the echo and echoplex

B-Side Players || Listen
The B-Side Players make music without borders or boundaries. The band most recently released their seventh album, Fire In The Youth, (their first major record deal on Concord Records’ legendary imprint “Concord Picante”), incorporating the sounds of Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico and Brazil with a seamless blend of funk, rock, jazz and hip-hop rhythms. The band has been laying down their own inimitable global funk since they came together in 1994 and their albums have showcased a band with a restless musical intelligence, effortlessly blending genres to fashion their own forward-thinking, Latin flavored, future-funk. Fire In The Youth was produced by the band, with Musical Direction from Quetzal Flores, Bandleader of the Los Angeles roots-rock group, Quetzal.

Mentiritas
Mentiritas is a funky, Latin infused project that features members of Ozomatli, Beastie Boys, CAVA and Yeska. We’re taking you back with this one ya’ll…get ready!

Plus Resident DJs

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027

¡Descarga! is a monthly Afro-Latin music gathering for the people. This event is an alternative to the commercial salsa nights that have dominated the LA scene for years. Resident DJs Sloe Poke, Mando, Bobby Soul, Loslito, Azul and Mexican Dubwiser spin classic salsa and cumbia; plus merengue, punta and reggaeton. With live bands gracing the stage at midnight at nearly every show, it has become the taste-making New York to L.A. soiree, running over 5 years strong.

FMI:
www.descargaclub.com
Descarga on Myspace

9pm / $10 / 21+

with:
Men (JD & Johanna of Le Tigre)
Anamanaguchi
Moonrats
Abe Vigoda

plus DJs:
Franki Chan
Paparazzi

9pm / $10 / 18+

with:
The Gray Kid (with full band) || Listen
Happy Hollows || Listen

Plus resident DJs

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

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

8:30pm / $8 til 11:30pm, $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 after / 18+

with:
Jail Weddings
Man/Mission

Shoplifters and voidoids, tune in and turn on.
For fans of Richard Hell, Radio Birdman, The Saints and The Ponys.
For fans of The Walkmen, we say: fuck off.

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

with:
Spindrift || Listen
LSD & The Search for God
The Vandelles

Drop acid much? The rumour mill grists and grinds out facts daily like acid’s on the upswing, enjoying a rebirth, ripping the pants off repression and all that.
Well, even if you trainspotters just fancy a spot of shoegazing or rural psychedelia, we say: come out come out wherever you are!!!!
In short, soundtracks for monster movies and mushroom heads.

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

with:
Temporary War & Peace - ex-SHARP EASE & LONGSTOCKING & FUCKIN’ A
Underground Railroad to Candyland - members of FYP+DIOS MALOS

Paloma and co. from The Sharp Ease brings her jittery agitpop and appropriately teenage riot back to Part Time Punks, with her new band. The racket starts here. PLUS riot grrls from FYP + Dios Malos unite to subvert and distort, churn and whirl.

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

First Fridays - Dinner, Discussion, Music & More

with:
Sea Wolf || Listen
Afternoons

@ Natural History Museum
900 Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007

FMI: http://www.nhm.org/firstfridays/

5:30pm - Tour
6:30pm - Discussion
8:00pm - Music

5pm / Adult $9, students (w. ID) $6.50, Members FREE / All Ages

The Mars Volta || Listen

SOLD OUT

8pm / $30 / all ages

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+

with:
Chinna Smith
Kiddus I

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $15 / 21+

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+

with:
David Hillyard
Jah Faith

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $10 / 21+

with:

Ranking Joe
Joseph Jackson in Kingston on 1st June 1959, Joe got his start on record with the founding father of Jamaican music, producer Coxsone Dodd (Studio 1), cutting “Gun Court” in 1975 as Little Joe. He then recorded for a variety of producers including Bunny Lee, Watty Burnett and former African Brother Derrick Howard. By 1976 he was deejaying on the legendary sound system of Daddy U-Roy, Stur-Gav Hi-Fi, and recording for producer Prince Tony Robinson. His first album for that producer was released in 1977 and included hits like “John Saw Them Coming” and “Queen Majesty Chapter 3″. He continued to deejay with U-Roy’s set, building up a formidable reputation as a live deejay. He began recording hits for Sonia Pottinger (”Shine Eye Gal” 1978) and was the first deejay to record for Sly & Robbie’s Taxi label when he versioned Gregory Isaacs’ hit “Soon Forward” (”Stop Your Coming & Come” in 1978).

