News & Notes: May 4

• The owner of the Century Plaza Hotel wants to tear it down and build two 50 story towers in its place. Ruh roh.
  

• Stew will be a guest on Off Ramp (KPCC/NPR) this week.

• Sure, all oil companies are evil, but I won't be buying Chevron gas anymore.

• This is very cool: Nyle's music video for "Let the Beat Build." The video was filmed in one take with the audio simultaneously being recorded with the filming. Thanks to Castledoor's twitter for the link.
  

Nyle "Let The Beat Build" from Nyle on Vimeo.

• Speaking of Castledoor, they have the June residency at Spaceland.

• Speaking of Twitter, I'm liking it more and more each day.