Sunday 10.03.10: DEAD MEADOW @ echoplex

DEAD MEADOW || LISTEN || WATCH

Stoner-rock avatars Dead Meadow have slimmed down to a power trio, but their fat, rubbery sound hasn’t lost any of its bluesy bombast in the process. They seem oblivious to the passage of time, still riding the heavy train that Iron Butterfly, Cream, Sir Lord Baltimore, and Hawkwind set in motion. That doesn’t mean they’re oblivious for the need for new product, though—their most recent studio album is still last year’s Old Growth, but they’re working on an old-fashioned feature-length concert film called Three Kings. (They’ve moved from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, so maybe they think they have to make a movie now.) There’s a trailer up on their MySpace page, and I’m getting a distinct Song Remains the Same vibe, probably mostly from the footage of the band wandering around in hooded druid robes. Despite all the vintage-­colored self-indulgence and the whiffs of 70s hippie neopagan cheesiness, Dead Meadow’s hazy, smoky, languidly violent music can achieve an eerie beauty that transcends era, and onstage they’re a fiercely disciplined rock machine—in other words, don’t hold your breath for a dwarf trampling a miniature Stonehenge. – Chicago Reader

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

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

Friday 11.05.10: YELLE @ echoplex

YELLE || LISTEN || WATCH

Despite finding fame with the very public ridiculing of a fellow musician’s manhood (MySpace hit “Short Dick Cuizi,” which cut Parisian rapper Cuizinier down to size), Yelle’s all about relentless Euro-electro charm. The dance world’s been thoroughly seduced by French acts of late (Daft Punk, Justice et al.), and here comes another one. Almost defiantly singing in her native tongue only ups Yelle’s coy joy as she wraps genuine melodies and nursery-rhyme refrains around squelchy/fuzzy Radio Shack synths and migraine-inducing megakicks. “Je Veux Te Voir” (the finalized version of “Short Dick Cuizi”) bounces all over Toni Basil’s “Mickey” with help from Human League, Ace of Base and flurried déjà views of Neneh Cherry’s “Buffalo Stance,” while “A Cause des Garçons” could be the analog-driven incidental music from some early-’80s movie, weaving fake-for-fake’s-sake beat-box cascades around textured stop/start science-project stabs. Yelle’s performance at the Music Box in November had even the bar-hugging +1 posers moving — you’re next. – LA Weekly

@ Echoplex
enter at
Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $15 advance, $17 day of show / 18+

Friday 10.15.10: TILT 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY with JAMAICA / NIGHTWAVES / PARALLELS / FRENCH HORN REBELLION AND MORE @ echoplex

TILTmag.com Presents

TILT 3 Year Anniversary

Live Performances by:

Jamaica
Nightwaves
Parallels
French Horn Rebellion
and friends!

DJ Sets By Residents:
Short Circuit
Killed By Synth
Mike Woodward
B.R.

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

for more info: TILTmag.com

9pm/ $12 / 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 09.04.10: 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 10.30.10: NINJATUNE 20TH ANNIVERSARY @ ECHO & ECHOPLEX

9PM / $20 ADV; $25 DOS / 18+

Thursday 11.11.10: KURT VILE @ echoplex

Kurt Vile || Listen

“Kurt Vile (real name, no gimmicks) has seemingly absorbed a lifetime’s worth of FM rock, and the ghosts of Springsteen, Seger, and others glimmer under the surface of his woozy, homemade bedroom pop.” –Pitchfork

There’s a bunch of clowns all over the USA, all around around the world, cluttering up the rock n’ roll stage with studied talent and recycled tunes. Hobbyists and hacks with guitars, eager to churn out a limp performance to kill a night and earn a couple free drinks. And then there’s Kurt Vile (the handle his mother gave him) out of Philadelphia. A wild-eyed, baby-faced long-hair who’s spent the last 12 years climbing up the stage or setting up in the back of a bookstore to stand, hunched over and giving breathless crowds from 5 to 500+ a string of bona-fide HITS that transcend genre or some passing aesthetic ghetto. He’s remained a step outside any scene that’s tried to claim him. Whether performing solo or backed by a first class American rock band called the Violators, he’s dextrous and confident on the neck of an acoustic or electric, both relaxed and full of life at the microphone.

8:30pm / $12 / 18+

Thursday 08.19.10: DOWN AND DERBY ROLLER DISCO @ echoplex

Its been a year since we lost the late great King of Pop, Michael Jackson. In honor the the King this months Down & Derby will be a tribute to MJ.

What does this mean for you, the attendee??

-DISCO JAMS BY RESIDENT MOONWALKERS STEVE 1DER & WALDO
-MOONWALKER AND CAPTN EO VISUALS
-MOONWALKER CONTEST
-MJ DRESS CODE (yes all the red and black leather you can find!)

Who’s Bad???!!!

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

RSVP at www.downandderby.org

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

Sunday 10.17.10: HOLY FUCK / INDIAN JEWELRY / CLIP’D BEAKS @ echoplex

HOLY FUCK || LISTEN || WATCH

For most of their history, Holy Fuck have operated as the augmented duo of Brian Borcherdt and Graham Walsh, surrounding themselves with a rotating cast of bass players and drummers (sometimes more than one at a time). Over the last few years, though, a consistent lineup has solidified, with bassist Matt McQuaid and drummer Matt Schulz holding down the rhythm section. And as one might expect, the consistency has affected the band’s sound, making Latin, the band’s third album, leaner and funkier than its predecessors.

Borcherdt and Walsh have refined some of their more aggressive noise, and here they use their arsenal of tone generators, guitars, and keyboards to create washes of tone that wrap around the rhythm section like a scratchy blanket. The occasional stab of melody flashes out from the maelstrom, before following the band on its next rhythmic turn. In fact, the album opens with a long ambient wash that builds in volume and intensity before peeling back to reveal the skeletal dance groove of “Red Lights”, a highlight that makes the most of the strange interplay between untethered ambient sound and insistent rhythm.

Even in its new, tighter state, the band can still bring the noise, as on the crunching closer “P.I.G.S.”, whose melodic synth patterns culminate in a vicious stop-time coda that ends the album on its roughest, most brutal note. Holy Fuck’s original mission was essentially to use a live band to create electronic, techno-informed music, and it’s a goal they remain wedded to here. Single “Latin America” in particular seems to pattern its rhythmic breakdowns and buildups on modern dance music.

Holy Fuck have carved out a unique and identifiable sound of their own, and as the band itself has solidified, it’s made their identity even stronger. – Pitchfork

with:
INDIAN JEWELRY
CLIP’D BEAKS

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

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

Friday 11.12.10: THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART / WEEKEND @ echoplex

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART || LISTEN || WATCH

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart had quite a 2009, and 2010 is shaping up to be even better. They released their self-titled debut last February to universal acclaim, racking up features in magazines like Spin, Rolling Stone and NME, earning Best New Music status from Pitchfork, and touring the US and Europe non-stop. They began 2010 with a month-long tour of Japan, New Zealand and Australia, but somehow managed to take a breath to record this fantastic new single.

Say No To Love is a big step forward for the band, combining The Pains’ now-trademark youthful energy and infectious song craft with a more considered approach to the studio. The result is what we think is the best Pains single yet, a peerless slice of pure pop just right for the summer.

Says the band’s Kip Berman: “It’s got 3 chords, a fuzz pedal and lots of feelings. But instead of recording in the basement like we did for our album and both EPs, we recorded in an actual studio (Stratosphere Sound in New York). We tried hard to make it sound, as Peggy would say, ‘life affirming’ and we’re pretty excited about how it turned out.”

with:
WEEKEND

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

8:30pm / $15 advance, $17 day of show / 18+

Friday 10.22.10: OWEN PALLETT / LITTLE SCREAM @ echoplex

OWEN PALLETT || LISTEN || WATCH

If you’re lucky, you might already know this guy as Final Fantasy. His reasons for dropping that name are probably boring and copyright-related, but still: The name change seems healthy on whole other extra-legal levels. I’ve never known anyone not to be wowed by Final Fantasy’s live show, and Final Fantasy’s live show is just Owen Pallett: the guy himself, a violin, and a loop pedal. It’s about as solo as anything gets– a performance, not a project. Stepping out under his own name feels like an acknowledgement of this, as if Pallett’s ready to cast aside the modesty of having a “project”– it’s just this thing I’ve been working on– and present himself, fully upright, as an artist.

