LAST WEEK WE HEARD THAT ROB KOLAR OF LEMON SUN GOT HIS GUITAR STOLEN AND NOW IMAAD WASIF’S GEAR GETS RIPPED OFF IN TEXAS. SERIAL BURGLAR? MUSICIANS WITH CURLY HAIR, BEWARE!!!! Last night Imaad Wasif got a ton of gear stolen from his van at the Holiday Inn Downtown San Antonio, including a Pea-Soup-green 1978 [...]

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imaad wasif with adam garcia and bobb bruno as two part beast | dan monick Download: Imaad Wasif’s Mixtape [Audio clip: view full post to listen] L.A. RECORD alum Imaad Wasif is in residency three Thursdays this month at Spaceland, and each show is curated to reflect a different theme—tonight’s “Bad Vibes,” next week’s “Faith [...]

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Spaceland has got three exciting residencies in February. Mia Doi Todd will take us swimming in the river of life while Imaad Wasif channels the void and Princeton reveals they don’t play tennis, they’re a rock and roll band. Mia Doi Todd Tuesday nights in February with the Tapered Steel Band (Andres Renteria, Brian Akio-Martinez [...]

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The three members of Dead Meadow walked casually onto the stage like they weren’t going to melt our faces off once they started playing. The thump of the instrumentals ran through my entire body and all I could do was stand mesmerized. I also became quite fascinated with their graphic choice of moving, colorful, bubbles which were perfectly projected on the white shirt of the dude in front of me. The only thing that would have made this show better is real drugs rather than just being high off the music.

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Download: Imaad Wasif “The Priestess” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (off The Voidist out Oct 13th on Tee Pee Records)

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More info at: Tee Pee Records 9/30 – Austin, TX – Emo’s 10/02 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle 10/03 – New Orleans, LA – House of Blues 10/04 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk 10/05 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues Dallas 10/23 – Brooklyn, NY – Union Pool (CMJ) 10/23 – New York, [...]

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The four-piece band sang of serving Christ and Satan, being purified by the fire of latter and given life by the water of the former; Armageddon—Abaddon—and repentance, Jehovah’s strength and Lucifer’s light; and of the Process’ appropriately Old Testament-y prophecy of the end of the world. Unlike the Old Testament, when the world is in flames, blood runs in the streets and we’re plagued by pestilence, hatred and misery, Processians “shall conquer fear with love.” I’m glad my new religion is so awesome.

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The Cinefamily brings you Satan! On Sunday, August 23, participate in a Sabbath Assembly ritual and learn all there is to know about the Process Church through a multimedia presentation by an expert, while The Sabbath Assembly band sings hymns… From the Silent Movie Theater: Was The Process Church truly “one of the most dangerous [...]

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The rise of this kind of all-day indie sockhop is proof L.A.’s warehouses aren’t just for freight, psytrance and the odd orgy anymore. The Nomad Gallery Art Compound, a friendly art-bunker wedged deep in untrendy Frogtown, embraced the underground party set’s chill equation of art + music + abandoned industrial space = fuck the Sunset Strip with July 4th’s raucous “New Weird America” Festival.

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