test 2

ata

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 03.07.08: Descarga & Echo present CLUB ZIZEK @ Echoplex (10pm)

Zizek is about emerging Hip Hop, Dancehall, Cumbia, and Reggaetón sounds and their respective variations: Grime, Crunk, Bastard Pop and Mashups. The idea is to give these styles, ideas and rhythms an Argentine touch, with the aim of putting Buenos Aires on the map of the global music scene.
The star of Zizek has been Cumbia, a Latin American sound born from the fusion of old and new worlds in Colombia that has been long looked down on as dance music for the lower classes in Argentina. Its distinctly syncretic roots promote robust adaptability and cumbia is being transformed by avant-garde musicians and producers from the USA all the way down to Argentina. Diplo has become an avid supporter of the collective and the party has made fans of The Wire, DJ Rupture and The New York Times. XLR8R christened Zizek “the city’s unofficial cumbia clubhouse.”
Zizek plays host to live shows performed by local MCs, producers, composers and DJs and is bringing it’s collective to North America and SXSW this March. The Zizek tour allows us to witness the evolution of the hottest party in Argentina to full-fledged, multi-faceted movement.

10pm / $12 / 18+

Monday 03.03.08: RICKIE LEE JONES with PETRA HADEN, LILI HAYDEN, ROB WASSERMAN & MORE @ ECHOPLEX

Rickie Lee Jones || Listen

What a long, strange trip Rickie Lee Jones has been on since running away to Hollywood in 1973, palling around with Tom Waits and Chuck E. Weiss, and releasing her self-titled album in 1979. She’s transformed herself from a fairly straightforward Joni Mitchell-style folk-pop singer into a multilayered, jazzy chanteuse, and her 2006 CD, The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard (New West), is her most ambitious (and, arguably, satisfying) work to date. The album is based on her producer Lee Cantelon’s book The Word, which tries to take a fresh look at the story of Jesus Christ. Sermon isn’t a dogmatic attempt to convert unbelievers so much as it’s an engrossing journey through various personas and disguises, such as the symbolic visitation “Elvis Cadillac.” Jones is utterly mesmerizing on the enigmatic “Tried to Be a Man,” where her breathy vocals are draped over murky, bluesy chords, and “Nobody Knows My Name,” which chugs along with a shimmering Velvet Underground intensity. – LA Weekly

with:
Petra Hayden || Listen
Lili Hayden || Listen
Rob Wasserman || Listen
& More

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

Friday 03.07.08: First Fridays w/ WHY? & YACHT @ Natural History Museum

First Fridays – Dinner, Discussion, Music & More

with:
WHY? || Listen
Yacht || Listen

plus Dub Lab DJs:
Ale
MatthewDavid

@ 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

Tuesday 03.11.08: Indie 103.1, Echo & Club Underground present THE TING TINGS @ Rec Center Studio

The Ting Tings || Listen || Watch

Principal amongst these purveyors of cheap thrills are Salford’s Ting Tings, comprising singer Katie White and drummer Jules De Martino. If last year’s limited release ‘Fruit Machine’ saw them set out their stall as a sardonic LCD Soundsystem, ‘Great DJ’ stakes an almighty claim to be the year’s first lo-fi dancefloor smash.

The elements are all there. Scratchy, Peaches-esque guitar riff? Check. Chorus you’d still be humming after a week in Glasgow with Gallows? Check. Mischievous sense of pop as sonic thrift shop? Check! At its beating heart, peroxide philosopher Katie: “Folks got high at quarter to five/Don’t you feel you’re growing up undone?” she intones cryptically, before gabbling something about “The local DJ” having “some songs to play”.

