Tuesday 09.01.09: DAVILA 666 / MANNEQUIN MEN / MIKA MIKO / LE FACE @ echo

Davila 666 || Watch

Davila 666 is Puerto Rico’s answer to the Black Lips and my answer to the question: When will a new band seriously brainwash me on its music? Since picking up Davila’s debut disc, I’ve refused to put it back down. These delirious rockers possess their Atlanta brethren’s ability to come off like crazy little shits who’d ace rock history quizzes. On their U.S. debut, these triple-sixers filter three decades of scuffed-up leather jackets through the Spanish-language translator. Disparate patches of Radio Birdman, the Dead Boys, and rudimentary jangle pop are all threaded onto the album, the charms of which are multiplied by the fact that Davila 666 sounds like it was recorded live at a basement birthday party.

“El Lobo” kicks off the dance pit with band-wide hootin’ and howlin’, pushing the energy level immediately into the red. Unless you speak Spanish, the meanings behind the gang-chorus vocals to this and every other song get lost, but the universal language spoken here is that of hook-gouged, wild-eyed garage rock ‘n’ roll. “Bla Bla Bla” gets pop good and sloshed, dragging out sloppy “La la la” lines until they collide with so many “Wuh-hoo!”s. But these guys know better than to blow their wattage every time. “Tu” starts with plinking xylophone melodies, the vocals calming into a hush befitting a young punk grown smitten. But lest that makeout session last too long, the band offers its next rave up four minutes later with the sexy, bass-heavy “Oh Baby.” It all goes to show that these Puerto Ricans are your best bet to get the party shakin’, stirred, and – particularly on the excellent “Callejon” — ready to explode. – SF Weekly

With:
Mannequin Men
Mika Miko || Listen
Le Face

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8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Wednesday 09.02.09: NEW RADIANT STORM KING / FUNERAL PARTY / LOWLIGHTS / THE WALSH BROTHERS @ echo

New Radiant Storm King || Listen

It’s a shame that New Radiant Storm King aren’t better known. The New York/Northampton, MA quartet has been kicking out dependably roiling, twin-guitar-ignited indie rock for almost two decades. Yes, they’re that band: amassers of a deep, decorated catalog of releases on six different labels, and grabbers of cult appeal wherever they can find it. Like, say, Sloan or any one of an entire host of terrific rock crews both North American and British dating back to the late 80s, they don’t hit any one rock touchpoint in a particularly unique way—you wouldn’t find ‘em too easily without an accident or a recommendation. But that’s not the same thing as “formula done right,” or worse, being called derivative; NRSK is far too exciting a band for those lazy dismissals.

The thirteen songs on Moonlight make for a leaner, cleaner package than 2006’s blistering The Steady Hand, for better and for worse. The paint-stripping distortion that earns them plenty of comparisons to Swervedriver and other inspired noisemakers—and the jagged poetics that would invite Silver Jews suggestions even if guitarist Peyton Pinkerton weren’t a Jews alumnus—aren’t so much here. But the band’s deft attention to songcraft and lovingly burnished hooks are given more room to breathe, and some songs, like album closer “Fall Prey” and the la-la-la-punctuated “Midnight Comes” are downright pretty. – Popmatters

With:
Funeral Party
Lowlights
The Walsh Brothers

8:30pm / $8 / 18+

Wednesday 09.02.09: DUB CLUB presents RICHIE SPICE / SPANNER BANNER @ echoplex

RICHIE SPICE

Armed with just a microphone, one-drop rhythms and purifying lyrical flames, singer Richie Spice is the Gideon of contemporary reggae. The publicly declared “prince of fire” uses culturally uplifting, spiritually fortified words to defeat the negative content that informs much of popular (Jamaican) music. Fittingly, Gideon Boot is the title track of Spice’s brilliant fourth album. Recorded over the timeless Johnny Too Bad rhythm (taken from The Slickers 1970s hit of the same name, popularized in the film The Harder They Come) the song details Spice’s strategic plan for delivering his musical sermon to an awaiting global audience. “I need a Gideon boot and a khaki suit to stand out inna Babylon and defend the truth/ I got a strong reggae beat with a mic in my hand fe lead out de youth dem outta destruction and let de people know right from wrong.”

Just like the singer’s previous albums “Universal”, “Spice In Your Life” and “In The
Streets to Africa”, “Gideon Boot” contains inspiring messages specifically aimed at empowering vulnerable youth.

The traditional Rastafarian Nyabinghi drumming that dominates the opening cut “Babylon Falling” heralds the seriousness of Spice’s musical mission. “World Is A Cycle”, sung over producer Arif Cooper’s haunting “Guardian Angel” rhythm, is, as Spice explains, “a song for the children and for the parents saying be careful because what you do can fall right back on you and your kids.”

Also included is the current Jamaican hit “The Plane Land” which display’s Spice’s superb story telling skills. The song’s lyrics detail the frustration that oftentimes accompanies post 9/11travel. “Saddle up myself fe take interrogation…tek off mi shoes, tek off mi tam, if they ever find you with a spliff yu gone another land.” “It is a song everyone can relate to if they travel,” notes Spice, “and if they don’t travel, they will learn this is what we go through as entertainers as we go to other countries.”

