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Tonight, Swedish songstress Lykke Li brings her wounded rhymes to the Amoeba stage for a live performance and album signing of her just-released sophomore LP.  Wounded Rhymes, according to a press release, is, “packed full of pounding, voodoo drums, girl group gang vocals, sparkling guitar lines, woozy keyboards, love unrequited, and hope re-ignited,” and features Lykke Li’s vocals doing a lot of the heavy lifting. 

Wounded Rhymes is the follow up to 2008’s critically-acclaimed debut, Youth Novels, and was produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn & John, and recorded in Stockholm, Sweden.

Lykke Li performs at 6 PM tonight at Amoeba Hollywood.  All Amoeba shows are FREE and all ages.  For more information, check out Amoeba’s Live Shows Page.

If you aren’t able to make tonight’s show, you can catch Lykke Li all over town this week as she promotes Wounded Rhymes.  Lykke Li headlines a sold-out show at the El Rey, Wednesday, March 9^th, and plays a FREE intimate poolside show for the Mondrian Sessions, Thursday, March 10^th.

Thursday’s Mondrian Sessions with Lykke Li takes place at Skybar inside the Mondrian Hotel; you must be 21+ to attend.  Show starts at 8 PM, and admission is FREE with RSVP, HERE.

Lykke Li’s newest LP, Wounded Rhymes, is available now from her own imprint, LL Recordings / Atlantic Records.

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It may still be winter, but the water’s just right.  The Mondrian Hotel, in conjunction with IAMSOUND Records, is kicking off a new season of their popular FREE poolside concert series, the Mondrian Sessions, starting tonight.  This season’s line-up includes Lykke Li, Zola Jesus, Dum Dum Girls, Fool’s Gold, and many more.  Due to high demand, sister-venue, the Clift Hotel in San Francisco, is also getting the concert series treatment, with the addition of the Clift Sessions this season.

The concert series opens with Francis & The Lights performing a solo piano show, poolside at Skybar in L.A., tonight (1/14), and in San Francisco at the Clift Hotel, tomorrow (1/15).  The full series line-up for both the Mondrian Sessions in L.A. and the Clift Sessions in San Francisco, are listed above.

Tonight’s L.A. event takes place at Skybar inside the Mondrian Hotel; you must be 21+ to attend.  Show starts at 8 PM, and admission is FREE with RSVP, HERE.

Tomorrow’s San Francisco event takes place at Velvet Room + Red Room inside the Clift Hotel; again, 21+ to attend.  Show starts at 9 PM, and admission is FREE with RSVP, HERE.

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L’Adventure is Los Angeles’ take on Television’s 1978 post-punk classic, Adventure, curated by L.A. music blog Aquarium Drunkard.  The track-by-track cover album features eight L.A. bands handpicked by Aquarium Drunkard’s Justin Gage, including Local Natives, The Deadly Syndrome, and Foreign Born.  Gage chose Adventure as source material for the compilation, because until now it has lived in the shadow of Television’s groundbreaking debut, Marquee Moon.  Well, it’s time for Adventure to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight! Read the rest of this entry →

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