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  Jimmy Eat World: Hungry, Hungry Heroes of Alt-Rock
  By DANIEL KOHN

  After a band have been together with the same lineup for nearly 20 years, it's understandable (even expected) they'd lose some of the vigor that defined their salad days. But that's not the case... More >>

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  Cloud Cult's Higher Calling
  By ADAM LOVINUS

  "All our love and all our pain/is gonna make us precious/if it don't make us insane/You have a calling." For Cloud Cult bandleader Craig Minowa, these lines are his favorite to sing live. They're... More >>

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  Manic Hispanic: ¡Pinche Punks!
  By GUSTAVO ARELLANO

  The guitar strap ate into Steve Soto's shoulder as he stood with his hands up, seconds away from a hail of bullets ripping him apart. It was Cinco de Mayo, 1999, at the Foothill Club in Signal... More >>

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  Psycho de Mayo's Strange Trip
  By NATE JACKSON

  On a recent night in downtown LA, Evan Hagen holds up one of his clear, handmade, oil-projector slides to the lamp in his bedroom. The long hours spent prepping for the final days of the first... More >>

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  Will DJ Shadow Ever Do Anything as Good as 'Entroducing . . .' Again?
  By MARCUS ALAN GOLDBERG

  For the longest time, I imagined a scenario going down at Casa Shadow: The man himself, Josh Davis, walks into the living room, where a commemorative, gold-plated Endtroducing . . . is framed... More >>

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  Fly Guy Eric Prydz
  By ALEJANDRA LOERA

  A man with more aliases than a German spy, Eric Prydz is not only a chart-topping, Grammy-nominated, festival-headlining, multiple-record-label-owning producer/DJ, but he is also one of the few... More >>

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  Ravenous Rapper
  By ADAM LOVINUS

  It's lunch time, and Action Bronson is walking around Brooklyn, stopping at a taco truck and ordering, in Spanish, a torta de bistec, mushroom quesadilla and tamales. He's come in from his home... More >>

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  Suedehead's Secret to Success
  By ARRISSIA OWEN

  When the members of Suedehead considered covers to add to their repertoire of original, modern soul send-ups, they searched for a meticulous representation of their band through borrowed song.... More >>

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  Coachella's Best Parties
  By NATE JACKSON

  It's funny to think people used to tell their friends they were "going to Coachella," as though they were headed to a single, mystical, solitary destination in the middle of nowhere. In the early... More >>

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  Daedelus' Weird Science
  By REYAN ALI

  Go ahead and keep your policemen, doctors, astronauts and firemen. When Alfred Darlington was a young'un, the only thing he wanted to be was an inventor. "I always took things apart and would... More >>

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  GOGO13 Are Right Where They Want to Be . . . Finally
  By LILLEDESHAN BOSE

  The first time I met the ska band GOGO13, they gave me free coconut ice cream. Actually, I didn't feel all that special; the band, dressed as soda jerks in overalls and aprons, were giving... More >>

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  Matt Costa Pulls Some Strings to Make His Music Soar
  By ARRISSIA OWEN

  For his newest, self-titled recording, Huntington Beach troubadour Matt Costa decided early on that he needed a change of scenery—a serious change. For years, he has made an art form out of... More >>

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  Why Does Spotify Keep Ripping People Off?
  By EMILY LUNDQUIST

  Ten dollars per month is a small price to pay for practically every piece of recorded music except anything by the Beatles. Which is why, late last year, I signed up for Spotify. Only two months... More >>

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  Steve Soto: The Punk Ambassador
  By NATE JACKSON

  Downtown Fullerton looks a lot different than it did when Steve Soto was 21. For starters, most of what he's surveying from his seat on the new, wooden patio area of Hopscotch—the new... More >>

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  Bill Evans: The Black-Hole Son
  By TAYLOR HAMBY

  Bill Evans didn't even have a band when Darby Crash of the Germs asked him to open for them at the seminal punk venue the Masque in Hollywood for Thanksgiving weekend 1977. Not about to pass up a... More >>