Monday 12.15.08: Process Media, Grand Ole Echo & Echo present A Celebration of the book PURE COUNTRY with RONI STONEMAN / MIKE STINSON / DAVE SERBY / DAVE GLEASON / WEST OF TEXAS @ echoplex

Roni Stoneman || Watch

Veronica Loretta “Roni” Stoneman is the youngest daughter and probably the best-known member of the Stoneman Family, the pioneering country music family headed by her father, Ernest “Pop” Stoneman, one of the first recorded country artists. The Stoneman Family won the Country Music Academy’s “Vocal Group of the Year Award” in 1967. After Pop’s death a year later, Roni Stoneman, known as a virtuoso banjo player in both country music and bluegrass, pursued a musical career on her own. Roni earned the distinction of being the first female banjo player to record a bluegrass tune
when she appeared on the 1956 album “American Banjo Scruggs Style” and she achieved national fame in the 1970s as a cast member of “Hee Haw,” one of the most successful variety shows in television history. Last year, the University of Illinois Press published Stoneman’s memoir, Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story. The story, told through a series of interviews with Northwestern University writing professor Ellen Wright, includes tales from a lifetime in country music, chronicles Stoneman’s problems with abusive husbands and examines her relationships with her children. Roni celebrated her 70th birthday this year and shows no signs of slowing with regard to her performing schedule or her lightning-fast three-finger picking.

with:
Mike Stinson || Listen
David Serby || Listen
Dave Gleason || Listen

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

7:30pm / $10 / all ages

Thursday 12.04.08: Screening of CHEAP TRICK’S “LIVE AT BUDOKHAN” @ echoplex

The Live at Budokan album impact first sparked America, then engulfed the world– and is now celebrated three decades later with a Theatrical Campaign that brings the sight and sound together for the first time.

Three decades later, LIVE AT BUDOKAN proves how immortal some albums can be. The LP is ranked on Rolling Stone’s list of “500 Greatest Albums Of All Time,” “Surrender” appears on the magazine’s “500 Greatest Singles Of All Time” list, and their single “Hello There” is the Title track for best-selling video game Rockband 2, familiarizing a new generation to Cheap Trick’s music.

This is the original landmark concert, never previously aired in the US.

PLUS:
Q&A with Legendary producer JACK DOUGLAS (Cheap Trick, John Lennon, Miles Davis, James Gang, Mountain)

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

7pm /all ages

Saturday 12.06.08: BUST MAGAZINE’S HOLIDAY CRAFTACULAR @ echoplex

BUST Magazine’s Holiday Craftacular is a massive holiday shopping bonanza running from 11am until 6pm at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, featuring over 50 crafters, DJs, drinks, and dancing. Get jiggy with “Jingle Bells” as you browse through hundreds of the best in handmade gifts and winter wares, from handbags and ornaments to jewelry and cards.

FMI: http://www.bust.com/Craftacular/BUST-Holiday-Craftacular-2008-LA.html

10am / All Ages

Saturday 11.29.08: HIT + RUN ANNIVERSARY PARTY @ echoplex

On Saturday, November 29th we celebrate our three-year anniversary with “REPEAT OFFENDER” at The Echoplex in Echo Park. Admission is FREE to everyone wearing a HIT+RUN t-shirt, and you get a FREE blank shirt at the door to customize that night! Choose from exclusive designs by KOFIE, AMBUSCH, RESTITUTION PRESS, ABCNT, KUTMAH, KIME BUZZELLI, MIKE C, ANNIE MADISON, HAYCOCK, MAGO, ELI SIPSAS and H+R CREW.

Djs:
KUTMAH
HAYCOCK
ABCNT
SIR MARCUS
CHITLINS
4X4 TRACTOR (Kofie’One)
TOKS
MAGO

will be spinning alongside the Crew through the night with host/dj AZUL213.

REP YOUR CREW!!!!!!!

Enter at:
ECHOPLEX
1154 Glendale Blvd
Echo Park, CA 90026

FMI:
Hit + Run Myspace
Hit + Run Website

9pm // FREE with HIT+RUN shirt, $10 without // 21+

Thursday 11.27.08: RESPECT @ echoplex

with:
DJ BAILEY || MP3
Metalheadz,Intasound,Radio1/BBC .UK

Bailey’s passion first and foremost lies in being the best Selecta possible. He lives the life of a 100% DJ with a record collection that goes from early electro on up to the latest release lining his bedroom walls. Always having been a DJ rather than a producer, Bailey is one of a select few that managed to climb to the very top of the dnb ladder without the help of production credits. Bailey is a Metalheadz resident DJ of over 10 years, an award winning radio host (1Xtra BBC), a label owner (Intasound), A&R assistant for Goldie’s new label (Rufige) and is increasing a high profile as a producer with releases under his belt on Full Cycle, Metalheadz and soon for A Guy Called Gerald’s new imprint called Protechshon.

plus:
FRISK-E :Renegade Hardware .UK
NOFACE :Respect
MC Questionmark + MC XYZ

9pm / $10 / 21+

Friday 12.12.08: KEISTAR PRODUCTIONS & FOOTLONG DEVELOPMENT present FLAVORS with DJ SPINNA / J.ROCC / J-HEART @ echoplex

KEISTAR PRODUCTIONS & FOOTLONG DEVELOPMENT PRESENT FLAVORS DJ SPINNA(WONDERWAX/BBE) & J.ROCC(BEAT JUNKIES/STONES THROW) 1990′S PARTY- HIP HOP REGGAE R&B HOUSE OPENING SET BY J-HEART

FLAVORS (Recapping The Music Of The 90′s Era…The Golden Years), is an event conceptualized by the innovative minds of KeiStar Productions. The first installment of FLAVORS dates back to 2002 and was celebrated with none other than the incomparable DJ SPINNA. With his extensive record collection and music knowledge DJ SPINNA creates havoc on the dance floor by spinning the unforgotten hits of 90′s Hip Hop, R&B andDancehall.

