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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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We’re happy and proud that this year’s awesome Eagle Rock Music Festival line-up is full of L.A. RECORD alumni—like Pocahaunted from our first-ever newsprint issue, who we interviewed at Swork! (Or Blank Blue with contributor DJ Nobody or the Happy Hollows or Jail Weddings or Wounded Lion or Gaslamp Killer or No Age…) The Eagle [...]

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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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Halloween Swim Team sounded fairly cacophonous through the storefront windows, but the Monolators insisted the door be shut for their aggressive psych-rock, lest blameless strollers on Sunset be caught in the fusillade and begin to yell for the cops. A onetime trio once shrunk to the husband-and-wife team of Eli and Mary Chartkoff but now swollen to a quintet, the band handed out cardboard keys to Thursday’s release of their digital EP Ruby I’m Changing My Number. The crowd, now rapt and judging from a whole new set of standards, were delighted all over again with this brief and forceful turn.

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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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