TAG: Style

Apr04

Röyksopp @ The Wiltern 3/29/11 (Live Review)

“That’ll be 28 dollars,” said the bartender at The Wiltern, as I cautiously slid my debit card to him thinking he might have made a mistake. “Wait, 28 dollars for two beers. Are you sure?” He nods, annoyed. Enter the heavy bass and vocal sirens of Röyksopp to refresh a beer and make it taste like, well, a 14 dollar beer. Norwegian duo and electronic music veterans Röyksopp prove once again that they’re still relevant and should be excused for their uncharacteristic work with pop artist (and fellow Scandinavian) Robyn. The duo, composed of the unassuming yet brilliant Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland, performed in front of the appreciative crowd at the historic Wiltern in Los Angeles last Tuesday March 29th. Admittedly, not very well versed in the vast catalog of music Röyksopp has produced since their inception …

Dec22

LMNO – JAMES KELLY 10-Pack (Review)

LMNO

JAMES KELLY 10-Pack

Released by Up Above Records


Looking for those last minute items but aren’t sure exactly what to gift? Well, look no further—Long Beach based emcee LMNO of the Visionaries has made decision-making this holiday season a no-brainer. Having released an epic ten (yes, 10) albums to commemorate 2010, you can purchase any of his ten records, gift wrap them and put them under the tree for all the music lovers in your family. The albums are: Push That Work, fOnk garden, Next in Line, Selective Hearing Part 2, Determined to Fly, Banger Management, Tripping ...
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Oct18

Miike Snow @ The Wiltern 10/15/10

Electroindie outfit serenades LA 

While Miike Snow should be familiar to you, URB reader, I was very surprised to see that it was also familiar to the rest of the hipster-mainstream hybrid subculture—that is, the sometimes-overbearing Hollywood scene. Going to this show, I expected to be greeted with a different kind of crowd (not sure exactly which) but I was greeted with people ready for the club (there were also some on the margins ready for the rave as well). While this by no means had an effect on Miike Snow’s performance, it’s an interesting point of note as it describes the atmosphere of the venue, pointing out the secondary effects of the experience of live music in a shared environment with a particular slice of the Southern California population. It also works well as a provocative introduction.

While I did not pay very much …

Sep28

No Age – Everything in Between (Review)

No Age

Everything in Between

Released by Sub Pop Records


Schizophrenically experimental, noise, shoegaze, punk with some good old-fashioned rock n’ roll sprinkled throughout for good measure, forward-sounding Los Angeles natives No Age outperform themselves in their bright and stellar (in both the judgmental sense as well as stylistically in the sense of the intergalactic and interplanetary) third record Everything in Between (the first two were a compilation of collected singles on 2007’s Weirdo Rippers and their 2008 record, Nouns). A unique and energetic outfit, No Age sound like an upgraded, modified and well-kept out of date machine. With ...
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Aug24

MGMT “Congratulations” Music Video (Video)

I have to point out that whoever is styling them is right on the money. This entire album the band has been extremely clean, cute, preppy yet scholarly and right on point with most of the seasonal trends. MGMT’s new video for “Congratulations” has our fashion forward boys sauntering through the desert underneath a blueish beige sky, guiding their inner spirit-watching it fall to pieces. Sounds like my typical Monday!

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