Saturday 12.01.07: GWENDOLYN & THE GOOD TIME GANG @ Echoplex

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It is very much to Gwendolyn’s credit that her second album for kids, Get Up and Dance!, released late last month, is entirely irony-free. Somehow, though, the songs are eager without turning off the parents. For example, kids will enjoy her exhortation to “bounce and bounce and bounce” (ad nauseam) “around” on the leadoff title track, while parents will smile wanly at the recognition of the fact that this, yes, is exactly how their child moves. But somewhere in the course of the song, the music opens up, adding handclaps and becoming sonically interesting (without losing the kids). The rest of the album is like that, too — the super funky “Eensy Weensy Spider,” the disco freeze-dance of “Red Means Stop,” and the best song never recorded for Grammar Rock!, “I Can Read.” The listing of vegetables “Out in My Garden” is reminiscent — in a good way — of their debut album’s “My Anatomy.” I also appreciate the fact that the album doesn’t end with a typical kids-album-closer slow song, but instead with the peppy “Sunny Day.” It fits perfectly here. – ZooGlobble.com

with:
DJ Lance Rock from Yo Gabba Gabba

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

10:30am / $12, Family of four for $44 / all ages

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Saturday 12.01.07: THE NEW CHECK YO PONYTAIL w/ SURKIN

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with:
Surkin
Dre Skull
DJ Hyphy Crunk

Plus resident DJs:
Franki Chan
Paparazzi

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $10 / 18+

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Saturday 12.01.07: SMOG SESSIONS w/ PLASTICIAN

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with:

PLASTICIAN
(Rephlex, Terrorhythm, Rinse FM, BBC Radio1, London UK) Plastician came into the spotlight with a nod from the ‘Grime’
compilation on Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label. Riding the line between dubstep and grime, Plastcian is both – yet neither. This year he gained control of the BBC airwaves by hosting a regular show on Radio 1′s ‘In New DJ’s We Trust’.

BREAKAGE
(Digital Soundboy, Pure Filth, London UK) While well respected in the world of drum n bass for his dubbed out musical masterpieces, Breakage has been working hard at producing dubstep worthy of his name. This year he’s put out genre breaking tunes like ‘Clarendon’ that have turned heads across the world.
Currently he is working on a new album which has been highly anticipated.

EMCEE CHILD
(Narco.Hz, Grime City, B.I.G. Crew, SF)

DLX
(Smog, Steps In Time Records, LA)

KNIFE DREAMS
(Smog, Sub FM, Pure Filth, LA)

SOUND REINFORCEMENT BY:
PURE FILTH

ART INSTALLATIONS BY:
SPECTR

Buy Tickets at Groovetickets.com

FMI: www.smogla.com

9pm / $8 Presale, $10 before 11pm, $15 after / 21+

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