Saturday 08.11.07: LUTHER RUSSELL

Luther Russell || Listen

“Luther Russell displayed the maturity to turn one of the most heartbreaking situations of his life into the greatest artistic success of his musical career. The former frontman of The Freewheelers wrote his fourth solo album, Repair, in the midst of a troubled divorce from his wife. To escape the torturous thought of remaining near to the site of tragedy, Russell moved back to his hometown of Los Angeles. While there, he had sudden thoughts of discontinuing his blossoming music career due to stress and emotional distraction. Though Russell was reluctant to once again becoming musically active, he decided to turn is rampant emotions of sorrow into the form of song. The result of endless hours of recording was Repair, Russell’s fourth album and his best one yet. To Russell, it was more than just another album. It was symbolic of moving on while continuing to pursue personal hobbies. Though it is a break from his more ambitious expenditures, Repair showcases Russell at his most natural and straightforward, resulting in songs that are both catchy and highly memorable. ” – Obscure Sound

with:
Sarabeth Tucek
Magic Mirror

8:30pm / $7 / 18+

Thursday 08.16.07: Spaceland Productions presents – THE BLACK PINE @ Pershing Square

The Dept. of LA Parks and Recreation & Spaceland Productions present:

The Black Pine || Listen

“Guitar chords come out of ether, grow into an incessant chord progression, and suddenly duet vocals, or electric piano, sometimes a lush section of strings blooms from sparse beginnings. The Black Pine shows patience and measured angst with an emotional vocab that most bands this side of the Atlantic just cant master. Dark songwriting that doesnt aspire to goth, and the ability to conjure deep sadness without gettin emo on everyone, makes the Black Pine a rare species these days.” – LA Alternative

with:
Princeton || Listen

at:
Pershing Square
532 South Olive Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

FMI:
Spaceland Thursdays at Pershing Square
Pershing Square Info

8pm / FREE / All Ages / Outdoors

Thursday 08.09.07: Spaceland Productions presents – THE MOON UPSTAIRS @ Pershing Square

The Dept. of LA Parks and Recreation & Spaceland Productions present:

The Moon Upstairs || Listen

“Singer/guitarist/keyboardist Sharif Dumani and bassist Aaron Ebensperger had both toured and collaborated with rock ‘n’ roll soul man Cody Chesnutt a few years back and eventually made the Moon Upstairs their full-time project along with guitarist Mark Sogomian, drummer Josh Mancell, and the newest member keyboardist/guitarist Dave Baine. Inspired by the sounds of George Harrison, Pink Floyd and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, the music of the Moon Upstairs is both organic and atmospheric.” – Bio

with:
Saint Motel

at:
Pershing Square
532 South Olive Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

FMI:
Spaceland Thursdays at Pershing Square
Pershing Square Info

8pm / FREE / All Ages / Outdoors

Thursday 08.02.07: Spaceland Productions presents – THE SECTION QUARTET @ Pershing Square

The Dept. of LA Parks and Recreation & Spaceland Productions present:

The Section Quartet || Listen

The section quartet consists of two violins, a viola, and a cello, but please don’t call it a string quartet. “We’re a rock band,” insists first violinist, arranger, and founder Eric Gorfain, allowing, however, that “we’re playing classical instruments and we’re classically trained, so we kind of straddle the line.” Cellist Richard Dodd is less willing to compromise. “We play electrified instruments, really hard and loud, like a band,” he says. “I try to play with very little vibrato, and I get a solid bite into the string all the time. It’s a very aggressive style that probably wouldn’t go over too well with many orchestras.” – Strings Magazine

with:
The Minor Canon || Listen

at:
Pershing Square
532 South Olive Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

FMI:
Spaceland Thursdays at Pershing Square
Pershing Square Info

8pm / FREE / All Ages / Outdoors

Thursday 07.26.07: Spaceland Productions presents – BODIES OF WATER @ Pershing Square

The Dept. of LA Parks and Recreation & Spaceland Productions present:

Bodies of Water || Listen

“Bodies of Water prides itself on being as natural in its aesthetic and sound as its name portrays. Songs of joy, songs of pain, but mostly just good old fashioned testimonial songwriting. And if there’s a religiosity to the band’s songs it seems to be more than just the trappings of a bunch of indie rock kids trying to play gospel. When they say that a divine hand moves us in ways we can’t understand, it ain’t ironic. And when they squeal together in upward spiraling melody mountains, it sounds like truth seeking, not posturing.” – LA Alternative

with:
Miniature Tigers

at:
Pershing Square
532 South Olive Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

FMI:
Spaceland Thursdays at Pershing Square
Pershing Square Info

8pm / FREE / All Ages / Outdoors

Tuesday 07.31.07: Echo & Ass & Titties present – M.I.A. @ Echoplex

M.I.A. || Listen

“I have the most interesting record,” rapper-producer Maya “M.I.A” Arulpragasam told us recently. Now that Rock Daily had a chance to check out Kala (due August 12), we totally agree. For starters, the one Timbaland-produced cut (”Come Around”) is the most conventional track on the album. There are also bird calls, Indian drummers, rapping Aboriginal children and eerie glitch-and-grind beats that’d make Thom Yorke puke with envy. With M.I.A. spitting catchy rhymes and id-channeling reveries, the overall sound is something like a inimitable female MC collaborating with robots and ghosts in a jungle — thickly detailed electro-rap both primal and futuristic. – Rolling Stone

with:
Low B || Listen

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $20 / 18+

Monday 07.30.07: Echo & Ass & Titties present – M.I.A. @ Echoplex

M.I.A. || Listen

“I have the most interesting record,” rapper-producer Maya “M.I.A” Arulpragasam told us recently. Now that Rock Daily had a chance to check out Kala (due August 12), we totally agree. For starters, the one Timbaland-produced cut (”Come Around”) is the most conventional track on the album. There are also bird calls, Indian drummers, rapping Aboriginal children and eerie glitch-and-grind beats that’d make Thom Yorke puke with envy. With M.I.A. spitting catchy rhymes and id-channeling reveries, the overall sound is something like a inimitable female MC collaborating with robots and ghosts in a jungle — thickly detailed electro-rap both primal and futuristic. – Rolling Stone

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $20 / 18+

Saturday 09.15.07: THE NEW CHECK YO’ PONYTAIL vs. HANG THE DJS w/ VHS OR BETA

with:
VHS or Beta || Listen
Institubes || Listen
Protokoll || Listen
Walter Meego || Listen

9pm / $15 adv, $17 dos / 18+

Saturday 08.18.07: Echo & IHEARTCOMIX present – The New Check Yo’ Ponytail w/ DANDI WIND @ Echoplex

Dandi Wind
Passions
Bedtime For Toys || Listen

Plus Resident DJs:
Franki Chan
Paparazzi

@ The Echoplex
(Beneath the Echo)
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Main Entrance is Through the Alley

RSVP at Going.com to get in for FREE : http://losangeles.going.com/dandiwind

9pm / $10 / 18+

Saturday 08.04.07: CHECK YO’ PONYTAIL @ Echoplex

with:
Franki Chan
Paparazzi
Andee Frost (Australia)

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main entrance is through alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $5 / 18+

Thursday 07.19.07: LOW END THEORY @ Echoplex

Busdriver
P-Trix
K-The-1

Plus Resident DJs:
NOBODY [Rough Trade/Plug Research]
EDIT [Alpha Pup/Ghostly/Planet Mu]
THE GASLAMP KILLER [MHE]
DADDY KEV [Alpha Pup/Konkrete Jungle]

Plus:
Resident MC NOCANDO [Alpha Pup/Project Blowed]
Resident Artist MEAR ONE

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
http://www.myspace.com/lowendtheoryclub

10pm / $5 / 18+

Saturday 08.04.07: The New Ship Presents – A BENEFIT FOR FERDIE CUILDA OF 400 BLOWS @ Echoplex

The Locust

“The hardcore scene that grew out of the fertile grounds of the early to mid-’90s San Diego punk scene has very few survivors left. Bands formed and broke up at an alarming rate, often releasing albums posthumously; however, 12 years after their inception, and despite a revolving door membership, flagship noisemakers The Locust continue to pierce the eardrums of noiseheads worldwide. The band’s 2003 effort, Plague Soundscapes, was a monumental shift forward. It was their first disc for Epitaph subsidiary Anti- (home to folks like Tom Waits and Porter Wagoner) and also marked the beginning of their relationship with Mars Volta and At the Drive In producer, Alex Newport. With his capable hands behind the boards, the band had never sounded more professional or more punishing in their career.

