No Age and Tearist Walmart protest at Human Resources Gallery in Chinatown 6/29/12 *Walmart Protest in Chinatown is Turning Into Walstock Free Concert Featuring Tom Morello *Tom Morello Dishes On LA Rising, Politics and Rage's 20th Anniversary Activists and rockers descended upon a gallery in Chi ... More >>
Also, Norma Jean, Jonathan Richman, Jay-Z and Kanye West and others
Colin Young-WolffYasmine Kittles of Tearist performing with PictureplaneWho: Pictureplane, oOoOO, Javelin, Babe Rainbow, Hollagramz Where: Check Yo' Ponytail 2 @ The Echoplex When: August 16, 2011 Better than... Tumbling psychedelic druid gifs all night. With the increasing amount of refe ... More >>
They said the duo's mesmerizing live shows (the best in L.A. for a couple of years) could not be put on record. They were wrong
Daiana FeuerTearist's Yasmine Kittles post-pool depressionOne often leaves The Standard Hotel questioning reality, for many reasons, which makes the hotel's Downtown rooftop an appropriate setting for experimental performance and the fashionably interested. That's what The Series is all about ... More >>
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Most keep their shirts on, sorry guys! [UPDATE, 1/27/2011: We listened to our beloved commenters, so here's "People's Choice: Commenters Pick 4 More Female Drummers in L.A. for Our List!"] Do you like women? Do you like drums? Do you like women on drums? If you answered yes to any of these q ... More >>
Tearist's Yasmine Kittles co-stars in "All American Orgy," at the Downtown Indie.Tonight marks the Los Angeles theatrical debut of All American Orgy, a film close to West Coast Sound's heart not because of the titular subject matter (though kinda), but because it stars Yasmine Kittles, the ch ... More >>
Out today on Upset The Rhythm: Second album New Love from L.A. band Former Ghosts, which is Freddy Ruppert (This Song Is A Mess But So Am I) with friends Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), Yasmine Kittles (Tearist) and Nika Roza Danilova (Zola Jesus). Last album Fleurs was unflinchingly intimate--a b ... More >>
Tearist sign to Manimal, Yasmine has a dirty faceBack in January, we attempted to announce that our favorite highly dangerous synth-punk duo Tearist had signed to L.A. indie label Manimal Vinyl, and we were wrong. UPDATED: Wrong again! So says singer Yasmine Kittles after the jump. But not ... More >>
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Legend has it that a stoned Paul McCartney was one day listening to the playback of something The Beatles had just recorded and kept cracking himself up by repeating "Plastic soul, man, plastic soul." Later, he and his band mates embraced the autoderogatory comment and, famously, titled their next r ... More >>
The bill for Manimal Vinyl's showcase at the Echo last night had the label's self-proclaimed "Bolshevik disco" duo The Polyamorous Affair (ever-cooing couple Eddie Chacon and Sissy Sainte-Marie) as headliners. They did draw the bigger crowd, but they did not close the show. It's unclear whether they ... More >>
What's not to like about Tearist's Yasmine Kittles? She's badass, looks like the lovechild of "Rehab"-era Amy Winehouse and Polly Jean Harvey (in a good way), digs good music (Throbbing Gristle, Can, The Red Crayola, The Ronettes), does her crazy "Patti Smith meets Peaches" act at The Smell, has abs ... More >>
