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+

Friday 02.01.08: First Fridays w/ A-TRAK & KID SISTER @ The Natural History Museum

First Fridays – Dinner, Discussion, Music & More

with:
A-Trak || Listen
Kid Sister

plus Dub Lab DJs:
Frosty
Take

@ 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 02.01.08: CLUB UNDERGROUND w/ BODIES OF WATER

with:
Bodies of Water || Listen
Castanets

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

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

9pm / $8 / 18+

Saturday 02.02.08: BOOTIE LA

BOOTIE LA
LA’s monthly mashup bootleg party is back at The Echo!

with:
Guest DJ set from “Mashup Monsters” Howie Pyro and Jells Mayhem, aka:
The Illuminiods

plus resident mashup DJs:
DJ Paul V. – From Indie 103.1′s “The Smash Mix”
Adrian & the Mysterious D – From San Francisco, Bootie creators

Midnight mashup show with Heather Vescent & Friends

Launched in San Francisco in 2003, Bootie was the first club night in the United States dedicated solely to the burgeoning artform of the bootleg mashup. Mixing and matching every conceivable musical genre, era, and style into one big dance party where everyone feels welcome, Bootie provides the soundtrack for the A.D.D. generation – with free mashup CDs given away like candy!

Resident DJs Adrian, the Mysterious D, and Paul V. keep your brain guessing and your feet dancing with creative song combinations, while guest mashup DJs are featured each month, as well as the infamous midnight mashup show. Bootie… because one song at a time just isn’t enough.

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

FMI: www.BootieLA.com

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

Sunday 02.03.08: PART TIME PUNKS w/ NU-TRA

with:
Nu-tra || Listen
And Special Guests

Attention devotees. Pack yr space-junk and join us for a nite of jittery quirk , stop and shock. And tell yer friends: Jocks, homos and mongoloids, all welcome.

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

Monday 02.04.08: KCRW presents RICKIE LEE JONES @ Echoplex

Rickie Lee Jones || Listen

With Peter Atanasoff slashing guitar behind her like a vintage Lenny Kaye, Jones often sounds as fervid as Patti Smith. When exuding low-key menace, she could be a distaff Jim White. “Nobody Knows My Name” is a wholly improvised rant that, along with “It Hurts”, suggests her faith is often a struggle. With its scratchy guitar coda, “Where I Like It Best” alludes to the Lord’s Prayer, whilst “Elvis Cadillac” imagines Presley coasting the heavens while Janis Joplin works the corner bar. The extra bursts of accompaniment are sharp – heraldic-sounding trumpets, the odd cannon-fire drumshot. But for all its weird dissonance, Sermon…’s musical crudeness gives it a powerful immediacy. Strangely accessible and highly addictive, it’s her best work in three decades. – Uncut

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $25 seated, $20 standing room only / all ages

Monday 02.04.08: Monday Night Residency w/ THE HENRY CLAY PEOPLE

The Henry Clay People || Listen

The spasmodic sagacity of the Henry Clay People can be a little like watching somebody karaoke the encyclopedia, and the L.A. quartet’s spate of shows in late 2007 seemed to augur their rise to bigger stages. The prolific foursome is getting ready for a February residency at the Echo (batten down the fixtures) by putting the finishing touches on a new EP. With last year’s album “Blacklist the Kid With the Red Moustache” just making it into many local music collections, TCHP will have the five-song “Working Part Time” EP ready for the residency. The title track ought to be the anthem for every indie rocker who juggles a day job with being in a band. And, front man Joey Siara says, the band is writing and recording more new material. – LA Times Buzz Bands

with:
Le Switch || Listen
Coco B’s || Listen
The Natural Disasters

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 02.05.08: DEAD MEADOW CD Release Show @ Echoplex

