Kai Flanders

KXSC Fest White Fence, Nosaj Thing, Starfucker Founders Park 2-25-12 Better than: Your college roommate's reggae band. College music festivals aren't always compelling. They often book a bunch of acts popular with students that don't add up to a coherent bill. The fest put on by my alma matter had......

Lauryn Hill The Palladium 2-14-2012 See also: Lauryn Hill's Top Five Career-Torpedoing Tendencies Better than most Lauryn Hill shows. Last night's Lauryn Hill show featured a true Valentine's crowd: stoned, star-crossed lovers and women in groups of four who looked like they had blasted "All The Single Ladies" repeatedly on......

Henry Allen and Preston Walker of Virtual Boy are two modest guys, mild-mannered to the point of shyness. They are prompt and polite; their hair isn't shaved ridiculously. Their music isn't the product of drug-fueled benders or nightclub culture. They are the opposite of what you'd expect from a rising......

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The statement "Talking Heads are a better band than the Ramones" will draw some incredulous looks. The guy in the leather jacket halfway down the bar may tighten his hand around his beer bottle, as if he would like nothing more than to shatter it over your head. "The geeky......

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Stones Throw Records 15th Anniversary Party The Exchange LA 12-22-11 See also: Stones Throw Records Turns 15: Label remains a genre unto itself Pictures from the party. Stones Throw Records has long been an anomaly in the music industry, boasting a genre defying and head-sratchingly diverse roster. They have, as......

Mtendere Mandowa, better known as the Brainfeeder's beat protege Teebs, lives and works in a space that seems to be an extension of himself. It's a small, mellow little spot in Glassell Park, nothing flashy. In the living room there is a turntable, lots of art, and live harp music......