From CAAMP to Alice Bag: The 156th LA Weekly playlist, reviewing the musicians that we’ve been writing about all week, is live now. There’s electronic music from Tangerine Dream, R&B from Journey Montana and Jacob Banks, punk from Alice Bag, metal from Autopsy and Fozzy, electro-pop from M83 and Empire of the Sun, and so much more.

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From CAAMP to Alice Bag

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Luke Steele of print stars Empire of the Sun told us that, “I just figured the other day I think it was 2016, the last record, and that’s getting a bit too long now. Just before the pandemic, the band just felt so tired. We’d been to Japan a couple of times, we’d been recording a lot of stuff. And we record so much material with Empire – we’re really quite choosy about which songs make it onto the record. I basically just said I’d had enough, and I’ve got to go and make a solo record. I wasn’t even sure that the band was going to resurface. Then the pandemic hit, and it was just the amount of calls and emails – the excitement for the music went up. People found a lot of solace in it, and that drew Nick [Littlemore] and I back together. We’re now quite heavily back into the next phase.

In "Not Another DJ," German pioneers Tangerine Dream said, “The source should always be a deeper intention and emotion transferred to the computer, sequencer and instruments. 



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