Wednesday 09.01.10: THE SPRING STANDARDS @ echo

THE SPRING STANDARDS || Listen || Watch

With an emphasis on three-part harmony and a variety of instrumental switching, The Spring Standards are an energetic force of three-part harmony circling over a rock n’ roll sound with an old country aftertaste. They take a drum kit and break it up among the three of them, and then they set up along the front of the stage. Whoever’s playing bass is also stepping on a kick drum. whoever’s playing guitar is also stepping on the high hat…in the middle stands Heather, switching between melodica, keys, glockenspiel and snare drum. Yet even with all this going on, their harmonies are astounding. Their range and energy make each live show a unique event.

7:30pm / $7 / all ages

Wednesday 09.01.10: DUB CLUB @ echoplex & echo

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

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

Thursday 09.02.10: MARIJUANA DEATHSQUADS (featuring P.O.S., Ryan Olson of Gayngs, Har Mar Superstar, Isaac Gale, and former members of Cows) / HOLLOYS / WOAH HUNX @ echo

MARIJUANA DEATHSQUADS (featuring P.O.S., Ryan Olson of Gayngs, Har Mar Superstar, Isaac Gale, and former members of Cows)

Marijuana Deathsquads began as a collaboration between P.O.S and his Building Better Bombs bandmates and has since evolved into one of the most progressive and sprawling noise bands in the Twin Cities. Their Wednesday-night house gigs at Nick and Eddie are notorious for featuring a revolving crew of musical luminaries from around the Twin Cities and for showcasing bombastic and unpredictable sets of improvised mania. Which is no surprise; spearheaded by emerging producer Ryan Olson, Marijuana Deathsquads’ band members and collaborators weave a tangled web of overlapping side projects that span from Minneapolis to Eau Claire and beyond. The band’s set in the park will feature a live collaboration with P.O.S (pictured) and members of Olson’s internationally renowned recording project Gayngs. – Citypages

with
WOAH HUNX
HOLLOYS || Listen

8:30pm / $5 / 18+

Friday 09.03.10: SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS / LYNDA KAY / JEREMIAH AND THE RED EYES @ echo

Southern Culture on the Skids || Listen || Watch

Friday night’s Southern Culture on the Skids show at the Gothic Theatre left a mark on Denver, as they used down-home country pickin’, grinnin’ (and just the right amount of fried chicken) to lead a packed house to hillbilly stomping glee. The venue became a back woods hoe-down as frontman Rick Miller and his cohorts strung together a set of pure white-trash-in-a-blue-collar fun, with silver tongue deftly planted in cheek.

From the first strums of the opening number, Miller mixed surf, punk and country guitar wizardry with slack-jaw wit as he sang his half of the songs. Bassist (and heartbreaking truck stop beauty queen) Mary Huff belted out her share of the set in strong, sultry vocals from beneath a nearly Marge Simpson-sized, red bouffant wig, forming a no-nonsense rhythm section, and the core of funk behind the band’s shimmy-groove, with drummer Dave Hartman and touring rhythm guitarist Tim Barnes.

The quartet successfully mixed humor and sexual innuendo with the perfect amount of schtick, and ended up sounding anything but camp. Huff, decked out in white go-go boots, shining gold nylons, a miniskirt and what looked like a 7-11 clerk’s zippered uniform shirt, adjusted her makeup between almost every song. As she introduced the Wanda Jackson classic “Funnel of Love,” she also drew down the zipper on her blouse and adjusted her bra, preparing both herself and the audience for its saucy sensuality. – Denver Post

with:
Lynda Kay
Jeremiah and the Red Eyes

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

Friday 09.03.10: Echo & Club Underground present STEREO TOTAL / HAWNAY TROOF / KISSES (LIVE) / ALLISTER IZENBERG @ echoplex

Stereo Total || Listen || Watch

French/German duo Stereo Total has been combining synth pop, new wave, dance music, and indie pop since the mid ’90s, and their latest album seems to find these vets in a properly self-possessed place. Doing pretty much whatever tickles their fancy, they’ve included some covers of tunes by their favorite artists, including Brigitte Fontaine, and they’ve assembled a guest list of a whole slew of their friends and co-conspirators, from Can “Khan” Oral to the Original Upper Kreuzberg Nose Flute Orchestra. Yeah, that’s right. – Prefix

with:
Hawnay Troof
Kisses || Listen
Allister Izenberg

plus:
Club Underground Resident DJs

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

8:30pm / $14 advance, $16 day of show / 18+

Saturday 09.04.10: BOOTIE LA with DJ TRIPP / DJ PAUL V. / R.A.I.D. @ echoplex

BOOTIE LA
LA’s bimonthly mashup bootleg dance party

iPAD DJ SET
From special guest:
DJ TRIPP

Resident Bootie DJ:
DJ PAUL V.

Resident dance crew:
R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance)

Vinyl turntables and CD DJ decks are soooooo 20th century! Which is why Bootie LA is presenting the latest way to DJ — with Apple iPads! Known for always pushing the latest technology in his sets, DJ Tripp was one of the first to embrace this new, cutting-edge way to DJ. For this special guest set, he’ll be utilizing the multi-touch displays on a pair of iPads to control, manipulate, and play mashups!