Dead Meadow || Listen

For their fifth studio album (and third with Matador), Dead Meadow plan to release Old Growth on February 4th. For veteran fans of the trio, the album’s structure should come with little surprise. Like many of their past releases, there seems to be a nearly even mixture of woozily heavy psychedelic-rock and placidly atmospheric acoustical tracks. As they have proven in the past, it works to their advantage in providing an album that rarely becomes dull or tiring. In fact, apart from the exceptional Shivering King and Others, Old Growth has steadily become my favorite release from Dead Meadow. With chugging guitar-oriented tracks like “Between Me and the Ground” and “What Needs Must Be” transitioning impressively with psychedelically acoustical charmers like the exotic “Seven Seers”, it is difficult to resist such compassionate attempts at successful stylistic fusion. – Obscure Sound

with:
Midnight Movies || Listen
The Great Northwest

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $13 adv, $15 dos / 18+

Wednesday 02.06.08: 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 02.07.08: THE LILYS

Lilys

Since their formation in 1989, Kurt Heasley has taken the Lilys for quite a ride. With each album comes a somewhat different but appealing album while the frontman oils what appears to be a continuous revolving door of musicians and supporting cast. Perhaps the best complement the group could be paid is that they, much like the Rolling Stones did in their early days, have basically taken a style of music from across the pond and made it their own. The group’s previous album was the closest thing to Britrock from a Yankee band I heard in a long time, and this new album on reinforces that notion. And while it clocks in at under 40 minutes, the listening party for you will be about 55 to 60 minutes after finally realizing you’ve replayed the opening “Black Carpet Magic”. – Popmatters

with:
Magic Mirror

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Friday 02.08.08: Echo & Underground & Bust present SUPER FURRY ANIMALS @ ECHOPLEX

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+

Friday 01.08.08: Echo, Shadowscene & +1 present THE KOOKS

The Kooks || Listen

The Kooks arrived fully formed in 2006, for their debut sounds like the work of a band well into its career: the confidence with which the foursome from Brighton play and the abandon with which Luke Pritchard sings; the witty songcraft and deft arrangements; the drama and fervor they unleash from the very first notes and carry through to the end. They display maturity but also play with the fervor of kids and project a wide-eyed charm that is very endearing. On most of Inside In/Inside Out, the band sounds like a more energetic Thrills or a looser Sam Roberts Band, maybe even a less severe Arctic Monkeys at times. – Allmusic

Plus:
the morning benders || Listen

And Guest DJs:
Daisy O
Myles Hendrik

8:30pm / $15 / 18+

Saturday 02.09.08: Echo & IHEARTCOMIX present THE NEW CHECK YO PONYTAIL w/ MIXHELL

with:
Mixhell (live!)
Data
My!Gay!Husband!

Plus DJs:
Franki Chan
Paparazzi

9pm / $12 / 18+

Saturday 02.09.08: DESCARGA! with EL TAMBOR @ Echoplex

El Tambor

El Tambor is directed musically by an accomplished Artist and Teacher of the sacred batá drum, Ben Elsessor. This high-energy group is one of the longest running folkloric Afro-Cuban ensemble’s in the City of Angels. The group has shared its repertoire of classic rhythms from the island for over eight years and consists of skilled Drummers, Singers and Dancers including: Bobby, Charles, Mark, Jason, Teamir, Felicia Richards, Gaby Hernandez, Erica Krumpl, Viren Moret, Erika Elizondo, Emeka Simmons and Pedro “Muneco” Aguilar.

Plus Resident DJs Sloe Poke, Mando Fever, Bobby Soul, Loslito, Azul & Mexican Dubwiser

@ 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 02.10.08: PART TIME PUNKS w/ KID CONGO POWERS

Kid Congo Powers (Founding Member of The Cramps, The Gun Club & The Bad Seeds)
Howie Pyro
Geneva Jacuzzi
Jonathon Toubin (NY Night Train DJ / Founder)

Part Time Punks is blessed tonite with one of the very
best: KID CONGO POWERS of The Cramps/Gun Club/Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds fame will be performing with multifarious friend, musician (D-Generation, The Blessed, Danzig, Intoxica Radio DJ) Howie Pyro – Both consummate entertainers and legendary musicians who should require no introduction. Stepping away, momentarily, from his usual rock band setup, solo cholo Kid will be man and machines…beats and noise..
stories and static… Okay, and a guitar! Congo Pyro a Go Go!

