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Featured Gallery Music Groove Armada and Dirty Vegas Light Up LA’s Supperclub

February 17, 2011 - 8:21 am

Grammy weekend in LA is all about the parties, and if you’re a dance music fan, there was no hotter place to be than Om Records’ showcase at the extra-posh Supperclub for a triple bill that included LA’s own Jason Bentley, Grammy Award-winning Dirty Vegas, and first-time Grammy nominees Groove Armada. Long recognized as two of electronic music’s most well-respected artists, Groove Armada and Dirty Vegas turned out flawless sets that electrified the crowd of industry execs and well-to-do Hollywood scenesters. “A different sort of crowd to what we’re used to,” said Groove Armada’s Tom Findlay, “but they gave it their all!”

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Event Gallery “Sexo Y Violencia” at Lucha VaVoom

by Jeff Nau and Zoetica Ebb

February 17, 2011 - 8:21 am

If you’ve never heard of Lucha VaVoom, consider this an informal intro to Los Angeles’ seminal burlesque/wrestling show where every conceivable racial stereotype is huddled inside a wrestling ring to square off with one another in mortal combat. Round 1, for instance, is Lil Cholo, the ese from East L.A., vs. Chocolate Caliente, who would have been right at home running from whitey in a D.W. Griffith film.

As if all this wasn’t enough, there were the lovely legs of Legs Malone and Lucy Fur — the latter of whom pulled off some nifty acrobatic stunts with her stunning pair of gams, helping the show live up to its tagline of Sexo Y Violencia.

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Fashion Gallery Molla Space: Good Design for Everyone

by Barbie Brady and Dustin Downing

February 16, 2011 - 6:21 pm

Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that I like things that look like things that are really other things. For example, a ceramic grenade that is actually a bank, or a lollipop made of plastic that’s actually a speaker for my mp3 device. It’s no wonder then that I have loved Molla Space for a long time now.

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Fashion Featured Gallery Pushing the Envelope: Unstitched Utilities

by Barbie Brady and Dustin Downing

February 16, 2011 - 8:09 am

3 of the nicest men you’d ever want to share a beer with, (insert your favorite uncle image here) got sick of the machinery of corporate fashion. Having all worked together at one point in their illustrious careers or other, Jack Steinweis, Mark Kane and Kevin Crowley finally decided to put up or shut up and Unstitched Utilities was found. Hailing from New Jersey, Baltimore and New Hampshire, the men connected to hatch a vision that their individual talents, know how and charisma might be the building blocks to launching a truly environmentally thoughtful brand.

Step one, find a truly remarkable, environmentally friendly, durable material for manufacturing footwear.

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Social Media Tweet Like the Stars (or Learn From Celebrity Mistakes) – Social Media Week Day 3

by Teresa Jusino

February 16, 2011 - 8:07 am

Who would’ve thought that a panel about celebrity tweeting would’ve been so intelligent? When I first saw the description of this panel, I thought it would be a bit of fluff. However, when you put together a panel of people who are not only pop culture reporters, but true journalists, you realize that there’s a lot more going on than just who’s sleeping with whom. (Though there’s plenty of that, too).

At the Tweet Like the Stars: Celebrities Using Social Media to Successfully Build Their Brands panel at Red Bull Space, BuzzMedia organized a panel of well-respected editors and columnists from both print and online entertainment news sources: Mike Hess (Celebuzz), Eloise Parker (OK! Magazine), Bonnie Fuller (Hollywood Life), Rob Shuter (PopEater), moderated by Mike Porath, SVP of Programming at BuzzMedia. They managed to not only successfully examine how celebrities are using social media to build their brands, but also translate how those same techniques could be applied to themselves and to businesses that have nothing to do with entertainment.

