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Juan McLean at Avalon

Mark Mauer
Juan MacLean Avalon, August 24 By Jonah Flicker The parking gods were smiling on this chilly Friday night. It’s 11:45, I’m in the area around Hollywood and Vine, and I actually find a street spot in less than six minutes? Sweet satisfaction. I’m heading over to Club 82, where the......
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Another Hollywood El Mac / Retna

Mark Mauer
I'm not purposefully trying to focus on these guys, but their pieces really do jump out at you when you see them. All photos by Mark Mauer More after the jump......
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Retna, el Mac on Hollywood Western Bldg.

Mark Mauer
At the corner of Hollywood and Western (right across the street from the Metro stop), a strange confluence of art, architecture and bureaucracy exists, for a while at least. Most of the time, a large Retna and El Mac painting on a wall doesn't have to compete much with the......
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Rock the Bells '07

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Public Enemy, EPMD, Mos Def, The Roots, Wu-Tang Clan and a reunited Rage Against the Machine played in San Bernadino over the weekend. Timothy Norris was there and took loads of pictures. All photos by Timothy Norris. Click here to see a whole lot more......
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Van Halen to Play LA in November

Mark Mauer
Which Van Halen? The Diamond-Dave fronted VH, of course. The band is slated to play the Staples Center on November 20. As previously speculated, the band will consist of Eddie, David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen. Michael Anthony will not re-join the band for the tour and bass duties......
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Bad Religion – New Maps of Hell

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Bad Religion New Maps of Hell (Epitaph Records) By Tony Ware New Maps of Hell, Bad Religion's 14th original studio album, does an admirable job proving that the L.A. sextet is still the epitome of a tempestuous, polemically driven punk band. The anti-establishment espousers conform here to what they do......
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Tony Wilson of Factory Records Dead

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The man who founded Factory Records in Manchester, home of Durutti Column and A Certain Ratio (as well as Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays) has died of kidney cancer at age 57. O.C. Weekly's Dave Segal has more at Heard Mentality. Here's a clip of Wilson shot a......
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M.I.A. – Kala

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She proposes in her new disc that this is the Third World Democracy, and there’s no arguing here. M.I.A. did a lot of jumping from continent to continent for this one, and the end result captures the musical flavor of several different cultures and manages to infuse them with booming 808s and frantic rhythms.

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Old Crow Medicine Show – A Disssenting Opinion

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Old Crow Medicine Show Avalon, August 8 By Ryan Colditz Having grown up in the boonies of Northern California, far from the smog and street lights, "Country" is a way of the land. I did everything I could to stay separated from it. All that line dancing and rodeo action......