And there are a lot of things about Heartland that feel like Pallett is presenting himself more and more fully as an artist; the scope of breadth and mood of it are all grander, more assured, making ever more of a case that the guy shouldn’t be viewed as a side note (string arranger for the Arcade Fire, the Pet Shop Boys) or a minor interest (D&D enthusiast, guy who titled an album He Poos Clouds). After all, one of this album’s closest cousins in the indie world is a notable, well-regarded one: Joanna Newsom’s Ys. Both are ambitious, classicist, cleverly arranged, lyrically high-concept, dense with possible meaning– and, yes, a little strange. – Pitchfork

with:
LITTLE SCREAM

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

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

Tuesday 11.02.10: STEW AND THE NEGRO PROBLEM @ echoplex

Stew and The Negro Problem

The XXL African-American gent who fronts pop-rock smarties the Negro Problem and records alt-cabaret songs under the chummy moniker Stew has an incredibly, er, black sense of humor for someone whose songs often recall lite-rock icon Bread. But Stew’s latest finds his heart overtaking his sense of absurdity. “Love is not the instrument of pain,” he advises on the song of the same name, “it’s your own mind,” while “The Statue Song” turns a high school English exercise (“Write from the perspective of an inanimate object”) into a blue ballad about stasis and homesickness. YES, HE’S GOOD EW named Stew’s last two LPs Albums of the Year; how many times must you be told? A-

-Will Hermes
Entertainment Weekly

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

8:30pm / Seated: $25 advance, $28 day of show / Standing: $20 advance, $23 day of show / 18+

Tuesday 10.05.10: Filter and Echo Present TALVIN SINGH @ echoplex

TALVIN SINGH

Talvin Singh born 1970 in Leytonstone, east London is an accomplished Tabla player, electronic musician, music theorist, record producer and DJ.

As a solo artist, he is perhaps best known as the father of modern Asian electronica music, though he is also a highly celebrated tabla player, record producer and visual practitioner.

Drawing inspiration from the classical Indian arts, Singh first came to prominence as tabla percussionist in the 1980s London music scene.

Whilst still in his mid teens, Singh traveled to India to earn pupilage from Acharya Pandit Laxman Singh, master tabla maestro of the Punjab school. This period made an indelible mark on the young artist and he has since continued to practice and perform the art form internationally. Singh’s collaborations with Indian classical musicians include Ustad Sultan Khan, Rakesh Churasia, Ustad Imrat Khan and Ustad Amjad Ali Khan amongst scores of others.

Singh also became involved in experimental music collaborations beginning in the late 1980s, working with Sun Ra and Courtney helping to popularize the burgeoning Asian underground sub-culture movement. Singh has collaborated with several musical pioneers in various genre’s including Bjork, Blondie, Sioux & the Banshees, Madonna, DJ Spooky, The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Jay Z and Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

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

8:30pm / $15 advance, $17 day of show / 18+

Thursday 08.26.10: VAUD AND THE VILLAINS / LIL GIZZELLE / RT N THE 44S @ 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.

with:
Lil Gizzelle
RT n’ The 44s

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

8:30pm / $10 advance, $12 day of show / 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 08.20.10: MISHKA LA FALL RELEASE PARTY @ echoplex

Los Angeles, we’re to announce our Fall 2010 release party on Friday, August 20th at The Echoplex. Our LA store opening party was such a blast we decided to do it all over again with another huge bash for all of our left coast family and fans. As with the last party it’s free if you RSVP in advance and only a measly $5 if you don’t.

We’ve booked an incredible line-up for the event featuring performances by Pictureplane, Blessure Grave, Puro Instinct (formerly Pearl Harbor) and Tearist. And if that wasn’t enough there’s going to be some balls to the wall DJ sets from Acid Girls, The Captain and Star Eyes (of Trouble & Bass) and Killing Spree (Zane & Gibby). I can assure you it’s going to be on hell of a night!

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

RSVP at rsvp@mishkanyc.com

8pm / Free with RSVP, $5 without / 18+

Saturday 10.09.10: FILTER’S CULTURE COLLIDE FESTIVAL @ echoplex

For More info: culturecollide.com

8:30pm / $20 for festival pass / 21+

Friday 10.08.10: FILTER MAGAZINE’S CULTURE COLLIDE FESTIVAL @ echoplex

For More info: culturecollide.com

7:30pm / $20 for festival pass / 21+

Thursday 10.07.10: FILTER MAGAZINE’S CULTURE COLLIDE FESTIVAL @ echoplex

For More info: culturecollide.com

8:30pm / $20 for festival pass / 21+

Saturday 10.23.10: THE OCTOPUS PROJECT / STARF*CKER @ echoplex

THE OCTOPUS PROJECT || Listen || Watch

Drums vs. drum machines. Samplers vs. guitars. Take these oppositional elements, add a willingness to start a band first and learn how to use the gear later, crank it up to 25,000 and under certain laboratory conditions another band like The Octopus Project might emerge. The Octopus Project has created a unique sound perhaps best described as “ambidextrous equipment failure junk-tronica,” merging the experimentation of progressive post-rock, the blips and bleeps of electronica and the raw, human ROCK of rock.

Toto Miranda, Josh Lambert and Yvonne Lambert play with un-self-conscious joie de vivre. They create irresistible music – a feat all the more amazing considering none of their songs follow anything close to a rote pop, rock or dance structure. You can only call what they do happiness.

with:
STARF*CKER

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

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

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+

Wednesday 09.15.10: 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+

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+

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+

Sunday 11.14.10: MARGOT AND THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO’S @ echoplex

MARGOT AND THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO’S || LISTEN

Margot & the nuclear so and so’s third album Buzzard is primal and truculent, going straight for the vitals. Opener “Birds” finds the band going to places they haven’t before – lovely, languid verses progressing into fuzzed out, howling choruses throughout the song’s twists and turns – while still holding to the guitar-based ethos on which the album is founded. “Lunatic, lunatic, lunatic” may be familiar sonic territory for singer/guitarist Richard Edwards, but the (very) dark humor that slowly unveils is something that he has only flirted with (innocently) in the past. “New York City Hotel Blues” and “Claws Off” distill Margot’s music to its essence: melody-driven pop music with teeth, set adrift against Edwards’ surreal and emotional, if slightly twisted lyrical tendencies. Similarly, “I Do” refines the evocative chamber-pop for which the band is known to its most heart-rending fundamentals, supported by simply Richards’ plaintive voice and an acoustic guitar.

And there is, of course, an intriguing path that led Margot towards this evolution in sound, which contrasts the lively optimism of 2008’s Animal! (and/or Not Animal, simultaneously released after contention with former label Epic). Buzzard was recorded over one freezing month last winter in an abandoned movie theater in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village neighborhood. Edwards had taken up residence there after leaving his hometown of Indianapolis, when the house where he and the previous seven members of the band had lived was damaged in a fire last summer. Once settled, he began writing a collection of songs loosely inspired by the 8mm ‘nudie cutie’ films unearthed in the theater’s basement, and the youthful reaction of mixed emotions that the films evoked.

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

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

Tuesday 08.24.10: GZA / FREDDIE GIBBS / KENDRICK LAMAR / TOKS / ABCNT @ echoplex

GZA

As the members of the Wu-Tang Clan enter their 40s, that old line about old(er) dogs and new tricks seems less and less relevant. Take GZA, who got his start rapping at Brooklyn block parties in the mid-’80s. The crucial Wu Clansman released a bona fide classic in 1995, Liquid Swords, and followed it up with a series of solid albums and guest spots that consistently qualified his title within the crew as “The Genius,” a lyricist whose every couplet displays a serious mastery of street smarts and poetic device — exactly the kind of thing that makes for great crossover appeal. GZA has been smart enough not to change up his winning style, but he’s also proved his savvy in reaching out to his more rock-oriented fans — hipsters, specifically — not only performing Liquid Swords from beginning to end at Pitchfork’s 2007 festival, but collaborating with garage punks Black Lips last year. But the Genius in Echo Park? That’s both a surprise and a New Year’s gift. – LA Weekly

With:
Freddie Gibbs || Watch || MP3
Kendrick Lamar || MP3

DJs:
Toks
Abcnt

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

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

Sunday 07.25.10: GRAND OLE ECHO / THE PSYCHDELIC COWBOYS / CIRCE LINK / THE DIGS / SKIP HELLER / PATRIA JACOBS @ echoplex

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

FMI: Grand Ole Echo on Myspace

5pm / FREE / all Ages

Saturday 08.21.10: BOOTIE LA with FAROFF / DJ PAUL V. / R.A.I.D. @ echoplex

BOOTIE LA
LA’s bimonthly mashup bootleg dance party

Special guest DJ from Brazil, Bootie Rio’s:
FAROFF

Resident Bootie DJ:
DJ PAUL V.

