ANUS KINGS + DJ BLAQUE CHRIS @ Echo

7:30pm / $7.00 / All Ages

PHOTO CREDIT: DAVID BLACK
Fidlar || Listen || Watch
Know thyself. I imagine Fidlar isn’t that well-versed in Socrates, but the band’s members get the gist. See their influences: “Coors Light, King Cobra, Four Loko, Jameson, Taak, Steel Reserve, Natural Light, Bud Light, Miller Light, Bud, Miller, PBR, Taurino, Joose, JD, Evan Williams, Benders, PARTY, Simpler Times, Coors, 211, Mickeys, OE.”

Their band interests are: to party and play music, but mostly to party. So you can guess what’s included in the new video for “Wait for the Man.” Cartoon vomit and shattered bottles of Jack Daniels. Dancing girls and loud guitars. There’s even a cartoon outline of Beavis and Butt-Head that passes by in the epileptic blink of an eye.

The statement accompanying the Ryan Baxley-directed clip goes: “The concept for this video is based on stock footage and it’s generic purpose. We took footage of what a music video is ‘supposed’ to look like and ridiculed it. The drawings were inspired by the ads you see on the street or in subways, where people have scratched or drawn mustaches or other things like that on top of them. So that’s what we did to this footage, frame by frame.”

Like Hanni El Khatib, Best Coast, Wavves and plenty of other bands operating in Los Angeles, Fidlar channels both early rock and roll and punk rock, and dynamites that combination with adrenaline and abraded rawness. The song is a two-minute burner, all power chords and swagger. This sort of tune that makes you want to buy the strongest speakers money can buy, crank them up to maximum volume, buy a 24-pack of Bud Lite, invite some friends over, and terrorize your neighbors.LA Times

Pangea || Listen||Watch
“Living Dummy is Southern California punk the way it should be: crude without being obnoxious, funny without being crass, aggressively punk yet not totally insensitive, and, most importantly, FUN. Pangea burst straight out of the gate with the driving “No Feeling” and never lose that initial blast of energy as they tear through fourteen tracks of thoroughly infectious pop-inflected punk. Living Dummy is packed with enough catchy choruses, guitar solos, “la-la-la’s”, and naughty lyrics to delight my inner juvenile delinquent, but it’s the music that keeps me coming back for more. Pangea construct their songs in interesting ways, folding elements of doo-wop, girl groups, power pop, and even folk-rock into their sound, thereby sidestepping the homogeneity that plagues many a punk record. It gets pretty epic at times, but Pangea stay steady on course by keeping the focus where it belongs: on good songs, well played, with heart. Really, the only thing more fun than Living Dummy is Pangea’s live show.” – GET BENT!

The Lovely Bad Things || Listen || Watch
The Lovely Bad Things are an LA/OC band that began in October 2009 consisting of members Lauren Curtius, Camron Ward, Timothy Hatch and Brayden Ward. Their sound has often been described as a cross between Black Lips and The Pixies, garage/post-punk alternative pop and a little surf here and there. As a result of the varying influences each member brings to the group, every song sounds unique from the last and everyone seems to have a different perspective in regards to the Lovely Bad Things’ sound. No member stays in one place throughout the entire set with each member often playing every instrument at least once as the performance progresses. The members all also share the vocal duties which include four part harmonies. They began gaining popularity in the LA/OC collective DIY scene early on, which then expanded to a much larger spectrum opening up for larger acts and working with FYF. Acts they have supported include No Age, Wavves, OFF!, Peter Bjorn and John, The Thermals, The Growlers, Screaming Females, Crystal Antlers, Abe Vigoda, Slang Chickens and many more. Their first full length entitled “Shark Week” was released in September 2010 on cassette for UVR. They are currently working on the release of a 6-song EP sometime this summer, and are set to go on a West Coast tour in July 2011.

Anus Kings || Listen

Anus Kings are a Folk/Punk band that began in 2006 consisting of Brian Rodriguez on Bass and Sydney Ward on Guitar and Vocals. Anus Kings live for nothing else but to blast Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” on their boombox wherever they go. They wear “love” and “hate” four-fingered rings (brass knuckles) on either hand, which they explain in one scene symbolizes the struggle between the two forces (a reference to The Night of the Hunter). Their latest album, “Seems You Haven’t Learned” was released for free online in July of 2011 and produced by LA punk band FIDLAR.

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