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‘Black Mass’ Shows Depp Can Do More Than Make Faces

Over the past decade-plus, we’ve watched Johnny Depp play sauntering, maniacal weirdos in so many films that I wonder if he goes to bed flailing his hands in the air like he’s trying to bat away f...
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CRSSD Festival

Since the first radio plays of Skrillex’s “Scary Monsters and Sprites” in 2008 and the first Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles in the same year, electronic dance music in America has taken ...
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Death Cab is Sure to Kill

Death Cab for Cutie, savior of the indie-rock world, has done it yet again with 2015 release Kintsugi, and has been celebrating with a world tour. On Sept. 26, the band famous for “Soul Meets Body...
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Fear for the Future of this Spinoff

  About two and a half years ago, I couldn’t sleep one night, so at three in the morning, I went on Netflix and popped on the first episode of “The Walking Dead.” The first 20 minutes absol...
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Tom Misch’s Beat Tape 2 : Putting the London Chillwave on the Map

The Information Age has provided musicians with a music sharing platform more powerful than ever before — the Internet. Sites such as SoundCloud and The Hype Machine have fostered the birth of locat...
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FMLYBND to Play Welcome to Paradise Carnival

Each year, Isla Vista sees a wave of new bands in all genres — and as quick as they come, they’re gone. Very few bands survive the first year here in I.V., let alone escape the bubble to achieve a...
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The Men From U.N.C.L.E. Need To Find a Better Plot

“The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” is a bit of a misleading title. For starters, there’s more than one man in a leading role. Secondly, who or what is U.N.C.L.E.? A spy organization? A coalition force? A...
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FYF Fest 2015 Highlights

  Despite recent backlash from punk-rock communities about the growing Indie music presence, Goldenvoice’s FYF Fest invaded the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena & Exposition Park for the second t...
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Outside Lands 2015 Highlights

On Friday, August 7th, over 70,000 music fans flooded Golden Gate Park’s Polo Fields for the eighth annual Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. Every year, Hawaiian shirts increase in popularity, ...
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Mad Decent Saves the Best Block Party Stop for its L.A. Home

Mad Decent Block Party, an outdoor festival-esque music event, will hit the road on a tour that will hopefully redefine people’s ideas of what a “block party” should be like. And just like the p...
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‘Sharknado 3?’ Oh Hell Yes!

The way I saw it, I had one of two options: see “Pixels,” a movie that I knew I was going to hate and give more of my money to the hellspawn that is Adam Sandler in the process, or see “Sharknad...
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FYF Returns to L.A. Memorial Sports Arena and Exposition Park with Great Summer Festival Lineup

Over the last decade, large music festivals have risen to stark prominence in America and redefined the live musical performance marketplace. The most successful of festival curators (obvious examples...
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Outside Lands to Invade Golden Gate Park

While signifying tanning sessions and beach outings in most American locales, the month of August in San Francisco demarcates two happenings unique to the city. First, a perfectly sadistic climate tha...
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Hard Summer Redefines Modern Electronic Music Festivals

In an attempt to accommodate all of the neon and spandex-wearing festivalgoers and their desires, the HARD Summer Music Festival is returning to Fairplex in Pomona, CA for 2015. Taking on its 8th year...
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Ian McKellen Redefines Our Dear “Mr. Holmes”

We’ve seen a lot of different versions of Sherlock Holmes over the years, from the stereotypical deerstalker-wearing version popularized and made iconic by the likes of Basil Rathbone to the much-ad...
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