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

From Brazil — and fresh from his recent appearance at Bootie Berlin — Bootie LA presents the return of Bootie Rio’s DJ Faroff. As Bootie’s diplomat to Brazil and one of Bootie Boston’s former DJs, Faroff gets around, spreading the mashup love with his many popular bootlegs and crowd-pleasing DJ sets.

Resident DJ Paul V. will also be on the decks, spinning a bunch of hot summertime mashup jams to get you dancin’, 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!

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

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

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

Saturday 08.07.10: BOOTIE LA – LADY GAGA vs. MADONNA NIGHT @ echoplex

BOOTIE LA
LA’s bimonthly mashup bootleg dance party

LADY GAGA vs. MADONNA NIGHT!
A+D spin Gaga & Madge mashups throughout the night!

Resident Bootie DJs:
ADRIAN & MYSTERIOUS D aka A PLUS D

Special guest:
DJ SHYBOY

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

Bootie LA presents the ultimate mashup diva showdown — it’s LADY GAGA vs. MADONNA NIGHT! Join us as resident DJs Adrian & Mysterious D, along with special guest DJ Shyboy, pay tribute to both the current and classic “queens of pop,” spinning Gaga and Madge mashups throughout the night. Both divas will be mashed up with anybody and everybody — no genre, era, or artist is safe! Resident gold-suited dance crew R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance) also joins in on the fun for some fierce dance moves on stage.

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!

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

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

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

Thursday 08.05.10: IPO presents THE JANKS / BLACK JESUS / CASEY CURRY AND THE REMAINDERS / JOHN WICKS AND THE RECORDS / STEVE BARTON AND THE OBLIVION CLICK / THE SHEBANGS / TRUE MARGIT @ echoplex

The Janks || Watch

with:
Black Jesus
Casey Curry & The Remainders
John Wicks and The Records
Steve Barton and The Oblivion Click
The Shebangs
True Margit

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

7pm / $8

Sunday 09.12.10: MOGWAI 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

7:30pm / all ages

Friday 07.30.10: SMOG, MEDIA CONTENDER, IHEARTCOMIX present KASTLE / LOL BOYS / KNYPHY @ echoplex

KASTLE
Seclusiasis (aka B. RICH) Pittsburgh

LOL BOYS
Nightshifters, Idiot House, Los Angeles

KNYPHY
Smog, Los Angeles

@ ECHOPLEX
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Presented by:
SMOG
MEDIA CONTENDER
IHEARTCOMIX

If you purchased tickets in advance at $10, we will honor the ticket as 2 for 1

9pm / $5 / 18+

Sunday 08.15.10: When You Awake presents FREE FOR ALL @ echoplex

Akron/Family || Listen
Langhorne Slim || Listen
Active Child || Listen
Old Man Markley || Listen
Roadside Graves || Listen
Sean Hayes || Listen
Frank Fairfield
Bad Weather California || Listen
Dustbowl Revival || Listen
Hi Ho Silver Oh || Listen
The Smart Brothers
Don Juan Y Los Blancos
Dreamcatcher
Mouse Heaven

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

CLICK TO RSVP

For More Info: freeforallfestival.com

4pm / Donations only / All Ages

Tuesday 07.27.10: Ah Ritualism and LA Record Present JESUS MAKES THE SHOTGUN SOUND / GENEVA JACUZZI / WEAVE! / ENOCHIAN KEYS / EXTRAVAGASMA DJS @ echoplex

Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound

“This band should be playing Disney Hall with the combined force of the L.A. Philharmonic behind them. Listen to this album soon.” -The LA Record

“Since 2004, the group has come to encompass the ideals of D.I.Y. culture.” – BMI Indie Spotlight

“Rather than attempting to impress elitists with their aural exposition, the band focuses on weaving a tight, intricate web of harmonic progressions, and haunting melodies that convey raw, unprocessed, unrefined emotion.” – Inland Empire Weekly

“Once Jesus Makes The Shotgun Sound’s louder as in really, really, deafeningly loud songs start, I feel less ashamed of my near-tears. I almost can’t resist the urge to start writhing a bit myself; it’s obvious that my emotions aren’t being manipulated by any run-of-the-mill dudes in their 20s.” – Anthem Magazine

“One of the forefront bands in a tremendously tight-knit and fertile young scene centered in L.A. Jesus Makes The Shotgun Sound make music that exists on the perpetual frontier of maximum rock epicness.” – The Stranger

with:
Geneva Jacuzzi || Listen
WEAVE!
The Enochian Keys

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

8:30pm / $8 / 18+

Saturday 07.24.10: WILD RECORDS- A NIGHT OF 1950S STYLE PUNK w/ LUIS & THE WILDFIRES / OMAR & THE STRINGPOPPERS / DON JUAN Y LOS BLANCOS / THE DESPERADOS / THE RHYTHM SHAKERS / SANTOS & MORE @ echoplex

LUIS & THE WILDFIRES
OMAR & THE STRINGPOPPERS
THE DESPERADOS
THE RHYTHM SHAKERS
DON JUAN Y LOS BLANCOS
DUSTIN CHANCE & THE ALLNIGHTERS
ALEX VARGAS
HI-STRUNG RAMBLERS
SANTOS
THE DELTA BOMBERS
PACHUCO JOSE Y LOS DIAMANTES

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

6pm / $15 / All ages

Thursday 09.30.10: 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+

Saturday 09.25.10: Aquarium Drunkard & Spaceland Productions present WAVED OUT II with DUNGEN / ENTRANCE / JOHN GRANT / THE FRESH & ONLYS / SHANNON AND THE CLAMS / JOHN CARPENTER / SO MANY WIZARDS / SUMMER DARLING / YOUNG PRISMS AND MORE @ echoplex & echo

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 first of what will be a recurring event featuring emerging national, local and international artists.

with:
DUNGEN || LISTEN
THE ENTRANCE BAND
JOHN GRANT
THE FRESH & ONLYS
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
JOHN CARPENTER
SO MANY WIZARDS
SUMMER DARLING
YOUNG PRISMS

And many more!

enter at
Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

3:30pm / $10 for the first 100 tickets, $13 after / all ages

Sunday 08.08.10: Converse presents THE POWER OF THE RIFF FESTIVAL @ echoplex and echo

The Power of The Riff Festival will be an all day, all ages, free music event that also includes a record swap meet of local stores such as Vacation Vinyl, Origami Vinyl, and will also feature pop up stores by Tee Pee Records, Southern Lord Recordings and more.

In addition, the festival will feature a gourmet food truck court of Los Angeles’ best purveyors of street food dining. There’s something for everyone…from vegan delights by Sweet Vindication, stacked burgers by Grill Em All,head high sandwiches by the legendary Canters Deli and unforgettable frankfurters by The Greasy Wiener!

RSVP is strictly required. Early arrival is suggested as space is limited.
Entry is not guaranteed. Line up subject to change.

Corrosion Of Conformity III
Goatsnake
From Ashes Rise
Trap Them
Repulsion
Nails
Coliseum
Night Horse
Black Breath
Eagle Twin
Early Graves
Righteous Fool
Semen Sundae
The Fucking Wrath
Rats Eyes
Spider Fever

enter at
Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

CLICK TO RSVP

12pm / FREE WITH RSVP / All Ages

Friday 07.16.10: TRANNYSHACK LA @ echoplex

Back at our fabulous LA venue, Echoplex for our summer edition!

With performances by:
Lady Bear
Squeaky Blonde
Rhea Litre
Hoku Mama
Fade-dra
Raya Light
Ethel Merman
Monistat
Shenana Iggins
Phyllis Navidad
and your hostess Heklina!

Special guest Kembra Pfahler (Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black)

DJ’s Hotne$$a & David Banjela

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

9pm / $10 / 21+

Saturday 07.17.10: BOOTIE LA with DJ SHYBOY / DJ PAUL V. / RAID @ echoplex

BOOTIE LA
LA’s bimonthly mashup bootleg dance party

Special guest:
DJ SHYBOY

Resident Bootie DJ:
DJ PAUL V.

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

Bootie LA presents the return of LA’s own DJ Shyboy, whose specialty is mixing and mashing multiple genres, from rock to electronica, hip-hop to folk, and everything in-between. His adventurous sense of style has led him to work as a remixer for artists such as Beyoncé, Whitney Houston, Craig David, and Donna Summer.