Resident DJ Paul V. will also be on the decks, spinning all your favorite (and soon-to-be favorite mashups) while resident dance crew R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance) provides the on-stage eye-candy with their trademark gold suits and fierce go-go dancing.

Launched in 2003 by DJs Adrian & Mysterious D, 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 regular parties in several cities on four continents. Mixing and matching every conceivable musical genre, era, and style into one big dance party where everyone feels welcome, Bootie’s DJs keep your brain guessing and body dancing with creative song combinations, celebrating — and satirizing — the many different forms of music. Bootie provides the soundtrack for the A.D.D. generation, with free mashup CDs given away like candy!

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA

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

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

Saturday 09.04.10: FUNKY SOLE @ echo

with DJs:
Music Man Miles
Clifton AKA Soft Touch

FMI: Funky Sole on Myspace

10pm / FREE / 21+

Sunday 09.05.10: PART TIME PUNKS – SMITHS/MORRISSEY NITE with guest DJ JOSE MALDONADO @ echo

Guest DJ:
Jose Maldonado (from The Sweet And Tender Hooligans)

resident dj Michael Stock spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

FMI: Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Monday 09.06.10: Monday Night Residency – VANAPRASTA / PACIFIC HURT / SUMMER DARLING / USELESS KEYS @ echo

Vanaprasta || Listen || Watch

L.A. quintet Vanaprasta has come a long way since they got inside my head with their nifty guitar work last March. Not so far that they have an album out yet — that’ll happen when “Heathy Geometry” is released later this year — but far enough that their dramatic blend of churning rhythms, bright riffage and glowing imagery sounds ready for big stages. The band — Collin Desha, Steven Wilkin, Taylor Brown, Cameron Dmytryk and Ben Smiley — traveled to Portland late last year to record, and the initial results of those sessions, the “Forming the Shapes” EP, will be out next month. Vanaprasta will also contribute a cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” to a forthcoming L.A. charity compilation, “Uncovering a Cure.” On the EP version of their album’s title song, Vanaprasta takes some liberties with the word “geometry,” but their math works for me.- Buzz Bands

Pacific Hurt || Watch

While some things change — as in, say, a band’s name switching from Aushua to Pacific Hurt — some things remain very much the same. Their moniker may have morphed, but Pacific Hurt’s sound still hues closely to the sweeping and sleek intricate rockers that made their Limbo disc the best local EP of last year. – Web In Front

Summer Darling
Useless Keys

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 09.07.10: Buzz Bands & Al Borde Present WAIT. THINK. FAST – Album Release Show / LIGHT FM / MARVELOUS TOY / FUTURE GHOST @ echo

WAIT. THINK. FAST || Listen || Watch

Singer-pianist Jacqueline Santillan shifts between Spanish and English vocals with an inviting casualness, an approach to contemporary pop that takes a multi-ethnic view for granted. Rare indeed is a band that so comfortably executes West Coast traditions, be it the SoCal country of “Trouble,” the working-class guitar vamp of “Covina,” the Latin lament of “Jornaleras” or the orchestral, Hollywood-ready grandeur of “Bad Night.” Think of it as the musical equivalent of Los Angeles sprawl — without the headaches. – LA Times

with
LIGHT FM
MARVELOUS TOY
FUTURE GHOST

plus DJ:
Neil from Origami

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

Wednesday 09.08.10: Aquarium Drunkard presents THE GORIES / HAUNTED GEORGE / NICE SMILE @ echo

THE GORIES || Watch

Formed in January of 1986 over a six pack of Budweiser and “Scum of the Earth” on the record player. Played dives around Detroit for six and a half years with a couple of trips to New York City and Chicago. Released three LPs and a handful of singles. Toured Europe in the Spring of ’92. Broke up.

with:
Haunted George
Nice Smile

8:30pm / $20 advance, $22 day of show / 18+

Wednesday 09.08.10: DUB CLUB @ echoplex

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

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

Thursday 09.09.10: CRACKER / CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN @ echoplex

Cracker || Listen || Watch

Cracker, the group that veritably introduced brash irreverence and irony into alt-rock, are back and in top form on their 429 Records debut, Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey.

This rich new trove of sharp-witted songs showcases a bristling, late 70’s – early 80’s power pop punk aesthetic which hits as hard as it did at the band’s formation 17 years ago. Eight albums (one platinum and three gold) and a barrel full of anthemic hit songs later, Cracker endures, using their ability to weave decades of influences into an album that is seamlessly riveting.

In Sunrise…, long-time partners David Lowery and Johnny Hickman, 12-year Cracker drummer Frank Funaro and bassist Sal Maida (since 2006), train a watchful eye on the current socio-musical landscape as they weave an eerie yet strangely soothing story of escapism, apocalypse and renewal. Friends John Doe, Patterson Hood and Adam Duritz (whose mega-band Counting Crows was once produced by Lowery) make spirited guest appearances. The recording was helmed by Athens, GA-based producer/engineer David Barbe, a longtime friend of Lowery who has manned consoles for the likes of Son Volt and the alt-Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers.

