On the follow-up release to last year’s The Basta EP, Rainbow Arabia goes way beyond—themselves, their influences, the music they’ve put to record so far. The band obviously respects the experimental, but their balance of post-punk with world music styles sets them apart from the rest of the Manimal roster and at its best elevates the duo above other L.A. bands doing something self-consciously “different.” Here it’s an exercise in escapism—a band seeking adventure in exotic landscapes. Danny and Tiffany Preston blend club beats and dance rhythms gleaned from America to Africa, sliding continents under each other like a gambler shuffling cards.

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Post-Fact Productions likes it “avant-hard,” a theatrical concept that explores post-modern ideas through spandex and orgasms. Rachel Kolar and Lauren Brown subject themselves to months of split personalities and abstract living before performing. Please consider them manifestations of pixilated thought bubbles until their new play Parabox closes this weekend. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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