Bootie LA’s resident DJ Paul V. holds it down on the decks, spinning all your favorite (and soon-to-be favorite) mashups throughout the night, while resident dance crew R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance) will be working the Echoplex stage with their trademark gold-suits and go-go dance moves.

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 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 will be given away like candy!

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

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

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

Monday 11.01.10: THE APPLES IN STEREO @ echoplex

THE APPLES IN STEREO || Listen || Watch

Studio-obsessed indie rockers The Apples in stereo are celebrating the start of a new decade with the release of their seventh studio album, Travellers in Space and Time, their most hi-fi and hook-laden production to date. Described by frontman Robert Schneider as ‘retro-futuristic super-pop,’ the album is the official follow-up to 2007′s New Magnetic Wonder, and the band’s second studio release for Elijah Wood’s Simian Records. The album will be released on April 20 via Yep Roc/Simian/Elephant 6.

Travellers contains sixteen piano-driven tracks, bubbling over with vocoder harmonies and sci-fi sound effects, like 70′s AM radio filtered through a UFO; including the robotic first single ‘Dance Floor’, the four-on-the-floor dream-scape ‘Hey Elevator’, the Hall and Oates-tinged ‘Told You Once’, and the epic, yearning ‘Dream About The Future,’ among many instant hits. The musical theme heard in these songs is strung throughout Travellers: intense pop hooks and electronic sounds, mixed with a pumping, get-up-and-moonwalk beat.

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

8pm / $13 advance, $15 day of show / All Ages

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+

Sunday 10.10.10: Echo & Filter present TOM TOM CLUB / PAUL RYDER @ echoplex

TOM TOM CLUB || Watch

In 1981, during a break from their band Talking Heads, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth recorded the first Tom Tom Club record down in Nassau, Bahamas. Creating a funky hybrid of dance, soul and reggae with a completely different sound from Talking Heads, it was their first gold album. The first single from that album, “Wordy Rappinghood,” was an international smash. The second single, “Genius Of Love,” was one of the very first hip hop hits and has been recorded and sampled by more than fifty different artists from Grand Master Flash to P Diddy, and Mariah Carey. Tom Tom Club has recorded six albums. The band has always been made up of great friends and family. Tina and Chris were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2002.

with:
PAUL RYDER

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

8pm / $20 advance, $23 day of show / 18+

Saturday 07.03.10: BOOTIE LA with DJ AXEL / DJ PAUL V. / RAID @ echoplex

BOOTIE LA
LA’s bimonthly mashup bootleg dance party

4th of July Weekend Party!

Special guest:
DJ AXEL

Resident Bootie DJ:
DJ PAUL V.

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

For its special 4th of July Weekend Party, Bootie LA presents the return of DJ Axel. While playing with live breakbeat and drum & bass bands in London and San Francisco, Axel picked up the art of DJing, and after moving to Los Angeles, released a 15-track mashup album called “Breakin’ The Law.” The album is available in over 100 stores and recently went “street platinum,” defined by Billboard as sales of over 10,000 units of an unlicensed mixtape. Axel’s original songs and remixes have appeared in films and soundtracks such as “17 Again” and “Two Lovers.”

Bootie LA’s resident DJ Paul V. holds it down on the decks, spinning all your favorite (and soon-to-be favorite) mashups throughout the night, while resident dance crew R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance) will be working the Echoplex stage with their trademark gold-suits and go-go dance moves.

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 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 will be given away like candy!

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

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

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

Saturday 08.14.10: HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR / TEEN INC / DJ PAUL V. @ echoplex

HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR || Listen

1978 was a pivotal year in the evolution of dance music. Saturday Night Fever had hijacked disco from the gay, black and Latino underground scene and turned it into a strutting global pop phenomenon spurring DJs like Frankie Knuckles in Chicago and Larry Levan in New York to push the expansive, electronic dreams of Gorgio Moroder (I Feel Love) and Walter Gibbons (Ten Percent) towards what would eventually become House and Garage.

1978 was also the year that Andy Butler was born. Exactly 30 years later, with a little help from his vocalist friends Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons), Kim Ann Foxman and Nomi, Andy is reviving the spirit of real disco and the house sounds it spawned with enough passion and finesse to ignite both the underground and the pop world all over again.

In its name, sound and romantic, heroic spirit, Hercules And Love Affair is the result of Andy’s dedication to the Classics: both the myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome that captured his imagination as a child, and the timeless club tracks that soundtracked the euphoria and delirium of his adolescence and adult life.

with:
TEEN INC
DJ PAUL V.

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

9pm / $18 advance, $20 day of show / 18+

Thursday 07.22.10: DOWN AND DERBY ROLLER DISCO @ echoplex

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

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

Wednesday 08.25.10: 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+

Wednesday 08.18.10: DUB CLUB with THE DUB CLUB DJS / CHICANO BATMAN / DJ RON MILLER @ echoplex & echo

in the Echoplex : the Dub Club DJs spinning the best in reggae music

in the Echo : live performance from Chicano Batman
plus DJ Ron Miller

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+

Wednesday 08.11.10: DUB CLUB with DUB CLUB DJS / VIERNES 13 / THE HASHISHANS @ echoplex & echo

in the Echoplex :
the Dub Club DJs spinning the best in reggae music

in the Echo :
live performances from
Viernes 13
The Hashishans
free before 10pm, $5 after

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

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

Wednesday 08.04.10: DUB CLUB with DUB CLUB DJS / CONCEPTO TAMBOR @ echoplex & echo

in the Echoplex : the Dub Club DJs spinning the best in reggae music
in the Echo : live performance from Concepto Tambor

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

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

Tuesday 11.16.10: LEGENDARY PINK DOTS @ echoplex

Legendary Pink Dots || Listen

Few bands polarize listeners quite like the Dots and they are secretly delighted about this. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, ignoring them or remaining indifferent is just not an option. Critics will accuse them of being a bunch of terminal hippies spouting nonsense and nothing to do with rock ‘n’ roll at all, and perhaps they have a point. Even so, singer Edward Ka-Spel’s lyrics
do seem to have an uncanny knack of foreseeing future events in vivid and sometimes uncomfortable combinations of images. The music moves in tandem, peculiar, enthusiastic and extremely psychedelic.

And as for rock ‘n’ roll… what is it by now anyway? You may dance to the Pink Dots if you choose. The melodies will stick in your head and there are moments when their sound is as “industrial” as raining tanks on Detroit, as gentle as
whispering leaves on Venus….

The following is young and old, male and female and borderless in a World seemingly obsessed with frontiers. The Pink Dots are coming to liberate you with color. No escapism, no religion. They come as they are, and so should you.

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

Click to buy tickets!

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

Monday 07.26.10: Monday Night Residency – MISSISSIPPI MAN / THE PITY PARTY / FIM / PIZZA! @ echoplex

Mississippi Man || Watch

“…the music takes us somewhere else all together with its blend of vocal harmonies, nicely balanced guitars, keys, big-beat influence, and spot-on song structure” – LA Record

“This group’s hooky pop and roots tunes are unleashed with unbounding energy and a wealth of creative twists and turns” -PURGe

“Dylan and Young with bigger balls and more wattage” – The Deli Magazine

“American infused… earnest folk-pop” – Buzzbands LA

“The band’s live sound references the past while simultaneously looking to the future” – SPIN Earth

“Mississippi Man deliver a fresh and original album that deserves multiple listens” – Performer Magazine

with:
The Pity Party || Listen
FIM
PIZZA!

8:30pm / Free for 21+, $7 under / 18+

Friday 07.02.10: BEARRACUDA @ echoplex

After a FANTASTIC debut party in May, Bearracuda returns to LA for another night of fun, furry dancing! Our last party had SO many hot guys of all shapes and sizes.

We’ve received awesome feedback from our last LA event and will be adding a couple of go-go bears, beefing up the visuals and handing out some giveaway at our future events.

Returning to LA from Bearracuda Portland, we welcome back DJ SAM STORICKS. Sam played our first Bearracuda New Year’s Eve party in 2006 and has been a big part of the club ever since. He also makes guest appearances at our San Francisco & Seattle parties and will be flying down for another night of great music. http://www.djsamstoricks.com/

From Bearracuda San Francisco, we bring you the LA debut of DJ Medic! Medic is our resident DJ back in San Francisco and he fills our dance floor full of beefy guys every month. He’ll be kicking off the evening’s festivities at 9pm.

