Two members of the same band each give L.A. Record their favorite albums of the Aughties! Which albums will overlap? Which will cancel each other out? Is the inclusion of “Ex Models” a vicious personal swipe at someone? And will L.A. Record EVER run out of top ten lists of the Aughties? Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion…

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Spaceland has got three exciting residencies in February. Mia Doi Todd will take us swimming in the river of life while Imaad Wasif channels the void and Princeton reveals they don’t play tennis, they’re a rock and roll band.
Mia Doi Todd
Tuesday nights in February
with the Tapered Steel Band (Andres Renteria, Brian Akio-Martinez & Michel Gondry)
Feb [...]

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The dec 12 Grooms, 60 Watt Kid, Tempo No Tempo, Professor Calculus show has changed location due to the weather. The new location is 5011 located at 5011 w. Adams st. There will also be $1 beer and grilled cheese sandwiches, according to a spokesperson for FMLY, the promoters.
While we have your attention, here, [...]

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All the info for tomorrow’s Party Weirdo fest in Long Beach!

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Download: Gangi “Commonplace Feathers”

(from A out now on White Noise)
L.A. RECORD cover alum Gangi (now with drummer Chris Hathwell from Moving Units/Festival of Dead Deer) join fellow L.A. RECORD graduates Dead Meadow, Restavrant, 60 Watt Kid, Rainbow Arabia, Scotty Coats and more at Long Beach’s first-ever Party Weirdo fest this Saturday! We’ll be DJ-ing the [...]

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The track is a short quarky noisy song called Virtual Plastic Surgery. Leave it to 60 Watt Kid to promote their new album with a video of its noisiest, most non-commercial song. A passerby just checked it out and said it sounded like dinosaur mating calls and pre-battle yelps.

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If you’ve never heard 60 Watt Kid, We Come From the Bright Side will make you immediately fall in love with them. If you have heard them, We Come From the Bright Side will let you enjoy 60 Watt Kid on a new level, allowing bright sonic tendrils to clutch your inner eardrums tightly, like a slumbering bear clinging to a sappy pine cone.

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L.A. RECORD is happy to team up with the Academy, WESC and Crush Brothers to present this all-day-til-last-call event in downtown Long Beach at the Basement with L.A. RECORD alums like Dead Meadow, Rainbow Arabia, Restavrant, 60 Watt Kid, Scotty Coats and our superhuman Cha Cha buddy DJ Pubes plus many more! Stay tuned for [...]

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The Patterns banged loudly against each other with staccato, tinny thuds. Some issued viscous sighs as they sucked smaller pieces through themselves. Others, wedged against a million frenetic polygons, belched victorious brass shouts as they pushed their way back into the whirlwind. The boy was overcome. The Random Patterns would slow their circuit periodically, and he would be deceived into thinking the crush of color and sound was over, but then the pounding, melodious, buzzing, sizzling tornado would begin anew.

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Download: 60 Watt Kid “We Came From The Bright Side”

(off We Come From The Bright Side out Oct 22 on Absolutely Kosher)

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