Below: snapshot of Grizzly Bear founder Ed Droste “getting crunk” — yes, that's a quote — in the parking lot prior to their appearance at
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Last night I was “taking a meeting” at the fancy ass Bowery Hotel, just down the street from legendary scum pit venue of punk rock lore, CBGBs. Scratch
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Let's be real for a moment–I don't know much about the sound of the underground Lagos Dance Floor during the years 1974-1979. The truth is those y
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There's a reward at the end of this post for those of you who read it, by the way.
There are a few words that you don't hear in mixed company, and two of the
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When Devendra Banhart emerged in the early 00s, I thought he seemed like the inheritor of the lo-fi throne whose lineage included Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes, Lou
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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”-Hunter S. Thompson
“What you gonna do when the people go home/ and you wanna smoke weed but the r
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The Church of Glitter. Photos by Rena Kosnett.
For the rest of this review, body glitter = sweat. Iowa’s mainframe zaftig-white-female hip hop star, Leslie Hall,
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Thursday March 6th to Saturday March 8th, cult singer-songwriter Phil Elverum is playing a handful of California shows. We've used this as an opportunity to talk
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So I'll be covering SXSW next week for the LA Weekly. I have never been nor do I have any idea of what to expect. I'm pretty excited to go though. I&
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Yesterday I launched into a series of posts about Phil Elverum aka Mt. Eerie aka The Microphones aka my latest obsession. For one thing he does which other artists d
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In this week's print edition of LA Weekly, I contributed a piece about Jeffrey Lewis's new album 12 Crass Songs, and the phenomenon of young(ish) indie rocke
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Grizzly Bear and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Saturday, March 1
photos by Timothy Norris
You knew Saturday night was turning magical when
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