Category Archives: Music

#dtMusic: Will the real Lana Del Rey please stand up?

Lana looks like like Effie from UK Skins #justsaying

I came across Lana Del Rey on HYPE Machine tonight and found the situation she has herself in to be a very interesting one … according to the  UK Telegraph she only has two songs yet 1.5 million hits on YouTube and a controversial former history as a failed artist called Lizzy Grant which she admittedly re-habed into internet sensation “Lana Del Rey” with the help of a professional team.  Continue reading

#DTMusic: MUST see LA shows September 2011

September 3rd * F*ck Yah Fest at 1st and Main featuring Broken Social Scene, Cold War Kids, Simian Mobile Disco, Cults, Smith Westerns, Death From Above 1979, Explosions in the Sky Yacht, twin Sister, The Head and the Heart, Nosaj Thing, Chromatics, and many more.
September 8th * CULTS at Phillip Lim store on Robertson for Fashion’s Night Out
September 9th * Bassnectar
September 10th * The Kills at The Wiltern
September 13th * The Vaccines and Tennis at The Music Box
September 14th * Fleet Foxes and The Walkmen at the Greek Theater
September 21st * Twin Shadow at Troubadour
September 22nd * Two Door Cinema Club with Grouplove at The Wiltern
September 30th * Neon Indian, Com Truise, and Purity Ring at Troubadour
September 24th * Ladytron at the Wiltern
September 25th * TV On the Radio, Arctic Monkeys, Panda Bear, Warpaint, and Smith Westerns at the Hollywood Bowl
September 27th * Kaiser Chiefs at The Music Box
September 29th * Pepper Rabbit at the Echo

When Adele talks you listen… K thnx bye!

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The offish Hurricane Irene mix “Come On Irene” #theremix Part 1

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GIVE-AWAY: Beck, Lulu Gainsbourg, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sean Lennon perform Serge Gainsbourg Tribute at the Hollywood Bowl – 8/28/11

The Daily Truffle is very excited to give away 2 tickets to an amazing tribute this weekend featuring Serge’s son Lulu Gainsbourg, Beck, Sean Lennon & Charlotte Kemp Muhl (GOASTT) and more.

Paris native, 60s signer, married to Jane Birkin and father of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Serge Gainsbourg (1928 – 1991) was such a maverick singer/songwriter, it is said he cannot be categorize. From piano bars to painting to an affair with Birdget Bardot, his French crooning has captured the attention of the universe making him one of the most influential people in music to ever exist. If you think you don’t know his songs, guess again and listen to ‘Je T’aime, …Moi Non Plus‘ video below … Continue reading

#DTmusic: Which 2 popular performers at Hard Fest last night are brothers?

Quack Quack

#TruffleMath:

A-Trak + Armin Van Helden = Duck Sauce

Dave 1 + P-Thugg = Chromeo

A-Trak = Alain Macklovitch

Dave 1 = David Macklovitch

Alain + David = Brothers

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#DTMusic: MUST see LA shows August 2011

Aug 2nd 2011 • The Naked and Famous at The Music Box
Aug 3rd 2011 • Lykke Li and Best Coast at The Greek Theater
Aug 6th 2011 • Hard Summer Music Festival at the LA Coleseum featuring Ratatat, Chromeo, Skrillex, Boys Noize, Odd Future, Digitalism, James Murphy, Busy P, Duck Sauce, Destructo, Juan Maclean, Holy Ghost, Dj Mehdi, and many more!
Aug 9th 2011 • Deerhunter at the Wiltern
Aug 13th 2011 • Pacific Festival in OC at the Oak Canyon Ranch featuring Snoop Dogg, Calvin Harris, Cut Copy, Phantogram, !!!, Ghostland Observatory, Toro Y Moi, Classixx, Afroman, Black Lips, Fred Falke, and more.
Aug 27th 2011 • The Dodos at the Autry in Griffith Park
Aug 28th • Dum Dum Girls
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LA Natives Chris & Jamie Kantrowitz launch Gobbler, a way to let musicians collaborate over the Internet

LA Natives and brother/sister duo Chris & Jamie Kantrowitz cover the LA Times for their new start-up Gobbler, a company that lets musicians collaborate to create songs with each other anywhere there is an Internet connection. Read the story on the LA Times.

#DTMusic: MUST see LA shows July 2011

People always ask us at the Truffle for more music news! Well you asked and we listened! Here is our curated guide to shows this June 2011 in Los Angeles – hand picked by our in-house music aficionados Lauren Brokaw (Beverly High) Ingrid Chang (Harvard-Westlake) and Ethan Mark (Harvard Westlake) …

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Set-up for the Interscope, A+M, Geffen Records BET Awards After Party at Mr. Chow

How many sponsors can you fit in a party? Interscope, A+M, Geffen Records has a BET Awards after party at Mr. Chow last night in Beverly Hills with Ciroc (Puff Daddy’s vodka), Beats by Dre (Dr Dre’s headphone line), Verizon, Vibe magazine AND something called Creme of the Crop. Guests include: Jimmy Iovine, Snoop Dogg, Doll Phace, Ne-Yo, Toni Braxton, Too $hort, etc.