I thought “There Is No Light” was a wild, exciting song when I heard it in 2009. When it happened to shuffle back into my life during a 2011 exercise routine, I came to appreciate its hypnotic encouragement on another level. My exercise routine is a form of one-person porch soccer that I began after [...]

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Jandek, the representative of Corwood Industries, is performing in the Southern California megaregion (population 28.5 million) for the first time since he started releasing sociopathic music some 32 long and scary years ago. Despite his record-store culture, outsider-musician cult status, he has rarely played shows, choosing to communicate with the world through his infamous Corwood [...]

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UPDATE: As reported by L.A. TIMES, HARD L.A. is canceled! More details here… Summer will be high in the sky as the luminaries of the hip hop, electro and indie rock worlds join forces under the HARD LA banner this July 17th. Here are some highlights from the upcoming festival: Sleigh Bells has even the [...]

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