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Hit the street with the new PlayStation® Portable. Eye-popping graphics. Dazzling widescreen LCD. Wireless connectivity. And the ability to play games, music, and movies when and where you want. The PSP™ gives you the freedom to enjoy entertainment on your terms. The new PSP™ is here. Come out and play. |
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| MULTIMEDIA |
Analogue Press presents Eames Demetrios
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Eames Demetrios is the grandson of the famed furniture designer, but his own vision has expanded beyond his lineage. Accomplished in his own right as a writer, a designer, and a filmmaker, Demetrios is one of six artists featured in the second volume of the Analogue Press Portfolio Series Altered State. Tonight, he performs at the studio in conjunction with the new print portfolio's release. Like his grandpappy, he's all about the complicated relationship between people and the objects with which they furnish their lives — just not so much about the chairs. (SND)
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| MUSIC: Indie Pop |
Midnight Movies w/ On the Speakers and Bedroom Walls
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As their name suggests, LA's own Midnight Movies have a darker theatrical bent. Lead singer Gena Olivier channels a palpable no-wave spirit, providing sensuous, eerie vocals for the band's sumptuous riffs — it's easy to see how they've earned the respect of Hollywood's music ghouls time and time again. Having found each other in 2002 through musician want ads, each member pulls from a plethora of influences (from Nico to Nirvana), which they combine into a supernatural, mind-bending sound as scary as it is soothing. With On the Speakers' pop-rock and Bedroom Walls' self-called romanticore warming up the stage, it's a night to please everyone's ears. (KH)
 What was Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico's birth name? The second and fifth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| READING |
Adam Zagajewski
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One of the most renowned contemporary Polish poets, Adam Zagajewski has been pouring his blend of historical, metaphysical, and visceral imagery into his poetry, essays, and fiction since the 1960s. With an introspective style riddled with witty, sardonic details and tender insights, Zagajewski illuminates everything from the political atmosphere of Communist Poland to his personal life and his love of literature — all through quirky, intimate observations. Tonight, hear each complex, beautiful poem spoken aloud by this prolific master. (KH)
Note: This reading is co-presented by the Consulate of the Republic of Poland.
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| MUSIC: Slowcore |
Low w/ Pedro the Lion
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Tonight's show presents powerful indie rock from two faithful followers of different flocks. David Bazan, aka Pedro the Lion, is a practicing Christian, but also one of the faith's staunchest critics. Like that of Johnny Cash or Robert Johnson, the joy of his songwriting lies in his struggle between the sacred and the profane. Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of Low, meanwhile, are married and Mormon — and if you add an "s" to the front of the band's name and "core" to the end, you get the musical genre they are the poster children for. However, with their latest album The Great Destroyer, Low have cranked up the tempo to turn out some great, high-energy, Guided by Voices-like jams. Regardless of your faith, both these bands will lift you up. (JCF)
Which track title on Low's newest album is also an Arthur Miller play? The third and fifth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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Kevin Saunderson
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Even though Detroit techno founder Kevin Saunderson has gained worldwide respect, he still has a presence in the scene he created. His trademark soul-tech productions with sexy house vocals are perpetually influential; he helps curate Fuse-In (Detroit's annual electronic music festival), runs his own record label, and tours extensively. This is his only US performance outside of Motor City, and the intimate Concord is an ideal venue to experience the godfather's blip-funk style. Erik Lohr and SK Grin heat things up to start off the night. (LK)
Before quitting to pursue a musical direction, Kevin Saunderson played football for which university? The first, third, and fifth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| ART: Opening |
Matthew Weidmann, John Evans, Neil Wax, and Albert Reyes (aka Give): April Fools
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Fri 4.1 (7-11pm) |
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Equator Books (1103 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice, 310.399.5544) map |
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Four below-the-radar artists come out of the woodwork this evening to display their latest original works at Equator Books. With three distinct styles, each exhibits a take on pop culture, consumerism, sexuality, and image. The most straightforward is Give (aka Albert Reyes), whose images of corporate America and Hollywood make frank observations on modern society. Matthew Weidmann takes a more colorful approach, all the while maintaining modesty with his outsider approach. Neil Wax debuts his mysterious "Abject Goods," and John Evans rounds out the foursome with crayon-like drawings depicting curiously innocent carnal imagery. Join the festivities on this April Fool's Day and experience firsthand three convincing arguments for the rebirth of the LA underground art scene. (MG)
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Delicatessen (1991) and Lift (2003)
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Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 1991 art-house classic Delicatessen somehow crossed over and struck filmgoers' nerves. It helped that laughing or cringing was left entirely up to the viewer, since this adult fairy tale features a butcher feeding his starving customers by iniquitously omnivorous means. Despite its grisly storyline, however, the treatment is both silly and humane, never becoming too grotesque or moralistic. Caro and Jeunet also seduce viewers with a precise yet sweeping post-apocalyptic world as uncanny and absurd as a haunted house. The feel is similar to Terry Gilliam's Brazil — one of its obvious precedents — but with the dread realism quotient turned way down. (PO)
Note: Lift — a 30-minute film by Hugues Dalton and Jeff Garton — also plays tonight. The star of both flicks, Dominique Pinon, appears with Dalton and Garton for a Q&A following the screening.
