L.A. RECORD friend Crystal Antlers did a Sound & Vision video session for Incase. Check it out. It’s a taste of what’s to come off their next album. They wrote this song in a barn in Mexico. Abe Vigoda also did this Incase thing. Folks have good taste. See more at the Incase site.

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What goes on in the minds of the bands that you love? Find out through these Rorschach Tests conducted by Vanessa Gonzalez at FYF Fest 2010. Brian Stewart, Growlers, Drums: Pelvic bone Kyle Schuster, Growlers, Keyboards & Guitar: devil Scott Montoya: Growlers, Bass: Scarab Brooks Nielsen: Growlers, Vocals: Lil’ Clownie Warren Thomas, Growlers, Bongos: Pelvic [...]

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L.A. RECORD’s been at pretty much every music festival this summer, but our favorite to date was yesterday’s Abbot Kinney Festival in Venice. We partnered with dublab to curate the Brooks Ave. stage with a 100% dublab/L.A. RECORD all-star alumni line-up: John Carpenter, Farmer Dave Scher, Puro Instinct, Crystal Antlers, Abe Vigoda, and Dam-Funk & Master Blazter, with DJs Chris Ziegler and Dan Collins (L.A. RECORD), Ben Knight and Mega Farmer D (dublab), and Heather Gram (Calistonia Dreamin’).

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Download: Crystal Antlers “Dead Horses” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from the self-titled 45 available now from Crystal Antlers! Click here to get both tracks free!)

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After school tutoring program 826LA asked its students to write songs and then brought in local bands to sing and record them. On March 6th, 826LA is hosting a release party at the Echo for the Chickens in Love album written by its students and performed by She & Him, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic [...]

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Download: The Soft Pack “Answer To Yourself” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from the self-titled LP out Feb. 2 on Kemado) We interviewed the Soft Pack (then the Muslims) the day they moved to L.A. and we have been happy to see all the wild insanity that has developed for them since—the latest [...]

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Download: Audacity “Teenage Town” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] AUDACITY supporting CRYSTAL ANTLERS 12/07/09 Columbus, OH – Bourbon Street 12/08/09 Bloomington, IN – The Bishop 12/09/09 Knoxville, TN – Pilot Light 12/10/09 Atlanta, GA – The EARL 12/11/09 Ybor City, FL – Crowbar 12/12/09 Orlandol, FL – Back Booth 12/13/09 St Augustine, FL [...]

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photo by dan monick | logo by erik brunetti L.A. RECORD has been lucky enough to watch Low End Theory grow into one of the most exciting and vital music communities in Los Angeles, and some of our favorite interviews (and memories!) come from Low End Theory artists and residents like Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, [...]

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Linda Perhacs sees colors. The psychedelic nature of reality follows her around and tugs at her pant leg for attention. On Parallelograms, her psychedelic gem from 1970, she captured the waveforms of color through sound, and now she’s been called back to REDCAT with Dublab and some of the most wonderful weirdos making music today—for her first live performance ever. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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photography by benjamin hoste

Belated band photos from FYF Fest 2009.

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