Since 2004, when his apocalyptic single “Earth A Run Red” became the year’s most popular reggae song, Richie Spice has performed throughout the world, insuring that cultural roots reggae isn’t relegated to a bygone era but continues as a thriving, evolving musical genre.

with special guest:
Spanner Banner

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

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9pm / $10 advance, $10 at the door before 10pm, $15 at the door after 10pm / 21+

Thursday 09.03.09: LILY & THE LADIES / SECRET FYF FEST BAND / RAW POWER RANGERS / WOOLY BANDITS / BOLLWEEVIL @ echo

Lily & The Ladies

Lily Marlene (Lily and the Ladies) debuted a new backing band, which lived up to its description—in her words “reallllly heavvvy”. Lily always has an amazing ability to translate her stark blues into practically any form and still have it work and tonight was no exception. Her set ran from strait renditions of material from her solo repertoire to full out rock songs to a sweeping ballad that would put Journey to shame—all with out batting an eye. – LA Record

With:
“Secret F YEAH Festival band to perform”
Raw Power Rangers
Wooly Bandits || Listen
Bollweevil

7pm / $7 / 18+

Thursdau 09.03.09: Bust Magazine & Comedy is the New Black present ELLE O ELLE 3 with WHITNEY CUMMINGS / NATISHA ANDERSON / SARDIA MARLEY / HANNAH GANSEN / CHARLYNE YI & MORE @ echoplex

BUST Magazine and Comedy is the New Black present

Elle O Elle 3 :The Funniest Females in Los Angeles

With:
Whitney Cummings
Natisha Anderson
Sardia Marley
Hannah Gansen
Jackie Jones
Kristen Dolemescth
Emily Jo Oehler
Charlyne Yi

Free t-shirts,gift bags and more!

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

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7:30PM / $10 / All Ages

Friday 09.04.09: WHISPERTOWN 2000 / THE BELLE BRIGADE @ echo

Whispertown 2000 || Listen || Watch

Fast forward to early 2008 and Whispertown 2000, now a four-piece, had opened for Rilo Kiley and Bright Eyes across the US, self-released a decent-selling debut LP and impressed Gillian Welch so much they became the first signings to her Acony label. Lewis calls Nagler her favourite songwriter and Conor Oberst, another uber-fan, has likened her angular, country-leaning songs to “old Chinese proverbs”.

A cursory listen to this second album is enough to realise it’s not just mere hype. Swim is the kind of record you wish people made more often: rural music played by suburban kids with an intuitive feel for the unruly punk heart of old-time country. Nagler’s expressive voice has a baleful twang that shunts these songs – some with the most minimal of arrangements, some like ragged revivalist hoedowns – into the same lugubrious territory as Bonnie Billy or Oberst himself. It’s a ploy that cleverly subverts itself on “Lock And Key” and “From The Start Jamboree”, where their own communal folk shanty is appended by a foggy mountain breakdown that’s part Bill Monroe, part Silver Jews. They’re experimental too, prone to sudden squalls of guitar, weird electronic bits and even weirder whistling noises that sound like some spectral tribe hooting an advance across the Virginia hills. In the case of “Erase The Lines”, all within the same song. – Uncut

with:
The Belle Brigade

8pm / $10 / All Ages

Friday 09.04.09: CLUB UNDERGROUND @ echo

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

FMI: ClubUnderground.net

9pm / $5 if 21+, $7 under 21 / 18+

Friday 09.04.09: SUICIDEGIRLS presents CLUB SUICIDE’S CASUAL FRIDAY @ echoplex

SuicideGirls Presents…
Club Suicide’s Casual Friday @ The Echoplex

Set off your Labor Day Weekend!

Come comfortable. Smoking jackets, robes, pajamas, slips, lingerie, kimonos, shorts, wife beaters, underwear, bathing suits…Anything silky, satiny, luxurious, or comfy….;)
(Theme not required. Anyone welcome.)

Electro, remixes, mash-ups, indie, pop, rock, 80s, 90s, and more…

With DJs…

Johnny Jewel (Clockwork Orange, Blue Mondays)
Los (Ultraluxx)
Neil In The Coffin (From War Tapes)

Sexy SuicideGirl Go-Go Dancers
SuicideGirls Merchandise Give-Aways

Photo Booth & Roaming Photo

@ Echoplex
Through the alley at…
1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(Valet on Glendale Blvd)

FMI: www.clubsuicide.net

10pm / $10 / 18+

Saturday 09.05.09: BOOTIE LA @ echoplex

BOOTIE LA
LA’s monthly mashup bootleg party

Special guest:
DJ AXEL

Resident mashup mixer:
DJ PAUL V.

Midnight Mashup Show:
ANNA KONDA as LADY GAGA

Free Bootie mashup CDs for the first 75 people!

This month, Bootie is proud to present the return of LA’s own DJ Axel, creator of the infamous bootleg CD “Breakin’ The Law,” and most recently, producer of the track “Push It Fergasonic,” from the soundtrack for the movie “17 Again,” notable for being one of the first-ever, legally-cleared, multi-label mashups.

Resident mashup mixer DJ Paul V. will be joining him on the decks, and for the Midnight Mashup Show, Anna Konda will be performing as Lady Gaga … exactly 15 months after the REAL Lady Gaga graced the stage at Bootie LA back in June of last year!

Launched in 2003, 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 monthly parties in eight cities on three continents. Mixing and matching every conceivable musical genre, era, and style into one big dance party where everyone feels welcome, Bootie provides the soundtrack for the A.D.D. generation — with free mashup CDs given away like candy!

Bootie’s resident DJs keep your brain guessing and body dancing with creative song combinations, celebrating — and satirizing — the many different forms of music. Bootie showcases the best in mashup productions from around the globe and delivers them on the dance floor … because one song at a time just isn’t enough!