It’s all about the dancing, beard rubs and socializing at Bearracuda, but we’ve also got an extra special live performance at 10:30pm from San Francisco duo: EJECTOR! They’ll be doing a short, but very sweet 3 song set. Check out their FB fan page at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/ejector/26614420226?ref=ts

Bearracuda is the largest attended bear dance party on the West Coast w/regular parties in San Francisco, Seattle & Portland + one-offs in New Orleans, Atlanta & Sydney. Voted “Best club for queer men” in 2008 & 2009 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. We’ve got beards, bears, cubs, pups, chubs, beefcakes, furballs and other wildlife!

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

FMI: BEARRACUDA.COM/LA

Join the Bearracuda LA Facebook group!

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

Wednesdat 06.09.10: 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 07.29.10: NITE JEWEL / MEMORYHOUSE / BATHS / KISSES (DJ set) @ echoplex

Nite Jewel || Listen || Watch

It’s an El Niño year, and clots of kidney-colored rain clouds are deluging Los Angeles. A thunderclap sends Ramona Gonzalez’s cat scurrying underneath a nearby table inside the Mt. Washington aerie she shares with her husband and collaborator, Cole M. Greif-Neill. The city might have inspired a spate of warm weather-influenced art of late, but Gonzalez’s music — released under the Nite Jewel name — stands starkly apart.

Nite Jewel’s alchemy of swirling noirish vocals, refulgent analog synthesizers and funky drum samples is best heard after-hours. Often labeled disco, partly because of her association with the dance-oriented Italians Do It Better imprint, Gonzalez’s moody meditative songs bear lingering traces of Roxy Music, freestyle legends Lisa Lisa and Debbie Deb, ’90s R&B performers such as Jade and SWV and hip-hop. – LA Times

Memoryhouse
Baths
Kisses (DJ SET)

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

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

Saturday 06.19.10: BOOTIE LA with THE FACE MELTERS- FOX & KOOL KARLO / DJ PAUL V. / R.A.I.D. @ echoplex

BOOTIE LA
LA’s bimonthly mashup bootleg dance party

From Bootie San Francisco, DJ team:
THE FACE MELTERS:
FOX
KOOL KARLO

Resident Bootie DJ:
DJ PAUL V.

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

Coming down from Bootie San Francisco, Bootie LA presents the mashup DJ duo known as The Face Melters — a.k.a. Fox and Kool Karlo. These two like-minded DJs realized they had similar styles after spinning in the same clubs for years, and their recent collaboration as the Face Melters has yielded an electrifying mix of hip-hop, house, electro, and funk. Using four turntables, they mash all of these styles together to create dance floor bliss for party-goers worldwide.

Resident DJ Paul V. also holds it down on the decks, spinning all your favorite (and soon-to-be favorite) mashups throughout the night, while resident dance crew R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance) takes over Echoplex the stage with their trademark gold-suited go-go action!

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 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 will be given away like candy!

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

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

FMI: BootieLA.com

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

Saturday 06.05.10: Hollywood Rock Academy Class of 2010 Graduation – LIVE IN CONCERT @ Echo & Echoplex

This will be our BIGGEST show in our five year history. Two huge stages running at the same time, film screenings, art gallery – and some special secret surprises!

Tickets are only $12, and are available at HRA Studio (3620 Overland Ave) and at the door day of show. DON’T MISS THIS ONE!!!!!

Featuring performances by:
THE RIDICULOUSNESS
PRIVATE WASABI
SPLIT SECONDS
TWISTED WIZARD
CHOPSTIX
BLACK ICE
BLACK DRAGON
TWINGE
OLD SCHOOL (Frayed Nerves)
CRASH HOLLYWOOD
POST MERIDIEM
GOVERNED BY THE MASSES
STOP MOTION CINEMA
SEAN EADS
ROSE FINKELSTEIN

Just added: LEARNING EYES

enter at
Echo
1822 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

2pm / $12 / All Ages

Thursday 07.08.10: AU REVOIR SIMONE / ALEXA WILDING / GEORGE SARAH @ echoplex

Au Revoir Simone || Listen || Watch

When it comes to decorum, Brooklyn’s Au Revoir Simone makes Judith Martin look like Don Rickles. They have three voices, three keyboards, and a drum machine in their arsenal, yet each element stands out from the gleaming propulsion with razored precision, as if the band were constantly saying, “No, after you.” They deliver inspirational-kitten-calendar platitudes that would make Whitney Houston blush with disarming directness, their plain yet dulcet voices arranged in fussy group harmony– excessive melisma being, after all, simply immodest. The band’s egalitarian and mutually supportive dynamic pays off on the harmonious Still Night, Still Light, their third and best album. It’s feather-light electro-pop that’s not to be taken lightly. – Pitchfork

with:
Alexa Wilding || Listen
George Sarah

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

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

Wednesday 07.28.10: DUB CLUB 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY with SISTER NANCY / GENERAL TREES / TIPPA LEE / ECHODELIC SOUNDSYSTEM AND MORE @ echoplex

DUB CLUB 10th Anniversary Show!

with:
SISTER NANCY
GENERAL TREES
TIPPA LEE
and SURPRISE GUESTS

plus the Echodelic Soundsystem
DJs : Tom Chasteen, Roy Corduroy, Dungeonmaster, and Boss Harmony

and MCs Jah Faith, Ras Benji, Chicho Don plus guests

Sister Nancy is a favorite at the Dub Club and always brings the fire when she comes through. Her tune “Bam Bam” is loved by fans of all genres of music worldwide…but there’s nothing like hearing the original female dj live and direct on the mic…
General Trees will be making his first stop at the Dub Club and we can’t wait to hear his gravel voice booming out over our PA. Trees had many Jamaican hits in the 80s and he is known for his great live performances and his arsenal of lyrics…
Tippa Lee started in the music business toasting on his fathers sound system age 8 , “standing up on a beer bottle box to reach the mic”. He made his first recording at King Tubbys studio at age 12 , and later had a Jamaican No 1 hit with ‘No Trouble We” in the 80s.
And….surprise guests! Over the years at Dub Club surprise guests have included many heavy hitters , so you never know….
And as usual with Sound System style shows at the Dub Club , all the performers will be backed up by the Echodelic selectors on the turntables…

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

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

Wednesday 07.21.10: DUB CLUB with ECHODELIC SOUNDSYSTEM / MCPULLISH / EL TAMBOR / JAH FAITH / RON MILLER @ echoplex & echo

in the Echoplex – Echodelic Soundsystem with DJs Tom Chasteen , Dungeonmaster, and Roy Corduroy spinning tye best in reggae music , alongside Jah Faith and special guests on the mic

PLUS an special live dub performance from Texas based dub producer Mcpullish

“McPullish has managed to create an intriguing, original reggae sound, which truly differs from the commonly known modern roots reggae.” -Reggae Vibes Sept. 2008″

In the Echo – live Afro-Cuban sounds from El Tambor, plus special guest dj Ron Miller

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

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

Wedensday 07.14.10: DUB CLUB with ECHODELIC SOUNDSYSTEM / JAH FAITH / DJ DANNY HOLLOWAY / DJ EXPO / J1 @ echoplex & echo

In the Echoplex – Echodelic Soundsystem with DJs Tom Chasteen , Dungeonmaster, and Roy Corduroy spinning tye best in reggae music , alongside Jah Faith and special guests on the mic

In the Echo — a night called 45 Funk with DJ Danny Holloway (Dublab) , DJ Expo (Rootdown) , and live percussion from J1 ( Master Blazter)

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

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

Wednesday 07.07.10: DUB CLUB presents The Return of the General BRIGADIER JERRY @ echoplex & echo

The Return of the General
BRIGADIER JERRY
backed by Echodelic Soundsystem

plus upstairs in the Echo
DJs Dungeonmaster+Roy Corduroy bring you
“Timezone” – psychedelic global music mashup

Briggy blows the roof off the Dub Club every time he passes through. His microphone mastery and lyrical versatility are unparalleled. Don’t miss this appearance from a true sound system legend!

