Billed as Los Angeles’ biggest music publication, L.A. Record definitely lives up to both parts of its double entendre. Reviews of albums are thoughtful and plentiful, and the mag’s writers are fully immersed in the scene, making it a pub of record. We prefer the website to the print version, if only because it’s a little more difficult to embed MP3s on paper stock.

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