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

FMI: http://www.BootieLA.com

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

saturday 09.05.09: FUNKY SOLE @ echo

with DJs:
Music Man Miles
Clifton AKA Soft Touch

FMI: Funky Sole on Myspace

10pm / FREE / 21+

Sunday 09.06.09: PART TIME PUNKS – THE SMITHS/MORRISSEY NITE @ echo

resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Monday 09.07.09: When You Awake & Grand Ole Echo present LESLIE & THE BADGERS / WELLDIGGERS BANQUET / OLD CALIFORNIO / PAINTED HILLS @ echo

Leslie & the Badgers || Watch

Leslie & the Badgers are quietly turning into one of the city’s best quiet bands. There’s a gently glowing country-rock intimacy to the songs from their self-titled 2007 debut CD and 2008 iTunes EP, Greetings From Leslie & the Badgers, but they’re not some corny, cornpone revival outfit. Instead, tunes like “Old Timers” and “Air Force One” have intelligently heartfelt, evocative lyrics and are adorned with dreamy embellishments, such as Glenn Oyabe’s lap-steel guitar, which playfully quotes Santo & Johnny’s classic instrumental “Sleep Walk.” Singer-guitarist Leslie Stevens coos with a Neko Case–style passion on the relatively epic six-minute idyll “Black Rose Window,” where she declares, “Now the road is what takes you to brand-new places/and I’m taking myself and the radio station.” Such countrified ballads place them roughly in the same universe as fellow locals the Whispertown 2000, but the Badgers also reveal a jazzy side on “The Torture,” and they rock convincingly on uptempo barn-burners like “That’d Be Fine.” – LA Weekly

with:
Welldiggers Banquet
Old Californio
Painted Hills

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 09.08.09: SUMMER DARLING / SING ORPHEUS / YIKES! A LION / MOLINO @ echo

Summer Darling || Listen || Watch

I went back inside and was simply floored by what I heard. Summer Darling were catching full steam and plowing through a hyper tense set of amazing music full of tension and emotion. To say I am not easily impressed would be an understatement, but I was enthralled with what I heard coming off the stage.

The double Fender guitar attack really let the intricate guitar interplay shine over a thumping but precise rhythm section. At times they conjured up images of early Fugazi. Maybe not so much in the actual songwriting style, but in the tome of the music. They were above all earnest in they intentions.

When next they play do yourself a favor and catch Summer Darling. I think you will pleased. – Radio Free Silver Lake

With:
Sing Orpheus || Listen
Yikes! A Lion
Molino

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Wednesday 09.09.09: Myspace Presents EMILY WELLS / JOEY RYAN / ANGIE MATTSON / KARI KIMMEL / LEAH ANDREONE @ echo

Emily Wells || Watch

Emily Wells is an amazingly talented violinist and singer. Once headhunted by major record labels but striking out on her own to keep her artistic integrity, she made the right choice here: given the freedom to create the music she wants to, she’s made one damn good album. LASTFM calls her music Symphonic Folktronica Fantasy, and though Wells dislikes genre titles (as do I), those words do give a great sense of what to expect on Symphonies.

Her music has so many ways to describe it. It’s beautiful, mixing her gothic-but-not-exactly-dark-sounding voice with violin. It’s a little dark and creepy, but also shiny and happy. It’s extremely well written, but it also flows as stream-of-consciousness thoughts. It even contains elements of rap, with a one off appearance by Count Bass D actually working extremely well. It’s like simultaneously floating along a ray of sunshine and wandering, lost and worried, in a dark labyrinth. Take a little Emilie Autumn without Autumn’s morbid streak, with a dash of the theatricality and instrumental skill of The Dresden Dolls and a sprinkling of the playful darkness and the harmonising vocals of The Pierces, and you’re halfway there. – The Bringer of Song

With:
Joey Ryan || Listen
Angie Mattson || Listen
Kari Kimmel || >Listen
Leah Andreone || Listen

8pm / FREE / All ages

Wednesday 09.09.09: DUB CLUB presents TWILIGHT CIRCUS DUB SOUND SYSTEM (DJ Set) @ echoplex

Twilight Circus Sound System || Listen || Watch

Many were taken aback when longtime Legendary Pink Dot Ryan Moore entered the yawning chasm of dub music. But they were far from disappointed with the results. Moore seized upon the analog implements of Caribbean technology and created mammoth, concave exercises in the echo chamber. His unique, thunderous sounds avoid the two fatal mistakes of contemporary dub practitioners-attempting to mimic King Tubby’s lo-fi aesthetic, and using racks of digital gear that result in dub “lite” (is there anything worse?). If you want your contacts blown out of your eyes, go straight to the “Lowell & Nine-Dub Plate.” It’s underground nuclear testing without the poison. – Tim Hasle (xlr8r.com)

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

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

Thursday 09.10.09: Friends of Friends, Flavorpill and Filter Present: LAZER SWORD / RAINBOW ARABIA / HECUBA / GHOSTS ON TAPE @ echo

Lazer Sword || Listen || Watch

Of all the acts currently pushing that future-bass-lazer-blap (whatever you prefer to call it) sound into the far reaches of today’s dancefloors, none is nearer and dearer to the heart of XLR8R than the Lazer Sword boys. Okay, that might have a little something to do with the fact that both Bryant Rutledge and Antaeus Roy are former employees of the magazine, but their time spent plugging away at subscriber emails and MP3s is hardly the reason these guys are blowing up club scenes from San Francisco to Scotland. With that in mind, we commissioned the duo to make us this hour-long mix to show off just exactly what Lazer Sword is about when it comes to music.

In true form, the boys didn’t hold back, delivering a 36-track set that features hip-hop, future-bass, electro, and more. Many of the tracks are remixes Rutledge and Roy have made themselves, and, in true Lazer Sword fashion, names like Dr. Dre and Keak Da Sneak crop up on the tracklisting.

We know Lazer Sword for its ability to bring a party with unbridled enthusiasm and a healthy sense of humor, whether that means DJing to a crowd dressed as a Jesus medallion and the Fresh Prince of Bel Air or taking one for the team and playing strange festivals populated by scary neo-hippies. – XLR8R

With:
Rainbow Arabia || Listen
Hecuba || Listen
Ghosts On Tape

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8:30pm / $8 / 18+

Friday 09.11.09: Echo & Club Underground present: VIVIAN GIRLS / THE BEETS / THE BLACK & WHITE YEARS @ echo

Vivian Girls || Listen || Watch

In a year when Brooklyn buzz travels around the world at lightspeed, you can probably count on one hand the number of new bands that, when the hype settles, are more than inconsequential collections of postures and exhausted second-hand styles. Vivian Girls, an all-female trio who’ve become overnight sensations among critics and underground rock fans, are seemingly candidates for one of those emperor’s new clothes-type reveals– after all, they hail from said borough and perform lo-fi garage rock that taps a number of fashionable historical, ideological, and aesthetic wellsprings (C86! Slumberland! Olympia! Nuggets! Spector!). They deflect the knee-jerk criticism the most effective way possible, though: with an armful of kick-ass songs.

