Food and Music Pairing - Nosaj Thing

SPECIAL KXSC FEST EDITION!

Nosaj Thing - Drift

is best enjoyed with...

Sushi

Nosaj Thing's music is as much about the negative space as it is about the sounds within it. Instead of a continuous stream of information being thrown your way, sparse instrumentation and moments of intense heaviness are the focus. So with eating sushi. You don't shovel it in bite after bite--you take the time to enjoy each morsel, you savor the force behind little bits of wasabi, and you pause and reflect on a food as much about presentation as it is about its few ingredients. (Unless, of course, it's happy hour, but that's a whole 'notha world of food consumption.)

Consider getting sushi to accompany one of our headliners this Saturday at KXSC Fest, or enjoy the selection of incredible food trucks that will also be present. Just make sure you're there. Do you want to be the only one of your friends who misses this amazing, totally free festival? Nigiri, please.

Food and Music Pairing - Psycroptic

Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression

is best enjoyed with...

Spicy Szechuan beef with chow mein.

It's not because the album has Chinese influences (it totally doesn't), and it's not because the cover art kinda makes me want to attach a feed bag to my head (it totally does). But furious music goes great with furious food, so it makes sense that you should find the hottest Szechuan cuisine possible to fuel your stomach with the anger and energy of Psycroptic's new release. As for the chow mein? The undeniably noodly riffs would accept nothing but. Plus, you can always pretend it's worms. Eating worms is pretty damn metal.

Robot's Roundup

What you should be listening to:

Friends College Radio Sampler

It's fun. It will make you happy. It will get stuck in your head. Check out the track "Friend Crush."

What you should watch:

Just a brilliant treasure found in dedicated Nirvana fandom.

Where you should be:

Inside watching movies and playing video games and/or singing and dancing in the rain a la Gene Kelly because it is finally raining in Los Angeles.

What you should know:

You all probably know this, but we want to show our love. Rest in peace, Etta James. We will miss you.

Igor Stravinsky- Firebird

Something a bit different... we haven't covered too much classical music on this blog, so here's something to get into.  I'm only posting a few songs, but get a hold of the entire piece if you can.  Quite beautiful. Infernal Dance of All Kastchei's Subjects Disappearance of Kastchei's Palace and Magical Creations go buy this

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