At which point Jules triggers the sound of a thousand boxes being hit by a jackhammer and we’re at a chorus that’ll unleash dancefloor serotonin worldwide: “Imagine all the girls/Ah-ah-ah-ah/And the boys/Ah-ah-ah-ah/And the drums/The drums!” Think of a mash up of CSS, The Waitresses and Le Tigre re-interpreting Indeep’s ‘Last Night A DJ Saved My Life’ and you’re almost there. – NME

with:
DJ Paul V. (Bootie, Neon Noise/Indie 103.1)

@ Rec Center Studio
1161 Logan
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Wednesday 03.12.08: DEATH TO ANDERS / THE KARABEL NIGHTLIFE / THAILAND / MICHAEL COMPTON

Death To Anders || Listen

The four members of Death to Anders’ intelligent utilization of a satirically invigorating story-led lyrical delivery provides for an entertaining scope into the modernistic age we are all familiar with. One can easily hear shades of Isaac Brock and Stephen Malkmus in vocalist Rob Danson’s delivery, with his range impressively stretching from moments of squealing intensity to subdued murmurs of sincere ardency. This is done over an equally impressive instrumental approach, with a wide array of guitars, keys, strings, and an exceptionally tight rhythm section. – Obscure Sound

with:
The Karabal Nightlife || Listen
Thailand
Michael Compton

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

Tuesday 03.18.08: THE FELICE BROTHERS / JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE / MCCARTHY TRENCHING @ echo

The Felice Brothers

A band of (mostly) actual brothers from the Catskills, there’s a raw and unfinished sound to their storytelling brand of folk-americana. I find that as you sit with them, the colors of their music start to come out in a warm rich burn, like a campfire at 2am. Very few artists write stories like this anymore, except for folks like Ray LaMontagne or the Hold Steady, in very different sounding ways.

Their vivid music is populated by characters with names like Long-Legged Brenda and take the listener along on all kinds of wild narratives that echo Dylan in their complexity and seeming unsingability. – I Am Fuel, You Are Friends

with:
Justin Townes Earle
McCarthy Trenching || Listen

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Monday 03.10.08: CUT COPY / WALTER MEEGO

Cut Copy || Listen || Watch

Cut Copy is finally releasing a follow-up to 2004’s Bright Like Neon Love. The forthcoming In Ghost Colours finds the Melbourne, Australia-based trio as heavily influenced by the sounds of the ’80s as ever, as well as working under the watchful eye of Tim Goldsworthy, who produced the album. Its lead single, “Lights & Music,” is so heavy on the pounding synths and epic breakdowns it’s almost possible see the neon lights flashing around a dancefloor upon hearing the track. – XLR8R

with:
Walter Meego || Listen || Watch
DJ Paul V.

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Sunday 03.09.08: RECORD SWAP MEET

12pm-5pm / $5 / All Ages

Thursday 03.20.08: Aquarium Drunkard presents – BON IVER / PHOSPHORESCENT / WHITE HINTERLAND @ echo

Bon Iver || Listen || Watch

Vernon’s multi-tracked falsetto is the element that jumps out right away since it’s all over For Emma’s nine songs, but don’t make the mistake of throwing him in the freak-folk clubhouse with Devendra Banhart and the like. At their core, songs like “The Wolves (Act I and II)” and “Re: Stacks” are as straightforward and pretty as Sam Beam’s Iron and Wine creations, if they were sung by TV on the Radio’s soulful Tunde Adubimpe. Instrumentally, Vernon’s guitar is his main partner in chime, with horns and clattery percussion making guest spots. Listening to these songs, it’s easy to picture Vernon crouching on the cabin’s roaring hearth, strumming and trying to ward off the chills from an environment where below zero is a way of life. – Spin.com

with:
Phosphorescent || Watch
Winter Hinterland || Listen

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Wednesday 03.19.08: BORN RUFFIANS / CADENCE WEAPON / RUMSPRINGA @ echo

Born Ruffians || Listen || Watch || MP3

Warp-signed Canadian yelpers Born Ruffians sound positively ecstatic on this track from their debut album, Red, Yellow and Blue. On an eponymous EP last year, Luke LaLonde sang from deep inside Black Francis’ titanic shadow, his warbling eruptions tied to a familiar desperate strumming. Recast in a sunny context and distributed judiciously amid more conventionally tuneful singing, his outbursts seem more like the product of actual excitement and less like art-rock posing. That feeling is complicated by lyrics that are actually a tangled mess of self-doubt. All the gang shouts and playful piano rolls are like sonic prozac, evening out the distress. – Prefix Magazine

with:

Cadence Weapon || Listen || Watch
Rumspringa

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Friday 03.07.08: CLUB UNDERGROUND with DIE! DIE! DIE! / MY BEST FIEND / RAINBOW ARABIA

with:
Die! Die! Die! || Listen
My Best Fiend || Listen
Rainbow Arabia

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

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

9pm / $8 til 11pm, then $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Thursday 03.13.08: ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE / DANAVA