More influential through his live performances than his scant recordings, Brigadier Jerry was one of Jamaica’s top DJs at the dawn of the dancehall era. A brilliant lyrical improviser, Briggy — as he was affectionately known — elevated the standards for speed and fluidity in DJ chatting technique, laying the groundwork for much of what followed. Despite early dancehall’s taste for slackness, Jerry’s subject matter was almost always spiritual and cultural, though he did have a sense of humor and was an excellent battle DJ. Brigadier Jerry was born Robert Russell in Kingston on September 28, 1957. He started his career in show business by trying standup comedy in his early teens, but soon moved on to work for sound systems. He started out at the legendary U-Roy’s King SturGav Hi-Fi system in the early ’70s, and soon moved on to the Jah Love Muzik system; this latter was run by the Rastafarian sect to which he belonged, the Twelve Tribes of Israel. While with Jah Love, bootleg cassette tapes of his live performances began to circulate among DJ aficionados, resulting in packed houses wherever he played. Despite his sterling underground reputation and influential, melodic toasting style, Jerry was barely represented on record until 1982. He’d previously cut several tracks for Studio One, including “Every Man Me Brethren” and “Dance in Montreal,” and appeared on several local singles with other Twelve Tribes members. In 1982, he cut a new version of the Slim Smith riddim “Never Let Go,” which he retitled “Pain” and released on the small Jywanza label. It was a major hit, rocketing to the top of the Jamaican charts. Meanwhile, he also mentored the career of female DJ Sister Carol, and DJed for nearly every prominent sound system in Jamaica. A semi-official live album, Live at the Controls, appeared in 1983, but he didn’t record his proper debut LP until 1985. Called Jamaica Jamaica, it was the closest he came to capturing the excitement of his live gigs in the studio. Several more singles followed over the rest of the ’80s, but Jerry remained a live DJ at heart. He relocated to New York on a permanent basis in 1988, and put together a second album with 1990′s On the Road. In 1992, Jerry recorded his third proper album, Hail Him, for Tapper Zukie’s label. Another album, Freedom Street, appeared on the VP label in 1995. When U-Roy reactivated his King SturGav Hi-Fi sound system, Jerry joined up as a regular. Today, Briggy still travels to Europe and Japan touring. He recently released his fifth album entitled, “Showers of Blessings” on the Virtuous Woman label .

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

9pm / $5 before 10pm, $12 after / 21+

Wednesday 06.16.10: DUB CLUB Summer Kick Off Party with DAVID RODIGAN / DOWNBEAT THE RULER / BUYEPONGO @ echoplex & echo

Dub Club presents our summer 2010 kickoff party with 2 rooms of music!

Echoplex:
DAVID RODIGAN
DOWNBEAT THE RULER
Echodelic Soundsystem DJs

echo:
BUYEPONGO
Echodelic Soundsystem DJs

David Rodigan and Downbeat The Ruler (aka Tony Screw) are 2 of the best known reggae selectors on the planet.
Their arsenal of exclusive dubplates are legendary, as are their live sound clashes. This event however is not a clash in the proper sense, but a night of pure musical madness with the 2 DJs trading sets back and forth and vibing up the dance til the roof comes off the place! Buyepongo is one of LAs finest young bands representing the Cumbia and Vallento styles. We have been wanting to have them at the Dub Club for a while now and we know it will be a long hot night in the Echo!

enter through
Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

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

Wednesday 06.30.10: DUB CLUB @ echoplex & echo

in the Echoplex it’s DUB CLUB with Echodelic selectors Tom Chasteen, Dungeonmaster, and Roy Corduoy spinning the best in reggae music, along Jah Faith and nuff special guests pon the mic…

upstairs in The Echo it’s BAMBOO with DJ Boss Harmony spinning Ska and Latin sounds and El Haru Kuroi performing live.

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

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

Wednesday 06.23.10: 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 06.17.10: DOWN AND DERBY ROLLER DISCO ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY @ echoplex

It’s hard to believe that One year ago the very first Down & Derby went off at the EchoPlex. Down & Derby has seen over 60 productions, three music festivals and now has events in more than six cities. I’m pretty sure we are responsible for a handful of regrettable decisions, and most likely, a few babies.

This months Derby is for the hundreds that fit their yoga class in, break out their spandex and get silly at our jam. And to show our appreciation here is what we have instore for you.

The first 100 attendees through the Echoplex door will receive a Down & Derby American Apparel tank-top created by Family Industries. The following 50 partygoers to arrive will receive a custom branded Down & Derby fanny pack with a can of Colt 45 inside.

Resident skate guard DJ SHR3D will be joined by Ra Ra Riot and Discovery lead singer Wes Miles, controlling the backbeat of disco-inspired party anthems.

More than 200 roller skates available to rent or bring your own. All wheels accepted, even blades.

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

RSVP at www.downandderby.org

9pm / $10 with RSVP / 18+

Sunday 06.06.10: GRAND OLE ECHO with Grant Langston & The Supermodels, Rich McCulley, John Meeks (CD release party) @ echoplex

Grant Langston & The Supermodels
Rich McCulley
John Meeks (CD release party)
50 Cent Haircut

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

FMI: Grand Ole Echo on Myspace

5:00pm / FREE / All Ages

Wednesday 06.02.10: DUB CLUB presents IZZY / REBEL EMPIRE / TAZZ @ echoplex

This night will feature some of LAs best upcoming dancehall acts:
Izzy
Rebel Empire
Tazz

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

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

Saturday 06.05.10: BOOTIE LA 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY with SMASH-UP DERBY / ADRIAN & MYSTERIOUS D / DJ PAUL V. / R.A.ID. @ echoplex

BOOTIE LA 5-YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY
LA’s monthly mashup bootleg party

At 11 PM — From San Francisco, the world’s first live mashup rock band returns to LA:
SMASH-UP DERBY

Resident Bootie DJs:
ADRIAN & MYSTERIOUS D
DJ PAUL V.

Bootie LA’s resident dance crew:
R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance)

Photo Booth by:
DrunkRockers.com

Free 20-track Bootie LA Anniversary CDs for the first 300 people!

Mash up your look! Prizes for Best Mashup Outfit!

This month, Bootie celebrates five years of mashing it up, LA-style! Since launching at The Echo back in 2005, Bootie has grown quite a bit, becoming the epicenter for mashups in Southern California. To mark its 5-Year Anniversary, at 11 PM, Bootie is proud to present the return of Smash-Up Derby, the house band at Bootie SF, and the world’s first mashup rock band. Also performing the Midnight Mashup Show will be Bootie LA’s resident gold-suited dance crew R.A.I.D. (Random Acts of Irreverent Dance).

Bootie creators Adrian & Mysterious D finally return from their world tour, where they’ve spent the past two months doing Bootie parties in Europe, Asia, and Brazil. Resident DJ Paul V. will also join them on the decks. Mash up your look for a chance to win fabulous prizes for the “Best Mashup Outfit,” and get your picture taken at the DrunkRockers.com Photo Booth. There will also be special 20-track Bootie LA Anniversary CDs for the first 300 people, featuring tracks from every guest DJ the club has featured over the past 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 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 will be given away like candy!

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

FMI: http://www.BootieLA.com

9pm / $6 before 10 pm, $12 after / 21+

Saturday 06.12.10: DJ PAUL V. presents SPUNK @ echoplex

ON SATURDAY, JUNE 12th – LA GAY PRIDE WEEKEND -

CLUB SPUNK RETURNS TO THE ECHOPLEX!

DJ Paul V. (Dragstrip 66, Bootie LA) presents a special dance event during LA Gay Pride Weekend – an Alternative Pride Event – for those who want to ROCK their Pride on the EAST side! And it’s also a club SPIT REUNION - as DJ Tommy Rocker joins DJ Paul V. to slick up the dancefloor with indie rockin’ electro trash!
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::: PLUS LIVE ON STAGE AT 11:00 PM :::
THE G80s! (aka The Gayties)

Featuring:
Matt McLaughlin, Tommy Keene, Chris Freeman & Jim Laspesa
… Plus a couple very special surprise guests!

Ever seen a bunch of hot, rock-lovin’ homo dudes play all your fave post-punk & new wave tunes from the 80′s live? You will now!

From The Pretenders to Psychedelic Furs to The Cure to The Plimsouls, these guys jam the hits tight – like an ultimate cover band!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Gayties-G80S-the-All-Gay-Male-80s-EXPLOSION/191311048327
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:::: AND 12:30 AM HOT-ASS GIVEAWAYS! ::::

WIN tickets to see LA ROUX or EMPIRE OF THE SUN!
“Flash Your Assets” on stage & the crowd will determine the winners!
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Marky Make Up will be in the house airbrushing temporary tattoos,

and we’ll have a late-night presentation by Rasputin’s Marionettes
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:: SO WHY DO SPUNK ON GAY PRIDE WEEKEND? ::
Because so many of the alternative gay community do not feel connected to - nor interested in -  what’s offered at the Weho Pride festival. From the hideous circuit music tent, to the warm beer in cups, to the generally bland live entertainment – there’s plenty of indie gays who just totally stay away. So SPUNK is just the fix for something different!

