Monday 10.01.07: Monday Night Residency – CASTLEDOOR

Castledoor

“California’s Castledoor sounds like the crooning, soulful pop of Cold War Kids (courtesy of singer Nate Cole) meets the sunshine melodies of Rogue Wave (courtesy of guitar/keys Gabe Combs and everyone else). Not a bad hybrid if you’re looking for your band to “stick.” The six people in this young group utilize lots of pretty keys and synths to support their breezy guitar pop.” – Oh My Rockness

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 10.02.07: DIVISION DAY (Record Release Show)

Division Day (record release show) || Listen

“Division Day. Were. Awesome. So awesome, in fact, that they could be considered awesome awesome, deserving of far better praise than this meager college rock fan… could ever dish… I dug Division Day the most for unabashedly mixing my favorite things—a preference for Dismemberment Plan-style awk-rawk over the too-obvious Moving Units post-punk-white-boy funk, soft vocals from a dude who can actually sing, (and) a drummer who looks like Dennis Wilson (pre-alcoholic downfall) and plays like him too (if Dennis Wilson were a robot with precision timing)…” – OC Weekly

with:
The Mae Shi
Eulogies || Listen

Plus:
DJs Todd + Sylvia from Sea Level

8:30pm / $8 / 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+

Wednesday 10.03.07: DATAROCK

Datarock || Listen
“With their questionable leisurewear and propensity for writing songs about robot sex and the possibility of women having cocks, you can consider these the Danish, new rave equivalent to Goldie Lookin Chain. Musically, though, they’re completely different, favouring an impossibly nagging car crash of the most basic electro-pop and addictive Parliament-style funk, all done with a Talking Heads sense of style that’s both noxious and compulsive. They’ll make you want to listen to nothing else for, ooh, a week at least.” – NME

with:
Foreign Born || Listen
Honeycut || Listen

8:30pm / $14 / 18+

Wednesday 10.03.07: 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+

Thursday 10.04.07: MORIS TEPPER

Moris Tepper || Listen

“Moris Tepper proves a chameleon on Head Off, taking on and turning out the traditions of folk, blues, and brash, bleating exploration. Multiple avenues and dusty dirt roads intersect with Tepper’s muse, which is fitting for a guy who played guitar with Captain Beefheart on Bat Chain Puller and has gone on to collaborations with types like Frank Black and Robyn Hitchcock. Head Off takes its time exploring those roads and avenues, guided at all times by Tepper’s soulful groan, which itself transforms from Waitsian mutter (another past collaborator) to crumpled speaker cone whinny with steady-as-he-goes regularity. The result is a record that threatens to ramble but rarely does, and tempers its moves toward mature singer/songwriter territory with a handful of busted, freaky, and lurching howls.” – Pitchfork

with:
Restaurant
Los Trendy
Cavemen

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

Friday 10.05.07: BILL CALLAHAN @ Echoplex

Bill Callahan || Listen

Since the lo-fi indie-rock band Smog has always been Bill Callahan and whomever he’s hanging out with at any given time, it may strike some as odd that Callahan has ditched the Smog moniker and released an album under his own name. But while Callahan’s Woke On A Whaleheart shares Smog’s rumbly tone and rootsy foundations, it is a bit of a departure. Consider “Diamond Dancer,” the best song on the album, and one of the standout rock tracks of 2007. Between the Euro-funky bass runs and sinister fiddles, “Diamond Dancer” comes off like mid-’70s David Bowie with a light country overlay. It’s downright visionary, and hardly Smoggy. Elsewhere, Callahan evokes John Cale and Lou Reed, with relaxed, nasal singing on pop-folk ballads like “Sycamore” and “Day.” And he takes a weird spin through the call-and-response gospel tradition by feeding himself his own lines on “The Wheel” and “A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To Be A Man.” – The Onion AV Club

with:
Sir Richard Bishop || Listen

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

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

Friday 10.05.07: CLUB UNDERGROUND presents THE SCREENING

With:
The Screening || Listen

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+

Saturday 10.06.07: Echo & IHEARTCOMIX present The New Check Yo Ponytail w/ SINDEN

with:
SINDEN
Red Foxx
Gina Turner

And Special Guests

Plus DJs:
Franki Chan
Paparazzi

9pm / $10 / 18+

Saturday 10.06.07: SMOG SESSIONS w/ BENGA & HATCHA

with:
BENGA (Tempa / FWD / Planet Mu / Hotflush / Big Apple // London UK)

