boys in the band Daytime Television, whose versions of the Buzzcocks’ “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays,” "Part Time Punks" and “Teenage Kicks” ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2008
Partying Like It's 1983: Part-Time Punks Announce Post-Punk Fest Featuring A Certain Ratio, Pylon, Savage Republic, Vivian Girls and More
A Certain Ratio's "Shack Up" This just in from the great Part-Time Punks posse: Los Angeles will be the location of the world’s first-ever Post-Punk Festival (or at least the first since 1982 or whenever the last Futurama was held in the UK!). The day-long event will be held in conjoined venues ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2008
Memorial Day Weekend in LA: Music galore (and MP3s)
Ah, Memorial Day Weekend, the perfect three-day break, tailor-made for chilling in the comfort of an abandoned LA. As long as you stay away from Hollywood Boulevard and the tourists imported from Hell, you can relax, go out to dinner, catch some music, sleep in, drive to the desert, take some LSD, c ... More >>
Music
August 2, 2007
The (Ugly, Nasty, Pissed) Men Among Children
With Deerhunter, The Horrors and Pissed Jeans
Art+Books
February 9, 2006
Snapped Shots
Photography out of bounds
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