“The Red Bull Soundclash made a stop in Las Vegas this weekend bringing along Cee Lo Green and The Ting Tings. More than 6,000 people attended the event located right on the strip, across the street from the Luxor. DJ Mick Boogie kept the crowd dancing before and after the bands with La La on [...]

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photography by benjamin hoste

The Ting Tings and Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head performing at Club Nokia on August 4, 2009.

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Watching X and My Bloody Valentine put into perspective all these kids making noisy pop music by recalling the rich and fabled genealogy of this newfangled uprising and putting a sincere (albeit wrinkled) face on sounds that were once something controversial and that today’s babies take for granted… it must be oddly pleasant to play a show you never would’ve been asked to play in your own heyday, knowing that tropes you helped invent are propelling smooth-skinned foals into stardom from what middle-aged critics are carelessly referring to as the “outside” or the “fringes” while you wonder where the hell that leaves you?

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L.A. RECORD put photographer Lindsey Best through three dessicating days at the Coachella fun factory and she returned with this giant pile of beautiful photos and without any evidence whatsoever of sun damage to herself. Captured in full glory here are TV On The Radio, Leonard Cohen, M.I.A., No Age, Antony and the Johnsons, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Morrissey, Lykke Li, Public Enemy and many more!

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