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Featuring:
A performance by POSERS
“Crew vs. Crew” Dance Battle
Members Only
For VIP Membership and Bottle service packages, please contact Nick at Clubunderground at gmail.com
9pm / $10adv / 18+
Jaguar Love rose from the co-mingled ashes of respected Seattle bands the Blood Brothers and Pretty Girls Make Graves, with a ratio of two Brothers (non-related Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato) to one Girl (non-female Jay Clark). While that pedigree alone was probably enough to facilitate a Matador Records’ signing earlier this week, you have to assume that their opening spot on a Queens of the Stone Age tour last year was at least partly granted for heavy shred appeal. Though it’ll likely be the summer before we see a Jaguar Love record with an OLE number on its spine, there a few circulating songs to discuss. “Welcome to the Birdskull Palace” takes a while to develop into a satisfyingly menacing rocker, but Whitney wastes no time in unleashing his familiar shriek. Despite common elements with the previous entities of their component parts, Jaguar Love is a little less abrasive than the Blood Brothers, and a little more distinctive than PGMG. As the song gathers steam, ghostly backing vocals and moody late-developing synths add some particularly welcome texture. - Prefix Mag
8;30pm / $12adv; $14dos / 18+
The Cave Singers’ music is largely acoustic and clearly inspired by the timeless sounds of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly (the baleful “New Monuments” is set “in the pines”), but — possibly because the band is so steeped in indie rock — it never feels hidebound to re-creating traditional sounds. Quirk’s reedy, nasally voice sounds far more comfortable in the Cave Singers’ rustic settings than it did in Hint Hint, and his worn-in vocals are a big part of what makes Invitation Songs’ straddling of indie and classic American music so effortless. He and the rest of the band sound just as comfortable on the sweetly rousing acoustic rock of “Elephant Clouds” as they do on “Called,” which, with its whip-cracking percussion, slow, insistent tempo, and aching melody, sounds directly descended from a decades, if not centuries, old work song. The Cave Singers are equally comfortable with washboards — which turn “Dancing on Our Graves” into a darkly joyful jamboree — and keyboards, which are paired with gentle but driven acoustic picking on “Helen.” However, the band’s most affecting moments are the simplest and subtlest: “Royal Lawns” and “Seeds of Night” use vivid imagery (”bright flowers behind your billboards”) and pastoral melodies to create quiet, unassuming yet undeniable moments of life-affirming beauty. Invitation Songs is a welcome, and welcoming, debut. - Allmusic
with:
Moonrats
Triumph of Lethargy
8:30pm / $10 / 18+
Cinco De Maypole : A Celebration of all things May and Pole
featuring performances by
The Poor Dog Group
Ayanna Hampton
Kristina Wong
Gregory Barnett
Meg Wolfe
Anna Scott
Nao Bustamante
arts and crafts on the patio
special surprise guests
your hosts:
The Poor Dog Group and
Marcus Kuiland-Nazario
For more info:
participant_observer@yahoo.com
8pm / $5 / 18+
In Ghost Colours was co-produced by DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy, who deserves credit for simultaneously opening up the band’s palette while relaxing their delivery. Sure, as you might expect, there are still blushes of French house and electro scattered liberally all over the show, but they’re always deployed in ways that serve– rather than overshadow– the song. And while Cut Copy’s principle and founding member Dan Whitford may come from a DJ background, the band-led songs come across every bit as muscular and as noteworthy as the dancefloor crossovers. To that end, this is one of the best bridges between electro and rock in a long time; the joins are so seamless that you don’t even think of the songs on those terms. - Pitchfork
@ Echoplex
Enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
9pm / $15 adv, $18 dos / 18+
First Fridays - Dinner, Discussion, Music & More
with:
Akron/Family || Listen
The Dodos || Listen
@ 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
with:
Baron [Contagious, Breakbeat Kaos, UK]
R.A.W. [Tribe Records, N20]
Breakage [The Professionals, Pure Filth!]
