It’s best when someone like Mia Doi Todd is in love, as it fuels the nurturing instinct, and she pours her sweet stuff into songs of earth, morning bed touches, and world peace—her voice round as sunshine in a window turning from dark to light or light to dark—it’s sitting in the window staring at birds or the mailbox, very peaceful-like.

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imaad wasif with adam garcia and bobb bruno as two part beast | dan monick
Download: Imaad Wasif’s Mixtape

L.A. RECORD alum Imaad Wasif is in residency three Thursdays this month at Spaceland, and each show is curated to reflect a different theme—tonight’s “Bad Vibes,” next week’s “Faith Folk” and finally “Cock Rock.” In honor of vibes, [...]

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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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When my friend invited me to The Decemberists show at UCLA’s Royce Hall, here’s what I agreed to (from the band’s website): “The debut of Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized, a collaboration between the band and four filmmakers, Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka, and Santa Maria—each of whom have created animation to accompany a section of the album.” Sounds rad, right? It was.

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