He recorded for Joe Gibbs (”Leave Fi Mi Girl Arleen”), and Dennis Brown (the excellent “Around The World” album) and moved to another sound system, the newly-reconstructed Ray Symbolic Hi-Fi with Jah Screw as selector. The combination proved unbeatable in the dance and the sound was Champion of 1980. The same year the set became the first to tour outside Jamaica, completing a sell-out tour of the UK.

Joe became one of the most influential pupils of the great U-Roy, introducing the so-called ‘fast style’ to rapturous dancehall audiences.

Come check out a master on the microphone!

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 / free before 10, $5 after / 21+

with:
Sky Parade || Listen

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+

Radar Bros. || Listen

The DJ correctly calls the Radar Bros.’ style a throwback to early 1970s Pink Floyd – a “dreamy, folk sound.” Lake Life (not Pomona as NPR labeled the track) doesn’t stray far from that brand. Like most everything the Radar Bros. have done, Lake Life coasts gently on a hypnotizing guitar line and a swing-like slow-motion drum rhythm, following my belief that the best way to describe the band’s deliberate pacing is to imagine the tempo running underwater. - So Much Silence

with:
Brian Aubert
Everest || Listen
Adeline

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

Radar Bros. || Listen

The DJ correctly calls the Radar Bros.’ style a throwback to early 1970s Pink Floyd – a “dreamy, folk sound.” Lake Life (not Pomona as NPR labeled the track) doesn’t stray far from that brand. Like most everything the Radar Bros. have done, Lake Life coasts gently on a hypnotizing guitar line and a swing-like slow-motion drum rhythm, following my belief that the best way to describe the band’s deliberate pacing is to imagine the tempo running underwater. - So Much Silence

with:
Holloys
Karin Tatoyan || Listen
Tigers Can Bite You || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Radar Bros. || Listen

The DJ correctly calls the Radar Bros.’ style a throwback to early 1970s Pink Floyd – a “dreamy, folk sound.” Lake Life (not Pomona as NPR labeled the track) doesn’t stray far from that brand. Like most everything the Radar Bros. have done, Lake Life coasts gently on a hypnotizing guitar line and a swing-like slow-motion drum rhythm, following my belief that the best way to describe the band’s deliberate pacing is to imagine the tempo running underwater. - So Much Silence

with:
Tables & Chairs
Correatown || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Radar Bros. || Listen

The DJ correctly calls the Radar Bros.’ style a throwback to early 1970s Pink Floyd – a “dreamy, folk sound.” Lake Life (not Pomona as NPR labeled the track) doesn’t stray far from that brand. Like most everything the Radar Bros. have done, Lake Life coasts gently on a hypnotizing guitar line and a swing-like slow-motion drum rhythm, following my belief that the best way to describe the band’s deliberate pacing is to imagine the tempo running underwater. - So Much Silence

with:
Le Switch || Listen
Twilight Sleep || Listen
Wrong Way Driver

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

MGMT || Watch

MGMT – commonly known as the Management — is Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, two self-described art provocateurs who met as undergraduates at Wesleyan University in 2002. … With enough groove to please the play-something-we-can-dance-to crowd and enough sardonic wit to satisfy even the hippest hipsters, MGMT immediately gained a hardcore cult following after the release of Time to Pretend. “Let’s make some music / Makes some money / Find some models for wives,” they sing on the EP’s title track, a dark take on the rock’n'roll fantasy life of excess and disillusionment. The infectious “Kids,” consisting purely of synth and drum machine, just might be destined to become one of the most ironic party anthems ever, sporting a chorus of “Control yourself” that begs to be sung along to with total reckless abandon. On their forthcoming debut LP, Oracular Spectacular, MGMT take things in a more psychedelic-pop, guitar-driven direction. The result? An even better cut of “Time to Pretend,” plus great new tracks like “Weekend Wars.” — Spin.com

Yeasayer || Listen

Naysayers accuse indie rock of being cautious and precious, but something remarkably contrary yet idiomatic still emerges now and then. Such as Yeasayer, whose peculiar, positivity-powered debut creates order from a mess of chants, tambourines, freak folk, and spacey atmospherics. One minute it’s a worry-free TV on the Radio (”2080″); the next, a Crazy Horse guitar roar; and later, a touching campfire chorus praying, “In my short life, I have met so many people I deeply care for.” Near nonsense rarely feels this rich and unambiguous. - spin.com

plus:

Port O’Brien || Listen

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blavd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

7:30pm / $8 adv, $10 dos / all ages

Hey Willpower || Listen

Justin Timberlake may have initially brought sexy back, but then he had to go and get all preoccupied with his so-called “love.” Luckily, Hey Willpower — the electronic dirty duo featuring Will Schwartz of Imperial Teen and Tomo Yasuda of Tussle — pick up the sleazy slack. Here on “Uh-Uh-Uh,” the beat rolls over a simple snare count and innocent-enough synthesized chimes, but at the first entrance of Schwartz’s evocative voice the song’s G-rating goes out the window. Chock full of double entendres and crass come-ons, all executed over a dance track in a J.T.-esque sex voice, “Uh-Uh-Uh” leaves little to the imagination, exuding confidence in its sexual sound effects. - Spin.com

with:
Rafter Roberts || Listen

CANCELLED

British Sea Power || Listen

Since their 2003 debut LP, these Brighton-based lads have developed their own eccentric rock curriculum, and here they touch on the topics of Nobel-winning physicist Niels Bohr, the great skua seabird, Kevlar, and the flooding of an island in the River Thames. But with guitars that ring and roar and percussion that gushes and thunders, they finally turn their lyrical peculiarities into a legitimate churn of ideas, rather than a posturing diversion. - Spin

with:
Colourmusic
Castledoor

8:30pm / $12 adv, $14 dos / 18+

St. Vincent || Listen

There’s a point where too much happiness turns into madness, and St. Vincent’s multi-instrumentalist Annie Clark knows this place well from her days spent backing The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens. Clark’s debut, Marry Me, seduces with one hand and stabs with the other. The title track—with its torch-song piano (provided by David Bowie’s pianist, Mike Garson) and Clark’s rich mezzo-soprano urging “I’ll be so good to you”—borders on cloying until the line “You won’t realize I’m gone” slips out the back door. Clark is as adept with these sudden reveals as she is with arranging the many strings, choirs, and virtuosic guitar lines that make up Marry Me, from the childish melody of the Kate Bush-esque opener “Now Now” to the skuzzy, distorted throb of “Your Lips Are Red.” The album—like its thrillingly schizoid centerpiece, “Paris Is Burning”—is simultaneously playful and foreboding, leaving listeners perpetually on edge, waiting for that earsplitting grin to turn maniacal. - The Onion AV Club

with:
Foreign Born || Listen

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $13 /All Ages

Tilly & The Wall || Listen

Tilly and the Wall’s music is childlike in the sense that it celebrates the tactile and emotional world with the verve of unjaded perception; organs of pure sense probe the enticing recesses of the night. Their music is a prism that refracts the wonder of the human pageant from various angles, making familiar colors bend fantastically. It doesn’t deny harsh realties– Tilly’s world of teenage knife fights and drunken bra-clasp fumblings doesn’t elide homeless women walking the snow; a prostitute with “money spilling out of her hands;” “the newly born crying, realizing what life is” or a grandfather’s weathered eyes. Tilly blurs them all into a giddy compendium of humanity, at once acknowledging and renouncing the possibility of despair: “The world is big and it’s got a loose heart/ So you either start screaming or start singing.” - Pitchfork

with:
Capgun Coup
Buddy || Listen

8pm / $13adv, $15 dos / all ages

Spaceland Productions Presents:

The Chapin Sisters || Listen

@ Pershing Square
532 South Olive St
Los Angeles, CA 90013

FMI: Downtown On Ice

8pm / FREE / all ages

CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN

@ Pershing Square
532 South Olive St
Los Angeles, CA 90013

FMI: Downtown On Ice

8pm / FREE / all ages

Spaceland Productions Presents:

The Henry Clay People || Listen
Bollweevil

@ Pershing Square
532 South Olive St
Los Angeles, CA 90013

FMI: Downtown On Ice

8pm / FREE / all ages

Spaceland Productions Presents:The Movies
Fool’s Gold

@ Pershing Square
532 South Olive St
Los Angeles, CA 90013

FMI: Downtown On Ice

8pm / FREE / all ages

with:
Versa Vice
Light FM
On the Surface
Lightnin’ Woodcock Trio
The Sea of Cortez || Listen
Ashley Winters
Jeffery Davies