The explosive title track that wraps the 11-song collection is thematic, belying its seemingly cheery title to take a tough-edged look at the precarious times we live in. Ever the observant storyteller, Lowery calls it like he sees it: the affluence and wealth America seemed to have these past decades was built on a mirage. The sun shines a harsh light on a landscape of decay. The golden age, the promised land, the land of milk and honey, never materialized.

with:
Camper Van Beethoven || Listen

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

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

Thursday 09.09.10: WE BARBARIANS / SUPERHUMANOIDS / TIJUANA PANTHERS @ echo

We Barbarians || Listen || Watch

So, there’s this We Barbarians album called There’s This There’s That and it has some things I should probably tell you about. For example, in order to review it properly I would have to tell you of all of the comparisons that come to mind while listening to the album, or at least that I’ve gathered from the six times I perused it. Some of the songs remind me a tiny bit of their Long Beach neighbors Cold War Kids while other songs portray elements of War-era U2, with anthemic drum beats and precise, cutting distortion. Other songs make me think echoey, orchestral pop, which can be found on “Trickle Down”. “War Clouds” is a pertinent song asking poignant questions about war and the state of the turbulent world around us… but I’m not going to tell you all of that because I mostly just want to say that it is a really great album and that you should listen to it, and re-listen to it again and again. – IndieRockReviews

with:
Superhumanoids
Tijuana Panthers

9pm / $8 / 18+

Friday 09.10.10: Echo & Club Underground present: HELEN STELLAR / SAUCY JACKS @ echo

Helen Stellar || Listen || Watch

While that’s quite a lofty title, it’s also an apt description of the sonic direction in which Helen Stellar are headed. Having already proven themselves virtuosos of spiraling, explosive and ethereal dream-rock, the LA-based trio have given their huge sound a sense of urgency on their first official full-length release. In doing so, vocalist/guitarist Jim Evens, drummer Clif Clehouse, and bassist Dustin Robles expanded from trio to quartet with the addition of second guitarist Eli Lhymn, amping up the energy of Helen Stellar’s carefully crafted and densely-layered sound. With melodies and textures that soar high into the ether, unrelenting drumbeats that thunder from earth below, driving bass lines, and Evens’ lyrical obsession with the battered heart of the human condition, Helen Stellar have successfully exchanged beautifully dripping rock ambience for a head-on swirling sonic attack of bittersweet melodies. Clehouses’ deft bombastic percussion propels the hooks and melodic twists of “Joseph” and “From Here On” at a breakneck pace while Evens sings passionately about overcoming emotional blindness through the thick, gritty pulse of “Hyper-aware.” “The Disappearing Twin” careens out of control like a psychedelic freight train without brakes as the gorgeous heavenly noise freak-outs wrap around sky-bound “Hopeless Romantic” like a warm blanket. – Under The Radar

With:
Saucy Jacks || Listen

8:30pm / $8 / 18+

Saturday 09.11.10: CLIENTELE / LAY LOW / GANGI @ echoplex

The Clientele || Listen || Watch || MP3

The best of the Bonfires extends the Clientele’s great project: building, through hyper-evocative descriptive fragments and music to match, one of the great imaginary places in pop. The Clientele’s suburb is obviously the product of an English coming of age, but it’s also just dreamily vague enough to mirror the lives of listeners almost anywhere. (Unless you happen to live in one of those William Gibsonish fourth-world megalopolises with no green spaces.) The vibe of Bonfires is strong enough to almost feel the leaves crunching underfoot and smell the smoke cutting through the growing chill in the air, an indie-pop equivalent to Brian Eno’s windswept and stone-solid world-building circa On Land. It’s not an album you can dance to, but it’s one you can live in and with, alone, which is rare enough to be applauded. The band’s steadily curated one of the decade’s great bodies of mood music. In an odd way, it strikes me as almost cousin to Sufjan Stevens’ quixotic attempt to bring each state in the union to life: The Clientele seem to be trying to capture the light and air and meteorological conditions and attendant emotional baggage of each season, with a disarmingly straight-faced grace and wonder that makes it one of pop’s more laudable long-term career moves. – Pitchfork

with:
Lay Low || Listen
Gangi

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

8:30pm / $13 Advance, $15 day of show / 18+

Saturday 09.11.10: FUNKY SOLE @ echo

with DJs:
Music Man Miles
Clifton AKA Soft Touch

FMI: Funky Sole on Myspace

10pm / FREE / 21+

Sunday 09.12.10: GRAND OLE ECHO with KINGSIZEMAYBE / THE RUNNING KIND / GENTLEMEN FARMERS / SKIP HELLER @ echo

with:
Kingsizemaybe
The Running Kind
Gentlemen Farmers
Skip Heller

FMI: Grand Ole Echo on Myspace

5:00pm / FREE / All Ages

Sunday 09.12.10: MOGWAI BURNING SCREENING @ echoplex

Seminal Scottish rock band Mogwai are thrilled to announce their first official live concert film release, Burning. The film, directed by Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnac of the world-renowned La Blogotheque’s Take-Away Shows, was shot at the band’s sold-out three-night residency at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg in April 2009. These creative powerhouses in film and music have come together to produce something undeniably unique and mesmerizing, grabbing the audience from the first opening seconds and never letting go. The 45-minute film presents itself as a modern urban noir thriller, a black-and-white journey, starting on the same electrifying New York streets Bernard Hermann scored for Martin Scorsese. Manholes hiss steam, taxi headlights flare in the camera lens and strangers wait in street corner shadows. Moon and Le Scouarnec call their film an “experience of the senses… a lifetime of feelings in just one night.”

