I'm not usually an Independence Day person. I like to grill and drink, but I don't approach it the same way I do, say, Christmas Eve (see: any of the past four years of drunken exploits) or my birthday. But I have to admit, this July 4th weekend was one of the best I've ever [...]
Last night Nic and I consumed what will inevitably go down as a top ten Los Angeles burger. The "Dry Age Burger" at Oaks Gourmet Market on the border of Hollywood and Los Feliz is quite good. Theirs is (obviously) dry-aged, topped with Taleggio cheese, smoked bacon and a sweet-tasting jalapeno-pineapple compote. I don't know if it will crack the top five, but it will be close. I still have at least three more hamburgers to taste that have won "Best of LA" honors on other blogs. Then I have to begin the process of re-eating most of the finalists [...]
• It's a miracle! A revelation! A new study shows that record labels have to - get this - lower music prices in order to increase profits. How come nobody has thought of that before? What a novel idea. People complain for, like, a decade that physical media is overpriced, and now "experts" have decided that the path to profit includes a decrease in price. Now, what are the odds that - when presented with the results of the study - anyone in the music industry is going to consider lowering prices. Don't bother guessing. It's [...]
Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's virtual milk crate contains Peter Rehberg & Dennis Cooper , Uton , and Koen Holtkamp . Peter Rehberg, who performs as Pita by his lonesome and as KTL with Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley, runs the sturdy Editions Mego. Moving between Vienna, Paris, and the UK (he was born in London), Rehberg's involved [...]
As I was driving down Los Feliz Blvd today in Atwater Village, I noticed behind me there was smoke rising up from an area in Griffith Park. Sure enough, by the time I left Best Buy the fire had spread, and a thick yellow cloud of smoke was stretching far into the afternoon sky. According to the news, it was the work of an arsonist. [ story ] Now I'm at Chango with Ilya, where yet another smoking hot girl just walked in to buy an iced coffee and use the restroom. She's a blond with over-sized sunglasses [...]
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