For those of us stuck at the office in Los Angeles, we can live vicariously through dublab, streaming live from Austin for the next few days. dublab.com will be web-casting live audio & video via Yowie from inside Domy Books, Austin’s amazing creative culture-hub/bookshop/gallery, during SXSW. The whole Domy space will be activated with awesome [...]

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With pulsing bass, broken hip-hop rhythms, soulful and subtle vocal synths, and an unwavering Kraftwerk-esque drum machine, Irrational Alphabet is equal parts beat and melody from a world somewhere between the L.A. beat scene and the London dubstep scene.

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I’m generally not a fan of top x album of the year lists (cause the ones I see on other blogs ignore the massive amount of incredible releases on small labels as well as awesome self-released records) but I decided to do one anyway. Lots of beats and garage rock and most of them are [...]

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I asked Brainfeeder astral projectionist Dr. Strangeloop to pick out his favorite records of 2010. Here it is, his Best Albums Of 2010 list. 10. Baths – Cerulean 9. Mono/Poly – Paramatma 8. Daedelus – Righteous Fists of Harmony 7. Caribou – Swim 6. Eskamon – Fine Objects 5. Teebs – Ardour 4. Shlohmo – [...]

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One of collective Dublab‘s founding fathers, a great DJ and L.A. magic maker, Mark “Frosty” McNeil shares his favorite music from local pals in 2010: Build An Ark — Love Part 2 — Kindred Spirits Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — Before Today — 4AD Dntel — After Parties — Sub Pop Sun Araw — Off [...]

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Today is the day of ticket giveaways! We’re giving away a pair of tickets to Magical Properties at House Of Blues this Saturday! Email us at rsvp@larecord.com for a chance to win.

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Our dublab friends are holding their fall dinner fundraiser. We’ll be there to support them, and so should you! TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21ST “CREATIVE CULTIVATION: dublab’s fall fundraiser dinner” Now is your chance to become actively involved in dublab’s mission of sharing progressive music, arts and culture with the world! Help us energize the universe and [...]

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Download: Busdriver x Flying Lotus “Man Baby // Computer Face // Pure Being” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from the Computer Cooties mixtape—also featuring Free The Robots, Holy Fuck, Daedelus and more—releasing this summer!)

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Since I did pretty good on exclusives last year—Dengue Fever/Chicha Libre split, Sonic Youth/Beck split and This LP Crashes Hard Drives, among others—I thought I would post my shortlist of 2010 Record Store Day exclusives that I’ll be looking for early Saturday morning. The full list is here if you wanna look, and if I [...]

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