DJ Spinna (NYC)
DJ Spinna is something of an anomaly in music. A humbling example of what it takes to truly succeed within the framework of multiple fields. A steadfast work ethic, an obsessively extensive vinyl library and the willingness to pursue the full extents of his roots (Funk, Soul and Jazz), foundation (Hip-Hop) and future (Electronic/Dance music) with no restraints.
Regarded as one of the most versatile and talented producers/remixers/DJs in today’s musical arena. he has produced numerous tracks and remixes for notable artists such as Michael Jackson, De La Soul, Mary J. Blige, Mos Def, Eminem, George Michael & Stevie Wonder.

J.ROCC (BEAT JUNKIES/STONES THROW)
Hailed as the world’s best club DJ, J.ROCC continues to capture music enthusiasts around the globe. In 1992, Jason Jackson, internationally known as J.Rocc, launched his vision of forming a DJ crew comprised of talented musicians, by introducing to the world Southern California’s first turntable band – the Beat Junkies. A prized accomplishment enthusiastically received by worldwide audiences, J.Rocc continues to invent musical styles that display his creative expertise. Highly recognized for his funky showcases and original arrangements, J.Rocc has clearly distinguished his place in music history.

Buy Presale tickets at WWW.GOING.COM/FLAVORS08

9pm / $10 advance, $15 day of show / 21+

Friday 12.05.08: THE BRONX / CRYSTAL ANTLERS @ echo

The Bronx || Listen || Watch

“I am an addict, an animal/I am my father’s son” goes ‘Spanish Handshake’’s mantra, but it isn’t an apology. It’s a statement both of fact and of intent; hell, crank ‘Past Lives’ or ‘Ship High In Transit’ up and a billion clichés flood into your brain, primarily the desire to slam some booze down your throat and grab a perfect stranger before screaming all manner of obscenities in their face. This is what The Bronx do, so anyone who wants anything deeper will be left unsatisfied. Despite passing references to a changing industry led by demographics and marketing, there’s little attempt to coherently engage a world beyond the bottle – broken shards of stories and characters colourfully populate their songs but in terms of a thread, a concept? LA is a bit screwed up, let’s rock. Yet they’ve got the nous and the balls to pull this blunt assault off with verve.

It’s more a continuation of The Bronx than a reinvention, but so proficient are they at whipping up chaos on record (live, they’re more a barely controlled riot than a band) the fact it isn’t the coruscating blast of their debut doesn’t matter. It’s still a brilliantly sleazy punk rock’n’roll album that feels, sounds and smells just like you want The Bronx to be, and the fact it’s so pure and elemental works strongly in its favour. Play it loud; for 33 thrilling minutes it’ll make you feel like you can walk through walls. – NME

with:
Crystal Antlers

8:30pm / $12 / 18+

Thursday 02.19.09: DUNCAN SHEIK with Lauren Pritchard / HOLLY BROOK @ Echoplex

Duncan Sheik || Listen

In addition to writing the music for the Broadway musical hit Spring Awakening, Grammy nominated singer–songwriter Duncan Sheik is collaborating with Playwright Steven Sater on The Nightingale, a musical based on the Hans Christian Andersen classic which premiered during the 26th annual O’Neill Music Theater Conference. Sheik has composed original music for the Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night and for The Golden Rooms of Nero, which opened at the Magic Theater in San Francisco earlier this year. His self-titled debut album on Atlantic Records, was an enormous popular and critical success and spent 30 weeks on the Billboard 200. Other albums include Humming, Daylight, Phantom Moon (Nonesuch Records) with lyrics by Steven Sater and his latest, White Limousine (Rounder Records),Duncan’s songs have appeared in many Film Soundtracks including Great Expectations, The Saint, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Three to Tango, What a Girl Wants, Transamerica and Amazing Grace (a documentary about the late Jeff Buckley).

The performance will feature songs from his forthcoming CD/theatre project, “Whisper House”, as well as “Spring Awakening” and his earlier recorded work. Sitting in on the tour will be Lauren Pritchard who played Ilse in the Broadway production of “Spring Awakening”.

plus:
Holly Brook

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

7pm / $37.50 / all ages

Tuesday 12.09.08: WILDERNESS / SAN SERAC / MOONRATS @ echo

Wilderness || Listen || Watch

For a band named Wilderness, the Baltimore quartet make dissonant art-rock that’s distinctly urban, full of throat in a way that develops when you’re shouting to be heard in cities that never break or breathe. They specialize in a kind of crescendo minimalism: Through two albums of often shapeless cacophony (featuring thick, intertwined guitars and tom-and-kick drumming), they’ve crafted long-form songs that, though patient and deep-lunged, rely on the anthemic bursts to which they lead. At the fore but not the center, then, there’s lead singer James Johnson, whose slurred vocal style’s been compared to figures like John Lydon and David Byrne. But within such minor tempests, he’s not a frontman per se: His warbling disconnects from the words issued and becomes just another instrument, his lyrics broken down into simple repeated cries and chants that rise above the band’s shapely chaos, a further element of their dim but aspirant atmospheres. – Village Voice

with:
San Serac || Listen
Moonrats

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

Wednesday 12.24.08: CLOSED

Saturday 12.13.08: THE SWEATER FESTIVAL with THE DEADLY SYNDROME / HAPPY HOLLOWS / THE PITY PARTY / CASTLEDOOR / AMNION / EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS @ echoplex

with:
The Deadly Syndrome || Listen
The Happy Hollows || Listen
The Pity Party
Castledoor
Amnion || Listen
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Join your favorite Los Angeles bands for another wonderful Christmas Sweater Festival. Playing this year are Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Happy Hollows, The Deadly Syndrome, The Pity Party, Castledoor and Amnion. All the proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Borders, and we’re leaving the ticket price up to you (but we say the $15 ticket will get you a lot more holiday love). Be sure to wear an ugly christmas sweater, for there will be a family photo booth, and a sweater contest. See you at the Sweater Fest.

