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Announcing: HARD Haunted Mansion
It's almost here....

HARD Haunted Mansion 2009

The dance party impresarios who've brought you HARD New Year's Eve and HARD Summer Fest have heard the fans requests and announced their line-up for this year's HARD Haunted Mansion, a massive dance party taking place this Halloween at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, located just across the street from KSCR studios. Recognizing that one day just wasn't enough for a lineup this good, HARD Haunted Mansion has been extended into two days of the world's most premier DJs and electronic dance artists.

Headliners Justice  & Basement Jaxx will be joined by such heavyweights such as Deadmau5, 2ManyDJs, Crookers, A-Trak, The Bloody Beetroots, Major Lazer, Classixx, Modeselektor, Buraka Som Sistema, Zombie Nation, Steve Aoki, Destructo, Don Rimini, Shinichi Osawa and many many more!

For More information including HARD Updates, visit http://www.hardfest.com

See you there!

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Announcing: Eagle Rock Music Festival 2009
If you're not driving up to the weekender, this Saturday is the 11th annual Eagle Rock Music festival.

Click the flyer for more info...

EAGLE ROCK MUSIC FESTIVAL 2009 SAT., OCT. 3 ON COLORADO BLVD. BETWEEN EAGLE ROCK BLVD. AND ARGUS WITH THE EMERGING STAGE w/ L.A. RECORD DJ set and KXLU LIVE STREAM THE DUBLAB-CURATED FUTURE ROOTS STAGE THE KINGSIZE SOUNDLABS + THE SHIP STUDIO‘S “EAGLE ROCK BLOCK” STAGE PEHRSPACE “remix” COLLABORATIVE STAGE @ SWORK RAZORCAKE + ZOCALOC CURATED ELA+SOUTH BAY CNX PUNK STAGE ELECTRO INTERNATIONAL PSYCH HIP HOP FUNK BY SOUL IN THE PARK + FUTURE MUSIC CLASSICAL, JAZZ, LOCAL POP-ROCK COVER BANDS, KIDS’ STAGE, WELCOME INN ZYDECO + more…. AND THE COMPLETE LINE-UP OF BANDS… Artichoke AM/FM Band Andrew Lynch Amateurs Bali and Beyond Gamelan Ensemble (LIVE EXPANSIVE INTONATION) Bonne Musique Zydeco Black Dynamite Blank Blue Buyepongo Carnage Asada Computer Jay DJ Set DJ NOBODY Set Suckapunch DJ Set Dusty Rhodes and the River Band Dubclub Echodelic Soundsystem w/ Guest Vocalists Eagle Rock High School Latin Jazz Band The Faraway Places The French Semester Free Moral Agents Fol Chen The Gaslamp Killer The Gears The Happy Hollows The Ignorant Jail Weddings The Joe Johnston Band Juan Vega and Friends Julia Holter (Human Ear Music/HIGHLY ELEVATED LIVE SET) KoTolan Kutmah Leslie and the Badgers Linus of Hollywood Mas Exitos DJ Set (CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICAN DANCE PARTY) Michael White Quintet Featuring Vocalist Leisei Chen Mochilla DJ Set Morning Glory Mumpo Nanny Cantaloupe DJ Set (FAR-OUT DJ SET) Nico Stai No Age Ollin Our Future Ovideo Patrick Park Peanut Butter Wolf Pocahaunted Random Patterns Robedoor Sam Mellon and the Skylarks Sandra Sandia SASSAS (Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art + Sound) Tim Yalda Quartet That’s Incredible! The Tracs Trova: Esteban Leon and friends Underground Railroad to Candyland U-N-I Woolly Bandits WonderGround Wounded Lion
Eagle Rock is a short drive from USC. You can get there by driving up the 2 freeway and exiting Colorado Blvd. How much is a ticket, you may ask? It's absolutely free.
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staying in LA over spring break?
Interesting things to do this weekend: Who could turn down free pizza? I can guarantee you that Captain Ahab and Sonic Death Rabbit will put on a great show. And I'd really like to know more about the genre, acoustic beardcore. address/map On Sunday there will be another "beat swap meet" in Chinatown, outside of the Grand Star Jazz Club from 12-6pm. You can buy, sell, or trade records and purchase dj related items and apparel. Inside the club, there will be a party going on. You can get in free to this if you bring a canned good. (the swap meet itself is outside and free) address/map
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Animal Collective Fonda Date Officially the 26th... Again
Has anybody been feeling a little dicked around by Ticketmaster? If you purchased a ticket for the Henry Fonda show with Animal Collective, Lucky Dragons, and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, then you may have received an alert via e-mail/phone yesterday that the show was re-scheduled for Monday 2/23. If you changed your schedule, then you may like me be totally pissed off that another alert arrived this morning that the show was re-scheduled again to the date AC has on their Myspace, Thursday the 26th. We've already been through so many uncertainties and date changes. Ticketmaster really needs to get it together. I feel like I should at least be refunded my convenience fee.
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January Shows in L.A.

