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Ears Wide Open: Young Light

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This is one moment we are more than happy to answer your “Where Are They Now?” query. Michael Feerick is the singer-guitarist in U.K. shoegazers Amusement Parks on Fire, who’ve largely been silent since 2010 or so. Micah Calabrese was drummer, keyboardist and life preserver with Annie Hardy in Giant Drag. Together, they are now […]

Gallery: The Movies Tribute at the Satellite

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More than one participant – and even the attendees felt like participants – at Saturday night’s Tribute to the Movies likened the affair to an Irish wake. There were songs and drinks and tears and photos and video projections, and all of it was very good, if not cathartic. The Movies, beloved Silver Lakers whose […]

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This weekend in L.A.: Culture Collide with the Besnard Lakes, Klaxons, Land of Talk, El Guincho and more; Arcade Fire; Caribou; Chapterhouse

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[John Lennon would have turned 70 tomorrow. Go to Google and press play.] Top 8 artists I’d be excited about seeing this weekend at the Culture Collide festival [background, schedule] if I could be everywhere at once: ‣ The Besnard Lakes, Land of Talk, Klaxons, the Boxer Rebellion [pictured], Amusement Parks on Fire,  El Guincho, […]

Video: Amusement Parks on Fire, ‘Flashlight Planetarium’

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U.K. shoegazers Amusement Parks on Fire became honorary Silver Lakers during the year or so they spent recording in Los Angeles, and you can hear a little of the neighborhood’s finest, Silversun Pickups, in APOF’s new album “Road Eyes” (due Oct. 5). Searing guitars, big choruses, ear-splitting effects – it’s an updated slice of heaven […]

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Tonight in L.A.: Cave Singers, the Horrors, more

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[We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.] Haven’t had a chance until now to tout the new Cave Singers’ sophomore album, “Welcome Joy” [download below], a nice slice of laid-back folk that came out in August. The Seattle band hits the Echo tonight. … Swedish quartet Sahara Hotnights kind of vanished from my radar […]

Interview: Shaun Ryder of the Happy Mondays

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Happy Mondays were pioneers in fusing psychedelic rock and soul with house music, becoming a standard-bearer of the club culture-mad Manchester scene in the late 1980s and early ’90s. The heyday of the Factory Records period was depicted in the movie “24 Hour Party People,” which got its name from a Happy Mondays hit. Those […]

Gallery: Buzz Bands LA party at the Echoplex

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It was a night for big guitars Monday – and, as it happened, big turnouts. The Buzz Bands LA celebration at the Echoplex featured a foursome of bands whose fervent indie rock played well to a crowd that exceeded 400. The Broken Remotes kicked off the night with a set of buzzsaw, rhythm-heavy rockers. Amusement […]

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