Hit City Record Club

Hit City Record Club — Teenage Heartbreak, Cheap Beer & Fake IDs: How Cut Copy's 'In Ghost Colours' Shaped Cooper Saver’s Style

Today we introduce a new recurring feature called Hit City Record Club, in which our artists and friends tell us about one album that’s had a significant impact on their lives.

Here, one of our favorite Los Angeles DJs and producers Cooper Saver details how Cut Copy’s In Ghost Colours changed his life. In so doing, Cooper tells a familiar story with his own unique distinctions — channeling a formative age while explaining how that album helped define his musical taste and sense of self, as well as nudge him to get a fake ID and sneak into dance clubs. As he says, “I owe this record a lot.”

Conversation

'Sincerity is Not Thinking Too Much': Astronauts, etc. & the Sublime Photography of Ginger Fierstein

In advance of Astronauts, etc.'s Mind Out Wandering release this Friday, we asked band leader Anthony Ferraro to introduce us to the photographer behind his album's subtly evocative imagery. He sat down with Ginger Fierstein, who he met years ago around the Bay Area music scene, to discuss his friend's creative vision.

Postcard

Casual Adventure Awaits at South Fork Campground

It's with some reservation we share with you all one of our most frequented camping sites — South Fork Group Campground in Angeles National Forest. Located one and a half hours north of Los Angeles, this hidden valley retreat is a great personal favorite for easy weekend trips away from the city in a surprisingly lush portion of the Antelope Valley.

Interview

An Honest Account of Bizarre, New Fatherhood

As Kisses' Jesse Kivel and his wife (and bandmate) Zinzi Edmundson were waiting for their son to be born, the one piece of advice our co-founder Colin Stutz could offer the new dad was this: As much it might feel like the birth is an end to the pregnancy, it is only a beginning — and one none of us can really prepare for at that.

10 Records for $10: Dollar Bin Diving With Daniel.T. & Cooper Saver

The record store $1 bin is a bit of a paradox. The lure of cheap vinyl is undeniable, but one can't help but discredit and ignore it — if there was anything worthwhile in there, it wouldn't be on sale for just a buck, right? Not exactly. 

We recruited our good buddies Daniel.T. and Cooper Saver, a couple of our city's finest DJs, to find what gems might be found for a bargain. 

Los Angeles' Finest Single Screen Cinemas

Los Angeles is an embarrassment of riches with some of the greatest movie theaters in the world. Among those is a special type of cinema slowly vanishing in the era of the multiplex: the single screen theater. These are a rarity worth celebrating, and celebrate them we shall. Our friend Arms Race recently took a tour of the cities finest single screen cinemas, read more after the jump.

Living a Dream: Silver Lake’s Whitewashed Motel

French artist Vincent Lamouroux has pulled a disappearing trick with a blighted Silver Lake motel, replacing it with an open canvas for California dreaming. 

Lamouroux's new art installment is a whitewashing of the dilapidated Sunset Pacific Motel on Sunset Boulevard he calls Projection that's attracted the area's attention in creating a hulking mass of negative space open for individual interpretation.