SUNDAYS:
Rademacher (1st and 3rd) @ Spaceland (2nd and 4th) @ Eagle Rock Bowling and Drinking Club
Karin Tatoyan @ Eagle Rock Bowling and Drinking Club
MONDAYS:
Ollin @ Mr. T’s Bowl
Casxio @ Silverlake Lounge
Cydney Robinson @ Bordello
The Softlightes (pictured) @ Spaceland
Restaurant @ The Echo
The Airborne Toxic Event @ Detroit Bar
Cavil At Rest @ Detroit Bar
TUESDAYS:
The Actual @ The Key Club
WEDNESDAYS:
The Mulhollands @ Club Moscow at Boardners
Honey Honey @ Hotel Cafe
Correatown @ Bordello
THURSDAYS:
Sons and Lovers @ The Gypsy Lounge
Thank God. Yes indeed. I would too (and I’m not even religious) if I flipped my van a couple times and wallked away with only a few minor scrapes and bruises, which is just what happened to the Orange County band, Francisco The Man, this last August, three hours north of San Francisco, after just their first show of their tour. You can read the whole account on the band’s MySpace blog and also their eerily foreboding previous post.
I have been really digging on their four song demo I picked up from their SnoCap store on their MySpace page recently (first time I ever used a SnoCap store, not bad really); you should definitely download the track “Lord Knows I’m Weak” (mp3) which is sporting some heavy CCR and Neil Young vibes.
Upcoming local area shows:
Oct. 30th @ Silverlake Lounge - Los Angeles, CA
Nov. 2nd @ The Alley - Fullerton, CA
Nov. 4th @ The Prospector - Long Beach, CA
Nov. 29th @ Silverlake Lounge - Los Angeles, CA
Sunday, October 28th: Roky Erickson @ The El Rey
The legendary 13th Floor Elevators’, Roky Erickson, gives a rare performance in Los Angeles, this is a must see show. w/1990’s
13th Floor Elevators - You’re Gonna Miss Me (mp3)
Also recommended: Quasi @ Detroit Bar
Monday, October 29th: De Novo Dahl @ House of Blues Anaheim
De Novo Dahl (that band that used wear those ‘Where’s Waldo” looking jumpsuits) and Bedouin Soundclash open for Hot Hot Heat. Should be a fun show, I don’t care for Hot Hot Heat, though when I did see them some years ago, they were pretty good live.
De Novo Dahl - Shout (mp3)
Also recommended: Radars To The Sky @ Viper Room
Tuesday, October 30th: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists @ The El Rey
Want to see Ted Leo, but can’t get tickets to The Pogues show he is opening, see him with Quasi at The El Rey.
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Sons Of Cain (mp3)
Also recommended: Battles @ Henry Fonda and Regina Spektor @ The Wiltern
Wednesday, October 31st: The Pogues @ The Wiltern
Almost all the original members are back together to play their extensive catalog of punked up Irish folk tunes. w/Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God (mp3)
Also recommended: Danzig w/High On Fire @ The Greek
Thursday, November 1st: American Relay @ Alex’s Bar
American Relay are a two piece blues punk outfit from Denver, CO. Think The Black Keys with less of a delta blues influence. Also at the Juke Joint in Anaheim on November 3rd.
American Relay - Long Gone (mp3)
Also recommended: The Soft Hands @ The Nugget and Blank Blue @ The Prospector
Friday, November 2nd: Ferraby Lionheart @ Bordello
Have you read Scott’s review of Ferraby Lionheart’s new album, Catch The Brass Ring? Really that should be enough to get you to this show.
Ferraby Lionheart - Vermont Avenue (mp3)
Also recommended: The Bronx @ Safari Sams
Saturday, November 3rd: Minus The Bear @ The Avalon
Minus The Bear’s new album Planet of Ice is continuing to keep me interested, also, look out for the re-release of their brillant Highly Refined Pirates on vinyl. Also on Sunday at The Glasshouse
Minus The Bear - Dr. L’Ling (mp3)
The Warlocks - “So Paranoid” (mp3) from their new album, Heavy Deavy Skull.
Magic Lantern - “At The Mountain of Madness” (mp3) from Magic Lantern’s self-titled CD-R.