Without risking pastiche, the band gets plenty of mileage from its sonic references. “Tell the World”s frantic beat recalls the jittery, chaotic rhythm of Black Tambourine’s “Throw Aggi Off the Bridge”, while the Girls’ flawless, calmly executed three-part harmony counters with the satin-shoed professionalism of the Crystals. The lyrics– this is one of Vivian Girls’ few completely legible songs– are as ambivalent: “I’ll tell the world about the love that I’ve found,” they enthuse, giving public voice to teenage infatuation (an evergreen girl-group subject), while at the same time raising the Spector of out-of-whack control issues: “He sees what I see/ He feels what I feel.” (Not convinced? Switch out the gender of the pronoun and singers.) The end result is phenomenal, one of 2008′s best songs. The sweet jangled “Where Do You Run To” is almost as great, making pining at home seem not so bad, all things considered. – Pitchfork

With:
The Beets || Listen
The Black & White Years || Listen

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8pm / $10 / 18+

Friday 09.11.09: NIGHTLIFE – BEAT JUNKIE SOUND MEETS DA BEATMINERZ @ echoplex

with resident DJs THE BEAT JUNKIES:
J.ROCC
BABU
RHETTMATIC
MR. CHOC

plus special guest:
DA BEATMINERZ:
DJ EVIL DEE
MR. WALT

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

10pm / $5 before 11pm, $10 after / 21+

Saturday 09.12.09: VAUD AND THE VILLAINS @ echoplex

Vaud & The Villains || Listen || Watch

Vaud & his ragtag band of villains are on the run from the long arm again. This time, they’ve landed just up river from the Creseent City. They come there to find Big Daddy’s…a speako disguised as a church. They are more at home in a dark, back room rollin’ dice and making music than in the schoolhouse or in the stockyards. They’re a bit on the wild side but they won’t hurt you none. The boys play with dynamite and the girls like to buck and bite. But you don’t have to worry. They like new folks. They got a reputation for being mean as a snake, and as sweet as an apple on Christmas day. They got scruples but they often misplace ‘em. They are everything your mama and papa warned you about and they are every bad thing that feels so good to do. If you got a secret, if you’re someone good who’s ever done something bad, if you got the man standing over you every day squeezin’ every ounce of spirit out of you…you have some villain in you. See what they do is they rock you 1930s style. They got a smokin’ hot horn section, leggy dames to match, rock steady rhythm, and soaring gospel harmonies. They are not your grandma’s depression era revival show, they are a big, bad, bawdy, good time band. They are gonna fill up the speako with music and spirit and noise…and you gonna bring the noise. And at the end of the night, when you are burning with the fever they’ve left you with…you’re gonna go out in the world and villainize it. You’re never gonna be the same.

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

8:30pm / $16 Advance, $18 Day of Show / 18+

Saturday 09.12.09: FUNKY SOLE @ echo

with DJs:
Music Man Miles
Clifton AKA Soft Touch

FMI: Funky Sole on Myspace

10pm / FREE / 21+

Sunday 09.13.09: GRAND OLE ECHO with OLD CALIFORNIO / EAGLE WINGED PALACE / WHISPERING PINES @ echo

Old Californio
Eagle Winged Palace
Whispering Pines

5:00pm / FREE / All Ages

Sunday 09.13.09: PART TIME PUNKS with BLUE JUNGLE / THE WIDOW BABIES @ echo

resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

With:
Blue Jungle || Listen
The Widow Babies (LP Release Party) || Listen

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Monday 09.14.09: When You Awake & Buzz Bands present LESLIE AND THE BADGERS / RUDY FREIDMAN / CORREATOWN / OLIN AND THE MOON @ echo

Leslie & the Badgers || Watch

Leslie & the Badgers are quietly turning into one of the city’s best quiet bands. There’s a gently glowing country-rock intimacy to the songs from their self-titled 2007 debut CD and 2008 iTunes EP, Greetings From Leslie & the Badgers, but they’re not some corny, cornpone revival outfit. Instead, tunes like “Old Timers” and “Air Force One” have intelligently heartfelt, evocative lyrics and are adorned with dreamy embellishments, such as Glenn Oyabe’s lap-steel guitar, which playfully quotes Santo & Johnny’s classic instrumental “Sleep Walk.” Singer-guitarist Leslie Stevens coos with a Neko Case–style passion on the relatively epic six-minute idyll “Black Rose Window,” where she declares, “Now the road is what takes you to brand-new places/and I’m taking myself and the radio station.” Such countrified ballads place them roughly in the same universe as fellow locals the Whispertown 2000, but the Badgers also reveal a jazzy side on “The Torture,” and they rock convincingly on uptempo barn-burners like “That’d Be Fine.” – LA Weekly

with:
Ruby Friedman || Listen
Correatown || Listen
Olin and The Moon

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 09.15.09: THROW ME THE STATUE / THE BRUNETTES / DEVON WILLIAMS @ echo

Throw Me The Statue || Listen || Watch

Indie rock doesn’t cut it anymore. Let’s try indielectric. Seattle’s Throw Me the Statue, Scott Reitherman and his live band, laces straight-ahead indie pop with liberal doses of drum machine and loops. Between the fully addictive “Lolita” and its much less jolly album bookend, “The Happiest Man on This Plane,” Moonbeams employs all manner of structure, from hook-happy choruses to echoing melodica. “This Is How We Kiss” is bop-arific 1990s nostalgia knocked up by the horn-laden intensity of “Groundswell.” Reitherman pinched elements of his beloved forebears (Built to Spill, Guided by Voices, Beck), stretched them, twisted them, and crammed them into his tasty debut. We hear there will be glockenspiel. – The Austin Chronicle

