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You Weren’t There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-84–Thursday 8/7 @ Silent...
This Thursday night, the Don’t Knock The Rock ’08 film festival continues with a double feature at the Silent Movie Theater, this time featuring punk rock from the Windy City. When we think of early...
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Boredoms 88BOADRUM Los Angeles 88-drummer Line-up
PHOTO: Last year’s 77BOADRUM in NYC. No photo available for 88BOADRUM, which will feature 14% more drummers, as it has not yet happened. (Credit: Vice) This Friday’s 88BOADRUM event at the La Brea Tar...
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What We Do Is Secret–Germs Biopic Officially Released
The thirty year cycle has come full “circle,” as it were, and ground-breaking annoyance-punkers The Germs finally have their own bio-drama, replete with some serious drama about the making of the movie...
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Beachwood Sparks, Sunset Junction, August 24, 2008
Beachwood Sparks never exactly broke up, but they haven’t played much since about 2002. Once dancey groups like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Peaches started stealing all the magazine covers, Beachwood...
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F Yeah Fest V, Echo Park, August 30, 2008
PHOTO: The Mae Shi by Sung. Full F Yeah gallery here. This year’s F Yeah Fest almost ended in tragedy before it began: Sean Carlson, the festival organizer, was chased down the street and savagely...
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Review: Inara George with Van Dyke Parks, An Invitation
The Inara George/Van Dyke Parks partnership on An Invitation is a wonderful symbiosis, an amphibian that treads through two almost opposing elements, one stark and timid, the other well-crafted and...
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Interview: Inara George on An Invitation
An Invitation, by Inara George and Van Dyke Parks, is a truly welcoming and rewarding album. Since she’s performing songs from the album at Largo this weekend, today we quiz Inara on some of the...
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Head: Monkees Movie Comes Home Again
Forty years ago, Jack Nicholson and a bunch of dudes who would go on to do Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces co-wrote their first avant-garde, marijuana-laced cinematic masterpiece. It’s purpose: to...
View ArticleADULT. at the Silent Movie Theater – live DECAMPMENT
Tuesday night’s first filmic performance by the band ADULT. (for there were two back-to-back performances) was full of familiar faces as well as just plain full. Local electronic intelligentsia, from...
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Sparks at Royce Hall, Valentine’s Day
Going to concerts at Royce Hall always feels like going to a football game: you park in a random UCLA lot, then walk half a mile across campus in the hopes of seeing a winner. But Valentine’s Day...
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