Friday 11.21.08: Echo, Dub Lab, KCRW, (((folkYeah))) and Wax Poetics present RODRIGUEZ with CONNIE PRICE AND THE KEYSTONES / SLEEPY SUN @ echo

Rodriguez || Listen

with

Connie Price & The Keystones || Listen

For a record that’s almost 40 years old, Cold Fact sounds astoundingly fresh and relevant, as if it has been preserved in a time capsule all this time. The lyrical content of songs like “Inner City Blues” and “Hate Street Dialogue” is sharp, witty, and biting. Rodriguez has a commanding voice that is at once wise and completely unpretentious. And of course the musical accompaniment, all of which was recorded and added after Rodriguez contributed his parts, enhances the psychedelic mood and vibrations. Rodriguez is currently back on tour, supporting an album that he recorded decades ago. Some rock-n-roll relics might find playing their classic numbers a bore, but Rodriguez is playing his like no one’s ever heard them before. – Popmatters

plus:
Sleepy Sun || Listen

8pm / $12 / 18+

Tuesday 11.18.08: Indie 103.1 & The Echo present – CHECK ONE TWOSDAY with EVEREST / THE HENRY CLAY PEOPLE / NICO STAI / DAZZLER @ echoplex

Everest || Listen || Watch

Ghost Notes is the perfect moniker for this album, Everest’s first. The group may be new, but the members have been kicking around the L.A. indie scene forever, finally coming together in this amalgamation to resurrect the sounds of the past. Recorded mostly live in the studio entirely on analog tape, the entire set has an early-’70s feel, as well as a glow to the sound that reflects Mike Terry’s expert engineering and production. The album divides rather nicely into two halves, just like a vinyl set, with the first half a bit brighter with pop undertones, the second more shadowed and pushing into jam and prog rock territory. “Trees” is buffeted by a breeze blowing out of the South, “Into Your Soft Heart” is tinged with British Invasion R&B and a whip of Who-esque power chords, a styling taken to its logical upbeat conclusion on the wildly infectious “Reloader.” In contrast are downtempo numbers like “Rebels in the Roses” and “Black Covers,” the former folk-tinged, the latter lusher in sound. Each one has its own many distinctive charms, but it’s the gorgeous, introspective “Only in Your Mind” that is the centerpiece of this half of the set. If you distilled Dark Side of the Moon, Pet Sounds, and Revolver into a glass and poured it over the California surf, it would probably sound like this. The glories of “Mind” are equalled by the exquisite aural tapestry of “I See It in Your Eyes,” a head-nodder of a number whose rich acoustic guitar is underlit by the tidal waves of organ, while the electric guitar eventually wades right into the surf. However, its jammy feel and proggy aura are counter-pointed by passages clearly inspired by Neil Young. Meanwhile, “Standing By” begins like an acoustic ballad but builds into an amazing spacy extravaganza. “Angry Storm” is gently rocked with yearning, and the coursing “Stumble Waltz” never puts a foot or note wrong, with the album closing with the powerful acoustic ballad “Taking on the Future.” The music throughout is sublime, the sound extraordinary, the arrangements inspired, and Russell Pollard’s lyrics capture the style of the past while feeling as fresh as today. Classic sounds make for a classic album, which is precisely what Ghost Notes is. – Billboard

with:
The Henry Clay People || Listen
Nico Stai
Dazzler (formerly Totally Radd)

@ echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

8pm / FREE for 21+, $5 for 18+ / 18+

Saturday 11.08.08: DESCARGA @ echo

¡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, 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+

Thursday 11.06.08: HAPPY HOLLOWS / STRANGE BOYS / THE SOFT HANDS / DIE ROCKERS DIE @ echo

The Happy Hollows || Listen || Watch

The Happy Hollows’ raucous and irreverent noisy-pop sound is influenced by genres as disparate as 90’s college rock, Broadway show-tunes, garage punk, and 80’s pop. The band combines innovative song structures, surreal lyrics, and fiercely adept instrumentation to recreate reality into a jagged panorama of vibrant, kaleidoscopic collage. Listening to their music, one cannot help but see visions of a place oddly askew from the world we experience everyday, a parallel universe that is at once whimsical, demented, and ferocious. Among other things, the subjects of their tunes include labyrinths, counterfactual history, palindromes, the colors of the rainbow, time travel, mythical animals, and Tarot cards. On the group’s 2008 EP, Imaginary, Vocalist/guitarist Sarah Negahdari’s cherubic propensity for quizzical, playful lyrics and signature finger-tapping/finger picking guitar technique are readily apparent as the band quirkily straddles the fence between dissonant rock and art-pop. – Local Vertical

with:
The Strange Boys
The Soft Hands || Listen
Die Rockers Die || Listen

8pm / $5 / 18+

Tuesday 11.04.08: IM RADIO & OBAMA PHONE BANK present ELECTION DAY PARTY @ echo

DON’T FORGET TO VOTE NOV 4!!!!

THEN Join everyone to watch the election unfold on…
3+ video projections throughout the venue of different election news sources

Live IM Radio broadcast from the party at the echo with up to the min analysis of what is happening with the election all night long, discussion panels, guest speakers, & analysis.

Live video broadcast from the event on our new internet TV channel

Free giveaways: buttons, teeshirts, stickers, CDs

The Los Angeles Obama Campaign Call Bank (Get Out The Vote) will be set up to make calls throughout the event, reminding people to vote. You can help them too if you want.

Live music performances by:
The Polyamorous Affair
Acoustic Music by 2 surprise artists

Sound & Performance art:
Poetry (election, change, hope, Obama… themed) facilitated by James Mavric; KillRadio.org
Live Artwork creation area from Echo Curio. Create your own art at the event.
Free design your own T-shirt table. Bring an old T-shirt; we provide the stencils & paint; and will help you to create your wearable art.
Community Artwork Display currated by Echo Curio

Community Information Fair w/ tables handing out info on other worthy causes

Full Bar all night long

Huge celebration, with balloons & more when IM Radio Calls the election for Obama.

8pm / FREE / 18+

Monday 12.01.08: Monday Night Residency – WEAVE! / FOOLS GOLD / WE ARE THE WORLD / RAINBOW ARABIA @ echo

Weave!

Weave! is composed of Ivory Lee Carlson, Nicole Turley, Phillip Haut, and Bryan Lasley, all Los Angeles natives that have formed quite a unique sound. Something bordering the Moving Units and Blonde Redhead, this group manages to take bits and pieces of bands like that then mold them into their own tune. Gracing bars such as The Echo, The Smell, Mountain Bar and La Cita, this group obviously knows the hot come-up spots for LA indie bands and plans on continuing that path with their full length debut coming out summer of 2009. Big things for Weave!, so be on the look out. Check out their song “Bravery”. I dare you to try not to dance. – URB

with:
Fool’s Gold
We Are The World
Rainbow Arabia

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Monday 11.24.08: Monday Night Residency – WEAVE! / CROOKED COWBOY / EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS / FAWNHAWK @ echo

Weave!

Weave! is composed of Ivory Lee Carlson, Nicole Turley, Phillip Haut, and Bryan Lasley, all Los Angeles natives that have formed quite a unique sound. Something bordering the Moving Units and Blonde Redhead, this group manages to take bits and pieces of bands like that then mold them into their own tune. Gracing bars such as The Echo, The Smell, Mountain Bar and La Cita, this group obviously knows the hot come-up spots for LA indie bands and plans on continuing that path with their full length debut coming out summer of 2009. Big things for Weave!, so be on the look out. Check out their song “Bravery”. I dare you to try not to dance. – URB

with:
Crooked Cowboy
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Fawnhawk

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Monday 11.17.08: Monday Night Residency – WEAVE! / GODS GANG / THE JUDY EXPERIENCE @ echo

Weave!

