DUBLAB PRESENTS KRAUTROCK CLASSICS WITH NITE JEWEL, CARLOS NIÑO, PHAROAHS, DNTEL, DAEDELUS, SUN ARAW, AND MORE ON FRIDAY JUN. 1ST AT THE FORD AMPITHEATRE, 2580 CAHUENGA BOULEVARD, EAST, HOLLYWOOD. 6:00PM/ $15/ ALL AGES

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If German prog rock bands of the early 70s were members of the Weasley family from Harry Potter, Can would be Ginny Weasley, Cluster would be Bill, Kraftwerk would be Percy, Neu! would be the one who studies dragons, and Faust would be the twins. Faust have always been known for musical larks, marketing scams, and instrument destruction across a career that’s spanned 40 years and seriously nurtured redheads in the process. This interview by Dan Collins.

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Joe Albanese of John Carpenter has a new playlist for IT’S ALL FOR YOU, TUBE, L.A. Record’s videocentric music column. This week he’s digging experimental Krautrock dude Michael Rother, best known for founding Neu! with Klaus Dinger, and lots of mind-melting sounds. If this gets your riled up for more German electronic music history, check [...]

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The world is now a DEVO song, and so Warner has just reissued two vital early DEVO albums barely containing some of the most annihilating reality ever twined into vinyl. And so L.A. RECORD’s Dan Collins reissues this vintage interview with Mark Mothersbaugh from the archives of the defunct Ostrich Ink. DEVO will perform Freedom Of Choice at the Fonda tonight.

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Xu Xu Fang like pictures of horses better than pictures of people and will release their new EP Seven Days Now this week. Founder Bobby Tamkin speaks to Scott Schultz about radio drama, fog machines and stoned Oklahomans who like Gossip Girl. Also included—a Xu Xu Fang mixtape by Bobby!

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