Thursday 11.01.07: YOU ME & IOWA
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Featuring a good mix of indie, pop, and dance rock, You, Me, & Iowa stand out from much of the LA indie scene. They make simple, fun, and meaningful rock music that could be adaptable by hipsters, teens, and college kids alike (and everyone else, for that matter). Their short, but impressive six song set featured a mix of songs from their debut EP Bigger Than Boston and a taste of new material from their upcoming, yet to be titled full length. Their lyrics are reminiscent of early Weezer circa Pinkerton with catchy indie pop melodies the likes of Death Cab for Cutie with a hint of prog thrown in to the mix. The band’s strongest point is their ability for great hooks with harmonizing guitars and synthesizers. – Billboard’s Mobile Beat
9pm / $7 / 18+
Friday 11.16.07: UNDERGROUND w/ ARMY NAVY
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with:
Army Navy
The Strange Boys
Plus Underground DJs
Spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam
FMI: ClubUnderground.net
9pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+
Friday 11.09.07: UNDERGROUND w/ CELEBRATION
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with:
Celebration || Listen
Kill Me Tomorrow || Listen
Plus Underground DJs
Spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam
FMI: ClubUnderground.net
9pm / $10 / 18+
Friday 11.02.07: CLUB UNDERGROUND w/ MEZZANINE OWLS
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with:
Mezzanine Owls || Listen
Black Kites || 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+
Thursday 11.08.07: GREAT NORTHERN @ Echoplex
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Great Northern || Listen || Watch
On the cover of Great Northern’s debut album, Trading Twilight for Daylight, sits a barren tree backed by an arctic landscape. Such a dormant image is ironic considering the band’s lively and articulately layered sound, with traditional instrumentation being complemented by the likes of strings, brass, and other orchestral elements that are often considered too complex or overbearing to even visit the usually simplistic world of indie pop. Demonstrating the ability to take risks, Great Northern are one of the more capable bands of their element I have heard lately. Based out of Los Angeles, Great Northern was formed due to the strong friendship of pianist Rachel Stolte and guitarist Solon Bixler, both proficient songwriters and lead vocalists. – Obscure Sound
with:

