Active Child After a very successful residency at The Echo, Active Child returned for yet another sold out show with openers Chad Valley and Jonti.  Australian import Jonti (who has recently collaborated with Odd Future’s Hodgy Beats) had double duty with a show at the Bootleg afterwards. UK’s Chad Valley (Hugo Manuel) had the crowd swaying [...]

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WU LYF Making their first LA appearance at The Echo, the mysterious Manchester band WU LYF  was welcomed by fans who sang along loud and proud to their album “Go Tell the Fire to The Mountain,” which was just released in June. No one could keep still as sweat and hair flew all over the place. [...]

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Cassettes Won’t Listen The Echo booked a solid line up with Cassettes Won’t Listen, Gardens & Villa and Generationals. Multi-instrumentalist and producer Jason Drake (Cassettes Won’t Listen) started the night with his electronic beats, some vocals and projections.  Gardens & Villa, who had just performed an intimate gig at nearby Orgami Vinyl clearly had a [...]

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The night air buzzed around The Echo Thursday evening as a celebration of Johnny O’Donnell’s EP release “Masquerade” on White Noise was about to kick off. The evening held an eclectic line up of unique bands with different sounds. Die hard music lovers stayed the whole night and the short attention span LA crowd floated in and out like flies throughout the night. Head bopping and cat calls gave the bands some deserved appreciation throughout the night.

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DANTE VS ZOMBIES + THE DOUBLE NEGATIVES + VOWS + THE ICARUS LINE ON MON., JUN. 13 AT THE ECHO, 1822 SUNSET BLVD. 8:30PM / FREE / 21+. ATTHEECHO.COM

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In honor of Low End Theory’s Japan benefit show tomorrow, we are posting VJ/artist/electronic musician Strangeloop’s guide to sci-fi, avant-garde anime and films that feel like DMT trips. He brings the psychedelic visuals that accompany the sonic landscapes of Flying Lotus. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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Mike Watt rediscovered nature some time ago riding a bicycle around San Pedro. He’s full of facts about birds—knowledge he relishes like a librarian. Watt recently released Hyphenated-Man, an existential opera and surreal expression of Watt’s head broken into 30 mirror pieces, each piece inhabited by a creature from a Hieronymus Bosch painting: 30 evil beings that reside in a man’s mind, rather than reality. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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Crocodiles CROCODILES + TAMARYN + HEAVY HAWAII ON FRI., JAN. 28 AT THE ECHO, 1822 SUNSET BLVD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30pm / $10 ADVANCE, $12 DAY OF / 18+.  WWW.ATTHEECHO.COM

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