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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Whether Fool’s Gold sings about the earth, honey, or how meshuggah you are, the music takes effect in the body’s lovehandles. Suddenly, the pelvis and ribcage start a furious ping-pong match against each other. Of all Fool’s Gold’s residency nights this month, ‘twas the eve of April 13 that rocked the most.

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Glasser is Cameron Mesirow using GarageBand in a shoe store and playing live with Matt Popieluch and friends. She works days helping artist Mike Kelley (who you will remember from your Sonic Youth album covers) and sounds like Terry Riley four-tracking with Linda Perhacs but today she is thinking about Ace of Base and Trent Reznor. She speaks now after resisting a Diet Coke. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Fool’s Gold transcend the smog of Los Angeles with their big-band tropical-orchestral call-it-what-you-will multi-cultural dance music. If the crowd isn’t sweating by the end of their set, they warrant medical attention.

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THURSDAY, JAN. 31 + MP3 I was working at this rehearsal space owned by a real shyster. One day the owner cut his hand while trying to take a speaker out of a Marshall cabinet and randomly this drummer from one of the rooms walked in with

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