If you were unwittingly turned into a meal, how would you like to be prepared, and what would you like to be served with? Our two favorite responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
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Fri 4.1 (7:30pm) |
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (5905 Wilshire Blvd, 323.857.6000) map |
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Still trying to adjust to a world of terror alerts and insecurity? Try mainlining the cinematic paranoia of the 1970s. Tonight's double screening features Philip Kaufman's 1978 update of the classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which leaves the Red scare overtones of the original flick intact, while in Assault on Precinct 13, John Carpenter channels the white panic of old Westerns into a tale of a siege on a Bronx police station, with the rampaging Indians replaced by an endless stream of gang members. Is it any coincidence that remakes of both films are currently in production? (TW)
Note: In another double feature, Blow Out (1981) and Cutter's Way (1981) play on Sat 4.2 at 7:30pm.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers isn't the only horror film Jeff Goldblum has starred in — in which horror classic does he star as a scientist whose experiment goes horribly wrong? The first five correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| MUSIC: Metal |
Motörhead w/ Corrosion of Conformity, Zeke, and Fozzy
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Motörhead are not about intellectual math rock or subtle concepts. They're just simply one of the loudest, fastest, and hardest working rock bands of all time. Led by speed metal icon and rocker's rocker Lemmy Kilmister, these guys are well outside the spotlight of MTV or mainstream radio: yet they have a mass appeal that seems to transcend critical discussion or economic background. Someone once called them the very greatest bar band. Hardcore thrash band Corrosion of Conformity, as well as Zeke and Fozzy, open this vociferous assault on the senses, as they all take over the Wiltern Theater tonight. (TCR)
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Christina Ray: Visitor.Files
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Sat 4.2 (6-9pm) |
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cherrydelosreyes (12611 Venice Blvd, Venice, 310.398.7404) map |
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At first glance, Christina Ray's elusive images seem to belong to an earlier aesthetic in photography — one that combined the novelty of technology with a fondness for impressionism's lyrical abstraction. But her body of work is also inspired by the muse of modern travel, through which anyone can find themselves in scores of unfamiliar cities in their lifetime. With the senses on heightened alert during a journey, memories are formed at rapid-fire pace and everything from mailboxes to passersby to architecture acquires dramatic stature by virtue of being part of the adventure. These photographs act as both visual and emotional doubles, returning the camera to its original function in documenting our experience of the world. (SND)
Note: The exhibit runs through Sun 5.1.
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The Soundtrack of Our Lives w/ the Dears
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Godfathers of the prolific Swedish rock scene, the Soundtrack of Our Lives waste nothing on their long-awaited new album, Origin Vol. 1. Unlike their three previous sprawling psych-pop epics, their latest is more compact, and stuffed with tasty Who-influenced riffs and Procol Harum-flavored organ jams. The album's title suggests that a similarly short companion piece will soon follow (in contrast to the four-year wait between the last two albums). But longtime fans needn't worry, as brevity and restraint are foreign concepts at their live shows, where ecstatic freak-outs are served up Swedish-style all night long. Acclaimed Canadian darlings the Dears open the show. (EJL)
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| MUSIC: Metallic Darkness |
Mastodon w/ Burning Brides and the Hidden Hand
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If you're looking to get "heavy" this Saturday night, you won't find a better bill than the trio of bands gracing the Troubadour's stage. Atlanta-based Mastodon is the moment's "it" metal band; their late-2004 album Leviathan (Relapse) is an undeniable beast — always grinding and thrashing when it's supposed to — despite its seemingly Spinal Tap-ish premise (a metal reworking of Melville's Moby Dick). Fresh off their recent Spaceland residency, Philly garage-rock trashers Burning Brides make people jump up and down with a power chord crunch 'n boogie. Finally, former St. Vitus vocalist Scott Weinrich's the Hidden Hand are among stoner metal's finest conspiracy theory projects. (PO)