HATCHA (Tempa / FWD / KissFM / Planet Mu / Big Apple // London UK)

THE PROFESSIONALS (Pure Filth, LA)

12th PLANET (aka INFILTRATA, Smog Records, LA)

Hosted by:
KEMST

Sound Reinforcement by:
PURE FILTH

Buy Tickets at www.groovetickets.com

FMI: Smog on Myspace

9pm / $8 adv, $10 dos before 11pm, $15 after / 21+

Sunday 10.07.07: GRAND OLE ECHO

with:
Josh Davis
Pat Johnson || Listen
Shoestring Strap || Listen
The Burlington Family

5pm / FREE / all ages

Sunday 10.07.07: PART TIME PUNKS – Smiths Nite w/ THE CHAPIN SISTERS

with Smiths / Morrissey covers by:

The Chapin Sisters || Listen
Softboiled Eggies

This Sunday! The latest installment in the PART TIME PUNKS bi-monthly tribute to that handsome devil & those charming men. Think of it as an after-party for Morrissey’s 10-show run at The Paladium. With Smiths/Morrissey cover-versions performed live by THE CHAPIN SISTERS + SOFTBOILED EGGIES!

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

10pm / $5 / 21+

Monday 10.08.07: HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS

Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs || Listen

Picture a clearing in Wyoming, just gone midnight. The campfire slowly burns and hipflasks of bourbon are passed between calloused cowboy hands. A tied horse snorts and paws the ground, while a pretty cowgirl plucks at her guitar and sings throatily of men who’ve done her wrong. Hear that music? Well, that’s exactly what You Can’t Buy A Gun When You’re Crying sounds like. Which is fairly extraordinary, considering Holly Golightly is from East Sussex, not the Wild West. Over eleven albums in as many years, Golightly achieved cult fame with her idiosyncratic take on Western country, rockabilly and bluegrass, before a collaboration with the White Stripes introduced her to a far greater audience. But fans worried that fame would go to Golightly’s head can rest easy: this new collaboration with ‘Lawyer’ Dave is as determinedly low key and lo-fi as ever. There is no Nelly Furtado style reinvention here. Indeed, collaborating with a genuine Texan seems to have ignited an even more stubborn passion for pre-electric country in her belly. – BBC

with:
Icebird || Listen
Castledoor
The Exfriends || Listen

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

10.08.07: Monday Night Residency – CASTLEDOOR

Castledoor

“California’s Castledoor sounds like the crooning, soulful pop of Cold War Kids (courtesy of singer Nate Cole) meets the sunshine melodies of Rogue Wave (courtesy of guitar/keys Gabe Combs and everyone else). Not a bad hybrid if you’re looking for your band to “stick.” The six people in this young group utilize lots of pretty keys and synths to support their breezy guitar pop.” – Oh My Rockness

with:
The Exfriends || Listen

10pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 10.09.07: CAPTAIN #1

Captain #1 || Listen

Captain Number 1 began as sounds echoing out of the Florida Everglades into abandoned farmhouses and trailer homes along the sides of state roads. Those same sounds slowly made their way through south Florida till they crawled inside a man’s ear. That man now lives in the foothills of Georgia and creates music with friends and travels to cities to play you those lonely songs born in the everglades. Songs about murders, about love, about angels and hydrogen balloons, set to the music of glockenspiels, mandolins and toys.