Robbers on High Street || Listen || Watch
Each of the eleven tracks within Grand Animals can be broken down and taken apart as a stand-alone piece – individually they hint at manner of pop rock sounds – but none carries enough weight to eclipse the album. From the simple pop rock of “Crown Victoria” to the smooth nighttime pop of “Nasty Numbers,” the Robbers shift left and right across the style spectrum with ease. The album’s cover, of embroidered throw pillows emblazed with the Robbers’ faces, suggests Grand Animals might be suited for muzak at a soft-spoken retirement home, but an early 60’s sock hop on the wrong side of the tracks would be more appropriate. – www.lostatsea.com
plus:
The Jealous Girlfriends || Listen
@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
7pm / $12 / all ages
Tuesday 11.06.07: TUNNG
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The music Genders and Lindsay forged together – they attribute their early work-rate to their fear of startling a semi-clothed woman if they attempted to exit the studio – comes under the banner of folktronica. It’s an awkward-sounding name that smacks of faddishness, but even Genders and Lindsay admit it fits the sound Tunng have honed over three albums, matching Genders’ woody brand of songwriting with skittering electronics, snatched samples of film dialogue, ambient noise and arcane instrumentation – their third album, Good Arrows, opens with the sound of a hammered dulcimer. – The Guardian
with:
Big Search
Karin Tatoyan || Listen
8:30pm / $10 / 18+
Saturday 11.03.07: IRREGULAR WINE TASTING @ Echoplex
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IRREGULAR WINE TASTING presents
Six Wines from Spain
Screening of “Un Chien Andalou”
Wine information from the Cheese Store’s Julian Davies
plus DJ Cuz’n Roy
@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
RSVP at:
irregularwinetasting@yahoo.com
Irregular Wine Tasting on Myspace
8pm / $20 / 21+
Sunday 10.28.07: GRAND OLE ECHO – Last one of the season!
Posted by damara - filed in eventsMike Stinson || Listen
Triple Chicken Foot || Listen
5pm / FREE / all ages
Tuesday 11.13.07: Spaceland Productions and KCRW present – SPIRITUALIZED @ Vista Theatre
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Spiritualized || Listen
Performing the music of Spiritualized, Spaceman 3 and others. Accompanied by strings and gospel singers.
with:
Simple Kid || Listen
@ Vista Theatre
4473 Sunset Drive @ Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA, 90027
7pm / $32 adv, $37 dos / All Ages
Monday 11.12.07: Spaceland Productions and KCRW present – SPIRITUALIZED @ Vista Theatre
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Spiritualized || Listen
Performing the music of Spiritualized, Spaceman 3 and others. Accompanied by strings and gospel singers.
with:
Simple Kid || Listen
@ Vista Theatre
4473 Sunset Drive @ Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA, 90027
7pm / $32 adv, $37 dos / All Ages
Thursday 11.29.07: The Return of Josh Haden’s SPAIN @ Echo
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Performing “Blue Moods of Spain” in its entirety
‘The Blue Moods Of Spain’ demonstrated what happened when the son of a jazzbo set forth to create a downcast, West Coast take on pure atmosphere. The cover art’s Blue Note quotation and bandleader/bassist Josh Haden’s kinship to Ornette Coleman bassist Charlie Haden put the preconception of “jazz” on the tip of many listeners’ tongues. But ‘Blue Moods’ was less about improvisational flair than it was about evoking a smoky, confessional vibe. Thankfully, all that ambience was backed up by considerable chops and Haden’s bottom-of-the-bottle baritone. Despite its immersion in the hipster Silverlake scene of the early ’90s (which included That Dog, featuring Haden’s sisters, Petra and Rachel), Spain had little patience for indie-rock preciousness.
with:
The Minor Canon || Listen
Let’s Go Sailing || Listen
8pm / $13 adv, $15 dos / all ages
Friday 11.16.07: Echo, Process Media, Flaunt & Cold Sweat present: YA HO WA 13 @ Echoplex
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Ya Ho Wa 13
To celebrate the launch of the new Process Media book The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13, and The Source Family by Isis Aquarian (Pub date: October 25, 2007), the author and a dozen original Source Family members from the legendary LA cult/commune will mark a return to Los Angeles in early November for rare live performances and book signings. Sure to please collectors and fans, two events mark the first public performance in thirty years of the Family’s legendary rock band Ya Ho Wa 13. The live music event at The Echoplex on November 16 will also feature the seminal proto-punk psychedelic garage rocker, Sky Saxon and The Seeds—Saxon was also a devoted “member of The Source Family. In January 2008, the Ya Ho Wa 13 classic record PENETRATION will be re-released in the U.S. for the first time since the (now extremely collectable) original 1000 print-run LP sold out through the Source restaurant for $1 each!) in 1974. Cold Sweat in Los Angeles will release the CD and Tee Pee Records out of Brooklyn will release the Vinyl version.
Plus special guests:
Sky Saxon & The Seeds || Listen
Entrance || Listen
Hecuba
@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, Ca 90026
8pm / $16adv, $18dos / 18+
Sunday 11.11.07: 30 Year Anniversary & Book Release Celebrating the Infamous Punk Club THE MASQUE @ Echoplex
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30 Year Anniversary show and book release celebrating the infamous punk club THE MASQUE
Music (reprinted from the LA WEEKLY 11/9/07 edition)
The Basement Photos
Lighting the Masque
By FALLING JAMES
“I don’t wanna go down to the basement/There’s something down there.” —The Ramones
It was just a stripped-down basement under the Pussycat Theater in an alley off of Cherokee Avenue in Hollywood, but the Masque was a literal hothouse in which about a hundred punks briefly bloomed, with their messy assignations and brash experiments in volume and nihilism in the late-’70s merging into one great big purifying brushfire that consumed the worlds of music, art and fashion. The Masque was just a few steps down from Hollywood Boulevard, across from Boardner’s, but it might as well have been a million miles away from the bewildered tourists looking for the tracks of long-vanished movie stars on the scuzzy Walk of Fame. The club was hidden in plain sight — at least for a little while, until the growing numbers of freaks, loners, CalArts students, glam refugees and leather-jacketed punks attracted the less-than-protective nightstick interventions of the LAPD. “What we wear is dangerous gear/It’ll get you picked up anywhere,” as the Clash once sang about their own “City of the Dead.”

