Download: The Burger Basher! Mixtape [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from the Burger interview here!) Our old pals at Burger have further conglomerized the powerful Burger brand and opened a brand new real-deal record store to go with their real-deal record label! If you’re in the cholesterol-coated heart of Orange County, be sure [...]

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Stream: Kim Fowley “Underground Lady” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from One Man’s Garbage available this October on Norton) We here at L.A. RECORD are diligent students of L.A.’s Animal God of the Streets and so we are happy to learn that Kim Fowley’s classic ’60s output (as producer, musician and fearsome inspiration) [...]

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The Polyamorous Affair make bolshevik disco-pop in a mossy compound in Los Feliz and emerge only to teach kindergarten, play shows or get snowed on. They have an album due on Manimal and co-founder Eddie Chacon used to be in a band with Cliff Burton. This interview by Dan Collins.

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juan velazquez Download: Abe Vigoda “Don’t Lie” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from the Reviver EP on PPM) UPDATE: Contest is over! Thanks to those who entered! In honor of Abe Vigoda headlining Spaceland tomorrow—which you can read about here—we are giving away a vinyl copy of their recent Reviver EP, featuring a [...]

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Download: Arthur Verocai “Presente Grego” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from the self-titled LP coming soon on Ubiquity) Costa Mesa label Ubiquity—and its reissue arm Luv N Haight—have quietly announced a very limited vinyl repress of the long-gone Arthur Verocai LP, a lost masterpiece that surfaced only in 2002 and which provoked such [...]

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Download: Alexandra Hope “Invisible Sunday” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] After plenty of airplay on French radio and recording with members of the Fiery Furnaces, Alexandra Hope will release her new album Invisible Sunday on Manimal early next month. This is the title track.

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