!!! aka Chk Chk Chk (or any other triple repeated expletive) played at the Avalon a couple weeks ago to a large crowd of friends, supporters, party-people, and folks who just effing wanted to dance. The band is 8 months into touring to support their incredible album Myth Takes and are about to embark for another pass through Europe. !!! loves LA - they have a lot of friends here, they make a pilgrimage......

Slick Brit rockers Maxïmo Park will be setting fire to the El Rey theater tomorrow night in a triple bill performance that’s sure to please the Indie gods. Also sharing the stage are Echo Park’s Monsters Are Waiting and the Los Angeles outfit, The Oohlas. LAist wants to send you and friend to this post-punk, new wave, sometimes pretty, sometimes gritty, dance dance revolution, rock show. You must register to comment and comment to......

One of my primary goals when I started working in the music business was to, some day, meet with somebody from Warp Records. As an eager newbie DJ in 1990, I was fortunate enough to discover this label through a couple of releases that helped form my sensibilities in a way that was so profound that it endures to this day. Coco Steele & Lovebomb's "You Can't Stop the Groove" and Power Pill's "Pac......

Artist: !!! Title: Myth Takes Release Date: 3/4/07 Label: Warp Records !!!'s MySpace !!!'s Website If, like me, you’ve been fortunate enough to see a live !!! show, then you’ll know that their recordings are just snapshots in time, a place for the band to step off on extended sweat-inducing punk funk jams. Enough about their bizarre name, call them chkchkchk, uhuhuh, whatever. The band is comprised of Mario Andreoni (guitar), Dan Gorman (horns/percussion/keys),......