You can pre-order your copy of the DVD/CD here

RSVP on Facebook

7:30pm / FREE with RSVP / all ages

Sunday 09.12.10: PART TIME PUNKS with WILD NOTHING / THE PROCEDURE CLUB / SWEATER GIRLS / DJ Mike Schulman from SLUMBERLAND RECORDS! @ echo

WILD NOTHING [Captured Tracks]

THE PROCEDURE CLUB [Slumberland Records LP release party]
SWEATER GIRLS

Guest DJ Mike Schulman from SLUMBERLAND RECORDS!

resident dj Michael Stock spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

FMI: Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $10 / 18+

Monday 09.13.10: Monday Night Residency PACIFIC HURT/ VANAPRASTA / BLACK APPLES / MY PET SADDLE @ echo

Vanaprasta || Listen || Watch

L.A. quintet Vanaprasta has come a long way since they got inside my head with their nifty guitar work last March. Not so far that they have an album out yet — that’ll happen when “Heathy Geometry” is released later this year — but far enough that their dramatic blend of churning rhythms, bright riffage and glowing imagery sounds ready for big stages. The band — Collin Desha, Steven Wilkin, Taylor Brown, Cameron Dmytryk and Ben Smiley — traveled to Portland late last year to record, and the initial results of those sessions, the “Forming the Shapes” EP, will be out next month. Vanaprasta will also contribute a cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” to a forthcoming L.A. charity compilation, “Uncovering a Cure.” On the EP version of their album’s title song, Vanaprasta takes some liberties with the word “geometry,” but their math works for me.- Buzz Bands

Pacific Hurt || Watch

While some things change — as in, say, a band’s name switching from Aushua to Pacific Hurt — some things remain very much the same. Their moniker may have morphed, but Pacific Hurt’s sound still hues closely to the sweeping and sleek intricate rockers that made their Limbo disc the best local EP of last year. – Web In Front

Black Apples
My Pet Saddle

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 09.14.10: SMOG SESSIONS with CHEFAL / CRINGER / AUSTIN SPEED / KEMST @ echo

CHEFAL
aka DJ Chef, Rinse FM, Dubstep All Stars, London UK

CRINGER
Dubfront, Chicago

AUSTIN SPEED
SUBLMNL, San Diego

KEMST
Smog, Los Angeles

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10pm / $5 with RSVP or $10 without / 21+

Wednesday 09.15.10: DUB CLUB presents THE FULLY FULLWOOD BAND performing “Tosh meets Marley” / ROBERT FRENCH backed by CUALLI @ echoplex & echo

the Fully Fullwood Band
performing “Tosh meets Marley”

a celebration of the music of Peter Tosh and Bob Marley

plus live and direct from Jamaica
Robert Ffrench
backed by Cualli

Fully Fullwood is one the top bass players to ever come out of Jamiaca. The number of classic tunes he cut with his crew the Soul Syndicate is endless. When you’re listening to “Bam Bam” by Sister Nancy , you’re listening to Fully on the bassline. The lineup of his band also includes guitar legend Tony Chin and original Soul Syndicate lead singer Donovan Carlos , alongside other veteran players. They have performed this celebration of Tosh and Marley all over the world and we think it will make for a great party at the Dub Club.

PLUS we have a really rare treat, a performance from rub-a-dub era singer Robert Ffrench! He has that driving yet mellow and melodic vocal style that was the perfect compliment for the early 80s dancehall sound, going from lovers tunes to bad boy warnings. We are very excited about this show!

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

9pm / $10 before 10pm, $15 after / 21+

Thursday 09.16.10: THE CHAPIN SISTERS / THE FINCHES / HI HO SILVER OH @ echo

THE CHAPIN SISTERS || LISTEN || WATCH

You won’t see the Chapin Sisters on MTV, and that’s probably a good thing. Their music is well crafted with intense lyrics, traumatizing instrumentals, and all that is second nature to their insane harmonies that just makes you wonder how long they practice at it. The sister duo, Abigail and Lily Chapin, have put together a solid album after their debut, Lake Bottom. It’s not much of a step from their first album but it’s who they are, a talented band with heavy folk roots, who may have been born in the wrong era.

