L.A. Record writer and Santa’s Village designer, Katie Byron, needs your help for an upcoming project. Details below: Having always had interest in travel guides, road atlases and the idea of treasure maps, I’ve always wanted to see what a story-telling map would look like… where an area is mapped out by past occurrences or [...]

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The Slits came up in a man’s world, overshadowed by their guy peers—but nevertheless they’ve left an imprint on the minds of many. We tried to break down reality with Ari Up & Tessa Pollitt. We went for full-on girl talk about boys, love, the future, knitting, and girls pooping into each other’s mouths on the internet. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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Not to get all Hallmark about it, but Zackey Force Funk is proof that music can do some good in the world. This funk maestro has been through some serious shit, and now his life mission is to get you bumping to his hybrid of electronic dance music, with a little help from his brother’s Gameboy. You haven’t heard something quite like this. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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Michael Nhat’s debut LP sounds more Angelino than Vietnamese, with humorous non-sequiturs, pent-up hostilities, portraits of hipster chicks, and admonitions about werewolves rapped and sung over tracks that sound like they were sampled right out of the air in Filipinotown or the less gentrified parts of Echo Park.

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The New York Times called him “indie rock’s workaholic mad genius,” but L.A. RECORD finds the measure of Dirty Projectors’ David Longstreth somewhere between the most subtle implications of Philip Glass’ Music In Fifths and the sudden desire for a sandwich. This interview by Drew Denny.

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We’ll be installed in the lobby of the brand-new Bedrock L.A. rehearsal and recording studio—home of the prototype Echoplex, one of John Lee Hooker’s guitars, vocal mics used by Bowie and a whole arsenal of insane vintage equipment—this afternoon, so come say hi if you’re going and go if you’re not already going! Learning Music, [...]

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Tim Cohen and Shayde Sartin were music buffs who met after working at Amoeba, and one day, they decided to make music rather than just stacking it on shelves. Last spring’s self-titled LP was as infectious as raw meat festering in a garage, and this fall’s Grey-Eyed Girls once again delivers much more than dude music—it’s romantic. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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The girls in the Raincoats have covered the Monks, but didn’t originally know the Monks possibly because they were so much like the Monks—formed perfectly from nothing and destined to disappear too quickly and leave anyone who discovered them later wondering how they’d ever happened in the first place. They play their first-ever Los Angeles show on October 11 at the Part Time Punks fest. This interview by Kevin Ferguson.

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The folks at Bedrock—Echo Park’s newest rehearsal and recording studio and soon-to-be newest microbrewery!—have given us a brand new Dixon snare plus four Dixon t-shirts and four VIP passes to the Bedrock grand opening on Sunday, October 25! A lot of L.A. RECORD friends are helping out with this event, like IS GOOD radio and [...]

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L.A. RECORD is very excited about the second Part Time Punks fest this Sunday—set times (subject to change, of course!) below! Sunday Oct 11; 2pm / $25.00 / 18+ Echo & Part Time Punks presents ECHOPLEX 3:15pm – 3:45PM BLESSURE GRAVE 4pm – 4:35pm RAINBOW ARABIA 4:50pm- 5:30pm ABE VIGODA 5:50pm – 6;10pm DAYTIME TELEVISION [...]

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