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Low Reaches New Heights at El Rey
“Thanks a lot for coming out. Last time we were supposed to play here, it got cancelled because the ceiling was going to fall in. Don’t worry,” joked Low leader Alan Sparhawk as the band returned to the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. He...
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S.C.U.M. - Again Into Eyes
Staring at Second Place It's been a very good year for musicians plying their trade in the fuzzy world of what might be considered "gothic" music. The stuff is connected to the history of both '70s/'80s New Wave and '80s/'90s shoegaze, and the...
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Billy Corgan Reveals Final Track Listing to New Smashing Pumpkins Album, Oceania-- Album Within an Album
Smashing Pumpkins singer/guitarist Billy Corgan has announced, via Twitter, the tracklist for the album Oceana. The album will be part of the band’s ongoing 44-song concept album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. Oceana is set to hit stores in late...
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Narnack Records Set to Release First EP for Electric Flower
Electric Flower, the new band featuring previously solo musicians Josh Garza and Imaad Wasif, will release their debut EP on November 8th on Narnack Records. The self-titled EP will be released digitally and on limited (500 copies) foil stamped,...
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Prosthetic Records Pulling Catalog Off of Spotify
The L.A based metal imprint has revealed to that they are in the process of pulling their catalog from Spotify, the UK music streaming site. Prosthetic Records is just one in the long list of labels removing themselves, following Century Media and...
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NSFW Video for Arctic Monkeys' "Suck It and See"
The new LP by the Arctic Monkeys, "Suck it and See", now has visual representation in the form of a distinctively racy new video. The new music video, directed by Focus Creeps, stars drummer Matt Helders on an extreme "lost weekend", ...
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Bachelorette Live at El Rey Theater 9/20/11
Last night, an exceptional number of bespectacled patrons filled El Rey Theater for the sophisticated electro-pop of Bachelorette. Annabel Alpers is the New Zealander behind the moniker, the humble orchestrator fronting a handpicked team of...
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The Book of Knots - Garden of Fainting Stars
Displaced Harmony If you could imagine what it would sound like for Beck, Marilyn Manson, and Jim Morrison to play together in an experimental art rock band, you would probably think of something that sounds like The Book of Knots. You would also...
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