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Justice at Santa Barbara Bowl: Disco Church
Janky Smooth Central Command
May 27, 2025
The rural hills of Santa Barbara received a much-needed disco disruption in the form of Justice performing at the SB Bowl for their Hyperdrama North American tour. Since their inception with 2007’s Cross, French DJ duo Justice have broken the mold of what electronic music should be, reinventing themselves and the genre each time they release an album. 2024’s Hyperdrama follows in the band’s rich tradition of innovation and boundary-pushing, all while staying cool and lowkey about it. Hyperdrama features appearances from Tame Impala and Miguel, adding dashes of psychedelic rock and R&B to an already expansive sound. Justice, unlike other electronic groups, aren’t committed to simply blending electronic music with rock or industrial or disco, like they were once notorious for with songs like “Stress.” Justice’s M.O. is much bigger—to cover the entire musical landscape through the Justice lens, which amplifies the power, tension, and release of songs while making them headbanging anthems audiences can dance the night away to. related content: Stone Age Swagger: Queens of the Stone Age at SB Bowl A Justice show is a communal experience. Every time the duo plays “We Are Your Friends” on loop, audiences grow closer together around the group. And though
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Stayin’ Alive: Giorgio Moroder’s 78th Birthday At The Globe Theater
Robert Cohen
May 8, 2018
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about who we become as we grow older. For all the hype the vitality of youth gets in our society, the shedding of the layers of bullshit that age affords people of all ranks is equally liberating and deserves its time in the sun as more than an ad for adult diapers or awful late-career DeNiro movie (I’m looking at you Dirty Grandpa). In many ways, this sentiment got its day at Giorgio’s Birthday Celebration at The Globe Thursday before last, with a fascinatingly disparate group of musicians who’re tied together by the knowledge that life is short, so you might as well be yourself. related content: Cloak & Dagger Fest: The Heart Of Los Angeles Bled From Dusk Till Dawn Kicking things off was the token millennial band of the night, Portland-based YACHT. As much as an admitted antipathy I’ve had for their music in the past, they managed to make a believer out of me when it finally clicked early on that the intermittently shitty indie-pop that I thought they were peddling is actually a rather clever satire on bands that are so focused on being “cool,” that they
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