Music Reviews, Screeds and Weird Shit from Downtown Los Angeles and the internet beyond. ALSO: LA Downtown News FORMERLY: Quit Mumbling PopMatters All Things That RockTumblr (3.0; @evolvesticker)http://evolvesticker.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/014815898dc488247ee8da219435f658/tumblr_mkr1aqBDDr1qj1w7fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Full story available via <a href="http://www.magcloud.com/webviewer/523284?__r=330232&s=w">LxA Magazine</a>:</p> <p>“So Angelenos have a tendency born and bred in the fiber of our Western society to register our history via culture. Our soil may not have been watered with the blood of revolution, but so too do you Easterners lack the dubious and sordid heritage of Film Noir. No Founding Fathers pontificated on the nature of democracy and human liberty in Los Angeles halls, but the psychic specter of Tom Joad and his real life metonym Woody Guthrie never picketed your collective unconscious as it did ours. </p> <p>We may not hold our Pio Picos and E.O.C. Ords in the same musty reverence as a Peter Stuyvesant or John Hancock, but given the uninspiring nature of our recent political figures and the grotesque, hidden dimensions of our police department, you’ll have to forgive us for looking elsewhere for our civic heroes.”</p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/47133242978http://evolvesticker.com/post/47133242978Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:06:26 -0700Music ReviewsLos AngelesLXA ZINE<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4957d62961e05983f0810106fda62fdc/tumblr_mg2lkb8vTa1qj1w7fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><h2>What If Dylan Klebold Had Gone to College</h2> <p>via <a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com">Thought Catalog</a></p> <p>“One wonders about Dylan Klebold though. Harris’ aloof and awkward sidekick begs the question: is the edge something you fall off of or something you hang on to? If you’re looking over a chasm, surely the edge demarcates the point of destruction. But if you’re learning to swim in a public pool, the edge is the thing you cling onto for safety. In a school setting where belonging and popularity were made to seem like everything, Klebold came to see himself as too ugly and too strange to belong. One pictures Klebold drowning in a sea of insecurity as others swam confidently around him.</p> <p>The rhetoric of 90s Rock and the dissonant chords of its churning musical movements was as a sort of pool’s edge for Dylan Klebold. By embracing the sharp edge oozing from the music, a fan like Klebold was entering a cultural world free from appearance-based judgment and one in which the outsider was inherently strong. The edge for him was a safety line. He latched on to the only thing he could in the slick world of modern adolescent identity: Hard Rock. When his grip slipped no one thought to blame the chasm that swallowed him. They vilified the only refuge he had.”</p> <p>Full Story <a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/what-if-dylan-klebold-went-to-college/">HERE</a>.</p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/39596596151http://evolvesticker.com/post/39596596151Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:09:47 -0800Music ReviewsDylan KleboldThought Catalog<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/aed4f94f7e17039b8809ff766e0ff203/tumblr_mg2l9flGm71qj1w7fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><h2>Rob Garza: Conquering Champion</h2> <p>The ugly truth is that not everyone can be a good DJ. The secret truth is that most people who are technically proficient as DJs couldn’t string together any sequence of music into something intriguing or visionary because one cannot learn good taste like you can a pair of decks.</p> <p>But the good truth is that for every hundred DJ Douches out there and their throngs of sweaty South Beach styled I-bankers, there is at least one Rob Garza.</p> <p>As the raucous half of DC based Thievery Corporation, Garza has been on the beat side of world lounge since it wasn’t cool. He’s steadily built his talent, his reach and his disciples. He’s crafted beats around most conceivable ethnic music forms. He’s helped orchestrate massive live displays of mixed acoustic and electronic musicianship. He’s weathered a politically pointed IRS audit. He has spat the truth.</p> <p>Moreover, he has been able to change. Now a resident of San Francisco, Garza is at the forefront of another evolution in Lounge. The deep house phenomena is still a bit nebulous and undefined, which I imagine suits Garza just fine. 2012 found him dropping mix after mix of the real good stuff—the sweet, sweet syrup of deep house and groove electronica.</p> <p>Check out his <a href="https://soundcloud.com/robgarzamusic">SOUNDCLOUD</a> and bump these: </p> <p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F64640414" width="100%"></iframe></p> <p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F72281287" width="100%"></iframe></p> <p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F58075134" width="100%"></iframe></p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/39596021657http://evolvesticker.com/post/39596021657Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:03:15 -0800Music ReviewsThievery Corporation<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/086fa4d5e2997b9460ec707bd1b5b662/tumblr_mg2km65R4V1qj1w7fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://theaks.bandcamp.com/">THE AKS</a></p> <p>Imagine my utter disappointment when ancient prognostications and modern paranoias failed to coalesce into the promised apocalypse last month.</p> <p>Not one to be put down by another’s failure to accurately predict my demise, I sojourned to the Black Cat in what may be the most surreal moment of my life. Namely: seeing a Hardcore show with my mom’s best friend from high school.</p> <p>Long story short, but DC Hardcore is alive and well. The screaming, the brief musical statements of disgust and the smell. It was all thriving as the AKs took the stage for a Christmas time reunion.