Clutch [Rid’em Records, Respect]
Drone [Junglist Platoon, Respect]
Hosted By- MC XYZ [Respect]
@ Echoplex
Enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
10pm / $15 for 18+, $10 for 21+ / 18+
iheartcomix, the echo, viva la rock, scion, monster & metromix present:
THE LAST CHECK YO’ PONYTAIL EVER!
with:
EROL ALKAN
DAN DEACON
LE CASTLE VANIA
HOLLYWOOD HOLT
TOTALLY MICHAEL
ACID GIRLS
WALLPAPER
FRANKI CHAN
PAPARAZZI
plus:
PHOTOS by REDSLURPEEE
VIDEO by DEMONBABIES
HEARTSCHALLENGER ICE CREAM TRUCK
@ THE ECHOPLEX
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
RSVP at rsvp@iheartcomix.com
8pm / FREE with RSVP / 18+
You have to hand it to an Americana/garage-rock band that can condense its sophomore effort into 11 tracks, totaling just 37 minutes. Why? Well, for one, because there are just too many ego-driven double albums out lately, and two, because it’s refreshing to hear a group that realizes less can be more. With “Mission Control,” that’s just what Athens, GA, trio The Whigs [ tickets ] have proven.
The album kick-starts with hard-punk force, then drifts through some freewheeling neo-psychedelica and finally exits with an organic, stimulating anthem of horns and heavy riffs, all without getting stale. Swanky southern moodiness, steady driving raw guitars and inspiring choruses saunter and shuffle throughout the album. It’s a hodgepodge of ’90s grunge-pop vibrancy and classic rock, which amounts to lots of identifiable points of reference. - LiveDaily
8pm / $13 / all ages
Proceeds will be contributed to the International Myeloma Foundation
with, in order of appearance:
The Probe
ChromoSphere with Marc Mylar
Bag: Theory
With fellow improviser Tony Fate
The Amadans
Nels Cline
Poets Jack Brewer, S.A. Griffin and
The Lofty Canaanites
Freehead
Jim Smith, M. Segal, George Radai
Dos with Mike Watt and Kira Roessler
Sacchrine Trust
Fatso Jetson
The evening will end with a stage-filled improv session in celebration of our talented & unforgettable friend.
@Echoplex
Enter at 1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
INFO: (213) 413-8200
4pm / $7 / all ages
The fourth record (and Paw Tracks debut) from Brooklyn’s Excepter is by far the creepiest offering from the experimental performance troupe, and finds the six-piece conditioning its decayed jams of electronic scree and industrial hiss into a scary, yet sexy-sounding beast. Abundant in nihilistic/surrealistic overtones all at once, tracks like “Burgers” and “Any and Every” insert dub and pop sensibilities into the mix, usually centered on a programmed, Whitehouse-style groove mashed with dilating synth bass and choppy beats. Ditto for “Kill People,” a bone-chilling romp of shouting, echoing vocals and pulsating clatter that sounds like an out-pop dance hit from the darkest corner of the universe. - XLR8R
RSVP TO CONTEST@ATTHEEECHO.COM TO GET IN FOR $5
9pm / $8 / 18+
Dark Meat’s debut album, Universal Indians, begins quietly, with the lone voice of Page Campbell singing an a capella intro with a distinctly pastoral lilt. Just when your ears have become accustomed to her folksy mellifluousness, “Freedom Ritual” explodes in a rapture of sound, as approximately two-thirds of the population of Athens, Georgia, come in all at once. Or at least that’s how it sounds. Dark Meat is a Southern rock (or Southern-rock) collective headed by Jim McHugh and spiritually guided by free-jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, and Universal Indians features nearly 30 musicians seemingly playing at the same time.