with:
1920A
Seamonster || Listen

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

Wednesday 10.10.07: THE MORNING BENDERS

The Morning Benders || Listen

Fortunately, Berkeley’s the Morning Benders do a fine job of reminding me of the unassailable power of Spector’s three-minute moments of transcendent pop bliss. Combining a wall of sound — along with doses of another complicated genius, Brian Wilson — with an exuberant strain of indie folk rock that will send you fetching your tambourine, their new self-released Boarded Doors EP is cartwheeling, leapfrogging testimony to a man who means a hell of a lot more than scary hair and a handgun fetish. – SF Bay Guardian

with:
Rumspringa
At The Strike of 12
Taylor Goldsmith (From Simon Dawes)

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

Wednesday 10.10.07: 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+

Thursday 10.11.07: ART CRAWL Kick Off Party w/

Featuring live performances by
The Hectors
A for Attack
Circus Minor
Vosotros

Installation and performance art by
Samantha Magowan
Julius Friedman
Andrew Burke
Posso

DJ sets by
Golden & Sam Sparro
Tarantino [White Minstrel Show]
CRZA

Live visuals all night by Zach Putnam

7pm – 2am / FREE / 18+

Thursday 10.11.07: THE GRAY KID

The Gray Kid || Listen
Just what them cool kids have been waiting for: the hipster Justin Timberlake you don’t have to feel guilty for loving. Like a prettier Mickey Avalon run through Girl Talk’s posteverything sonic blender, he’s already paid homage to Timberlake with his heavily YouTubed parody “Paxilback,” but this ain’t just fun and games. Kid can get all earnest with that falsetto, as evidenced on the Interpol-gone-pop strum of “Lonely Love,” found on his surprisingly solid debut 5, 6, 7, 8. Check his hip-hop heart on the free mixtape The Pilgrimage, which finds him graying up the Clipse and Jay-Z. Stardom’s inevitable. – LA Weekly

with:
Sam Sparro || Listen
Team Facelift || Listen
Daniel Stessen

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Friday 10.12.07: Echo & KROQ present – THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT @ Echoplex

The Airborne Toxic Event || Listen

“Poetry you can dance to…nothing short of amazing.” LA TIMES

“Absurdly rich with talent…Jollett’s baritone could compete with some of the best in Britpop. Live, the group delivers total cohesion and unflappable energy.” LA WEEKLY

“These California art-rockers have written the best arty-stomp since ‘Take Me Out.’” THE FLY (UK)

“In a just and fair world, The Airborne Toxic Event would be indie rock favorites of critics and fans the world over. Maybe, just for a moment, the world will get it right for a change.” POPMATTERS

“Catchy as hell rock that is as smart as its literary allusions.” URB

“Reviews of their live show have been stellar, those who have seen it find it hard to believe they are a new band.” INFLIGHT AT NIGHT

“It’s the band’s focused concoction of jagged guitars and airtight drumbeats that’s actually infecting the greater Los Angeles area and soon the world.” TOKION

with:
Low Vs. Diamond || Listen
Castaneda

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

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

Friday 10.12.07: 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 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+

Saturday 10.13.07: BROTHER READE

Brother Reade || Listen

On their debut full-length, Brother Reade creates a sound to write home about. The tracks, courtesy of Bobby Evans, are layered and variable, occasionally haunting, usually melodic, but still with that dirty southern bounce to get your hips shaking. Lyrically, Major Jamz’s flows are catchy and smooth, no doubt, but also thoughtful—dropping references from Hemmingway to Lou Reed to the Bible. See “The Marcie Song” for how to spit game; with a bass line as clever as the lyrics, the song features the sexiest flow I’ve heard in years. “No 9 to 5” will be the new theme song for anyone in the hustle, with the refrain, “This is for the strippers and the fans of the Clippers/’Cause life ain’t easy for y’all.” Rap Music is a welcome change from most of the blunts/bitches/ice braggadocio dominating the commercial airwaves; BR stays relevant while still having the beat and swagger to keep its legendary house parties going until four in the morning. – Urb

Plus Special Guests

9pm / $7 / 18+

Sunday 10.14.07: GRAND OLE ECHO

with:
Dead Rock West || Listen
David Serby || Listen
Vicki Hill
Dime Box Band || Listen

5pm / FREE / all ages

Sunday 10.14.07: JUNK: A ROCK OPERA @ Echoplex

Junk: A Rock Opera
By the Swedish Gold Record Band, Brainpool

One Night Only!
18 or Over!
No Cover!
Full Bar!