Acid Mothers Temple || LISTEN || WATCH

It feels like mere months– if not weeks– since we’ve last heard from Makoto Kawabata and his psych-rock juggernaut Acid Mothers Temple, and yet Have You Ever Seen the Other Side of the Sky? also qualifies as something of a comeback. The album marks the return of the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. ensemble from a yearlong hiatus, an interval that probably seems more like a decade on Kawabata’s busy calendar. During that time Kawabata kept himself occupied by touring and recording with his newly launched heavy-rock combo the Cosmic Inferno and collaborating with the kindred spirits of Afrirampo, while also providing himself steady work as a solo artist and who-knows-what-other communal activities.

From an outsider’s perspective the distinction between Kawabata’s various groups can seem pretty much academic, since they have each undergone continuous personnel shifts and they all direct their flightpaths towards the same general regions of interstellar lunacy. Nevertheless, there seems to be a special level of expansive, full-throttle improvisation that Kawabata is only able to fully achieve with the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. at his back, and Have You Seen the Other Side of the Sky? rockets him right back into this fertile zone. – Pitchfork

with:
Danava

9pm / $14 dos / 18+

Tuesday 03.04.08: THESE ARE POWERS / ALL NEON LIKE / BOB BRUNO

These are Powers || Listen

Screaming like a banshee out of Brooklyn and Chicago, These Are Powers play noisy, crunching, metal-on-metal post-punk that the band members call “ghost-punk”. A couple of lumbering bass notes, some shrill, skronky guitar squeaks, and the alternately pummeling and clattering drums whir in lockstep through what sounds like a haunted, abandoned factory building (or shop class). These Are Powers are a three-piece, with two lead vocalists– guitarist Anna Barie and “prepared bass” guitarist (that explains the “metal-on-metal”, then!) Pat Noecker– backed by drummer Bill Salas. – Pitchfork

with:
All Neon Like
Bob Bruno

8:30pm / $8 / 18+

Monday 03.31.08: Monday Night Residency with THE CHAPIN SISTERS / I SEE HAWKS IN LA / MORIS TEPPER @ echo

The Chapin Sisters || Listen

The Chapin Sisters stand onstage at Tangier in Los Feliz, each in a shimmering gold dress that calls to mind Ginger from Gilligan’s Island. Jessica, the oldest, is in a mini dress; Abigail’s empire-waisted gown goes down to her ankles; and Lily, the youngest, wears a long, gold knife-pleated skirt and sleeveless top in gold-and-black brocade. They kick off their set with a three-part harmony version of Culture Club’s “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” In their confident, skilled voices, the song’s question sounds almost like a challenge. When they sing the song “I Don’t Love You,” it’s neither eat your heart out, or crying over you — it puts the power, and the intended’s heart, firmly in the hands of the woman. “Girlfriend” has all the venom of Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know,” but the Chapin Sisters coat their message in the butter cream of their melodies. – LA Weekly

with:
I See Hawks in LA || Listen
Moris Tepper || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Monday 03.24.08: Monday Night Residency with THE CHAPIN SISTERS / GLASSER with BODY CITY / EARLY DOLPHINS / CLUE TO KAHLO @ echo

The Chapin Sisters || Listen

The Chapin Sisters stand onstage at Tangier in Los Feliz, each in a shimmering gold dress that calls to mind Ginger from Gilligan’s Island. Jessica, the oldest, is in a mini dress; Abigail’s empire-waisted gown goes down to her ankles; and Lily, the youngest, wears a long, gold knife-pleated skirt and sleeveless top in gold-and-black brocade. They kick off their set with a three-part harmony version of Culture Club’s “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” In their confident, skilled voices, the song’s question sounds almost like a challenge. When they sing the song “I Don’t Love You,” it’s neither eat your heart out, or crying over you — it puts the power, and the intended’s heart, firmly in the hands of the woman. “Girlfriend” has all the venom of Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know,” but the Chapin Sisters coat their message in the butter cream of their melodies. – LA Weekly

with:
Glasser with Body City
Early Dolphins || Listen
Clue To Kahlo

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Monday 03.17.08: Monday Night Residency with THE CHAPIN SISTERS / SUMMER DARLING / BILLIONAIRES / LOVE GRENADES

