Tonight! Tonight!

This is going on tonight, RSVP is a must! It's gonna be pretty dope so go if you can.

@THE ROXY
9009 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
10pm-2am
18+

RSVP: http://www.scion.com/houseparty/

New Releases

These are the new CDs out this week.

Lil Wayne, Rebirth
Midlake, The Courage of Others
Salvador Santana, Keyboard City
The Soft Pack, The Soft Pack*

*Can't wait to get my hands on this.

Weekly Events

This is a list of some awesome shows and events going down in the LA area this week. Enjoy!

Monday
-KROQ Locals Only Presents: The Useless Keys @ The Echo
-Do Make Say Think, The Happiness project, Years @ Troubadour
-Abe Vigoda @ Pehrspace
-Princeton, 60 Watt Kid, Active Child @ Spaceland

Tuesday
-Dim Mak Tuesdays @Cinespace
-Ferraby Lionheart, Willoughby @ Bootleg
-The Nervous Wreckords (members of Louis XIV) @ Bootleg
-Wale @ The Roxy

Wednesday
-Prefuse 73, Gaslamp Killer, VOICEsVOICEs @ Troubadour
-NOMO @ Spaceland

Thursday
-The Year Zero @ Alexs Bar

Friday
-Yeasayer, Warpaint @ Natural History Museum Of Los Angeles County
-Dave Davies (of The Kinks) @ El Rey Theatre
-The French Semester @ LKeg Gallery
-Daedelus, Nosaj Thing @ The Echo

Saturday
-Langhorne Slim, April Smith @ McCabes
-They Might Be Giants @ Largo
-Vivian Girls, Best Coast, Pearl Harbour, Dunes @ The Smell

Sunday
-They Might Be Giants @ Largo

Dubstep

Dubstep, a newcomer amongst the electronic genres, has been making torrential waves across the world as it rips through clubs with as much force as it has bass. It originated in the UK from the electro garage scene in an attempt to fuse d'n'b, dub, reggae, and electro. The result was dubstep, generally characterized by the near excessive use of bass, warping leads, the snare hit on the 3rd beat of every measure, a 2-step rhythm, "dark" sounds, and as of late the sample of old 8-bit sounds for use in the melody. This isn't your traditional 4 on the floor affair, dubstep is taking steps in directions some people find offensive. Regardless of wether you think this is the music of the future, or if its the music of a UK cyberpunk hell, its here to stay. The most notable artists are Skream, Rusko, Benga, and Digital Mystikz. Some good songs to get started with are Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix of La Roux's In For the Kill, Rusko's Remix of Bionic Commando, Stagger by Skream, and 26 Basslines by Benga.

Upcoming Events

You should check out all of these upcoming shows if you live in the LA area. * denotes a show that I will be attending

January
1/22 Cold War Kids, Alec Ounsworth (of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) @ The Wiltern
*1/26 The Cribs (feat. Johnny Marr), Jemina Pearl @ The Glass House
1/27 The Airborne Toxic Event @ Troubadour
*1/30 Moving Units @ The Glass House

February
2/1 Do Make Say Think @ Troubadour
*2/10 Wild Beasts, Still Life Still, Magic Bullets @ Troubadour
2/11 Editors, The Antlers @ The Wiltern
*2/26 We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Lonely Forest, Bear Hands @ Troubadour

March
3/2 The Magnetic Fields @ Wilshire Ebell Theatre
*3/5-6 The Clientele, The Wooden Birds @ Spaceland
3/10 Delta Spirit @Bootleg
*3/11, 3/14 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ The Echo
3/20-21 Gomez @ El Rey
*3/25 She and Him @ El Rey Theatre
3/25 The Morning Benders @ Troubadour
*3/28 Air, AM @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Welcome To Electronica

First of all, hello to all of those who actually check this, I personally haven't updated this for quite some time. Lately, however, since I've been dabbling in DJing and expanding my musical pallet, I figured I would help you do the same. I got the idea of doing a weekly edition on different types of electronica so keep on the look out for my updates. So without further adieu lets get this ball rolling.

Electro House

This style of music is a mix of house music and electro. It takes the four on the floor beats of house and adds the stylistic leads and filters of electro. It generally fuses a bit of trance, dnb, or indie rock into it. It seems to have originated from the UK and France and still remains insanely popular there. Notable artists of this genre are Daft Punk, Justice, Boys Noize, SebastiAn, Benny Benassi, MSTRKRFT, Eric Prydz, Deadmau5, Crookers, Danger, Laidback Luke, and The Bloody Beetroots. They are the champions of the majority of what the electronic music people mainly listen to today. If you see one name you recognize on that list of names please do yourself a favor and check out the others. People say every day that techno is dead but it really isn't. It lives on through anyone that has a passion for fun.

Locals Only! We Barbarians

We Barbarians are an amazing three piece band straight out of Long Beach. Their jagged guitar riffs, sick bass lines & thunderous drum beats make them an awesome act to experience live first hand. They are known to play many shows in the LA area and have recently supported Local Natives during their Spaceland Residency. If you ever get the chance to see them live, do so, you will not regret it.