With:
The Brunettes || Listen
Devon Williams

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Tuesday 09.15.09: VIEUX FARKA TOURE / WEAVE @ echoplex

Vieux Farka Toure || Listen || Watch || MP3

Word to the wise: get on board the Vieux Farka Touré bandwagon now. Not so you can be hip or prepared to drop his name at a cocktail party (for one thing, no one would listen to this music at a cocktail party, and more importantly, who goes to cocktail parties?) or for any reason that would behoove Starbucks to put this disc in their stores. No, the best reason to acquaint yourself with Vieux Farka Touré is because he is a surpassingly brilliant young musician who, if we are fortunate, has a long and productive career ahead of him.

It has only taken a few years, and two albums, for Vieux Farka Touré to distance himself from what could (and should) have been an overwhelming impression made by his father, Ali Farka Touré. The elder Touré, who passed on in 2006, was a living legend from Mali whose music delineated the natural but often overlooked link between traditional African music and American blues.

Fondo finds Vieux treading the natural bridge his father built between Malian music and Delta blues. Where Ali’s work, particularly his earlier albums, ceaselessly caused the listener to marvel at the common ground between the two continents, Vieux invokes and recalls the connection, but often strains to do more with both sound and tempo.

Fondo is the unequivocal announcement of a major talent, and the well-earned accolades are easy to predict. This constitutes the second consecutive triumph for Vieux Farka Touré: this is not world music so much as music from the world, and certain parts of the world we don’t hear or see as often as we should. Mostly, Fondo is the sound of a son escaping his father’s shadow, even as he shrewdly embraces many of the best elements that made his old man so memorable. – Popmatters

with:
Weave

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

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

Wednesday 09.16.09: Shake The Hand & The Q Side Project present THROWING MY MONEY Video Release Party with TIRON / BLU / PAC DIV @ echo

with:
TiRon
Blu
Pac Div

DJ Sets by:
DJ Sean G
DJ Sourmilk

Screening is invite only
Party is open to the public

8pm / Screening- Invite only, Party- $5 / 18+

Wednesday 09.16.09: DUB CLUB @ echoplex

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

9pm / $5 / 21+

Thursday 09.17.09: Aquarium Drunkard presents THE DRONES / MODEL/ACTRESS / BRIDEZILLA @ echo

The Drones || Listen || Watch

I suppose The Drones aren’t the most cuddly bear in the cave. But they bring something special to rock ‘n’ roll. It’s music that’s deadly serious and somewhat topical (see: world’s gone to shit and getting goner) but never preachy or overblown (just blown-out). It’s brutishly confrontational and classically infectious in equal measure. Their up-tempo songs are big, brash bluesy hard rock burners that bore right into you like all the best ones do. And the intermittent slower tunes are devastating in a fashion somewhere between sick solace and gnashed stoicism. As the lyrics become increasingly discernible and Gareth’s voice more vulnerable, you find yourself helplessly entwined with their enraged omniscient narrator in weary repose. Although the words are consistently resolve-sappingly bleak (“Stage fright is proof that nothing’s right”), the music never loses its woozy, elemental pull. Singing the most wretched kind of poetry, even at the core of diaper mountain, there is a dependably relaxed sort of grace to Liddiard’s choked delivery.

Havilah is more humblingly good music at a time when rock music is more about being it’s-all-been-done humble. I guess the “me decade” is no time for heroes. Instead, I’ll flash my indulgent critic’s badge and appraise this band in defiance of their self-deprecating name: essential. I know this is a groan-inducing, sound-bite-style reduction; that’s exactly what they are. They’ve been laboring in obscurity, busting their asses to produce stultifying peals of simmering/careening brilliance for years now. Maybe they’re justifiably content enough with their accomplishments as is, but I can’t help but think that it’s time for y’all to get wise. This is the sound you need to get for right now, and it’s built to last well past that. – Tiny Mixtapes

With:
Model/Actress
Bridezilla || Listen

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8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Thursday 09.17.09: DOWN AND DERBY ROLLER DISCO / Skate Lessons with BLADE @ echoplex

Down and Derby, the premier roller skating organization that has quickly garnered a loyal following in cities like Las Vegas, Pittsburgh and New York City will host its second Los Angeles event at The Echoplex, Thursday, July 30. Resident skate guard DJs Thee Mike B and Steve 1Der will control the roller disco rink’s turntables, broadcasting amplified sounds for the eight-wheeled revelers.

The Los Angeles event is set apart from Down and Derby parties in other cities by its authentic 70s feel. The resident DJs don’t just spin popular tunes for which the era has become known—they reach into the depths of 70s music to bring partiers the obscure hits that may not be recognizable by most, but are truly indicative of the culture and lifestyle of the era.

Down and Derby, is a retro-inspired roller-skating party created and designed to give attendees a unique nightlife experience. The interactive throwback events combine décor reminiscent of a 70s roller disco with attendees participating through wearing fashion attire evocative of the era. DJs known for pushing the limits of mixing and music production are procured, adding vibrant energy to the event with both underground and popular mixes.

The entry fee is $5 with RSVP, $10 at the door and quad skates of every size will be available to rent for another $5. Guests are welcome to bring their own roller skates to the event.

