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[TY'S TUNES] Faust "The Sad Skinhead"

[TY'S TUNES] Faust “The Sad Skinhead”

“Ty’s Tunes” is our new weekly column from Ty Segall, musician, cat-father, and future President of the Universe. Each week Ty will put you on to a song you HAVE to know about to make your life feel complete (unless you’ve already heard it, in which case congratulations you’re cooler than us. Here’s a cookie)....
[TRUE STORY] I Got Dumped And Then Went To A Danny Brown Concert

[TRUE STORY] I Got Dumped And Then Went To A Danny Brown Concert

(photo by Sara Nataf) Being a girl at a Danny Brown concert is rough. The day after his show in New York, all I kept reading about was how the world was clutching its collective pearls over the crowd chanting “Suck his dick” at Kitty Pryde during her set. I was there. Let’s talk through...
[CULT TALK] King Dude On Love, Axl Rose, and Old Music

[CULT TALK] King Dude On Love, Axl Rose, and Old Music

Here at Cultist, we have two official rules in our very unofficial rule book. 1) Only write flattery about people/music/artists/bands we genuinely love (unless it’s hate mail). 2) Always tell a person/musician/artist/band exactly what fanatical stalkers we are of he or she/what he or she does. This is how we preserve the integrity and utter...
[FOMO-GRAPHS & MINI CULT TALK] Bleached Gets Kissaulted At The Troubador

[FOMO-GRAPHS & MINI CULT TALK] Bleached Gets Kissaulted At The Troubador

Bleached played the Troubador the other night for the final date of their national tour in support of their extra-excellent debut album Ride Your Heart, and in short,  it was the best (I am a talented and multifaceted writer). It could be argued that I am a tad bit biased, as lead singer Jennifer Clavin...
[FOMO-GRAPHS] Criminal Hygiene, Zig Zags, And Bad Antics At The Bootleg

[FOMO-GRAPHS] Criminal Hygiene, Zig Zags, And Bad Antics At The Bootleg

I’m bad at show reviews (and also at hard-boiling eggs, but that’s neither here nor there) so I’ll just say that the first night of the Criminal Hygiene residency presented by Cultist and KXLU was a rousing success, if evidenced only by the fact that a higher-than-normal amount of people left their credit cards and...
[BEST SONG EVER] Bleached "Outta My Mind"

[BEST SONG EVER] Bleached “Outta My Mind”

All of my friends think it’s really weird that every song I like is about either heartbreak or break-ups or loving someone so much you have to murder them to put your heart at ease, because I’m in a pretty bormal (that’s boring + normal) relationship, and I don’t have much to be bummed about...
[TY'S TUNES] Randy Holden "Guitar Song"

[TY'S TUNES] Randy Holden “Guitar Song”

“Ty’s Tunes” is our new weekly column from Ty Segall, musician, cat-father, and future President of the Universe. Each week Ty will put you on to a song you HAVE to know about to make your life feel complete (unless you’ve already heard it, in which case congratulations you’re cooler than us. Here’s a cookie)....
[CULT TALK] An Imaginary Conversation With Criminal Hygiene

[CULT TALK] An Imaginary Conversation With Criminal Hygiene

As you already know because you’re currently reading this post on your smart phone in your spot in line outside the venue, we’re putting on night one of the Criminal Hygiene residency tonight at the Bootleg Theater along with Zig Zags, Bad Antics, and DJ sets by Blaque Chris and yours truly. I was so...
[CULT TALK] The Shrine on Unity, Balsamic Dressing, and Tourette Syndrome

[CULT TALK] The Shrine on Unity, Balsamic Dressing, and Tourette Syndrome

Interview and photos by Klaus It wouldn’t be fair to try and describe The Shrine by wedging them into an onomatopoeic sub-category (e.g. fuzz soaked, synthy echo-pop with sizzling punk roots), or to pinhole them by mashing together examples of pre-existing names in music history (like if the Ramones dropped a vile of acid and...
[CULT TALK] Mac DeMarco On Taco Bell, Disney Princesses, And Coldplay

[CULT TALK] Mac DeMarco On Taco Bell, Disney Princesses, And Coldplay

(All photos by Alexander Uhrich) Mac DeMarco is a simple man. He likes cigarettes, instant coffee, and denim clothing, but despite popular thought to the contrary, he does not particularly like smoking weed. Mac is the kind of guy who will headline a sold-out show at The Echoplex, then come to the after-party you invite...
[BEST VIDEO EVER] Major Lazer "Get Free"

[BEST VIDEO EVER] Major Lazer “Get Free”

Holy Caribbean Vacation Fantasy. I’ll have you know, I am bootie-shaking and gyrating and letting out little gutteral moans as I write this. Like, right now. In the middle of my office. Bootie shaking and doing the butterfly and also googling places to get hair-wraps in Los Angeles, since I can’t afford a plane ticket...
[COOL SHOW BRO] Episode 1: Awesome, Texas With Audacity And Pangea

[COOL SHOW BRO] Episode 1: Awesome, Texas With Audacity And Pangea

If there was a Webby for timeliness (actually there might be, I really have no idea what the fuck the Webbies entail) we here at Cultist would certainly sweep the category. In keeping with our devotion to getting content up extremely quickly, here is the first episode of our new Internet television program, Cool Show...