Two still has their folk elements that they’re known for but they also tap into a little bit of jazz as well as some country this time around. “Paradise” stood out to me as one of the best tracks on the second record, they throw their harmonies behind some solid piano playing a la Norah Jones, just a little stronger vocally. They stick to the theme of this record with lyrics like “no other drug will do/I know it’s true/I’m so much better off with you.” It’s songs like this that makes you think Two may not be so much about their second record coming out but having that second chance we all want so bad after we screw up in a relationship. This just a beautiful song with nothing but keys and the tambourine. – Indie Media Mag

with:
THE FINCHES || LISTEN
HI HO SILVER OH || LISTEN

8:30pm/ 18+

Friday 09.17.10: PANTHA DU PRINCE / THE SIGHT BELOW @ echoplex

Pantha Du Prince || Listen || Watch

Though he lacks the crossover name recognition of producers like the Field, Burial, and Lindstrøm, Germany’s Hendrik Weber is one of the leading figures in modern techno. As Pantha du Prince, he has up until now released two albums of meticulous, minimal-inspired house music. The last, 2007′s This Bliss, found the rare balance between ambient sweep and dancefloor bounce, and it’s only grown in stature since its release. In part because of a move from the smaller Dial Records to Rough Trade and guest spots from some indie heavyweights, his new LP, Black Noise, is being met with more excitement this time around. And with good reason: Said to be born out of a period of musical exploration in the Swiss Alps, the record is both a stylistic departure for Weber and an extension of what he already does well.

Weber is unlike most minimal techno producers in that he doesn’t look to locate one groove and ride it for the course of a track. His songs open up, unfurl, and regularly change course. With Black Noise he develops this to incorporate a wide range of sounds– field recordings, atonal noise, and stray percussion all populate the album. Above all, here he aims to reproduce sounds already in nature, and where This Bliss was airy and celestial, this record is gritty and earthbound. It’s darker, more forceful, and more chaotic. – Pitchfork

with:
The Sight Below

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

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

Friday 09.17.10: CLUB UNDERGROUND with MEN @ echo

MEN || Listen

The DJ/production/remix team of JD Samson and Johanna Fateman used to make up two-thirds of Le Tigre, the Brooklyn band who now appear to be on hiatus even though they appeared to be entering their most exciting phase to date when it was announced last summer that they were going to be collaborating with Christina Aguilera.

MEN don’t actually represent a massive departure from Le Tigre, who themselves were a sort of funky Sleater-Kinney, riot grrrls in electroclash armour. As their name suggests, MEN have retained Le Tigre’s socio-political – or rather, sexual-political – sensibility, swearing allegiance to the LGBT community and “feminist genderqueer artist collective” LTTR. Inevitably their agenda bias is left-wing issues: their songs tackle such unexpected dance music topics as “wartime economies, sexual compromise, and demanding liberties”. One track, Credit Card Babie$, from their debut self-titled, self-released EP (they are as yet without a record deal), is about “how expensive it is if you have a baby when you’re queer” while another, Simultaneously, concerns “AIDS, cancer and sickness”.

They’re an indie/electronic supergroup of sorts, comprising as they do various members of Hirsute, Princess and Ladybug Transistor. And they have a fluid lineup that makes them seem like more than a mere “band” – Fateman is no longer a full-time MEN girl, having left to have a baby, but she and artist Roysdon, to name but two, continue to contribute as “writers, consultants, and producers”. Not surprisingly, MEN – who have recently toured with Peaches and the Gossip – describe themselves as an “art/performance collective”. – Guardian

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

FMI: Club Underground on Facebook

9pm / $10 advance, $12 Day Of Show / 18+

Saturday 09.18.10: BOOTIE LA with TRANZKONTINENTAL / DJ PAUL V. / R.A.I.D. @ echoplex

BOOTIE LA
LA’s bimonthly mashup bootleg dance party

11 PM — Live on stage:
TRANZKONTINENTAL
LA’s live glam-rock drag mashup revue

Resident Bootie DJ:
DJ PAUL V.

Resident dance crew:
R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance)

Live on stage at 11 PM — and making their Bootie LA debut — are hot new LA band Tranzkontinental. Featuring Xander Smith and Charlie Paulson (original members of the Club Makeup band) along with LA drag superstars Momma and Kelly Mantle, the band was conceptualized with Dragstrip 66 & Bootie LA’s own DJ Paul V. The group came together with a singular goal in mind: to bring some sexy glam, glitz, and gender-bent sleaze back to the Sunset Strip, where they’ve been wowing crowds with a monthly residency at The Roxy. With a rotating cast of fierce queens on the mic, the band rips through classic rock ‘n’ roll jams — and new electropop hits — and mashes them all together, such as Lady Gaga vs. Metallica, and AC/DC vs. Peaches.

DJ Paul V. will also be on the decks throughout the night, spinning all the mashups you love, while resident dance crew R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance) will provide the on-stage eye-candy with their trademark gold suits and fierce go-go dancing.

Launched in 2003 by DJs Adrian & Mysterious D, 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 regular parties in several cities on four continents. Mixing and matching every conceivable musical genre, era, and style into one big dance party where everyone feels welcome, Bootie’s DJs keep your brain guessing and body dancing with creative song combinations, celebrating — and satirizing — the many different forms of music. Bootie provides the soundtrack for the A.D.D. generation, with free mashup CDs given away like candy!