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How Sweet It Is
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Sat 4.2 (8pm-3am) |
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Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center (700 West 32nd St) map |
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This year's How Sweet It Is festival is definitely one of Southern California's most anticipated dance music events, with a stellar lineup of DJs and more visual sensations than an acid flashback. The tricked-out theatres at the Shrine Auditorium have been transformed into three dance-infested arenas, where Doc Martin, DJ Sneak, and Jason Blakemore hold down the deep house vibes in corners one and three, while the ballistic breakbeats on stage two come courtesy of DJ Zinc, beatboxer Killa Kela, and d 'n b dons SS, Grooverider, and Shy FX. Come prepared with a free spirit and enough energy to keep you on your feet. (LK)
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Vagenius w/ Colored Shadows and Asobi Seksu
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Sat 4.2 (9pm) |
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Spaceland (1717 Silver Lake Blvd, 323.661.4380) map |
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Spaceland's stage has become a platform for indie's dandies and darlings. This week's soapbox ignites with Asobi Seksu's wispy vocals and nu-gazing melodies, only to climax with Vagenius' electro-glam pop rocks, driven by frontwoman Juliette Commagne who channels Joan Jett through Jem. LA's rising faves Colored Shadows take the middle slot — with a glacial and exquisite melt of Aladdin Sane, French new wave, and Buckley bravado, the trio is bound to force even the most hardened no-sap-for-me stalwart to flip through the old black book for that one who got away. (HC)
What cartoon band considered themselves rivals to Jem on the popular children's show? The first and fifth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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Dublab presents "A Labrat Matinee"
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Sun 4.3 (4-8pm) |
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Little Temple (4519 Santa Monica Blvd, Silverlake, 323.660.4540) map |
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As if it wasn't enough to run one of the coolest streams on the Net, release several kick-ass compilations, and foster micro-electro wizards Daedalus and Jimmy Tamborello (The Postal Service, Dntel), Dublab has decided to treat LA to a weekend afternoon delight. Ease into relaxation mode all afternoon with choice labrat selections. As we move seamlessly from spring to summer, Dublab's star DJs continue to blend the best in hip-hop, downtempo, and whatever eclectic magic they can pull from their crates. Stick around for drink specials and reggaeton from Sonido Herra starting at 9pm. (JCF)
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Rick Prelinger's Panorama Ephemera
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For years, Rick Prelinger has passionately collected and archived an overwhelming number of ephemeral films, books, and documents. His extraordinary collection was recently acquired by the Library of Congress, and deservedly so. In Panorama Ephemera, he pulls from this wide range of industrial, educational, advertising, and amateur films, weaving together a surreal collage of dozens of sequences from 20th century America. It begins with a black and white clip of a recently hypnotized couple who can't remember their prearranged signal to come out of the trance. Their doctor then suggests they try a few things to identify the signal. This launches into a unique, humorous, profound, and at times disturbing patchwork portrait of Americana. (SN)
Note: Prelinger is appearing in person.
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Mardo
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Mon 4.4 (10:30pm) |
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The Viper Room (8852 Sunset Blvd, W Hollywood, 310.358.1881) map |
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In a time of sloganeering t-shirt irony, Mardo play straight-ahead rock 'n roll — the classic kind that calls for big hair, pleather pants, and stage swagger. You'll hear loud — really loud — echoes of the band's musical influences, which range from Cream to Led Zeppelin. But the Mardo brothers (Aron on lead vocals and Robbie on drums) and guitarist Rob Small bring on the hook-heavy, glam-dusted power rock without wallowing in the past. Instead, they polish those classic-rock roots into something shinier and more melodic, though certainly nothing approaching the emo-rock that's all the rage. Be sure to leave your cardigan at home. (PXC)
Note: Telecast, Satisfaction, the Rising, and Great Northern are also playing on tonight's bill.
