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Featuring Gilby Clarke (Guns N Roses), Eric Dover (Jellyfish / Imperial Drag / Alice Cooper), Daniel Shulman (Garbage), Muck (Buckcherry)
Glam Rock is back, jack. Bowie. Kiss. Alice Cooper. Queen. Elton. Sweet. Iggy and the Stooges. The New York Dolls. Lou Reed. Mott the Hoople... And Halloween Jack. 4 rock and roll heavies ready to party all night long. Gilby Clarke is the legendary guitar-slinger from Guns N’ Roses.Stephen Perkins is the thunderous heartbeat of Jane’s Addiction. Muck (Buckcherry) will be taking over while Perkins tours with Jane's. Daniel Shulman is the pulsating bass of Garbage and Run DMC. Eric Dover is the prince of wails for Slash’s Snakepit, Imperial Drag and the guitarist for notorious band Jellyfish. Together as Halloween Jack, they are laying down an old school glitter party that will cook your eardrums, blow your mind, and rock your world. |
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THE RINGERS
The Ringers' shorter songs (longest tags in at 3:19), often shouted lyrics, and the fairly constant pitch, are all characteristics that lend themselves reference to punk pioneers The Ramones. That, coupled with occasional frantic guitars, the opposing uncomplicated bassists, and minimal production, puts them in the same category as not only the Ramones but The Clash, as well.
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CORRIDOR
Mon. June 8
@ Echoplex
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Manimal Vinyl Presents
Live, M. Quinn’s one-man band Corridor is a dark and beautiful experiment in multi-instrumental virtuosity. He doesn’t attack the guitar and cello so much as he conquers them. But I was unsure of whether the intensity of Corridor would translate to a whole album’s worth of songs that could just as easily be five musicians as one. Surprisingly it mostly does. Corridor avoids making ‘distortion’ equal ‘excitement.’ He uses it for build-up on a song or two, but rarely for sheer brutality, instead aiming to overcome your senses with clean notes one after another in a crazy but rhythmically orderly array. “Barracks” in particular is so ball-busting in its guitar picking, it could almost be Earl Scruggs playing, if I didn’t feel like the vampires were coming. This album aims between your synapses and between genres. His guitar tone gets almost jazzy, almost bright, but stops just short of the fusion-y experimentation of Nels Cline—and he plays in weird Lydian Lebanese scales, but avoids sounding like Eddie Bertrand or Dick Dale. And though it’s not gothic rock, there’s a painful fatalism in his voice, a tenor that evokes something between late-eighties Depeche Mode and early-eighties Spandau Ballet, with a little Lovage-era Mike Patton thrown in on those “Woodpecker From Mars” moments.
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PAULO ZAPPOLI
(Pall Jenkins of The Blackheart Prcession & Three Mile Pilot)
AVI BUFFALO
The group is comprised entirely of high school students, but their songs are polished gems that go way beyond the simple chords and throwaway delivery that is normally associated with young bands. Avi's work on the guitar is beyond expressive, creating atmospheres that lend his songs a magical quality.
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Filter presents
Evan Dando’s image as a slacker and a lost romantic soul was built more on his social adventures than his music. The origins of The Lemonheads were in the early hardcore punk of Hate Your Friends back in 1987 before he began the transition to the dippy country pop songs that he perfected on the classic It’s A Shame About Ray. Wandering on stage with a battered acoustic and a grin he paused to honour The Saints ‘Stranded’ that was playing over the PA. From there on in it was a mixture of the pure brilliance and the random kookiness that has come to surround Evan Dando.
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MODEL / ACTRESS
Sick and tired of Gang of Four white boy disco wannabee's, Model/Actress began to write the songs that would end up on their 5 Song EP. Former Jesus Lizard frontman David Yow came out of early retirement to sing on a song and Juan’s old Brainiac bandmate John Schmersal added guitar "color" on everything. Yeah - it's pretty cool. |
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CLUB NME
With feral vocals, shattering guitar riffs, and a collection of microtonal keyboards ordered off of a Lebanese Web site, Rainbow Arabia combines Middle Eastern beats and modes with the vibrant energy of Los Angeles' experimental punk/dance scene. The result is a hypnotic neo-tribal, hipster-dub sound that falls somewhere in the vicinity of post-punk spiritualists Gang Gang Dance and These Are Powers. The band is composed of Danny and Tiffany Preston, both 36. The husband and wife duo were married for more than three years before they started playing music together and recording in their basement in early 2008. Before Rainbow Arabia, Danny played in punk-dub outfit Future Pigeon and Tiffany in Licorice Piglet.
