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Editorial

Aug 26, 2014

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It was way back in 2002 but I vividly recall driving from my home in Silver Lake to the Giant Robot garage off Sawtelle, listening to KXLU, and hearing what sounded like vintage garage rock from Cambodia. The LMU station is rightfully famous for championing all sorts of great punk rock, post punk, and noise...

Editorial

Nov 26, 2013

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Beck Hansen has always been an artistic oddity as much a musical chameleon. He writes songs that are both critically acclaimed and loved by the music-loving masses and then changes styles on a dime. Popularizing sounds as quickly as he ditches them, Beck not only challenges his audience's ears but his own creative limits--not to...