Weave! is composed of Ivory Lee Carlson, Nicole Turley, Phillip Haut, and Bryan Lasley, all Los Angeles natives that have formed quite a unique sound. Something bordering the Moving Units and Blonde Redhead, this group manages to take bits and pieces of bands like that then mold them into their own tune. Gracing bars such as The Echo, The Smell, Mountain Bar and La Cita, this group obviously knows the hot come-up spots for LA indie bands and plans on continuing that path with their full length debut coming out summer of 2009. Big things for Weave!, so be on the look out. Check out their song “Bravery”. I dare you to try not to dance. – URB

with:
Gods Gang
The Judy Experience

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Monday 11.03.08: Monday Night Residency – WEAVE! / MAJESTYS / WARPAINT / WHITE AND THE WRITING @ echo

Weave!

Weave! is composed of Ivory Lee Carlson, Nicole Turley, Phillip Haut, and Bryan Lasley, all Los Angeles natives that have formed quite a unique sound. Something bordering the Moving Units and Blonde Redhead, this group manages to take bits and pieces of bands like that then mold them into their own tune. Gracing bars such as The Echo, The Smell, Mountain Bar and La Cita, this group obviously knows the hot come-up spots for LA indie bands and plans on continuing that path with their full length debut coming out summer of 2009. Big things for Weave!, so be on the look out. Check out their song “Bravery”. I dare you to try not to dance. – URB

with:
Majestys
Warpaint
White and The Writing

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Wednesday 10.29.08: 80′S DANCERCISE BALLOT BASH @ the echo

with:
Neurotic City

8 pm / FREE / 18+

Sunday 11.30.08: BLITZEN TRAPPER / THE PARSON RED HEADS @ the echo

Blitzen Trapper || Listen || Watch

Like their 2007 debut, Wild Mountain Nation, this latest disc by these semibearded indie rockers was recorded in a telegraph-building-turned-studio in their home base of Portland, Oregon. With the Willamette River nearby, Blitzen Trapper channeled their love of nature — as well as an apparent love for Pavement, Neil Young and various forgotten bands from Nuggets collections. The result is an engaging album full of rootsy beauty: gorgeous, wilderness-wandering ballads like “Stolen Shoes & a Rifle” offer all the benefits of a great pastoral folk-rock record, but Blitzen also toss in ragged guitars, cheap keyboards and mildly weird psych rock on jams such as “Fire and Fast Bullets.” Meanwhile, frontman Eric Earley spins vivid backwoods stories that would play well around a campfire: “Black River Killer” is a creepy vignette about a murderous cowboy, and on the title track, Earley imagines wandering into the forest, watching his flesh turn into fur, and communing with a pack of wolves. Throughout the album, Blitzen keep their songs highly tuneful, making Furr a breakthrough worthy of toasting with a microbrew, or several. – Rolling Stone

with:
The Parson Red Heads || Listen

7pm / $10 advance; $12 day of show / all ages

Monday 10.27.08: RED BULL 45’s with CUT CHEMIST @ echoplex

with:
Cut Chemist || Listen (DJ set)
J Rocc || Listen
Music Man Miles
DJ Renato
DJ John Doe

8pm / FREE / 18+

Thursday 11.20.08: EL GUINCHO / GLASSER / ORO11 @ echo

El Guincho

Spanish artist El Guincho (real name: Pablo Díaz-Reixa) makes music from Spanish chanting, thudding tribal rhythms, ghostly harmonies, and the bits and pieces of a thousand as-yet-unwritten pop songs. It’s a combination that won’t be appearing in any pop how-to guides any time soon. The impressive and probably unwittingly fashionable source material– Afrobeat, dub, Tropicália, and early rock’n'roll– and the irresistibility of these songs can only briefly obscure the fact that no one else is really making music quite like this.

Alegranza! has already been compared extensively to Panda Bear’s Person Pitch, and the two records do share a hazy, sampladelic love-in feel (hypnotic, interlocking sample loops; delirious, auto-harmonizing pop song choruses). I’m more strongly reminded of Animal Collective’s Strawberry Jam, even though this record sounds very different: Both it and Alegranza! are spikier, less pristine, and less invested in images of the past. There’s no sacred totem in Alegranza! to play the role that the Beach Boys do for Person Pitch– opener “Palmitos Park” may sound a bit like Richie Valens, but otherwise El Guincho’s songcraft resemblances are at once so broad and so diffuse that they feel osmotic rather than deliberate: Confused chants coalesce into brain-teasingly familiar vocal hooks, while quicksilver flashes of guitar trace echoes of melodies you feel you must already know like the back of your hand. – Pitchfork

with:
Glasser
Oro11

8:30pm / $12 / 18+

Tuesday 11.11.08: Indie 103.1 & Echo present – CHECK ONE TWOSDAY with EARLIMART / AFTERNOONS / RED CORTEZ / DAZZLER @ echoplex

Earlimart || Listen

The kind of emotion-drenched indie-pop that fills “Hymn and Her” is nothing new for Earlimart — the group delivered a fine album of confessional lyrics and inventive, engaging music last year with “Mentor Tormentor,” a major step in its steady rise toward the top tier of L.A. bands.

Releasing another full-length effort less than a year later is unusual, but the accelerated pace might account for the infusion of freshness that makes “Hymn and Her” so arresting.

The music crackles and trembles with a restless bravado that might have been muted with more time and deliberation, and in the process Earlimart brings its intimate conversations out of the confession booth and into the cathedral itself, where they expand to fill the vast space.

The group, now down to the duo of Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray, returns to its trusted tools — rich melody, a tone of taut urgency, clapping percussion, a strong sense of atmosphere and space, weird little things squirming in the far corners — but on this sixth album everything seems enhanced, raised to a new level. – LA Times

with:
Afternoons
Red Cortez (formerly The Weather Underground)
Dazzler (formerly Totally Radd)

8pm / FREE before 10:30pm, $5 after / 18+

Saturday 11.15.08: Echo, Hang The Djs & Part Time Punks present ADULT. / POP NOIR @ echoplex

Adult. || Listen || Watch

Briefly a synth bass-anchored trio, Adult. is now again Detroit-based husband-and-wife Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus on their fourth album. And Adult. is your favorite Anglo-anarcho punk band since Rudimentary Peni. Don’t believe? Why Bother? will force your hesitant hand to admit it. Like snorting Paxil-laced Adderall off a Fad Gadget lithograph, Adult. is cathartic cabaret for the sketched out. Opening with “Red Herring”—the near-silent wink before the wince—Why Bother? soon descends into the digital DT’s of “Good Deeds” and “I Feel Worse When I’m With You,” featuring enough gabber for a 10-day tweakend. As it unfurls, the base of tracks such as “You Don’t Worry Enough” reveal a return to the group’s more silicon compositions, but incorporate singer Nicola Kuperus’ Siouxsie Sioux-isms plus poltergeists of atonal axe-work. The gnarled vignettes aim to alienate, which only further endears core fans, whether electro heads, electroclash survivors or no-wave fetishists. Something has contaminated the culture, and Adult.’s once hyper-sterile world is the better for it. – URB

with:
Pop Noir

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Bvld
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $12 /18+

Thursday 11.13.08: AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD @ echo

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead || Listen || Watch

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead is putting the finishing touches on its sixth album in New York with producer Chris Coady. The as-yet-untitled set is due in January via the band’s own Richter Scale label through the Universal-distributed Justice Records. An EP, “Festival Time,” will precede the album in October. In addition to the title track, it will feature an unconventional cover of the Replacements’ “Within Your Reach” as well as the instrumental “The Betrayal of Roger Caseman and the Irish Brigade” and the dark, riffy “Bells of Creation,” which will appear on the album in a different form… The material previewed for Billboard is indeed more hard-hitting than on the past two Interscope albums, with “Inland Sea” building from a measured, midtempo rocker to a furious instrumental finish and the snappy “Fields of Coal” conjuring an inspirational chorus that Reece says reminds him of the Summer Olypmics. Another untitled track is fast and punky, with an Unwound-style feedback barrage. – Billboard