Their latest effort, at least aesthetically, falls in line with their past works. The lengthy song titles (“One Manometer Away From Mutually Assured Relocation”), provocative artwork, and inventive album title are traits now very familiar with Locust fans. But from the opening blast of synths and guitars from New Erections it becomes quickly apparent that once again, The Locust are redefining the genre they helped create, which will leave imitators scrambling to keep up.” – Popmatters

with:
The Bronx || Listen
Qui with David Yow

+ 2 very special guest headliners

@ The Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main entrance is through the alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

5:30pm / $15 adv, $17 dos / All Ages

Monday 09.03.07: Monday Night Residency – THE HAPPY HOLLOWS

The Happy Hollows || Listen

“Los Angeles continues to breed killer new bands like some sort of musical rabbit farm. This three-piece litter of sweet sonic babies is known as the Happy Hollows, appropriate as it’s hard not to smile like an idiot when they commander a club stage. A spin through their “Bunnies and Bombs” EP reveals the power-puffy trio bashing out hyperactive power-pop with a serrated buzz-saw edge of noisy guitars and Pixie-fied beats. Songs like “Meteor” and “My Wet Tongue” bops with an abandon familiar with 1990s “college rock” before it gets swallowed up by all things “indie.” But the main attraction is super-fine lead singer/guitarist Sarah Negahdari, a woman after my own heart with her trademark striped tube socks and wild rock babe ways. We double dog dare you not to develop a mad crush on her after just one show. It’s nigh impossible. Resistance is futile.” – Metromix LA

with:
The Billionaires
The Henry Clay People || Listen
The Soft Hands

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 08.28.07: Grand Ole Echo Presents – I SEE HAWKS IN LA

I See Hawks in LA || Listen

“Their songs are rife with mournful social commentary, environmental tragedy, wily humor, outsider guile, and political undercurrent. Seldom has there been an album with such joyous music-making, such corrosive, acid-etched lyrics.” – WM Smith, No Depression

with:
Bubba Hernandez
Dave Gleason

8:30pm / $7 / 18+

Friday 08.24.07: CLUB UNDERGROUND

Spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

10pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Thursday 08.23.07: HELL YA! Night

Any Day Now
Good With Grenades
Eastern Conference Champions || Listen
Maxeen

plus HELL YA! DEEJAYS

8pm / Free for 21+, $5 for 18+ / 18+

Sunday 08/12/07: GRAND OLE ECHO

Mike Stinson || Listen

5pm / FREE / all ages

Thursday 08.30.07: OLD TIME RELIJUN

Old Time Relijun || Listen

Old Time Relijun, at first, sounds like the wackiest of fliers come to life. “I’d like to start a band. I’d like a thunk-thunk-thunkin’ upright bass, a squealing sax, an ever-so-slightly off-beat rhythm guitar, and a dude who teaches throat singing classes wailing away on top of it all. I play pretty tight drums. Who’s interested?” What’s thrilling about these cats is that, when they cook, they sound like they’re making the sort of music most anyone with passion could make. They sound like they’re having obscene amounts of fun making it. But deeper listening reveals the twisted talent beneath the cleansing racket. And, good times aside (but well within reach), they know that messy, obnoxious dance music is too powerful to play strictly for chuckles. Having fun + taking one’s art seriously (enough) = talent (at least, of one sort… and Old Time Relijun, they’re multi-talented). – Dusted Magazine

with:
Jail Weddings
The Holy Kiss || Listen
Woman
Jeremy Jay

8pm / $8 / 18+

Wednesday 08.29.07: THE FARAWAY PLACES

The Faraway Places || Listen

“According to the band’s Website,principals Donna Coppola (keyboards,vocals) and Chris Colthart (guitar, vocals) met in Boston while watching a Sun Ra video, and their music—first put out under the moniker the Solar Saturday, and fleshed out by an ever-changing ensemble of players—evokes the experimental, jazzy and frequently downright wacky spirit of the Arkestra’s work. Except that the Faraway Places are a helluva lot more listenable: They combine jangly and fuzzy guitars, layers of electronic and orchestral flourishes and a pop sensibility that straddles 60’s England and 70’s California, with Ms. Coppola’s matted voice sounding like a cross between Nico and Kim Deal. Unfocus on It, their debut album, manages to be both cool and warm, especially on the wistful ‘Summertime’ with its melancholy string arrangements and back-up sighs, and the Beach Boys-meets-Bowie ‘City on the Ocean’.” – New York Observer

with:
Tables & Chairs
Club Tropicana

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

Sunday 08.26.07: F*** YEAH FESTIVAL

Deerhunter
The Blood Arm || Listen
Indian Jewelry || ListenNo Age
Midnight Movies || Listen
Jay Reatard
Foreign Born || Listen
Pissed Jeans
xBxRx || Listen
Darker My Love
The Nice Boys
Langhorne Slim || Listen
Great Northern || Listen
Triclops || Listen
Red Fang
Best Fwends
Vultures (San Diego)
Luke Top
Moonrats
Rumspringa
The Strange Boys
Abe Vigoda
Bad Dudes || Listen
Jail Weddings
+ many many more

Tickets purchased day of show must be purchased at the Echoplex Ticket Office at 1154 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026. The Entrance to the Echoplex Ticket Office is through the alley

5pm / $12 / All Ages

Saturday 08.25.07: F*** YEAH FESTIVAL

The Explosion (very last west coast show)
The Fuse! (Reunion show and only show)
Lavender Diamond || Listen
Busdriver || Listen
Boom Bip || Listen
Entrance || Listen
American Steel || Listen (First LA show in 7 years!!!)
The Mae Shi
The Fleshies || Listen
Bobby Birdman || Listen
Residual Echoes
Imaad Wasif
Times New Viking
Hit Me Back
Thee More Shallows
Greg Ashely of Gris Gris
Partyline (members of Bratmobile)
Brother Reade || Listen
Wooden Shjips || Listen
Love or Perish
Devon Williams
Sabertooth Tiger || Listen
Sleepover
+many more

Tickets purchased day of show must be purchased at the Echoplex Ticket Office at 1154 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026. The Entrance to the Echoplex Ticket Office is through the alley

5pm / $12 / All Ages

Thursday 08.16.07: MIDNIGHT MOVIES @ Echoplex

Midnight Movies || Listen

“The music that supports Olivier has a Velvety quality to it as well, with simple (but powerful) tribal drumming ala Mo Tucker, walls of noisy guitar, and easy but indelible melodies. Just as the music of the VU was always informed by (and inseparable from) New York, Midnight Movies is all about Los Angeles. From the name of the band—those Hollywood cult classics played on late-night TV—to the fact that it records for a label founded to release movie soundtracks (New Line) to the overall feel of the music, you couldn’t imagine Midnight Movies hailing from anywhere else. This is where noir was born, and Lion the Girl has its dark, mysterious and foreboding atmosphere. One could easily imagine Olivier and her mates scoring any David Lynch film. Or walking off the street into a nightclub on Sunset Boulevard and seeing the band, in any decade from the 1960s to the present.” – Popmatters

with:

Irving || Listen
The Architects
Gore Gore Girls || Listen

@ The Echoplex
(Beneath the Echo)
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Main Entrance is Through the Alley

8pm / FREE / 21+

Sunday 08.19.07: PART TIME PUNKS – SMITHS / MORRISSEY NITE w/ BUZZCOCKS (DJ set)

special guest dj set by BUZZCOCKS

with:
Languis || Listen
The Tartans

Hairdresser on fire. Panic. Jeane. Vicar in a tutu. Hand in glove. Oscillate Wildly. You’ll hear them all tonite. . .or as many Smiths/Morrissey tracks we can fit in to 4 hours of dancing. With Smiths/Moz covers by LANGUIS & THE TARTANS! PLUS. . . the first 50 paid through the door will receive a FREE CD: The Smiths live in Oxford, 1986!! (Volume 5 in the PTP mix series)

plus resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

10pm / $5 / 21+

Monday 08.27.07: Monday Night Residency – MANIC

Manic || Listen

“L.A. group Manic has honed in on what makes them special—recording beautiful alternative pop-rock songs that have a slew of hooks and thoughtful melodies. Unable to exactly pinpoint who or what they sound similar to, the listener will instead focus on the actual music and grooves. Having already done the poor rock ‘n’ roll group thing (they emptied their bank accounts and traveled off to the U.K. to make their mark), Manic is no stranger to risks. ‘Another New Home’ is filled with risks too; indeed it’s a thought-provoking glimmering pop record that will last a good test of time or two, inspiring other artists that taking a few chances could change their course.” – Smother.net

with:
Strangers Smile
Unarmed
Supa Floss

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Monday 08.20.07: Monday Night Residency – MANIC

Manic || Listen

“L.A. group Manic has honed in on what makes them special—recording beautiful alternative pop-rock songs that have a slew of hooks and thoughtful melodies. Unable to exactly pinpoint who or what they sound similar to, the listener will instead focus on the actual music and grooves. Having already done the poor rock ‘n’ roll group thing (they emptied their bank accounts and traveled off to the U.K. to make their mark), Manic is no stranger to risks. ‘Another New Home’ is filled with risks too; indeed it’s a thought-provoking glimmering pop record that will last a good test of time or two, inspiring other artists that taking a few chances could change their course.” – Smother.net

with:
Minutes til Midnight
Policy
Dead Ponies

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Monday 08.13.07: Monday Night Residency – MANIC

Manic || Listen

“L.A. group Manic has honed in on what makes them special—recording beautiful alternative pop-rock songs that have a slew of hooks and thoughtful melodies. Unable to exactly pinpoint who or what they sound similar to, the listener will instead focus on the actual music and grooves. Having already done the poor rock ‘n’ roll group thing (they emptied their bank accounts and traveled off to the U.K. to make their mark), Manic is no stranger to risks. ‘Another New Home’ is filled with risks too; indeed it’s a thought-provoking glimmering pop record that will last a good test of time or two, inspiring other artists that taking a few chances could change their course.” – Smother.net

with:
Oreskaband || Listen
The Snow
On The Surface

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Monday 08.06.07: Monday Night Residency – MANIC

Manic || Listen

“L.A. group Manic has honed in on what makes them special—recording beautiful alternative pop-rock songs that have a slew of hooks and thoughtful melodies. Unable to exactly pinpoint who or what they sound similar to, the listener will instead focus on the actual music and grooves. Having already done the poor rock ‘n’ roll group thing (they emptied their bank accounts and traveled off to the U.K. to make their mark), Manic is no stranger to risks. ‘Another New Home’ is filled with risks too; indeed it’s a thought-provoking glimmering pop record that will last a good test of time or two, inspiring other artists that taking a few chances could change their course.” – Smother.net

with:

Clark S. Nova
Tygers of Wrath
Good On Paper

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Saturday 08.18.07: HANG THE DJS

with:
The Submarines || Listen
Pop Noir || Listen

Plus:
Blake Miller (Moving Units)
Maurice De La Falaise (HTDJs, Transistor, Par Avion)
Maria Holland
June D (White-Doves NYC, The Musebox)
Royal Rumble

spinning the best in: indie, international pop, britpop, electro, disco, post-punk, new wave, no wave, hiphop and more..

FMI:
Hang The DJs on Myspace

9pm / $8, $5 with Sunset Junction wrist band / 18+

Friday 08.17.07: CLUB UNDERGROUND w/ A FOR ATTACK

with:
A For Attack || Listen
Sabertooth Tiger || Listen
The Nation Blue (from Australia)

Plus Underground DJs spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

10pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Friday 08.10.07: CLUB UNDERGROUND w/ THE RONELLES

With:
The Ronelles

Plus Underground DJs spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

10pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Wednesday 08.29.07: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

ENTER FROM GLENDALE

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

Wednesday 08.22.07: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $10 / 21+

Wednesday 08.15.07: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

Wednesday 08.08.07: DUB CLUB presents TRINITY & TONY TUFF @ Echoplex

with:
Trinity & Tony Tuff

Plus:
Tippa Lee & Andrew Wright

and Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $15 / 21+

Wednesday 08.01.07: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

Wednesday 07.18.07: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

Tuesday 08.21.07: FOREIGN BORN

Foreign Born || Listen

“Freshly signed to Dim Mak, On The Wing Now shows talent, balls and the type of gusto that’s missing from so many bands today. Describing their sound is a little hard to do; they manage to infuse the best parts of shoegazer and indie rock and put a good shot of late ’80s/early ’90s Britrock (a la Stone Roses) in the mix for a totally unique sound. You know a record has to be good when the first track is the same name of one of your favorite venues. Such is the case with Foreign Born’s ‘Union Hall,’ a track full of chanting and soaring vocals, hand claps and haunting sonic textures. ‘Into Your Dream’ sees the band playing with the dirty side of rock with driving, pounding drums and fuzzy guitars. Listening to it, it’s hard not to think of Black Angels or Velvet Underground.” – The Tripwire

with:
In Waves
Nevenka

8:30pm / FREE for 21+, $5 under 21 / 18+

Friday 09.28.07: GIRL TALK @ Echoplex (early show)

Girl Talk || Listen

“Pittsburgh native Greg Gillis (Girl Talk) absolutely detonates the notions of mash-up on his third album, the violently joyous Night Ripper. Rather than squeeze two songs that sorta make sense together into a small box, Gillis crams six or eight or 14 or 20 songs into frenetic rows, slicing fragments off 1980s pop, Dirty South rap, booty bass, and grunge, among countless other genres. Then he pieces together the voracious music fan’s dream: a hulking hyper-mix designed to make you dance, wear out predictable ideas, and defy hopeless record-reviewing.” Pitchfork Media’s review of Night Ripper

with:
Dan Deacon || Listen

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

7pm / $15 adv $17 dos / all ages

Friday 09.28.07: GIRL TALK @ Echoplex

Girl Talk || Listen

“Pittsburgh native Greg Gillis (Girl Talk) absolutely detonates the notions of mash-up on his third album, the violently joyous Night Ripper. Rather than squeeze two songs that sorta make sense together into a small box, Gillis crams six or eight or 14 or 20 songs into frenetic rows, slicing fragments off 1980s pop, Dirty South rap, booty bass, and grunge, among countless other genres. Then he pieces together the voracious music fan’s dream: a hulking hyper-mix designed to make you dance, wear out predictable ideas, and defy hopeless record-reviewing.” Pitchfork Media’s review of Night Ripper

with:
Dan Deacon || Listen
White Williams

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

10pm / $15 adv $17 dos / 18+

Saturday 09.22.07: Echo & IHEARTCOMIX Present – SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO & special guests BOYS NOIZE @ Echoplex