@ Echoplex
enter at
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA

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

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

Saturday 09.18.10: FUNKY SOLE @ echo

with DJs:
Music Man Miles
Clifton AKA Soft Touch

FMI: Funky Sole on Myspace

10pm / FREE / 21+

Sunday 09.19.10: GRAND OLE ECHO with Pete Anderson, Gwendolyn, The David Brothers, Walter Spencer & The Azusa Street Revival @ echo

with:
Pete Anderson
Gwendolyn
The David Brothers
Walter Spencer & The Azusa Street Revival

FMI: Grand Ole Echo on Myspace

5:00pm / FREE / All Ages

Sunday 09.19.10: PART TIME PUNKS Mexican Summer Record Label Nite with TAMARYN + PURO INSTINCT [formerly PEARL HARBOR] + DUNES @ echo

TAMARYN
PURO INSTINCT [formerly PEARL HARBOR]
DUNES

resident dj Michael Stock spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

FMI: Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $8 / 18+

Monday 09.20.10: Monday Night Residency VANAPRASTA/ PACIFIC HURT / CUE THE MOON / THE HUNDRED DAYS @ echo

Vanaprasta || Listen || Watch

L.A. quintet Vanaprasta has come a long way since they got inside my head with their nifty guitar work last March. Not so far that they have an album out yet — that’ll happen when “Heathy Geometry” is released later this year — but far enough that their dramatic blend of churning rhythms, bright riffage and glowing imagery sounds ready for big stages. The band — Collin Desha, Steven Wilkin, Taylor Brown, Cameron Dmytryk and Ben Smiley — traveled to Portland late last year to record, and the initial results of those sessions, the “Forming the Shapes” EP, will be out next month. Vanaprasta will also contribute a cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” to a forthcoming L.A. charity compilation, “Uncovering a Cure.” On the EP version of their album’s title song, Vanaprasta takes some liberties with the word “geometry,” but their math works for me.- Buzz Bands

Pacific Hurt || Watch

While some things change — as in, say, a band’s name switching from Aushua to Pacific Hurt — some things remain very much the same. Their moniker may have morphed, but Pacific Hurt’s sound still hues closely to the sweeping and sleek intricate rockers that made their Limbo disc the best local EP of last year. – Web In Front

Cue The Moon
The Hundred Days

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 09.21.10: Web In Front Presents THE PARSON RED HEADS / RED CORTEZ / THE WORLD RECORD @ echo

The Parson Red Heads || Listen || Watch

If you’ve spent any time in the Silver Lake/Echo Park axis over the last half decade, chances are you’ve seen the Parson Red Heads. They’re hard to miss, an all-white-costumed crew who have, over the years, swelled to as many as eight people, looking like a cross between Danielson Famile and the Partridge Family, and playing sun-soaked and serene tunes that touched on the Beachwood Sparks and the usual Laurel Canyon suspects (The Byrds, Fleetwood Mac, CSNY).

Their live shows ran the gamut between drowsy folk-tinged acoustic sets and unruly psychedelic guitar workouts. The band played early, often and everywhere, with residencies at Spaceland, the Echo, and Silverlake Lounge that evidenced a visible joy that distinguished them from the often ultra-serious swarm of indie bands. Lamentably, the jubilation and jams will be far less frequent in these parts, with the band’s core trio of Evan Way (guitars, vocals), his wife, Brett Marie Way (drums, vocals), and Sam Fowles (guitar, vocals) announcing that they will be relocating back to their native Oregon. – LA Times

with:
Red Cortez || Listen
The World Record || Listen

8:30pm / $5, $2 if you wear all white / 18+

Wednesday 09.22.10: WHAT LAURA SAYS / SKYBOX @ echo

What Laura Says || Listen || Watch

If you’ve heard of What Laura Says at all, it’s most likely due to the fact that they’re on Terpsikhore Records—a label run by Annuals bassist Mike Robinson. Either that, or perhaps you’ve seen them play acoustically in their native Arizona back in the day. Nowadays, their acoustic days are long gone, focusing instead on tightly coiled guitars (“Training”) and psychedelic vocals reminiscent of Akron/Family on their second full length album, Bloom Cheek. Although they’ve already shared stages with the likes of Lou Reed, My Morning Jacket, and Yo La Tengo, What Laura Says is still carving out their own sound. On Bloom Cheek, they wear their influences out on their sleeves. Maybe in a few albums from now, they’ll learn to roll their sleeves up and not be so outright in emulating their peers. – Pop Matters

With:
Skybox || Listen

7pm / $8 / all ages

Wednesday 09.22.10: DUB CLUB @ echopex & echo

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

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

Thursday 09.23.10: JIM JONES REVUE / THE BELLRAYS / COASTING @ echo

Jim Jones Revue || Watch

The Jim Jones Revue wants to save your soul. Former Thee Hypnotics and Black Moses veteran Jim Jones’s screaming vocals and Elliott Mortimer doing indecent things to the piano combine with Rupert Orton’s guitar, Gavin Jay’s bass and Nick Jones’s drums for an unholy orgy of rock ‘n’ roll idols from Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis to the MC5 and the Sonics. – Spinner

With:
The BellRays || Listen
Coasting

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

Thursday 09.23.10: DOWN AND DERBY ROLLER DISCO @ echoplex

A hot set of wheels is the only essential at Down & Derby – the coolest roller skating party since roller skating was cool. Set to a backbeat of disco-inspired party anthems, complete with skate rentals and knee high socks, Down & Derby is poised to bring out the kid in just about anyone.

This month’s special host is Julie Spira (Cyber-Dating Expert). Down & Derby welcomes her and her guests for a fun evening of skating and dating during Social Media Week. Date and Skate Night along with the usual drinking and dancing!