8:30pm / $12 / 18+

Sunday 11.09.08: ONYX REUNION @ echo

ONYX Reunion

6pm / FREE / All Ages

Friday 11.21.08: CLUB UNDERGROUND @ echo

with 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 11.28.08: CLUB UNDERGROUND @ echo

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

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

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

Wednesday 11.26.08: 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

9pm / $5 / 21+

Wednesday 11.19.08: DUB CLUB presents SHINEHEAD @ echoplex

Shinehead

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

SUGAR MINOTT CANCELLED – REFUNDS AVAILABLE AT POINT OF PURCHASE

9pm / $10 / 21+

Wednesday 11.12.08: 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

9pm / $5 / 21+

Wednesday 11.05.08: DUB CLUB presents ERIC “MONTY” MORRIS backed by ALLENTONS @ echoplex

Eric “Monty” Morris
Backed by The Allentons

Eric “Monty” Morris is recognised in Jamaica, alongside Laurel Aitken and Derrick Morgan as one of the founding fathers of Ska. In 1961 he recorded a medley of nursery rhymes as “Humpty Dumpty” providing the vocals to Arkland Drumbago Parks All Star Band’s shuffling beat. The song proved a phenomenal success and is regarded as pivotal in the progress of Jamaican music, introducing the emphasis on the half beat in comparison to earlier local recordings which simply mirrored American R&B .
Morris recorded an abundance of hits throughout the first half of the 60s, most notably “What A Man Doeth”, “Sammy Dead”, “Money Can’t Buy Life”, “Into My Garden”, “Enna Bella” and “A Little More Oil In My Lamp”. . The singer also found success with Leslie Kong who released the favoured “Solomon A Gundy” alongside “Sampson Was The Strongest Man”, while sessions with Neremiah Reid resulted in “Words Of Wisdom”, “Supper In The Gutter” and “Words Of My Mouth”. In the latter half of the 60s several commentators considered that while Morris was an esteemed ska singer he would not adapt to the new sound of rocksteady. Adding the “Monty” tag to his name the singer, although not as prolific, proved the critics were mistaken with the sublime, “Say I’m Back” and the defiant “Last Laugh.”

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

9pm / $10 advance, $15 day of show / 18+

Sunday 11.02.08: WHISPERTOWN 2000 / MICHAEL RUNION @ echo

Whispertown 2000 || Listen || Watch

The four-member band’s on-stage shenanigans and overall effect were upbeat (at one point, the ladies who do all the singing each took a stick and co-played the drums while the guys danced around with their guitars and bass up front) . Whatever you call it — indie rock, emo, or something else entirely — music in this genre sometimes lends itself to the melancholy side of things. What struck me most about this band was how much fun they were having on stage, and their infectious songs matched that showmanship.

Their album Livin’ in a Dream has been out for a year, and though I’ve only been listening it since Sunday, I’m already addicted. If you’re a Rilo Kiley fan you’ll definitely dig this: Their record was released on Rilo Kiley’s own label, Brute/Beaute. – Buzzsugar

with:
Michael Runion

6pm / $5 / All Ages

Saturday 11.08.08: THE DODOS / RESTAURANT / DREAMDATE @ echoplex

The Dodos || Listen || Watch

On Visiter, Dodos guitarist Meric Long alternates between fingerpicking and breakneck strumming while playing in confounding alternate tunings. Logan Kroeber’s clattering, locomotive percussion (which includes shoes outfitted with tambourines) is every bit a lead instrument as Long’s guitar, and a big reason the band’s music has garnered comparisons to the less abstract moments of Animal Collective and the output of other new-primitivist bands like High Places and Yeasayer.

The first quarter of Visiter marries those impulses with fantastic results. The banjo playing and female harmonies on opener “Walking” echo Michigan-era Sufjan, but the connection ends at Long’s stridently confident vocal delivery. That song immediately segues into the maniacal “Red & Purple”, a bewilderingly worded love song accompanied by a toy piano and fuzzy bass. And after the brief “Eyelids” comes “Fools”, which has been bouncing around the web in some form for months, and is fast becoming the Dodos’ signature tune– although it may soon be eclipsed by the rollicking, Feelies-esque “Jodi”. – Pitchfork

with:
Restaurant
Dreamdate || Listen

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

Save Money when you order tickets by mobile phone
text Happy to 467467

8pm / $13 advance, $15 day of show / 18+

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Friday 11.07.08: Echo & Club Underground present APES & ANDROIDS / ATLANTIC LINE @ echo

Apes & Androids || Listen || Watch

A dance floor-ready cocktail of Queen’s bombast (complete with Freddie Mercury’s falsetto), 1980s Prince, Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie and Beck’s Midnight Vultures. On their debut album Blood Moon, A&A pump out sing-alongs like “Hot Kathy,” party starters like “We Don’t Understand You” and simmering burners like “Riverside.” “We tried to build the record into something that would be a journey when listening to the whole thing,” says A&A’s Brian Jacobs, who shares vocal and guitar duties with bandmate David Tobias.
The band’s live performances are becoming as well-known as the songs themselves, with cheerleaders, giant silver skulls, face paint and even a Korean drum circle all making appearances for a unique live experience.
- Rolling Stone

with:
Atlantic Line

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Sunday 11.30.08: PART TIME PUNKS with PROTECT ME & HARLEM @ echo

with:
Protect me
Harlem

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Sunday 11.23.08: PART TIME PUNKS – CURE TRIBUTE NITE with HECUBA / GANGI @ echo

With:
Hecuba || Listen
Gangi

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Sunday 11.16.08: PART TIME PUNKS FESTIVAL @ echo & echoplex

With:
A Certain Ratio
Pylon
Love is All
Medium Medium
Savage Republic
The Nightingales
Nervous Gender
Vivian Girls
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Warpaint
NoDzz
The Urinals
Wild Stares
The Muslims
Magic Bullets
Grimble Grumble
Softboiled Eggies
Mika Miko

Los Angeles will be the location of the world’s first-ever Post-Punk Festival (or at least the first since 1982 or whenever the last Futurama was held in the UK!). The day-long event will be held in conjoined venues, The Echo & The Echoplex, in Echo Park, Sunday November 16, 2008 from 2pm – 2am.

Most excitingly, the Part Time Punks Festival will mark the first appearance of A CERTAIN RATIO in the United States since 1985! At the time, often dismissed as Joy Division clones (also on Factory Records), the band has since been recognized in the highest echelon of Post-Punk innovation, alongside Public Image Limited, Gang Of Four and The Slits for fusing Punk with dance rhythms – much of this credit probably due to the reissuing of the band’s back catalogue by Soul Jazz.

The Festival will also mark the first West Coast appearance of Pylon since they reformed last year to promote DFA’s releasing of their back catalogue (the label will be re-issuing Pylon’s second album, “Chomp” in time for the Festival).

PLUS. . . GUEST DJs: David J (Bauhaus/Love & Rockets), Dave Newton (Mighty Lemon Drops), Brendan Mullen (“the guy who ran The Masque”) Chuck Warner (Messthetics/Hyped 2 Death) & Dan Selzer (Acute Records) & Kevin Pedersen (What’s Your Rupture?)

PLUS. . .the first-ever band-sanctioned public screening by Throbbing Gristle (videos, live performance & never-before-seen material) AND screenings of rare & unseen Post-Punk videos, films & live performances by Joy Division, New Order, Section 25, Cabaret Voltaire, Fad Gadget, Suburban Lawns, The Films Of Bruce Licher & Savage Republic AND the DVD-release-premiere of Decoder (featuring Genesis P-Orridge, William S. Burroughs, Christiane F and members of Psychic TV, Soft Cell, Talk Talk and Einsturzende Neubauten).

