Wednesday 09.03.08: DUB CLUB @ echoplex

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

Tuesday 01.01.08: CLOSED FOR HOLIDAY

Wednesday 01.02.08: DUB CLUB w/ Ranking Joe @ Echoplex

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+

Thursday 01.03.08: SPACELAND ON ICE – cancelled due to rain

CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN

Thursday 01.03.08: Real Rocknroll Productions presents – VERSA VICE

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+

Friday 01.04.08: First Fridays w/ SEA WOLF @ Natural History Museum

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

Friday 01.04.08: CLUB UNDERGROUND w/ SKY PARADE

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+

Saturday 01.05.08: The Return of BOOTIE LA

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+

Sunday 01.06.08: PART TIME PUNKS w/ TEMPORARY WAR & PEACE

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+

Monday 01.07.08: Monday Night Residency – RADAR BROS.

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+

Tuesday 01.08.08: CLOSED

Wednesday 01.09.08: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex

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+

Thursday 01.10.07: SPACELAND ON ICE w/ THE CHAPIN SISTERS @ Pershing Square

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

Thursday 01.10.07: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

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

Friday 01.11.08: CLUB UNDERGROUND

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+

Saturday 01.12.08: CHECK YO PONYTAIL w/ MEN

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

plus DJs:
Franki Chan
Paparazzi

9pm / $10 / 18+

Saturday 01.12.08: DESCARGA 5th Anniversary Party w/ B SIDE PLAYERS @ 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+

Sunday 01.13.08: PART TIME PUNKS w/ SPINDRIFT

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+

Monday 01.14.08: Monday Night Residency – RADAR BROS.

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+

Tuesday 01.15.08: SHILOE

Shiloe || Listen

Shiloe started off the evening with a sound heavily influenced by the Pixies mixed with some Sonic Youth. Ken Ramos (Vocals/Guitar) had a vocal delivery that resembled Thurston Moore and was squeezing a sharp fuzz from his Gibson SG. Melissa Pleckham (Bass) had a Rickenbacker bass that was filling the room with low notes. Their latest release is “Please Remove Your Teeth From My Neck” which you can download from itunes. – Little Radio

with:
Nightfur
Repeater
Divisible

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

Wednesday 01.16.08: DUSTY RHODES & THE RIVER BAND

Dusty Rhodes & The River Band || Listen

Like Christopher Columbus, Rhodes (the nom du rock of frontman/keyboardist/accordionist Dustin Apodaca) and his SoCal outfit aren’t merely all over the map, they’re exploring the edges of the known musical world. Utilizing a swaggering campfire sing-along ethic, they channel the indie folk spirit of Camper Van Beethoven, the boozy Celtic swing of the Pogues, the proggy pop bombast of Procol Harum and the punkish abandon of the Replacements, all while choreographing ’60s AM pop and inking in flannel sleeve tattoos of traditional country, British folk and bluegrass. Dusty Rhodes and the River Band thrum with schizophrenic charm, and First You Live is their wildly threaded and viscerally satisfying mix tape. – Harp Magazine

with:
Restaurant
The Valley Arena || Listen

8:30pm / $8 / 18+

Wednesday 01.16.08: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

Thursday 01.17.08: YOUNG HEART ATTACK

Young Heart Attack || Listen

Young Heart Attack is hard at work on their 2nd full-length Rock And Awe (due in March) and is bound for the U.K. following the release. The band knows only one way to rock — full throttle. Chris Hodge sings and screams like a man possessed, combining astutely with Frenchie’s electric six-string wizardry and the lovely Jennifer Stephens’ vocal prowess to generate one fist-pumping anthem after another. – Austinist

with:
Thee Gentleman Callers
Ride On Rides

8:30pm / $5 / 9pm

Friday 01.18.08: Black Cat Entertainment presents – The King vs. The Killer w/ DEAN Z & LANCE LIPINSKY @ Echoplex

with:
Dean Z (as Elvis)
Lance Lipinsky (as Jerry Lee)

Plus:
Luis & The Wildfires
Chuy & The Bobcats
Capt. Jeffrey & The Chumbuckets

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $17adv, $20 dos / 18+

Friday 01.18.08: CLUB UNDERGROUND w/ WAR TAPES

with:
War Tapes

Plus resident & guest DJs spinning the best in Brit / Indie / Soul / Twee / Madchester / Punk / Glam

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

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

Saturday 01.19.08: Check Yo’ Ponytail w/ THE COOL KIDS @ Echoplex

with:
The Cool Kids
Hollywood Holt || Listen
Mic Terror
87 Stick Up Kids
Million Dollar Mano

Plus resident DJs:
Franki Chan
Paparazzi

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $15adv / 18+

Saturday 01.19.08: HANG THE DJS

with:
Totally Radd! || Listen
Pink Enemy || Listen

plus DJs:
Comrade Stefan!
Michael Stock (Part Time Punks / Punky Reggae)
Keith Wilson (Le Disko, Club Moscow)
Cory (Pink Enemy)

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 / $7 / 18+

Sunday 01.20.07: KXLU presents OM @ Echoplex

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

Sunday 01.20.08: PART TIME PUNKS w/ JAIL WEDDINGS

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+

Monday 01.21.08: Monday Night Residency – RADAR BROS.