Simian Mobile Disco || Listen

“Comprised of two blokes named James (that would be James Ellis Ford and James Anthony Shaw) from defunct Astralwerks also-rans Simian, dancefloor-friendlier Simian Mobile Disco burst onto the scene about a year ago with the aforementioned “Hustler” and a bunch of ace remixes for like-minded Klaxons and the Rapture, as well as Air and the Go! Team. “It’s the Beat” should prove one of 2007’s most primal and infectious dance anthems come year’s end. Opening on a murky, skeletal pulse, a slightly roboticized vocal– with very human sass– drops in amid the blips, bloops and scratches with some very Go! Team-derived hip-hop chatter. But when the song hits its stride at the three-minute mark, look the fuck out: A dense, swirling cloud of lush, twinkling synthesizers takes over for an electro-psych breakdown, and the song quickly reassembles itself with an absolutely colossal polyrhythmic drum track. “It’s the Beat” finds SMD puréeing the thrust of house with the shriller sounds of rave and the icy precision of techno, and it’s one of the most satisfying tracks– electro or otherwise– to drop yet this year.” – Pitchfork

with:
Boys Noize

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $20 / 18+

Friday 09.21.07: The New Check Yo’ Ponytail & Turntable Lab present – DIPLO @ Echoplex

Diplo || Listen
“So, Diplo. Short forDiplodocus, the tragic prehistoric behemoth, large beyond comprehension, invincible but doomed, felled by that silent predator called evolution. The Diplo in question is actually a tall, skinny kid from Mississippi that’s established a home with Philly’s streetwise Hollertronix crew. For a couple years now, Diplo and his partner Low Budget have run Hollertronix as a sort of crunk Underground Railroad, stealing away big-balled, white label southern rap into the seemingly sophisticated environs of the Northeast. He’s built a reputation as a party-starting, rabble-rouser DJ, fearlessly mashing Prince into New Order, greasing up Nirvana with Lil Jon.” – Pitchfork

with:
Switch

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $23 Adv, $25 dos / 18+

Friday 09.07.07: BEN KWELLER (performing Ben Kweller in it entirety)

Ben Kweller || Listen

(Performing Ben Kweller in its entirety)

“Harking back to the days of Sha Sha’s ‘Lizzy’, ‘In Other Words’ and ‘Falling’, Ben Kweller is tender, fragile and devoted. Gone are the grunge-pop moments, the raw recordings and the fuzzy distortion – in many ways it’s all for the best. This is Kweller’s most complete-sounding long-player yet, a fully-formed entity whereas his previous outings skipped playfully from one feel to the next. Combining touches of Ben Lee and Evan Dando in the songwriting and Ben Folds in its piano-heavy approach, Ben Kweller is highly sentimental, full of philosophical reflections of days gone by and the way life unfolds. Self-proclaimed masterpiece ‘Thirteen’ is a prime example of the former, a four-minute list recounting the most beautiful of moments.” – Drowned in Sound

Plus Guests

8pm / $18 adv, $20 dos / all ages

Thursday 09.06.07: BEN KWELLER (performing On My Way in its entirety)

Ben Kweller || Listen

(Performing On My Way in its entirety)

“Some have called On My Way Ben’s ‘grown up’ album, I think it’s more accurately Ben’s ‘growing up’ album. What’s particularly lovely about the songs that make up On My Way’s narrative is that they cut both ways, exploring newly minted adult life with enthusiasm whilst longing for simpler pleasures. The title track is a sweetly unsettling letter to ‘mom’, detailing her son’s newfound affinity for burglary, murder (by karate chop!), friendship and love. The lyrics are particularly moving in their artlessness; as Ben wheezes, ‘I’m in love with someone who’s as pretty as a flower… She makes hats with her hands / She is such an artist’ it’s simultaneously awkward and beautiful. Likewise, ‘I Need You Back’ is an anxious West Coast jangle of a cry for help; Ben seems at once confident and confused in luring his love back. ‘My Apartment’, an ode to his adopted home of New York, is a halting account of both newfound freedom and the occasional loneliness of living away from family, so that lines like ‘In my apartment / The home where I hide / Away from all the darkness outside’ gleefully play house and long for the safety of home.” – Stylus Magazine, review of On My Way

6:30pm / $18 adv, $20 dos / all ages

Tuesday 07.17.07: OBJECT & Echo present – LADY PARTY @ Echoplex

THE INAUGURAL EVENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS- RAISING CONFAB TO CELEBRATE THE CONVERSATION AMONG WOMEN

The Conversation is a safe space in which all women and girls are invited to explore the many and varied meanings of female empowerment. Through The Conversation, we are committed to sharing perspectives, breaking barriers and striving for understanding. We believe in the art of conversation and that all OBJECT’s participants are artists. We trust in conversation for conversation’s sake. There are no stupid questions or wrong answers. There are no taboos. There is no judgment. There is only our mutual growth in the hothouse of open communication. OBJECT’s participants, who meet casually once a month to have The Conversation, are writers, teachers, producers, activists, mothers, actors, publicists, students, visual artists, entertainment executives and achievers in other fields representing a broad spectrum of ages, backgrounds and beliefs.

LADY PARTY EVENT WILL INCLUDE:
Release of Jessica Valenti’s “Full Frontal Feminism”

Unveil “F— Christopher Hitchens: 10 Funny Female Acts in 10 Minutes”

L.A. comic actor Jamie Denbo’s challenge to the pundit’s assertion that “women aren’t funny,” feat. Jessica Chaffin, Jen Kirkman, Dana & Julia, Mindy Kaling, Mary Birdsong, plus other faces from “The Office,” “Reno 911,” “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” & The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Female-fronted Journey tribute band Infinity

Singer-songwriter-truthtellers Michelle Featherstone and Jonneine Zapata

Attempt the world’s largest scrimmage of the revelatory girl game Never Have I Ever.

OBJECT co-founder Jill Soloway will serve as mistress of ceremonies

FMI: www.sayobject.com

8pm / $5 / all ages

Wednesday 08.15.07: THE STEVENSON RANCH DAVIDIANS

The Stevenson Ranch Davidians || Listen
“Theirs is the church of psychedelia and they seem intent on taking their congregation on a trip back to the Summer of Love, ‘67 style. They make no apologies for inhaling the effects of the British Invasion, shoegazing, and the music atmosphere of Los Angeles in the late sixties. In fact they’re poised to join the pantheon of L.A. neo-psychedelic bands such as Rain Parade, Mazzy Star, The Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Beachwood Sparks.” – 3Hive.com

8:30pm / $5 / 21+

Sunday 11.04.07: DO MAKE SAY THINK @ Echoplex

Do Make Say Think

“More than 10 years and five albums into their career, Do Make Say Think remain one of the most consistently interesting rock bands working today. Like many instrumental rock bands, their music derives from influences scattered across a number of different genres – jazz, punk, psychedelic and electronic music – but they’ve processed their influences in such a way that their songs sound more like a natural assembly of different instrumental and compositional styles than a conscious nod to any one genre or predecessor. Their last album, Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn was a great, sprawling record, notable for its long and complex song structures and textured production (although it also had a great pop moment in the surf music-inspired finale, “Hooray! Hooray! Hooray”). Their new album, You, You’re a History in Rust, is a much more straightforward effort than Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn: The songs are generally shorter, with identifiable hooks (two songs even have vocals). But the album is also marked by the inventiveness the band has displayed throughout its career, and the result is a lot of fun to listen to, and perhaps the most successful Do Make Say Think album yet.” – Dusted Magazine

Plus special guest:
Apostle of Hustle || Listen

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $17 / 18+

Saturday 11.03.07: ENON

ENON || Listen
“John Schmersal, formerly of Ohio’s Brainiac, provides the brains (ha!) and the wacky energy, not to mention voice, keys, and guitars. Toko Yasuda has brought her smooth voice, keys, and bass guitar from a stint with Blonde Redhead. Matt Schultz (formerly of the Lab Partners), meanwhile, is credited with batterie (percussion) and legerdemain (sleight of hand). Ha, funny guys, clearly.