These sprawling songs hang together loosely, dense and busy with different textures, which are caked on in thick brushstrokes to sound large and layered: Jeff Tobias and Alexis Daglis’ saxophones squall through “Assholes for Eyeballs”, adding a grainy dissonance, while the marching-band brass make “One More Trip” sound like the coolest field show ever. “Angel of Meth” features girl-group harmonies and “Be My Baby” drums. Descending guitar riffs fall through “Dead Man” and “In the Woods”; choirs of backing vocals echo the choruses, punctuating McHugh’s drunken vocals with Stonesy staccato ooh-oohs; gospel cries occasionally pierce the din. - Pitchfork
with:
Restaurant
Crystal Antlers
8:30pm / $10 / 18+
Ariel Marcus Rosenberg aka Ariel Pink is one of the most baffling figures in music. Just large enough for freak-folks the world over to know him, but just small enough to still be something of a secret, Rosenberg has built a weird aura of strange 70s soundtracks and lo-fi, vinyl-ripped 80s TV jingles. He’s a master of melody and a bard of bubbly psych-pop, but still he lingers on the fringes even of the more aware. Maybe a new album in 2008 will change that. For now, we’ll have to be content with 17 songs culled from the beautifully mysterious period that surrounds his first full-length release, 2002’s House Arrest. Scared Famous is a nice refresher as to why people love this guy in the first place, but I’ll be more interested to see what’s in store for 2008. Odds are that it will be more of the gloriously gritty avant-pop that Rosenberg has made his name on. - Audiveristy
8:30pm / $10 / 18+
Fort Nightly is that rare debut where potential isn’t the operative word– White Rabbits deliver the whole package straight away. The NYC six-piece writes great songs that merge rhythmic intensity with grandiose melodrama in a seamless and inventive package. Opening the album with a sinister left-handed piano riff, “Kid on My Shoulders” features steam engine drums that give the song’s many hooks ample chance to sink in. It’s a track that keeps getting catchier as it goes, ending with a choral coda that has a monumental sweep. Opening an album with a headrush like that will be a good strategy from now until humans finally wipe themselves out, but plenty of albums peter out after this kind of track. Fort Nightly doesn’t– thanks to the band’s enormous bag of musical tricks. - Pitchfork
With:
Boogaloo Assassins
We feel the vibration of world beat and Latin sounds permeate in the Echo Park venue by skilled Resident DJ’s every month and live acts at midnight. When the alternative salsa night began five years ago with DJ’s Dusk, Sloe Poke and Loslito, ¡Descarga! was about digging in the crates for the rarest salsa cuts and the funkiest Latin 60’s and 70’s sounds, and spinning the records (yes, good ‘ol vinyl baby!), in a club that would cater to L.A.‘s indie underground music scene. Today, the venue‘s changed and DJ’s have rotated a bit, but the spirit of the night is still beating strong.
True to its roots, ¡Descarga! will present L.A./O.C. natives, Boogaloo Assassins (Los Asesinos de Boogaloo) and NYC’s Chico Mann (NYC), on 2nd Saturday, May 10th at Echoplex. The first 50 people who R.S.V.P. to info@descargaclub.com before Friday, May 9th, get in for $5 all night!
Boogaloo Assassins (Los Asesinos de Boogaloo) pay homage to the classic sounds of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spanish Harlem and beyond; with a special jones for New York City’s Latin boogaloo, soul and funk of the late 60’s and early 70’s.
This May, Descarga guests will also get to experience a special treat with an opening set by NYC-based group, Chico Mann featuring members of Antibalas, Amy Winehouse, Dap Kings and acclaimed hip hop Vocalist, Vinia Mojica. Don’t miss it! It’s going to be funky ya’ll!
Resident DJs Sloe Poke, Mando Fever, Bobby Soul, Loslito, Azul & Mexican Dubwiser spin classic salsa, cumbia, merengue, Latin hip hop, reggaeton, mashups, Brazilian and deep house grooves all night
@ 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 / $7 before 11pm, $10 after / 21+
Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s || Listen
Having the advantage of previously seeing this group perform in more intimate settings, I drafted Jennifer to their set and waited to see what her reaction would be. I’ve found that music fans who’ve yet to see Margot have a somewhat revelatory experience upon their first encounter with this ingeniously nifty little band. Just about every melody and chord is uniquely their own, producing a sort of progressive urban rock that’s rooted in soul, alt-country, and pop. Many bands are defined by their ability to blend in or stand out with mainstream material, but the members of Margot have taken an understated, yet extremely sophisticated style of songwriting and turned out one of the year’s best studio releases, The Dust of Retreat.
