Go see Crystal Stilits and Moving Units at the LA Natural History Museum this Friday!

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Moving Units This Friday, Los Angeles-based Moving Units and Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts will perform as part of the continuing “First Fridays” series of musical performances at The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Moving Units is a dramatic, glamorous synthrock band fresh from Coachella and a recent venture with TOMS shoes , while Crystal

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A Special New Band: Pavement

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So, okay, they aren’t exactly new, but it is hard to argue that Pavement isn’t special. Sure, as a 22- year-old I can’t claim I’d been there or participated when they first came around. I’d never heard of Pavement until my sophomore year of high school in 2005, six years and several solo projects after

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Zooey Deschanel and Charlotte Gainsbourg venture into the desert, leaving their places in Hollywood for the taking. *

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(*A work of fiction by Nick Juarez) With the addition of She and Him and Charlotte Gainsbourg to the lineup, Coachella appears as if it is being taken over by Hollywood. Although this isn’t at all old news, I’ve been noticing a trend in cute-as-a-button female actresses moving into the indie music spotlight. Zooey Deschanel

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