X-Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom, John Doe, D.J. Bonebrake (Photo by Frank Gargani)
Brendan Mullen was a self-described “dirty, hapless schmuck from Scotland” looking for a place to live and bang on his drums when he “tumbled into the basement of the Hollywood Center Building.” As he recounts in the massive new photo book Live at the Masque: Nightmare in Punk Alley (Gingko Press/R77 Publishing), which he compiled with Roger Gastman, he ended up managing the 10,000-square-foot space and hosted his first parties with the Skulls and the Controllers in August 1977. Despite ongoing hassles with the L.A. police, fire and building & safety departments and eventual relocations to other sites, Mullen was able to keep the Masque operating until December 1979, booking most of the major early L.A. punk legends (the Weirdos, Screamers, the Alley Cats, Germs, X, the Go-Go’s, the Dickies, U.X.A., Black Randy & the Metro Squad), simpatico San Franciscan visitors (the Avengers, Dead Kennedys) and the first wave of the burgeoning suburban pop-punk and hardcore invasion (the Crowd, Suburban Lawns, Flyboys, Middle Class, the Last, Black Flag).

The Bags: Marc Morbid, a.k.a Marc Moreland, Nickey Beat, Pat Bag, Alice Bag, Craig Lee (Photo by Jenny Lens)
Mullen calls the book a “narrative by image,” and the cumulative effect of its flood of photographs, fliers, scraps of reviews, band contracts and other ephemera is nostalgically thrilling yet rarely sentimental, with some artfully dramatic and iconic photos from Melanie Nissen, Ann Summa, Herb Wrede, Donna Santisi, Frank Gargani, Jenny Lens, Al Flipside, Jules Bates and the Flesh Eaters’ Chris D., among others. Beyond revealing charismatic performers like the Screamers’ Tomata du Plenty, Alice Bag, the Germs’ Darby Crash and the other “red-eyed legends of the night before” (as Crash put it) in their prime, Live at the Masque also documents L.A.’s twisted mutation of cut-&-pasted-&-sewn-together DayGlo fashion. Punks were considered “ugly” with their butch haircuts and ripped-up clothes, but the photographic evidence here reveals how alluring scene queens Trudie Arguelles, Patricia Morrison, Pleasant Gehman and Exene Cervenka looked in their repurposed vintage frocks, torn fishnets and lavishly overdone Cleopatra makeup — especially when compared to the blandly ubiquitous earthy hippie fashions of the time. Even as the musicians were transforming themselves into “colorful thrashed parrots,” as Beck (who visited the Masque as a 7-year-old) later described it, the tome reminds us that many of the kids in the crowd still had shaggy hair and boogie-rock attire in those semi-innocent days before the punk fashion rules were firmly codified.

Geza X (Photo by Michael Yampolsky)
{LAW_PAGE_BREAK} To celebrate the Masque’s 30th anniversary and the book’s publication, the Echoplex is presenting an all-day marathon with more-than-slight returns from many of the Class of ’77’s survivors, including extremely rare reunions by the Plugz (whose original lineup will reprise their sardonically brilliant and criminally out-of-print debut LP, Electrify Me, which was the first indie studio album released by an L.A. punk band), the Eyes (with Joe Ramirez trading off zippy, wickedly witty tunes like “Disneyland” with the comparatively seedy kidnap-victim rant “Don’t Talk to Me” from guitarist Charlotte Caffey, later of the Go-Go’s), pop-punk-surf dazzlers the Flyboys, Billy Bones’ reincarnation of the Skulls, the Controllers, the Deadbeats and others.
The Masque Anniversary Party at the Echoplex, 1154 Glendale Ave., Echo Park; Sun., Nov. 11, 3 p.m.; all ages.

