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L.A. RECORD is an independent music magazine published weekly as a broadsheet poster. The poster usually depicts a local Los Angeles musicians and according to the magazine editors is meant to recreate an iconic album cover. The magazine is available to the public free of charge at local community spots in Southern California.

History
The magazine was founded in 2005 by promoter Sean Carlson, photographer Dan Monick, publisher Charlie Rose (not the television personality) and writer and DJ Chris Ziegler. It is known for interviewing many local LA bands before they become popular in the mainstream including the Cold War Kids, Health, Flying Lotus, Moonrats, Pocahaunted, and Blank Blue.

L.A. RECORD finished Volume One after 29 issues, running from August 2005 with the Rolling Blackouts as the [|New York Dolls], to March 2006 with Melvins collaborator and solo artist David Scott Stone as Thurston Moore on Sonic Youth’s “Starpower” single. Volume Two was also a weekly broadsheet and ran from February 2007 (with Big Business as Cheap Trick) to December 2007 with AntiMC as Soft Cell on the cover. After 75 weekly broadsheets, L.A. RECORD began publishing as a monthly magazine with a centerfold poster in March 2008. Volume 3 began with Pocahaunted and BARR and concluded with the Happy Hollows and Carlos Nino and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson recreating a Ravi Shankar album. Volume 4 began in March 2010 with Acid Circus and Miranda July as Nico and concluded with the Soft Pack.

In July of 2010, L.A. RECORD sponsored the L.A. RECORD 100, a month-long music and art festival whose proceeds benefited a Cal Arts program that endows Los Angeles Unified Public Schools with music and arts education funding and qualified educators The festival was launched in honor of L.A. RECORD's 100th issue, and included Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Pocahaunted, Pearl Harbor, Au Revoir Simone, and T Model Ford among its participants.

The Magazine
Each one-page issue contains an interview with a musician from Los Angeles that is featured on the cover. There is also an interview with a visiting band on tour, and other reviews or previews of local music, art, film, comedy and entertainment events.

The month-long format expanded to include art, record reviews, and L.A. Leaf, a review of the product available at local marijuana dispensaries.

The magazine is also known to release vinyl 45 demos, the first one was released in 2007. The single on the album was noted by Pitchfork's Guest List as one of the best of 2007.

L.A RECORD also conducted the last known interview with Isaac Hayes.

In addition to conducting interviews with little-known local bands, the magazine has also interviewed internationally known cultural figures such as Henry Rollins, the Bird and the Bee , Brian Wilson and Kim Fowley.

External link

 * LA Record Official site
 * Sample of Magazine

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