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Fashion Don’t Be 2000 and Late: Taboo Deltah 3008

by Barbie Brady and Dustin Downing

February 16, 2011 - 8:05 am

While mindlessly glancing around the Burbank airport, waiting to board a flight to Las Vegas for the Fashion industry trade show, MAGIC, something shiny caught my eye. Super slick, hot pink, patent leather sneakers graced the feet of a rather unusually understated Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas. I noticed the shoes first, the superstar second.
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Music Young Galaxy: Northern Stars Make Music To Shapeshift To

by Rich Thomas

February 16, 2011 - 7:59 am

This is not a post about Canada, though if you removed Canada from this story there wouldn’t be much of a story to tell. First off, Young Galaxy are a Canadian band. They are currently based on Montreal, but relocated there from Vancouver, which is one of the coolest places on the planet, by the way. Their latest album, Shapeshifting, is being released on a Toronto’s Paper Bag Records. (It’s really good. You can download the first single, “We Have Everything,” right here.) They’ve also had the distinct pleasure of opening for Arcade Fire, who are also a Canadian band. The press release for Shapeshifting name-drops New Order and Eurythmics (not Canadian) as bands to compare the album’s sound to, which is actually pretty spot on, and as you’ll see from this interview, vocalist/guitarist Stephen Ramsay is a pretty lucid fellow with a lot of spot on things to say about music-making.

[UPDATE]: Download the just-released Cover Your Tracks EP here.

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Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases by The Dears, P.J. Harvey, Sonic Youth, Cowboy Junkies, and Nelson

by Shop Keeper

February 15, 2011 - 5:14 pm

Another week, another slew of releases…some good, some bad, some kinda surprising: that last one goes to Nelson… and a (great) new one by P.J. Harvey, Let England Shake… seminal proto-punkers Sonic Youth are back; old school alt/country rock The Cowboy Junkies, and feel the Lord’s love with the Bible-throwing antics of Stryper. Til next time…

The Dears - Degeneration Street

Brown Recluse - Evening Tapestry

Beans - End It All

Cowboy Junkies – Demons

P.J. Harvey - Let England Shake

Bright Eyes - The People’s Key

Nelson - Lightning Strikes Twice

Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots

Yuck - Yuck

Sonic Youth – Simon Werner a Disparu

Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps

La Sera - La Sera

Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

Ten - Stormwarning

Saigon - Greatest Story Never Told

Stryper - The Covering

Music Red Bull Soundclash 2011 Line Up Announced

by Shop Keeper

February 15, 2011 - 2:23 pm

This March, Las Vegas and South Padre Island, TX will be THE destination for music lovers during spring break as Red Bull Soundclash presents two unprecedented live music showcases featuring first-time ever match ups between Cee Lo Green and the Ting Tings in Las Vegas (outdoors at the MGM Resorts International property across from the Luxor on Las Vegas Blvd.) on March 12, 2011; and Snoop Dogg and Ghostland Observatory at Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark on South Padre Island, Texas on March 17, 2011. Pre-sale tickets for each show are available now for $10 at www.redbullusa.com/soundclash. Tickets for the Las Vegas show will be $15 at the door.

Red Bull Soundclash is a totally unique clash of sounds, styles and creativity, where two bands don’t battle each other, but instead collaborate to create an innovative live music performance. The show features two bands with different music styles (e.g. Hip Hop vs. Electronic) facing off on two stages positioned on opposite ends of the venue with the audience in the middle. In a series of four rounds, the bands perform various tasks, some rehearsed, and some improvised, to showcase the array of their musical abilities.

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Art/Design Poster Peepshow: The Art and Evolution of The Pin Up

by Shop Keeper

February 15, 2011 - 9:54 am

This past Saturday Alhambra’s decidedly happening Gallery Nucleus hosted an opening party for their Poster Peepshow exhibition, which features lots of luscious pin up art from the past and present. Cheesecake and erotic artist Olivia De Berardinis, whose work has been prominently featured in the pages of Playboy, signed copies of her books for a seemingly never-ending line of fans, and Suicide Girls Sash and Milloux modeled for a packed live figure drawing session. Original Catwoman Julie Newmar, L.A. glamour gal Lenora Claire, and Runaways producer Kim Fowley were also in attendance.

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