How many times have you been at a concert thinking, “You know what this show could use? Some SCIENCE!” Well the Natural History Museum and Spaceland Productions just confirmed the 2010 season of First Fridays, featuring guided tours, scientific discussions, and live music. January and February are scheduled like so:
January 8, 2010: “Spiders” with Atlas [...]

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Tune-Yards played at the Echo Park Time Travel Mart for Dublab’s Vision Version series. Directed by Eli Stonberg.

…and the location was suggested by some Olivia Newton John look-a-like from Argentina…

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tUnE-YaRdS is an unassuming DIY  music goddess. Looping funny little vocal noises, drum beats, and ukulele ditties, she produces a whole show from just her own barefooted body. This year in L.A. she’s opened for Micachu and the Shapes and Sunset Rubdowns. Click above to check out this 5-song set on 4AD Sessions.

Real Live Flesh
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Micachu and the Shapes began with Mica Levi, a girl in her early twenties who doubles as a composer, triples as a grime producer and quadruples as a pop experimentalist. Along with Raisa Khan and Marc Pell, her band has risen in the U.K.’s indie scene with this year’s debut Jewellery but is already so post-vacuum cleaner. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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