Enter @ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

ECHO SCHEDULE:
2:30pm – Soft Boiled Eggies
3:15pm – Warpaint
4:05pm – Grimble Grumble
5:00pm – Mika Miko
6:0pm – The Wild Stares
7:00pm – Nervous Gender
8:00pm – Muslims
9:00pm – Savage Republic
10:10pm – Ariel Pink
11:15pm – The Nightingales

ECHOPLEX SCHEDULE:
2:50pm – Magic Bullets
3:50pm – Nodzz
5pm – The Urinals
6pm – Vivian Girls
7:10pm – Medium Medium
8:30pm – Love Is All
9;30pm – Pylon
10:30pm – A Certain Ratio
Schedule is subject to change

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

2pm / $25 day of show / 18+

Sunday 11.09.08: PART TIME PUNKS with LE FACE + SHARK TOYS @ echo

with:
Le Face
Shark Toys

Exile in marineville, the sounds and general racket of these two bands: Tronics heads, Swell Maps sods, Zoundz motherfuckerz, all, come soak in the DIY soundz out of their bedrooms & into yer brainpan.

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Sunday 11.02.08: PART TIME PUNKS with CRYSTAL STILTS / CAUSE CO-MOTION @ echo

with:
Crystal Stilts
Cause Co-Motion || Listen

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Saturday 11.01.08: FORRO IN THE DARK / PILAR DIAZ / SALT PETAL @ echo

Forro in The Dark || Listen || Watch

Born out of NY’s eclectic East Village club, Nublu, Forro In The Dark is a group primarily made up of Brazilian ex-pats. Musically, the group follows the meaning of their name to a tee. Forro is a traditional dance performed in Northeast Brazil, a more sophisticated sister to the better known samba, bossa nova and the like. Another aspect of the band’s adherence to Forro is the use of traditional themes such as love, passion and the hardships of migrant workers. But by positioning themselves in NYCs thriving urban scene, they’ve taken their brand of Forro, literally, in the dark, captivating dance floors the world over. In a single set, they’ll often take audiences through all aspects of Forro and beyond, enabling a rowdy dance party and a slowed down contemplative respite. Since their inception, members of the band have attracted high profile collaborators such as Bebel Gilberto, David Byrne and others. With backgrounds in jazz, classical and hip-hop, this melting pot of knowledge and energy is truly captivating. – KEXP

with:
Pilar Diaz
Salt Petal

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Friday 10.31.08: BONDAGE BALL @ echoplex

Click to Buy Tickets

FMI: http://bondageball.com/

9pm / $30 advance, $40 day of show / 18+

Tuesday 10.28.08: THE KARABAL NIGHTLIFE / I MAKE THIS SOUND / EMA & THE GHOSTS / THE SHIVERS @ echo

The Karabal Nightlife || Listen

The Karabal Nightlife began the evening with their joyous amalgam of swinging, bluesy folk crossbred with the stabbing throb of arcing postpunk, an odd combination which the band managed to blend into a singular blast of right-angle guitar lines slicing throughout the swampy, humid murk of their Delta sonics and folk-tinged melodies. The Nightlife’s shapeshifting music would sidewind from a twinkling slowgroove of acoustic, whisper-sung acoustic balladry to throat-tattered, howling rock—often within the same song, with singer/guitarist Jesse Davis’ reverbed shouts dovetailing into the hazy beauty of bassist Lindsay Mancha’s glimmerglass vocals, while drummer Courtney Olsen kept the music from spiraling into the ether (special notice should be made for percussionist Dan Grayson, who at one point was playing the tambourine with his right foot, as his hands were busy with shakers). With the punk/folk schizophrenia of songs like “Cicadas Sing and Wake the Dead,” the band whirled and spun from arcing whiplash-rock to chugging, sunny indie-pop, setting both the eclectic tone for the evening and the musical bar dizzyingly high. – Web In Front

with:
I Make This Sound || Listen
Ema & The Ghosts
The Shivers || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Saturday 10.25.08: SMOG SESSIONS @ echo

SMOG SESSIONS
los angeles dubstep event

HEADHUNTER
TEMPA, HENCH, BRISTOL UK
Fueled by deep, low frequencies(with distinct remnants of techno and electronic sounds), Headhuner embodies a dubstep sound that is made for the dancefloor. A well-respected producer/DJ and commodity to the scene, he has headlined at Ministry of Sound, The End, FWD>> and Subloaded. With his debut album Nomad just released late September, prepare to embark on a journey through time, and space – narrated by bass.

DJG
NARCO HZ, NOPPA, SF
A native to the Bay Area, DJG (Dean J. Grenier) is a highly innovative producer, whose style reveals a spectrum of layered sound, blended together with lyrical basslines and deep, wild energy. Also known in the D&B world as Genome (as a resident at the legendary club Eklektic), DJG is one of San Francisco’s premiere and most desired dubstep artists. Check out his recent releases on Narco.Hz, Noppa, Pressing Issues, Subway, and Full Melt.

PABLO HASSAN
PURE FILTH, SMOG, LA

TONY K
PURE FILTH, LA

KEMST
SMOG, LA

turbosound by:
MOBIUS

Patio Lounge:
RICKY DEF (HOLY GHOST)
DERRICK MICHAEL (DROID BEHAVIOR)

FOR MORE INFO:
http://www.smogla.com

9pm / $7 Presale, $10 b4 11, $15 after / 21+

Saturday 11.01.08: BOOTIE LA @ echoplex

BOOTIE LA
LA’s monthly mashup bootleg party

From Paris, France, live video mashup set:
DJ LE CLOWN VIDEO CIRCUS

Resident Bootie mashup DJs:
ADRIAN & the MYSTERIOUS D
DJ PAUL V.

Post-Halloween Day Of The Dead Midnight Mashup Show:
HEATHER VESCENT

Spooky dance troupe number by:
R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance)

Direct from Paris, France it’s the DJ Le Clown Video Circus, a special all-video mashup set from one of the best video mashup producers in Europe. Plus, it’s Bootie’s Post-Halloween Midnight Mashup Show, starring Heather Vescent in her infamous “Hollaback Thriller Girl” performance. And renegade dance troupe R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance) returns to the stage with a spooky “Ghostbusting” choreographed number!

Launched in 2003, Bootie was the first club night in the United States dedicated solely to the burgeoning artform of the bootleg mashup — and is now the biggest mashup event in the world, with monthly parties in six cities on two continents. 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.

Resident DJs Adrian, the Mysterious D, and Paul V. keep your brain guessing and body dancing with creative song combinations, celebrating — and satirizing — the many different forms of music. And free mashup CDs will be given away like candy!

FREE Bootie CDs to the first 75 people through the door!

FMI: http://www.BootieLA.com

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

Monday 11.10.08: THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW / THE DUTCHESS AND THE DUKE / THE FLASH EXPRESS @ echo

The King Khan & BBQ Show || Listen || Watch

The King Khan & BBQ Show is the most revered band in their scene, and there are many reasons why. It all started in 2003, BBQ visiting King Khan, and jamming out their black magick in his Nazi-bunker rehearsal space. Songs flowed endlessly like blood from a cancerous abcess. They took it easy, honing their craft, playing sporadically to crowds outraged by their incredible sound and nasty live show. Orgiastic, anarchic, hypnotic and personal are the shows to this day. Blow-jobs and blood, pick-ups and puke, dancing and laughing. Two guys. Mark Sultan (BBQ), smashing snare, bass drum and tambourine with his bare feet, molesting his guitar and singing like a possessed angel. He is often cited as having one of the finest voices (think Sam Cooke) and greatest songcraft in the world. The other, King Khan, is nearing legendary status for his advanced nuttiness and unpredictability, as well as top-notch showmanship and musicianship. He spins and howls like a freak while belting it out on his guitar like a masher. What does it all sound like? It sounds like five men. Really. And it is very difficult to peg the sound. It really is a cross-section of amazing bands, places and energies. This is soul. This is punk. This is psychedelic. And who do you think started this whole sock-hop/doo-wop revival? Sultan and Khan. This is the Death Cult. This is ROCK’N’ROLL.

with:
The Dutchess & The Duke
The Flash Express || Listen

8:30pm / $10 advance, $12 day of show / 18+

Friday 11.14.08: Echo & Club Underground present THE LITTLE ONES / WHAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS @ echo

The Little Ones || Listen

You know that TV footage of baby birds eating chewed-up worms from their mothers’ mouths? Or doe-eyed seals skidding across the Antarctic ice? ‘Morning Tide’ is so fabulously cute it’s like viewing all of the above through a fog of candy floss.