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

RSVP at www.downandderby.org

Sign Up for Skate Lessons with Blade at Justin@downandderby.org

9pm / $5 with RSVP, $10 at the door / 18+

Friday 09.18.09: Keistar Productions & Footlong Development Present SOUL SLAM V – PRINCE & MICHAEL JACKSON @ echoplex

Keistar Productions & Footlong Development Present

SOUL SLAM: PRINCE & MICHAEL JACKSON

Celebrating The Life & Legacy Of Our Greatest Icon!
THE KING OF POP!
MICHAEL JACKSON (1958-2009 R.I.P)

&

Honoring Our Most Prolific & Influential Artist
PRINCE

with:
DJ Spinna || Listen (HIGHWATER MUSIC/BBE)

This event centers around the honoring of two of the most eclectic and innovative artists to date, Michael Jackson and Prince! From the inception of this concept back in 1999 the response for SOUL SLAM has been enormous.

DJ Spinna sets the tone of this event as he lays down track after track from both MJ’s and Princes extensive music catalogues along with tracks of their cohorts, i.e.; Jermaine Jackson, Vanity, Janet, Sheila E., J5, The Time etc. Soul Slam returns to LA in September!

Last years visit to LA brought out 1100+ people….That night’s event filled with LA’s top taste makers, fashionistas and music fans hit capacity in an hour and a half of the doors opening.

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

9pm / $11 advance, $15 day of show / 21+

Saturday 09.19.09: CLOCKWISE SCAVENGER HUNT AFTER PARTY @ echo

The creative team that brought you Astronauts Vs. Lumberjacks, The Holiday Party, and The Egyptian Theater’s Midnight Madness Game are back with a brand new adventure! And fabulous prizes from Masa, Haute Olive, Downbeat Cafe and more!

Get ready to leap through time and race around Echo Park, searching for clues to scan with a high-tech cell phone app that deliver puzzles and games right to your fingertips. Meet fellow time-travelers and complete their challenges for huge bonuses. Compete against other teams in Face-Offs to determine for whom the bell tolls. The after-party at the Echo will feature a side-splitting slideshow of photos and videos from the game itself that you won’t want to miss.

Time is going to fly in this 4-hour event, and you’re going to be the pilot. All you need is comfortable shoes and one team-member with a web-enabled camera phone (iphone, blackberry curve, etc.). If you don’t have the phone, no worries, we’ll make sure you’re on a team with someone who does. Sign up now, as space is limited!

More details available at http://tinyurl.com/sept19clockwise

Scavenger hunt at Noon, Party at 4pm / All Ages

Saturday 09.19.09: SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS / TRIPLE CHICKEN FOOT / SPEEDBUGGY / 5 O’CLOCK SOMEWHERE / FRANK FAIRFIELD @ Echoplex

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:
Triple Chicken Foot || Listen
Speedbuggy || Listen
5 O’Clock Somewhere
Frank Fairfield

plus Vendors: Classic Hardware

Just Added! El Clasico Tattoo & Art Studio

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

7:30pm / $12 / 18+

Saturday 09.19.09: FUNKY SOLE @ echo

with DJs:
Music Man Miles
Clifton AKA Soft Touch

FMI: Funky Sole on Myspace

10pm / FREE / 21+

Sunday 09.20.09: GRAND OLE ECHO with GRANT LANGSTON / ANNY CELSI AND NELSON BRAGG / SARAH STANLEY @ echo

Grant Langston || Listen
Anny Celsi & Nelson Bragg
Sarah Stanley

5:00pm / FREE / All Ages

Sunday 09.20.09: PART TIME PUNKS with THE AVENGERS / PANSY DIVISION / PAUL COLLINS BEAT (members of THE NERVES) @ echo

resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

With:
The Avengers || Listen
Pansy Division || Listen
Paul Collin’s Beat || Listen

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $12 advance, $15 day of show / 18+

Monday 09.21.09: When You Awake & Arthur Magazine present LESLIE AND THE BADGERS / DOUG PAISLEY / THE STREET AND BABE SHADOW / AMANDA JO WILLIAMS @ echo

Leslie & the Badgers || Watch

Leslie & the Badgers are quietly turning into one of the city’s best quiet bands. There’s a gently glowing country-rock intimacy to the songs from their self-titled 2007 debut CD and 2008 iTunes EP, Greetings From Leslie & the Badgers, but they’re not some corny, cornpone revival outfit. Instead, tunes like “Old Timers” and “Air Force One” have intelligently heartfelt, evocative lyrics and are adorned with dreamy embellishments, such as Glenn Oyabe’s lap-steel guitar, which playfully quotes Santo & Johnny’s classic instrumental “Sleep Walk.” Singer-guitarist Leslie Stevens coos with a Neko Case–style passion on the relatively epic six-minute idyll “Black Rose Window,” where she declares, “Now the road is what takes you to brand-new places/and I’m taking myself and the radio station.” Such countrified ballads place them roughly in the same universe as fellow locals the Whispertown 2000, but the Badgers also reveal a jazzy side on “The Torture,” and they rock convincingly on uptempo barn-burners like “That’d Be Fine.” – LA Weekly

with:
Doug Paisley
The Street and Babe Shadow
Amanda Jo Williams

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 09.22.09: PINK MOUNTAINTOPS / THE PACK A.D. / XU XU FANG @ echo

Pink Mountaintops || Listen || Watch

A valentine “for the hunters and the hunted / and the wild and the hoods and the thieves,” Outside Love—in its portrayal of a world where the honesty of lust is as beautiful as the purest of hearts—feels like gospel music for non-believers. A bit more raucous and a hell of a lot more cohesive than 2006’s Axis of Evol, Outside Love finds frontman Stephen McBean (who also leads Black Mountain) continuing to rewrite the 1960s, with much improved results. The Phil Spector-meets-Pink Floyd vibe remains, though the hippie-esque feel of such songs as “The Gayest Of Sunbeams” is matched by the fuzzed-out bliss of album opener “Axis: Thrones Of Love” and the follow-up track “Execution.” It’s as if McBean realized that the worlds that he inhabits in both Pink Mountaintops and the more hard-rocking Black Mountain—his primary songwriting outlet—are not mutually exclusive (and watch for the sly Sabbath reference in the album’s title track). It’s a realization to be thankful for. – The Onion AV Club

with:
The Pack A.D. || Listen
Xu Xu Fang || Listen

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8:30pm / $10 advance, $12 day of show / 18+