Winter is still in full swing, and east coast musicians are being drawn in by Los Angeles' (literal and figurative) warmth. A few days in January will undoubtedly inspire conflict:
  • January 20 - Crystal Antlers at the Smell OR The Walkmen and Beach House at the Henry Fonda
  • January 22 - Chromeo at the Key Club OR High Places at the Echo
  • January 23 - Jay Reatard at the Echoplex OR Animal Collective at the Henry Fonda?
I have highlighted my choices, although it should be noted I would much rather see AC at the Troubadour, and catch Jay Reatard on the 23rd. ...And were in not for already seeing Crystal Antlers twice, the 20th would have undoubtedly been a difficult call. Worry you not if you should miss a great show; Coachella is coming up...
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The Best $8 You'll Spend in January
If you are holding back on shows because you spent $45 on an Animal Collective ticket or are saving for Coachella, here's one exception that you should consider. On Thursday, experimental Los Angeles duo Gangi (undoubtedly one of my favorite emerging L.A. bands) will be headlining a show at Spaceland with Daedelus and Gaslamp Killer (KXLU/L.A. Record Presents... 8:30pm, 21+). This should be a spectacular show.
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this week is crazy
Tuesday: The Cinematic Orchestra (at the Troubadour) I cannot express how incredible they are live, you will have to experience it for yourself. If you aren't familiar with their music, its jazzy, electronic, and soothing. My favorite album of theirs, Man with a Movie Camera was written as a soundtrack to the 1929 Russian silent film of the same name. Somewhere on the internet you can find the movie with the soundtrack applied to it (here's a preview on youtube, where you can watch the whole thing in 9 parts) -it's the coolest thing ever. Everything lines up perfectly. But I digress, go see them live, you will not be disappointed.  Wednesday The Low End Theory is a night at a club called The Airliner in Downtown LA. If you haven't caught on yet, it is hip hop based yet many electronic artists DJ there frequently. Resident DJ's incude Daddy Kev, Nobody, Gaslamp Killer, D-Styles among others. This week they are celebrating Big Dada rapper K-the-I???'s (yes that's his name) release party. Next month, Flying Lotus will be making an appearance that you will not want to miss. (18+)  Thursday El Guincho is playing at the echo. He's a crazy dude from Spain who makes tribe-like worldly pop music. Guaranteed to give you a good show and a fun time. And for those 21+, a bit of a party will be going down at the Roosevelt Hotel with a pop-up store from my favorite vintage/designer clothes store, Apartment 3. There will be music, swimming, and shopping and it will be happening weekly. Here's the info.  Friday  The one and only DAEDELUS (+  Busdriver, etc) at the one and only Ground Zero Coffee House brought to you by us, KSCR. $5 donation would be nice, yes. And if you can't appreciate Daedelus's music, please get yourself checked, and if you haven't heard him, check him out!!! Saturday: Hauschka and Tom Brosseau at Largo (i think its 21+) I'm going to have to oppress my ridiculous fan-girl excitement but OH MY GOD. Tom Brosseau has the most beautiful voice ever. He goes around with a guitar and serenades the world with his woeful songs. And Hauschka put out one of my favorite albums this year - Ferndorf. A mix of classical, ambient, electronic beauty. If there was a genre for him, it would be "experimental piano."  And that is all I know of so far. Have fun and be safe people.  
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