The video for Lazer Sword’s drumless track “Beast’s Reprise” considers the ecstasy of shaking “it” off in slow motion so the ecstasy can be heightened. video directed by Paul Trillo Lazer Sword’s new self-titled album came out on Nov 2 via Innovative Leisure. The duo will be playing Low End Thoery at the Airliner on [...]

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Lucent L’Amour comes around once a year—a Burning Man reunion for some, a Valentine’s themed dance party for others. This Feb 13, N.A.S.A. & Lazer Sword add the fresh-faced electro to Bassnectar’s social experimentation and Stanton Warriors’ breakbeat veteran status. And of course, Lucent Dossier’s wandering marionettes and stilt people will breathe fire in your [...]

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When Tim “Terrorbird” said there’d be new Rainbow Arabia songs and new Hecuba haircuts at this show, I blushed, “Hecuba Haircuts?!!” —Wow, a lot of them hairs was snipped. No bodysuit (Jerry) or wife beater (Tom) on these bods tonight. Instead, closed collar black long-sleeve shirts and matching sweatshop slippers, a lack of facial hair not framing some wide-open blue orbs—the prison camp high fashion twins thing going on can only be a metaphor for the great suffering of love for art. Or art for love. Or sacrifice inverting beauty and dang. No-eyebrow minimalism, I must agree.

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Download: Rainbow Arabia “Haunted Hall” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from Kabukimono out now on Manimal) Download: Hecuba “Miles Away” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from Paradise out now on Manimal Vinyl and available from L.A RECORD) Thanks to good ol’ Lazy Brow, L.A. RECORD has ONE PAIR of tickets to [...]

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