Bruce Barf (Photo by Michael Yampolsky)

Bryan Gregory and Lux Interior of the Cramps (Photo by Frank Gargani)

The Go-Go’s: Jane Drano, Margot Olaverra, Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Elissa Bello (Photographer unknown)
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John Curry, a.k.a. Jon Boy, of the Flyboys (Photographer unknown)

Alice Bag (Photo by Jenny Lens)

Lorna Doom and Darby Crash of The Germs (Photo by Ladd McPartland)
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Billy Bones, a.k.a Steve Fortuna, Marc Morbid, a.k.a. Marc Moreland (Photo by Michael Yampolsky)

Craig Lee (Photo by Al Flipside)

Exene Cervenka and Trudie Arguelles performing as the Metro Squad’s backup singers, The Blackettes. (Photo by Ladd McPartland)

Backstage at the Whisky (Photo by Jenny Lens)

Center: Rik L. Rik of F-World (Photo by Jenny Lens)

Belinda Carlisle (Photo by Jenny Lens)
Curated by Brendan Mullen
Schedule:
3:30pm – 4:30pm: Classic live footage of the Avengers, The Weirdos,
F Word, Screamers
4:40pm – 5:00pm: The Diffs covering The Germs
5:10pm – 5:25pm: The Dogs
5:40pm – 6:00pm: Wild Weekend does The Zeroes
6:10pm – 6:25pm: Deadbeats
6:40pm – 6:55pm: Billy Bones – original singer from The Skulls
6:55 pm- 7:25pm: Shock / Holly Vincent
7:35 pm -7:55pm: The Crowd
8:00pm – 8:20pm: The Flyboys
8:30pm – 8:45pm: Controllers
9:00pm – 9:30pm: The Eyes featuring Charlotte Caffey, Dj Bonebrake
and Joe Ramirez
9:40pm – 10:15pm: The Plugz featuring Tito Larriva, Charlie Quintana
and Barry McBride performing “Electrify Me”
10:30pm – 10:50pm: The Stitches
11:00pm – 11:30pm: The Gears
Schedule Subject to Change
@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, Ca 90026
3pm / $18adv, $20 dos / all ages
Sunday 10.14.07: JUNK: A ROCK OPERA @ Echoplex
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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+
Saturday 10.27.07: Haunted Hellbilly Halloween Hoedown with DEADBOLT
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with:
The Ghastly Ones || Listen
The Killdevils
10pm / $12 with costume, $15 without
Thursday 10.11.07: ART CRAWL Kick Off Party w/
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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+
Friday 11.09.07: JESU @ Echoplex
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Justin Broadrick’s ongoing quest to spend the metal-cred capital he earned in Napalm Death and Godflesh like so much blood money has been both compelling and damaging to purists’ psyches. The noisy yet stubbornly melodic shoegaze anthems he creates as Jesu mercilessly drag his audience to an appreciation of a densely layered, deliberately emotional sound. For a good time, fire up some message boards and watch partisans tie themselves in knots over Conqueror’s decidedly pop bent and feather-light vocals. Broadrick floats all over the place, but even the outraged can’t help but worship the heft that keeps his whole production aloft. – Pitchfork
with:
These Arms Are Snakes || Listen
Oxbow || Listen
@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
8:30pm / $14 / 18+
Wednesday 10.31.07: TRISTEZA
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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+
10.08.07: Monday Night Residency – CASTLEDOOR
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“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+
Thursday 10.25.07: HELL YA! Night
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with HELL YA! DEEJAYS
8pm / FREE for 21+, $5 for under 21 / 18+
Wednesday 10.24.07: Grand Ole Echo presents A FAREWELL SHOW TO TRACY HUFFMAN
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Mule
8:30pm / $5 / 18+
Saturday 10.20.07: HANG THE DJS
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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..
10pm / $8 / 18+
Tuesday 10.09.07: CAPTAIN #1
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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
Posted by damara - filed in eventsFortunately, 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+
Sunday 10.21.07: BISHOP ALLEN
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“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+
Tuesday 10.30.07: Echo & Modular Records Present – NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB
Posted by damara - filed in eventsForget 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
8:30 / $15 adv, $18 dos / 18+
Thursday 10.25.07: THE PIPETTES @ Echoplex
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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
Saturday 10.13.07: BROTHER READE
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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+
Thursday 10.18.07: BENEFIT FOR KIME BUZZELLI w/ ENTRANCE
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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+
Sunday 10.07.07: GRAND OLE ECHO
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Josh Davis
Pat Johnson || Listen
Shoestring Strap || Listen
The Burlington Family
5pm / FREE / all ages
Sunday 10.14.07: GRAND OLE ECHO
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Dead Rock West || Listen
David Serby || Listen
Vicki Hill
Dime Box Band || Listen
5pm / FREE / all ages
Sunday 10.28.07: PART TIME PUNKS
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resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop
10pm / $5 / 21+
Sunday 10.14.07: PART TIME PUNKS w/ ARIEL PINK
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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+