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Charlotta Westergren: Princely Portraits in the Caprine Court and a Band of Merry Men
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Now through Sat 4.2 (Wed-Sat: 12-6pm) |
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Mary Goldman Gallery (932 Chung King Rd, 323.617.8217) map |
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Once you get that "caprine" refers to goats, the light clicks on. Not only a gifted figurative painter, New York-based artist Charlotta Westergren has a sense of humor. In this series, she's recreated the style and feeling of 17th-century European court painting, except her lustre comes not from linseed oil or varnish, but from the use of shiny, yummy car enamel. And although her subjects could be considered royalty, that would be only in the rarefied world of high-end goat breeding. Move over, Charles and Camilla, there's a new nobility gracing the walls of the nation's galleries. (SND)
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Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company
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Sat 4.2 & Sun 4.3 (Sat: 7:30pm / Sun: 2pm) |
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Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (135 N Grand Ave, 213.972.0711) map |
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Bill T. Jones' dances are always superbly crafted, yet they remain subordinate to an emotionally compassionate theatrical experience. Jones' choreography confronts raw social issues by presenting the body's language in times of crisis and moments of discovery to expose the complexities, contradictions, pain, and joy within the human soul. This 20th Anniversary concert includes "The Phantom Project: Still/Here Looking On" — a re-examination Jones' landmark work "Still/Here," which explores mortality through the eyes of men and women living with life-threatening illnesses. Another piece, "Mercy, 10 x 8 on a Circle," takes its inspiration from Flannery O'Connor's disturbing short story "The Artificial Nigger," raising questions of race, power, and human relationships. (ASM)
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Dave Gorman's Googlewhack! Adventure
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Now through Sun 4.10 (Wed-Sat: 8pm / Sun: 7pm) |
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UCLA Macgowan Little Theatre (310.825.2101) map |
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Ever Googlewhacked? That is, have you searched for a bizarre pair of terms (without quotes) and obtained only one result? Try hairiest outdoorswoman or dopiest brooklynite. This trend in procrastination resulted in increased productivity for just one person — British novelist Dave Gorman. Obsessed with whacking instead of writing his book, he spent eight weeks traveling the world meeting Googlewhacked site owners, including a collector of photographs showing women with dogs and a closeted Kylie Minogue fanatic. Now, the people who sold Eddie Izzard to the US bring Gorman's one-man show/slideshow to UCLA so we can all have a go at ensorcelling weasels. (JS)
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Schizo
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Opens Fri 4.1 |
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Laemmle's Sunset 5 (8000 Sunset Blvd, W Hollywood, 323.848.3500) map |
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Lit against the barren, almost extraterrestrial terrain of Kazakhstan, director Guka Omarova's debut feature sounds the particular, muted cry of adolescents everywhere straining under the roofs of malevolent caretakers. Slack-jawed teenager "Schizo" snags poor countrymen to box in illegal fights at the prompting of his bad-seed stepdad until one of his recruits dies in the ring. When delivering the news to the fighter's widow and son, he falls for their tart-faced charm, and launches a plan to form a family of his own with them. Spare, almost sullen at times, and certainly slow, Schizo somehow transcends the category of crime drama to qualify as one of the most compelling cinematic imports yet this year. (LR)
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Who says you have to stink of patchouli and sleep on a poorly designed futon to save
the world? Certainly not TreeHugger. Far from catering to the dread- and Dead-headed
set, this self-proclaimed "modern yet green lifestyle filter" focuses on the
environmentally enlightened urban sophisticate. From tips on where to get the
freshest skate-friendly hemp sneakers to updates on the hottest industrial designs
made from recycled materials and features on green-friendly organizations and
companies, TH offers refreshingly refined advice on how to burn a hole in your
pocket without burning one in the ozone. (JKG)
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CD REVIEW: Out Hud, Let Us Never Speak of It Again |
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Kranky
Released March 2005
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Culling membership from disco-punks !!!, the Brooklyn-via-Sacramento collective Out Hud enter 2005 with a more refined game. Where the mechanized, funkified beauty of their prior full-length, S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D., was occasionally marred by gratuitous spasms of dissonance, Nic Offer and Co. find the hooks on Let Us Never Speak of It Again and ride 'em smoothly over beefy house rhythms, Moroder-esque synths, and vigorous bass slaps en route to the warehouse party that time — and the electroclash kids — left for dead in '03. On "Old Nude" and "The Stoked American" — mid-tempo tracks featuring Molly Schnick's and Phyllis Forbes' breathy, coquettish vocals — Out Hud echo their post-punk forbears ESG, which is no bad thing. Vaguely political song titles seem inconsequential; opus "Dear Mr. Bush..." augments 11 minutes of hi-hat riding disco fever with a mournful cello refrain and nary a word uttered. Now how punk is that? (JAS)
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With the proliferation of mp3 blogs, savvy downloaders now have access to the thoughts (and music libraries) of various obsessives. For electronic sounds, Smart-Music stands with the best, as it offers up free, high-quality tracks from emerging and established artists alike. A lot of the footwork is done for you, so just come with an open mind and click to your heart's content. This week, check Telefon Tel Aviv's lush laptoppery and a lovely Boards of Canada reimagining of a Boom Bip production. The Panthers also bring raucous disco punk revelry, remixed by a member of the like-minded Death from Above 1979 (not to be confused with the DFA). (CJN)
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Telefon Tel Aviv: My Week Beats, Your Year (Laptop soul)
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Boom Bip: Last Walk Around Mirror Lake (Leftfield electronic)
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Panthers: Thank Me with Your Hands (Disco punk)
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