Andrea Domanick

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Iceage at The Echo 7/24/11

Iceage The Echo 7/24/11 Better than...whatever you were doing between 12:15 and 12:35 last night. When it comes to live acts, Copenhagen's Iceage is a bullet train of band: powerful, direct and gone in the blink of an eye. They're even punctual--the punk quartet's L.A. debut at The Echo Sunday......
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Live Review: Big Freedia and Limp Wrist at The Echoplex

WHO: Big Freedia, Limp Wrist WHERE: The Echoplex WHEN: 7/12/11 It's packed and stifling hot inside the Echoplex--the air has that disconcerting palatable thickness unique to being indoors in July. But the sold-out, sweaty, leather-clad crowd presses against the stage as fervently as ever, because Big Freedia has just thrown......
Daniel Balk of The Postelles.; Credit: Jena Ardell

Live Review: The Postelles at the Echo

WHO: The Postelles WHERE: The Echo WHEN: 6/28/11 "Come on L.A., prove to me you're louder than New York!" Postelles lead singer Daniel Balk yelled to the crowd at Tuesday night's gig at the Echo. Met by modest cheers, he continued to evoke the age-old battle. "L.A., I know you......
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Live Review: Top Five Reasons Odd Future is L.A.'s Best Live Act

If Wu Tang, Iggy Pop and the Flaming Lips threw a birthday party, it might approximate Odd Future's swag-as-hell show Saturday night at House of Blues Sunset. Swinging stateside amidst their first European tour, the horrorcore collective took the stage in full force: all members of Odd Future Wolf Gang......
Dawes: The boys are back in town

Interview: Dawes Brings It All Back Home

Most bands might take pains to avoid having their new record described as "something my dad would like." But when it comes to L.A.'s own Dawes, who play a homecoming show Saturday at the Orpheum, they totally dig it. "I guess we do draw kind of an older crowd," drummer......
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Nic Harcourt Wants His MTV: Tastemaker Leaves KCRW for New Gig

Influential music tastemaker Nic Harcourt will be leaving L.A.'s KCRW after more than a decade for a new gig at MTV, the Santa Monica-based station announced Thursday. UPDATED(11:07 a.m. PT): Friday morning Cal State Northridge-based KCSN announced that Harcourt will be joining the station as a weekend host in mid-July......
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Top Five Tips Festivals Should Take from Primavera Sound

The past couple of years have seen a proliferation of summer festivals in the U.S., but many have been accompanied by a proliferation of financial swindles, musical shortcomings and logistical foibles. No festival is perfect, but last weekend's tried n' true San Miguel Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona showed us......