Jack Grisham (TSOL) doing a reading/signing at Vacation Vinyl on Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
an ’emotionally unavailable mother’ and ‘an abusive alcoholic father’, ‘the only one who beat his ass up’
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Bjork's New Album Biophilia
Björk is supposed to unite nature, science, music and the internet
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Apple And Amazon At War Over Lady Gaga?
get people used even more to the idea of cheap, very cheap music
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The Black Apples at the Silver Lake Jubilee, Sunday May 22nd,2011
never being too adventurous or too sinister
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Love Grenades at Silver Lake Jubilee, Sunday 22nd
Saturday night fever disco revivals with a darker side
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We Are The World at the Silver Lake Jubilee, Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
exhausting dance numbers, full of aggressive moves and dark vibes.
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Lady Gaga number 1 spot in Forbes magazine Celebrity Power List
Well, social media are now keys to determine someone’s stardom status
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Marvelous Toy at the Silver Lake Jubilee, Saturday, May 21st, 2011
catchy tunes, driven by that pounding keyboard played
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Jail Weddings at the Silver Lake Jubilee Saturday, May 21, 2011
it is always a lot of fun to look at the drunk dancing moves of frontman Gabriel Hart
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Restavrant at the Silver Lake Jubilee on Saturday, May 21, 2011
most of the time, playing a sort of British invasion via Texas
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Lady Danville at the Silver Lake Jubilee on Saturday May 21st
lots of ooo-ooo-ooos and some dum-ba-dums,
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(un?)Happy World Goth Day!
World Goth Day? Is there such a thing? Yes, and it is May 22nd according to worldgothday.com. The goth scene
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She Wants Revenge: Return for a cup of coffee
wasn’t Interpol already doomed from the start because venturing too close to Joy Division?
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Living with Lions' controversial new album's packaging
Yeah, we just wanted to call it Holy Shit, we thought it was a good name I guess
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Bloody Death Skull releasing ‘Judgment Day The Musical'
What an opportunistic genius to combine these two insane and frivolous news!
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The Belle Brigade at Amoeba on Wednesday, May 18, 2011
their songs are throwing so many happy hooks in your face that their full-of-life live shows are difficult to resist
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Lars Von Trier's press conference about his movie staring Charlotte Gainsbourg
I am not anti-Semitic or racially prejudiced in any way, nor am I a Nazi
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Suicide By Stabbing
Suicide by stabbing is very rare, and it’s particularly rare for someone to stab themselves in the torso
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Paul Simon saying he does not like to be second (compared to Dylan)
I’ve tried to sound ironic. I don’t. I can’t.
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fight between Sara and Tegan and Tyler the Creator
‘If Tegan and Sara Need Some Hard Dick, Hit Me Up!
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lineup of 'Also I like to rock' at the Hammer museum in July
long summer outdoor nights, listening to free music
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Man Man at the El Rey theater on Friday, May 13, 2011
Eccentric? Not even close, they are a fun, colorful circus act and a cabaret show at the same time
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Kissing Cousins at Origami Vinyl on Sunday, May 15, 2011
a real party with free drinks and cupcakes…
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The Elliott Smith Mystery" Jennifer Chiba's Motives For Suing Smith's Family… Revised
So how the hell this breach of oral contract suddenly turned into something completely different
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Shilpa Ray and her Happy Hookers at the El Rey theater on Friday, May , 2011
Usually there are very few people for the openers, but hell, it was not the case this time!
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Cold Cave at Space 1520 on Thursday May 12, 2011
The Cure, Depeche Mode, or a danceable mix of any 80s UK band with the suicidal tendency of Joy Division and all the gloom of New Order.
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Errors at the Mayan theater on Tuesday May 10, 2011
layering repetitive and tangling loops with ascending synth, alarmed and pulsating or shining guitars.
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rock' n' roll cakes and Dylan birthday
Straight Outta Chocolate: edible interpretations of album covers and musicians.
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Mogwai at the Mayan theater on Tuesday May 10, 2011
but there is no distraction, and the music alone absorbs you
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lineup for the Sunset Junction Fair
the street festival, held this year on August 27th and 28th.
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He’s my Brother She’s my Sister at the Satellite on Monday May 9th, 2011
jubilant, folk-rock-blues-alt-country (well they use a slide guitar played by Aaron Robinson),
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King's Crossing one of the songs on Elliott Smith's last album From A Basement On The Hill
A lot has been said about Elliott Smith’s last album, ‘From A Basement On The Hill’, that it was a
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concert with Rage Against the Machine, Muse, Rise Against
We get along famously and we all, you know, intend to do more Rage Against The Machine stuff
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New video of Death Cab for Cutie in collaboration with Shepard Fairey
I recognized one of these stencil-lyrics in my neighborhood, I had no idea it was for a music video,
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Ceci Bastida at Amoeba Sunday, May 8th, 2011
much better than anything I have heard from M.I.A.,… especially without the hype
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‘Searching for Elliott Smith’ documentary and Q&A
The documentary pretends to be about a musician but there is actually very little use of his music
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Calexico at the Echoplex on Thursday May 5th, 2011
isn’t the song ‘Crystal frontier’, a much more efficient form of protest than anything that Conor Oberst or Zach de la Rocca have ever done for this cause?
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Kayne West's scarves
Condo himself said that the artwork was a publicity stunt, telling the New Yorker that Kanye had been looking for ‘something that will be banned’
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the 88 explain their collaboration with Ray Davies
‘It was so out of nowhere, in the middle of recording our last record, we got a call saying Ray Davies was looking for a band,’