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Popular With Me 2010: My favorite live shows

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More than 220 shows later, my 2010 draws to a close. I was fortunate to have witnessed some exhilarating live performances the past 12 months. My top 10: 1. Fitz & the Tantrums and the Heavy, July 15 at the Hammer Museum Yes, some selfish interests were at work on this night, owing to the […]

Altadena

Merry Christmas

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Hope your holidays are going swimmingly. Enjoy this Phil Spector song from Slow Club: ||| Download: “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” [audio:http://www.mediafire.com/file/6v6f6c9pyh8cs21/Slow%20Club%20-%20Christmas%20%28Baby%20Please%20Come%20Home%29.mp3] Art: Reproduction of a watercolor by Thomas H. Bronson (1934-2009). After the jump, something a little special from the Futureheads:

Download: Le Concorde, ‘Cherry Blossom Shadows’

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[This will be my final downloads installment of the year. Judging from my backlog of e-mail and mp3s, I’m about 200 posts short of sharing with you all the new stuff that I’d like to. Sigh … Later this week, a year-end roundup.] The indelible synth-pop of Stephen Becker – d/b/a Le Concorde – was […]

Download: OFF!, ‘Upside Down’

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Fast and furious and old-school and … NPR-approved? Yeah, that’s OFF! – the punk-rock supergroup of Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks), Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides), Mario Rubalcaba (Earthless/Hot Snakes/Rocket From the Crypt) and Steven McDonald (Redd Kross). If anyone’s entitled to engage in some healthy revivalism, it’s these guys. The 55-year-old Morris, after all, has […]

Levitt 2024

Mp3-pack: 8mm, Andrea Babinski, the Dollyrots

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Well, spike my eggnog. Here are three more holiday tunes – one sultry, one sarcastic and one spunky – from L.A. people getting into the spirit of the season. In a way: ‣ 8mm, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” One of our favorite L.A. husband-and-wife duos, Sean and Juliette Beavan (who released their “Love and the […]

Premiere: Stedapol C.C. Watt, ‘Samba Soul’

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There are enough revivalists around these days to fill a festival full of tents, but few that mind the heartbeat of soul like Stedapol C.C. Watt. This ain’t neo-, it’s real – and seemingly out of nowhere, the Los Angeles trio has self-released an EP (“Glassell Park Groove”) and album (“Glassell Park Grit”) that stacks […]

Levitt 2024

Download: Sabrosa Purr, ‘Killing the Aries’

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For most of five years, L.A. hard rockers Sabrosa Purr have roared uncomfortably (at least for those who like their genre lines nice and clean) between the post-punk/shoegaze and metal worlds. On their long-awaited full-length album “To the Crickets and the Ghosts” (quietly released digitally this year), the quartet creates its own little shriekdom – […]

Ears Wide Open: Alpine Decline

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Alpine Decline – the new project from ex-Mezzanine Owls Jonathan Zeitlin (guitar) and Pauline Mu (drums) – has released two vinyl albums in six months. The first displayed Zeitlin’s fondness for pedal effects, textures and noisy exploration, but the second, “Visualizations,” applies his joneses in a more traditional songwriting framework, and it’s beautiful. Oh, it’s […]

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