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

Monday 02.11.08: KCRW presents RICKIE LEE JONES @ Echoplex

Rickie Lee Jones || Listen

With Peter Atanasoff slashing guitar behind her like a vintage Lenny Kaye, Jones often sounds as fervid as Patti Smith. When exuding low-key menace, she could be a distaff Jim White. “Nobody Knows My Name” is a wholly improvised rant that, along with “It Hurts”, suggests her faith is often a struggle. With its scratchy guitar coda, “Where I Like It Best” alludes to the Lord’s Prayer, whilst “Elvis Cadillac” imagines Presley coasting the heavens while Janis Joplin works the corner bar. The extra bursts of accompaniment are sharp – heraldic-sounding trumpets, the odd cannon-fire drumshot. But for all its weird dissonance, Sermon…’s musical crudeness gives it a powerful immediacy. Strangely accessible and highly addictive, it’s her best work in three decades. – Uncut

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $25 seated, $20 standing room only / all ages

Monday 02.11.08: Monday Night Residency – THE HENRY CLAY PEOPLE

The Henry Clay People || Listen

The spasmodic sagacity of the Henry Clay People can be a little like watching somebody karaoke the encyclopedia, and the L.A. quartet’s spate of shows in late 2007 seemed to augur their rise to bigger stages. The prolific foursome is getting ready for a February residency at the Echo (batten down the fixtures) by putting the finishing touches on a new EP. With last year’s album “Blacklist the Kid With the Red Moustache” just making it into many local music collections, TCHP will have the five-song “Working Part Time” EP ready for the residency. The title track ought to be the anthem for every indie rocker who juggles a day job with being in a band. And, front man Joey Siara says, the band is writing and recording more new material. – LA Times Buzz Bands

with:
Barcelona || Listen
The Monolators || Listen
Service Group || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 02.12.08: AUSHUA

Aushua || Listen

Reverb is making a huge comeback and Aushua is one of its biggest purveyors. Aushua was purely anthemic. They have studied U2′s playbook very well and are able to call a few audibles. I can see why Bronson likes these guys. Nathan Gammill (Guitars/Vocals) was strumming his battered Gibson SG to coax out some haunting reverb tones while providing soaring vocals. Eric Neujahr (Guitars) was providing the alternate reverb/delay tones on his Fender Thinline Telecaster. – Amateur Chemist

with:
Moris Tepper || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

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Wednesday 02.13.08: I MAKE THIS SOUND cd release show

I Make This Sound || Listen

Their ballads lay like a moon hidden beneath a cloud of loud-quiet-loud, their dynamics of sound — as heard on their (sadly) lone EP, Everything Means Something — charting your listening pleasure through bass lines, fuzzing guitars, and keyboards twinkling like a young lady’s panties during love at first sight. It’s a sense of promise that starts with their name and doesn’t let up until the final soundwave shivers off through the warm evening breeze, and then it’s Escape From New York time in downtown all over again. – LA Weekly

with:
The Breakups
Amateurs || Listen
Le Switch || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Wednesday 02.13.08: 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 02.14.08: Echo Park Records Anniversary Party w/ VERY BE CAREFUL @ Echoplex

Very Be Careful || Listen

Very Be Careful live vallenato, therefore they are vallenato. They are a group of men who reside in Los Angeles, each breathing and chasing the air of his heritage. They play folk music, but not the sort of blissed-out urbanite folk that reeks of CIA-controlled backwoods parties in upstate New York populated by California-bred social opportunists. No, this folk sounds like the truth, like revolution music reminding us that though many may die for social change, the common goal is a new life worth fighting for, one worth a serious party. And party is what VBC live and breathe. – Mp3.com

with:
Paul Devro (Mad Decent)
Dam Funk (Stones Throw)
Grupo Fantasma

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Friday 02.15.08: ST. VINCENT @ Echoplex

