Chordstruck Magazine

!!! (aka Chk Chk Chk) are back with a new album, new tour and new attitude. They’ve downsized band members and embraced the cliché that less is more without sacrificing quality or integrity. Strange Weather, Isn’t It?, the band’s fourth studio album, features more concise tunes. The topic of shorter tunes came about when front [...]

With more than 30 acts playing the 7th annual FYF Fest in Chinatown on Saturday, we’re betting there are some-or a lot-of artists you may not be familiar with. Fear not, we’ve scoured the trenches of YouTube and found these gems for you to familiarize yourself so days, weeks or years from now when you [...]

Somewhere within the unclassifiable, yet distinct blend of 60’s Psychedelic and 80’s New Wave influenced music, lives the distillation of Ariel Pink’s musical ambitions. The do-it-yourself Los Angeles artist has traded in his 500+ collection of cassette tapes he’s recorded since 1996 for worldwide buzz and notoriety among critics and fans. The retro pop stylings [...]

Unless you’re subletting space under your rock (cause it’s that huge-cue “That’s what she said” joke now), you’ve undoubtedly heard of FYF Fest hitting Chinatown this Saturday at Los Angeles State Historic Park. Starting at noon on September 4, you can enjoy 12 full hours of awesome music under the smoggy, beautiful skies of Chinatown. [...]

Thursday – so close, yet so far from the weekend.  Fortunately for you, dear readers, we’ve got a little good news and a little bad news to entertain you in between watching the clock count down to Happy Hour.  (That’s 1pm for you guys, too, right?) BAD NEWS:  At U2′s Moscow show, several activists and non-profit [...]