The balance achieved on Hocus Pocus is the band’s most even yet (coming as it does after 2000’s frenzied, unhinged Believo! and 2002’s more focused High Society). This increasingly taut and successful fusion of jerky art-punk with a prettier synth-pop sensibility can almost certainly be attributed to Yasuda’s growing prominence in the band. Somehow her butter churn voice manages to sound both girlishly winsome and sensual, and it is one of the keys to Enon’s unique sound.” – Popmatters

with:
Love of Diagrams || Listen
The Deadly Finns
Model/Actress

8:30pm / $10 adv, $12 dos / 18+

Friday 10.19.07: SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS

Southern Culture On The Skids || Listen

“For pretty much the entirety of its two decades together, Southern Culture on the Skids has positioned itself as shameless champions of everything white trash. How bizarre, then, to discover that the veteran three-piece actually has impeccable taste. Singer-guitarist Rick Miller, flame-haired bassist Mary Huff, and drummer Dave Hartman may subsist on cold fried chicken, warm Schlitz, and instant coffee, but damned if they don’t sound impossibly classy on Countrypolitan Favorites.

Having evidently run out of new ways to sing about dirt-track dates and cheap motels, SCOTS goes the covers route this time out. Forgetting kitsch-sorry, there’s no trailer-park version of “Running Bear” here-the band concentrates on songs from country’s golden past. Wasting no time getting to the good stuff, they rocket off the line with a rockabilly revamping of Don Gibson’s ’50s classic “Oh Lonesome Me”. From there, Miller and company display an ambition that will shock and awe even their most hardcore disciples. T. Rex’s glamtastic “Life’s A Gas” gets reborn as psychedelicized MOR, the Who’s “Happy Jack” is transformed into a banjo-powered hoedown, and “Tobacco Road” ends up funkier than John Loudermilk would have ever dared dream.” – No Depression Magazine

with:

Hillstomp || Listen
Uncle Earl || Listen

8:30pm / $15 / 18+

Saturday 10.20.07: BLACK LIPS @ Echoplex

Black Lips || Listen

“It’s a dazzling catastrophe that needs to be absorbed before it vaporizes into thin air. The fun these guys have is hard to hide either live or on record. Seriously slurred swashbucklers living out the ultimate teenage dream, yet breaking through another layer of remarkable idiocy, transcribed through hallucinations, exasperation, and perfectly casual dick fumbling. Such perennial sophistication causes the very foundation of “FLOWER PUNK” to be lysergisized, germinated, fertilized, and fully pollenated. Let it Bloom, and it’s fruit, will feed the next generation of off-centered, slop-a-licious rock’n roll pioneers for years to come.” – Horizontal Action Magazine

with:
Pierced Arrows (with members of Dead Moon)
The Spits || Listen

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $15 / 18+

Tuesday 10.16.07: Echo and WOXY.com present – MATTHEW DEAR’S BIG HAND TOUR

Matthew Dear || Listen

“With his new album, Asa Breed, Dear finally makes good on his long-awaited metamorphosis. It’s not that the record is a straightforward pop romp: It’s still anchored in Dear’s lumbering beats, its rhythms cobbled together from misfiring drum machines and colored with barely-in-tune keyboards and yellowing room tone. Still, Dear pulls together his widest array of elements yet, not just in terms of instrumentation– electric and acoustic guitars, live drums, and haphazard percussion all play strong roles– but also style: Hints of new wave, indie rock, Afropop, and even country enliven Asa Breed. Dear’s mercurial approach to genre, however, feels less like dabbling than a kind of shambling dandyism, trying on mismatched styles with a sidelong wink in the mirror.” – Pitchfork

with:
Mobius Band || Listen

Presented by WOXY.COM

8:30pm / $10 adv, $12 dos / 18+

Saturday 10.13.07: FUJIYA & MIYAGI @ Echoplex

Fujiya and Miyagi || Listen

“Actually a trio– and from Brighton, no less– Fujiya & Miyagi excel at making lockstep motorik liable to get toes tapping and heads bobbing. But they really hit their stride on “Collarbone”, the groove-laden second track off compilation LP Transparent Things (Tirk Records). Just try to keep your hips in check as vocalist David Best (the group’s Miyagi, apparently) affects breathy broken English, likening romantic fumblings to shoelace trippings over a butter-smooth bassline and claps on the beats.” – Pitchfork

with:
Project Jenny, Project Jan || Listen

8:30pm / $15 / 18+

Wednesday 10.03.07: GRUFF RHYS (Super Furry Animals) @ Rec Center Studio

Gruff Rhys (from Super Furry Animals) || Listen

“Every band plays music, but very few play, in the fun-having sense, as Super Furry Animals do. The infamous Glastonbury tank, electric space suits, and specially-commissioned films that have played roles in the Welsh group’s live shows reflect the bizarre subject matter, tarantula-legged genre-straddling, and multilingual puns of their totally bonkers recordings. The Furries actually play so much that they have fun and games left over for side projects: keyboardist Cian Ciárán’s Acid Casuals, drummer Dafydd Ieuan’s the Peth, and now a second solo album from SFA frontman Gruff Rhys.

Candylion is 12 rounds of psychedelic Calvinball, new rules seemingly made up and abandoned as Rhys goes along chasing his eccentric muse. Where his solo debut, Yr Atal Genhedlaeth, was a relatively subdued, Welsh-only affair, its successor takes unseriousness as seriously as any official Furries effort, with string arrangements from High Llama Sean O’Hagan, mixing done in Rio de Janeiro with producer Mario Caldato Jr., and lilting guest vocals from Lisa Jen of Welsh folk group 9 Bach.” – Pitchfork

with Special Guests:
Her Space Holiday / xoxo, panda

@ Rec Center Studio
1161 Logan Street
Echo Park, CA 90026

8pm / $14 / 18+

Saturday 9.29.07: SWERVE FESTIVAL, Echo & IHEARTCOMIX present The New Check Yo’ Ponytail w/ BONDE DO ROLE @ Echoplex

Bonde Do Role

“Bonde do Role may have inherited their homeland’s love of really crappy sounding 808s and breakbeats that rattle like coconuts in the breeze, but they friggin’ love cheesy guitars. I mean, terrible sports bar blues-band buttrock licks and 90s grunge grunts (an earlier single turned the detuned wah riff of Alice in Chains’ ‘Man in the Box’ into a dance hook), and the hairiest of hair metal. Just like baile funk. And also like baile funk, you can’t really describe it as ‘ersatz’ because the whole genre is ersatz as fuck, and Bonde’s baile is one, two steps from the ‘real’ thing. Cheerleader chants and horny panting! Incredibly cheap programmed drums and pop culture quotes! Booty bass beats and inexplicable Afrika Bambaataa shoutouts played on Todd Terry’s vocal-chopping keyboard! (Bonde loves the vocal stutter effect almost as much as they love guitars.) As with baile funk, this low-budget throwback is an aesthetic virtue for Bonde do Role. It’s a building block– the horns on ‘Tieta’ are as tinny and off-the-rack as any Trinidadian soca hit, while ‘Caminhao de Gas’ rocks and the 8-bit video game hook– not a necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention third-world practicality.” – Pitchfork

plus:
LA Riots
Juiceboxxx || Listen
The Toxic Avenger

and DJs:
Franki Chan
Paparazzi

9pm / FREE / 18+

Thursday 09.06.07: MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO.

