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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Read: CRYSTAL ANTLERS: MAYBE WHEN WE KILL EACH OTHER

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Chairlift are from a haunted hotel in Colorado but moved to Brooklyn to pursue music more intensely and to be intensely pursued by people who recognize them from an iPod commercial. They speak from Paris in between kissing graves and delivering DJ sets. Their album Does You Inspire You has been re-released on Columbia. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Did he really think we came to hear the fine guitar dynamics or the clarity of his subtle voice? Hell, it took about 3 minutes before “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” became recognizable as a Dylan cover. 30 crushing minutes of music was short, but maybe just sweet enough to keep the old eardrums intact. If you want to hear the ”subtler” parts of the band, buy Tentacles. If you want to have some fun, see Crystal Antlers rock a concert.

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Crystal Antlers gave a stunning performance at The Echo Wednesday night which included percussionist Damian Edwards thrashing about stage, knocking over microphones and drums, landing in the audience and abruptly leaving mid song with two songs left in their set.

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Now Tentacles, the Antlers’ debut full-length as well as the gum-studded end of Touch and Go, falls into familiar grooves—songs that fly by on Comets on Fire-like orbits between heavy breaths from the band’s bottom-end. When a song occasionally drops back to solid ground, it’s fired back up again by a burst of propulsive drums or some well-timed keyboards, bumped up on the likes of synth-stuttering opener “Painless Sleep,” “Glacier” and others. But it’s the burners—”Dust,” “Andrew” and “Tentacles”—that provide the real power, sending the album off onto a crucial course.

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Gangi will be playing their final residency at Spaceland tonight so we are lifting this interview out of our archives. The vinyl version of their album A is almost out and they are already working on the follow-up Gun Show, with a title track that sounds like T. Rex and Funkadelic together in three minutes. They speak here when issues of toxic mold were much more on their minds. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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