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Calling all bands. Compete for a time slot at When You Awake’s August 15 Free For All festival. Contest ends Saturday so hurry up! http://freeforallfestival.com/contest/

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Tonight, the bands sought to be one with the Beach Boys. They became appendages of the Beach Boys, fingers, toes and instruments with minds of their own.

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Summer is for parties, bbqs, first loves, surfing, roadtrips and….THE BEACH BOYS! No music better captures that carefree Southern California summer spirit than our boys from Hawthorne. We paid tribute to them this past Saturday at HM-157 with a benefit concert in support of the Sweet Relief Musician’s Fund…and with this mixtape! In the spirit [...]

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Download: BIG FREAK x When You Awake mix by Jody Orsborn [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (alternate download link here!) When You Awake‘s Jody Orsborn—also a longtime friend of L.A. RECORD—will be DJ-ing at BIG FREAK at the Black Boar, 1630 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock—on Mon., April 12, with L.A. RECORD‘s Chris Ziegler [...]

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Download: “Neil Young Tribute Mixtape” by When You Awake [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Jody from When You Awake delivers us another in her series of lonesome-wild-riled mixtapes—this one in honor of her Neil Young Tribute Show tonight! Listen above and learn below! When choosing the next subject for When You Awake’s Tribute [...]

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christine hale Download: Sian Alice Group Mixtape for L.A. RECORD [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The glamourous hobos of England’s Sian Alice Group—interviewed about Latvian strippers here—will be playing our co-presented Leslie and the Badgers show tonight at the Echo with Best Coast and Paperplanes and managed to squeeze out this selection of [...]

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Leslie and the Badgers play in a style more retro than vintage country but nevertheless unique. With their multi-talented instrumentalist stage show, like a gypsy caravan picking up musicians and fans along the way (at least more since I had last seen the group), the band plays its well crafted melodic lines in particular with sweeping violin, slide pedal steel guitar and lyrics such as “When you say I miss you day and night / with love brighter than the ballpark lights / I’m a boat lost at sea siding on the shore / say you miss me once more” which are real enough to steal one’s heart away.

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One’s favorite Beatle says a lot about a person. John fans are intellectuals, Paul represents the beautiful people, Ringo lovers go with the flow, and those who favor George lean toward the mystic and spiritual. An ardent Beatles buff and devout Hari fan, I have found these Beatle-based characterizations to be remarkably accurate, and the audience and performers at the Tribute to George Harrison at Spaceland Sept. 12 proved no exceptions.

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Download: “Oh Yes, Los Angeles” mixtape by When You Awake [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Jody from the fantastic blog When You Awake—your sympathetic destination if homesick, lonesome, riled, fiery or any mindstates in between—presents us with this week’s mixtape, dedicated to cosmic cowboy/cowgirl rock songs about the city of Los Angeles. (City [...]

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