Magnolia Electric Co. || Listen

“On the first Magnolia Electric Co. album, Molina had his own heart split in two, and his response was the only one we could expect: “Half I’m going to use/ To pay this band/ Half I’m saving because I’m going to owe them.” His stoic devotion to his own craft even over his own heart is, like it was and still is for Bob Dylan, both myth and more or less the truth. The only thing that matters to him, even above his own songs, is the freedom to play them, which is why Molina’s project is intelligible only as an ongoing one. In recording sessions, he regularly tosses out whole records and writes new ones on the spot. His live sets are populated with songs he wrote as recently as that day. Those like myself who miss Songs: Ohia, because they prefer directness over guitar solos and vulnerability over big chords, can comfort themselves with the fact that in the continuum of Molina’s music, everything is equally yesterday’s news and, at the same time, the beginning of yet another song.” – Pitchfork

with:
Golden Boots
Secretary Bird

9pm / $12 / 18+

Wednesday 09.05.07: BEN KWELLER (Performing Sha Sha in its Entirety)

Ben Kweller || Listen

(Performing Sha Sha in its entirety)

“Enthusiasm is what singer/songwriter Ben Kweller brings to his work; his Ramones-like perennial goofy-teenager attitude and lack of antipathy are his golden attributes; combine that with a keen songwriting sense and you’ve got a pop powerhouse. Following his demo/self-released Freak Out It’s and an EP, Kweller spreads out with more new pop songs and sounds on this full-length studio album. Underscoring the songwriting skill he’s been working at since age eight and over the course of 11 songs, he plays acoustic, folk-rock, alternative, power pop, and straight-ahead rock; his lyrics are consistently heart-sung but they aren’t lite (he’s got weight and bite too).” – All Music, Review of Sha Sha

with:
Willy Mason (acoustic) || Listen

8pm / $18 adv, $20 dos / all ages

Sunday 09.02.07: BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE @ Echoplex

Brian Jonestown Massacre || Listen

“The Brian Jonestown Massacre artfully blends the influence of classic rock and 90s psychedelic/ shoegazer rock better than just about any other band. From track to track on their latest effort, Bravery Repetition and Noise, you get the best of many worlds in a work that still manages to gel as an album more than anything I have heard in a long time.” – Left Off The Dial

with:
Dimmer || Listen

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $15 / 18+

Saturday 09.01.07: BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE @ Echoplex

Brian Jonestown Massacre || Listen

“The Brian Jonestown Massacre artfully blends the influence of classic rock and 90s psychedelic/ shoegazer rock better than just about any other band. From track to track on their latest effort, Bravery Repetition and Noise, you get the best of many worlds in a work that still manages to gel as an album more than anything I have heard in a long time.” – Left Off The Dial

with:
Dimmer || Listen

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $15 / 18+

Tuesday 08.14.07: THE ONE AM RADIO

The One AM Radio || Listen

“When you’re at the end of your rope, they say, either commit suicide or travel. Thankfully Hrishikesh Hirway traveled, cross-country and even to India, embarking late on one of those somber searching-for-yourself Wanderjahres. From this Ivy Leaguer you might expect a strain of clever self-flagellation falling, in his own words, “somewhere between bedroom electronica and singer/songwriter.” But Hirway’s music, performed with violinist Jane Yakowitz under the name The One AM Radio, isn’t so cut-and-dry. Like Múm on a smaller scale, or a lightly medicated, loose-lipped Four Tet, his introspective songs sway hazily from image to metaphor, between yesterday’s folk and tomorrow’s digitalism.” – Pitchfork

with:
Lymbyc System || Listen
Montag || Listen

8:30pm / $8 / 18+

Wednesday 08.08.07: THE STEVENSON RANCH DAVIDIANS

The Stevenson Ranch Davidians || Listen
“Theirs is the church of psychedelia and they seem intent on taking their congregation on a trip back to the Summer of Love, ‘67 style. They make no apologies for inhaling the effects of the British Invasion, shoegazing, and the music atmosphere of Los Angeles in the late sixties. In fact they’re poised to join the pantheon of L.A. neo-psychedelic bands such as Rain Parade, Mazzy Star, The Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Beachwood Sparks.” – 3Hive.com

with:
The Quarter After || Listen
Rocking Horse People
Crystal Antlers

8:30pm / $5 / 21+

Sunday 08.05.07: Echo & Part Time Punks Present – 1990s

1990s || Listen

Plus Special Guests

plus resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

10pm / $10 / 18+

Saturday 08.04.07: ST. VINCENT

St. Vincent || Listen
“Deftly moving from confessional singer-songwriter fare on the piano, to displaying avante-guard, Zappa-esque chops on the guitar, St. Vincent (Annie Clark) had the audience captivated from the moment she took the stage. Her debut LP Marry Me drops July 10th on the Beggars label and is sure to rarely leave our stereo for the remainder of the Summer.” – An Aquarium Drunkard

with:
Josh Haden || Listen
Death Vessel || Listn

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Friday 08.03.07: GRAVY TRAIN!!!!

Gravy Train!!!! || Listen

The sound that Gravy Train!!!! emits on their debut full-length, Are You Wigglin? has the raw energy of the Ramones but a suicide girl flair that sends the camp level over the top. It’s impossible not to crack a smile when listening to lyrics that rhyme “beaver” and “believer” (as Gravy Train!!!! does on “(Ev’rybody Do) the Thingy”). – Spin.com

with:
Mika Miko
Sugar and Gold
DJ Rudy

6pm / $12 / all ages

Thursday 08.02.07: MARNIE STERN

Marnie Stern

New York guitar hero Marnie Stern wastes little time showing off her dazzling fretboard trickery on her new CD, In Advance of the Broken Arm (Kill Rock Stars). The opening song, “Vibrational Match,” fairly bursts with intricately knotted lead-guitar flurries, a virtual sound storm of looping, flickering, flashing guitar patterns. “Precious Metal” swarms with thousands of glistening notes that flop around like grunion on a crowded night beach. Stern’s arty lyrics are just as dense on brain-bulging workouts like “Letters From Rimbaud” and “Every Single Line Means Something,” where her insistent finger-tapping style raises beautiful halo noises from her ax. She combines prog-rock dexterity and ambition with a post-riot-grrl aggression that draws on such disparate inspirations as Yoko Ono and Hella (whose drummer, Zach Hill, produced and played on Broken Arm). – LA Weekly

With:
Upsilon Acrux
Ave Vigoda

7:30pm / $12 / all ages

Wednesday 08.01.07: SPINDRIFT & THE STEVENSON RANCH DAVIDIANS

Spindrift || Listen

“Kirpatrick Thomas, the founding member of Spindrift, a self-dubbed ‘psychedelic Spaghetti Western’ band, made just such a journey-in true cosmic cowboy fashion-from Delaware to Southern California in late 2001. He was already heading up the experimental post-punk incarnation of a band called Spindrift when he took off. His fuel: fragrant dreams of the Western mystique rooted in the stylized ’60s cowboy movies of Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone (often grandly referred to within the burgeoning L.A. ‘neo-cosmic cowboy’ scene as simply ‘Sergio’).” – LA Alternative

The Stevenson Ranch Davidians || Listen
“Theirs is the church of psychedelia and they seem intent on taking their congregation on a trip back to the Summer of Love, ‘67 style. They make no apologies for inhaling the effects of the British Invasion, shoegazing, and the music atmosphere of Los Angeles in the late sixties. In fact they’re poised to join the pantheon of L.A. neo-psychedelic bands such as Rain Parade, Mazzy Star, The Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre and Beachwood Sparks.” – 3Hive.com

plus:
Lion of Panjshir

8:30pm / $5 / 21+

Tuesday 07.31.07: BISHOP ALLEN

Bishop Allen || Listen
“The music of NYC band Bishop Allen is pretty essentialist. Stripped to its barest aspects, the band’s songs are studies in naked rock ‘n’ roll. The group put out an EP a month in 2006, in limited 2000-disc pressings, so it’s no wonder they didn’t get a lot of time to experiment. The EP project instead allowed the band the chance to hone its craft. For that’s what these songs are: pure craft, little more than melody, harmony and some basic dynamics.