Wednesday 09.23.09: SLAVIC SOUL PARTY! (CD release show) / KILLSONIC @ echo

Slavic Soul Party! || Listen || Watch || MP3

Throbbing funk grooves, fiery Balkan brass, Gypsy accordion wizardry, and virtuoso jazz chops make Slavic Soul Party! NYC’s official #1 brass band for BalkanSoul GypsyFunk. SSP! has created an acoustic mash-up of Balkan and Gypsy sounds with North American music, weaving the gospel, techno, funk, dub, jazz, and Latin influences of New York’s neighborhoods seamlessly into a Balkan brass setting. Their original sound has never been clearer than on their new cd Taketron, a surprising re-imagining of brass band dance music that includes only two traditional songs (a blazing Moldovan oompah and a soulful Gospel journey). SSP!’s music has won the ear of fans and musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, and their tunes have been learned by Serbian brass stars Boban Markovic Orkestar and New Orleans funk sensations Galactic, among others. In addition to touring throughout the US and Europe, SSP! holds down a residency every Tuesday in Brooklyn which has become a destination for music fans from around the world.

with:
Killsonic

8:00pm / $10 / 18+

Wednesday 09.23.09: DUB CLUB @ echoplex

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

Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall

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

9pm / $5 / 21+

Thursday 09.24.09: TITUS ANDRONICUS / THE SO SO GLOS / RADARS TO THE SKY @ echo

Titus Andronicus || Listen || Watch

From the muted, muffled acoustic melancholy of the opener “Fear And Loathing In Mahwah, NJ”—which erupts naturally into a fireworks display of bile and itchy impatience—Titus Andronicus’ The Airing Of Grievances brooks no bullshit. The disc is the sound of lusty youth ripping a gaping hole in the fabric of reality: Throughout The Airing’s nine sawed-off anthems, the Jersey collective comes off like a clunky, blood-knuckled Arcade Fire that just doesn’t have time for all that respectable crap. Because, you know, the world is falling apart around their heads, and they only have this one shot at eating, fighting, and fucking the entire universe. The album is being reissued by the band’s new label, XL—yes, the home of Vampire Weekend—soon, so expect The Airing to be much more visible throughout 2009. But don’t let that overshadow the fact that, with its brash and boiling-over debut, Titus Andronicus has done its small part to draw indie-rock out of the genre’s recent navel-obsessed slump. – The Onion A.V. Club

with:
The So So Glos
Radars to the Sky

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8:30pm / $10 / 18+

Friday 09.25.09: OM / LICHENS / TWEAK BIRD @ echoplex

Om || Listen || Watch || MP3

You’ve got to be pretty heavy to get away with an album title like God Is Good. Lucky for them, psych-droners Om are about as heavy as it gets. The band is set to release their new album this fall, and rest assured the sound will be just as grand as that titular declaration. God Is Good will be the first release for the band on Drag City, and will follow after the excellent Pilgrimage, released in 2007 on Southern Lord. The new album also marks the first studio recording with the band’s new drummer Emil Amos. And that is not the only change coming on this record, apparently. While they won’t be giving up their bottomless heft and relentless riffs, the band promises new and more varied instrumentation on the new record, as they push to expand their huge sound even further. – Prefix Mag

With:
Lichens
Tweak Bird || Listen

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

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

Friday 09.25.09: Echo & Club Underground present RAIN MACHINE @ echo

Rain Machine || Listen

Kyp Malone has always been a grand provocateur, singing, “I wanna love you all the way / I wanna break your back,” on last year’s “Lover’s Day” (from TV on the Radio’s Dear Science). So to hear Malone, with his new solo project, moaning that “it’s no burnt-cork affair” on the six-and-half-minute “Smiling Black Faces” is to hear him at his most comfortable. Rain Machine doesn’t have TVOTR’s Berlin Wall of Sound might, but it’s still an accomplished work. Quadruple-tracked vocals on the quavering “Hold You Holy” and the bone-shaking pop jangle of “Give Blood” make this the best side gig since Jack White rediscovered the drums. – Spin

8:30pm / $16 advance; $18 doors / 18+

Saturday 09.26.09: Dub Frequency & Echo present PAC DIV / ROB ROY / THEE MIKE B / 87 STICK UP KIDS / AUDIBLE AGENT / ADAM TENSTA / THE CATARACS / SHAWN CHRYSTOPHER / CHRIS YOUNG @ echoplex

with:
Pac Div
Rob Roy
Thee Mike B
87 Stick Up Kids
The Cataracs
Adam Tensta
Audible Agent
Shawn Chrystopher
Chris Young

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

9pm / $12 advance, $14 day of show / 18+

Saturday 09.26.09: FUNKY SOLE @ echo

with DJs:
Music Man Miles
Clifton AKA Soft Touch

FMI: Funky Sole on Myspace

10pm / FREE / 21+

Sunday 09.27.09: GRAND OLE ECHO with TONY GILKYSON / DAVE GLEASON @ echo

Tony Gilkyson
Dave Gleason || Listen

5:00pm / FREE / All Ages

Sunday 09.27.09: PART TIME PUNKS – FACTORY RECORDS NITE @ echo

resident djs Michael Stock and Benny Shambles spinning mutant disco * Postpunk * indiepop

FMI:
Part Time Punks on Myspace

10pm / $5 / 18+

Monday 09.28.09: When You Awake & LA Record present LESLIE AND THE BADGERS / SIAN ALICE GROUP / BEST COAST / PAPERPLANES @ echo

