Celebrating the release of its fourth LP- and Matador Records debut- Zoo, No. Cal’s hardcore quintet Ceremony sold out a FYF-presented headlining slot at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock.  As the live Ceremony show usually goes, the stage was swarmed and shit got generally, and acceptably, wild almost immediately- stage dives became speaker dives [...]

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On the way from his old band, Verbena, to playing solo under his birth name, A.A. Bondy watched a lot of movies and a few meteor showers in between watching movies, and finally in 2007 he recorded his first album in a barn near his house. His newest, When the Devil’s Loose, is out now on Fat Possum. This interview by Dan Collins.

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Penny Ante is a giant book collecting the art and writing of some of the best people on planet Earth—Billy Childish! Roger Miller! Sharon Cheslow! George Parsons!—that comes out with the frequency of a portentous celestial event. This edition is probably the biggest and wildest yet and tickets for the Aug. 1 release show (which [...]

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Download: SUNN O))) “It Took The Night To Believe” (f. Leviathan/Wrest) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from Black One out now on Southern Lord) From the heavy mentalists at Southern Lord—doom duo SUNN O))) will be playing the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts (traditional home of the L.A. RECORD Xmas party!) in [...]

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L.A. RECORD interviewed Crystal Antlers back before they’d even made their first EP and popularized the legend of Long Beach’s psychedelic chimneysweeps. Now Crystal Antlers’ Tentacles will be the final new release on Touch and Go. Founders Bell and guitarist Errol Davis—who has recently rejoined the band—meet for chicken and waffles. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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