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: 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

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+

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+

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+

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+

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+

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

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+

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+

Sunday 07.22.07: GRAND OLE ECHO

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

Back Porch:
Rich Dembowski

5pm / FREE / all ages

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+

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+

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+

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

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+

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+

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+

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+

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: 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+

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+

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+

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+

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+

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+