Leslie & the Badgers || Watch

Leslie & the Badgers are quietly turning into one of the city’s best quiet bands. There’s a gently glowing country-rock intimacy to the songs from their self-titled 2007 debut CD and 2008 iTunes EP, Greetings From Leslie & the Badgers, but they’re not some corny, cornpone revival outfit. Instead, tunes like “Old Timers” and “Air Force One” have intelligently heartfelt, evocative lyrics and are adorned with dreamy embellishments, such as Glenn Oyabe’s lap-steel guitar, which playfully quotes Santo & Johnny’s classic instrumental “Sleep Walk.” Singer-guitarist Leslie Stevens coos with a Neko Case–style passion on the relatively epic six-minute idyll “Black Rose Window,” where she declares, “Now the road is what takes you to brand-new places/and I’m taking myself and the radio station.” Such countrified ballads place them roughly in the same universe as fellow locals the Whispertown 2000, but the Badgers also reveal a jazzy side on “The Torture,” and they rock convincingly on uptempo barn-burners like “That’d Be Fine.” – LA Weekly

With:
Sian Alice Group
Best Coast || Listen
Paperplanes || Listen

8:30pm / FREE / 21+

Tuesday 09.29.09: TIM EXILE / WE ARE THE WORLD / DJ TRAVIS @ echo

Tim Exile || Listen || Watch

Tim Exile (né Tim Shaw) was made for the stage, but maybe not the stage you’d expect. Most of Exile’s affectations– billowy low tenor, showy buildups, rugged everyman looks, the glitzy stage name– all point towards showbiz. The result is that Shaw’s third album, and first for Warp, Listening Tree, sometimes sounds like Electronica: The Musical with Shaw playing the sashaying lead. It’s occasionally a bit hokey, but Listening Tree trades on Shaw’s genre-hopping to build aggressive, kinetic dramas.

Any of you crossover kids carrying your new Field record in a Smalltown Supersound tote and accustomed to your electronic music pattering on blissfully, beware: Listening Tree is an album where things properly happen– lyrically, sure, but also musically. Shaw takes many of his cues from non-linear boom-bappers like Aphex Twin or, if you’re looking for someone more theatrical and obscure, Plaid. His compositions spatter and pluck and tumble outwards, each indelicate sound unfurling from another. Listening Tree’s songs are so motion-oriented, in fact, that Shaw’s Scott-Walker-fronting-the-Human-League vocals often serve as the calming influence. – Pitchfork

With:
We Are The World
DJ Travis

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9pm / $8 advance; $10 day of show / 18+

Wednesday 09.30.09: BUZZBANDS.LA ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY with EASTERN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS / VOXHAUL BRODCAST / SAMUEL STEWART / RADIO FREQ @ echo

Eastern Conference Champions || Listen || Watch (EP Release Party)

with:
Voxhaul Broadcast (EP Release Party)
Samuel Stewart
Radio Freq

RSVP to any of the bands on the bill or to buzzbands@gmail.com

8:30pm / $8, $5 with RSVP / 18+

Wednesday 09.30.09: DUB CLUB presents RANKING JOE @ echoplex

Ranking Joe
Backed by Echodelic Soundsystem

So, Who Is Ranking Joe? Born Joseph Jackson, in Kingston, Jamaica , July 1, 1959, he was introduced in the music business at Tarrant Junior Secondary School in Kingston. Joe performed at school concerts and won local talent contest in the mid-70′s. At age 15, he went to the legendary “Studio One” to audition and what resulted was his first big hit “GUN COURT”, produced by Clement”Coxsone” Dodd under the name “Little Joe”.
“This recording lead to more producers becoming interested in My work and as a result I performed more records for different producers such as Bunny Lee,to name a few.” Some of these records are “OLD TRADITION” done by Bunny Lee, “HONDA 750″ done by Pete Weston. “PSALM 54″ and “JACKET” with Watty Burnett, “STOP YOUR COMING AND COME”, done by Sly and Robbie , “NATTY BMW” with Bunny Diamond, and “SHINE EYE GIRL” and “NATTY NEVER GET WEARY” done on Sonia Pottinger’s famous “HIGH NOTE” label. As he grew older, still into a young man, he changed his name on the advice of Prince Tony Robinson to “Ranking Joe”. Joe worked alongside Robinson and had hit records such as”A YOU Mr. FINNIGAN”,with an album of the same name. He was then was then introduced to the King of DJ’s “U-Roy”, after which he worked on U-Roy’s “KING STUR-GAV HI-FI”, the most popular sound system in Jamaica at that time.
“I later developed my original style of fast rapping. , tongue twisting and that became the most popular thing to hit the airways.The style was (Bang-didlly), also used by “Heavy D”, an American Rapper”. Joe’s string of successes kept rolling. “After an introduction to the producer Joe Gibbs,I did several singles for his label, such as”LEAVE FE ME Girl Arlene” and “Bald Head Bridge” done by the group “CULTURE” and Myself.” The latter was released as a disco 12″ 45 record-one of the wicked extended mixes of the “rockers” period of the late 70′s. “In 1977, I was voted the most popular DJ of that year, for my records that were on the charts and my performance of “KING STUR-GAV” sound system.In 1978-79 I was approached by “Henry ‘Junjo” laws for the “Volcano Label”, the top producer during that time. I recorded an album titled “Saturday Night Jamdown Style” , which was released by Greensleeves in France and VP Records in New York and as a result were successful”.
After moving to New York ,Joe released many records on his own label “Ranking Joe International” and continued to perform all over the world ,traveling to Israel, New Zealand and Brazil as well as Europe. He is one of the few DJs from his era who has continued to release strong new recordings, and has worked with many talented musicians. He was featured on the popular “Dub Side of the Moon” album by the Easy Star All Stars, as well as recordings by The Slackers and Mungo’s Hi-Fi.
Check out his recent track “Fyah Bun Dem” cut with some young producers in Brazil : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3NZvyzOIL8

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

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