SPUNK is a gay event, but also welcomes women & friendly heteros, too.

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

9pm / $5.00 Cover till 10:30pm, $10.00 After / 21+

Saturday 07.10.10: Manimal Vinyl Presents SWAHILI BLONDE / WE ARE THE WORLD / WEAVE! @ echoplex

SWAHILI BLONDE || MP3

Swahili Blonde began with Nicole Turley (ex-WEAVE! drummer & vocalist) sitting in a little room amidst a bunch of instruments and recording equipment she didn’t know how to use. After many long nights, she still didn’t completely understand how everything worked, but was happy with the unconventional sounds and compositions she was able to make. She ended up being so happy with the result of her efforts, that she decided to record and release a collection of songs for a full-length album, humorously called Man Meat. The album consists of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Turley giving a recorded voice to paralleled realities, vibrant visuals, and mismatched rhythms and patterns, musical and otherwise. Woven throughout the 7 songs are lucid and eloquent performances by violinist Laena Myers-Ionita, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist John Taylor, and multi-instrumentalists Stella Mozgawa & Michael Quinn. An 8 member live version of Swahili Blonde will be playing shows in Los Angeles during summer 2010.

with:
WE ARE THE WORLD || Listen
WEAVE!

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

8:30pm / $10.00 / 18+

Friday 06.04.10: TILT with CLASS ACTRESS / NEON INDIAN (DJ Set) / CFCF / LEXICONDON / SHORT CIRCUIT / B.R. @ echoplex

TILT Summer Concert Series by TILTmag.com
in association with Binary & Blowup LA
Present

Class Actress
(NYC / Terrible Records)

Neon Indian DJ Set
(NYC / Green Label Sound)

Los Angeles DEBUT!
CFCF
(Montreal Canada / Paper Bag/Acephale Records)

LexiconDon
(L.A. / Binary )

Resident DJ’s:
Short Circuit (Binary)
B.R.

Live Art by Demonbabies

Photobooth By http://www.Youngandsleek.com/

@ THE ECHOPLEX
1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

FMI: TILTmag.com

8:30pm / $10 advance, $15 day of show / 18+

Friday 05.28.10: VICE and CONVERSE present -TUX AND CHUCKS- A PROM PARTY with PEANUT BUTTER WOLF / BLACK DYNAMITE / BOBBY EVANS @ echoplex

Hey, remember prom? Want a do-over on that? Vice and Converse have your Memorial Day plans set! Grab your party tux or party dress, and your Chucks, and come experience the best night of your life!

There will be a photobooth that will have prom backdrop and posed pictures will be printed on site.

There are “Best Dressed” prizes, and wear Chucks and skip the line!

See you there!

with:
Peanut Butter Wolf || Listen
Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra
Bobby Evans

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

RSVP @ http://www.viceland.com/tuxandchucks/

10pm / Free with RSVP / 21+

Friday 06.11.10: Footlong_Development & Keistar Productions Present SOUL SLAM VI – PRINCE & MICHAEL JACKSON @ echoplex

Footlong_Development & Keistar Productions Present

SOUL SLAM VI: 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

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 this June!

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.

What: A dedication to Michael Jackson & His Royal Clan and Prince & His Disciple. Featuring one of New York’s finest, DJ Spinna. Also, opening set by LA’s own MonaLisa. This is a world-wide event that originated in New York and has reached San Francisco, Japan, Los Angeles & Europe.

DJ SPINNA:
Regarded as one of the most versatile and talented producers/DJ’s/Remixers in today’s musical arena. With so much studio work, it’s a marvel Spinna travels as much as he does. The constant globe-trotting performances he’s become equally famed for having brought the DJ as far as Iceland, Australia, and South Africa as well as countless jaunts through England, Europe and the U.S. Not to forget, his hugely successful tours of Japan, where Spinna is held in the highest regard throughout the country for his craft in music. He has produced numerous tracks and remixes for notable artists such as Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, De La Soul, Mos Def, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Pharoahe Monch, George Michael and many more.

MonaLisa:
Monalisa Murray has been an independent grassroots promoter of quality music and events across the country for the last 20 years. She supported various DJs and musicians in the Los Angeles area before taking her love of music to the tables. She is a member of the KPL All Stars DJ crew and has previously shared bills with DJs such as Spinderella, Garth Trinidad, Vikter Duplaix, Al Jackson, Jeremy Sole, Dam-Funk, Kiilu, Mr. Choc, Babu, Rhettmatic, Coleman, Gomez Warren and Lisa J.

@ ECHOPLEX
Enter at 1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

9pm / $11 advance, $15 at the door / 21+

Thursday 06.03.10: FREE KUTMAH BENEFIT CONCERT with DAM-FUNK / DAEDELUS / GASLAMP KILLER / SAMIYAM / TEEBS / ABCNT / MAYER HAWTHORNE (DJ SET) / SPECIAL GUESTS @ echoplex

FREE KUTMAH BENEFIT CONCERT
With Performances by
DAM-FUNK
DAEDELUS
THE GASLAMP KILLER
SAMIYAM
TEEBS
ABCNT
MAYER HAWTHORNE (DJ set)

and VERY SPECIAL GUESTS

plus LIVE SCREEN PRINTING BY HIT+RUN

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

8pm / $20.00 / 18+

Sunday 05.23.10: MAINLINEGAMING.COM presents THE GAMERS BALL TOURNAMENT @ echoplex

TOURNAMENT DETAILS
This event we’re featuring cash tournaments in Madden 10, FIFA 10, NBA 2k10 and Super Street Fighter 4.
Madden FIFA and NBA 2k10 will be on both consoles. Super Street Fighter 4 will just be on PS3.
Each tournament is capped at 16 seats.
Capping the amount of seats increases everyones chance of winning.

The first round in Madden, FIFA and NBA 2k10 will be a best 2 out of 3 series.
Whoever you are paired with, you play them a minimum of 2 games.
This gives you and your opponent an opportunity to make the necessary adjustments in between games. Each round after that is single elimination.

Hosted by:
MC Shay Shay
Liz Velasquez

Hip Hop performances by:
Dynamite Jive
Optic Vision

For Cash Prize Info and to Register click here
Hotline 424-298-0859

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

5pm doors, Tournament starts at 6pm / $10 general admission, $25 or $50 buy in depending on game / 18+

Thursday 07.15.10: ANTIBALAS / THE SWAY MACHINERY @ echoplex

ANTIBALAS || Listen || Watch

Antibalas has been a fixture at the crossroads of international music since their humble Brooklyn beginnings in 1998. As a group entity, they are largely responsible for reviving and innovating an obscure but dynamic style of music known as Afrobeat, tirelessly spreading its gospel to over thirty countries around the world, from New York’s Rikers Island prison to Carnegie Hall, from Tokyo to Turkey.

Antibalas has truly become renowned via their relentless live show. And though it’s certainly no easy task to keep (and feed) such a vast ensemble on the road, the band has managed to average over 100 concerts a year, incessantly traversing the U.S, Canada and Europe in venues large and small be they the sweaty clubs of Brooklyn or in front of hordes of festival goers in places like Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot, Montreux and Roskilde exclaimed “their music is right on time,” while the New York Times, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone Magazine and a slew of others have taken serious notice. Make no mistake, as XLR8R exclaims, Antibalas are indeed “the baddest on the block.”

with:
The Sway Machinery || Listen

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

8:30pm / $20 advance, $22 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+

Friday 06.18.10: FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP with Aceyalone, Myka 9, Self Jupiter, P.E.A.C.E. & DJ Kiilu Grand / BUSDRIVER / NOCANDO @ echoplex

FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP
featuring:
Aceyalone
Myka 9
Self Jupiter
P.E.A.C.E.
DJ Kiilu Grand

Freestyle Fellowship are a rap group from Los Angeles consisting of rappers Aceyalone, Myka 9, P.E.A.C.E., Self Jupiter and producer J Sumbi. Their vocal techniques focusing on the method of the freestyle, as well as a successful infusion of hip hop and jazz, established the group as forerunners in the sub-genre of jazz rap, and also placed them amongst prominent West Coast underground hip hop acts of the early 1990s like Hieroglyphics, Abstract Rude & Tribe Unique, and The Pharcyde. They are part of a hip hop collective known as Project Blowed.

