As Chrome Canyon, Morgan Z makes synthesizer music for the imagination. His Stones Throw release Elemental Themes makes you hunger for films starring Harrison Ford on a planet far away in search of bounty. He has an awesome new flexi in the new L.A. RECORD and will play Saturday with Peanut Butter Wolf, Pharoahs and more at Los Globos. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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The Bronx tore Los Globos apart for its record release party. 10 years and going strong, The Bronx’s crowd is a mix of grey beards, die hards and pumped youngsters. Matt Caughthran jumped into the pit and sang about half the show from there. It was all I could do to keep the steam off [...]

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Wooden Shjips started by making crazy/noisy punk-drone records that they would mail you for free—you just had to ask!—and if they ever invent the extra-extra-extra-long-play record, Wooden Shjips will finally have the space to release their ultimate record. Drummer Omar Ahsanuddin speaks now before the Shjips play the Thrill Jockey anniversary show this weekend. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Want to go see Turbo Fruits + White Lung at Los Globos on December 8? Just email us at rsvp@larecord.com subj TURBO FRUITS and we’ll pick the winners day of the show!

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L.A. RECORD welcomes guest DJ from Ghana BBRAVE to the FEVER party at Los Globos. Here’s a live set from Metro54 Festival to warm your whistle with, recorded live in Amsterdam a few weeks ago.

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TOUCHÉ is the featured performer for tonight’s edition of FEVER, the monthly music series hosted by L.A. RECORD’s Daiana Feuer. Here is a platform that explores weird dance music, weird pop music, weird disco derivatives that might be called avant garde but we refrain from that term since it scares some people. FEVER aims to [...]

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We Are The World’s Robbie & Megan breach hyperreal territory with their new project DREAMERS. It’s both menacing and nurturing. For Hecuba’s new album MODERN, Jon and Isabelle went into isolation, shaved their eyebrows, and removed their identities to see what was underneath. Now they’ve joined forces to create a label that goes to infinity and jumps right off the edge.

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Here are some great tunes to get your body revved up for life courtesy of DJ duo Young Adults. Young Adults is spinning at FEVER party #2 at Los Globos on Tuesday, March 27. As part of a nearly endangered breed of all-vinyl mixologists, Young Adults let the records play in this ADD-riddled digital age. [...]

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Besides being a solid drummer playing at Modest Mouse levels of complexity, DeLong isn’t that guy sitting in the glow of his laptop. He’s the guy dancing around stage among three laptops, a couple MIDI-interfaces and drum pads, several pedals, a number of mics plugged into different inputs, a couple Wii-remote and Sega controllers, and oh yeah the full drum-kit he rocks out on.

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