There’s little deviation from the pop blueprint laid out so scrumptiously on their first outing, and – as deeply in thrall to melody as they obviously are – you imagine The Little Ones would struggle to write a song that didn’t sound akin to the sun sparking. Not that this matters one jot; from the title tune, to previous single ‘Ordinary Song’, to album highlight ‘All Your Modern Boxes’, the band forage through every trick ever deployed in the history of indie-pop to incite smiling. There’s Lemonheads-indebted handclaps throughout; the reverb-drenched jangle of Teenage Fanclub; even wry, wordy Guided By Voices-style outbursts, courtesy of singer and songwriter Ed Reyes. ‘Morning Tide’ is a collection of songs that take the word ‘pop’ in ‘pop music’ literally, bursting with effervescence and joy. – NME

with:
What Made Milwaukee Famous || Listen

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Sunday 10.12.08: KIDROCKERS present THE DEADLY SYNDROME / AFTERNOONS / PATTON OSWALT / SETH HERZOG @ echo

The Deadly Syndrome || Listen

THE DEADLY SYNDROME have been playing all over California on all star bills with bands lik Klaxons, Hot Hot Heat, Cold War Kids, The Faint, Oh No! Oh My!, Justice and Mason Jennings. “Their unbridled live shows garnered immediate attention, as did their music…. Their debut album, The Ortolan, should now transform them from West Coast heroes into American darlings…a stunning debut, leaving one to wonder where the band can possibly go from here. 4.5 / 5 stars” All Music Guide (AMG). “….the Deadly Syndrome’s deliriously chaotic live show, make the quartet an irresistible remedy for isolation.” – The Los Angeles Times

with:
Afternoons

Hosted by:
Patton Oswalt and Seth Herzog

KiDROCKERS is a concert series that began in January 2007 to bring some of the most engaging and vital artists in indie music and comedy to perform for kids and their parents. These All Ages shows are designed to bring families together to enjoy new music. Artists perform original (not specifically made for children) songs in a manner that is both authentic and kid-friendly. Past artists include Tad Kubler (and members of the Hold Steady, Ra Ra Riot, Langhorne Slim, Harlem Shakes, Rogue Wave, The Subjects, Looker, Bishop Allen, The Spinto Band, Locksley, Phonograph, Palomar, Pela, Los Campesinos!, Reggie Watts, Chris Baron and LEVY.

Buy Tickets Here

1pm / $9 advance, $12 day of show / all ages (3-13 recommended)
Adults must be accompanied by a kid and vice versa

Friday 11.14.08: DEERHOOF / EXPERIMENTAL DENTAL SCHOOL / KIT @ echoplex

Deerhoof || Listen || Watch || MP3

Fourteen years into a band as diverse and uncompromising as Deerhoof, with albums that skittered from twee electronics and J-pop to sizzling explosions of art-noise, you might expect that the quartet would have comprehensively explored every possible avenue of artistic innovation. Offend Maggie evidences a band that hasn’t settled down, because they don’t have to. Featuring new second guitarist Ed Rodriguez, it’s ironically a stripped-down effort (drummer Greg Saunier plays live with just a kick drum, snare and crash cymbal). Offend Maggie adds jazz-inspired, unpredictable structures to Deerhoof’s raw, off-the-cuff approach. It may be stripped down, but the result is daring, otherworldly and an exhaustive clinic on creating transcendent moments with a pair of guitars. – CMJ

with:
Experimental Dental School || Listen
Kit

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

8:30pm / $15 / All Ages

Friday 11.07.08: XLR8R presents BRAINFEEDER NIGHT with FLYING LOTUS / GASLAMP KILLER / KUTMAH / RAS G / HUDSON MOHAWKE / KODE 9 / MARTYN / SAMIYAM

with:
Flying Lotus
Gaslamp Killer
Kutmah
Ras_G
Hudson Mohawke
Kode 9
Martyn
Samiyam

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

8:30pm / $14adv; $16dos / 18+

Thursday 10.23.08: HELEN STELLER / SEASPIN / SHIRLEY ROLLS @ echo

Helen Stellar || Listen

HELEN STELLAR draws comparisons to London’s “shoegaze” movement of the early 90’s with thunderous drums, thick-grooved bass melodies and distorted guitar bliss. But elements of their sound transcend the genre. For one, the vocals Jim’s voice soars above these huge compositions with its emotive capacity, bolstered by heart spun lyrics: “There’s more to life than death, moonlight in every breath and love is ocean deep/There are stars that you can’t see, stars I swear we’ll reach/You need me to lead – I need you to believe…” – Our Secrets, from the band’s latest EP I’m Naut What I Seem. But their recordings are only the tip of a multi-sensory experience that is HELEN STELLaR. Not to be missed, their live show has become increasingly powerful. In person, the music has room to breathe, to come alive with an encompassing quality that allows it to not only be heard but felt as well.

with:
Seaspin
Shirley Rolls || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 18+

Saturday 10.25.08: CLUB SUICIDE @ echoplex

Special performance by:
NIXON from the SuicideGirls Burlesque Tour

plus:
DJ Amanda Jones (Das Bunker, Perversion, Malediction Society)
DJ Robert Lockerby (Clockwork Orange)

spinning the best in Electro, Indie, and ’80s.

The last Saturday of every month!

Come and check out our SUICIDE GIRL GO-GO DANCERS!

FREE WITH FULL COSTUME ALL NIGHT LONG!

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

FMI: CLUBSUICIDE.NET

10pm / FREE with costume, $5 before 11pm with pass, $12 after / 18+

Monday 10.27.08: Monday Night Residency – RADEMACHER / THE WESTERN STATES MOTEL @ echo

Rademacher || Watch

Exhibit A is a non-album demo exclusive, “What Happened to Yr Friends,” that displays Rademacher’s breadth as they craft a truly earnest and epic track. Meanwhile, Stunts sample “If U Got Some Magic” displays an astute wit when asking, “If you know the city, then why can’t you find a place to get your hair cut?” Notice the growth without surrender. In both tracks, what’s clear is the consistency with which the expertly slack songs stay gritty without sacrificing tune or tightness. Poppy without being overly perky, these Cali boys aren’t all sunshine — check the almost-Arcade Fire apocalyptic piano slams on “Magic” or the echo and feedback haunting “Friends.” Still, the hooks and melodies catch unexpectedly, like walking into that near-invisible spider web, as frontman Malcolm Sosa’s tender falsetto harmonies creep up from behind during the frailest moments of “Friends.” – Spin.com

with:
The Western States Motel || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Sunday 10.19.08: PART TIME PUNKS with CUT CHEMIST / WE ARE THE WORLD @ echo

with
Cut Chemist || Listen
We Are The World

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Wednesday 10.22.08: THE NEIGHBORHOOD BULLYS / DOGWEED / BOLLWEEVIL @ echo

The Neighborhood Bullies

didn’t know too much about the Bullys (misspelling deliberate, I’d wager) – magnetic singer-songwriter-bassist Davey Meshell, lick-lashing guitarists Eugene Edwards and Michael Hays, and monster drummer Joey Galvan – prior to seeing them perform. I was told that they came together in Hollywood, not too long ago, and were just starting to play around. What I now know after watching them tear apart the Cinema Bar and throw loyalists and newbies into a state of rock-stasy is that they are true sons of The Beat. They look like they have day jobs at a garage. But damn! They delivered the goods.

