Inflight At Night

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will be playing The Echo tomorrow night as the “special guests” followed by a performance at Sunset Junction on Saturday.

Opening the show tomorrow night at The Echo will be Kristin King performing solo. King is also the lead singer/guitarist for the band Pretty Vicious, her solo stuff is really good which shouldn’t really be any surprise to those who are fans of Pretty Vicious. Download the track, Asleep At The Wheel from her Kaleidoscope of Hearts ep.

Also on the bill is a band I am unfamiliar with called The Karabal Nightlife who are getting set to release a new album called The Other Shore that was produced by Rick Parker who also recently produced Gliss’ new full length and has worked with BRMC, The Dandy Warhols, and The Shore in the past. Download the track, I Know Too Much from the aforementioned new album The Other Shore.

On October 7th the LA Weekly will be hosting their first annual music festival in downtown Los Angeles called Detour. Scheduled to perform are:

Beck
Queens of the Stone Age
Basement Jaxx
Peeping Tom
Redd Kross
Nortic Collective
Blackalicious
Of Montreal
The Like
The Elected
Oh No! Oh My!
The Blood Arm
Everybody Else
Howling Bells
Wired All Wrong
+more to tba soon…

Tickets are $35.50 and a portion of the proceeds will benefit Tree People (yeah, they do exactly what you are thinking, they plant trees).

Looks pretty good, if I weren’t leaving for Belize at 6am that morning you would probably find me down there watching Blackalicious, Peeping Tom, and Beck.

Continuing their streak of getting on good tours (previously Pretty Girls Make Graves/Giant Drag), Whale Bones, are currently opening some West Coast shows on the Wolf Parade/Frog Eyes tour which just happens to be coming to The Wiltern in Los Angeles this Friday.

Download the new Whale Bones track, Ladyfingers (mp3), and then swing by their MySpace page to download a couple more.

I missed the last Pretty Vicious show with Motorcycle Boy due to a night of disposing of a bug problem, but I’m not letting anything get in the way of seeing this show. And if those two band weren’t enough to get you down to the show, Molecules have been added to the bill.

Safari Sams
5214 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
9pm / Free / All Ages

Went to the Key Club last night to see what that band that has that song in the Snakes On A Plane movie and is played like 5 millions times a day on KROQ is all about. Why you ask. Because I had to go to LA to pick up an air mattress for my trip to Baja this weekend from my brother and I didn’t want to just turn around and drive back to Long Beach. And you know, just cause I could, is that a good enough answer.

Anyways it sucked as anyone reading might have expected and was exactly what I expected. I thought maybe The Sounds were going to play, maybe they did and I missed them, don’t know. I got there around nine and there was some people on stage rapping and playing acoustic guitar, the only one I recognized was that singer from Fall Out Boy. Shitty. Then some kids with a keyboard and acoustic guitar played some really horrible Dashboard Confessional sounding stuff.

About at our limit, Cobra Starship played. It was pretty bad, the regular band and Gabe (not the people from the single) played 4 songs and then they got the guest performers from single (William Beckett of The Academy Is…, Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes, and Maja Ivarsson of The Sounds) to get on stage to perfrom the song, who by the way didn’t look all that enthused to be there. Is it just me or does that song’s chorus sound like the chorus in Kelly Clarkson’s “Since You’ve Gone” and the rapping part sounds like De La Soul’s part in the Gorillaz “Feel Good Inc.”.

After that Fall Out Boy was going to play, but we left. Thought about trying to catch Division Day and Birdmonster at Spaceland, but decided to just call it a night and went home.

Who: Dios & Rolling Blackouts
Where: Alex’s Bar
When: Every Sunday In August
How Much: Free before 6pm with BBQ, $3 after 6pm, bands start at 7pm
MP3’s: Dios - Feels Good Being Somebody and Rolling Blackouts - Hung Up on the Hang Ups