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After suffering an enormous hiphop-deficit in the beach cities, some relief is on the way via Pigeon John. Have you heard of him? He's that clueless, sister-dating, blues-singing, summertime pool-partying rap star from Los Angeles. Yeah that dude with all those dapper duds on. Now you be with it.So check it, that dude is gonna play that new hotspot The Shore, in Hermosa Beach on June 27th. It's some kinda KRCW Presents type thing,...

Honeycut @ MOCA's Night Vision, June 16thHosting the San Francisco based Band, Honeycut, on the 2nd saturday of MOCA's Night Vision music/poetry summer series things got funky and arty while LAist sucked down some beers, walked through some art galleries, and boogied down like our bones were made of jelly.Pounding yet soothing sleaze funk to make your ears rejoice with satisfaction, thats the fix Honeycut is dealing out. The band's sound is centered around the...

Lifesavas are a rap trio that come from Portland Oregon, and they're playing a show in LA, June 12th @ the Roxy. Members Vursatyl, Jumbo, and Shines have been proving that you don't need the cliché bling, bitches, and 40's to make great rap music. All you need is to keep it real, bust your ass, and make better music than everyone else. Easy, right? We sat down with Vursatyl to ask him what's crackin'....

For the first 10 or 15 seconds you think this video will be a waste of time, and then he drops the beat, and gets all jiggy with it. It's like he's the son of Weird Al and Magic Johnson. Without any further ramblings, we present Paul Brogan!...

Tommy Guerrero is a living legend. Not many musicians can lay claim to being former member of the infamous Bones Brigade. Guerrero recently signed with quannumm and released From the Soil to the Soul last fall. LAist stumbled into a 7-11 and ran into Tommy, so we hit him up for some Q&A. What is the best and the worst thing about being Tommy Guerrero? best-my son diego worst- the gears never stop churning...

Edward Barbanell is an actor with Down syndrome. But having sat down with Ed for lunch last weekend, I can assure you Ed has not gone "Hollywood" on us. He is in movie after movie, attends movie premieres, but above all else he loves his family and is not afraid to show it. After talking about his brother's upcoming wedding (Ed's going to be the best man) he agreed to do a quickie interview...

Bracken's profile page on Anticon says it best:Bracken is a musical project spinning in a loose and ill-defined orbit around founder member Chris Adams. In another life, Chris, along with his brother Richard are known as co-captains of the good ship Hood. In this latest incarnation we see a side-step/stumble into a puzzling soundworld of future pop, analogue tape trickery, avant drone, loose dub flourishes, hip hop pacing and clattering drums.So we emailed him...

Whispertown 2000 is an LA based band that sounds the way a soft velour blanket being dragged across the backs of your knees feels. The band is sweet, silly, and serious about bringing you traditional rock song writing styles, with a female edge. Whispertown 2000 play a lot of LA shows, and aren't afraid to make friends with their crowd. Having been to one of their shows, I wandered in feeling like a stranger...

Artwork by A. Nagler...

Artwork by A. Nagler....