Sunday 10.07.07: PART TIME PUNKS – Smiths Nite w/ THE CHAPIN SISTERS
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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+
Tuesday 10.23.07: BLACK MOUNTAIN
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“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+
Monday 10.29.07: Monday Night Residency – CASTLEDOOR
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“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
Monday 10.22.07: Monday Night Residency – CASTLEDOOR
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“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+
Monday 10.15.07: Monday Night Residency – CASTLEDOOR
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“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+
Monday 10.01.07: Monday Night Residency – CASTLEDOOR
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“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+
Saturday 10.27.07: DAVID KILGOUR
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“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
Thursday 10.04.07: MORIS TEPPER
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“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+
Saturday 10.06.07: Echo & IHEARTCOMIX present The New Check Yo Ponytail w/ SINDEN
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with:
SINDEN
Red Foxx
Gina Turner
And Special Guests
Plus DJs:
Franki Chan
Paparazzi
9pm / $10 / 18+
Monday 10.08.07: HOLLY GOLIGHTLY & THE BROKEOFFS
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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+
Saturday 10.06.07: SMOG SESSIONS w/ BENGA & HATCHA
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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+
Friday 10.19.07: KCRW Presents An Evening with MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO @ Echoplex
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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+
Thursday 10.11.07: THE GRAY KID
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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+
Tuesday 10.02.07: DIVISION DAY (Record Release Show)
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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+
Friday 10.12.07: Echo & KROQ present – THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT @ Echoplex
Posted by damara - filed in eventsThe 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+
Wednesday 10.03.07: DATAROCK
Posted by damara - filed in eventsDatarock || 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 10.31.07: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex
Posted by damara - filed in eventswith 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 10.24.07: DUB CLUB presents The Original MICHIGAN & SMILEY @ Echoplex
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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+
Wednesday 10.17.07: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex
Posted by damara - filed in eventswith 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 10.10.07: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex
Posted by damara - filed in eventswith 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 10.03.07: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex
Posted by damara - filed in eventswith 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+
Friday 10.26.07: CLUB UNDERGROUND w/ MONSTERS ARE WAITING
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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+
Friday 10.19.07: CLUB UNDERGROUND
Posted by damara - filed in eventsSpinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam
FMI: ClubUnderground.net
10pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+
Friday 10.12.07: CLUB UNDERGROUND
Posted by damara - filed in eventsSpinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam
FMI: ClubUnderground.net
10pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+
Friday 10.05.07: CLUB UNDERGROUND presents THE SCREENING
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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+
Friday 10.05.07: BILL CALLAHAN @ Echoplex
Posted by damara - filed in eventsSince 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+
Tuesday 10.30.07: THURSTON MOORE – TREES OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY TOUR @ Echoplex
Posted by damara - filed in events“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+
Friday 10.26.07: UNKLE @ Echoplex
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“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+
Monday 10.15.07: BORIS and DAMON & NAOMI with KURIHARA @ Echoplex
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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
Sunday 10.21.07: Echo and Part Time Punks Present – THE GO! TEAM @ Echoplex
Posted by damara - filed in eventsThe ’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+
Friday 10.19.07: SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS
Posted by damara - filed in eventsSouthern 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
Posted by damara - filed in eventsBlack 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
Posted by damara - filed in events“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
Posted by damara - filed in events“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
Posted by damara - filed in eventsGruff 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+




