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

Friday 02.15.08: CLUB UNDERGROUND w/ GRAND OLE PARTY & LOVE GRENADES

with:

Grand Ole Party
In just two years, Grand Ole Party has already secured a place in history with its punchy guitar swagger and singer/drummer Kristin Gundred’s brazenly soulful pipes and ability to wreck a drum set. It’s earned the band opening slots for the likes of Rilo Kiley, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Vampire Weekend, music awards at home and the attention of notable peers – all before releasing an album. But this month, the San Diego three-piece will officially go on record with the national release of Humanimals, an incredibly confident debut that smacks of accomplishment and lasting appeal. The first release from DH Records, a new Venice Beach-based upstart founded by 3D Management owner Dave Holmes (who manages Coldplay, Interpol and Scissor Sisters), as well as the first production project from Blake Sennett (Rilo Kiley lead guitarist and frontman of The Elected), the album sees Grand Ole Party connecting with respected individuals in the industry and making great strides. – Performer Mag

And:
Love Grenades

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 02.16.08: Echo Park Records Anniversary Party with ARABIAN PRINCE @ Echoplex

Arabian Prince

The Arabian Prince has been a producer and DJ since the early ’80s, which undoubtedly helped him sustain his career after leaving N.W.A.. He began in the music business while still in middle school, recording mixtapes during after hours at KACE radio (where his father worked) and DJing school dances as well as the occasional club date. Arabian Prince began recording his own tracks during 1982-1983, and co-produced Bobby Jimmy & the Critters as well as doing live dates with the Egyptian Lover, World Class Wreckin’ Cru, and the L.A. Dream Team. Early singles like “Innovator” and “Situation Hot” got much respect on the Los Angeles club scene, and his consistent studio experimentation led to some work with Dr. Dre and N.W.A. for 1988′s Straight Outta Compton.

with:
Glass Candy
Guns ‘n’ Bombs
Los Super Elegantes
DJ +ravi$
Appaloosa

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

RSVP at RSVP@echoparkrecords.com to get in for $10

8:30pm / $15, $10 if you RSVP / 18+

Saturday 02.15.08: HANG THE DJS with WAR TAPES / SPIDER PROBLEM

With:
War Tapes
Spider Problem

plus DJs:
Tim (Ok Go!)
Cory (Pink Enemy)
Paulie (I-Train NYC)
Kidbrace
Rockwell (The 87 Stick Up Kids)

Resident DJs spinning the best in: indie, international pop, britpop, electro, disco, post-punk, new wave, no wave, hiphop and more..

FMI:
Hang The DJs on Myspace

10pm / $8 before 11pm, $10 after / 18+

Sunday 02.17.08: Echo @ Grand Ole Echo presents WILLIE NELSON TRIBUTE

with:
Grant Langston
Mike Stinston || Listen
David Serby || Listen

Plus Many More!

@ Echoplex
Enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

5pm / $10 / all ages

Sunday 02.17.08: Echo and Dub Lab present BABY DEE

Baby Dee || Listen

With all due respect to Frank Sinatra, if anyone has the right to sing “My Way,” it’s Baby Dee. She’s been a church organist and a go-go dancer, a circus performer and an acclaimed avant-garde harpist—and probably pulled stints as a pauper and poet along the way. The wacky, whip-smart fifty-something singer—who has worked extensively with Current 93 mastermind David Tibet—has released a passel of low-key albums in the past, but stands to reach her widest audience to date with a new Drag City release, the wondrous Safe Inside the Day. – Harp Magazine

