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Live: Wavves and Best Coast Thrash for Love

Nathan Williams shreds from the crowd. (Andrew Herrold)

The totally freaking awesome Wavves and Best Coast co-headlining tour hits Los Angeles tonight at the Music Box. I had the pleasure of trucking down to San Diego to cover the first night of the thing back in January. You should go to this. Really. Read why via Spin.

Also, hop over to LA Weekly to download a new, free Wavves song about how much the dude loves his TV. We didn’t dub him “King Skinny Shitster” for nathan. Er, nothin’. Put down the bong, Miley …

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Feature: Godspeed You! Black Emperor Saves Us from Glenn Beck, Endears Us to Doom

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, armed for the coming battle.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor are performing tonight (Wednesday) at the Music Box. Sneak in if you don’t already have tix. This was a fun one to write. Part essay, part report on the state of post-rock’s greatest band. Plus, everyone’s favorite arch-conservative blowhard, Glenn Beck, makes a cameo. What more could you want out of an alt-weekly article?

Read: With Godspeed on Our Side (via LA Weekly)

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Review: Joke Rap? Toke Rap? Coke Rap? Das Racist Picks Up a Belated A.V. Club Nod

Das Racist. Jokes? They got them. Sit Down, Man.

I may live to regret all the positive ink I’ve spilled on rap’s Brooklyn-based red-headed step children, Das Racist, but then again, there’s always the chance that I’ll die from laughter first while listening to one of their mixtapes. Here’s a doubly belated review of Sit Down, Man, part of the A.V. Club’s “Sorry We Missed Ya” catchup coverage. Catch up, man.

“… the two weave a complex word-web out of references to a villain from The Smurfs, a song by The Vapors, the star of The Mummy, and suicide being a largely Caucasian phenomenon, before dropping a Sister Sledge-jacking chorus …”

Huh? You should read it. Yeah, you should probably read it.

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Justin Bieber Rape Faux Pas, CSI Death

Bieber dies (on CSI) for our sins.

This was a slutty post to begin with (journalistically speaking), so I’m going to blog it again here while she’s still got some legs. Bieber-bashing. At least it gets the comments section rolling. Take, for instance, this guy — main bro to Terri Schiavo and Mama Teresa. Out of the woodwork we come:

Did Justin Bieber Really Tell Rolling Stone Rape ‘Happens for a Reason?’

Watch the little guy get shot up after the jump, just cuz.

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Funny Ha Ha Cameos on Golf Wang (OFWGKTA)

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Shamelessness in profile.

[This blog used to be called Funny Ha Ha.] In a long series of pretty much solely self-indulgent posts, this might be rock bottom. But hey, I’m a fan as much as I’m a journalist, so this is me fanning out. The above shot was taken by Taco at Odd Future’s Low End Theory show last year (October?). That’s Left Brain on the left, and Tyler’s right eye on the right. More pictures from that night here, on the excellent Golf Wang photo Tumblr. Better shot from December below:

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Review: Local Natives’ Debut LP Gets Some Last Minute Love from the A.V. Club

Your head may explode too when you hear 'Gorilla Manor'.

Every year, The A.V. Club rounds up a handful of the albums they skipped over in the preceding 12 months in an attempt to make good, critically speaking. It’s a fun feature — a “sorry we missed you” of sorts — that gives the writers a chance to repitch the records that kept us going through the hard times (like, say, when we had to review Black Eyed Peas’ new one).

Here’s a snippet of my digi-ink on Local Natives’ Gorilla Manor:

At first, L.A.’s Local Natives just looked like a West Coast response to others’ great ideas—a sun-baked indie mash-up as potentially unsatisfying as the raw vegan snack that description makes it sound like …

Uh-oh. Could go anywhere from there. Read more via The A.V. Club.

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Q&A: Tearist Singer Yasmine Kittles Talks About Her New Movie, Side Boob, and Faux Jew Status

Kittles: neither fully nude nor fully Jewish in 'All American Orgy' (Peter McCabe)

She sings in Tearist. She co-stars in All American Orgy. She lives a few doors down from me. Ladies and gentlemen, meet triple-threat Yasmine Kittles. My neighbor and your future audio/visual obsession sat down to talk about the new indie flick she’s in, formerly known as Cummings Farm and now strapped with the incredibly cheap aforementioned title. It is, in truth, a movie about an orgy (or an attempt, at least), but All American Orgy has a lot more going on. Let Kittles tell it (via LA Weekly).

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Besto 2010: Flying Lotus and Wavves in the A.V. Club’s Top 25 LPs (Plus, Funny Ha Ha’s Faves)

Wavves and Flying Lotus come in at #s 15 and 22

We here at Funny Ha Ha are counting on 2011 reasons that this brand new year will be even better than the last, musically speaking, but it’s still fun to look back. The A.V. Club recently posted its Top 25 albums of the year and yours truly wrote on two greats hailing from (usually) sunny Southern California — Flying Lotus’ Cosmogramma, and Wavves’ King of the Beach. Dig into the entire list here, and when you’re done, you can check out my full ballot (which contributed to the democratically derived rankings of the main list), including blurbs on Warpaint, Glasser and Tyler the Creator.

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