Be a Part of the Original Cast Recording – LIVE!

8pm / FREE / 18+

Sunday 10.14.07: PART TIME PUNKS w/ ARIEL PINK

Human Ear Music 1 Year Anniversary

with:
Ariel Pink
Bubonic Plague || Listen
Supercreep || Listen
Julia Holzer

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

10pm / $5 / 21+

Monday 10.15.07: BORIS and DAMON & NAOMI with KURIHARA @ Echoplex

Boris
The past 12 months have been increasingly kind to louder and more challenging artists, but even if Sunn0))) hadn’t droned onto discerning hipsters’ iPods, it’s not difficult to imagine the awesomeness of Pink– a supremely well-paced rock’n'roll album that’s quickly winning over even long-suffering metalphobes– helping these Japanese veterans leap-frog indie kids into a New York Times Arts & Leisure mention. If you don’t believe me, sneak a listen to the spaced-out seven-minute opener, which manages to combine the best elements of classic British shoegaze and Sigur Rós with bliss-out metal faves Jesu and Isis. Just don’t bank on the rest of the album to follow in its footsteps. After all, the three folks behind it– guitarist Wata, bassist/vocalist Takeshi, and drumming vocalist Atsuo– are the same atom-smashers who nicked their named from a Melvins song, operate the Walmart-friendly Fangs Anal Satan record label, and downshift from blown-out Motörhead to Earth on a dime. They’ve collaborated thrice with Merzbow, worshipped amplifiers with multitasking experimental rock legend Keiji Haino, and chilled with noise legend Masonna. Put simply, they’re too restless (and ambitious) to fixate on a single style. – Pitchfork

and:
Damon & Naomi with Kurihara
Oren Ambarchi

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

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

Monday 10.15.07: Monday Night Residency – CASTLEDOOR

Castledoor

“California’s Castledoor sounds like the crooning, soulful pop of Cold War Kids (courtesy of singer Nate Cole) meets the sunshine melodies of Rogue Wave (courtesy of guitar/keys Gabe Combs and everyone else). Not a bad hybrid if you’re looking for your band to “stick.” The six people in this young group utilize lots of pretty keys and synths to support their breezy guitar pop.” – Oh My Rockness

with:
Hearts of Palm UK
Princeton || Listen
Austin James Band || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

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+

Wednesday 10.17.07: 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+

Thursday 10.18.07: BENEFIT FOR KIME BUZZELLI w/ ENTRANCE

with:
Entrance || Listen
Winter Flowers || Listen
The Long Lost || Listen
Lavender Diamond || Listen
Blank Blue
Animal Magik

plus Special Guests

DJ sets by:
The Dublab Soundsystem

8pm / $10 minimum donation / 18+

Friday 10.19.07: KCRW Presents An Evening with MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO @ Echoplex

Meshell Ndegeocello || Listen

With the upcoming release of The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams (September 25 / Emarcy), Meshell Ndegeocello releases her 7th musical wonder to the world. Channelled through orchestral soundscapes and an unapologetic punk aesthetic, Meshell questions the inevitable, inconceivable brutality of the world with an arsenal of familiar themes: faith, rage, despair, fleeting joy and nagging doubt.

For those who jones for the devastating bass lines and aching lyrics of prior releases, The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams does not disappoint. With contributions from kindred musical souls Pat Metheny, saxophonist Oliver Lake, Doyle Bramhall II, vocalists Thandiswa Mazwai and Oumou Sangare, and keyboard heavyweights Jason Lindner and Robert Glasper, The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams is a continuation of the journey – a quest for truth, a plea for beauty, and an elegy for former selves. That said, the truest hallmark of a Meshell Ndegeocello record is in its honest evolution from the last, from any before, and as another stop on the way to transcendence.

