Stream: Letting Up Despite Great Faults, ‘Corners Pressed’ and ‘Gemini’
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L.A.-born, Austin-based Letting Up Despite Great Faults return in March with their fourth album — and first in 7 1/2 years — “IV.”
Make Music Pasadena 2013: Twelve random but magical encounters on a Saturday filled with fun, sun
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Thousands streamed to the streets of Pasadena on Saturday for what has become an annual ritual – Make Music Pasadena brought dozens of artists all different stripes for a day of free shows. Bands played in streets, alleys, parking lots, bars, galleries, coffeehouses, parks and other locales convenient to Old Town Pasadena. Here are some […]
Popular With Me 2012: My top albums of the year
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There were albums I loved, albums I liked, albums I appreciated and albums I avoided in 2012. Because of my regional focus, I spent an inordinate amount of time with music from Los Angeles artists. And strangely for me, a lot of the hyped bands failed to resonate; stuck in traffic, I’d rather have played […]
Popular With Me 2012: Seraphina L’s favorite albums of the year
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By Seraphina Lotkhamnga It’s been a great year of music. My ears have had such a good year that the task of selecting my top albums has never been harder. Perhaps it’s because I’ve whittled down my usual list of 25 albums to 20 this year. Some artists on this list made their L.A. debuts […]
Download: Letting Up Despite Great Faults, ‘Bulletproof Girl’
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Few bands carry the Sarah Records torch so proudly as Letting Up Despite Great Faults, the L.A.-bred and now-Austin-based quartet that originally was the bedroom project of Mike Lee. Letting Up’s second album “Untogether” (out next Tuesday) rolls in like a spring breeze, sighing vocals over ’80s-style synths and jangling, fuzzed-out guitars. It’s an aesthetic […]
Mp3-Pack: The Mountain Goats, the Orwells, Letting Up Despite Great Faults
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Here a few more new songs from three forthcoming albums… The Mountain Goats, “Cry For Judas” – John Darnielle and the gang return with a new album, “Transcendental Youth,” which is due Oct. 2 via Merge Records. The lead single off the record is the first song of theirs to feature a swinging horn section, […]
Silver Lake Jubilee: Around Saturday’s festival with photographer Laurie Scavo
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Featuring Kinky, Autolux, La Santa Cecilia, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, the Record Company and more. Photographer Laurie Scavo shares this gallery from Saturday’s Silver Lake Jubilee. Check it out after the jump:
SXSW: Download Buzz Bands LA’s monster local music compilation ‘LA x SXSW x 44’
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Nine SoCal bands are playing Buzz Bands LA’s “Dear Austin: Love, L.A.” day party next Wednesday on the first day of the South by Southwest Music Festival. It seems like 999 SoCal bands are actually headed to Austin. When we started culling music from those artists, our uploader begged for for mercy. So we called […]
Download: Letting Up Despite Great Faults, ‘Stand Still’
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Letting Up Despite Great Fault‘s frontman and main songwriter Mike Lee may have recently moved to Austin, Texas, but no matter their current location, the band’s shoegaze-infused dream-pop still echos the summery breeze of L.A. with songs like “Stand Still.” Although the previously unreleased b-side track from their “Paper Crush” EP will not be appearing […]
Video: Letting Up Despite Great Faults, ‘Sophia in Gold’
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Ever since Letting Up Despite Great Faults unveiled its debut album in 2009, the Los Angeles quintet has been a good bet to satiate fans of shimmering dream-pop. Our money’s on the young protagonist in her battle against monsters in Douglas Burgdorff’s video for “Sophia in Gold” too. The song is the second single off […]