</p> <p>This was by far my favorite song of the night, if not for the lyrics then for the six times it was played by an assortment of musicians throughout the show.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="100" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=2021451187/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" width="400"><a href=”http://theaks.bandcamp.com/track/divorce-court” data-mce-href=”http://theaks.bandcamp.com/track/divorce-court”>Divorce Court by The A.K.s</a></iframe></p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/39594794955http://evolvesticker.com/post/39594794955Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:49:18 -0800Music ReviewsStrange and Beautiful<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3f660ff97258c347ff79bb96e541eff4/tumblr_mg2k9py9YD1qj1w7fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/unknown-mortal-orchestra-live-at-pygmalion-music-festival-2012">Unknown Mortal Orchestra Live at Pygmalion</a></p> <p>If you’re not already familiar with the squirrelly, high strung guitar noodles of New Zealand transplant Ruban Nielson after more than a year of rave reviews for the Unknown Mortal Orchestra debut album, go ahead and put this <a href="http://www.rbmaradio.com/shows/unknown-mortal-orchestra-live-at-pygmalion-music-festival-2012">LIVE SET</a> in your pipe and smoke it.</p> <p>The whimsical, motif bending psychedelia is a whole nother beast live as devout audiences have discovered. With bass player Jake Portrait (a renowned producer in his own right) and lock tight drummer Julien Enrlich, UMO is poised to drop their sophomore effort “ii” in February.</p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/39594163023http://evolvesticker.com/post/39594163023Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:41:46 -0800Music Reviews<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4243430003cde8e0ea1af53c8a816758/tumblr_mfd01qPwKi1qj1w7fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><h2>STALKING DIXIE</h2> <p>From Sick Minds and terribly funny hearts come the story of a hard luck Hollywood actress and her obsessive Stalker, Neil Flamengame.</p> <p>For now, a webseries. Come January, a film.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RvO2qnEGUGw" width="560"></iframe></p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/713IW8YjHh0" width="560"></iframe></p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/C0EhyRhxzvU" width="560"></iframe></p> <p>Terribly, terribly disturbing.</p> <p>For more visit <a href="http://www.stalkingdixie.com">www.stalkingdixie.com</a></p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/38431537191http://evolvesticker.com/post/38431537191Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:25:00 -0800Strange and BeautifulStalking Dixie<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/01b3fd80a0efef1520e20e9ad8f25427/tumblr_mfczrcHlkj1qj1w7fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><h2>Ghost-“Secular Haze”</h2> <p>I had the curious fortune of seeing these Scandinavian devil worshipers and their incense burning, incantation spewing, groove metal black mass during the Opeth/Mastodon tour this year.</p> <p>Everything darkly appealing about metal and its outsider stance becomes evident in this one band that seems intent on using the well-crafted appearance of Satan worshiping ghouls in an attempt to weed the sensitive and too-serious from their shows.</p> <p>Which is why I felt comfortable enough giving their fan outreach collective “The Clergy” my email and why, while unnerved by the message thanking me for “my offering,” felt generally optimistic.</p> <p>Then like a hot charcoal briquette shot right out of the devil’s ass onto a bound and naked BDSM maven’s exposed chest, they hurled this gem at me email.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F72001875" width="100%"></iframe></p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/38431032872http://evolvesticker.com/post/38431032872Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:18:48 -0800Music Reviews<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9983d3d4245be07dc48bf9b791604a99/tumblr_mfczglZeTE1qj1w7fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><h2>We Know What You Mean, Man</h2> <p>The twisted and probing musings of world-traveled, Scot born, Los Angeles infected fiction and essayist <a href="http://rossgardinersblog.wordpress.com/">Ross Gardiner</a>.</p> <p>With a Joycean talent for the discipline of observant silence  and a churlish wit that encompasses the broadly idiosyncratic meat and potatoes fiber of LA, Gardiner’s adopted home becomes a sandbox of depravity, cruel banality and the subtly macabre.</p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/38430523956http://evolvesticker.com/post/38430523956Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:12:21 -0800Strange and Beautiful<iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F70879936"></iframe><br/><br/><h2>How To Destroy Angels Remixes</h2> <p>After a couple decades in musical servitude perhaps Trent Reznor has found the mantra “Trying To Find Myself, But Myself Keeps Slipping Away” is no longer useful or relevant.</p> <p>Notes of affection and a deep seated love color How To Destroy Angels, Reznor’s side project with wife Mariqueen Maandig, fellow Oscar winner Atticus Ross and long time cohort Rob Sheridan.</p> <p>The Deadmau5 look at “Ice Age” is also worth a couple slow passes over the ear drums as you sip Kahlua and pray for the apocalypse.</p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/38429690460http://evolvesticker.com/post/38429690460Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:01:50 -0800Strange and BeautifulMusic Reviews<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5c249552d139351e0406635db88e84b0/tumblr_mf924delAu1r2za3do1_r2_250.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1b2dd4692bcaa8ca6d62dacd55d43ab3/tumblr_mf924delAu1r2za3do2_r2_250.jpg"/><br/> <br/>http://evolvesticker.com/post/38320884578http://evolvesticker.com/post/38320884578Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:51:20 -0800Strange and BeautifulMike Patton<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XgIWn4GiDO0?