Alyson Camus

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Gatekeeper At The Echoplex, Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

They said to have worked on Hollywood film scores, which works perfectly to their cinematic compositions filled with sonic swirls, techno beats,… yeah I totally could see epic pursuits and weird apocalyptic fantasies going with that stuff, but this is what bothers me, if it is potential movie background, is it enough?

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Lana Del Rey's New Video For 'Carmen'

As we are looking at old clips of the life of some star who hasn’t existed (yet), a made-up nostalgia for a dream rather than anything else, the question of authenticity arises, as it is usually the case for Lana Del Rey.

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Iggy Pop Announces A New Album Of Covers, 'Après'

Among the 10 tracks, many songs will be famous French standards, like Joe Dassin’s ‘Si tu n’existais pas’, Serge Gainsbourg’s ‘La Javanaise’, Edith Piaf’s ‘La Vie En Rose’, Georges Brassens’ ‘Les Passantes’, and Henri Salvador’s ‘Syracuse’, but he has also chosen to cover Harry Nilsson’s ‘Everybody’s Talkin’, Yoko Ono’s ‘I’m Going Away Smiling’, Cole Porter’s ‘What Is This Thing Called Love?’, The Beatles’ ‘Michelle’, and Frank Sinatra’s ‘Only The Lonely’.

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Suge Knight Still Not Convinced That Tupac Shakur Is Dead

And he was not making allusion to the fact the rapper appeared as a hologram two weekends in a row in Coachella, no, he was reanimating the persistent urban legend, suggesting that the real Tupac may be still alive:

‘Maybe the question is… Pac’s not really dead… Pac’s somewhere else.’

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M83's Anthony Gonzalez Wants To Work With Katy Perry

These two needed Coachella to interact, but it’s difficult to know whether he was kidding or being serious! He would have to work very hard on his electro-dance-pop to give some kind of substance to a Katy Perry album, but may be she actually would use a little less auto-tune?

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Not With The Band: Do We Own Words?

Red Hot Chili Peppers suing Showtime Networks over the TV show called ‘Californication’, the same name used by the band for their Grammy-nominated 1999 album, is different because the RHCP made up that word, so they kind of owned it…. but even in this case, when the word is out there, and caught up by others, is it still yours?

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Paul McCartney Releases Three Videos For His Song 'My Valentine' And Even Johnny Depp Looks Bored

Orlando Bloom, Jordana Brewster, Julie Delpy, Zooey Deschanel, Jane Fonda, Dave Grohl and Nate Mendel of Foo Fighters, Woody Harrelson, Joan Jett, Quincy Jones, Miranda Kerr, Jason Lewis, Lykke Li, Chris Martin, Jayma Mays, Gwyneth Paltrow, Richard Perry, James Ransone, Amy Smart, Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal of No Doubt, Kristen Stewart, Rumer Willis, Reese Witherspoon and more…

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Ryan Adams Joins Haim On Stage At The Echoplex On Monday Night

The band has released a debut EP, ‘Forever’ available for free download on their website haimtheband.com, and you can have a taste of it below. I don’t know, I am not really sold at the first listening, these tracks undoubtedly have this 80s feeling that I have never been a fan of, but live is always a different experience.

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