BOOTY DROPPIN’ TUNES: DJ Morse Code & SHR3D

More than 200 pairs of roller skates available to rent.

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

RSVP at www.downandderby.org

9pm / $5 with RSVP, $10 at the door / 21+

Friday 09.24.10: CLUB UNDERGROUND with RABBITS RABBITS RABBITS / IMAGES / THE DELABRE @ echo

RABBITS RABBITS RABBITS
IMAGES
THE DELABRE

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

FMI: Club Underground on Facebook

9pm / $8 / 18+

Friday 09.24.10: VTech & Beat Junkie Sound Present NIGHTLIFE – The Official ROC RAIDA L.A. Tribute with THE BEAT JUNKIES / THE X-ECUTIONERS @ echoplex

Almost over a year ago we lost an amazing DJ, producer, and friend, Anthony Williams. Better known to many as Roc Raida or Grandmaster Roc Raida, a member of the legendary DJ group, The X-Ecutioners, he was as talented as he was kind. Most famous for his mash-up album Rock Phenomenon released with DJ Vlad in 2005, he also produced songs for artists such as the Jungle Brohers, Big Pun, Mad Skillz, and more.

On September 19, 2009 Roc Raida suffered cardiac arrest and passed away.

VTech and Beat Junkie Sound are proud to present the official Roc Raida L.A. Tribute. On September 24th, join The Beat Junkies, The X-Ecutioners, and special guests as they pay tribute to the legend….

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

10pm / $15 / 21+

Saturday 09.25.10: Aquarium Drunkard & Spaceland Productions present WAVED OUT II with DUNGEN / ENTRANCE / SHARON VAN ETTEN / SHANNON AND THE CLAMS / JOHN CARPENTER / LORD HURON / HANNI EL KHATIB / SO MANY WIZARDS / SUMMER DARLING / YOUNG PRISMS / GESTAPO KHAZI / VICTORIA NOLL / THE ZIG ZAGS / BOWERY BEASTS @ Echoplex & Origami Vinyl

Aquarium Drunkard, in conjunction with the Echo, is holding its second all ages festival here in L.A. in Echo Park. Dubbed WAVED OUT, after Justin Gage’s favorite Robert Pollard solo album, this is the second recurring event featuring emerging national, local and international artists.

with:
DUNGEN || LISTEN
THE ENTRANCE BAND
SHARON VAN ETTEN
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
LORD HURON
JOHN CARPENTER
SUMMER DARLING
HANNI EL KHATIB

ORIGAMI STAGE:
GESTAPO KHAZI
SO MANY WIZARDS
YOUNG PRISMS
VICTORIA NOLL
THE ZIG ZAGS
BOWERY BEASTS

Plus:
Food Trucks
Tamales
Tarot card readers
HIT& RUN silk screening on site

and more!

enter at
Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

3pm / $10 until Sep 16th, $13 after / all ages

Saturday 09.25.10: FUNKY SOLE @ echo

with DJs:
Music Man Miles
Clifton AKA Soft Touch

FMI: Funky Sole on Myspace

10pm / FREE / 21+

Sunday 09.26.10: GRAND OLE ECHO @ echo

FMI: Grand Ole Echo on Myspace

5:00pm / FREE / All Ages

Sunday 09.26.10: PART TIME PUNKS with FRANKIE ROSE [Slumberland Records LP release party] + HUNX & HIS PUNX @ echo

FRANKIE ROSE [Slumberland Records LP release party]
HUNX & HIS PUNX

resident dj Michael Stock spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

FMI: Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $8 / 18+

Monday 09.27.10: Monday Night Residency PACIFIC HURT / VANAPRASTA / CHASING KINGS / KISSED HER LITTLE SISTER @ echo

Vanaprasta || Listen || Watch

L.A. quintet Vanaprasta has come a long way since they got inside my head with their nifty guitar work last March. Not so far that they have an album out yet — that’ll happen when “Heathy Geometry” is released later this year — but far enough that their dramatic blend of churning rhythms, bright riffage and glowing imagery sounds ready for big stages. The band — Collin Desha, Steven Wilkin, Taylor Brown, Cameron Dmytryk and Ben Smiley — traveled to Portland late last year to record, and the initial results of those sessions, the “Forming the Shapes” EP, will be out next month. Vanaprasta will also contribute a cover of LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” to a forthcoming L.A. charity compilation, “Uncovering a Cure.” On the EP version of their album’s title song, Vanaprasta takes some liberties with the word “geometry,” but their math works for me.- Buzz Bands

Pacific Hurt || Watch

While some things change — as in, say, a band’s name switching from Aushua to Pacific Hurt — some things remain very much the same. Their moniker may have morphed, but Pacific Hurt’s sound still hues closely to the sweeping and sleek intricate rockers that made their Limbo disc the best local EP of last year. – Web In Front

With:
Kissed Her Little Sister
Chasing Kings

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 09.28.10: ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER / SUN ARAW / JAMES FERRARO @ echo

ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER || LISTEN

Though it sometimes feels like drone music will be forever relegated to the fringes of the indie world, an impressive batch of bands and labels have sprung up recently to counter that idea. Alongside bigger acts such as Sunn O))) and Grouper (not true drone, but plenty drone-y), artists like Emeralds, Black to Comm, and Yellow Swans are each tugging the style into intriguing directions. Daniel Lopatin, who records as Oneohtrix Point Never and shares a label with Emeralds, could plausibly be lumped into this group but also exists outside of it. Where others bring to bear a wide range of instrumentation in creating these glistening, open-ended sounds, Lopatin does so using only electronics (synthesizers and arpeggiators, primarily) and as a result, his music is arguably more distinctive and often more difficult to pin down.