The group was formed at the Good Life Café in Los Angeles during the early 90s. Myka Nyne stated in an interview that he grew up with Aceyalone and Self Jupiter and knew them since elementary school, and he met P.E.A.C.E. in 10th grade. Before the Fellowship, Aceyalone, Spoon (of) Iodine, and Myka Nyne were in a group called the MC Aces in high school.

After releasing the album To Whom It May Concern… in 1991, the Fellowship became known in tape-trading circles, identified by their range in rhyming, at times bordering on Jazz scat, and Afrocentric messages over jazz inspired beat production. Their 1993 release Innercity Griots is acknowledged by many to be among the best hip hop albums of the 90s.

In 1993, the group went on hiatus due to the four year incarceration of Self Jupiter. After his release, the Fellowship reunited to record Shockadoom in 1998 (released 2002). Temptations was released in 2001.

plus:
Busdriver
Nocando

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

9pm / $15 advance, $17 day of show / 18+

Sunday 06.13.10: BETH HART / GARRISON STARR @ echoplex

Beth Hart || Listen || Watch

The first time I heard/saw Beth Hart was at an electronics show a few years ago. I was strolling down the aisle ways minding my own business and there she was, a dirty rock n’ roll chick seducing me with her hypnotic banshee songs on a big screen flanked by a towering pair if speakers. I stood there mesmerized watching this rock n’ roll dream until I was forced to move on when those at the booth changed the DVD.

I immediately sought out every CD she had produced and tracked down the live DVD she had released. I was and am enthralled by Beth Hart and her music. This photo gallery captures her moments and her dangerous beauty. You can’t capture the power and beauty of her music in photos, for that you will have to track down a CD or two. Never mind which one, they all have their merits. Get them all if you can and the must have DVD, Live at the Paradiso.

Many have compared her to Janis Joplin, and I think that is fair, but don’t be mistaken, this girl has her own identity. Someone over at Amazon described her something like this: Her creation was a collaborative work between God and Satan. They combined the best of Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Otis Redding, and John Lee Hooker then added a bit of spice like atomic energy, several forces of nature such as hurricanes and tornadoes, the pure unapologetic sexuality of the most sensual of strippers, the humanity of mankind, and coated the whole mess with nitro glycerin, then dropped it from the sky…waiting to see what would happen. The result was Beth Hart. – Rock N Roll View

with:
Garrison Starr || Listen

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

8pm / $15 advance, $17 day of show / all ages

Thursday 05.20.10: DOWN AND DERBY ROLLER DISCO @ echoplex

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

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

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+

Tuesday 06.15.10: WOODSIST FESTIVAL with REAL ESTATE / WOODS / KURT VILE / ABE VIGODA / ART MUSEUMS / THE MANTLES / NODZZ / SUN ARAW / ALL SAINTS DAY / THE BATHS @ echoplex & echo

Real Estate
Woods
Kurt Vile
Abe Vigoda
Art Museums
The Mantles
Nodzzz
Sun Araw
All Saints Day (Katy from Vivian Girls + Greg from Cat Power)
The Baths

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

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6pm / $10 advance, $12 day of show / All Ages

Tuesday 06.01.10: THE MOTH GRANDSLAM VI @ echoplex

The Moth presents the GrandSLAM, a battle of wits and words – fierce, hilarious, heartbreaking and all points between. Featuring the winners of the past 10 StorySLAMS.

The Moth is dedicated to finding intriguing people to tell inspired stories. At The Moth StorySLAMs, those people find us. On this night, using words as weapons, they word- it-out to determine The Moth’s NY GrandSLAM Story Champion. No notes, no scripts – just pure, old-fashioned, unadulterated storytelling. Fun, fast, furious.

Hosted by Brian Finkelstein

Music by
Alex Burke on the Vibraphone

@ The Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

LIMITED SEATING — ARRIVE EARLY STANDING ROOM TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR

Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm / $17 / 18+

Saturday 07.31.10: Echo & Grand Ole Echo present ROOTS ROADHOUSE @ echo & echoplex

With:
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men
Red Simpson
T Model Ford
Pete Anderson
Chatham County Line
The Chapin Sisters
I See Hawks in LA
Leslie & the Badgers
Olin & The Moon
Old Californio
Triple Chicken Foot
Whispering Pines
Amanda Jo Williams
Frontier Ruckus
Speedbuggy

Outdoor Hellbilly Stage:
Killing Casanova
Last Round Down
Old Bull

The seen-around-town BBQ trucks of Q ZILLA and BARBIE-QUE will be serving up their versions of pulled pork, brisket, mac’n cheese and collard greens.

In addition to food and music, local vendors will be on site as well. OLD STYLE GUITAR SHOP will be on site showing off their 70s-wood paneling guitar crafted just for the invent. Plus vintage jewelry and clothes from Le Mondern Trickets and Stuck On Vintage.

The Echo patio will also hold games of bingo with prizes ranging from gift certificates, free tickets, t-shirts and CDs.

Enter at
Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

3pm / $15 / all ages

Friday 07.09.10: ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI / MAGIC KIDS / PURO INSTINCT (Formerly Pearl Harbor) @ echoplex

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti || Listen

Ariel Pink’s best songs are surprising, and there’s a real sense of musical delight on Before Today; the sections sound logical but never predictable, and there are wild bridges and short bits that emerge seemingly randomly but wind up taking the song somewhere unexpected. So “L’estat (Acc. to the Widow’s Maid)” goes from a rollicking organ-led opening section to a catchy call-and-response chorus hook the Monkees might have liked to a short double-time instrumental section to a jubilant coda, and all the while the stitches never show. Songs like “Little Wig” have so many interesting interlocking parts that they can almost feel proggy, despite their relative brevity and tight pop structures.

Since a number of these songs exist in earlier versions on other records, it’s easy to hear how they benefit from Before Today’s more worked-over approach. “Beverly Kills” was a fine song in its original incarnation on the 2002 edition of Scared Famous (it also appeared on last year’s Grandes Exitos comp), but it has so much more power here. Opening with roller-rink keyboards, a popping bass, and car chase sound effects, it feels loose and casual until the falsetto vocals snap into place, sounding suddenly like Philip Bailey on a lost Earth, Wind & Fire jam. The delicate soft rock of “Can’t Hear My Eyes”, also heard twice before in slightly cruder forms, benefits greatly from just a few more dabs of production mousse. It’s a song that wants to be slick, bringing to mind carefully layered singles by Alan Parsons Project, complete with swells of synthetic strings and a smooth sax interlude.

And then there’s “Round and Round”, one of indiedom’s most unifying and memorable songs in 2010, which is barely recognizable from its early four-track incarnation as “Frontman/Hold On (I’m Calling)”. It’s another song of smartly integrated units of melody, any one of which might be built out into a great song of its own, but which together become something astonishing. Its circular bassline doubles with low-chanted voices that build up tension and mystery, a connecting section that opens the song up with a high-pitched plea, and an interlude section with a ringing phone and some jazzy keyboards, all of which build to the massive sing-along chorus. “Round and Round” was mastered at Abbey Road, and not a cent of that cost was wasted. It is endlessly replayable. – Pitchfork

With:
Magic Kids
Puro Instinct || Listen

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

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

Saturday 08.28.10: CAP’N JAZZ / ABE VIGODA / THE BLACK APPLES @ echoplex

Cap’n Jazz || Listen
I’ll admit, I had absolutely no idea what to expect from recently-reunited 90s Chicago punk act Cap’n Jazz’s live show. I knew that tickets to their club shows in town have all sold out in a ridiculously short amount of time, and if their their set Saturday night was anything close to typical, I certainly know why. They were phenomenal.

Frontman Tim Kinsella’s vocals are raw and very rough around the edges–bordering on harsh, but with an intensity mirrored by his hypnotic physical performance onstage. Clutching the microphone and screaming into the mic, he often leaned over the edge of the stage into the audience, even falling face-first into it in order to have the audience push him like a domino back onto the stage. It was impressive to watch a set that intense from start to finish–it was as if he put every single ounce of energy he had into every second of his performance during the songs.

The drums (courtesy of Tim’s brother Mike Kinsella) were wild, the bass (Samuel Zurick) was booming, and guitar work (Victor Villareal and Davey von Bohlen) was very tight. The set was full of raw energy, and the audience and band fed off each other in one of those rare, sparkling moments that sometimes happen during live shows that makes people want to go to them in the first place. – Examiner

with:
Abe Vigoda
The Black Apples

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

8pm / $17 advance, $20 day of show / all ages