The Chapin Sisters || Listen

The Chapin Sisters stand onstage at Tangier in Los Feliz, each in a shimmering gold dress that calls to mind Ginger from Gilligan’s Island. Jessica, the oldest, is in a mini dress; Abigail’s empire-waisted gown goes down to her ankles; and Lily, the youngest, wears a long, gold knife-pleated skirt and sleeveless top in gold-and-black brocade. They kick off their set with a three-part harmony version of Culture Club’s “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” In their confident, skilled voices, the song’s question sounds almost like a challenge. When they sing the song “I Don’t Love You,” it’s neither eat your heart out, or crying over you — it puts the power, and the intended’s heart, firmly in the hands of the woman. “Girlfriend” has all the venom of Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know,” but the Chapin Sisters coat their message in the butter cream of their melodies. – LA Weekly

with:
Summer Darling || Listen
Billionaires
Love Grenades

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Monday 03.03.08: Monday Night Residency with THE CHAPIN SISTERS / GEMMA HAYES / BLANKET

The Chapin Sisters || Listen

The Chapin Sisters stand onstage at Tangier in Los Feliz, each in a shimmering gold dress that calls to mind Ginger from Gilligan’s Island. Jessica, the oldest, is in a mini dress; Abigail’s empire-waisted gown goes down to her ankles; and Lily, the youngest, wears a long, gold knife-pleated skirt and sleeveless top in gold-and-black brocade. They kick off their set with a three-part harmony version of Culture Club’s “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” In their confident, skilled voices, the song’s question sounds almost like a challenge. When they sing the song “I Don’t Love You,” it’s neither eat your heart out, or crying over you — it puts the power, and the intended’s heart, firmly in the hands of the woman. “Girlfriend” has all the venom of Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know,” but the Chapin Sisters coat their message in the butter cream of their melodies. – LA Weekly

with:
Gemma Hayes || Listen
Blanket

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

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+

Thursday 03.06.08: TWILIGHT SLEEP / KARIN TATOYAN / RESTAURANT / DJ SOLID TODD

Twilight Sleep || Listen

Twilight Sleep blew me away this time with a batch of tunes from their upcoming EP “Race To The Bottom of The Sea”. Tracy Marcellino (Vocals/Keyboards) seduced the audience with her sultry voice as the keyboards laid you down into a literal twilight sleep. “Broken Record” was one of the new songs that was absolutely hypnotic with percolating synths and dreamy delayed guitars.
“Don’t Fire Your Guns” was a faster paced song with slightly overdriven guitars countered by cloud like synth lines. Twilight Sleep will be having an EP release party at the Echo on March 6th. I recommend that you swing by and pick it up. – Amateur Chemist

with:
Restaurant
Karin Tatoyan || Listen

and DJ Todd Clifford (of Sea Level Fame)

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 03.11.08: Metromix presents ATLAS SOUND / VALET / WHITE RAINBOW

Atlas Sound || Listen

Cox plays and sings in Atlanta five-piece Deerhunter, but it’s tempting to say he actually lives as Atlas Sound. He’s used the name for his solo recordings ever since the sixth grade, and lately his output has been almost nonstop: He’s posted roughly 70 new tracks, mostly originals, on his blog since last July. Deerhunter’s Cryptograms and Fluorescent Grey EP expertly brought together elements of krautrock, psych, shoegaze, ambient, post-punk, and indie rock, but Atlas Sound’s full-length debut turns inward from that band’s high-volume squall. Cox also trades the four-track of previous Atlas Sound vinyl splits for a laptop. The result is a gauzy bedroom pop album that drifts from ambient bliss-outs to sadsack avant-garage, from hospitals to heartache, as if passing through different stages of sleep on a sunny afternoon. No previous interest in Deerhunter required. – Pitchfork

with:
Valet || Listen
White Rainbow || Listen

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Saturday 03.08.08: Echo & IHEARTCOMIX present The New Check Yo Ponytail with GIL MANTERA’S PARTY DREAM / MAHJONNG / LUCY & THE POPSONICS