Some critics have relegated them to a mere blog-band — that’s usually a pejorative, but when your foremost supporter is You Ain’t No Picasso, it starts to sound a lot more like a compliment. Me, I call ‘em anti-fey indie-pop, an ‘06/’07 answer to Beulah or early Death Cab for Cutie.” – The Rawking Refuses to Stop

with:
Page France || Listen
Castledoor

8:30pm/ $8 adv, $10 dos / 18+

Monday 07.30.07: Monday Night Residency – 5 O’CLOCK SOMEWHERE

5 O’Clock Somewhere

We are a group of friends hailing from Echo Park’s local watering holes who love playing classic country songs! If your lookin’ for a good time, you found it! Its gotta be 5 O’Clock Somewhere!

with:
Ollin || Listen
Visions of Hildegard
Hello Dragon

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Sunday 07.29.07: GRAND OLE ECHO

Johnny Kaplan and the Lazy Stars
Chip Kinman and PCH
Clyde Wrenn

Back Porch:
Scott Warren

5pm / FREE / all ages

Sunday 07.29.07: PART TIME PUNKS

with:
Health || Listen
Moonrats
Die! Die! Die!

plus resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

10pm / $5 / 21+

Sunday 07.29.07: LA Record Release Show w/ DEAD MEADOW @ Echoplex

Dead Meadow || Listen

“D.C.-based Dead Meadow are riding the same psych wave that propelled countless ’60s and ’70s acts to hallucinogenic eminence. Featuring gushing globs of guitar, shuddering bass and ethereal, if somewhat indistinct vocals, the band’s fifth disc, Feathers, is a gorgeously euphonic skull-crusher. While a great many contemporary bands are mining similar territory, Dead Meadows find a few new ways to blow minds. What separates Dead Meadow from their latter-day peers is their spellbinding sense of hook. Feathers is cacophonous and epic, but ultimately catchy. The fuzzy congeniality of “Stacy’s Song” is a good example of the group’s melodic sensibility. A gently tripped-out ballad, it’s kind of thing you might play for a special friend when coming down from a shared psychotropic experience.” – Dusted

with:
Darker My Love
Entrance || Listen
The Phantom Family Halo

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $13 / 18+

Saturday 07.28.07: SOUNDLESSONS

with Emcee/Host:
Aloe Blacc (Stonesthrow Records)

The Soundlessons Collective:
J-Logic a.k.a J-Wonder(Soundlessons / Dublab / Pause)
Jun (Bossanova)
Kutmah Fresh (Sketchbook | Dublab)
Alfred Hawkins (Firecracker | Crushed Velvet)

9:30pm / $10 / 21+

Saturday 07.28.07: THE FUCKING CHAMPS

The Fucking Champs || Listen
“For the uninitiated, The Fucking Champs play an intense, loud, melodic, riff-led racket that is so close to pastiche that it exists in some singular state of perfection. They have, for well over a decade, effortlessly distilled the essence of everything that makes the bombast of Judas Priest and Maiden a joy to listen to – it is no coincidence that a track on their 2000 album ‘IV’ was cheekily entitled ‘NWOBHM part 2′… Theirs is a wonderful and immediately recognisable sound that’s continued to flourish despite Smith’s departure. While a lack of development could be a source of criticism in other bands, The Champs’ music is so exhilaratingly, grin-inducingly, fist-shakingly wonderful you cannot help but want more. VI delivers in spades.” Playlouder

with:
Earthless
Titans

8:30pm/ $10/ 18+

Friday 07.27.07: CLUB UNDERGROUND

Spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

10pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Wednesday 07.25.07: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex

with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

Tuesday 07.24.07: DAPPLED CITIES

Dappled Citites || Listen

“Dappled Cities– alternately known as Dappled Cities Fly– have hopped stateside with the release of their second album, and it’s a record that doesn’t skimp on the grand gesture, opening with its most bluntly dramatic track.The song is even called “Holy Chord”, and it’s a swelling, shimmering thing that announces the album with clipped verses that build up to a huge, grandiose falsetto hook. The band builds behind vocalist Tim Derricourt, finally leaping into a charge at the beginning of the third verse, where it begins building up again. The sound is built for an era where the Arcade Fire rules the indie rock world– it’s big and complex and pipelines emotion straight to your speakers.” – Pitchfork

with:
Eulogies || Listen
Maneja Beto || Listen
Die! Die! Die!

8:30pm / $7 / 18+

Sunday 07.22.07: PART TIME PUNKS

with:
Magic Bullets || Listen
The Tartans

A bit warm for anoraks, this time of the season. So instead, break out your favourite Orange Juice t-shirt, throw that Orchids reissue in yer car (or Field Mice or yer favourite Go-Betweens) and c’mon down.

TONITE WILL ALSO FEATURE THE VERY-FIRST-EVER PART TIME PUNKS FANZINE-MAKING CONTEST!!!

Which means we’ll be set up in the back patio with sharpies, scissors, glue and white out, asking people to write about their various experiences at PTP: favorite bands, most fucked up experience, record reviews AND there will be a stack of past posters/fliers for people to recut and reglue into their own photomontages. The best written and art-works will then be featured in the 1st-ever OFFICIAL PART TIME PUNKS fanzine which will be available 3 weeks later at our next Indiepop/Twee nite…

8/12 with MARIA and THE SEA LIONS.

Oh yeah, the fanzine will also feature Volume 4 of our PTP mix CDs–an all Indiepop sampler which actually was a set Michael spun live on/for Dublab.com.

ALL winning contributors will receive FREE copies of the fanzine AND all 4 volumes of our PART TIME PUNKS mix CDs! AND the best/winningest collage will win a FREE PART TIME PUNKS record bag!!!

plus resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

10pm / $5 / 21+

Monday 07.23.07: Monday Night Residency – 5 O’CLOCK SOMEWHERE

5 O’Clock Somewhere

We are a group of friends hailing from Echo Park’s local watering holes who love playing classic country songs! If your lookin’ for a good time, you found it! Its gotta be 5 O’Clock Somewhere!

with:
Princeton || Listen
Aloha Mr. Hand

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Sunday 07.22.07: GRAND OLE ECHO

The Cousin Lovers || Listen
Grant Langston || Listen
The Deans

Back Porch:
Rich Dembowski

5pm / FREE / all ages

Saturday 07.21.07: THEO & THE SKYSCRAPERS & THE START (early show)

Theo & The Skyscrapers || listen

“After listening to Theo Kogan’s new project, I’m left with one question: Is there anything this DJ/model/actress and ex-Lunachicks front woman can’t do? Theo and the Skyscrapers’ self-titled debut, produced by Theo’s husband of Toilet Boys fame Sean Pierce, far exceeded my expectations. The razor sharp slices of sound recall Blondie, Siouxsie, and the New York Dolls cranked out with sleazy electro glam abandon. While disco dance beats and basslines abound, the raunchy heavy metal elements and double kick drums in the most unexpected of places make this record truly fresh, fun, and totally danceable. Theo’s voice is just as able to weather the stylistic changes, going from sweet ‘n’ syrupy coos and girly Gwen Stefani-esque vibrato to eviscerating screams in a matter of seconds.” – The Big Takeover

with:

The Start || Listen

plus:
The Static Age || Listen
Ultra Violet

5pm / $10 / all ages

Saturday 07.21.07: HANG THE DJS

spinning the best in: indie, international pop, britpop, electro, disco, post-punk, new wave, no wave, hiphop and more..