What works so well on their creative, emotional album is transformed into an intimate live performance that ebbs and flows from whisper to scream, due mainly to frontman Richard Edwards’ fragile, focused vocals. Edwards’ emotional vulnerability shines from center stage, and is enhanced by a talented rhythm section, keyboards, layered guitar lines, and a trumpet (during live shows) for good measure. When the song “Barfight Revolution” comes into play, the crowd gets hooked and new fans are surely created. It’s a fun set.
- Indie-Music.com
8:30pm / $10 adv, $12 dos / 18+
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone || Listen
Like each of Owen Ashworth’s wondrous works before it, Etiquette is intimate, often sorrowful, bedroom glitch-pop, but here it is more substantial. The unified sound varies in style, showing a breadth of expression and a growing array of whiz-bang instrumentation.
Dialing the party line of Bowie and Gainsbourg on “New Year’s Kiss” will surely make the track a favorite for most, but some of the more impressive tracks sleep innocently until a narrative pang brings them to life. “I Love Creedence” is an unassuming favorite, whereas a brisk pace would normally contradict a track so heartbroken, it viscerally captures the speed of a stirred heart when seeing a past love on the street.
Ending on what might seem the album’s highest thematic note, “Love Connection”, we hear the loveliest song ever to have the word “menstrual” in it, but such candor serves a purpose. Even when achieving what the Painfully Alone have perpetually ached for, love comes with harsh, sensual reality and cynicism. Etiquette ends with a line repeated over and over: “Some things are best left unsaid.” As the phrase resonates in consciousness and spirit, we must realize Owen Ashcroft has already said it all and would do it all again. - Lost At Sea
8pm / $8 / All Ages
Special Tribute DJ Sets by:
J.ROCC & Friends
James Gadson featuring The Breakestra
Plus:
Official Release for J.ROCC’s “James Brown Tribute P.2″ mix CD and Nelson George and Alan Leeds’ “James Brown The Reader: 50 Years of Writing About the God Father of Soul.”
@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
9pm / $15 limited presale, $18 adv, $20 dos / 21+
Most dates will feature an opening 40 minute film of Charles Gocher’s video experiments followed by two sets of music. Alan Bishop and Richard Bishop will be performing Sun City Girls songs as an acoustic guitar duet. This tour will most likely be the only time this show will be presented as such and is a tribute both to Charles Gocher and selected music from the 27 year legacy of Sun City Girls.
with:
Alan Bishop
Richard Bishop
8pm / $12 adv, $14 dos / All Ages
Stand Uppity : Comedy That Makes You Feel Better About Yourself, and Superior To Others
What is Stand Uppity, you don’t ask? A comedy tour featuring Eugene Mirman,
Marc Maron, and Andy Kindler, three irreverent, smart-alecky, comedians, known for having points of view. Do you know who else has a point of view? Everyone. But their point of view is very funny. That’s why you should pay to listen to it.
When history looks back at itself and wonders what comedy tour helped America move on from it’s partisan bickering, botched war, and economic downturn, it will be easy: Stand Uppity!
with:
Eugene Mirman || Watch
Marc Maron || Watch
Andy Kindler
8pm / $18 / 18+
with:
Thomas Von Party
D.I.M.
@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
9pm / $15adv, $17dos / 18+
Like the rest of the French Kicks, lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Nick Stumpf is a talented musician and craftsmen. But its in his role as a drummer that Stumpf keeps the group’s new album, Swimming, on the right side of the atmospheric-pop/way-too-mellow divide. On the New York group’s fourth record, they’ve developing an appealing platter of harmony-heavy Sunday-morning-brunch pop, but its Stumpf’s booming beats that gives the set the energetic dose of Saturday-night mischief necessary to keep things moving.
On the song “Carried Away” guitarist Josh Wise sings, “I was carried away/ but I can’t really say what for,” over a gently plucked guitar arpeggio and stomping bass drum. And it’s hard to believe him. Nearly every moment on the self-produced and -mixed Swimming is so precisely arranged, from the overwhelming lush sheets of harmonies to the ghostly piano riffs to the expertly deployed guitar riffs, that it’s difficult to believe the group leaves much to chance.