Gil Mantera’s Party Dream || Listen

The debut release by Gil Mantera’s Party Dream, Bloodsongs, is one of those rare recordings that manage to be both retro and modern at the same time. The electronic drumbeats sound like something out of a modern-day dance club, while if you spliced the synths and vocals away from the rest of the sonic stew, you could be fooled into thinking that it was straight out of new wave’s early-’80s glory days. Hailing from Youngstown, OH, Gil Mantera’s Party Dream is a duo of multi-instrumental brothers, Gil Mantera (programming, keyboards, bass) and Ultimate Donny (vocals, guitar), who split the songwriting duties straight down the middle. – Allmusic

with:
Mahjonng
Lucy and The Popsonics

plus DJs:
Franki Chan
Paparazzi

9pm / $10 / 18+

Thursday 03.13.08: Fader & Aquarium Drunkard present – BEACH HOUSE / PAPERCUTS (Time changed to 8pm)

Beach House || Listen

The delicate, languid, minimalist pop of Baltimore duo Beach House’s Devotion is a glimmering dream. These love songs creep forward in bossa nova rhythms and even meters like they’re chasing after a slowly receding tide. Victoria Legrand sings in a cave-echoed voice that bridges between a sort of one-room-over ethereality and a pungent melody, gliding over the mix (drums, piano, and organ, mostly) like a low-hanging cloud, stretching her words into near incomprehensibility. Her high, breathy peaks on “Turtle” are charmingly imperfect, while “Gila”’s slide guitar dances with her voice like a returned lover, hopelessly devoted. – XLR8R

with:
Papercuts || Listen

8pm / $12 / All Ages

Sunday 03.02.08: Benefit for Edendale Library with BOBBY MATOS

Bobby Matos & his Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble || Listen

“…an excellent fusion of Latin and African genres, with some of the best bilingual swingers from either world demonstrating how effective the glue of jazz can be”
- Harvey Siders, Jazz Times March 2006

with:
Nathan Nice and Friends

plus readings from:
–John Tottenham reading from “The Inertia Variations”
–Denise Hamilton, author of Prisoner of Memory” and the upcoming “Last Embrace”
–Andrea Portes reading from Hick
–Richard Lange reading from Dead Boys Stories

Wine tasting, silent auction, book sale, music and more!

5pm / $20 ELFS members, $30 nonmembers, $10 under 21 years of age / all ages

Thursday 03.27.08: RED SPAROWES / RUSSIAN CIRCLES / HOLLOYS @ Echoplex

Red Sparowes || Listen

Red Sparowes’ slow-burning recipe of quiet-through-loud is anything but original, but the way the ingriedients blend is totally unique and gradually bewildering. It’s obvious that some ideas – the burning walls of guitars and the insistence of clear melody even in chaos – have been taken from the band member’s other projects (including Isis, Neurosis and Halifax Pier), but everyone brings something fresh to the table, and it is this that sets Red Sparowes so high above the rest of the post-rock crowd. This is claustrophobic, driving instrumental music that will appeal as much to fans of Henryk Gorecki, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Ennio Morricone as it will fans of those parenthesis-ed parent bands.

It is almost impossible to carve a niche in a genre as restrictive as post-rock, but with their Heaven-sent melodies and their plunging riffs of brimstone, Red Sparowes have drilled a planet-sized chasm. – Drowned in Sound

with:
Russian Circles || Listen
Holloys

@ Echoplex
Enter at
1152 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027

8:30pm / $12 / 18+

Wednesday 03.26.08: 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+

Wednesday 03.19.08: 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+

Wednesday 03.12.08: DUB CLUB with MAD PROFESSOR @ Echoplex

with:
Mad Professor || Listen

What separates The Professor’s work from that of other dub artists is his reliance on synthesized sounds; he religiously incorporates bleeps, whirs and other electronic machinations, allowing them to rhythmically collide with the more roots oriented vibes created by live guitar, bass, keyboards and horns. The Mad Professor’s oeuvre is filled with relaxed layers of steamy groove, intermittently injected with echo effects and gratuitous back masked vocal collages. All of which is seamlessly interwoven amongst tight grooves with serpentine agility, helping create a dense form of mellow, low-end ambient music. The overall effect is a soothing, low impact vibe. The Mad Professor continues to create captivating soundtracks consisting of searing mental mood music that’s just perfect for stimulating the inner soul.

