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PREMIERE: Bee Bee Sea Assume the Throne in “This Dog is the King of the Losers” Video

Rural Italy’s impish garage rock trio opt for misfit royalty over biscuits and loyalty in their cosmic new video.

April 20, 2018
Can You Dance to Young Fathers?

Young Fathers’ newest addition to their stellar catalog is no exception—but there’s still one key question that needs to be addressed.

April 04, 2018
Rich Brian Offers a Glimpse at What a YouTube-Reared Generation of Rappers Looks Like

As the era of conscious backpack rap fades, Brian Immanuel’s debut “Amen” hints at a new wave of overly-self-conscious, Internet-savvy fanny pack rap.

March 22, 2018
Blatant Animal Collective Ripoff: On the Disappointingly Impermanent Influence of “Merriweather Post Pavilion”’s Washer Pop

Commemorating Animal Collective’s earnest stab at moving popular rock music forward and the nine bands that should be dictating the sounds of 2018.

March 12, 2018
Art & CultureFilm + TVStaff Picks
Things Called “Arm and Hammer,” Ranked

Counting off five Hammers that are just so hyped.

February 20, 2018
PREMIERE: Dante Elephante Leave Their Wireless Devices at Home on “Call Me (on the phone)”

Ruben Zarate’s surf pop project teases their yet-unannounced sophomore album with a new R&B-leaning single.

February 08, 2018
PREMIERE: Priests Bring Their Spooky Energy to Pickathon’s Slab Sessions with “Leila 20”

DC punk’s holiest emissaries belt out the cut from last year’s “Nothing Feels Natural.”

February 02, 2018
Reviews
Ty Segall, “Freedom’s Goblin”

Just when you thought you could pigeonhole Ty Segall into just one entire decade of music.

January 26, 2018
More Than Joke, Purpose: Did Das Racist Accidentally Fix Underground Hip-Hop?

Somewhere between Cage’s LaBeouf-directed “I Never Knew You” video and Brockhampton’s formation on a Kanye forum, something shifted. That something was almost definitely “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”

January 10, 2018
PREMIERE: Kal Marks Thaws Out on “Today I Walked…”

The sludgy Boston three-piece offers up another preview of their forthcoming “Universal Care.”

January 08, 2018
PREMIERE: Ty Segall Melts Faces with “Warm Hands” for Pickathon’s Slab Sessions

With the backing of his Freedom Band, the insatiable riffer introduces his caustic anthem to the bright Oregon sun.

December 01, 2017
Reviews
OCS, “Memory of a Cut Off Head”

With a return to the OCS ethos, “Memory of a Cut Off Head” is a full house notably lacking a garage.

November 27, 2017
PREMIERE: Sonny Smith Gets Lost in “Pictures of You” Video

The West Coast garage rock icon goes solo for Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label on the forthcoming “Rod for Your Love,” grows nostalgic in video for first single.

November 10, 2017
Film + TVStaff Picks
But What Do They Really Do in the Shadows?: A Brief History of Empathy in Vampire Film

Biography, allegory, and satire give voice to a severely misunderstood entity.

October 27, 2017
Film + TVStaff Picks
Reconsidering Rear Window Ethics in TV’s First Golden Age

What we can learn about obsession, voyeurism, and coaxploitation from watching Jimmy Stewart watch TV.

October 19, 2017
PREMIERE: Cut Worms Pays Tribute to Lou Reed on “Song of the Highest Tower”

Max Clarke teases his debut EP as Cut Worms.

October 12, 2017
PREMIERE: Hear Kelly Moran’s New Single “Sodalis” from Field Works’ “Ultrasonic”

Stuart Hyatt’s chiropteran (look it up) eighth album in the Field Works series arrives May 1.

March 06, 1920
RSVP: Levi’s #IShapeMyWorld @ Studio 525

Please join us March 8 at 5 p.m. for a special evening of food, drinks, screenings, and music in honor…

March 04, 1919
RSVP: In Conversation with Roy Choi

Roy Choi talks with Evan Kleiman, host of KCRW’s “Good Food.”

December 13, 1918
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