Encoded in the Bullys’ sound, you can hear the new-wave bounce of The Knack, the glam-rock crunch of Slade, the proto-power-pop of Raspberries, the party-metal of Kiss, and the lean, mean R&B/pub-rock blast of Dr. Feelgood. And, though it would be an unfair overstatement to say that Meshell belies his goateed regular-guy look with the passion and moan of a Solomon Burke or an Otis Redding, you’d be lucky to find another white boy with as much soul in his voice. Mention should also be made of lyrics that are cynical, brutally honest, pointed and peppered with witty rhymes. If a cleaver was clever, it would be a song by the Neighborhood Bullys. – MOG

with:
Dogweed
Bollweevil

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 11.11.08: Aquarium Drunkard presents BISHOP ALLEN / AN HORSE / ELECTRIC OWLS / THE ONE AM RADIO @ echo

Bishop Allen || Watch || MP3

Like fellow indie tunesmiths Stephin Merritt and Sufjan Stevens, Bishop Allen’s Justin Rice and Christian Rudder get inspired by forcing themselves to be prolific. Last year the Harvard-bred duo put aside its belated follow-up to 2003’s self-released Charm School and set about recording a different EP each month. Bishop Allen ended up with four albums worth of new material, and The Broken String is a greatest hits sampler of sorts, with nine reworked tracks from the EPs plus a handful of new songs. And it really is great, striding confidently from one high point to the next, with expansive yet homemade-sounding folk-rock songs like “Click, Click, Click, Click” and “Corazon” oozing scruffily charming earnestness. Sometimes quality and quantity can coexist nicely. – The Onion AV Club

with:
An Horse || Listen
Electric Owls
The One AM Radio || Listen

8:30pm / $10 advance, $12 Day Of Show / 18+

Tuesday 10.21.08: MAMMATUS / WILDILDLIFE / MAGIC LANTERN @ echo

Mammatus || Listen || Watch

Mammatus was next, a metal trio out of Corralitos. I loved Nicholas Emmert’s (guitar/vocals) use of the word “dudesses,” as in, “Good evening, dudes and dudesses!” That’s what got me up out of the rickshaw on the second floor where I’d been napping between sets. (You know the one–it’s tucked back there in the left corner of the balcony.) After this brief salutation, Mammatus flew straightaway into what was pretty much an epic-metal assault (is epic-metal a viable genre?), and as much as it pains me to admit this (I spent many a formative hour in the back of a busted Mazda MPV listening to Rift, Junta, and crackly-ass Fillmore bootlegs), Nicholas Emmert makes Trey Anastasio look like a Sophomore. He’s got great taste for licks, excellent timing, and gets the most of a somewhat limited vocal range by keeping things simple: long, sonorous lines that overlay all the fits, starts, and paralytic crashes. Freels provides some terrific harmonies on the bass, making his way up and down the neck adroitly, while the other Emmert, Aaron, does much more than just hold things together, splashing and crashing like a contemptuous gremlin whipping a semi down the Great Everdark Highway in the rain, fueled by diesel and trucker speed–angry, yes, and slippery, but on time. During their last number, Nicholas Emmert returned the crowd’s enthusiasm by climbing to the top of the stacks and wailing away at his axe-thrash finale. A fine send-off, really. – The Bay Bridged

with:
Wildildlife
Magic Lantern

8:30pm / $8 Advance, $10 Day of show / 18+

Sunday 10.26.08: THE DEATH SET @ echo

The Death Set || Listen || Watch

Built around Siera’s screeching, self-referential vocals, and a wall of feedback, songs like lead single “Negative Thinking” and “Intermission” cram all of the best parts of ’80s new wave and ’77 Brit punk into two minutes or less. That’s the thing about The Death Set. They seem to be having fun at their own expense, embracing skits and a rapper’s bravado throughout the record, and that’s partly why one shouldn’t take this album too seriously. “MFDS” and the aforementioned “Intermission” give shouts to themselves repeatedly, which, oddly enough, works, creating a sound both old and new, underground and mainstream, all with a playful wink. – Tiny Mix Tapes

8pm / $10 advance, $12 day of show / all ages

Wednesday 10.15.08: ARMY NAVY / THE HENRY CLAY PEOPLE @ echo

Army Navy

Blending British pop melodicism with the grit of the Pacific Northwest, Army Navy recalls the sound of great acts like The Posies and Teenage Fanclub crossed with emotional touches of the The Smiths. Former Pinwheel co-frontman Justin Kennedy has moved on from sharing vocal duties with Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie, Postal Service) to showcase his own pop sensibilities. With its lush harmonies and blankets of guitar fuzz, Army Navy has created something truly unique: a delicate balance between melancholy and joyful resignation. Known for an explosive live show, Army Navy performs regularly with artists as varied as Teenage Fanclub, Wolfmother, Spinto Band, The Like, and Arctic Monkeys. – NME

with:
The Henry Clay People

hosted by Chris Morris and
DJ Cuz’n Roy

5pm / FREE / all ages

Sunday 10.05.08: GRAND OLE ECHO with MIKE STINSON / DIME BOX BAND / CHRIS LATERZO & BUFFALO ROBE / BANJO FRED STAMER @ echo

with:
Mike Stinson || Listen
Dime Box Band || Listen
Chris Laterzo & Buffalo Robe || Listen
Banjo Fred Stamer

hosted by Chris Morris and DJ Cuz’n Roy

5pm / FREE / all ages

Wednesday 10.29.08: 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

9pm / $5 / 21+

Wednesday 10.22.08: DUB CLUB with TIPPA IRIE @ echoplex

Tippa Irie || Listen || Watch
with his band
plus very special guests Welton Irie , Tippa Lee , and Dr Ring Ding alongside the Echodelic Soundsystem

Anthony Henry – a.k.a. “Tippa Irie” – emerged from England’s Saxon Sound International – the star-studded travelling sound system that has been at the forefront of the U.K. reggae dancehall scene for the past 25 years and helped launch the careers of artists such as Maxi Priest, Papa Levi and Smiley Culture. Tippa Irie was part of the new generation of British MC’s who developed the ‘Fast Talking’ style chat which today can be heard in modern day rappers like Busta Rhymes.

Tippa Irie has produced fifteen albums to date and has a string of ..1 hit songs to his credit including “Hello Darling”, “Raggamuffin Girl” (featuring Peter Hunnigale), “Stress” (featuring Lloyd Brown), “Superwoman” (featuring Winsome), “Baby I’ve Been Missing You” (featuring Janet Lee Davis) and “Shouting for the Gunners”–a song originally recorded for the Arsenal Football Team which reached the Top 30 status on the British pop charts.

To this day, Tippa Irie remains one of the most requested Reggae entertainers internationally. The surviving members of Sublime made sure their Long Beach Dub All Stars debut for Dreamworks Records had the necessary dancehall credentials by commissioning Tippa Irie to contribute “Sensi” on their ‘Right Back’(1999) CD and be their special guest on their subsequent North American tour. In 2000 he was invited to support UB40 on their sold-out Labour of Love III UK tour. Later Tippa was called back in the studio with Long Beach Dub All Stars to record “Life Goes On” featuring Half Pint and Jurassic Five’s Charli2na on LBDA’s ‘Wonders of the World’(2001) CD for Dreamworks Records. Impressed with Tippa’s rapid-fire lyrical arsensal, Jurassic Five asked Tippa to record together and the end result was a wicked Tippa and Charli2na combination entitled “The Struggle”. The rap world took notice and soon enough Tippa was once again summoned to record with some of the music industry’s biggest stars. Most recently Tippa was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Rap Song category for his collaboration with Black Eyed Pea’s Will-I-Am on “Hey Mama”, a track featured on the international chartbusting ‘Elephunk’(2004) CD on A&M/Interscope Records.

