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Le Spec Gallery, a large 2,000 square foot structure with a great potential for growth, is opening Saturday night with live painted models by the artists featured in the show, including L.A. RECORD illustrator, Champoy Hate. She spoke with me about her goals in creating a space that interacts with the local community, and focuses on empowering artists and giving them a fair deal. This interview by Walt! Gorecki.

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Picture Con Secuencia: A Show of Exquisite Corpses Presented by walt! productions and Eraser Zine Free opening reception November 12th, 2010 8pm with DJ sets from KXLU DJ Molly Echo Curio 1519 Sunset Blvd. Echo Park, CA 90026 Featuring a (not so) silent auction to benefit Echo Curio. Missed Connections cassette presented by No Girls Allowed [...]

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photography by Lindsey Best Simon Joyner is a songwriter from Omaha, NE who is credited with being one of the most influential driving forces behind many of the bands and musicians that have come out of the Omaha music scene. Playing a series of house shows in support of his most recent release, Out Into [...]

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Pope Anything performing at Echo Curio on May 12, 2010. photography by Melissa Moore Remember when your friends were in a million and one bands, all with their unique sound and aesthetic, playing your favorite local venues on different nights? The same faces in different confirmations, multiplied by booze and cigarettes and late night shenanigans? [...]

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Zola Jesus is post-punk Christina Aguilera for these people who gather preciously attentive. Her operatic range dreams of abandoned cathedrals to drag a scarf across. She does pop but—just as Zombelle (and the absent Tearist)—turns the standard form inside out, scratching some runs in its stockings.

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Halloween Swim Team’s fury of musical spirits encompassed the Echo Curio crowd, possessing and blessing eustation tubes. —Chris Sanchez

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