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

7pm / $23 adv, $25 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+

Friday 10.19.07: 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 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+

Saturday 10.20.07: HANG THE DJS

with:
Pink Enemy || Listen
The Natural Disasters

plus DJs:
Mid City West (URB)
CTown (Anthem)
S!N (Era)
Dia (Sonic)

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 10.21.07: 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:
The Donkeys
Jeff Klein

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

Sunday 10.21.07: Echo and Part Time Punks Present – THE GO! TEAM @ Echoplex

The Go! Team || Listen

The ’80s party hip hop technicolor cheerleaders of the Go! Team wisely wait ’til July to officially release the first single from the album-that-has-no-name (yet), ’cause nothing says summer fun like booty shaking samples and a rapper named Ninja. But it’s the MySpace age, so get your listen on by heading over to their page. Sample lyric: “Hey ladies … Yeah … 1980s” … so you know what to expect. – Stereogum

with:
Bodies of Water || Listen
Grand Ole Party

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

9pm / $16 adv, $18 dos / 18+

Monday 10.22.07: Monday Night Residency – CASTLEDOOR

Castledoor

“California’s Castledoor sounds like the crooning, soulful pop of Cold War Kids (courtesy of singer Nate Cole) meets the sunshine melodies of Rogue Wave (courtesy of guitar/keys Gabe Combs and everyone else). Not a bad hybrid if you’re looking for your band to “stick.” The six people in this young group utilize lots of pretty keys and synths to support their breezy guitar pop.” – Oh My Rockness

with:
Twilight Sleep || Listen
The Flying Tourbillon

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 10.23.07: BLACK MOUNTAIN

Black Mountain || Listen

“Black Mountain hits somewhere between Jerk With a Bomb’s stellar but more straightforward Pyrokinesis and Pink Mountaintops’ smarmy, sex-laden brand of vespertine blues– only jacked up a good 20 decibels. McBean’s voice is pleasant and instantly recognizable; having such an established songwriter behind a freshman outing is a tremendous advantage, and Black Mountain seem to know it. When the band aren’t venturing on plush, static jams, his coy bluesy vocals tether the songs in familiar melodic space.” – Pitchfork

with:
The Cave Singers

9pm / $10 / 18+

Wednesday 10.24.07: Grand Ole Echo presents A FAREWELL SHOW TO TRACY HUFFMAN

with:
Mule

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

Wednesday 10.24.07: DUB CLUB presents The Original MICHIGAN & SMILEY @ 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 / $15 / 21+

Thursday 10.25.07: THE PIPETTES @ Echoplex

The Pipettes || Listen

Yes, the prefab Pipettes are a bunch of pretty ladies from the UK whose catchy songs revolve around a wafer-thin girl-power theme, but the modern take on ’60s-girl-group pop that they’re soaked in makes it a whole lot easier for cool kids to admit to liking them. Finally on American shores more than a year after its original release, We Are The Pipettes is what Phil Spector would be making these days if he started listening to a lot of indie pop and wasn’t so busy in court. Three polka-dotted women with perfectly suited voices front The Pipettes, but it’s the work of mastermind Monster Bobby and the rest of the backing band that elevates these 16 nuggets far beyond the disposable pop implied by the setup. – The AV Club

Plus Guests

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

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

Thursday 10.25.07: HELL YA! Night

with HELL YA! DEEJAYS

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

Friday 10.26.07: UNKLE @ Echoplex

UNKLE || Listen

“Relying on stoner and glam rock arrangements, albeit with the kind of beautifully nocturnal tinges UNKLE are known for, the album is a cool headed blitzkrieg of guitar worship and jackbooted beats. From the repetitive dance floor pound of “Restless” (with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme) to the acoustic gallop of “Burn My Shadow” (with Ian Astbury), War Stories is the perfect soundtrack to the coming apocalypse.” – URB

with:
Goon Moon (featuring Chris Goss)

9pm / $18 / 18+

Friday 10.26.07: CLUB UNDERGROUND w/ MONSTERS ARE WAITING

with:
Monsters Are Waiting || Listen
War Tapes

Plus Underground DJs

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

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

9:30pm / $10 adv, $12 dos til 11:30pm, then $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Saturday 10.27.07: DAVID KILGOUR

