New Orleans’s premier ‘Sissy Bounce’ rapper Big Freedia will be in L.A. tonight performing a style of dance and rap music rarely seen outside of the Deep South. Even the dance-squeamish people will shake it. This interview by John Henry.

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Download: The Soft Pack “Answer To Yourself”

(from the self-titled LP out now on Kemado)
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Not to get all Hallmark about it, but Zackey Force Funk is proof that music can do some good in the world. This funk maestro has been through some serious shit, and now his life mission is to get you bumping to his hybrid of electronic dance music, with a little help from his brother’s Gameboy. You haven’t heard something quite like this. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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L.A.’s favorite place for felt cupcakes with faces on them, the Silverlake Art* Craft & Vintage fair is moving for the holidays. Before they do, though, they’ll be kickin’ it Kogi Truck style on Saturday, November 14 at their normal location at Micheltorena Street Elementary School (1511 Micheltorena St) from 10AM-4PM. They’ll be back in [...]

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If one more person compares BLK JKS to Vampire Weekend, we might explode. This South African band writes pop songs, rock songs, slow tunes and fast tracks; they get proggy and they jam. There’s a great amount of variety on BLK JKS’ latest album After Robots, but the only thing the band imitates is the sound that reality transmits through their nimble fingers. Guitarist Mpumelelo Mcata breaks it down for Daiana Feuer.

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Jonneine Zapata has a stare that makes grown men cower and weep. She is the closest thing to Jim Morrison in the Silverlake scene and her live show is mesmerizing. She speaks to Scott Schultz about Nick Cave, the importance of eye contact and how macrobiotics go with an Italian meal in Brooklyn.

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Telefon Tel Aviv’s third full-length album Immolate Yourself was released this past January just after the death of founding member Charles Cooper. Joshua Eustis is now touring the U.S and Telefon Tel Aviv continues to live and even thrive. This interview by Britt Witt.

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Silverlake’s formidable Territory Records and BBQ will be hosting a backyard record swap and sale this Saturday and among the other rare-to-legendary must-have vinyl rippers, they’ll be releasing a selection of records purchased from the estate of Bomp!’s legendary Greg Shaw! Shaw’s Bomp! magazine is a huge inspiration to L.A. RECORD, and if it was [...]

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We met up with Busdriver at a coffee shop in Silverlake to discuss the future, the present, and the bits of past that stick around like gum on the bottom of your shoes. His newest Jhelli Beam is out now on Anti-. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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American rock critics, after their oft-coldblooded fashion, took note of the battered heart of frontman Finn Andrews—son of XTC keyboardist Barry Andrews—since The Runaway Found first blipped the indie radar back in 2004. In this interview with Ron Garmon, Finn gives up a glimpse of characteristic romanticism while putting discreet end to some rumors.

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