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 [...]

Blonde Redhead feels like a motorcycle ride through the city wearing shorts at night and the wind whips your hair. “Not Getting There” has that in check, with more beats than guitars and it’s cool. Put on your sunglasses. Download: Blonde Redhead “Not Getting There” See Blonde Redhead on 7/1 at Echoplex or 7/2 at [...]

Fool’s Gold goes quite poppy with “Street Clothes,” the first single off  its upcoming August 16 release, Leave No Trace. The beginning of the track threw us off a little and we began to fear change—Fool’s Gold, have you changed? Now you are 5 and you’re making different sounds. Oy vey. …but once the instrumental [...]

Should you be afraid? Should you cover yourself in mayonnaise and witness the first live performance of the Avant-Garde Volkpenis since 2006? Do you like Pizza!? That’s a hint. Here’s a 15 minute Volkpenis experience. MP3: the Avant-Garde Volkpenis “VolkpenisVolkpenis” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Celebrate Cinco De Mayo with the Avant-Garde Volkpenis, [...]

First of all, good looking video. That churning gray cloud hovering in the desert is one the most awesome things ever. Must be director Young Replicant’s doing. I could have stared at that cloud forever. Then a guy appears running from a horseman and you jump with him straight into the floating gray nothing and [...]

There’s so much space to get into this song. It may be called “Losing My Patience” but there’s no rush about it. Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip lended his vocals to Irish producer Shit Robot (aka Marcus Lambkin), and also did a remix which appears on the “Losing My Patience” single bundle coming out on [...]