FMI:
Hang The DJs on Myspace

10pm / $8 / 18+

Friday 07.20.07: IHEARTCOMIX & Echo present – The New Check Yo Ponytail w/ PLASTIC LITTLE @ Echoplex

Plastic Little || Listen

“There aren’t a lot of funny guys in rap. Funny things are often said and done, but few rappers are the sort you want telling a story when everyone at a party shuts up and listens to just one person. It wasn’t always this way (see: Redman, Biz Markie, N.O.R.E., and De La Soul). But Plastic Little are the asshole wiseguys you want telling those stories. Simultaneously too full of themselves and astoundingly self-aware, all Plastic Little do is piss on rap’s conventions, sniping at tropes (Black Power rap, crowded-club “bangers,” Wu-Tang wannabes, gangsta muzik) on their debut full-length. They want to amuse each other while infuriating everyone else, something they do over impressive approximations of all the sounds they’re mocking.” – Pitchfork

with:
ThunderHeist || Listen
JDH + Dave P
plus:
DJ Franki Chan
DJ Paparazzi

@ The Echoplex
(Beneath the Echo)
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Main Entrance is Through the Alley

9pm / $10 / 18+

Friday 07.20.07: CLUB UNDERGROUND

Spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

10pm / $5 for 21+, $7 for under 21 / 18+

Friday 07.20.07: JOHNATHAN RICE & WHISPERTOWN2000

Johnathan Rice || Listen
It’s the voice that gets you first. A mixture of smoke, hazy late nights, wide-eyed romanticism, and trips back and forth across the country, it’s a voice that knows something, telling you stories in a way that seems both familiar and completely new. Once it’s been fully lodged in your brain – and trust us, it will do this within minutes of first hearing it – the music fills in behind it, a mixture of dense acoustic guitars, keys, reverb-washed electric guitar accents, rolling bass lines and drums accented by tambourines, shakers, triangles. These are songs in the great tradition of American rock ‘n’ roll, written by someone who innately knows the inner workings of the human heart, and isn’t afraid to describe them in all of their glorious, sometimes gory detail. Ladies and gentlemen, we’d like you to welcome back Mr. Johnathan Rice, whose brilliant sophomore album, Further North, is to be released this September on Warner Brothers Records.

with:

Whispertown2000 || Listen

and:
Everest || Listen

6:30pm / $10 / all ages

Thursday 07.19.07: OUTFEST presents TEAM DRESCH

Team Dresch || Listen

“Queercore icons Team Dresch have reunited and de-united more times than Stuart Copeland can shake a stick at. But this time, it’s not a reun-off for Donna Dresch, Jody Bleyle, Kaia Wilson, and Marci Martinez. Rather, it’s a reuni-on. The team have regrouped, rehydrated, and are ready to get back in on the action with a handful of summer tour dates and the promise of long-awaited new material.” – Pitchfork

with:
We Float || Listen
Vivek Shraya || Listen

8:30pm / $10 adv, $12 dos / 18+

Wednesday 07.18.07: OUTFEST presents LAVENDER DIAMOND

Lavender Diamond || Listen
“In the song ‘Garden Rose,’ on Lavender Diamond’s first full-length, Becky Stark sings, ‘I started to remember how to live in present time.’ Odd, since Stark seems thoroughly anti-modern. With her crystalline, beautiful voice and thrift-store style, she harks back at least to original folk chanteuses like Joni Mitchell, if not further to 1920s Broadway songbirds. Imagine Our Love is certainly unlike anything that’s ever been on Matador: I don’t think there is a plugged-in guitar on any of the album’s twelve tracks. But what’s electric — and what makes the album so successful — is that voice of Stark’s and the purely positive worldview she emotes through it.” – Prefix Mag

with:
Redcar || Listen
Emily Wells || Listen

8:30pm / $10 adv, $12 dos / 18+

Thursday 07.26.07: Hell Ya!, Low End Theory & Echo present CHROMEO and FLOSSTRADAMUS

Chromeo || Listen
“Remember the dry look? Electrofunk fetishists Dave 1 and P-Thugg certainly do, This debut from the Montreal duo is so totally 1980s, it should come complete with a dance floor and smoke machine. The thick bass lines and Survivor-worthy guitar riffs of “Destination: Overdrive” recall the fun funk of New Edition, while “Mercury Tears” and “Needy Girl” manage to evoke the empty SoHo of After Hours (1985) with their synthy wag and slow breakdance beats. Rarely has such a naked appreciation for Huey Lewis achieved so much soul.” – Interview

and:

Flosstradamus || Listen
“Like the emerging generation of post-millennium dancefloor crashers of the same ilk (see: Major Taylor, locally, and Diplo and Low Budget of Hollertronix nationally), Flosstradamus are more interested in getting the crowd moving–and grinding and sweating and bumping and shaking–than impressing any music elitists in the audience. They cut through genres indiscriminately, likely to play during any given half-hour: Le Tigre’s “Deceptacon,” Killer Mike’s “My Chrome” and the Cure’s “Lovesong”–perhaps sequentially, if you’re lucky.” – UR Chicago Magazine

9pm / $13 / 18+

Monday 07.16.07: Monday Night Residency – 5 O’CLOCK SOMEWHERE

5 O’Clock Somewhere

We are a group of friends hailing from Echo Park’s local watering holes who love playing classic country songs! If your lookin’ for a good time, you found it! Its gotta be 5 O’Clock Somewhere!

with:
Morris Tepper
The Gentlemen Callers || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 07.17.07: ADAM FRANKLIN (From Swervedriver) & BLACK LIPS (a special midnight show)

Adam Franklin from Swervedriver || Listen

“The songwriting force behind one of the most underrated bands of the nineties – that’s Swervedriver, and yes you should run along and buy up their entire catalogue straight away – has shelved his ambient pop project Toshack Highway and returned to the guitar driven sound of his heyday to deliver what is arguably his strongest offering of the decade. It’s truly thrilling to hear Franklin amped up again and belting out urgent guitar anthems like opener Seize the Day and Shining Somewhere. The vocals certainly sound more weathered, and the effects rack has most likely been trimmed down a little from his Swervedriver days, but these two immediate standouts are unmistakably the sound of man enjoying his music.” – No Ripcord

plus:
The Black Watch || Listen
Benni Hemm Hemm || Listen

And a special midnight performance by:

Black Lips || Listen

“It’s a dazzling catastrophe that needs to be absorbed before it vaporizes into thin air. The fun these guys have is hard to hide either live or on record. Seriously slurred swashbucklers living out the ultimate teenage dream, yet breaking through another layer of remarkable idiocy, transcribed through hallucinations, exasperation, and perfectly casual dick fumbling. Such perennial sophistication causes the very foundation of “FLOWER PUNK” to be lysergisized, germinated, fertilized, and fully pollenated. Let it Bloom, and it’s fruit, will feed the next generation of off-centered, slop-a-licious rock’n roll pioneers for years to come.” – Horizontal Action Magazine

8:30pm / $10 / 18+