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Via: L.A. Times With the release last week of a new EP, Giant Drag’s Annie Hardy finally had something to sell other than her hair — or sex toys. Once stamped with next-big-thing status, the Silver Lake-based rock band, centered on Hardy’s sweetly vindictive vocals and her dreamily dreary guitar work, has been missing in [...]

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Via: L.A. Times Basking in the popularity of Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic used an online press conference Tuesday morning to announce that that — unlike most recession-weary arts organizations — it will hold the course. The orchestra’s 2010-11 season and the Venezuelan’s second as music director will include 12 subscription weeks conducted by [...]

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After a nice burrito lunch with Kurt from RTX and the gang from Volcom and White Noise we came back to insane mess seconds after a tornado touched down on the Ubiquity Records building in Costa Mesa ahhh! Via: L.A. Times Times reporter Amina Khan talked by phone to Charlie Rose, who came back to [...]

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Activision aims high in attempting to do with DJ Hero what it did with Guitar Hero in creating a generation of children confused as to why real musical instruments aren’t color coded. Via: L.A. Times Most hip-hop heads revere these names as turntable legends. But it’s likely most video gamers have no clue who these [...]

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Thanks to writer Margaret Wappler for thinking of us and including a quote from L.A. RECORD‘s Chris Ziegler in this L.A. Times article on Sunset Junction. If this is in print, we’ll add it to our archive of L.A. Times appearances, which so far include a glossy article in their magazine earlier this summer and [...]

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Unbelievable report from TMZ: We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50. Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back. Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., [...]

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via TMZ/x17online L.A. Times reports even more troubling news on an already troubling day: Pop star Michael Jackson was rushed to a hospital this afternoon by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics. Capt. Steve Ruda said paramedics responded to a call at Jackson’s home around 12:26 p.m. He was not breathing when they arrived. The parademics [...]

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Juliette Commagere is the former lead singer of the now-defunct Hello Stranger and is currently leading her eponymous solo project. With a penchant for introspective lyrics, a collaboration with Avenged Sevenfold and a Monday night residency at the Echo she is poised to gain ground in the local music scene and possibly on Craigslist. This interview by Steven Martinez.

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