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Video: First Aid Kit, ‘Emmylou’
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Sweden’s sister duo First Aid Kit couldn’t have picked a better setting for their “Emmylou” video. Given the song title and their folk flavor, one’s assumption that it might have to do something with Emmylou Harris would be correct. However, the song is also a tribute to artists such as Johnny Cash, June Carter and, […]

Video: Jeffertitti’s Nile, ‘Midnight Siren’
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One thing about Jeffertitti’s Nile last full-length album, “Hypnotic River of Sound”: With a title like that, you don’t need a lot of adjectives to describe what they’re doing. With their guitar benders and reverb-soaked vocals, the psych-rock revivalists have one hand in the 1960s and the other in their parents’ medicine cabinet. And so […]

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Tonight in L.A.: Penguin Prison, M83, ”˜Fela! On Tour,’ Rick Ross, Hieroglyphics, Ozma, 7Horse, Swahili Blonde, Mad Planet, Cold Cave
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If tonight’s show list were any longer, it’d be a Phish song: ‣ New York’s Penguin Prison brings his dancey electro-pop to the Echo, supported by American Royalty. That’s Penguin Prison’s Occupy Wall Street-inspired video for “Don’t F*ck With My Money,” above. ‣ M83 and Big Black Delta do a second sold-out night at Club […]

Van Hunt plays by his own rules at Bardot
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The “It’s a School Night” series at Bardot aren’t shy of eclecticism, given that they are curated by KCRW’s Chris Douridas. However, the lineup Monday featuring Jacuzzi Boys, Van Hunt and Tycho was out there even by the night’s eclectic standards. Miami’s Jacuzzi Boys catered to the punk-stoner’s music delight with their glam-influenced garage rock, […]

Ears Wide Open: Marvelous Toy
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During the agonizingly long gestation period of Marvelous Toy’s debut album, singer-keyboardist-guitarist Jordan Hudock played a million shows, lent his talents for a time to the Henry Clay People and earned reputation for his apoplectic ways at the piano. In fact, he never met a keyboard he couldn’t go all Jerry Lee Lewis on. Much […]

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Gallery: Dead Sara at the Troubadour
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If there were any doubt that 2012 was going to be Dead Sara’s year, the L.A. quartet’s scorching performance on Tuesday at the Troubadour quashed it. When we first heard from Emily Armstrong, Siouxsie Medley, Chris Null and Sean Friday last June, they had planned to release an album last August. But they bode their […]

Video: A Place to Bury Strangers, ‘So Far Away’
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NYC’s awe-inspiring doom-gazers A Place to Bury Strangers have made a nice, travelogue-style video for “So Far Away,” off the trio’s forthcoming EP “Onwards to the Wall,” out Feb. 7. Now can we pretty-please declare the Hipstamatic dead as a photographic vehicle? ||| Download: “So Far Away” ||| Live: A Place to Bury Strangers performs […]