Record Store Day is upon us again! A day to exercise your last chance ever to get that first King Tuff LP, and a chance to see awesome people DJ as you find some never-before-touched-by-customer-hands used import 45 you have been needing to become a complete human being! Below is our trying-to-be-comprehensive list of Record [...]

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With the Neumans and the Black Mambas, the Hurricanes are part of Wild’s new new breed—respectively, that’s 60s garage, 70s Dolls-punk, and the unrelentingly hard-ass mod/ R&B/garage sound of the Hurricanes.

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Gap Dream is one of our favorite new Burgeronians of 2012 and he’ll be playing with thee formidable Tomorrow’s Tulips and Brent Rademaker (of Further and Beachwood Sparks!) this Tuesday at Satellite! (Plus L.A. RECORD’s Chris Ziegler will DJ!) Wanna go for free? Email us at rsvp@larecord.com with subject TULIPS to enter! We’ll pick a [...]

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I love the 13th Floor Elevators underwater space guitar, and the rhythm section that sounds like a mountain falling down a mineshaft, and the way every song ricochets off the impenetrable everyday incoherence of modern life, and there’s lots more to love past that, too.

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This is one bug-eyed full-length, with an overabundance of both anxiety and energy captured by engineer Monty Buckles of the Lamps, and across nine songs it never takes a rest—across the first eight songs, it never even slows down.

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Download: New 45s for the Red Onions Mixtape [Audio clip: view full post to listen] L.A. RECORD’s night of the Lovely Bad Things residency includes a special set by reunited Funhouse-meets-Funkadelic freaks the Red Onions, as well as L.A. RECORD’s Chris Ziegler DJ-ing. So here’s a mixtape of all the scrounged-up 45s we’ve been accumulating [...]

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Bush Tetras invented a big chunk of post-punk in 1979 with a copy of “Take Me To Funkytown” and months of exposure to an undiscovered gas leak. Their supposed-to-be-final album, Happy, was recorded in the 90s but got trapped in major-label record jail, only to be released just a few months ago. Vocalist Cynthia Sley speaks now about how much of modern life remains piss-off-able. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Some bands are legends and some bands are entire civilizations—that’s Redd Kross, whose discography goes back to that first pre-cease-and-desist-call (always a promising sign) EP in 1981. Redd Kross plays with the Melvins for New Year’s Eve tonight at the Alexandria Hotel, and the founding McDonald brothers speak now about blood and mustaches. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Chris Goss is the cosmic mastermind behind Masters of Reality, the band who went from labelmates with Slayer to becoming the eminence noir of the desert-rock scene. Delicious Vinyl is reissuing the Masters’ psycho-delic debut and Goss will be playing some rare and welcome shows this weekend. For part 1 of this gigantic interview, Chris Ziegler finds Goss just waking up and ready to talk about awakening.

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Wooden Shjips started by making crazy/noisy punk-drone records that they would mail you for free—you just had to ask!—and if they ever invent the extra-extra-extra-long-play record, Wooden Shjips will finally have the space to release their ultimate record. Drummer Omar Ahsanuddin speaks now before the Shjips play the Thrill Jockey anniversary show this weekend. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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