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

FMI: Christmas Sweater Festival on Myspace

8pm / Tickets start at $5 / 18+

Sunday 12.14.08: Echo, Otik Records and Confessions of a Would Be Hipster present A Charitable Night Of Music with AARON ESPINOZA / PIERRE DE REEDER / TANDEMORO / DAMSELLES AND THE TC4 / THE VOYEURS / DAVEY INGERSOLL @ echoplex

A charitable night of music to benefit Midnight Mission and lower-income families

with:
Aaron Espinoza (from Earlimart)
Pierre De Reeder
Tandemoro
Damselles & The TC4
The Voyeurs
Davey Ingersoll (from Gosling)

Bring a new, unwrapped toy for $4 of admission!

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

7pm / $3 with toy, $7 without toy / All Ages

Saturday 12.20.08: FUNKY SOLE @ echo

The Kick Off Of FUNKY SOLE

with DJs:
Music Man Miles
Clifton AKA Soft Touch

FMI: Funky Sole on Myspace

10pm / FREE / 21+

Thursday 12.11.08: CSS / NATALIE PORTMAN’S SHAVED HEAD @ echoplex

CSS || Listen || Watch || MP3

Donkey, the Brazilian art-house brat pack’s sophomore album, is a startlingly fresh and well-paced collection of songs that feel like the perfect progression from their debut. To say the band has matured would be to do them a disservice; their roughneck aesthetic to making music (only one of six members is an experienced musician) and gleefully absurd, pop-culture referential lyrics are key elements to what make CSS so thrilling. In album opener “Jager Yoga,” they manage to name-check Brazilian soap star Claudia Ohana, Brit comedy Absolutely Fabulous, and even the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters (“Desperate Living, Hairspray/Baltimore with Tanqueray/Live your life John Waters’ way”), all with equal doses of panache and sass. And when not immersing their audience in seemingly random shreds of pop-culture ephemera, they’re aces at making the arbitrary seem meaningful (“If you are my friend, we can raise the Jamaican flag so we can reggae all night, yeah”).

Musically, these eleven tracks rely more on a post-punk aesthetic than their electro-inclined predecessor. Produced by CSS’s drummer/songwriter Adriano Cintra and mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent (whose own resume includes Madonna, MIA, and Arcade Fire), Donkey feels more guitar-happy and rock oriented than Cansei de Ser Sexy while still maintaining the boisterous frenzy of synths and programmed drums the sextet has become known for. – Prefix Mag

with:
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head

8pm / $20 advance, $23 day of show / 18+

Saturday 12.06.08. SMOG SESSIONS @ echo

SMOG SESSIONS
los angeles dubstep event

SMOG003 RELEASE PARTY

with:
BREAKAGE (DIGITAL SOUNDBOY, SMOG, LONDON UK)
INCYDE (HOTFLUSH, SUB FM, BOSTON/NYC/UK)
DLX (SMOG, STEPS IN TIME, LA)
UNIT (SMOG, LA)
MC KEMST (SMOG, LA)

turbosound by:
MOBIUS

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

Tuesday 12.02.08: Indie 103.1 and Echo present CHECK ONE TWOSDAY with THE GRAY KID, LOVE GRENADES, KARIN TATOYAN, LIGHT @ echoplex

The Gray Kid || Listen

The Gray Kid‘s “trunk-wobbling anthems and ballads of love and lust” have established him as one of independent music’s most dynamic and entertaining performers. Having spent 2008 developing SPIRIT ANIMAL, a five-piece made up of top-call musicians who have recorded and toured with Ben Harper, The Pharcyde and Oliver Future, Gray is poised to enter a new realm of soul and dance music that recalls the grit, intensity and tenderness of bands like The Doors, Stevie Wonder and LCD Soundsystem.

First though, he’ll deal a cross-genre blow in the form of this fall’s “FREE MUSIC,” a rap and soul EP rich in musicality, hooks and wit. The record, mixed by Danny Kalb (Beck, Neon Neon, They Might Be Giants, Rilo Kiley) and produced by Gray and L.A. analog guru Computer Jay, features 18 musicians and six songs, including fan favorites “Eh Man,” “Oh My,” and “Soothsayer,” for which there is a racy, film noir music video.

with:
Love Grenades
Karin Tatoyan
Light

8:30pm / Free until 10:30pm, $5 after / 18+

Tuesday 12.30.08: Indie 103.1 and Echo presents CHECK ONE TWOSDAYS with DAWES / RICHIE FROM THE WILLOWS / ROSES KINGS CASTLES (ADAM FICEK FROM BABYSHAMBLES) @ echoplex

Dawes || Watch
Richie James Follin (from The Willowz) || Listen
Roses Kings Castles (Adam Ficek from the Babyshambles) || Listen

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

Tuesday 01.06.09: Indie 103.1 and Echo present CHECK ONE TWOSDAY with POP NOIR / THE PACIFIC/ THE FRANKS / ME LOVE YOU LONG TIME @ echoplex

