Tonight, Daedelus is performing at LACMA’s Halloween party, the Kubrick masquerade ball, so it seemed only appropriate that we should find out what’s his favorite scary movie and paste him into a scene from Kubrick’s creepiest film, of course. It also happens to be his birthday today. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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Due to some issues, Los Globos had to close its doors, for now…forever… we don’t know. All we know is that it means we’ve had to move the HALLOWEEN FEVER IN OUTER SPACE show tonight and we’re headed to Echo Country Outpost at 1770 Glendale Blvd instead. And it’s a good thing! Here’s what you’ll [...]

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Three cute girls and one handsome dude all tangled up in red jumpsuits, Hawaiian shirts, toy space helmets and zombie makeup, they’re probably the least terrifying people who’ll ever show up to your party with four gallons of fake blood and a Skull in their name. They sit around on stage like kids in a sandbox, surrounded by toys and instruments and pedals and cables and things they barely understand, and they serenade you with playmusic like this is the first time they’re trying it themselves.

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photos by lauren everett This year’s KCRW Ball may have come the closest one can get to the experience of William Randolf’s famed costume parties at the Hearst Castle during the decadent 1920’s. No matter which way you looked, there was no shortage of jaw dropping transformative wonder. Attendants pulled out all the stops, whether [...]

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L.A. Record + The New L.A. Folk Fest + Grand Ole Echo are co-hosting The Return Of Murder Ballads tonight at the Echoplex. Here is the lineup of musicians performing songs about killing times! For more info, go to the folk fest website. Get a little appetizer by listening to the bands or watching some [...]

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Last year I went to a Halloween party of theirs and had a great time, so of course I wanted to create a tradition and join them again this year.

Upon entry, you were greeted by a thick black curtain, unexpected of what fun awaits you. Once through the curtain, in front of you is a giant inflatable bounce house next to a cotton candy machine.

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Amongst a sea of costumes and frivolity that seems destined to be KCRWs annual Halloween bash, The Duke Spirit’s Liela Moss proved she’s far more than all legs and sequins, as she  graced the stage at the  2010 masquerade ball—even  while barking the as yet unsolved between-song comment: “I think you’re disgusting.” Ok, Ok, maybe [...]

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Fresh from a freshly cracked crypt—the 2010 L.A. RECORD Halloween mixtape! Freak yourself out and see you at Cha Cha tomorrow! (Remember—email us your pint glass design today or bring it to the Cha Cha tomorrow!)

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Here’s a little taste of all the bands that will be performing tonight at the Echoplex for The New Los Angeles Folk Festival’s MURDER BALLADS Halloween bonanza. Arrive at 8 pm tonight so you don’t miss anything. These bands will each perform a couple classic murder ballads in celebration of dark tradition. Frank Fairfield “Nine [...]

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