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Electric Daisy Carnival 2015 Announces Dates, Tickets On Sale Dec. 1

Insomniac Events has announced the 2015 dates for Electric Daisy Carnival, the EDM festival that, with over 400,000 attendees last year, can now plausibly bill itself as "North America's largest music festival." The 19th annual EDC (and fifth since the festival moved to Las Vegas from its original home in......
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East Meets West on Jessica Fichot's Dear Shanghai EP

Like a lot of young musicians, Jessica Fichot initially wasn’t interested in her parents’ music. Growing up in France, “I only wanted to play and sing American music,” she remembers. But when she moved to Los Angeles after graduating from Berklee College of Music in Boston, that all changed. Watching......
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5 Ways the Los Angeles Episode of Sonic Highways Kinda Blew It

We’ve been big fans so far of Sonic Highways, the HBO series in which Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters visit different cities around America seeking inspiration in their respective music scenes. Previous episodes highlighting cities like Chicago, Nashville and Washington, D.C., have pulled off a nifty balancing act, toggling......
Marc Sallis and Anna Bulbrook of The Bulls; Credit: Photo by Josh Giroux

The Bulls Get Into Bondage in New "Come Unwound" Video (PREMIERE)

After literally bumping into one another backstage at Coachella last year, singer/violinist/keyboardist Anna Bulbrook of The Airborne Toxic Event and guitarist Marc Sallis of The Duke Spirit decided to form a band together. Their group, The Bulls, offers collisions of a different sort, combining the pair's love of late '80s/early......
Culture Club; Credit: Photo by Dean Stockings

Culture Club Cancel U.S. Tour, Including Show at the Shrine

The reunited original lineup of Culture Club have been forced to cancel all of their upcoming U.K. and North American tour dates, after doctors discovered a polyp in singer Boy George's throat. The canceled dates include a scheduled stop at the Shrine Auditorium next Wednesday, November 19. Tickets refunds will......
Dengue Fever; Credit: Photo by Marc Walker

Hear a New Song From Cambodian Rockers Dengue Fever (PREMIERE)

In 2012, L.A.-based Cambodian rock band Dengue Fever joined the growing ranks of recording artists taking control of the business side of their craft by founding their own record label, Tuk Tuk Records. They've since reissued most of their early catalog through Tuk Tuk, including their long out-of-print 2003 self-titled......
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Hard Day of the Dead

In the world of supersized EDM promoters, Gary Richards’ Hard brand continues to be The Rolling Stones to Insomniac’s Beatles, a grittier alternative to the pop and “big room” headliners of EDC Vegas. The 2014 edition of their annual Dia de los Muertos–themed party brings back some of last year’s......
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Stone Foxes

San Francisco’s Stone Foxes play swampy, sweaty, bluesy, throwback, bar-­band rock & roll with all the intensity of a bunch of guys who just invented the sound last week. Less slick than The Black Keys and less weird than Tom Waits, but channeling some of their same shout­at­-the-­world intensity, the......
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Sinkane

Sinkane’s slippery grooves have their roots in Africa, as does their creator, the London-born, Sudan-bred, Brooklyn-based musician Ahmed Gallab. But calling his music Afrobeat or Afro-pop would be far too reductive. On Mean Love, his second album for James Murphy’s DFA Records, he layers funky guitar and clavinet hooks, swaying......