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SPIRIT VINE
Spirit Vine is another local band infused with the spirit of a peyote-and-bourbon trip in Joshua Tree. What that typically means is some distillation of BJM and BRMC by way of the Warlocks, so it's not suprising that their EP starts out with "Black Hoof", a song that has kinda the same fuzz chug as the Warlocks' "Caveman Rock, and then his a full-on BJM guitar-lick-and-shuffle with "Phoenix".
VOICES VOICES
Formed in June of 2008, these two lovely girls, Jenean Farris and Nico Turner, came together to break away from the musical mold they were confined to in previous projects to defy what they've been taught, and challenge what they know. The result is hauntingly beautiful music that will awaken even your most subconscious dreams and fears. |
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It’s a well-known curio of pop history that the synth-led sound of Springsteen’s wilderness years was directly indebted to the skeletal drum machines of electro-duo Suicide. Face Control, the new record by Handsome Furs (Alexei Perry and Dan-from-Wolf-Parade), sounds like Born in the USA, if the Boss had allowed a little more evil in the mix, and tried replicating Alan Vega’s demented yelps. Yeah, it’s THAT good...
What comes across immediately, is Dan Boeckner’s urgency. After all, it’s been less than a year since Wolf Parade’s magnificent second record, and only a little over a year since the Handsome Furs’ own debut. The drum-machines and handclaps, here, are what you’d expect on home demos, there only ever seems to be one guitar growling behind the keyboards, and the lyrics and three-chord melodies are patched together with clichés and hand-me-downs from a dozen well-loved pop-songs. Thing is, it’s the opposite of lazy; it becomes clear you just don’t need that much going on, if you’re a great tunesmith. The old line about great vocalists is that they can sing the phonebook; in Dan’s case, he’d howl like this if he were ordering pizza.
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THE CINNAMON BAND
The Cinnamon Band ripped through a half-dozen tunes that grew from silk-lined vocal harmonies into a shrapnel cloud of shimmering chords and skull-rattling drums. Hearing Harouff strum to Campbell’s drum fills is a bit like listening to Bruce Springsteen team up with Scottish post-punks Mogwai—there’s lean, refined songcraft, but no shortage of showmanship or ferocity.
THE MONOLATORS
Consisting of vocalist/guitarist Eli Chartkoff, his wife, drummer Mary Chartkoff, lead guitarist Tom Bogdon, and bassist Ashley Jexm, the Monolators are one of the most reliable and frantically, consistently entertaining rock bands in the local music scene, even when they don’t close out a show with nine bassists and a massive gong. |
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The Long Now is nothing less than a super solid album. It has all the makings of a stand-out debut. There is a strong pop/rock sensibility, encased in a consistent edge. Embracing space, whilst keeping an organic view of Earth and its people seems to be the reoccuring theme, and one delivered with alot of passion and poetry. Musically there is an overall darker sound that creeps about in many shades. Driven by the watery nature of reverbious guitars that build and crash with waves of heavy distortion, Children Collide can set the mood for both a heart-pumping, white water rafting trip or a pleasant gondola ride.
This is a band that have obviously tested these tracks out in the real world of gigging and trying to burst the seam. After hearing once, I feel that I would like to see them perform live. I only hope that the constant, unfading energy that inhabits Children Collide's first album will continue to grow true to seeds that have been sown for their future endeavors. Too many bands these days are losing their raw power by their second album. I don't think that will be the case for this band!
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BLOODCAT LOVE
The antic sultriness of Bloodcat Love, with their suspended hooks and gravelly crooning shot through with guitar-riff gold.
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Any newcomers to Jay Reatard are met with a dauntingly huge back catalogue. This is a man who produces a hell of a lot of material and by our count has released a staggering 24 albums and 34 EPs and 7"s since 1998 (the merch stand is well stocked this evening). Tonight's show helpfully focuses mainly on 2008's releases: the Matador records compilation and the 06/07 Singles collection released on In The Red.
Jay emerges on stage with little flair or fanfare, setting the tone for the evening. It's a fast 'n' furious speed-punk blitz, play fast, play hard, leave quick. That's not to say it's not entertaining, quite the opposite in fact. The stage is filled with Reatard and his two accomplices, both Jay and his guitarist sport flying V Gibson guitars, and from the offset the three of them create a blend of sing-along 'Beck meets The Ramones' style good time rock 'n' roll that leaves feet tapping and teeth showing.
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THE OH SEES
while I fell in love with the echo-folk of 2 and 3 & 4, Dwyer has held my attention as his Oh Sees slowly wade into rock ‘n’ roll waters, beginning with slight traces on Cool Death of Island Raiders, bluesy belting on Thee Oh Sees Sucks Blood, and, now, all-out 1950s greaser rock with The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending the Night In, a superior specimen to Sucks Blood and another reason to join Dwyer’s cult.