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

9pm / $12 / 21+

Wednesday 10.15.08: DUB CLUB with EARL ZERO @ echoplex

Earl Zero
backed by the Jubilee Orchestra
mixed by Scientist inna dubwise fashion

Veteran roots-reggae chanter Earl Zero brings both an impressive catalog of classic mid-1970s reggae classics (“None Shall Escape the Judgment,” “Shackles & Chains,” “Righteous Works”) and an insanely deep, fated personal pedigree. Born and raised in Kingston’s Greenwich Town, he grew up alongside close childhood friend Earl “Chinna” Smith — one of reggae’s most potent ax men — and, between the dozen or so Greenwich Sound Systems, a burgeoning Rastafarian faith and a natural gift for spiritually provocative music, Zero came to perfectly represent the abiding, quietly revolutionary stance of the Jamaican Rasta. In fact, Zero’s serene dignity led him to a particularly notable sideline, after Bob Marley personally selected the youth to serve as his herbsman, which entailed chopping and blending the ideal mixture of ganja to best serve the superstar’s head. Tonight, Zero will be working with a full, live band, and, with the King Tubby–groomed dub genius Scientist at the controls, it’s a damn near-perfect proposition. – LA Weekly

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

9pm / $10 / 21+

Wednesday 10.08.08: 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

9pm / $5 / 21+

Wednesday 10.01.08: 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

9pm / $5 / 21+

Saturday 10.18.08: Footlong Development & Keistar Productions Present WONDER-FULL – A TRIBUTE TO THE WONDER OF STEVIE @ echo & echoplex

with:
DJ Spinna (Brooklyn)
Bobbito AKA Kool Bob Love (Harlem)

opening set by:
DJ Rashida (LA)

Spinning All Exclusive, Covers, Remixes, Samples, Etc.

Live Screenprinting by Hit&Run…Printing Exclusive images of Stevie.

@ Echo & Echoplex
Enter thru the Echo
1822 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Wonder-Full is a yearly event dedicated to the great Stevie Wonder. Featuring DJ Spinna and Bobbito, two of New York City’s most respected DJ/Taste makers, spinning all Stevie exclusives, covers, samples & remixes. Also featuring DJ Rashida, one of LA’s most talented mixers and part of Prince’s live group.

Making its third trip to LA , Wonder-Full has united Angelenos and travelers alike, lending to one of the most energetic events this city has ever experienced. Attendees ranged from Prince to Jude Law, along with LA’s top taste makers and music fans, for a crowd of 1,200 smiling faces.

FMI: wonderfull.la@gmail.com

9pm / $15 advance, $20 Day of Show /21+

Saturday 10.04.08: BOOTIE LA @ echoplex

BOOTIE LA
LA’s monthly mashup bootleg party

Special midnight mashup show starring:
THE LADY TIGRA
Rapping LIVE to “Phantom On The Bottom,” DJ PAUL V.’s mashup of her vs. Justice!
This will be the first time an artist has ever performed their own bootleg mashup at Bootie!

Resident Bootie mashup DJs:
DJ PAUL V.
ADRIAN & the MYSTERIOUS D

Making his Bootie debut, special guest:
DJ SHYBOY

Tonight, Bootie is proud to present a very special midnight mashup show. The Lady Tigra — of “Cars That Go Boom” fame — will be performing LIVE to her own bootleg mashup with Justice, “Phantom On The Bottom,” produced by DJ Paul V. This will be the first time in Bootie’s history that an artist has performed their own mashup on stage.

Launched in 2003, Bootie was the first club night in the United States dedicated solely to the burgeoning artform of the bootleg mashup — and is now the biggest mashup event in the world, with monthly parties in seven cities on two continents. 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.

Resident DJs Adrian, the Mysterious D, and Paul V. — along with special guest DJ Shyboy — keep your brain guessing and body dancing with creative song combinations, celebrating — and satirizing — the many different forms of music. And free mashup CDs will be given away like candy!

FREE Bootie CDs to the first 100 people through the door!

FMI: http://www.BootieLA.com

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

Friday 10.03.08: Indie 103.1 presents CLUB UNDERGROUND with LOVE GRENADES / PEACHFUZZ @ echo

with:
Love Grenades
Peachfuzz

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 10.03.08: IRREGULAR WINE TASTING: Six Aspects of Less Than Zero (1987) & Six Wines from Astica Winery of Argentina (2007) @ echoplex

Featuring:

Six wines from Astica Winery of Argentina: Torrontes, Sauvignon white, Chardonnay, Malbec, Syrah & Sauvignon red

Six aspects of Less Than Zero (1987)

and much more

Hosted by:
Julian Davies (The Cheese Store)
DJ Cuz’n Roy

RSVP at:
irregularwinetasting@yahoo.com
Irregular Wine Tasting on Myspace

8pm / $20 / 21+

Wednesday 10.01.08: SPINDRIFT / CANDY APPLE / ROCKING HORSE PEOPLE @ echo

Spindrift || Listen || Watch

Truly out-of-sight, the seven-piece band celebrates the outlaw spirit with spooky, tripped-out variations on Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti Western tradition. Live, they swirl and tremble like a lucid dream, banging a gong and shaking their tambourines for rattlesnake effect, jamming until the audience feels engulfed by a sandstorm (of course, it helps if it’s an outdoor concert and the wind is already fierce). Spindrift founder Kirpatrick Thomas (who holds together portions of the band’s East and West Coast factions) recently recorded a soundtrack to Mike Bruce’s bizarre concept film Legend of God’s Gun, which is like the original Ocean’s 11 with psychedelic rockers replacing tony rat packers. Visually schizophrenic, Gun follows a preacher turned gunslinger who travels to Playa Diablo to avenge his true love’s death. Trippy shoot-’em-ups ensue. Go west! – Salt Lake City Weekly

with:
Rocking Horse People
Candy Apple

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Wednesday 10.08.08: GIANT SAND / ROBERT FRANCIS / BUCKSWORTH @ echo

Giant Sand || Listen || Watch || Download

Giant Sand mastermind Howe Gelb is equal parts Jack Kerouac, Willie Nelson, and Raymond Chandler on his collective’s latest album. The Tucson, Arizona-based rocker once again proves to be the quintessential hardscrabble outlaw-poet. Here he gives listeners a sense of riding shotgun as he tours the Southwest’s dark and lonely pathways with eyes trained on the road and a solitary headlight illuminating the way. The 13 tracks which make up the album establish a fresh and rewarding style that might best be described as cowboy noir.

These are weird, wonderful tunes of hard luck, romantic exchanges and many, many miles set against musical backdrops marked by expressive guitars and piano, steadying rhythms and beautiful vocal textures. Gelb’s assertion that “Out here you feel every mile and you feel every yard / Leaving love alone, I’ve been kicking myself…” from “Can Do” could serve as the album’s thesis statement. – Popmatters

with:
Robert Francis
Bucksworth

8:30pm / $12 / 18+

Friday 10.17.08: SAY HI / JUKEBOX THE GHOST / PRINCETON @ echo

Say Hi || Listen

In just about any other place or time in human history, a guy like Eric Elbogen never would have thought to pursue singing as a career, or even a hobby. He’s an inveterate mumbler with a shaky sense of pitch, and he looks pretty awkward onstage. But there’s something likable — sometimes lovable — about his indie-rock band, Say Hi. For the band’s new album, “The Wishes and the Glitch” (Euphobia), he ditched his old vampire fixation as well as the last three words in his band name (to Your Mom); the result is a warm, modest set of songs that hide their melancholy beneath sturdy tunes and lots of fuzz. Expect his cult to grow, but just a little. – NY Times

with:
Jukebox The Ghost
Princeton || Listen

8pm / $8 / All Ages

Thursday 10.09.08: RIVAL SCHOOLS / INNAWAY / SATELITE CRUSH @ echo

Rival Schools || Watch

For those of you woefully unaware of Rival Schools, they were a post-hardcore band from the early 2000’s that released only one album, United By Fate, which was pure post-hardcore and alt-rock goodness. Not surprising, considering that its members were spread across the hardcore and post-hardcore worlds, having previously been in Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand, Glassjaw, Youth of Today and other influential bands. The boys will be playing some shows in the US soon after their European tour in June, and then they will be releasing a new album sometime in the first half of next year (most likely). (Thanks to BrooklynVegan for the tip)

You know you’re excited. Don’t deny your musical past. – Hate Something Beautiful

with:
Innaway || Listen
Satelite Crush

8:30pm / $12 adv, $15 dos / 18+

Sunday 10.20.08: PINBACK / MR. TUBE AND THE FLYING OBJECTS @ echoplex

Pinback || Listen || Watch

Album four from San Diego indie-pop collective Pinback brims with more box-ticking excellence than its immediate predecessor, Summer In Abaddon. Whereas the band’s 2004 long-player was a studied exercise in melancholic understatement, melded to some mightily addictive pop hooks, this ten-tracker is an immediately gratifying affair that pulls not a single punch in the catchiness stakes.