Overall, that isn’t a bad thing. Ringing guitar, hand-claps and polite-but-resolute drumming are mixed in perfect proportion on “Abandon,” and “This Could Go Wrong” belies its title with layered, wavy guitar lines expertly bouncing off a rumbling, invigorating beat. - CMJ
with:
The Weather Underground || Listen
Roll The Tanks
8:3opm / $13adv, $15dos / 18+
With:
The Pity Party
Afternoons
Karin Tatoyan || Listen
The Franks
Want to go to a concert and meet your monthly quota of good deeds?
FILTER’s got you covered with a benefit event featuring The Pity Party, Afternoons, The Franks and Karin Tatoyan at the Echo Wednesday, April 16 in Los Angeles.
The benefit show will also feature art gang collective Bagavagabonds silkscreening tees, The Good Neighbor Comedy Troop Mc-ing, and DJ Hatbox spinning all through the night. Tickets are $7 and all proceeds will be donated to the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund which aims to financially assist career musicians who are facing illness or disability.
8pm / $7 / 18+
The cover art for the Ruby Suns’ sophomore disc, Sea Lion, is a fitting allegory for head Sun Ryan McPhun: A boy on an island takes pains to try to costume himself, tangling himself in lights and string, and wearing a feather in his hair and a crown on his head. McPhun’s work as the Ruby Suns functions in much the same way: Stationed on New Zealand’s North Island, the California native dresses his work in global music, nibbling at the edges of unfamiliar sounds but, ultimately, skillfully creating sunny psych-pop.
The result is an album of environments, both natural and imagined, hinted at by the cover art’s pastel Candyland, the collage of African wildlife on the CD insert, and McPhun’s tributes to his home state’s Mojave desert and Joshua Trees (”Oh, Mojave”). The album’s title refers to the colony of animals that sun in the ocean off of California’s Highway 1, and on “There Are Birds”, co-vocalist Amee Robinson pines for a world where “there are birds and it is calm.” A host of animal references doesn’t equate to an environmentally conscious album, but Sea Lion takes to heart quaint state park signage: take only pictures, leave only footprints. The Ruby Suns visit the world via an array of global signifiers– pinging conga drums, field recordings of animals, slight, sunny harmonies– but as they do, the band sounds genuinely curious and respectfully adoptive rather than calculating or opportunistic. - Pitchfork
with:
The Happy Hollows || Listen
Plus Special Guests
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8pm / $15 / all ages
Employing a timeless mix of guitar, bass, keys and drums, Le Switch deftly augment their boozy, barroom pop sound with multi-instrumentalist Maria DeLuca’s viola and trumpet interspersed throughout their set. Deluca’s subtle textures, combined with Kyle’s trademark lyrical howl, make up Le Switch’s secret weapon. When the two come together, expertly backed on drums/percussion by Joe Napolitano, Josh Charney on keys, and Christopher Harrison on bass, even the most jaded hipster in the bar can’t help but take notice. - Aquarium Drunkard
with:
Vanessa Micale
The Minor Canon
The World Record || Listen
Presented by: Aquarium Drunkard
8:30pm / FREE / 21+
Employing a timeless mix of guitar, bass, keys and drums, Le Switch deftly augment their boozy, barroom pop sound with multi-instrumentalist Maria DeLuca’s viola and trumpet interspersed throughout their set. Deluca’s subtle textures, combined with Kyle’s trademark lyrical howl, make up Le Switch’s secret weapon. When the two come together, expertly backed on drums/percussion by Joe Napolitano, Josh Charney on keys, and Christopher Harrison on bass, even the most jaded hipster in the bar can’t help but take notice. - Aquarium Drunkard
with:
Adeline & The Philistines
I Make This Sound || Listen
Naptunes
Presented by: Aquarium Drunkard
8:30pm / FREE / 21+
Employing a timeless mix of guitar, bass, keys and drums, Le Switch deftly augment their boozy, barroom pop sound with multi-instrumentalist Maria DeLuca’s viola and trumpet interspersed throughout their set. Deluca’s subtle textures, combined with Kyle’s trademark lyrical howl, make up Le Switch’s secret weapon. When the two come together, expertly backed on drums/percussion by Joe Napolitano, Josh Charney on keys, and Christopher Harrison on bass, even the most jaded hipster in the bar can’t help but take notice. - Aquarium Drunkard