Pop Noir
The Pacific
The Franks
Me Love You Long Time

8:30pm / Free until 10:30pm, $ 5 after / 18+

Tuesday 12.09.08: Indie 103.1 and Echo present CHECK ONE TWOSDAY with LITTLE RED RADIO / THE POLYAMOROUS AFFAIR / LIGHT @ echoplex

Little Red Radio

with:
The Polyamorous Affair || Listen
Light

8:30pm / FREE / 18+

Monday 12.29.08: Manimal Vinyl Residency with RIO EN MEDIO / THE LICKETS / AMANDA JO WILLIAMS / BLACK HOLE OSCILLATORS @ echo

Rio En Medio || Watch

Danielle Stech Homsy (aka Rio en Medio), offers her music to the whims of chance. Citing influences such as John Cage and a childhood in which “peculiar circumstance and mysterious blessings were the norm,” she nearly overshadows her meticulously honed songcraft. While erratic electronics and found sounds dapple last year’s The Bride of Dynamite, Stech Homsy’s crisp, breezy voice and baritone ukulele give the flighty idiosyncrasies ground to stand on, should they choose to float back to earth. – Flavorpill

with:
The Lickets || Listen
Amanda Jo Williams || Listen
Black Hole Oscillators

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Monday 12.22.08: Manimal Vinyl Residency with THE POLYAMOUROUS AFFAIR / VAGINALS / HALLOWEEN SWIM TEAM @ echo

The Polyamorous Affair || Listen || Watch

Simply put, the duo known as The Polyamorous Affair is a band on a mission. It is as if they are determined to achieve a past success but with a deeper appreciation for what it will feel like this time. Driven in the background by dueling dj’s lacing the beat that would move an AARP convention, The Polyamorous Affair is trying to build a sound, a movement all its own. Driven by an organic approach to music that lets them create, produce, and deliver their own, unique brand of pop-infused, pulsating dance music, the duo, headed by Eddie and Sissy are cultivating a sound that moves people to actually put their drinks down and dance. They stand behind their music, asking people to come along with them for a little part of their night as they take you on a music journey that just makes you feel good. – Loudvine

with:
Vaginals
Halloween Swim Team || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Monday 12.15.08: Manimal Vinyl Residency with GANGI / BLACKBLACK / LACO$TE / VOICES VOICES @ echo

Gangi

When onetime folky Matt Gangi hit Manimal Vinyl’s showcase at the Cake Shop Tuesday with his band, aptly called Gangi, the fluttery shirts, shoestring headband, and acoustic strums I expected were nowhere to be found. Framed by shimmery curtains and Christmas lights, Matt and his mallet-wielding drummer Lyle Nesse occupied the stage with self-assurance and opened each song with a sound sample that segued into pre-recorded dance floor beats, synth, and rhythm guitar to form a backdrop for Gangi’s reedy vocals. At times the band’s sound recalled the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s psych-pop, and at others — particularly during “Animals” — Massachusetts duo the Books. But when Gangi ventured into the crowd, hand raised fervently above his head, comparisons seemed petty next to the charming enthusiasm of a musician putting aside freak folk archetypes and finding his own voice. – Spin.com

with:
BlackBlack || Listen
Laco$te || Listen
Voices Voices

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Monday 12.08.08: Manimal Vinyl Residency with XU XU FANG / WINTER FLOWERS / CORRIDOR / EXITMUSIC @ echo

Xu Xu Fang || Listen

With slow waves of hushed sounds and swirling psychedelia, Xu Xu Fang’s new CD, The Mourning Son, rolls in like a fog and wraps your head in clouds. “Things are just okay,” a disembodied, world-weary voice intones amid the squalling guitars, spectral synths and formally decisive piano chords of “These Days.” It’s grand and dreamy stuff, followed by the similarly otherworldly title track, which chimes with a Velvety gloom. Band leader and producer Bobby Tamkin used to drum in the Warlocks, but Xu Xu Fang is a much more intriguing project. Unlike the Bore-locks, Xu Xu Fang are able to transform their funereal tempos into something truly mysterious and uniquely memorable. The pace picks up just a little on “Good Times,” whose shadowy groove and breathy singing belie its sunny title. – LA Weekly

with:
Winter Flowers || Listen
Exitmusic
Corridor

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Friday 12.19.08: DARKER MY LOVE / LUMERIANS / THE MUSLIMS / CHRISTMAS ISLAND @ echoplex

Darker My Love || Listen

On Darker My Love’s second full length album, rightfully named 2, the band amps up their blend of psychedelic Brit rock and delivers a batch of heavily distorted scuzzed out rock gems. The album as a whole delivers a densely layered musical soundscape of feedback drenched guitars and pulsating drums that at some points are reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine’s shoegaze rock and at other times spacey psychedelic Brit Rock. What makes Darker My Love’s sophomore release unique is the progression of the album from pretty straightforward psychedelic rock songs to the last five songs which are epic heavily orchestrated prog rock influenced numbers that build into one another.

