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July 8, 2010July 9, 2010

N.E.R.D. kick it with Clifford (so Team Jacob)

We’re finally, truly all caught up on two weeks of intense blogging for West Coast Sound. We’ve saved best for last — here’s the highlight reel expressly designed for your reading (and viewing, and listening) pleasure.

FEATURED: Can Yeasayer Save N*E*R*D from Totally Sucking?*
New Wavves Album, ‘King of the Beach,’ Streaming Now
MP3: ‘Simple Severin,’ by Echo Park Pop Stars Superhumanoids
Peanut Butter Wolf’s 5 Favorite Stones Throw LPs
OK Go Loses Drummer to the Muppets in Staring Contest

(all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)

* Can a Yeasayer RMX save the Virginia Beach-born, Hollywood-bred band from it’s nearly decade-long obsolescence? “Hot-N-Fun,” featuring Nelly Furtado, is neither of the things that its title suggests.

Live In LA: Yeasayer Plays Natural History Museum

February 9, 2010February 9, 2010

On Friday night, the five-man, living, breathing musical mash-up that is Brooklyn band Yeasayer came to town, and instead of playing to an audience of fashion-forward hippiesters at, say, the Echoplex, the group played to a mixed crowd of massive taxidermied animals and fashion-forward hippiesters at the Natural History Museum. I braved the wild scene on behalf of Spin.