Kai Flanders

"I wonder why all our music is so fucking dark?" William Keegan, songwriter of local slop-pop group Pangea, asks no one in particular. Pangea, made up of Keegan, guitarist Cory Hanson, bassist Danny Bengston and drummer Erik Jimenez, are sitting outside Keegan and Bengston's Lincoln Heights house. The place is......

Seth Bogart is worried that his lipstick is attracting attention. Bogart, aka Hunx of the garage-pop group Hunx and His Punx, is walking through Six Flags Magic Mountain on a crowded Saturday afternoon. He's getting looks from women with cheetah-print tattoos on their shoulders, pimply-faced teen boys and obese men......

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If you didn't know better, you might think there were two Kourtney Kleins running around Los Angeles. One is a go-go dancing ex-rockstar, the eye candy next to the DJ booth. The other is a grown-up version of the girl next door -- a successful music programmer with her own......

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See also our feature story: Fidlar Are Drunk, Reckless and Proud of It Our print feature story this week focuses on Fidlar, Highland Park-based garage punks who are creating major industry buzz without seeming to give a fuck. Over the course of a beer-drenched BBQ at their home-recording studio, they......

It's well past midnight and LAPD is furious with Fidlar. And with good reason, as the four-man garage-punk band is responsible for a near-riot in Mar Vista. In front of Timewarp Music, where they are playing an impromptu show, about 50 people gulp beer from cans and loiter along Venice......

Elliot Bergman remembers his sister Natalie running around their family's kitchen in cowboy boots, belting out Mariah Carey tunes. She was 4. Nowadays they're known as the brother-sister duo Wild Belle, and their just-released first single, "Keep You," is a deliriously catchy confluence of organic electro and reggae, with Natalie's......