The stand out songs include “Two Ways Out,” which bumps up the vocals and turns down the feedback to deliver one of the most accessible pop gems of the album. This is a song that the Dandy Warhols wish they had written and will most definitely be a hit on the radio. “Blue Day” is a perfect blend of psychedlic and shoegaze, equipped with epic spiraling guitars, drums and maracas which envelope the dreamy vocals of the lead singer creating an all encompassing tripped out atmospheric feel of the song. “All the Hurry and Wait” is a grandiose Psychedelic prog rock epic that definitely showcases the musicianship of the band complete with a symphony in the background as well swirling guitars that build and transition in to the next song, “Waves.” Darker My Love has successfully avoided the sophomore slump with this phenomenal album, which shows a band that is crafting a unique sound that is only going to get better over time. – The Tripwire

with:
Lumerians || Listen
The Muslims
Christmas Island

8pm / $12 / 18+

Friday 12.05.08: THE SUBMARINES / PATRICK PARK @ echoplex

The Submarines || Listen || Watch

Husband-wife duo John Dragonetti and Blake Hazard wrote their first (and still highly recommended!) first album while broken up and the album only became a reality after they got back together (and then married). So, Honeysuckle Weeks is their first album written together, but that doesn’t change the formula too much. What we still have is ten tracks of beautifully arranged boy-girl pop heaven. The band doesn’t knock down any walls, they just make really good songs perfect for the upcoming summer months and driving with the windows down and the breeze in your face. The first single, “You, Me and the Bourgeoisie,” gives a nice sampler of what the album has to offer with its great melody and rich sound. A few tracks mix in some interesting new sounds, like “1940,” which has a dub beat with strings that sound like they come from, well, 1940. The simpler tracks almost have a Mirah-like feeling, with Blake adding a hushed but powerful edge to her voice, while the more exuberant tracks are everything you want in an indie pop song. – The Yellow Stereo

with:
Patrick Park || Listen

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

8pm / $12 / 18+

Friday 12.12.08: Club Underground presents RUN RUN RUN / VON IVA @ echo

Run Run Run || Listen || Watch

Run Run Run seems to be edging slowly away from the shoegazer stylings that put the quartet on the L.A. map a few years ago. Oh, on cue from front man Xander Smith’s lyrics, the guitars will still ache and rustle and rumble, but on the band’s forthcoming new EP, “Good Company,” the approach is more straight-ahead. The new material was conceived in small town upstate New York and marked the first time the band had written songs as a group. – LA Times

with:
Von Iva || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 18+

Saturday 11.29.08: ANALOG – 80s Electro Dance Club @ Echo

Just in time for the Holidays, ANALOG makes it’s long awaited return the Saturday night after Thanksgiving. This time we bring the party to Echo Park, with a full blown, off the hook event at The Echo. As before, Analog brings you a complete night of totally electronic music…

Bruce Perdew & Mike Fix (from Blue Mondays) spin a mix of Electro, Industrial, Electronic Eighties, Old School Trance & Techno, and more. Our last party was crazy, and sold out, so for sure this one will too. It’s free before 11pm, and only five bucks after with a pass.

FMI: http://evilclubempire.com

9pm / FREE with pass before 11pm, $5 with pass after / 18+

Wednesday 11.26.08: Performer Mag & Isgoodmusic.com present THE FLYING TOURBILLON ORCHESTRA / I MAKE THIS SOUND / OBI BEST / PRINCETON @ echo

The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra || Watch

A languorous desert landscape of fractured pop punctuated with the rumbling crackle of spinning art-rock, The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra’s new EP, Escapements, swings from dream-lathered reveries of hazy beauty to propulsive, churning nightscapes—songs that sound as if they are the heat-twisted, shimmering and sky-fallen debris after Lee Hazlewood and Scott Walker led a kamikaze nosedive into the 4AD records building.

As a teaser for the EP’s July 3rd release, Web in Front is offering a stream of two tracks after the jump: the sleepfever swirl of “In a Dream”’s hypnotic sway and nightmare visions as well as the shapeshifted, epic buildup of “Audry (love keeps moving)”’s schizoid dynamics. You can pick the EP up at the Orchestra’s Escapements release party concert at the Echo on July 3rd (also featuring the Stevenson Branch Davidians and Fol Chen. – Web In Front

with:
I Make This Sound || Listen
Obi Best
Princeton || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 11.25.08: Echo & Indie 103.1 present CHECK ONE TWOSDAYS with ROSEBUDS / JONAH RAY / LEMON SUN / DAZZLER @ echoplex

Rosebuds || Listen || MP3

Indie rock duo Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, a.k.a. the Rosebuds, may be happily married, but unlike the relentlessly chipper couple-in-arms Mates of State, even their brightest records have a sonically sinister side. Case in point: the pair’s fourth full-length, Life Like, which refines the alt-country sound expressed on 2005′s Birds Make Good Neighbors while further exploring the synth-processed wastelands laid out on last year’s Night of the Furies. Featuring guest appearances by Portastatic’s Matthew McCaughan and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, Life Like explores the dark side of adulthood without sacrificing the Rosebuds’ hauntingly gorgeous melodic sense. - Spin.com

with:
Jonah Ray
Lemon Sun || Listen
Dazzler

8pm / $10 / 18+

Saturday 12.06.08: BOOTIE LA HOLIDAY MASHUP PARTY @ echoplex

BOOTIE Holiday Mashup Party
LA’s monthly mashup bootleg party

From Chicago, indie mashup duo ABX and STV SLV:
THE HOOD INTERNET

Wear a Santa hat, get a FREE 10-track holiday mashup CD: “A Very Bootie Christmas”

Official Santacon after-party

Spinning a “very special” all-Christmas mashup set from 10-11 PM:
ADRIAN

Resident Bootie mashup DJs:
MYSTERIOUS D
DJ PAUL V.

Holiday Midnight Mashup Show:
R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance)

It’s the Bootie Holiday Mashup Party! From 10-11 PM, Adrian will be spinning a “very special” all-Christmas mashup set that is guaranteed to have you dancing! Renegade dance troupe R.A.I.D. will perform a special holiday-themed number for the Midnight Mashup Show, and anyone wearing a Santa hat will receive “A Very Bootie Christmas” CD! Plus, club photographers Drunkrockers.com will be hosting a toy drive, and it’s the official Santacon LA after-party! Expect lots of drunk Santas in the house!

