A short list of recommended L.A.-area shows for the coming week (plus videos for instant gratification). Click “details” for descriptions.
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Tagged: Disney Hall, Echo Park, Echoplex, Keenhouse, Kronos Quartet, Little Red Radio, live music, Los Angeles, Matmos, Mike Einziger, music videos, Neon Indian, Short Circuit, Terry Riley, Tiger City
Howdy ya’ll. Just cooked up a fresh new installment of the INCHES column. This week we take a trip north to the Bay Area (land of my upbringing) to cover some face-meltingly hot vinyl releases from Lazer Sword, Tempo No Tempo, Themselves, and Young Prisms. Free MP3s, videos, awesome photos, awesomer words. Check it.
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Tagged: anticon., badass, DJ culture, Lazer Sword, Mexican Summer, San Francisco, Tempo No Tempo, Themselves, vinyl, Young Prisms
The new free L.A.-based mini-magazine’s website is up and running. Not much there yet but a handy list of all the record shops, cafés, thrift shops and taco joints that carry the thing, but for now, that’s all one really needs. Click here. I’m working on the cover story for Issue 2. Think big.
More info on Issue 1 here.
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Tagged: Fishbowl LA, free stuff, Los Angeles, mini mags, print media
Quick bloggy bits* from around the L.A. underground (and up).
(all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)
*If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.
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Tagged: AmpLive, AutoTune, Diplo, DJ Quik, Dublab, Jennifer Furches, Maybe So Maybe No, Mayer Hawthorne, music news, Parra, pop-up shops, robotics, Rockwell, Snoop Dogg, Soulja Boy, Stones Throw, Vision Version
It’s hard to know where to start with this one. At the end of the day, you could be the proud owner of: a DVD of the Secondhand Sureshots documentary (to be explained); a 12-inch picture disc featuring music by Daedelus, J-Rocc, Nobody, Ras G, and Kutmah; which itself comes packaged inside of a one-of-a-kind hand-screened LP sleeve; plus two slipmats. And all of that looks like this:
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Click below for the explanation, an MP3, a video clip, and purchase info…
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Tagged: cratedigging, Daedelus, documentary, Dublab, Frosty, hip-hop, J.Rocc, Kutmah, Morpho, Nobody, Ras G, sampling, Secondhand Sureshots, Stones Throw, thrift stores, vinyl
A short list of recommended L.A.-area shows for the coming week (plus videos for instant gratification). Click “details” for descriptions.
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Tagged: live music, Los Angeles, Them Crooked Vultures, Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, John Paul Jones, Saul Williams, American Fangs, Kimya Dawson, New Kingdom, The Bots, The Roxy, The Wiltern
It’s here! Another super sweet installment on your favorite column focusing on L.A.-area vinyl from the underground on up. New vinyl releases reviewed include 7-inches from Mayer Hawthorne and The Anasazis, and 12-inch EPs from Railcars and Robedoor. Awesome stuff. Don’t sleep, or the teeth’ll get ya. (via LA Weekly’s West Coast Sound)
'Introducing The Anasazis'
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Tagged: DJ culture, free mp3s, INCHES, independent music, Los Angeles, Mayer Hawthorne, Not Not Fun, Pocahaunted, Railcars, Robedoor, Stones Throw, The Anasazis, vinyl
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Tagged: Chris Carrabba, Dashboard Confessional, emo, Interscope, music criticism, shitty production, try again, Vagrant
Print ain’t dead, it just shrunk. To wit, Blink Media has just started up a brand new, free L.A.-circulated magazine dubbed Poptimist. It just so happens that said mag could fit into one’s back pocket, and without the classic rolling method that’s loosened so many perfect bindings. I haven’t held a copy in my hand yet, but I do have experience with these things, and I’d guess Poptimist’s specs to be roughly 10 inches high by 6 wide. Though, if you click here, it can be however big you’d like it to. Once you’re firmly ensconced in those digital pages, you may want to turn to:
- Page 24, for an update from Chicago hipster hoppers The Cool Kids.
- Page 26, to explore the fabric of Compton’s fashion-forward U-N-I.
- Page 45, for a critical take on Anti-Pop Consortium’s Flourescent Black.
- Page 47, to read an overdue lauding of Themselves’ latest, CrownsDown.
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Tagged: Anti-Pop Consortium, anticon., Bay Area, Brooklyn, Chicago, Compton, Fishbowl LA, free stuff, hipster hop, Los Angeles, mini mags, Okayplayer, skinny jeans, sneaker rap, The Cool Kids, Themselves, U-N-I, Warp, When Fish Ride Bicycles