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+

Tuesday 01.22.07: THE TEENAGERS

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+

Wednesday 01.23.08: DUB CLUB w/ Original Rockers CHINNA SMITH & KIDDUS I@ Echoplex

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+

Wednesday 01.23.08: THE MOON UPSTAIRS

The Moon Upstairs || Listen

Los Angeles-based ensemble The Moon Upstairs represent the best that can come of reassembling diverse influences and crafting something new, yet recognizable. Listening to Guarding the Golden Apple can, for trainspotters, be an exercise in comparison, but those who don’t suffer from those impulses will find 10 impeccably-crafted tunes that fall loosely into a classic-pop-rock category, with up-to-date trimmings.

Band founders Sharif Dumani and Aaron Ebensperger apparently spent some time playing with Cody Chesnutt before starting this group, with Dumani as the principal songwriter and all-around multi-instrumentalist. Joined by Josh Mancell on drums and percussion and Mark Sogomian on guitar, the album also features a number of guests and a small string section. The resulting lineup pulls in everything from lap steel and celesta to melodica, bowed bass, vibraphone and harpsichord. – Dusted Magazine

with:
Suki Ewers
Greater California || Listen
Blackbird || Listen

8:30pm / $7 / 18+

Thursday 01.24.08: HEY WILLPOWER (CANCELLED)

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

Friday 01.25.08: CLUB UNDERGROUND w/ LEMON SUN

with:

Lemon Sun || Listen

And:
Astra Heights || Listen

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

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

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

Saturday 01.26.08: Offsprung & Echo present – A Saturday Morning Kids Show w/ THE HOLLOW TREES & TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT @ Echoplex

The Hollow Trees || Listen

Lead Hollow Trees Gregory Hollow Tree (aka McIlvaine) and Laura Hollow Tree (aka Steenberge) are unashamed fans of old-time folk music and play it with gusto and joy. This is no retro affectation here, this is real, vibrant music for families. The album leads off with a tremendous 1-2 punch, the zippy traditional “Ain’t Gonna Rain,” with the band trading the verses in rhyme followed by the shuffling “Hootenanny,” a McIlvaine original that’s an ode to getting together and singing songs — “We’ll sing a slow song that is sweet and sentimental / A boogie-woogie song about a Lincoln Continental / We’re gonna have a hootenanny tonight.” The two songs set the mood for the rest of the 38-minute set so well, casting a good-natured glow on the rest of the songs. From there the album moves into old kids’ music (“Animal Alphabet Song,” written and recorded by Alan Mills for Smithsonian Folkways 35 years ago), silliness (“To Morrow,” taking the “silly song” slot that has been worn out by “I’m My Own Grandpa”), and blues (the snappy “Skoodle Um Skoo”). – Zooglobble

with:
Triple Chicken Foot || Listen

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

11am / $10, $36 for a family of 4 / all ages

Saturday 01.26.08: MGMT with YEASAYER @ Echoplex

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

Sunday 01.27.08: Echo & Part Time Punks present – WHITE WILLIAMS / MAGIC BULLETS

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+

Monday 01.28.08: Monday Night Residency – RADAR BROS.

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+

Wednesday 01.30.08: THE SECTION QUARTET

The Section Quartet || Listen

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

with:
Leviathan Brothers || Listen
The Poor Excuses

8pm / $8 / 18+

Wednesday 01.30.08: DUB CLUB @ Echoplex

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace

9pm / $5 / 21+

Thursday 01.31.08: KCRW presents DENGUE FEVER @ Echoplex

Dengue Fever

Venus on Earth is like being transported through a steamy, humid time warp where Haight-Ashbury was a swinging suburb of Phnom Penh in the ‘60s as oscillating Farsifa and fuzztone guitar languidly drift under and around Nimol’s beautifully hypnotic vocals. When she sings in Khmer (although her sexy-accented English is becoming more common) the emotional phrasing in her voice misleads you into thinking, on songs like the wistfully melancholic “Monsoon of Perfume”, that somehow a Babel fish has slipped into your ear and made Khmer your second language (well, almost). With the opening number “Seeing Hands” and the excellent “Tiger Phone Card”, a romantic long distance duet between Holtzman and Nimol, following closely on from the exuberant psych-surf ‘n’ roll of previous outings (“Sni Bong” taken from Dragon House readily comes to mind), there’s plenty of opportunity to ride the wave of spicy danceability. However, the group are at their best when they spread their improvised wings to morph into lounge lizards. – Popmatters

and:
Fool’s Gold
Holloys

Plus:
DJ Eddie Rusche

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $13 adv, $14 dos / 18+

Thursday 01.31.08: KROQ Locals Only present – HELL YA NIGHT w/ SHWAYZE

with:
Shwayze
Hazelden
Pittsburgh Slim || Listen
Lisa D’Amato

Plus Hell Ya! DJs spinning all night!

8:30pm / $5 / 18+