Download: Total Wreck’s Rock N Roll Or Run Mixtape [Audio clip: view full post to listen] 01. Nicky Bulldog – Chewinggum Rock 02. Heavy Metal Kids – Delirious 03. T. Rex – Calling All Destroyers 04. Clingers – I Wanna Have A Good Time 05. Aeroplane – It’s So Better 06. Equals – Honey Bee [...]

It’s easy to imagine Emily Lacy living inside of a giant old tree, and fairies come to her for wisdom about saving the world. For the past few months, Lacy has been rallying for the revolution with her Occupy shows in town, and she’s teamed up with producer Scott Barber to put it on virtual wax. [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download Nobody’s Winter Mix – Part 1 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download Nobody’s Winter Mix – Part 2 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download Nobody’s Winter Mix – Part 3 L.A. RECORD alum (and advice giver) (and Low End Theory resident) Nobody just [...]

Download: Lex Interior x Total Wreck [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download: Kristina B x Total Wreck [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Nobot-A-Frames Pony-Annette Peacock Trouble-Chrissy Zeppy Tembo and the Ngozi Family Talagh—Googoosh Haunted Beach Party—the Pandoras 2 EZ 2 Luv You—the Makeout Party Shivers—Tweak Bird Mind Garage—Asphalt Mother Tom Waits-Jockey [...]

Download: Total Wreck x Carlos Rossi + Trina Darling [Audio clip: view full post to listen] DJs Carlos Rossi and Trina Darling will be reinforcing L.A. RECORD at Footsie’s for Total Wreck on Saturday, and they made us this special double-shot mix, including intense personalized introductions! Come out at 10 pm for free fuzz, funk, [...]

Random Patterns reveals new songs and there’s cowbell involved. Known for its parts and progressions and long jams, the band explores (or records) itself in a new way here on “Cans All Day.” The wall of noise is clearer, more like a window. That’s just a warm-up for “Raw Luck,” a really cool Random Patterns [...]

Merle Haggard is putting out a new album this October with Vanguard Records. Below, get a free download of the title track, “Working In Tennessee,” an upbeat, happy, swinging tune that sounds grudge-free but, according to the official document, “underscores Haggard’s oft-confrontational relationship with Music City.” Haggard is loved, afterall, for his simple way of [...]

It’s interesting to see the ways people are exploring the meeting point of folk and classical instruments. Here’s a banjo and a string section. His new album is called The Jessamine County Book Of The Living. Matt Bauer dips into the hauntedness of things, so a “Blacklight Horse” is probably not a purple glowing stallion [...]

Julia Holter went to Canada with Dublab for a week to immerse them canucks in Tonalism, a night-long ambient music experience. She says, “I hastily ditched my microkorg plan last minute and decided to try out my songs on the church piano instead. At 4am.” Here, in audio form, is what she showed them. Down [...]