Andy Hermann

Haunted Summer; Credit: Sabella Snyder

Haunted Summer Are "On Some Magic" on Their Gorgeous Debut LP (PREMIERE)

The first time Bridgette Moody and John Seasons performed together, everyone in the room could tell they were watching something special. "We got the craziest response," Seasons remembers. "People were like, ‘Wow, you two — you two should do something.’” You can watch the performance, a cover of Animal Collective's......
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Best Record Store

Opened in 1971 in Old Town Pasadena, back when the neighborhood had more hippies and fewer Cheesecake Factories, Poo-Bah Record Shop became famous not just for its vinyl but as the regular meeting spot for the Los Angeles Free Music Society, an avant-garde collective of jazzbos and noise-mongers and analog......
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Best Hidden Cocktail Lounge

Even on weeknights, the Normandie Club usually is bustling with Koreatown's growing hipster class. But walk past the fedoras and sleeve tattoos to a locked door back by the bathrooms (helpfully labeled "Secret Door"), push the buzzer, and you'll be escorted into a quieter, wood-paneled lounge where it's all about......
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Best Label

It's easy to take OWSLA for granted. Co-founded by Skrillex in 2011, the label's early output was pretty much exactly what you'd expect from anything associated with the fratstep prince born Sonny Moore: bangers with big drops from Zedd, Porter Robinson, 12th Planet and the like. But just as Skrillex's......