Plus:
Barr

6pm / $10 / all ages

Sunday 02.17.08: PART TIME PUNKS – Smiths / Morrissey Night

Please, please, please tell me I don’t need to explain. OK, lemme sum up: 4 hours of yer fave Smiths & Morrissey tracks, er, 85% or so; the other 15%, all the track Moz either loves or were recorded by lovers of the Moz. Miserablists, trainspotters, shoegazers and shoplifters of the world, united, take over…

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

Monday 02.18.08: KCRW presents RICKIE LEE JONES @ Echoplex

Rickie Lee Jones || Listen

With Peter Atanasoff slashing guitar behind her like a vintage Lenny Kaye, Jones often sounds as fervid as Patti Smith. When exuding low-key menace, she could be a distaff Jim White. “Nobody Knows My Name” is a wholly improvised rant that, along with “It Hurts”, suggests her faith is often a struggle. With its scratchy guitar coda, “Where I Like It Best” alludes to the Lord’s Prayer, whilst “Elvis Cadillac” imagines Presley coasting the heavens while Janis Joplin works the corner bar. The extra bursts of accompaniment are sharp – heraldic-sounding trumpets, the odd cannon-fire drumshot. But for all its weird dissonance, Sermon…’s musical crudeness gives it a powerful immediacy. Strangely accessible and highly addictive, it’s her best work in three decades. – Uncut

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $25 seated, $20 standing room only / all ages

Monday 02.18.08: Monday Night Residency – THE HENRY CLAY PEOPLE

The Henry Clay People || Listen

The spasmodic sagacity of the Henry Clay People can be a little like watching somebody karaoke the encyclopedia, and the L.A. quartet’s spate of shows in late 2007 seemed to augur their rise to bigger stages. The prolific foursome is getting ready for a February residency at the Echo (batten down the fixtures) by putting the finishing touches on a new EP. With last year’s album “Blacklist the Kid With the Red Moustache” just making it into many local music collections, TCHP will have the five-song “Working Part Time” EP ready for the residency. The title track ought to be the anthem for every indie rocker who juggles a day job with being in a band. And, front man Joey Siara says, the band is writing and recording more new material. – LA Times Buzz Bands

with:
The Happy Hollows || Listen
Kissing Tigers || Listen
Death to Anders || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 02.19.08: THE KRIS SPECIAL

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:
The Harpeth Trace || Listen

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

Wednesday 02.20.08: THE ALBUM LEAF

The Album Leaf || Listen

With the long, hot summer finally gone, we all need something to soothe our racked nerves, and one-man band Jimmy LaValle is doing his best to fill that role. On his fourth album, he gently eases you into his mostly instrumental world, where shimmering keyboards float around sweeping strings and understated beats. LaValle has toured with Sigur Rós, and his music comes off like a less foreboding version of their moody orchestral drift. – Spin

with:
Kill Me Tomorrow || Listen
What Laura Says Thinks and Feels

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

Wednesday 02.20.08: 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 02.21.08: BENEFIT FOR MANNY NEITO’S STUDIO AND MATT CRUNK w/ DARKER MY LOVE / THE ICARUS LINE / CRYSTAL ANTLERS / HIT ME BACK / TWEAK BIRD

with:
Darker My Love || Listen
The Icarus Line || Listen
Crystal Antlers
Hit Me Back
Tweak Bird

A benefit for Manny Neito’s studio and Matt Crunk

7pm / $10 / All ages

Friday 02.22.08: BUILT TO SPILL @ Echoplex

Built To Spill || Listen

It had seemed as if the story of Built to Spill was already more or less written: Indie pop band forgoes simple, summery perfection of early work to craft epic, melodic guitar-rock. From 1996′s Perfect From Now On through 2001′s Ancient Melodies of the Future, Built to Spill records served as a reliable platform for Doug Martsch’s plaintive and layered songwriting, brought to life by a band whose talent and proficiency at times seemed boundless. You in Reverse marks the first steps of an unexpected third chapter in the group’s saga, casting off the usual meticulous guitar overdubs and studio polish in favor of a less refined, more spontaneous approach. – Pitchfork

with:
Meat Puppets || Listen

7pm / $22 adv, 24 dos / all ages

Friday 02.22.08: CLUB UNDERGROUND w/ ROCKET & HER GRACE THE DUTCHESS

with:

Rocket

and:

Her Grace The Dutchess || 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 02.23.08: BUILT TO SPILL @ Echoplex

Built To Spill || Listen

It had seemed as if the story of Built to Spill was already more or less written: Indie pop band forgoes simple, summery perfection of early work to craft epic, melodic guitar-rock. From 1996′s Perfect From Now On through 2001′s Ancient Melodies of the Future, Built to Spill records served as a reliable platform for Doug Martsch’s plaintive and layered songwriting, brought to life by a band whose talent and proficiency at times seemed boundless. You in Reverse marks the first steps of an unexpected third chapter in the group’s saga, casting off the usual meticulous guitar overdubs and studio polish in favor of a less refined, more spontaneous approach. – Pitchfork

with:
Meat Puppets || Listen

7pm / $22 adv, 24 dos / all ages

Saturday 02.23.08: Echo & IHEARTCOMIX present The New Check Yo Ponytail vs. Mad Decent w/ BLAQSTARR

with:
Blaqstarr
Dave Nada || Listen
Blue Jemz

Plus DJs:
Franki Chan
Paparazzi

9pm / $13 / 18+

Sunday 02.24.08: PART TIME PUNKS with HOLY SHIT / NIKKI OBSCURE

Holy Shit || Listen
Nikki Obscure

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

Monday 02.25.08: KCRW presents RICKIE LEE JONES @ Echoplex

Rickie Lee Jones || Listen

With Peter Atanasoff slashing guitar behind her like a vintage Lenny Kaye, Jones often sounds as fervid as Patti Smith. When exuding low-key menace, she could be a distaff Jim White. “Nobody Knows My Name” is a wholly improvised rant that, along with “It Hurts”, suggests her faith is often a struggle. With its scratchy guitar coda, “Where I Like It Best” alludes to the Lord’s Prayer, whilst “Elvis Cadillac” imagines Presley coasting the heavens while Janis Joplin works the corner bar. The extra bursts of accompaniment are sharp – heraldic-sounding trumpets, the odd cannon-fire drumshot. But for all its weird dissonance, Sermon…’s musical crudeness gives it a powerful immediacy. Strangely accessible and highly addictive, it’s her best work in three decades. – Uncut

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / $25 seated & $20 standing room only, $27 and $22 dos / all ages

Monday 02.25.08: Monday Night Residency – THE HENRY CLAY PEOPLE

The Henry Clay People || Listen

The spasmodic sagacity of the Henry Clay People can be a little like watching somebody karaoke the encyclopedia, and the L.A. quartet’s spate of shows in late 2007 seemed to augur their rise to bigger stages. The prolific foursome is getting ready for a February residency at the Echo (batten down the fixtures) by putting the finishing touches on a new EP. With last year’s album “Blacklist the Kid With the Red Moustache” just making it into many local music collections, TCHP will have the five-song “Working Part Time” EP ready for the residency. The title track ought to be the anthem for every indie rocker who juggles a day job with being in a band. And, front man Joey Siara says, the band is writing and recording more new material. – LA Times Buzz Bands

with:
What Made Milwaukee Famous || Listen
Rademacher || Listen
Army Navy

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 02.26.08: I SEE HAWKS IN LA

I See Hawks in LA || Listen

I See Hawks in L.A. With its songs about watching meteor showers from Angeles Crest Highway and watching Slash work his way through the Hollywood scene, L.A.’s premiere country band is also one of the leading chroniclers of its hometown. – Los Angeles Times

with:
Mike Stinston || Listen
Psychedelic Cowboys || Listen

8:30pm / $7 / 18+

Wednesday 02.27.08: BRITISH SEA POWER

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+

Wednesday 02.27.08: DUB CLUB with RANKING TREVOR @ Echoplex

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 02.28.08: JACKSON BROWNE AND RAUL & ULISES OF OZOMATLI INTRODUCE SON DE LA FRONTERA @ ECHOPLEX

