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Music Tuesday Newsday: New Music From Lana Del Rey, Hit the Lights, Ringo Starr, Imperial Teen, and Soja

January 31, 2012 - 9:06 pm

Lana Del Rey’s album is finally out, after months of hype and her viral video games vid… see if it stands the test of time… Ringo is still going strong and will probably be the last Beatle alive at this rate…. get out your leather and spikes and party like it’s 1983, the new Bleeding Through is out… or get our your hot topic belt… Faith No More keys guy Roddy Bottum releases another Imperial Teen album after another 5-year hiatus… bye.

Alcest - Les Voyages de L’ame

Bleeding Through - The Great Fire

The Jealous Sound - A Gentle Reminder

Ringo Starr - Ringo 2012

The 2 Bears – Be Strong

The Doozer - Keep It Together

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Out Of Frequency

Hit The Lights -Invicta

Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting

Candy Dulfer -Crazy

Soja – Strength to Survive

Prinzhorn Dance School -Clay Class

Imperial Teen - Feel The Sound

Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

The Internet - Purple Naked Ladies

Fionn Regan - 100 Acres Of Sycamore

Exdetectives - Take My Forever

The Pines - Dark So Gold

Music Worlds Collide at Winter X Games Aspen

by Shop Keeper

January 31, 2012 - 4:23 pm

Bet you didn’t know Reggie Bush could DJ, or that DJ Spider could snowboard… Well, at least one of the previous statements is true. This past week, the Winter X Games Aspen brought together what some might consider opposites.

Check out what happens when DJ Spider trades snowboarding lessons with Louie Vito for scratch technique, and get a peek at Reggie Bush’s hidden penchant on the tables after the jump.

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Fashion Featured Travel Get Dolled Up For A Dime In Salt Lake City

by Gala Darling

January 31, 2012 - 10:32 am

Utah: land of Mormons, fresh powder &… great vintage?! Yes, it’s true! Next time you’re in Salt Lake City, be sure to get a good lunch, & then hit up the vintage clothing & furniture stores in the area. It’s worth it. Here are a few of my favourite places (& happiest scores!).

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Featured Gallery Music Wallpaper Gets You #STUPiDFACEDD

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon

January 30, 2012 - 1:54 pm

If you haven’t yet heard of Wallpaper., it’s time to tune in. Since being selected as MTVs PUSH Artist of the week, the innovative quartet, fronted by vocalist Ricky Reed, has been skyrocketing in popularity. The band is known for their hit single, #STUPiDFACEDD, which catalyzed a Twitter hashtag sensation and landed the band on Top 40 radio stations across the country. Wallpaper. recently packed Los Angeles’s El Rey theatre and treated a captivated audience to their signature “booty-shaking-bass-dropping hits.”

ChinaShop caught up with Wallpaper. following their recent stop in LA. Check out the interview after the jump:

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Music ChinaShop Monthly Mixtape: January Edition

by Rich Thomas

January 30, 2012 - 10:45 am

Filtering through the mailbox, inbox and sandbox to bring you the best FREE music, hand-selected by the discerning members of the ChinaShop editorial staff each and every month. Hit the jump to commence downloading. Hope you’ve got more space on that hard drive…

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Art Gallery Parking Lot Pieces / Sub-Standard Art

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon

January 30, 2012 - 10:43 am

People flock to West Hollywood’s The Standard Hotel for it’s chic atmosphere, exclusive lounges, and A-list pool parties. Last Tuesday, however, the famed hotel’s parking lot was the place to be.

As part of the ongoing celebration of the birth of the L.A. art scene, LAXART transformed The Standard’s parking garage into a dynamic performance art gallery. The project was a collaborative effort by Warren Neidich and Elena Bajo and included a group of locally recognized artists who came together to create this “choreography on wheels.” To the artists, the parking garage represented a site of unlimited temporal potential “where multiple times and spaces collide.”

After entering The Standard, we were escorted to the back of the hotel and sent down an industrial flight of stairs. We walked through the door and into the parking garage to find over 20 artists in action. Every parking space had it’s own artistic twist. Here were some of our favorites:

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Art Strange Creatures Reign at Chet Zar’s Conjoined 2

by Zoetica Ebb

January 27, 2012 - 3:57 pm

On Saturday, the Bergamot Station Arts Complex flooded with heavy foot traffic headed straight for Copro Nason Gallery, where strange sea creatures, aliens, robots and mutants anxiously waited on the walls and floor displays. It was opening night for the second installment of Chet Zar’s Conjoined, The Sequel – In 3D exhibit, and the art-hungry masses were fired up.

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Featured Gallery Music Angels & Airwaves Fill The Red Bull Sound Space at KROQ

by Rich Thomas and Catie Laffoon

January 27, 2012 - 10:43 am

Little is the new big. At least that was the vibe when alternative dream rockers Angels & Airwaves stopped by the Red Bull Sound Space at the world famous KROQ in Los Angeles to play a handful of songs and answer questions from fans. Known for breaking some of Southern California’s biggest rock acts, the radio station formed a partnership with Red Bull last year to create Sound Space, an intimate stage on which some of the world’s best bands could perform for 150 of their closest friends and fans. Following Falling In Reverse, The Fray, New Found Glory, and Sound Space debut performers Coldplay, Angels & Airwaves ripped through a five-song set that included songs like “The Adventure,” “Anxiety,” “Everything’s Magic,” “Hallucinations,” and fan favorite, “Surrender.” Lead singer Tom DeLonge waxed poetic about the end of the world, making doodles of naked superheroes, and why Angels & Airwaves and Blink-182—the multi-platinum pop-punk group he’s fronted since 1992—are two sides of the same coin. After the set concluded, ChinaShop got some extra time with DeLonge in KROQ’s luxurious mail room to dig a bit deeper into the mythology, beauty, and DIY DNA that is Angels & Airwaves.

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Music Serpents in My Mind: Sharon Van Etten

by Shop Keeper

January 27, 2012 - 10:15 am

Sharon Van Etten is announcing even more tour dates in support of her forthcoming album, Tramp, out Feb. 7 via Jagjaguwar. Next month, Sharon kicks off a headlining tour of the East Coast and Midwest with a sold out performance at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia. Before heading to Europe for a week, she’ll play three record release shows in New York – Fri. Feb. 24 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, and Sat. Feb. 25 and Sun. Feb. 26 at the Bowery Ballroom (Sat. Feb. 25 is sold out). Then she’ll head down to Austin for SXSW, and make her way out west with The War On Drugs. The newly announced dates include a tour of the Southeast and beyond.

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Music The Sound of Sisters: The Pierces

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon

January 26, 2012 - 10:52 am

We recently had the opportunity to sit down and get to know the sisterly duo of Catherine and Allison Pierce. If there is an award to be given for musical perseverance, these two deserve it. After three records and 10 years of making music together, the Pierce sisters were ready to throw in the towel and attempt their own solo projects. In the final hour, Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman stepped up and expressed interest in hearing their new demos. Berryman took The Pierces under his wing and produced their groundbreaking forth album, “You & I.” The ladies recently signed with Polydor Records and finally feel at home with a label that believes in them.

In the lobby of West Hollywood’s Andaz Hotel, Allison joked about continuously breaking her Kindle as Catherine told her somber tale of someone beating her to the house she had planned on moving into. The girls explained that listening back to their earlier tunes makes them proud of how far they’ve come and that being role models to artists who haven’t made it yet has it’s pros and cons.

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