From Chicago, indie mashup duo ABX and STV SLV — better known as The Hood Internet — take the stage for a special showcase set. This infamous pair have quickly made a name for themselves in the music blogosphere as the go-to indie-hop mashup guys. Marauding the pop, rap and R&B landscapes to mash up Dirty South rap to Canadian indie rock to “French Touch” electro, these Pitchfork-approved mashup boys have played CMJ showcases to South by Southwest, and have enjoyed sets alongside Diplo, The Cool Kids, Z-Trip and The Go! Team.

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!

Drunkrockers.com Toy Drive to benefit Ettie Lee Youth & Family Services
http://www.drunkrockers.com
http://www.ettielee.org

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

FMI: http://www.BootieLA.com

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

Friday 12.26.08: CLOSED

Friday 12.19.08: 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 12.05.08: 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+

Thursday 12.18.08: RESPECT with T-POWER / NOFACE / CLUTCH / MC RIDDA / MC XYZ @ echoplex

T-POWER (Digital Soundboy, UK)
NOFACE
CLUTCH
MC RIDDA
MC XYZ

FMI: Respect on Myspace

10pm / $5 before 11pm, $10 after / 18+

Thursday 12.11.08: RESPECT with TOTAL SCIENCE / ATLANTIC CONNECTION WITH MC KAY / MACHETE / SENSE / MC ZEZO ONE / MC XYZ @ echo

TOTAL SCIENCE (Advanced,CIA Recs,UK)
ATLANTIC CONNECTION w/MC KAY (WestBay Music)
MACHETE
SENSE
MC ZEZO ONE
MC XYZ

FMI: Respect on Myspace

10pm / $5 before 11pm, $10 after / 18+

Thursday 12.04.08: RESPECT with ADAM F. WITH MCMC / SCOOBA / DRONE / MC XYZ @ echoplex

ADAM F. w/ MCMC (breakbeat kaos, UK)
SCOOBA
DRONE
MC XYZ

FMI: Respect on Myspace

10pm / $5 before 11pm, $10 after / 18+

Wednesday 12.03.08: HANSON BROTHERS (with members of No Means No) / TRICLOPS / MOUNT SAINT HELENS VIETNAM @ echo

Hanson Brothers || Listen

Hockey Punk isn’t really something I am aware of… I mean, I like to think I have a pretty varied taste in music and that I know a fair bit about most genres, but every now and then something comes along that I really have no idea about. You know, something that you have never ever heard of before, not really heard anything similar to it and just have no clue about. This release is one of those kind of things, and I really am not sure what I am supposed to be picking out and hearing.

Though for a start I can tell you that this is a hell of a lot of fun that’s for sure. Yeah, I mean screw the usual band introduction and back story… I don’t know it, although I could copy out the promo blurb that is probably quite easily available on the internet. Whatever, It’s A Living is 27 (yes kids that’s 27 tracks) tracks of full on live mayhem that never seems to stop at all. Pummelling riffs and intensely funny provocative/random lyrics make up the bulk of this release with a couple of slightly odd radio interview pieces thrown in too for good measure. It’s mental… – Nothingatall.net

with:
Triclops! || Listen
Mount Saint Helens Vietnam

8:30pm / $12 / 18+

Monday 12.01.08: THE HERBALISER / J BOOGIE @ echoplex

The Herbaliser || Listen || Watch

Jake Wherry formed Herbaliser when he met young deejay Ollie Teeba in their hometown of South London back in the early ‘90s. They hooked up with Ninja Tune early in its history, with their cut-and-paste 1995 debut Remedies being just the 18th record catalogued as Zen. Blow Your Headphones followed with more of a sampled jazz and trip-hop feel. The three records after that followed a similar path. While the duo’s production value improved, and the touring band began to take a larger role in the studio, their output seemed to become more formulaic as hip-hop albums. But something has changed, besides their contract. Same as It Never Was, their seventh studio album, is not just a clever name.

Ralph Lamb (trumpet) and Andy Ross (flute, saxophone) from the touring band have now become official, permanent members, as well as smoky voiced chanteuse Jessica Darling. The fresh meat and change of scenery must have done wonders in the studio ‘cause this record sounds completely re-inspired. There are only a couple of real hip-hop tracks on the listing. Instead, Same as It Never Was joins the ranks of Jamie Lidell, Quantic Soul Orchestra, and the Dap Kings as a work of vigorous throwback funk. This is Herbaliser putting something back for the ages.

I’ve been a great fan of Herbaliser’s for years, and though I’d like to think Blow Your Headphones is their finest work on account of my experience with it, there’s no getting around the potent punch packed in their latest bomb. “Game, Set and Match” with More Or Les is the only track that doesn’t fit in. With a typical beat, accordion, and hard rhymes, it sounds like a leftover from 2005’s Take London. Other than that, Same as It Never Was is their undisputed best record start to finish. They’ve totally outdone themselves. My hat is off to you, fine sirs and Madame. – Popmatters

with:
J Boogie || Listen

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

8pm / $13 / 18+

Friday 11.22.08: UNDERGROUND DANCE MASTERS @ echoplex

After starting filming in 1992, This has now been a 16 year ordeal in producing this film that shows a previously unknown part of American pop history. The film is called “Underground Dance Masters: Final History of a Forgotten Era”. The film takes the viewer on a journey of discovery of the origin, evolution, history and the creators of the Urban Dance forms of Boogaloo, Locking, Popping, Zigzag, Robot, Rocking and B’boying. The film is based on the Guzman-Sanchez Study™ that began in 1983, it uncovers not only the dance forms but the lives of these Black, Latino and White dance artists that have influenced the world to current day. The Guzman-Sanchez Study™ has for the first time validated what was an oral history and is destroying the web-mythology and verbal mythology that exists in the world today.