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 / $12 adv, $15 dos / 21+

Wednesday 03.05.08: 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+

Sunday 03.30.08: PART TIME PUNKS w/ SPIRIT ARMY / THE NEW ROOM@ echo

Spirit Army
The New Room || Listen

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

Sunday 03.23.08: PART TIME PUNKS w/ THE PRIDS @ echo

The Prids || Listen

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

Sunday 03.16.08: PART TIME PUNKS with THE TOUGH ALLIANCE & DIN GLORIOUS

The Tough Alliance
Din Glorious || Listen

THE TOUGH ALLIANCE are from Sweden.
they play a mad mix of PiL & Heaven 17 & jangly ridiculous sunshine.
they just signed to Modular.
um…
sometimes they lip-sync at their gigs.
check out Pitchfork. com for more info; they love’em.
and you shouldn’t miss ‘em, ’cause it’s their ONLY U.S. show
other than their South By Southwest gigs.

GLORIOUS DIN are from NYC.
their racket is best described as minimal synth.
sometimes they play naked.
they are all men.

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

Saturday 03.01.08: BOOTIE LA

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

From San Francisco, live on stage, a special ALL-VIDEO MASHUP SET:
Party Ben

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

Bootie SF’s resident DJ PARTY BEN has been hard at work, retiring his “Party Ben Kenobi” persona and cooking up a brand new feature DJ set, “inspired” by last year’s Daft Punk tour!

While he won’t have a $2 million light-up pyramid, he will be incorporating tons of giant video and projections into his set for the first time, featuring clips put together by VJ Brewski and VJ Jaren, as well as his own mashup video creations. He did this show in San Francisco in January, and it was one of the best productions ever at Bootie.

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!

This month, Party Ben returns to the Bootie LA stage with a special ALL-VIDEO mashup set! Resident DJs Paul V., Adrian, and the Mysterious D keep your brain guessing and body dancing with creative song combinations, celebrating – and satirizing – the many different forms of music. Bootie… because one song at a time just isn’t enough.

FMI: www.BootieLA.com

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

Monday 03.10.08: ED HARCOURT / EVEREST / THE CHAPIN SISTERS @ Echoplex

Ed Harcourt || Listen

Ed Harcourt is a bit raffish and gloriously hungover, but also the best company you could imagine over a fried breakfast in Soho on a warm Saturday morning. He’s also hard-working, creative and sickeningly prolific. *The Beautiful Lie*, his fifth album in six years, in between outside projects with bands like Wild Boar and the Dead Thank Yous, is the latest in his line of inventive, adventurous records. And it’s the best thing he’s ever done. His new album is confident, expressive and moving, wide-eyed, big-hearted and hot-blooded, with a musical ambition that dazzles you. It’s an album he’s grown up with, and an album that wants you to grow with it.

with:
Everest || Listen
The Chapin Sisters || Listen

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

8pm / $12 / All Ages

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

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+

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+

Wednesday 03.05.08: THE DUKE SPIRIT / AFTERNOONS / THE PRAYERS

The Duke Spirit || Listen

Something separates The Duke Spirit from the crop of great British indie bands doing the rounds at the moment. Maybe it’s the beautiful, Nico-esque singer, Leila Moss, who effortlessly looks like a bornrock temptress when, as far as she’s concerned, is just playing in a band with some of her best mates.Maybe it’s because they unfashionably buck the trend by sounding more like Exile-era Stones or a grimy Velvet Underground than a band from the early 80s. But what really separates them is that they consistently produce achingly hip music while their natural poise gives you the sneaking suspicion that they’re not even trying. – BBC

with:
Afternoons
The Prayers

8pm / $12 / 18+

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+

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+

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+

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 03.09.08: PART TIME PUNKS with NEW BLOODS

New Bloods
Softboiled Eggies || Listen
Magic Johnson

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 21+

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+

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+

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+

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+

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+

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+

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+

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

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+

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 02.01.08: 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

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+

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+

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+

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+

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+

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

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+

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+

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+

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+

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+

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 02.18.08: 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 02.11.08: 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 02.04.08: 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

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+

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+

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+

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+

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 02.23.08: 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

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

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+

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+

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 02.29.08: 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 02.08.08: 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+