with:
Division Day || Listen
The Henry Clay People || Listen
Princeton || Listen
Presented by: Aquarium Drunkard
8:30pm / FREE / 21+
Employing a timeless mix of guitar, bass, keys and drums, Le Switch deftly augment their boozy, barroom pop sound with multi-instrumentalist Maria DeLuca’s viola and trumpet interspersed throughout their set. Deluca’s subtle textures, combined with Kyle’s trademark lyrical howl, make up Le Switch’s secret weapon. When the two come together, expertly backed on drums/percussion by Joe Napolitano, Josh Charney on keys, and Christopher Harrison on bass, even the most jaded hipster in the bar can’t help but take notice. - Aquarium Drunkard
with:
Frankel || Listen
Amnion || Listen
Seasons
Presented by: Aquarium Drunkard
8:30pm / FREE / 21+
Despite a pretty sturdy background in electronic music, the buzz surrounding Frenchman Anthony Gonzalez’s M83 has been centered on his affinity for the texture of hazy shoegaze guitars. As last heard on 2005’s Before the Dawn Heals Us… the one man band continued veering towards pyrotechnic riffs and bleeding heart vocal melodrama while inching slightly away from compositions driven by beats or centered on ambient waves of keyboard foam. But based on the scant evidence provided by the first track from of Spring 2008’s Saturday = Youth record, perhaps the rock stops here.
The amorphous fog hanging over this eight and a half minute slow burn is primarily synthetic and its dominant thump surprisingly club ready. You can almost make out some lonely amp feedback in there somewhere, but as the rhythm continues to assert itself in the track’s fourth and fifth minutes it’s swallowed completely. While I hesitate to say that the track is an improvement over the previous model, I’m digging the forward momentum achieved when Gonzalez’s blurred sonics snap into sharper focus. - Prefix Mag
with:
Berg Sans Nipple
@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
8pm / $17 adv, $19 dos / 18+
with:
Stonehoney
Leslie and the Badgers
Band of Annuals (featuring members of Cub County)
Restaurant
American Babies
hosted by Chris Morris and DJ Cuz’n Roy
3pm / FREE / all ages
with:
Dave Gleason || Listen
Tornado Magnet (featuring members of Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Whiskey Tango, The Hideaways)
The Fallen Stars || Listen
The Holler Dopers
Plus Squaredancing from 3pm-5pm
hosted by Chris Morris and DJ Cuz’n Roy
3pm / FREE / all ages
resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop
FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace
10pm / $5 / 21+
resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop
FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace
10pm / $5 / 21+
with:
Silver Daggers
Abe Vigoda
resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop
FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace
10pm / $5 / 21+
Unless you never heard the reedy sneer of the Violent Femmes’ Gordan Gano and The Pixies’ Black Francis, or you completely missed the affected phrasing of Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon, there’s no denying Brooklyn’s Blood on the Wall’s awkward caterwauls come with ingrained precedents. But with this rumpled revivalist trio the foundation is so strong there’s always a way to craft an accommodating floor plan and accessorize it with soused jangle and splayed arrangements. All the late ’80s college-rawk cast-offs coagulate into an atonal, unhinged, and altogether pleasing condensation of agitated splatter. A somewhat heavier third full-length, Blood on the Wall’s latest still manages to avoid being heavy-handed with its heritage. - XLR8R
with:
Nite Jewel
with resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop
FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace
10pm / $10 / 18+
with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony
Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall
@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026
FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace
9pm / $5 / 21+
with
Warrior King
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 / $5 / 21+
with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony
Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall
@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026
FMI:
Dub Club on MySpace
9pm / $5 / 21+
with 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+
