Inflight At Night

Los Angeles’ Mezzanine Owls are currently streaming their debut full length album “Slingshot Echoes” on their not quite fully functional website. I think listened to it 3 times through tonight, it’s that good.

Make sure you go see them at Chain Reaction on November 15th with Polus, The Meeting Places and Solare.

UPDATE: The Mezzanine Owls will be headlining Let’s Get Independent on November 28th at Boardners.

It’s not even Halloween yet and I am already Halloweened out, but for those of you who aren’t, and can sustain one more night of being piss drunk and dancing your ass off, there is plenty to do tomorrow on the holiday’s official night.

Chromeo and Los Angeles locals, Suicide Club, will be taking the stage at Cinespace while down on Sunset at Safari Sam’s, Franki Chan and crew are hosting Justice, MSTRKRFT, and Totally Radd. And across town Ladytron wrap up what seems like a week’s worth of LA area shows at the El Rey with Midnight Movies.

Maybe getting drunk and dancing is not your thing, maybe you rather just get drunk, then direct yourself to The Echo where Dios Malos are playing a special Halloween set.

Or maybe you’re older and want to avoid a bunch of drunk twenty somethings, well you also got Devo and Bow Wow Wow playing the Greek.

So the other night I tagged along with a friend to the Viper Room to check out a young band from Lake Havasu, AZ, called Blackmarket. Yeah I know what your thinking, “I didn’t even think people lived there, let alone bands”. Well apparently it’s true, though here at IAF our knowledge of Havasu is limited to what we’ve seen in the commercials for Girls Gone Wild videos.

Ok on to the band, they seem really young, like they might not be legally allowed to enter a bar. Their bio says they’ve been a band since 2003 though I suspect it has only been recently that they have gotten serious. Despite their lack of a cohesive stage presence (chock that up to inexperience), singer/guitarist Daryl Lamont definitely shined through as the leader of the band who could in time be a great front man.

Apparently I am not the only who taken notice of the band as Larry at Future Sounds has pointed out that the weasels are ready to get their hooks in them. Also the Hell Ya girls seem to be on this one too.

Download Bad Call (mp3) and Colors (mp3) from “We Come In Peace”.

Recently releasing their debut on New York’s Kemado Records with it’s shortest song clocking in at just under 7 minutes, Portland by the way of Chicago glam-art-wizard-pysch rockers, Danava, are hitting Safari Sams this Saturday sans Witchcraft who were denied entry to the country by US Customs.

Download Quiet Babies Astray in a Manger (mp3) and By The Mark (mp3) from their self titled Kemado debut “Danava”.

Danava/Saviours/Earthless/Estradasphere play Safari Sam’s in Los Angeles this Saturday (10/28).

It should also be mentioned that Oakland’s Saviours kick some serious ass, download their track Holy Slaughter (mp3) from their Level Plane release “Crucifire”.

Regardless of your thoughts on The Secret Machines, one has got to admit this is pretty cool event that deserves a mention based on the it’s intentions alone.

This Tuesday, October 24th, New York’s The Secret Machines will be performing at Union Station in Los Angeles for the Global Inheritance event, Public Displays of Affection. This event is the first in a upcoming series of concerts that Global Inheritance hopes will help Angelenos rediscover the lost art of public transportation.

Anyone who rides the train or bus into Union Station this day will be able to use their ticket stub to enter the show for free. Also, FYI, for those planning to just drive to Union Station and buy a ticket, that doesn’t count, tickets purchased at Union Station will not be permitted, plus what would be the fun or adventure in that. Taking the train in LA is fun, I’ve actually only done it once in college for my Cultural Geography class, but it pretty interesting, as I love the adventure in mass transit and think that Los Angeles’ lack of larger mass transit system and it’s citizens who refuse to embrace it will be the city’s achilles heal in the future.

In addition to The Secret Machine’s live set, Shepard Fairey will be DJing throughout the night, and The Cobrasnake will have an art exhibit featuring his photos documenting L.A.’s public transportation system.

To plan your trip to Union Station visit the Metrolink website and plan on getting to Union Station a tad on the early side due to space constraints.

Pretty Girls Make Graves are playing Detroit Bar’s anniversary party, for their five-year anniversary party; the show is guest list only. Then you got the Beastie Boys playing Sole Tech’s afterparty for their Etnies Goofy vs. Regular Skate Contest, tickets are hard to get supposedly.

My suggestion, forget trying to get into these shows and go see Starlight Desperation and This Blush at Spaceland.