Sunday 10.11.09: PART TIME PUNKS 2ND ANNUAL FESTIVAL @ echoplex & echo

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with:
THE RAINCOATS
Formed in 1977, The Raincoats were the world’s second all-girl punk band. Only, by the time Rough Trade released their debut album in 1979, they weren’t making punk music any more, but post-punk, and more akin to The Velvet Underground’s first LP or the records it shared the racks with: The Slits’ “Cut,” Young Marble Giants “Colossal Youth” and The Cure’s first LP. The only reason the band remains lesser known is that their three albums remained out of print for more than a decade before Kurt Cobain tracked them down during a pilgrimage to London in the early 90s. Cobain was also responsible for “convincing” his label, Geffen, to reissue The Raincoats three albums in 1993 (co-writing the liner notes with Kim Gordon), which paved the way for the Riot Grrrl movement.

SECTION 25 (Factory Records)
Dismissed by many journalists in the post-punk era as clones of their labelmates, Joy Division, the band has since been recognized in the highest echelon of Post-Punk innovation, alongside Public Image Limited, Wire and…well…Joy Division, for fusing punk with psychedelia and the surging motorik rhythms of Krautrock bands like Can, Faust and Neu.

MEDIUM MEDIUM
Medium Medium fuse dub and tribal rhythms to sparse and chopping guitars, though while MM add a near-No Wave layer of sax to the festivities, SR opt for massive oil drums (flames optional).

THE JAZZ BUTCHER
returning to Los Angeles for the first time in over two decades—featuring original members Pat Fish, Max Eider and Kevin Haskins (of BAUHAUS & LOVE AND ROCKETS).

ABE VIGODA
have actually cut their teenage teeth at Part Time Punks (and not just the smell), increasingly fusing their racket with complex songwriting and the sonic sheen of shoegazing gone surf.

KID CONGO POWERS
Consider the pedigree alone: former Bad Seed, founding member of The Gun Club and The Cramps. Then see him live, and you’ll wonder why he and Jonathon Richman didn’t form a band and take over the world.

SAVAGE REPUBLIC
Savage Republic fuse dub and tribal rhythms to sparse and chopping guitars, though while MM add a near-No Wave layer of sax to the festivities, SR opt for massive oil drums (flames optional).

THE INTELLIGENCE
are forging the new path in post-punk on In The Red Records fusing Swell Maps with analog tape, Tronics and yer finer Messthetics moments.

VIV ALBERTINE [ex-SLITS]
founding member of THE SLITS, will also be performing a solo set, featuring original Slits cuts and tracks from her forthcoming full-length album on Manimal Vinyl.

WEAVE
laces the punky reggae rhythms of The Slits with Banshee-style guitar chops and tribal whoops worthy of The Raincoats, Liliput or Malaria.

CHRISTMAS ISLAND
are forging the new path in post-punk on In The Red Records fusing Swell Maps with analog tape, Tronics and yer finer Messthetics moments.

DAYTIME TELEVISION

SHARK TOYS
actually cover the Tronics track, “Crush On You,” and as they also hail from the burgeoning DIY scene in San Diego, it sorta makes sense. Don’t wait ‘til the A&R guy from Matador hears them in six months. Come early. Listen now.

BLESSURE GRAVE
also dwell in San Diego’s hemisphere…albeit the darker regions, filed next to the 4ad back catalogue: Clan Of Xymox, In Camera, Birthday Party and the first The The single

SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY
also dwell in San Diego’s hemisphere…albeit the darker regions, filed next to the 4ad back catalogue: Clan Of Xymox, In Camera, Birthday Party and the first The The single

+ guest DJs +
GANG OF FOUR members Hugo Burnham & Dave Allen
DAN SELZER (Acute Records)
Don Bolles (The Germs)
Brendan Mullen (The Masque)
James Nice (LTM/Crepuscule),
Rick Taylor (We Fought The Big One)

enter @ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026