From Aqua to Madness: The 163rd LA Weekly playlist, reviewing the musicians that we’ve been writing about all week, is live now. There’s electronic music from Grabbitz, hip-hop from A.R. The Mermaid, pop from Bebe Rexha, punk from the Vandals, ska from Madness, and so much more.

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From Aqua to Madness

Also this week:

Joey Holman of print stars Man On Man told us that, “Just because there are laws created doesn’t introduce a new form or paranoia, but it certainly adds weight to the existing paranoia. Even in liberal cities like L.A. or New York, it’s cute to pretend that we’re all good and safe, but we’re not. People are still targeted in these bigger cities. To present that part of yourself to the world is dangerous. It wasn’t safe for me as a teenager to be gay. It just wasn’t. It wasn’t safe for Roddy either, and we grew up in very different places. Roddy grew up in L.A., and I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Georgia. And still, it’s not safe for kids in Georgia to come out when they’re 14 years old or however old they are. It’s a lot heavier right now, because people are emboldened to speak very clearly. Mike Pence on the CNN town hall doubled down on these disgusting views of trans people. Man, he’s so blatant about it. There’s no shame. It made us both mad and disgusted.

In "Not Another DJ," Grabbitz said, "Electronic music has effectively seeped into almost every other genre, influencing it from one way or another. And the scene itself seems healthy. There is a lot of cool stuff happening in bass music, and also artists like myself trying to nestle up against genre boundaries and use their voices.

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