Opener and lead single ‘From Nothing To Nowhere’ is a statement of intent: confident, it bolts from the blocks to deliver a vocal within five seconds. There’s little in the way of slow-release here; few songs that take many a repeat listen to worm their way beneath the skin. Pinback have mastered their craft and, in a manner akin to The Shins, are now able to deliver with faultless magnificence within their field. Sure, their take on pop-rock is a few awkward timings short of compositional rocket science, but by working within the familiar – the acceptable aural face of contemporary indie – Pinback have developed to a zenith position. Autumn Of The Seraphs is, almost without doubt, their strongest collection to date. – Drowned In Sound

with:
Mr. Tube & The Flying Objects || Listen

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

8pm / $18 adv, $20 dos / All Ages

Thursday 10.02.08: KURT WAGNER (Lambchop) / THE CHAPIN SISTERS @ echoplex

Kurt Wagner || Listen || Watch

Kurt Wagner is currently basking in more acclaim than he can shake a shitty stick at. The success of his band (and it is his band) Lambchop’s ‘Nixon’ album has placed him in his rightful position as one of alt-country’s leading lights – most of tonight’s crowd would quite happily slap the label ‘legend’ onto his baseball cap. You only have to hear how darn quiet it is in here, a hushed reverence is awarded only to those who have earned it in cynical old London town. Oh, and they laugh at all his jokes.

But has Wagner earned his kudos? Well, you only have to hear ‘Nixon’’s opener, the fragile ‘The Old Gold Shoe’, stripped of it’s 14-strong band, to realise that these songs sound as towering even with just an acoustic guitar and some weird, taped sound effects. So far, so good. When he breaks into his Curtis Mayfield falsetto on ‘You Masculine You’ he is so astonished at the awed reaction that he can’t help but chuckle at himself self-consciously. And, of course, we chuckle along. – NME

with:
The Chapin Sisters || Listen

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

7 pm / $14 advance; $16 day of show / all ages

Saturday 10.11.08: Echo & F Yeah present DENALI / HOLLOYS / THE VALLEY ARENA @ echoplex

Denali

Denali formed in April of 2000 in capitol city of Richmond, VA when Maura Davis approached her older brother Keeley about helping her with some songs she’d been working on. These four-track recordings became the seeds from which the two of them would cultivate the band’s first songs. After enlisting the help of fellow Richmond vets Jonathan Fuller and Cam DiNunzio, the original line-up was complete.

Rehearsals in Jonathan’s living room gave way to a practice space in a cousin’s garage, some sheet rock, a PA system, etc, etc. After recording their first couple demos that year, the band went on to sign to the Jade Tree label in 2001. Their self-titled debut came out in April of 2002, followed by The Instinct in October of 2003. Touring commenced, van was purchased, t-shirts were made, and the band set out to make some fans. Both records were licensed by French label Vicious Circle in early 2004 and Japanese label Big Records around the same time. The band toured the U.S. numerous times before disbanding in Spring 2004 for the usual reasons. A posthumous DVD of live performances and home movies was released by Lovitt Records in 2006.

For the past few years, the Denali four have been scattered across the country in different cities, playing with various bands, working this job and that, but at the beginning of 2008 they all found themselves back in Richmond by coincidence. Getting together to play again seemed the natural thing to do, and after a spate of rehearsals, they decided on the next logical step: reunion shows!

Long live Denali!

with:
Holloys
The Valley Area || Listen

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

8pm / $15 adv, $17 dos / All Ages

Sunday 10.05.08: PART TIME PUNKS with TWIN CRYSTALS / GUN OUTFIT / NODZZZ @ echo

With:
Twin Crystals
Gun Outfit
Nodzz || Listen

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Friday 10.10.08: QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT / GOLDEN TRIANGLE / STATIC STATIC @ echoplex

Quintron & Miss Pussycat || Listen

Quintron and Miss Pussycat exemplify the idea that a self-made world is the only place to live: He’s the Mad Max of one-man bands, usually dressed in a thin sharkskin suit with an organ that’s outfitted with a muscle car grill, colored lights pulsing like fireworks around him. He occasionally turns to his homemade secret weapon, the Drum Buddy, a wood-encased oscillating drum machine based on the principles of a Theremin. Laurie Anderson and Nels Cline have purchased updated copies of the instrument. The bright-eyed Miss Pussycat dresses in hand-stitched outfits that are part Kitty Wells, part pop art. She reigns over a puppet kingdom that rivals Sid and Marty Krofft’s rainbow imaginations.

The pair’s unflagging spirit wants to have fun, to party, to do what they do best in New Orleans, especially at funerals: to celebrate. For Quintron, that means dirty, bump ‘n’ grinders like “Swamp Buggy Badass” or the funky, somewhat foretelling song he wrote before Katrina, “Ninth Ward Breakdown.” It’s what makes Mardi Gras more than some rich people tossing junk into crowds, and what makes New Orleans just as weird and wonderful as ever before, tragedy or no. – Indyweek.com

with:
Golden Triangle
Static Static

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

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

Tuesday 10.14.08: Aquarium Drunkard presents WIRE / THE MUSLIMS @ echoplex

Wire || Listen || Watch

Usually, when a band has been around for 30 years and is most famous for the material produced in its first five years, the praise for new albums tends to reward the band for music made decades in the past. There may be no band that fights against this phenomenon more than Wire. This is a band that trumped all the first-wave punk bands with its watershed debut, 1977’s Pink Flag, and then immediately wiped the slate clean with the post-punk classic Chairs Missing the following year. The band’s legacy rests on the notion that its members would rather be caught dead then rest on their laurels.

Object 47, its name deriving from its number in the Wire catalog (similar to their third album, 154, the number of shows they’d performed to that point), is a new direction for a band that have made a career of taking new directions. While Send and the Read and Burn EPs revised the blueprint of the band’s classic material, Object 47 is by far the most trip-hop-influenced material Wire has ever produced, with additional elements of classic Madchester and acid house. – Prefix Mag

with:
The Muslims

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

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8pm / $20 adv, $22 dos / 18+

Thursday 10.02.08: Echo & Grand Ol Echo present – JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE / SARAH GAYLE MEECH / WHISPERING PINES @ echo

Justin Townes Earle

Justin Townes Earle has some pretty big shoes to fill, considering that he shares his name with two of American music’s best songwriters: Townes Van Zandt, and his father, Steve Earle. However, the younger Earle shies away from the musical styles of these two men, creating his own sound that is an amalgam of Depression-Era folk, classic country, pre-War blues, and early rock ‘n’ roll. On his first full length record, The Good Life, Justin Townes Earle delivers the best debut roots music has seen since Old Crow Medicine Show hit the big time with OCMS in 2004. The album somehow manages to sound like Earle looks on the cover: street urchin skinny and rocker tattooed, fixing you with both an all-knowing stare and smartass smirk.

The album opens with “Hard Livin’”, an uptempo, Paul Burch meets Langhorne Slim number that features the old standby of country music: pain in the ass womenfolk. Catchy, clever, and highly danceable for those who do that sort of thing, it sets the stage for the rest of the record, an amazing collection of songs that flow from one to the other, something that is sadly lacking in many of the albums released in the age of iPod shuffling. – Popmatters

with:
Sarah Gayle Meech
Whispering Pines

8:30pm / $8adv, $10dos / 18+