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Jello Biafra</h2> <p>Hellburbia and some thoughts on the insane culture that brought us Columbine</p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/38320511649http://evolvesticker.com/post/38320511649Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:45:38 -0800Strange and BeautifulPhilosophy<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Gw8LPn4irao?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Slavoj Zizek</h2> <p>Living In The End Times</p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/38320421875http://evolvesticker.com/post/38320421875Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:44:15 -0800PhilosophyStrange and Beautiful<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/720Kx3NdDig?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><h2>Deleuze and Guattari</h2> <p>Anti Oedipus/A Thousand Plateaus</p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/38250858626http://evolvesticker.com/post/38250858626Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:42:21 -0800Strange and BeautifulPhilosophy<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1e56c7290cf29aed12392c053a1e7a17/tumblr_memwpgZUwx1qj1w7fo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>The only thing you ever need to know about Evolve Sticker.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3R8jPSijVsg" width="420"></iframe></p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/37365846513http://evolvesticker.com/post/37365846513Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:15:15 -0800PhilosophySticker<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md74u2LSE91r3a6jho1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://evolvesticker.com/post/37145712838http://evolvesticker.com/post/37145712838Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:59:04 -0800Strange and Beautiful<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me6ie0OktL1qj1w7fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://youtu.be/Ht7kTC7_SjM">MESHUGGAH</a> </p> <p>The feeding frenzy of my starving soul</p> <p>Gnawing voraciously at the bones</p> <p>The exo-skeletal patchwork protecting my own reflection within</p> <p>The twin and same engaged in the mirrored act of chewing away</p> <p>At the shell of my attacking self, the paradox unseen</p> <p>Treacherous this deceit to make no choice matter</p> <p>To have and yet lose yourself</p> <p>Until finally all reasons why are forgotten</p> <p>To live through one’s own shadow</p> <p>Mute and blinded is to really see</p> <p>Eclipse the Golden mirror and the reflection is set free.</p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/36715673426http://evolvesticker.com/post/36715673426Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:44:24 -0800BatemanMeshuggah<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me6i0zMmPa1qj1w7fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>From the brooding to the serenely atmospheric, newly minted Los Angeles electro imprint <a href="http://halocyan.com/">HALOCYAN</a> is fronting a showcase this Thursday at Medusa Lounge.</p> <p>The dark alleys and broad expanses that lurk and explode behind the conventions of mainstream house are open for all to see. </p> <p>From the UK: Untold.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VcqOk5gArXE" width="560"></iframe></p> <p>From LA: <a href="http://quitmumbling.com/2012/08/john-tejada-the-predicting-machine/">John Tejada</a></p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7reckcAgQL8?list=UUO8kPhuIvah-r0OBjmsNAJw&hl=en_US" width="560"></iframe></p> <p>From South Florida: Sumsun</p> <p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F28629747&show_artwork=true" width="100%"></iframe></p> <p>From the nether regions of LA Witchstep: WMX</p> <p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F19774191&show_artwork=true" width="100%"></iframe></p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/36715106266http://evolvesticker.com/post/36715106266Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:36:35 -0800Music ReviewsAlternative Electro<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me4ruruuZs1qj1w7fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://evolvesticker.com/post/36648434442http://evolvesticker.com/post/36648434442Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:13:39 -0800Strange and Beautiful<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdrn8h9QWb1qcwhbgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Trophies - India, 1880 by John Burke</p>http://evolvesticker.com/post/36597890220http://evolvesticker.com/post/36597890220Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:06:03 -0800Strange and BeautifulMoribund<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me232tJjDm1qj1w7fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><div><object height="480" width="480"><param name="movie" value="//www.mixcloud.com/media/swf/player/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2FEvolveSticker%2Fthe-spider-in-my-ear-djs-every-sunday%2F&embed_uuid=d5e662f9-3647-4125-b012-e84f7105ae6c&stylecolor=&embed_type=widget_standard"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="opaque"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></object> <div></div> <p><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/EvolveSticker/the-spider-in-my-ear-djs-every-sunday/?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=base_links&utm_term=resource_link" target="_blank">The Spider In My Ear DJs Every Sunday</a><span> by </span><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/EvolveSticker/?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=base_links&utm_term=profile_link" target="_blank">Evolvesticker</a><span> on </span><a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=base_links&utm_term=homepage_link" target="_blank"> Mixcloud</a></p> <div></div> </div> <h2>Happy Sunday from foggy Downtown Los Angeles</h2>http://evolvesticker.com/post/36524076830http://evolvesticker.com/post/36524076830Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:23:16 -0800MixesLos AngelesEclectic