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Bridgetown DIY; Credit: Daniel Torres

Best All-Ages Music Venue

Located in a nondescript strip mall behind a zumba studio in La Puente, Bridgetown DIY is an all-ages, alcohol- and drug-free venue that fosters a scene of local punk, metal, experimental, noise and electronic acts. The venue specializes in booking SGV bands but also brings in up-and-coming touring acts, including......
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Best Horse Ranch for At-Risk Kids

When you think of horses in Los Angeles, you're likely to conjure images of towns at the far reaches of the San Fernando Valley or stables attached to multimillion-dollar homes overlooking the ocean at Rancho Palos Verdes. But you'll also find these majestic animals just off the Metro Blue Line......
DJ Michael Stock at a Part Time Punks live event; Credit: Dylan Gordon

Best Rock Radio Show

If you're looking for rock radio stations in L.A., your choices most days of the week are basically the station that plays alt-rock from the mid-2000s and the two stations that play jock rock from the '70s. That's why it's always a moment of instant joy to hear the messy......
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Best Dance Music Radio Show

Los Angeles is a city best experienced at night and in motion, and the best soundtrack for your after-dark walk, drive or bus ride is house music. In a club setting, a good house DJ can read the crowd and give them what they didn't even know they wanted. DJ......
L.A. Club Resource's Jimmy Mock (left)

Best Dance Music Label

If John Carpenter made techno, it probably would sound like an L.A. Club Resource record. The label, founded and run by Delroy Edwards,ostensibly is in the business of putting out dance music, but this isn't the fun, disco-imbued sound of Chicago house or the shiny anthems of EDM. L.A. Club......
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Best L.A.-Centric Podcast

Busdriver is a cultural and intellectual treasure in Los Angeles. Since the early '90s, the Leimert Park native has expressed complex thoughts about the intersection of racism, history, economics, politics, technology and culture as a rapper affiliated with the Project Blowed experimental hip-hop collective. Busdriver (born Regan John Farquhar) is......
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Best Place to See New Movies for Free

With wages stagnating and the price of movie tickets forever increasing — not to mention the endless amount of movie and TV options available online (legally or otherwise) — Angelenos can be forgiven for not going out to the movies more often. Still, there's something to be said for the......