May is Getting Gay
Written by Guest Writer P.C. Anderson Temperatures are rising, and so is the visibility of LGBT musicians. Get pumped for all of the music that will soon be lodging itself on your mental Repeat button. Next month begins the wave of LGBT Pride festivals and parades throughout the country, and we have a lot to celebrate now...
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Chiddy Bang – “Mind Your Manners” This is for us hipster-y white folk who really, really want to get into the hip hop but worry that it never had enough frosting. Hurry up and listen to the whole Breakfast album before they ruin it and put it behind every shitty 2012 comedy trailer. Youth Lagoon...
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IT IS THE MINIATUR WUNDERLAND MIT OUT NAZIS! JAWHOL, WEEKENDERS! Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf (which I believe is German for “My LIFE, You Guys!”) is banned in Germany. Yes, the book that was common (required?) to be found on the mantel in every German household, next to Der Bible Wurds, will be confiscated from your hands...
LA Playlist: “Coachella Edition”
By Guest Writer P.C. Anderson Admit it: you’re a hipster about something. It might be a French-Canadian film fetish, a penchant for mid-’90s video games or perhaps you long for the days of the early seasons of Project Runway before Lifetime actually made it about fashion, but you devoutly care about particular cultural movements for...
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“Nobody’s Dirty Business” and “The Plank” by The Devil Makes Three. My friend Drew has recently given me a thorough schooling on modern bluegrass music. Across two of those mixes, the clear Non-Avett Brothers leader here is The Devil Makes Three. The key to bluegrass here is the tickling of the ear. It must fall...
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“Christmas with the Devil” by Judith Owen Judith Owen is a fixture of Los Angeles to me. For the past decade, she’s performed Christmas shows at little LA theatres with her husband, veteran comedy star Harry Shearer (Simpsons, all Christopher Guest movies). While Ms. Owen plays piano and sings, Harry plays the upright bass,...
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“Restless Feeling” by Nick Lowe If you haven’t heard Nick Lowe’s complicated, blustery-in-a-good-way heavy-hearter “The Beast in Me,” then you will be most pleasantly surprised by the man’s newest album “The Old Magic.” Rare. Very very rare, is the only word I have for this album. I almost never listen to a whole album. I...
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“HEARTBREAKER BABY” by MSTRKRFT feat. Justin Bieber & Ludacris I’ve previously listed the traditional version of MSTRKRFT’s “Heartbreaker” feat. the warm-feeling-inducing John Legend in the playlist. Today is a mashup of that song with the previously thought evil boy wonder Justin Bieber. The new technical term for a mashup is “VS” (as imagine this pairing...
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“DON’T SLEEP IN THE SUBWAY” by Petula Clark Petula Clark of the “When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go…Downtown” Petula Clarks is a diamond on today’s playlist. Here she is with “Don’t Sleep in the Subway,” another song that’s just her telling a friend in New York City not...
LA Playlist: “Wolfman”
“WOLFMAN” by The Real Tuesday Weld Books, in their ever-defiant bid to live, have begun bleeding into new forms of media to promote themselves– and it’s working. Did anybody ever see the 3 minute “trailer” for “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls”? It’s here! Author Glen Duncan continues to pair himself with...
LA Playlist: “Cupid”
“CUPID” by Amy Winehouse One of the cleverer series of covers was done for the album “Rhythms Del Mundo.” Modern celeb singers take old pop standards and give them a vacationing calypso beat. One of the most successful was the late Ms. Winehouse’s cover of Sam Cooke’s “Cupid.” It’s a song pulsing with life and...
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