Artist: Shocking Pinks Album: Shocking Pinks Label: DFA Release Date: September 17th, 2007 New Zealander Nick Harte is Shocking Pinks and this CD of seventeen tracks is a remastering and repackaging of two of his previous releases. I found this DIY project remarkable in that the only trace of homogeneity is Harte's voice - the seventeen tracks offer an astounding range of styles and sounds. Yes, there is a kind of plaintive lo-fi New......

Tommy Guerrero is a living legend. Not many musicians can lay claim to being former member of the infamous Bones Brigade. Guerrero recently signed with quannumm and released From the Soil to the Soul last fall. LAist stumbled into a 7-11 and ran into Tommy, so we hit him up for some Q&A. What is the best and the worst thing about being Tommy Guerrero? best-my son diego worst- the gears never stop churning......

We know Manchester is quite a distance from Los Angeles, but with all the differences between them, it’s undeniable that the people of the City of Angels and the people of the city also known as “Madchester” at least have their good taste in music in common. Producing some of the greatest and most eclectic names in British music, the chaotic, yet prolific Factory Records was formed in Manchester in 1978, giving the world......

So how would you end a weekend in which you have the number one movie in the country? Well, if you're Mos Def, you cold rock a party like it was Krush Groove. The Mighty Mos Def and Talib Kweli closed the main stage (to a much smaller crowd than Nine Inch Nails which, we think, had to do with Goldenvoice not naming Mos and Talib in the adverts or the program) with an......