David Kilgour || Listen

“There’s something incandescent about David Kilgour’s sound, an echoey surreality, a spiritual immanence that can’t quite be contained in the simple melodies he strums and sings. Whether it’s how he records or how he plays or just how he is, his songs have always been more than the sum of their parts, luminous, mysterious and inexplicably gorgeous. Since his days with the Clean, Kilgour has recorded six full-length solo albums, full of light and dotted with epiphanies but couched in modest psyche-folk-pop terms.” – PopMatters

with:
Euros Child || Listen

7pm / $10 adv, $12 dos / all ages

Saturday 10.27.07: Haunted Hellbilly Halloween Hoedown with DEADBOLT

Deadbolt || Listen

with:
The Ghastly Ones || Listen
The Killdevils

10pm / $12 with costume, $15 without

Sunday 10.28.07: GRAND OLE ECHO – Last one of the season!

Mike Stinson || Listen
Triple Chicken Foot || Listen

5pm / FREE / all ages

Sunday 10.28.07: PART TIME PUNKS

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

10pm / $5 / 21+

Monday 10.29.07: Monday Night Residency – CASTLEDOOR

Castledoor

“California’s Castledoor sounds like the crooning, soulful pop of Cold War Kids (courtesy of singer Nate Cole) meets the sunshine melodies of Rogue Wave (courtesy of guitar/keys Gabe Combs and everyone else). Not a bad hybrid if you’re looking for your band to “stick.” The six people in this young group utilize lots of pretty keys and synths to support their breezy guitar pop.” – Oh My Rockness

with:
Aaron Espinoza of Earlimart
Frankel

8pm / FREE for 21+, $5 under / all ages

Tuesday 10.30.07: THURSTON MOORE – TREES OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY TOUR @ Echoplex

Thurston Moore

“Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore is one of the coolest dudes alive. He’s heard everything, he knows everyone, and there’s simply no getting around the fact that he’s been an expert witness to just about every major movement in rock music throughout the past thirty years. And rather than rest on his body of work, Thurston continues to push boundaries, continuing to put out great albums with Sonic Youth, engage in various side gigs, and run his record label, Ecstatic Peace.

Moore has a busy summer ahead, and not only due to an expansive tour peppered with performances of Sonic Youth’s 1988 classic Daydream Nation (including one such run-through at our Pitchfork Music Festival). He’s also getting ready for the September 18 release of a solo album on Ecstatic Peace, titled Trees Outside the Academy.” – Pitchfork

with:
Scores (Featuring Christina Carter and Heather Leigh Murray)

8:30pm / $18adv, $20 dos / 18+

Tuesday 10.30.07: Echo & Modular Records Present – NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB

New Young Pony Club || Listen

Forget New Rave. New Young Pony Club have just started New Disco. Fantastic Playroom makes no bones about exactly what the band want to achieve. These songs are all solid pop nuggets, dripping in innuendo, squelchy bass and danceable rhythms.

Having already made something of an impression with earlier singles Ice Cream (you’re probably familiar with this via the Intel adverts) and The Bomb, surely the only way is up for a band already being heralded in trendy circles as the next big thing. – MusicOMH

With:
Muscles || Listen

8:30 / $15 adv, $18 dos / 18+

Wednesday 10.31.07: TRISTEZA

Tristeza || Listen

Tristeza is an instrumental band, eschewing vocals in exchange for rich textural instrumental soundscapes. And, yes, these soundscapes evoke colors, an aural equivalent to a Mark Rothko exercise in monochromes or collisions of color blocks. This band is all about texture, and the guitar lines mesh with the bass and drums and assorted other instruments like layers of paint on a canvas creating. Up close, paintings often want to be tactile, appealing not just to our sense of color, but also to our impulse to touch and caress to feel the grain of the paints on the canvas. On A Colores, the members of Tristeza do just this, inviting us to sink ourselves into their compositions and immerse ourselves in their textures. – Prefix Mag

with:
Aquaduct || Listen
Georgie James || Listen

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

Wednesday 10.31.07: 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+