EARTHMEN & STRANGERS
Their live act debuted at last month’s Goner Music Fest in Memphis, surprising festival goers with a set of ethereal-yet-personal songs that showcased Ryan’s most tender, thoughtful side yet. Lyrics about love, yearning and heartache combined with instrumentation that was raw, dusty and as tough as desert leather. |
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LOVE IS ALL
Fri. June 12
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There's an irresistible hysteria in Josephine Olausson's voice that recalls a young Björk — an amphetamine perkiness that's easy to crush-out on and probably scary to live with. But dancing to it is no problem: The New Wave rush of her band's second album rarely lets up. Sure, there's the melodica-frosted breakup ballad "A More Uncertain Future" and the Phil Spector-cum-Jesus and Mary Chain drone of "When Giants Fall." But otherwise, it's party time, with a crazed sax upping the ante. "I'm bored to death of all this shit!" Olausson hollers on "Sea Sick." Or is it "aboard this ship"? Either way, you feel her hangover. Olausson's solution? Sweat it out on the dance floor.
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STILL FLYIN'
Still Flyin' are a 15-piece band from San Francisco who've built up a reputation for gigs involving trombones, clapping, dancing and general good-time high jinks.
SHARK TOYS
A synth/guitar twosome but recently bulked to standard rockband size by addition of a bass/drummer duo sporting near-identical pornstar tashes, they laid it on in the timeless staccato lunge of self-confessed influence Black Randy & the Metrosquad. |
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VIVA VOCE
Wed. June 17
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Kevin and Anita Robinson live the kind of life they make TV shows out of, a married couple making music in their home together and touring the country to promote it. Maybe some day they'll have kids and groom them into band members, but for now just the two of them make plenty of noise, and Get Yr Blood Sucked Out is confident, psychedelic, hard-hitting, and the best noise they've made yet.
The duo's sound has sharpened, with more spacious production, simpler arrangements, and more refined songcraft: Where their three previous records all took a little time to marinate, this one is strikingly immediate. It opens with a beat and feel reminiscent of Blur's "Tender", but the harmony is much more tense, and rather than a gospel choir, "Believer" has two voices harmonizing, calm to the point of sinister, and Anita's screaming lead guitar. Her guitar is one of the album's biggest trump cards-- in an era when flashy leads are hard to come by it's something of a relief to hear economical fretboard fireworks like the squawking, melodic solo on "From the Devil Himself".
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CUT OF YOUR HANDS
Some hotly tipped, well-groomed, overseas dance-punk groups slink into the public consciousness via disco glitter and a slummy lyrical wit, but this quartet is betting on pure pop firepower. Bernard Butler produced this impressive debut, a tsunami of galloping rhythms, lightning-charged guitar lines, and choruses that immediately infect your brain. |
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CHAIRLIFT
Thu. June 18 @ Echo
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Sat. June 20 @ The Getty
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In 2007, Chairlift moved from Colorado to Brooklyn to pursue a strangely common 21st-century dream -- to create a thoroughly modern indie-pop album inspired by '80s synth-goth kitsch. The result is the trio's startlingly impressive debut: astute, melodic evocations of plinky new wave ("Bruises," "Evident Utensil") and the Cocteau Twins' smeary dreams ("Planet Health") that achieve a timeless emotional resonance. The lyrics can be ungainly ("The most evident utensil is none other than a pencil"? Really?), but when Caroline Polachek's exquisite vocals pierce the fog belt of keyboards and rumbling bass on "Home Alone" and "Make Your Mind Up," the future starts to come into focus.
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LUKE TOP
Luke Top is an LA-via-Tel Aviv transplant with a taste for twang and chime. A peek at dude's upcoming full-length, Friends, "Lord, Save Me From This Valley" is rife with the kind of balmy West Coast vibrations that Cass McCombs has been dipping into recently.
THE FREQUENCY
The Frequency are an experimental rock band based in Los Angeles. Based upon a love of Moogs, the sound of a real Fender Rhodes piano and vintage Fender amps, the collective sound is a reflection of things old and new and The Frequency cite Pink Floyd, Air, and Mogwai as a few influential groups. |
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TELEKINESIS
Sat. June 27
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I didn't listen to the Telekinesis record when it first arrived at my house. Then I heard the song "Coast of Carolina" on a radio show and waited around to see who was responsible for this infectious little beast. When I realized that it was Telekinesis, I pulled the CD out of its resting place and haven't stopped listening to it since; it accompanies me in my car, as I write at my desk and on airplanes. At first, I treated the album like I do a lot of other pop records: as a showcase for one standout song. Consequently, I continued to listen to "Coast of Carolina" as if it were the wunderkind and every other song merely runners-up in some imagined talent show. I approached the rest of the album with skepticism and reserve. And, though I never grew tired of "Coast of Carolina" (and still haven't!), eventually I wanted to know the rest of the story.
