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Danceable Propaganda: Malportado Kids' latest, Total Cultura

While working at a Renaissance Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island, Victoria Ruiz and Joey L. DeFrancesco met and bonded over their...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

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Up-and-Coming Indie Rockers, The Bots

With a pop-punk sound and choppy, mournful lyrics unlike much music out there today, Mikaiah Lei, singer and guitarist of The...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

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Irish rockers Kodaline head for The Wiltern

Kodaline, the Irish rock band formerly known as 21 Demands, has a history of swords and battles. Not steel stabbing weapons but...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

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Vinyl Revival: Record Store Day 2015

Before the digital revolution allowed every cargo-pant-wearing college student to cruise from class to class while listening...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

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Coachella Preview: in lieu of lackluster main acts, the second tier looks promising

Like Muslims to Mecca, Catholics to the Vatican or mullet-headed hillbillies to NASCAR, the annual desert pilgrimage for music...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

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Hannah Cohen reinvents her sound with Pleasure Boy

Innocent and ambitious, Hannah Cohen left her native San Francisco and moved to New York at age 17, with dreams of modeling for...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

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Musink brings tattoos and punk rock to the OC

Last weekend, the Orange County Fairgrounds were taken over by heavily tattooed rockers, punks, artists and musicians. Two former...

Tamea Agle

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Timur and the Dime Museum

In an antique manor in the outskirts of Boyle Heights, a bass-guitarist is strumming the chords of his guitar, which is plugged...

Beatrice Verhoeven

Music Special Features

JAM Sessions offer fun, interactive music and dance events throughout Los Angeles County

JAM Sessions are FREE interactive events centered on movement and music that invite participants of all ages and skill levels...

Campus Circle Staff

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It's all fun in the sun for L.A. rap trio Warm Brew

It’s no secret that your environment impacts your attitude. From Thoreau on Walden Pond to Dr. Dre in the streets of Compton...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

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Gang of Four's latest What Happens Next?

The title of this album is a little amusing if you consider that guitarist Andy Gill, the lone remaining original member of Gang...

Kevin Wierzbicki

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Listen to Scarlett Johansson's first single with new band

Although Scarlett Johansson is no stranger to music (see her album of Tom Waits covers), this time around she's formed an all...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

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South African rockers KONGOS head for LA

You know that song you constantly hear in movie trailers or in TV commercials? The one with the infectious chorus that you can’t...

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The Marley family celebrates Bob's 70th with unreleased footage

Feb 6th, 2015 marked what would have been Bob Marley's 70th birthday. On Wednesday night, Ziggy Marley entered the room with...

Linda De La Rosa

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Jack White's schizophrenic new video

Fresh off his Best Rock Performance Grammy win for "Lazaretto," Jack White, rock n' roll's patron saint of pompadours,...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

Music CD Reviews

The Get Ahead offers strutting neo-soul with a Northern attitude

Portland, Oregon may be known as a hipster burb (see “Portlandia”), but it also has a vibrant, many-sided independent...

Doug Simpson

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Dylan Gardner's debut, an album for the tweens

If one thing’s for certain, it’s that pop will never die. With that comes an infinite stream of stars aiming to revolutionize...

Cooper Copeland

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Pandora's Second Annual Grammy After Party feat. Lil Jon

After all the awards, the stellar performances, the Kanye-isms, the Kanye tweets and the viewing ecstasy that was Sir Paul McCartney...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

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Resurrection: Tupac exhibit @ GRAMMY Museum

Tupac was a namby-pamby momma’s boy. Beneath the rapper’s public persona—the ladies’ man bravado, the...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

Music Live Show Reviews

Cage the Elephant Live @ Sonos Studios

In a few days, Cage the Elephant will attend the Grammy Awards in hopes of their first statue alongside four other artists under...

Jacob Gaitan

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The Dodos get dark

Bay Area indie rock band the Dodos—vocalist-guitarist Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber—take listeners to a dark...

Doug Simpson

Music Live Show Reviews

The NAMM Show @ Anaheim Convention Center, Jan. 22-25

Where do musicians, music shop owners, music educators, instrument vendors, and basically any music professional and industry...

Mari Fong

Music CD Reviews

Soko’s second album shows maturity with hints of a lovesick teen

Girl meets boy. Girl falls in love. Boy is unfaithful, breaks girl’s heart. Girl locks herself in her room, filling her...

Dashel Pierson Plesa

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Rocky relationships inspire Cotillon’s sometimes poignant, sometimes raging debut

The new wave of French cinema, which arose after the Second World War, was both a forward-seeking and provincially nostalgic...

Doug Simpson

Music Live Show Reviews

After 30 years, Spandau Ballet Returns for a Comeback Tour

Despite the cornucopia of songs in our memory’s playlist such as Spandau Ballet’s “True," the song's “ha-ha-ha-ha-hi"...

Mari Fong

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Rolling Stone Editor David Fricke's Year in Rock: Shows, Albums and Memories From 2014

Few people know more about the rock music scene than David Fricke. He just published his favorite rock music moments of 2014. Read...

Campus Circle Staff

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Drake, Bjork, Black Keys to Headline 2015 Governors Ball

Lana Del Rey, Deadmau5, Florence + the Machine, My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, St. Vincent...

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Coachella Announces 2015 Line-Up with everyone from Ab-Soul to Yellowclaw.

Performers include AC/DC, Alesso, David Guetta, Drake, Fitz & The Tantrums, Florence + The Machine, Jack White, Kaskade,...

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The 50 Most Anticipated Albums of 2015

Have you been waiting for new music from Sleater-Kinney for a decade now? Or jonesing for a new album for the past four years...

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Pharrell Williams' "Happy" is Billboard's #1 Song of 2014

Billboard recently named Pharrell Williams' "Happy" as the Top Single of 2014 following "Thrift Shop" (Macklemore...

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