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Feb 022012
 
The Music+Moxie Interview: Johnny Otto

In the third installment of Project Culture Cred we talked to indie film-maker and enfant terrible Johnny Otto. Johnny has long held a special place in our hearts as the mad genius who gave us the Slimdunce: 7 movies in 7 days short film series that forever changed our lives. When we started project culture cred, we knew we needed this Woody Allen meets Tim Burton meets David Lynch character to speak with us if we wanted to ensure our ‘cred’ in ‘culture cred’ had any real, well, cred.

Nov 212011
 
FILTER gives us Tom Waits, Black Keys, Lana Del Rey and David Lynch for the Holidays

As far as Your Girl In Music is concerned FILTER is THE Music and Culture Mag, period. SPIN and Rolling Stone’s edges dulled about 30 years ago but FILTER stays sharp and their holiday issue is no exception. As an awesome gift to their readership, FILTER Magazine goes under the hat with Tom Waits in [...]

Nov 212011
 
Jason Segel: Muppet Savior

In all fairness I stole this headline from another writer whom I and my brother, The ORIGINAL Awesome Jeff, concur clearly had to have been channeling me to have concocted in the first place.  At any rate, after the myriad awesome viral spoof trailers, clip teases and pre-release appearances the Muppets big Hollywood return is [...]

Oct 172011
 
Behind the Scenes: Bringing Burton's World to Life @ LACMA

This week LACMA presents a conversation among key Burton collaborators moderated by Ron Magliozzi, associate curator, MoMA Department of Film and co-organizer of the Tim Burton exhibition. Academy Award–nominated composer Danny Elfman, Academy Award–winning costume designer Colleen Atwood, and Academy Award–winning art director, sculptor, installation designer, and production designer Rick Heinrichs discuss their work bringing [...]

Oct 172011
 
Muppets Soundtrack has it all - even FOTC's Bret McKenzie

It’s time to play the music…it’s time to light the lights… Kermit, Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and the entire beloved Muppet gang are all back and in top form in the soundtrack for their latest big-screen adventure “The Muppets.” Featuring original songs from Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie, Muppe-fied covers of pop hits and [...]

Sep 262011
 
Set Times for FILTER Magazine's Culture Collide announced!

In just over a week FILTER Magazine’s second annual Culture Collide festival will take over Echo Park with performances by artists from 24 countries. Today the “Good Music Will Prevail” rockstars of FILTER Magazine revealed set times. The schedule kicks off at 5:00 pm on Thursday, Oct. 6 closing at midnight on Sunday, Oct. 9.

Sep 222011
 
Tix Giveaway!! Andy Clockwise with Useless Keys at the Roxy TONIGHT!

Clockwise makes even ‘faking cool’ LA audiences (gasp!) dance, move and you know, otherwise indicate they are aware live music is being performed in their presence and they don’t totally hate it.