Tribute bands are so a dime a dozen in LA that there even was a whole festival of them last weekend (Tributefest in Santa Clarita, which you knew about thanks to a g
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You know, we totally dig Richard Grant's trumpet playing — his Clifford Brown–gorgeous tone, his fluid and fluent solos whether fired up or working out an ac
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Highland Park art-rock crew Fol Chen has got a new full-length due out on Asthmatic Kitty June 6, but you needn't wait for Part II: The New December to get a tas
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It's not enough that Los Angeles beat scene figurehead Flying Lotus has a feverishly anticipated new album due out next month.
Nor that he's wrangled a host
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If psychedelic Peruvian surf rock isn't the top played genre on your iPod, it's probably because you haven't heard Chicha Libre. The Brooklyn-based troup
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It's not every day that two excellent L.A. indie rock bands get together to share space on a piece of wax. We wish it was, but hocking 7-inches just ain't no
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Sunday was the hottest day of the Coachella weekend and it felt like the most crowded, a change from previous years when (thanks to the one-day passes) the last day
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It's Friday, the end of your week part-time working and full-time souring for crazy stuff on the interwebs.
You've watched the R. Kelly / Blue Velvet Mashup,
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Pitchfork had tipped us last week to Beck's new Record Club joint (where he gets his musicians friends to cover an entire album), and we knew this time he had ga
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Despite the technological and musical innovations forged by the progressive-house generation of DJs that ruled the '90s, clubland's focus has shifted in rece
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Madlib In Africa
It's been what — a week or two since the last Madlib release, or three? Guess that means we should have seen this coming.
Stones T
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You know when you're sitting around with your buddies, just chillen, and you start singing along to a favorite record and everyone has a great time?
Well, if you
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