Thursday 12.13.07: MOVING UNITS @ Echoplex

Moving Units || Listen

Moving Units’ latest has the swagger and sneer of the most iconic rock, combined with catchy, sexy, melancholic dance riffs recalling classics from New Order to the Cure. Opener “Pink Thoughts” is dramatic yet focused, with guitars that remind me of favorite Chameleons songs of yore. Miraculously, even with all these 80’s references, Moving Units never sound dated. Instead, they’ve got enough going on in their novel electronics and within the music’s subtext to come off as fresh and modern. – Sentimentalist Magazine

with:
Scissors for Lefty || Listen
Tigercity

Plus special guest DJ Le Castle Vania

@ Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

RSVP to get in for FREE

8pm / FREE / 18+

Thursday 12.13.07: SPACELAND ON ICE w/ THE MOVIES @ Pershing Square

Spaceland Productions Presents:The Movies
Fool’s Gold

@ Pershing Square
532 South Olive St
Los Angeles, CA 90013

FMI: Downtown On Ice

8pm / FREE / all ages

Thursday 12.13.07: PACIFIC DIVISION

Pacific Division || Listen

Surely, the booming bass of West Coast hip-hop is grounded in the car culture created when everyone lives in a never ending urban sprawl—but why does it have to be so angry? It’s beautiful outside! The girls outside are beautiful! Pacific Division—an LA County trio individually recognized as Like, Mibbs and B-Young—creates hip-hop as breezy and warm as the sunkissed legs displayed by one of those aforementioned beautiful girls. Their 2006 mixtape Sealed for Freshness is at once an uncompromised homage to the Golden Era when golden rays of sun permeated the music and a genuine understanding that in order to connect to the day’s youth, no one actually says “fresh” anymore. They understand the day’s vernacular, so it’s an update—and it’s definitely fresh. – Urb.com

with:
Basik MC
Diz Gibran
Kartweight

8:30pm / $8 / 18+