9pm / FREE for 21+, $5 for 18+ / 18+

White Williams

Mostly, though, Williams is a groove-obssesser working through his influences, and doing it with enough restraint and creativity to work them into his songs, leaving the showiness to his cover models. Smoke’s signposts form a coherent musical worldview: “In the Club” is T. Rex’s “The Motivator” at 16 rpm, “Going Down” and “Route to Palm” work in the 1970s West African guitar colorations that Dirty Projectors, Vampire Weekend, and Islands have been exploring lately, “New Violence” hurtles forward with a motorik bassline, and opener “Headlines” plays like a bubblegum version of Brian Eno’s “Baby’s on Fire”. - Pitchfork

with:
Magic Bullets || Listen
The Blakes

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

The Teenagers || Listen

Seeing the world through teen-tinted glasses The Teenagers (lead singer Quentin Delafon, guitarist / synth man Dorian Dumont and bassist Michael Szpiner) remind us what it’s like to be young. The lyrically ingenious Quentin interweaves snapshots of Johansson’s films as well as teen magazine style “factoids” over beautifully crunchy guitar and soaring synths. This track is like reading the secret teenage diary of ELO with Kim Wilde for company. - Insound

with:
Funeral Party
Mezzanine Owls || Listen
DJ Paul V.

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

OM || Listen

While rhythm sections tend to play as if periods were the only punctuation mark, Om break space with commas, semicolons, and side clauses– their storytelling prowess and dramatic timing rival a glacier’s or a narcoleptic’s. But again, that’s not the point. Om is a pointless band, and that’s high praise. If Pilgrimage holds a discernable achievement, it’s that it forges a sense of intricacy– and a balance between the crushing and the meditative– that Om struggled with on Variations on a Theme and 2006’s Conference of the Birds. Most of “Bhima’s Theme” is bread and butter for head-nodders, but “Pilgrimage” (which opens and closes the record), is shiftier and less stable, accentuated by a bassline that seems to tack extra bars to a phrase if it feels good, not for the sake of metrics. It’s not metal and it’s not even drone; it’s like a heavy folk dance. - Pitchfork

with:
Lichens

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Tickets also available at Finger Prints Records in Long Beach

7pm / $12 adv, $14 dos / all ages

Six Organs of Admittance

Watching Six Organs play live over the summer, it felt like one was intruding on a private musical conversation between Ben Chasny and his touring partner, Magik Markers mainstay Elisa Ambrogio. A tango-like dance was being played out on the stage with Chasny taking the role of a guitar-strumming matador whilst Ambrogio attacked her guitar in a bull in a china shop fashion. It was fun to watch in a perverse way. However, from this musical relationship Chasny has forged perhaps his most accessible and straight ahead track, ‘Strangled Road’, a duet with Ambrogio. A beautifully dark song, it evokes long lazy days in dusty Andalucian bars and is book-ended with a soaring J Mascis-like solo. Psychedelic Spaghetti Western folk, anyone? But yet again Shelter From the Ash pushes all the right buttons and is every bit the righteous successor to Chasny’s previous long-player and its precursor School Of The Flower; it moves from full-on and wigged-out psych overloads to mellow folk pickings in the blink of an eye. - Drowned in Sound

with:
Horsetheives
Harrasor

8:30pm / $10 / all ages

Super Furry Animals || Listen

The Furries can’t only write beaming melodies, deck them out with sparkling instrumentation and harmonies, and not also have a little fun. Too many people seem to have wrongly assumed that because Love Kraft had gloomy cover art and slower songs it was dead serious. It wasn’t, and neither is Hey Venus!. “Suckers!” lives up to its punctuation (a Welsh trend?) with anthemic acoustic guitar strums and fuzzed-out lead guitar fills like on Radiator’s “Demons”, plus hammer dulcimer and lyrics that give the almost-guiltily decadent arrangement the band’s old Situationist bite: “Suckers playing stadiums, filling them to the rafters, singing power-ballad songs,” goes this stadium-ready power ballad, but there’s a sucker born every line. Guitarist Huw “Bunf” Bunford’s “Battersea Odyssey” takes a whimsical, horn-fronted trip to inner city London. His ambulance-siren vocals on “Baby Ate My Eight Ball” help make up a track weird enough for any SFA album since 1996 debut Fuzzy Logic. - Pitchfork

with:
Holy Fuck || Listen
Abe Vigoda

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

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $18 / 18+

BOOTIE LA
LA’s monthly mashup party returns to The Echo!

