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Sam Smith

Lily Moayeri
Disclosure and Naughty Boy tapped into Sam Smith early on, featuring the blue-eyed soul singer on the smashes "Latch" and "La La La," respectively. On his solo debut, In the Lonely Hour, Smith's smooth falsetto tones are the centerpiece, lending themselves to the unrequited love that is the album's theme......
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Sunset Strip Music Festival

Lily Moayeri
Over the last seven years, the Sunset Strip Music Festival has gone from veteran, hard-rock Strip bands to indie-oriented, international acts whose reputations weren't established 30 years ago. The intention of the festival remains the same: the preservation and promotion of the legendary, raunchy reputation of the Strip. Festivalgoers will......
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Sunset Strip Music Festival

Lily Moayeri
Over the last seven years, the Sunset Strip Music Festival has gone from veteran, hard-rock Strip bands to indie-oriented, international acts whose reputations weren't established 30 years ago. The intention of the festival remains the same: the preservation and promotion of the legendary, raunchy reputation of the Strip. Festivalgoers will......
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Mad Decent Block Party

Lily Moayeri
As the brightness of Diplo's star continues to eclipse his contemporaries', so does the popularity of his roving summertime ragefest, the Mad Decent Block Party. Now in its seventh year, the number of cities hosting the Block Party has grown exponentially, including stops in South Africa in early 2014. For......
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Hospitality

Lily Moayeri
What's more inviting than attending a party that calls itself Hospitality? The event arm of the U.K.'s Hospital Records, Hospitality is an established rager overseas. The respected, award-winning drum 'n' bass label, which recently opened its stateside doors in Los Angeles, kicks off an every-other-month Hospitality residency with its crown......
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FYF Fest

Lily Moayeri
Entering its second decade, FYF Fest moves to a new indoor/outdoor location at the L.A. Sports Arena and Exposition Park. With more stages and more food options, the not-so-little-festival-that-could rivals Coachella at the local level. The indie-centric FYF is where newly reformed shoegaze pioneers Slowdive are making their dreamy SoCal......
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Ed Rush & Optical

Lily Moayeri
Longtime drum 'n' bass powerhouses Ed Rush and Optical take a break from massive EDM festival stages to bring their crafted DJ set to a club setting. The British duo's seemingly endless string of summer gigs is ahead of the late-September release of their sixth full-length album, Automaton, out on......
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Hard Summer Music Festival 2014

Lily Moayeri
HARD Summer moves out of downtown L.A. to Whittier Narrows Recreational Area for its seventh go-around. With 100 acres of space, the two-day event is more than triple the size of its previous location at Los Angeles State Historic Park. Even so, the 100-artist happening is sold out. Bringing the......
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DEEP

Lily Moayeri
For the last five years, KCRW has been making Los Angeles' cool summer evenings even cooler with its Summer Nights series in various outdoor spaces throughout the city. As part of that series, City of Angels native son Marques Wyatt shepherds summer 2014's final Made in L.A. evening at the......
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Nightmare & the Cat

Lily Moayeri
Brothers Django and Sam Stewart, the centerpieces for L.A. quintet Nightmare and the Cat, are more inspired by each other than by their notable pedigree. The 20-something-year-old sons of Eurythmics' Dave Stewart and Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey have been making their mark on the late-night talk show circuit, as well as......