Ugandan Warhorns and Eagles
Dear Internet, Remember that one time when a bunch of you gave money to foot the bill for the weed carrier in Animal Collective to travel to Mali to play a concert and buy all sorts of exotic sandals....
View ArticleSon Raw: LHF – Akashic Visions
Son Raw is an urban hippie minus the long hair and overly-sincere attitude. OK, just urban then. Some groups are easier to like than love and others are easier to love than write about. LHF falls in...
View ArticleHowls and the LA Ryat
More Dali and Moving Castle than Ginsberg, Ryat’s video for “Howl” finds her animated analogue bewitched under a full moon and murdering senior citizens with something called skandy. Ostensibly, that...
View ArticleThe Gaslamp Killer Makes The Flange Face
This site’s aesthetic is easy to describe. Dirty, dusty, drugged. Digital or analog, the drums ought to clap, the guitars should be sharp, the raps rugged, the fuzz should be ferocious. Okay, you get...
View ArticleThe Gaslamp Killer & Daedelus Go On Impulse
Out of all the artists on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint, The Gaslamp Killer is the only one who makes music that sounds like he feeds on brains. Check the cover: half man, half machine, the...
View ArticleBeat Traps: The Gaslamp Killer’s “Breakthrough”
You don’t wanna’ hotbox with Chris Daly. Following a string of nearly incoherent gibberish, the first comprehensible words on The Gaslamp Killer’s Breakthrough are: “You understand what I’m trying to...
View ArticleAustin Peralta: Live @ Futura (2/11/11)
There is a particularly inane acronym called “F.O.M.O” (fear of missing out) that people regularly quote in an attempt to convince themselves that it’s better to stay at home and watch “Downton...
View ArticleThe Killer Awoke Before Dawn: The Gaslamp Killer’s BBC Essential Mix
Photo via LA Weekly The Essential Mix is both challenge and a rite of passage. You get two hours to summarize your entire style, selecting songs that have influenced the entirety of your musical...
View ArticleThe Return of Teebs
Last year, quiet as kept, Teebs dropped The Cecilia Tapes, a 300-pressed CDR with hand-made artwork that he sold at live shows and the HVW8 gallery. There were rough unmastered sketches, but they...
View ArticleMixtape: The Underachievers –“Indigoism”
So it has risen. A full review coming after digestion. In the meantime, talk amongst yourselves. Hallucinogens recommended but not required. Download: ZIP: The Underachievers – Indigoism (Left-Click)
View ArticleLapalux & Busdriver Get Forlorn
Busdriver is too often overlooked when people reference the LA underground rap and beat scenes of the last decade. He and Daedelus set things off around 2002, the former interpreting the helicopter...
View ArticleBrainfeeder’s Azizi Gibson
Max Bell is headed overseas. Germany, Thailand, Singapore, Maryland, Los Angeles—Azizi Gibson has never not been on the move. Raised as perpetually mobile military brat, he has no real hometown. As a...
View ArticleQuestion in the Form of an Answer: Thundercat
As an Australian-based journalist, it’s a little rare to interview an American artist on the verge of an album release. But not as rare as it used to be: independent musicians now make the majority of...
View ArticleThe Underachievers – Leaving Scraps
Tosten Burks can’t decide if CJ Spiller is the new Brian Westbrook or the new DeAngelo Williams. I don’t know what I’m looking for in the evolution of Lex Luger, but I guess this will do. Boisterous...
View ArticleAzizi Gibson, The Ghost in the Shell
Evan Nabavian’s favorite Ghost is Dennis Coles. Rap fans’ years of bellyaching about radio pandering left them bereft of rappers who can rap well and make songs with real musicality. The infighting...
View ArticleThundercat –“Evangelion / We’ll Die”
Eric Thurm doesn’t know where the bathroom is. It’s taken Thundercat a while to release a video off Apocalypse. Fun and funky dance floor burner “Oh Sheit It’s X” seems like the obvious choice. But...
View ArticleThe Sustained Rise of Mono/Poly
It’s hard to believe it’s been a half-decade since the summer and fall of 2009, when Mono/Poly’s “Beatles Bitch” and “MS-14″ acted as nitroglycerin inside Low End Theory. Dubstep had yet to defeat...
View ArticleThe Book of Matthewdavid “In My World”
Peter Holslin thinks cassette tapes are sexy I’m picturing a bedroom on the moon. Two lovers are tangled on a purple divan. Tendrils of burning sage float in zero gravity. And on a dresser-drawer, a...
View ArticleAn Epic Journey With Jazz Great in the Making, Kamasi Washington
You already know the adage: listen to more jazz. But when you’re listening to more jazz, it can get a little depressing to consider that you’re listening to nothing made after the last time Miles...
View Article“You Can’t be Half-Stepping if all These Musicians Are on the Album”: An...
On the surface, Jazz and Electronic music seem unlikely counterpoints for a symbiotic relationship. One is generally birthed from some form of training; the other is often the product of access to...
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