with:
DJ Paul V. - From Indie 103.1’s “The Smash Mix”
Adrian & the Mysterious D - From San Francisco, Bootie creators

Midnight mashup show with Foxy Cotton

FREE giveaways of the annual year-end ‘Best of Bootie 2007′ mix CD, featuring 20 of the best mashups from the past year!

FREE Bootie CDs to the first 50 people through the door!

FMI: www.BootieLA.com

9pm / $5 before 10:30pm, $10 after / 21+

Sister Nancy

Sister Nancy was one of 15 siblings; her brother Robert, known to her family as Dickie, found fame as Brigadier Jerry. The latter began chanting on Prince Norman’s sound system before settling with Jahlove Music. While the Brigadier’s reputation as the number one cultural DJ flourished, by her mid-teens, Nancy was occasionally performing on the sound system. Winston Riley was the first producer to take Nancy into the recording studio in 1980 for her debut, “Papa Dean”. The tune was a success and Nancy’s career began in earnest. She performed at Reggae Sunsplash, which was transmitted globally. A notable appearance on A Dee Jay Explosion saw Nancy performing “Chalice A Fe Burn” and “Boom Shacka Lacka”. continued appearing live in the dancehall where she often performed alongside her brother on the Jahlove Music Sound System. The sound toured internationally to rave reviews, including a celebrated session at Brixton Town Hall, London, where both Jerry and Nancy made their debut performances in the UK. - BigUpRadio.com

with:
Ranking Joe

Plus 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

9pm / $17 adv, $20 dos / 21+

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

RRIICCEE
Featuring Vincent Gallo & Erik Erlandsen

RRIICCEE is a spontaneous collective between the two musicians (with the potential of additional members) and exhibits the creation of composition within a live performance. For all appearances, the outfit does not perform pre-written music and is not limited to the boundaries of one specific musical genre. At the present time, RRIICCEE has no recorded music and has no plans on recording a commercial release.

Gallo offered, “Improvisation is not a good word for what we’re doing. It’s more a gesture of composing and performing at the same time, always hoping to avoid musical cliché or jamming. We’ve chosen not to go into a studio in a traditional way like other bands have done in the past: to make recordings, cut them up, dub on them, fine tune and mix them, and then release them as an album, then later, go on tour, pantomiming those recordings over and over each night as a form of cabaret. Instead, for a long time now, we’ve chosen to remain open, to grow and change more naturally, and when we play live, the music is often created during the performance. If we choose to record a performance, the recording itself is only evidence of that creative moment. The purpose of recording then, is to listen back for enjoyment.”

@ Rec Center Studio
1161 Logan
Los Angeles, CA 90026

7pm / $17 / all ages

Faraway Places || Listen

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

with:
Fool’s Gold
Sunset

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

The Kris Special || Listen

The Kris Special (Anne - vocals, guitar, Nick - drums, Jeremy - bass) has an indie meets So-Cal desert rock… Kind of like Old 97s tempered w/ Silversun Pickups within a Cowboy Junkies framework. Fans of the Whiskeytown and Grandaddy both should enjoy their set… Pretty good stuff. The Kris Special’s long-awaited debut album “Alone Feels Like a Hotel Room” will be released on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 on No Exit Records. - Arizona Reporter

with:
Get Set Go || Listen
The Stevenson Ranch Davidians || Listen

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

Moscow

MOSCOW is an all girl band that prides themselves in writing sophisticated music. The influences they put forth into each of their songs also contain the ingredients of their own individuality. Their music has primarily been compared to the sounds of both Bauhaus and Interpol - dark and moody like Bauhaus, melodic and danceable like Interpol. Vanessa’s voice ties it all together with her beautiful vibrato and bluesy tone. Some of their main musical influences include The Cure, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Blur, Portishead, Bjork, and The Cranberries.

with:
The Voyage

9pm / FREE / 21+

with:
Mere Mortals
Seasons

with Underground DJs

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

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

9pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+