And that's how it came to be that Telekinesis' self-titled album is my current favorite. My summer sun long before the light and long days actually get here.
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THE BOAT PEOPLE
When Australia's The Boat People hit the target, they really hit it dead center. These guys create subtle, moody, provocative smart pop that is surprisingly resilient and memorable. |
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EULOGIES
Wed. July 1
@ Echo
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Bandleader Peter Walker's songs draw inspiration from the literal meaning of the term, dealing variously with despair and regret, and were crafted during a 2006 tour on which he opened for Starsailor; to his credit, Walker plays his songs much closer to the vest than his former tourmates. Eulogies simmers with emotion and brims with understated hooks, registering nearest the sensible introspection of Wheat's Hope and Adams, Nada Surf's The Weight is a Gift, or Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism.
Not so much clenched teeth as effectively restrained power-pop passion, Eulogies' most expressive moments-- the chugging chorus of "Running in the Rain", the opening guitar fanfare from "Useless Amends", the temporarily wanky solo from "Life Boat"-- are quickly subsumed to calmer tones, most often in the form of shadowy electric guitar and Walker's whispery pleas. Matters are occasionally expanded, but at the lyrical level: "Under the Knife" elevates denial to universal proportions, questioning the impact of "Those who died for us to live/ On false foundations," before reaching a fulfilling, yet discreet, refrain. "Can't Relate" overcomes the occasional overwrought lyric ("We're all swimming in the bottles of our own accord") with one of the record's most effective productions, an organ-laced acoustic brood. Opener "One Man" has a muted, Ric Ocasek-style guitar line weaving throughout, and expands into a satisfying, but self-possessed chorus.
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AVI BUFFALO
The group is comprised entirely of high school students, but their songs are polished gems that go way beyond the simple chords and throwaway delivery that is normally associated with young bands. Avi's work on the guitar is beyond expressive, creating atmospheres that lend his songs a magical quality.
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UPCOMING SHOWS
Mondays in June @ Spaceland – CASTLEDOOR
Mondays in June @ Echo - OLIVER FUTURE
Saturdays in June @ Spaceland – HALLOWEEN JACK featuring Gilby Clarke (Guns N Roses), Eric Dover (Jellyfish / Imperial Drag / Alice Cooper), Daniel Shulman (Garbage), Muck (Buckcherry)
6/6 @ Echoplex - Bootie LA 4-year Anniversary Party with Smash-up Derby / Adrian & The Mysterious D / DJ Paul V. / R.A.I.D
6/7 @ Spaceland - Ecclesia benefit for Kenya with Deep Sea Diver / We Barbarians
6/8 @ Spaceland - Castledoor / Hopewell / John Webster Johns / Eastern Conference Champions
6/10 @ Echo – Filter presents Constantines / Crystal Antlers / I Was A King
6/13 @ Echoplex - Smog Sessions with Joe Nice / XI / Juakali / The Spit Brothers / DLX / Kemst
6/14 @ Spaceland - The Present / Queens / Julia Holter
6/15 @ Echo – Oliver Future / Chris Garneau / Alexandra Hope
6/15 @ Echoplex - Buzz Bands LA presents Lassie Foundation / Amusement Parks On Fire / Magic Mirror / The Broken Remotes
6/16 @ Spaceland - Art Brut / Miike Snow
6/17 @ Spaceland - Club NME with Art Brut / Nico Stai / Tall Hands
6/18 @ Echoplex - Down & Derby Roller Disco
6/18 @ Spaceland - Art Brut / Rumspringa / Voxhaul Broadcast
6/19 @ Spaceland - Mere Mortals / Lower Heaven / Chief Nowhere / Black Kites
6/20 & 6/21 @ Echoplex - Shellac / Arcwelder
6/24 @ Echo – Scion A/V presents Trouble & Bass Crew - Drop The Lime / AC Slater / Star Eyes / The Captain / DJ Skeet Skeet
6/25 @ Spaceland - Deastro
6/26 @ Echo – Papercuts / Port O’Brien / Sean Bones
6/28 @ Spaceland - Neil Hamburger
6/30 @ Echo – The Strange Boys / The Shirley Rolls
7/4 @ Spaceland - Filter & When You Awake present Deer Tick / Dawes / Moondoggies
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