L.A. Record writer and Santa’s Village designer, Katie Byron, needs your help for an upcoming project. Details below: Having always had interest in travel guides, road atlases and the idea of treasure maps, I’ve always wanted to see what a story-telling map would look like… where an area is mapped out by past occurrences or [...]

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Alejandro Cohen wants to put you to sleep. Today, Ale and friends from L.A.-based collective dublab will take over the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur to create an night of ambient music event aptly titled “Tonalism”—a term Ale appropriated from late-19th-century painters who tried to capture the mood of nature by representing it with misty atmospheres. This interview by Drew Denny.

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The Los Angeles Throbbing Gristle show was sneakily announced days before Coachella began this year and weeks after the San Francisco show sold out—long after their Los Angeles fans decided to buckle up, pay the money, and endure the overheated conditions to see a band that hasn’t given a California performance in 30 years. Those of us that couldn’t make either one of those shows had an opportunity to catch an under-promoted and intimate appearance at the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre this past Tuesday.

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Will Oldham is finishing a long streak of interviews in advance of his new Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy album Beware. He speaks a few weeks after a photo shoot at the Figueroa Hotel downtown and will be playing the El Rey tonight. This interview by Katie Byron.

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