Son De Le Frontera || Listen

Spain’s Son de la Frontera challenges the pre-conceived notions of Flamenco, breaching its formal barriers yet remaining rooted in its traditions. L.A. singer songwriter Jackson Browne says “These guys are the Flamenco equivalent of a rock ‘n’ roll band,” and has chosen to wear his rarely worn impresario’s hat in welcoming Son de la Frontera to Los Angeles.

The group was founded by Raúl Rodríguez, who was deeply inspired by the legacy of Diego Amaya Flores del Gastor (1908-1973.) He began visiting the Maestro’s hometown of Morón de la Frontera in 1995 and soon found himself jamming with two of Diego’s descendants, Paco de Amparo (flamenco guitar) and Pepe Torres (baile & compás/ dance & rhythm) both of whom later joined Son de la Frontera, along with Moi de Morón (cante & compás/vocals & rhythm) and Manuel Flores (compás/rhythm.) Raúl discovered the dulcet tones of the tres Cubana after his mother, the renowned singer Martirio, accepted an invitation to perform in Havana with Buena Vista’s Compay Segundo and brought one home with her. Raúl eventually realized that flamenco falsetas (scales and arpeggios roughly analogous to jazz riffs) could be freely adapted to the instrument’s three sets of double strings. Thus, the final frontier was breached and Son de la Frontera achieved its musical destiny.

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Presented by Rum & Humble with NGLive!

8pm / $25 standing, $35 seated / all ages

Thursday 02.28.08: HELL YA! Night with MEZZANINE OWLS

with:
Mezzanine Owls || Listen
The Mae Shi
Frankel || Listen
Eagle & Talon || Listen

Plus The HELL YA! DJS

8pm / $5 / 18+

Friday 02.29.08: Club Underground & Echo present – TILLY & THE WALL

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

Friday 02.29.08: Ass & Titties & The Echo present – I LOVE BOOTY TOO! @ Echoplex

DJ Funk (Dancemania – Chicago)

What words can describe the one and only DJ Funk? Pioneer? Party Rocker? Ghetto House icon? DJ Funk grew up on the musically rich West Side of Chicago where he was exposed at an early age to Chicago, New York, and Detroit dance music. Mixing House, Techno and Hip-Hop, DJ Funk pioneered the “Ghetto House” sound and this sense of crossing boundaries has made his music so appealing and enduring to many people across different music scenes. DJing professionally for over a decade, DJ Funk has produced anthem after anthem of bouncing “Ass & Titty” dance music for his very own record company, Dancemania Records. Funk’s remix resumé reads like the who’s who of dance music: Basement Jaxx, Justice, DJ Sneak, and Fast Eddie just to name a few. With his remix of Justice’s indie-club hit “Water’s of Nazareth” a whole new generation of fans are finding out what DJ Funk is all about…

DJ Sega (Maddecent / Ol Head – Philly)

“The Black Knight” DJ Sega, is the master of the Philly Club or “Party Music” sound. The baby faced assassin has spent the last few years providing the backbeat for an entire generation of youngsters who come to worship his hundreds of remixes every weekend at Jamz Roller Rink in North Philadelphia. Now the secret is out, and the rest of the world is taking notice. He’s currently making waves with his heavy metal remix stylings as heard on the Hollertronix 8 ep on Diplo’s Mad Decent label. Also on tap are releases on his own Ol’ Head Records imprint from Baltimore rapper Mz Streamz, and New Jersey based production outfit, Brick Bandits, of which he is also a member. His ultimate goal is to save hip hop, one remix at a time.

plus DJs:
Dark Alley (Ass & Titties)
Blu Jemz (Money Studies)
Pube$ (Dance Right)

@ Echoplex
Enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $10 adv, $15 dos / 18+