I’ve been using Mog.com for a while now (ever since I joined their affiliate ad network that granted me free use of their streaming service) and the one biggest gripes I have with the service is its lack of music discovery tools. I plan on fleshing out this post into something longer with suggestions for [...]
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An explanation behind the inactivity on IFAN and moving forward…
If you haven’t noticed things have gotten a little stale here on IFAN without any explanation, and that is because for the past few weeks I have been hard at work launching the website for the new project I am involved with with a couple of the guys from LA Record, called White Noise. White [...]
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Division Day announce new release, new label and post new songs
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Dangerbird Records announced this morning that they will be releasing Division Day‘s new full length album, Visitation, on August 18th. You can listen to two new songs from the album, “Visitation” and “Devil Light”, on Division Day’s MySpace page and read a more in-depth write up on this morning’s announcement over at Buzzbands.la.
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VOICESVOICES announce the release of a new Prefuse 73 produced EP on Manimal Vinyl
LA’s VoicesVoices played their first show back in Los Angeles last night at Spaceland since returning from New York City where they spent two weeks recording with Guillermo Scott Herren a.k.a Prefuse 73. When I read that VoicesVoices recorded with Prefuse 73 in NYC, I got pretty excited, I can’t think of a better combo. [...]
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Princeton sign to NYC’s Kanine Records; debut full length scheduled for release later this fall
Eagle Rock, CA’s Princeton have announced that they have signed with the NYC based label, Kanine Records, run by the husband-and-wife team, Kay Quartararo and Lio Cerezo. Kanine will release Princeton’s debut full-length album, Cocoon of Love, later this fall.Catch Princeton opening for Au Revoir Simone this Thursday, June 11th, at the El Rey Theatre [...]
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See The Night Marchers for free in Downtown LA this Saturday with the Japanese Motors and Lamps
UPDATE: The Soft Pack have been added to the bill… I’ll be at a wedding, but really, one shouldn’t typically pass on a Night Marchers gig…
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Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros new song, ‘Desert Song’ in new video
This shit is like The Fountain, but set in the desert, and if you are like me and couldn’t follow that film or this video, the crib sheet is below.Part 1: “Desert Song†is about singer Alex Ebert’s reckoning with the middle name his father secretly wrote on his birth certificate – a Native American [...]
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Band Of Skulls post video for ‘I Know What I Am’
I caught Band Of Skulls last night at a packed 3 of Clubs for Future Sounds “Rumble†night (Pete from Mad Men was there!). The band had played earlier in the evening at the Viper Room, but you wouldn’t have noticed, as they delivered a finely tuned set that sounded as good as they do [...]
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Band of Skulls and Apteka tonight at 3 of Clubs for The Rumble
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More on both Band Of Skulls and Apteka later, but know this, both bands new albums are a great listen and both are playing tonight for free at the 3 of Clubs (1123 Vine St.), which is where you will find me tonight, hopefully celebrating a Lakers win. MP3: Band Of Skulls – Blood MP3: [...]
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Your last chance to see Magic Lantern for a long time…TONIGHT!
If you thought you missed Magic Lantern’s final show on Monday night at the Blue Monkey, don’t worry, they did too, which is why they’ve scheduled this last minute show tonight (so last minute, they aren’t even on the flyer) with Pocahaunted, Vibes, and Pizza! at the Museum of Neon Art in Downtown LA.Maybe you [...]
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Magic Wands at Henry Fonda tonight; Win a copy of their new album ‘Magic Love & Dreams’
The Nashville duo Magic Wands have spent the last 6 months touring relentlessly, opening for Black Kids and the Virgins on the East Coast and supporting CSS in the UK, and tonight they wind down their current tour with The Kills and The Horrors at the Henry Fonda.This coming Tuesday, May 25th, will see the [...]
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Extra Golden with The Meditations and Fool’s Gold at The Echo Tonight
Extra Golden descend upon The Echo tonight in support of the legendary Meditations for a show presented by Dub Club. Extra Golden are touring the States right now behind their new album, Thank You Very Quickly, a six-song wonder of a record that was released back in March by Thrill Jockey.Extra Golden was formed in [...]
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Cameron Stallones aka Sun Araw announces European Tour with Pocahaunted and the release of a new LP; Magic Lantern going on hiatus
Just received word this morning that Sun Araw (the name Magic Lantern’s Cameron Stallones uses for his solo work) will be doing an extensive European tour with Pocahaunted next month (routing here). To coincide with the European tour Sun Araw will be releasing a new LP called Heavy Deeds, that is being prepared right now [...]
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Big Business Streams ‘Mind The Drift’ in its Entirety, Sans Commentary
Out next Tuesday (May 12th), Big Business are streaming their new album, Mind The Drift, in it’s entirety, sans the commentary they posted prior to this.Big Business are out on a massive U.S. tour and return to Southern California later this month, playing the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa on May 28th, followed by the [...]
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Long Beach’s Avi Buffalo kick off Tuesday night residency at The Echo tonight
Folks like LA Underground and Rock Insider have been singing the praises of Avi Buffalo for months now, but in just the last few weeks, adoration for the band has begun to pour in from all the local LA blogs. What is mentioned everywhere is that three quarters of the Avi Buffalo are still in [...]
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The Valley Arena to release new album, We Died, on May 21st via JAXART Records
Long Beach’s The Valley Arena will release their third full length album, We Died, on May 21st on the local label, JAXART Records.The full length release of We Died is being released as a 3-song 7″ single featuring “Bait & Switch†& “Grayscale†and the exclusive B-side, a remix of “SOS4XOX†by Ikey Owens (Mars [...]
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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros kick off Regent Theatre residency tonight
I’ll admit that before this year’s SXSW I may have heard the name Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros a few times, but hadn’t given them much of a thought. But when I returned from Texas they were unavoidable, everything was Edward Sharpe this, Magnetic Zeros that. NPR and KCRW had hard-ons for the band [...]
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Xu Xu Fang ‘Seven Days Now’ Record Release show at The Echo tonight
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Xu Xu Fang are the type of LA band that are going to get big somewhere else first, most likely on the other side of the pond. The band, featuring Bobby Tamkin (The Warlocks, Hovercraft), and Barbara Cohen, who sang with French band, Air, and has anywhere from six to ten members and up to [...]
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NOMO ready release of Invisible Cities; announce May 23rd Spaceland show
The Michigan-based collective,NOMO will release their fourth full-length, Invisible Cities, next week, May 5th, on local label, Ubiquity Records.Invisible Cities comes less than a year after the release of their acclaimed Ghost Rock album, completing this spirited sister Cities album during the Ghost Rock sessions and tours.In addition to the title track below, Pitchfork [...]
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