Because he’s worked outside the label structure and released albums on limited-run cassette and CD-R until now, Lopatin’s music also hasn’t been easy to find. But Rifts, a 2xCD collection of his material since 2003 (including all three Oneohtrix Point Never full-lengths– Betrayed in the Octagon, Zones Without People, and Russian Mind), seeks to correct that by compiling just about everything he’s recorded as OPN to date. At two and a half hours long, it’s a dizzying amount of music and virtually impossible to absorb in one sitting but for anyone with a passing interest in drone or ambient music, it’s worth setting aside the time. – Pitchfork

With:
SUN ARAW || Listen
JAMES FERRARO

8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Wednesday 09.29.10: AN EVENING WITH THE FELICE BROTHERS @ echo

THE FELICE BROTHERS || Listen

The Felice Brothers and their long time friends and band mates Greg Farley and Christmas Clapton, come to us from the Catskill Mountains, where a homegrown sound has been working its way through the bloodlines for generations. Their rambling journey so far has brought them from busking in New York City subway stations, to tours across the world that have included enthusiastically received performances at major music festivals including Bonnaroo, All Points West, Outside Lands, and Langerado.

Titled with a phrase drawn from the pages of Mark Twain, Yonder Is The Clock is a nod to all of the American ghosts that lend their narrative and characters to the Felice Brothers’ April 7th release. Their studio was built from the remains of an abandoned chicken coop and it was there over the summer and fall of 2008 that they wrote and recorded this new collection of songs. Presented by Team Love Records, Yonder Is The Clock is teaming with tales of love, death, betrayal, baseball, train stations, phantoms, pandemics, jail cells, rolling rivers and frozen winter nights. This is music that hasn’t lost sight of the history of the land from which it came, and that quality alone makes The Felice Brothers the next great American band.

8:30pm / $15adv; $17dos / 18+

Wednesday 09.29.10: DUB CLUB @ echoplex

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

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

Thursday 09.30.10: JUKEBOX THE GHOST / HOORAY FOR EARTH / AB AND THE SEA @ echo

Jukebox the Ghost || Listen || Watch

Jukebox The Ghost are three friends, Ben Thornewill on piano, Tommy Siegel on guitar and Jesse Kristin on rhythm. Bouncing out of Washington D.C. two years ago, Jukebox The Ghost purvey classic ebony and ivory pop, flavoured with their own brand of quirky lyrics and inventive song writing. Since the bands birth they have been writing and touring non stop, determined to bring their music to the masses the good old fashioned way; by doing everything themselves. It seems to have paid off; Jukebox The Ghost can boast ‘Let Live and Let Ghosts’, various EP’s and singles, and a second album well on its way. Plus, over 250 shows world-wide, with the likes of Ben Folds, Tokyo Police Club, Ra Ra Riot, Jenny Owen Youngs and more.

Written in equal parts by band members Ben Thornewill and Tommy Siegel, produced by Ted Comerford, ‘Let Live and Let Ghosts’ is 40 minutes of rambunctious, exuberant pop rock.

Jukebox the Ghost just finished recording their second record with Peter Katis (The National, Interpol, Mates of State) at Tarquin Studios in CT, and will be on the road again this March with tour-mates Tally Hall (Atlantic Records). The next record will be released in 2010.

with:
Hooray For Earth || Listen
AB and the SEA || Listen

8pm / $8adv; $10dos / all ages

Thursday 09.30.10: KCRW and Filter present JAMIE LIDELL / TWIN SHADOW @ echoplex

JAMIE LIDELL || Listen || Watch

If you’ve ever seen electro-soul whiz Jamie Lidell live, you know the guy can deliver ample amounts of ecstatic joy. It just feels good to be in the same room as him. So it makes a lot of sense that talented people including Beck, Feist, Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor, Daniel Rossen, and Chris Bear, Wilco’s Pat Sansone, legendary R&B drummer James Gadson, soul belter Nikka Costa, Beck keyboardist Brian LeBarton, and producer/songwriter Gonzales would want to help out on Lidell’s new album. That album is titled Compass and due out May 18 courtesy of Warp.

This isn’t the first time Lidell has worked with Feist (he contributed to The Reminder sessions) or Beck, who got Jamie (and Feist and Wilco and Gadson) to sing and play on his most recent Record Club covers project. Compass was recorded at Hudson Studios in Los Angeles (where Beck and Lidell teamed up to write and produce some songs), Hollywood’s Ocean Way Recording, New York City, and Feist’s ranch in Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment (where Feist helped write and sang background vocals, while Chris Taylor did some producing, mixing, and bass clarinet playing). – Pitchfork

with:
TWIN SHADOW

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

8:30pm / $20.00 advance, $23.00 day of show / 18+