Following the screening will be a special live performance by T-Bopper of Rhythm Tribe and members of the United Street Force featuring OG dance masters Chain Reaction, One Plus One, and more.

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

FMI: http://www.dancemaster.com/

8pm / $15 / all ages

Wednesday 11.19.08: NIGHT HORSE / TRIGGER RENEGADE / THE HIGH SAINTS @ echo

Night Horse || Listen

Ripping pages from the books of Led Zeppelin, The Doors and Black Sabbath, Night Horse plots an unstoppable course straight to the heart of classic rock in the six majestic tracks that comprise the band’s Tee Pee Records debut, The Dark Won’t Hide You. Unlike so many other bands that go out of their way to sing the praises of the aforementioned groups while still remaining sonically entrenched in the pop idiom (The Parlor Mob and Keane leap to mind), Night Horse puts its’ money when its’ mouth is as guitarists Justin Muranga and Greg Buensuceso ignore fashionable brevity; none of these six tracks falls below the four-and-a-half-minute mark, and most have hard stops included to indicate movements or progressions. Instead, they favor constructing statuesque riffs and then jamming around them to color and create expansive landscapes with said riff as the focal point. For his part, Velde also invokes the ghosts of every classic rock singer you’ve ever loved by flat-out refusing to hold anything back; in songs like “Wicked Love,” “Worried Life Blues” and the title track, the singer teeters on the edge of total abandon while the band cajoles and pushes him closer to the brink. His performances are that much better for it too; the closer he gets, the more overwhelming his voice becomes until by “Shine On Me” he’s virtually yowling his demons out on tape and pulling listeners into lifelong fandom in the process. – Ground Control

with:
Trigger Renegade || Listen
The High Saints || Listen

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

Tuesday 11.18.08: WAIT.THINK.FAST / FOL CHEN / THE HECTORS / DJ PAJARO @ echo

Wait.Think.Fast.

An indie darkland of whirlpooled, noise-spiked atmospherics cut through by the lipcurled and smoke-hewn sensuousness of Jacqueline Santillan’s bilingual vocals and the sinewy crunch of wiry, Wire-y guitar lines, Wait.Think.Fast.’s Vuelve al Mar is nearly as complete a vision as any EP is allowed to be—in its thirty minutes the record swirls from the lean sinew of chiming postpunk (“Clear Our Name”) to ambient trickles of silvery, synthy beauty (“Cien Fuegos”), with each track in between bearing the band’s uniquely noirish stamp of gently apocalyptic (figure that one out) beauty. Sure, they echo a bit of the Bunnymen (Johnny Marr, too, but then that kills the pun), but that’s it—just echoes. The rest belongs to the band, and to those lucky enough to listen. – Web In Front

with:
Fol Chen
The Hectors || Listen
DJ Pajaro

8:30pm / FREE / 18+

Thursday 11.20.08: RESPECT @ echoplex

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

FMI: Respect on Myspace

10pm / $10 / 18+

Thursday 11.13.08: RESPECT @ echoplex

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

FMI: Respect on Myspace

10pm / $10 / 18+

Thursday 11.06.08: RESPECT @ echoplex

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

FMI: Respect on Myspace

10pm / $10 / 18+

Monday 11.17.08: EL GRAN SILENCIO / ONECHOT / SR MENDEZ / MEXICAN DUBWISER @ echoplex

El Gran Silencio || Watch

with:
OneChot (papashanty soundsystem)
Sr Mendez (latin grammy winner producer of calle13)
Mexican Dubwiser

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

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

Wednesday 12.31.08: DUB CLUB NEW YEARS with RANKING JOE backed by ECHODELIC SOUNDSYSTEM @ echoplex

Ranking Joe
Backed by Echodelic Soundsystem

Joseph Jackson in Kingston on 1st June 1959, Joe got his start on record with the founding father of Jamaican music, producer Coxsone Dodd (Studio 1), cutting “Gun Court” in 1975 as Little Joe. He then recorded for a variety of producers including Bunny Lee, Watty Burnett and former African Brother Derrick Howard. By 1976 he was deejaying on the legendary sound system of Daddy U-Roy, Stur-Gav Hi-Fi, and recording for producer Prince Tony Robinson. His first album for that producer was released in 1977 and included hits like “John Saw Them Coming” and “Queen Majesty Chapter 3″. He continued to deejay with U-Roy’s set, building up a formidable reputation as a live deejay. He began recording hits for Sonia Pottinger (“Shine Eye Gal” 1978) and was the first deejay to record for Sly & Robbie’s Taxi label when he versioned Gregory Isaacs’ hit “Soon Forward” (“Stop Your Coming & Come” in 1978).

He recorded for Joe Gibbs (“Leave Fi Mi Girl Arleen”), and Dennis Brown (the excellent “Around The World” album) and moved to another sound system, the newly-reconstructed Ray Symbolic Hi-Fi with Jah Screw as selector. The combination proved unbeatable in the dance and the sound was Champion of 1980. The same year the set became the first to tour outside Jamaica, completing a sell-out tour of the UK.

Joe became one of the most influential pupils of the great U-Roy, introducing the so-called ‘fast style’ to rapturous dancehall audiences.

Come check out a master on the microphone!

