[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download: Stephen McBean – “Post-Bar and Whiskey Stars” Mixtape Black Mountain/Pink Mountaintop/Grim Tower dude Stephen McBean will be blowing into Total Wreck at Footsie’s this Saturday to play records, possibly including Fang! He sends us this awesome last-call mix to get you all emotionally vulnerable! 1. Thirteen – [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download: Wounded Lion – Thee Oh Sees Pre-Party Mixtape Our longtime pals and go-to experts for all things strange and wonderful Wounded Lion will be DJing our pre-party for their In The Red labelmates Thee Oh Sees on Sat., Sept. 8, at Footsie’s Bar. If you didn’t win [...]

Tanline by sangabriel The first time the gun went off in San Gabriel’s “Tanline,” all the plates and cups on my table started shaking their asses. By the time the second shot was fired, it was like a kinky spring break meets the kitchen scene from Beauty and the Beast. It got so dirrrrrty in [...]

Tonight is the kick-off party with Beachwood Sparks, and tomorrow is 31 more amazing reasons to get out to the unearthly Zorthian Ranch for the New Los Angeles Folk Fest, where every band you can listen to below will be playing live in the real world! More info on the fest here! STREAM SIDE A [...]

Download: Ale’s Sky Records Mix [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The folks at dublab have put together an insane Krautrock themed night featuring Peanut Butter Wolf and Nite Jewel covering Kraftwerk alongside Carlos Nino, Sun Araw, White Magic, Daedelus and more! Honestly you should just immediately buy the ticket here (and you’ll get [...]

This tickles my vampire. I feel like walking to a cemetery in a wet forest. Look out for the “We Are On Fire” 7-inch this June 5th. David Sitek recorded the single, and Antony Hegarty lends his own ghostly form to the B-side, “Tearz For Animals.” I’m going to go drain a creature of its [...]

Turquoise Wisdom sends us this adorably comprehensive mix of just about everything the Beach Boys did that wasn’t a part of Pet Sounds—behold hours of California genius and joy. Says TW: this mixtape is a crash course on BEACH BOYS jamz beyond PET SOUNDS that was inspired by two very dear friends of mine who [...]

White Fence’s Tim Presley has been busy, as always! Not only is he releasing an album later this month with Ty Segall, but he ALSO just crafted two whole albums worth of White Fence music for his ravenous fans!

Here are some great tunes to get your body revved up for life courtesy of DJ duo Young Adults. Young Adults is spinning at FEVER party #2 at Los Globos on Tuesday, March 27. As part of a nearly endangered breed of all-vinyl mixologists, Young Adults let the records play in this ADD-riddled digital age. [...]

3 new songs by sineadoconnor Sinead O’Connor is releasing her 9th studio album How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? on February 21 and she’ll be in Los Angeles at El Rey unleashing wondrous holy fervor and high intensity romance, which can be gathered in checking out these three songs from her new [...]