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Living in Patterns by Pollyn
LA's Pollyn can't shake the Portishead comparisons. With Genevieve Artadi's gorgeous soprano soaring over nebulous electronics on their debut album This Little Night,...
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Dubstep Don 12th Planet Blasts Off On Skrillex’s Mothership
Considered the "American Dubstep King," 12th Planet is credited with bringing the London-based genre to Los Angeles back in the aughts.
Now the legendary dj/producer...
Music Video
Skrillex — “First Of The Year (Equinox)”
Who knew that dubstep could fight crime? LA’s Skrillex did! The Deadmau5 prodigy’s “First Of The Year” features a chubby-cheeked a** kicker who probably doesn’t listen...
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Sweet Predators: The Cannibal Courtship of Dengue Fever
There’s a poignant moment on Cannibal Courtship, the fifth album from the Cambodia-inspired, Los Angeles-based Dengue Fever, that encapsulates what is tragic and urgent...
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2011 MTV Video Music Awards: Lots of Drama But No Host
The MTV Video Music Awards were back again last night, the grand tradition of scene stealing and air kisses upheld for another year. Tyler the Creator won Best New...
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Film Review: The Electric Daisy Carnival Experience
In an early scene of "The Electric Daisy Carnival Experience," a bearded, potbellied man wearing nothing but gold lame leggings is smearing the inside of his bellybutton...
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Dengue Fever @ Lincoln Center: Upper West Side Gets Psychedelic
LA's six-piece folk group Dengue Fever performed in the sticky heat for Lincoln Center's free summer concert series "Out of Doors" this past week in New York City....
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Pollyn — “How Small We Are”
Despite the existentialist title, Pollyn's psych-blues-soul foray "How Small We Are" is as swingin' as a Janelle Monáe track.
The video from the LA trio is just as...
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Rainbow Arabia’s Exotic L.A. Electro
Fact one: Rainbow Arabia borrow riffs and vocal styles from African and Middle Eastern music to propel their distorted '80s pop/Berlin techno amalgam. Fact two: They...
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Hanni El Khatib’s Got A Hot Hot Thing
Somewhere on a side street in the vestigial industrial precincts of Manhattan’s Far West side, the rocker Hanni El Khatib interrupts a photo shoot—he was getting...
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Warpaint — “Warpaint”
Watch as Warpaint illustrates their single of the same name. The Los Angeles art rock quartet brings the beat – and our attention -- to a grand crescendo in this...
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Self Study By Declaime
Self Study is the tenth album by one Dudley Perkins performing under the name Declaime. (He's put out four others under his given name.) This one is a crowd pleaser,...
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You Can’t Be Like Angel Haze
Listening to Angel Haze is effortless. It's because she makes what she does -- rap extremely well -- seem effortless. She makes it seem like you could do it. But you...
Music Video
Dengue Fever — “Cement Slippers”
The sextet Dengue Fever has served up an exotic, beachy music video bursting with retro flavor with “Cement Slippers,” a single off their upcoming album Cannibal...
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Zola Jesus — “Vessel”
Maybe it's the dead animals Zola Jesus' father scattered around her house. Maybe it's the fishnets or the persistent minor keys. Whatever it is, Zola has been pinned as...
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More Monsters and Sprites By Skrillex
With a wide-pupiled teenage fanbase, unflinchingly over-the-top productions, and tracks that literally sound like Godzilla terrorizing helpless cities, LA producer...
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Past Life Martyred Saints by EMA
Noise folk outfit Gowns broke up last year but founding member EMA (Erika M. Anderson) is back already with a solo project that beats her band.
Her debut album Past...
Live
Trevor Hall — “Volume”
Check out this rousing acoustic performance of “Volume,” a driving, melodic number by the gifted, young singer-songwriter Trevor Hall.
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Trevor Hall — “Unity”
Join South Carolina's own Trevor Hall as he sings “Unity,” an impassioned, musical plea for peace and understanding.
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Tyler, The Creator — “Yonkers”
Tell Bruno Mars to watch his back -- Tyler, the Creator is coming for him. The Odd Future frontman makes a lot of angry threats, eats a live insect like a Survivor...