The other day I was at the bar, telling this lady about the show, and she asked me to compare seeing Edward Sharpe to a dessert. What kind of dessert would it be? I answered pretty quick that it was a caramel apple, something kinda natural and old fashioned, a little over the top, definitely delicious, easy to share, but not always the most filling.

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Download: Best Coast “When I’m With You” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from the “When I’m With You” 7″ produced by Fool’s Gold Lewis Pesacov and available now from Black Iris) And Best Coast is playing with Gowns, Tearist and 60 Watt Kid tonight at the Echo! (and an MP3 of Best Coast’s [...]

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paul rodriguez | styling by ton y van van Download: Fool’s Gold + Mariah Carey “Surprise Emotions” (Wallpaper mash-up) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Eric Frederic of Wallpaper. dropped Mariah Carey’s “Emotions” into Fool’s Gold‘s “Surprise Hotel” to create this little beauty, the first in a bi-weekly series of releases from Wallpaper.’s latest [...]

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Live, Fool’s Gold turns a room upside down with sexy hip-rolling, but on the recording the details pull dainty flower petals from peduncle. Chanting and drums support the sunshine on “The World Is All There Is,” urging it to peek over the smoggy mountains of L.A. just as it does in Africa and China and Brazil. “Poseidon” evokes some Far East feelings before “Yam Lo Moshech” inconspicuously strolls over to Stevie Wonder-land, then unfurls into the stormy, horny “Night Dancing.” (I mean “horny” like the brass kind. Okay, the kinky kind too. Sex at this intensity is awesome.)

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Even in a jumpsuit with enough pockets for the apocalypse, no one is fully equipped for this weekend. People will lose flutes in teepees and see alligators in guitar-neck shadows chomping on the heads of musicians; and emerge from Pioneertown alleys on Sunday morning without pants.

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Finding the teepee involved receiving intentionally vague directions from two groups of kids, navigating a sudden neighborhood with way too many lawn ornaments, and sneaking into someone’s backyard via a labyrinthine system of wooden gates I opened by tugging on bits of fishing wire tied into little loops. Inside the teepee we found Matt as well as Ed Sharpe (“Has anyone seen my metal flute?!! Who took my magical flute?!”) and a pack of orgasmic chickies in face paint.

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KCRW & LA RECORD PRESENT… MANIMAL FESTIVAL 2009 OCTOBER 3rd & 4th WITH EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS CHAIRLIFT WARPAINT HECUBA RAINBOW^ARABIA FOOL’S GOLD THE POLYAMOROUS AFFAIR WE ARE THE WORLD OTHER LIVES VOICESVOICES RIO EN MEDIO CORRIDOR MOONRATS ALEXANDRA HOPE HE’S MY BROTHER, SHE’S MY SISTER JULIETTE COMMANGRE LACO$TE EXITMUSIC AMANDA JO WILLIAMS [...]

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L.A. RECORD‘s Chris Ziegler and Charlie Rose will be the main stage (Bates stage) closing DJs from 5 PM to 10 PM on Sunday at Sunset Junction, which is right after Fool’s Gold and Tiny Masters of Today and during Mika Miko, the Sonics and Built To Spill as well as covering several unsupervised hours [...]

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paul rodriguez Download: Fool’s Gold “Surprise Hotel” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from the self-titled full-length due Sept. 29 on IAMSOUND) L.A. Afro-pop band Fool’s Gold—including such vital L.A. musicians as Luke Top and Brad Caulkins, and interviewed by L.A. RECORD here—will be releasing their debut full-length on the formidable IAMSOUND label, noted [...]

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