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 12.17.08: 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 12.10.08: 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 12.03.08: DUB CLUB @ echoplex

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

9pm / $5 / 21+

Sunday 12.28.08: PART TIME PUNKS – LOTO BALL SHOW / FANCY SPACE PEOPLE / THE SIXTEENS @ echo

with:
LOTO BALL SHOW [members of NEW COLLAPSE, THE CENTIMETERS & PHANTOM LIMBS]
FANCY SPACE PEOPLE [Don Bolles from THE GERMS + Nora from THE CENTIMETERS
THE SIXTEENS [from San Francisco]

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Sunday 12.21.08: PART TIME PUNKS – SMITHS / MORRISSEY NITE @ echo

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Sunday 12.14.08: PART TIME PUNKS with SLANG CHICKENS / THE FRANKS @ echo

The Franks

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Sunday 12.07.08: PART TIME PUNKS with FREE MORAL AGENTS / JESUS MAKES THE SHOTGUN SOUND @ echo

with:
Free Moral Agents
Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound

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

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Thursday 11.13.08: BOOK SOUP & 826LA presents JOHN HODGMAN & JONATHAN COULTON – “More Information Than You Require” @ Echoplex

COMPLIMENTARY BOOK WITH TICKET PURCHASE. The bestselling author of The Areas of My Expertise– also known as The Daily Show’s “Resident Expert” and the PC in the iconic Mac ads– picks up exactly where his first book left off. Exactly: Because The Areas of My Expertise ends on page 236, More Information Than You Require begins on page 237.

7:30pm / $27 / all ages

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 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+

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

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

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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

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

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+

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+

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+

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+

Monday 11.10.08: VIC CHESNUTT / ELF POWER @ ECHOPLEX

Vic Chesnutt || Listen || Watch || MP3

All right, this is getting repetetive. With each new Vic Chesnutt album I find myself reduced to a puddle of effusive praise, to the point where I fear losing credibility. I mean, I gave 2005’s Ghetto Bells a 9, I just loved it. Where do I go from there and still leave the proverbial “one to grow on”? Particularly when the venerated songwriter drops an album like North Star Deserter from seemingly out of nowhere and it’s one of the richest and most satisfying of his storied career. How can I impress this upon you, dear reader, who should by rights just expect I’m going to unquestioningly adore everything Chesnutt commits to wax? Should it be, “No, this time I really really mean it?” Should I concoct a pseudonym? Probably too late for that; next time perhaps. If you’re already a devotee, you understand the predicament, the natural excitement that comes with a new Vic Chesnutt record. There’s allways more grace, more wit, more dirty humor, more idiosyncrasy and nuance. But trust me when I write that North Star Deserter, even more than its immediate predecessor, restores something to Chesnutt’s work that you’d never have known was missing. – Pop Matters

with:
Elf Power || Listen

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

8:30 pm / $12 advance, $14 Day of show / all ages

Tuesday 11.04.08: DIPLO / ABE VIGODA / TELEPATHE / BOY 8-BIT @ echoplex

Diplo || Watch

Diplo spun this summery track during his DJ set at the picnic, chopping up and dropping beats all over the A Tribe Called Quest jam that reworks organist Ronnie Foster’s 1972 “Mystic Brew”, and again making something new. The loping bass line is still there, while vocal snippets are cut off mid-word, looped, and doused in reverb, amid bursts of subwoofer-busting rhythms. The catch phrase “I like ‘em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian” is still here, too. Giving “Brew Barrymore” most of its lazy-afternoon wooziness, though, is Foster’s organ, rippling across the track now and then before the whole thing eventually settles into a thumping drum-machine break. “I always loved the organ solos on the Ronnie Foster track man,” Diplo writes. – Pitchfork

with:
Abe Vigoda
Telepathe
Boy 8-Bit

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

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8pm / $15 advance, $17 Day of show / all ages

Wednesday 11.12.08: DUNGEN / WOMEN / LIFE ON EARTH @ echo

Dungen || Listen || Watch

It kinda goes without saying that we’re going to at least listen to any band that has made an 18 minute song at any point in their career that, translated into English, is called “Midsummer Bong.” MIDSUMMER BONG! Lucky for everyone involved, the band that did that is Dungen, and they are awesome. So awesome in fact, that we put Gustav Ejstes, the main man behind Dungen, on the cover of F27 and then proceeded to never get tired of their music ever. On their MySpace they’re streaming “Satt Att Se,” from their upcoming album 4, which Ejstes will be previewing in New York next week in an acoustic session that you’ll able to catch on FADER TV shortly thereafter. – Fader

with:
Women
Life On Earth

8:30pm / $12 advance, $14 day of show / 18+

Monday 11.03.08: THE SPINTO BAND / FRIGHTENED RABBIT / MINIATURE TIGERS @ echoplex

The Spinto Band || Listen || Watch (9:30pm set time)

With an obvious love of Brit pop, a weakness for ecstatic vocal harmonies and a stimulant-fueled disposition, the six young men twitched, leaped and hurled themselves through a thoroughly entertaining and nearly non-stop set. These boys have played together for a long time, and the practice showed last night in the tight starts and stops and seamless transitions between songs. The band even played a note-perfect instrumental cover of “Genius of Love” as an introduction to one of their originals.

But it was the energy and obvious sense of fun with which the Spinto Band attacked its songs that made the performance so engaging. Dueling frontmen Nick Krill and Thomas Hughes each brought his own unique and quirky personality to the stage. While the lanky Krill ran in place and flopped his hair back and forth, the cartoonish Hughes spasmed with the high notes and donned a clothes-hanger apparatus that allowed him to play his kazoo (yep) hands-free. This was another performance that was so strong and just plain fun that I’ll have to go back to check out the record again (2005’s Nice and Nicely Done was the band’s first widely distributed disc, but its seventh overall). – Westword

with:
Frightened Rabbit || Listen
Miniature Tigers || Listen

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

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7:30pm / $13 adv, $15 dos / All Ages