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September 27, 2015

Ratatat were ‘Magnifique’ at the Majestic

By Frank Horne

Just shy of an hour south of campus, along a relatively quiet downtown Ventura street lies the Majestic Ventura Theater, a 1920’s-style hall that may deserve its self-styling as “the best venue between Los Angeles an...

September 24, 2015

Glass Animals Was Better Than Your Senior Prom

By Madeline Lockhart

Lyft drops me off at Earl Warren Showgrounds. The line is moving slower than the Six Flags’ Batman ride and twice as long. I resist the urge to cut and take my place at the back. It’s 8:15. We’re still waiting to g...

September 24, 2015

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

By Alex Wehrung

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 flies. After “Pirat...

September 24, 2015

CRSSD Festival

By Artsweek Editor

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 on many different fo...

September 17, 2015

Death Cab is Sure to Kill

By Simone Dupuy

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” and “I Will Foll...

September 17, 2015

Fear for the Future of this Spinoff

By Alex Wehrung

  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 absolutely dripped with a...

September 17, 2015

Tom Misch’s Beat Tape 2 : Putting the London Chillwave on the Map

By Benjamin Miller

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 location-based genres, fr...

September 17, 2015

FMLYBND to Play Welcome to Paradise Carnival

By Emile Nelson

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 any sort of actual fa...

August 27, 2015

The Men From U.N.C.L.E. Need To Find a Better Plot

By Alex Wehrung

“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 men’s fashion lin...

August 27, 2015

FYF Fest 2015 Highlights

By Artsweek Editor

  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 time with the most ec...

August 17, 2015

Outside Lands 2015 Highlights

By Artsweek Editor

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, the food gets more e...

August 2, 2015

Mad Decent Saves the Best Block Party Stop for its L.A. Home

By Artsweek Editor

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 previous six, this on...

August 2, 2015

‘Sharknado 3?’ Oh Hell Yes!

By Alex Wehrung

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 “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!,”...

July 30, 2015

FYF Returns to L.A. Memorial Sports Arena and Exposition Park with Great Summer Festival Lineup

By Artsweek Editor

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 being Golden Voice ...

July 30, 2015

Outside Lands to Invade Golden Gate Park

By Artsweek Editor

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 that is cold enough to ...

July 30, 2015

Hard Summer Redefines Modern Electronic Music Festivals

By Nisa Smith

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, the festival will ...