West Indian Girl are everything Perry Ferrell wishes Satellite Party was. Robert James (vocals/guitar) and Francis Ten (bass) of West Indian Girl and rest of their recently assembled six member group have effectively fused pieces of the Jane’s Addiction sound, 90’s electronic music, and sunny California pop, to form a more perfect concoction than the man himself is trying to do with his current incarnation, Satellite Party.
Not something I would listen to on a regular basis, West Indian Girl, register in the same space as Office, they write really catchy pop songs that I am a little embarrassed to admit that I like. I know I know, my musical tastes are all over the place, sorry if I am bumming out any of you who come here for the harder stuff.
Releasing their sophmore effort today, 4th & Wall, West Indian Girl have transformed from the once previous 2-piece electronic project signed to Astralworks, to a full 6-piece art pop group on the cosmopolitan label, Milan Records, who may be best known for their soundtrack releases.
Download “To Die In LA” (mp3) from 4th & Wall.
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Sunday, October 21st: The Go! Team @ Echoplex
I haven’t been able to get into The Go! Team’s newest, Proof Of Youth, but that’s not stopping me from recommending checking out their live show, sure to still be steller. w/Bodies of Water, Grand Ole Party
The Go! Team - We Listen Everyday (mp3)
Monday, October 22nd: Radamacher @ Viper Room
In a warm up to a East Side semi-November residency, Rademacher will be playing the Viper Room with I Make This Sound. Usually these Monday shows are free if you message the band to get on their list (usually unlimited).
Rademacher - If You Got Some Magic (mp3)
Tuesday, October 23rd: Light FM @ Boardners
Light FM will be celebrating the release of their new ep, Save The Drama at Joe Felder’s monthly “Let’s Indepedent”. w/Nightfur, Lo-fi Sugar
Light FM - Save The Drama (mp3)
Wednesday, October 24th: Office @ Troubadour
Office are a kind of a guilty pleasure for me, way to pop for my usual tastes, but damn if I don’t just dig the shit out of them. w/Earlimart, Pulsars
Office - Oh My (mp3)
Thursday, October 25th: Blonde Redhead @ The Wiltern
I don’t know about you, but I am glad that these two bands are finally playing a proper venue. Outside stages just don’t do Blonde Redhead and especially Autolux justice.
Blonde Redhead - 23 (mp3)
Friday, October 26th: UNKLE @ Echoplex
This should be a really special night with two bands who rarely ever perform live and also should include lots of guest appearances (if you are familiar with either artist, you’ll know who I am talking about). w/Goon Moon
UNKLE - Persons & Machinery (feat. Autolux) (mp3)
Saturday, October 27th: The Softlights @Scene Bar
The Softlightes are from San Diego and are signed to Modular Records, the band is just getting it’s started but I think we can expect big things from them.
The Softlightes - Microwave Song (mp3)
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Blackstrap - Steal My Horses and Run
Initially released in Europe in October 2006, Blackstrap’s second full length, Steal My Horses and Run, is finally seeing it’s official release in the U.S. via New York’s Tee Pee Records.
At first pass it would be easy to write off Steal My Horses and Run as just another retread of the JAMC and My Bloody Valentine catalogs, that is if it weren’t so well executed and/or if you weren’t able to make to the last quarter of the album where the band really opens things up with some more diversified song writing. Coming across much the same as Black Rebel Motorcycle Club did on their first album, Blackstrap wear their influences (Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, Neu!, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Stereolab and Suicide) on their sleeve, writing songs that would fit on any of the aforementioned bands’ albums, only with much better production.
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Triclops! - Out Of Africa
Made up of former and current members of Bottles and Skulls, Fleshies, Lower Forty-Eight and a drummer who is in too many other bands to list, San Francisco’s Triclops! are a veritable hybrid of the Bay Area underground punk/hardcore scene.
Triclops!’s “trademark” are their vocals, which for about half of Out Of Africa are run through broken solid state amps with a phaser explosion - achieving a sound that I can only describe as how the Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala would sound singing underwater. While slightly off-putting on first listen, the phasered vocals effects - delievered by Fleshies’ Johnny - become pretty aurally addictive over the course of the album, so much so that when the effect is not being used, I found myself anxiously awaiting it’s return.
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Princeton - Bloomsbury EP
Yes, basing songs upon classic literary works and-or their creators at first always seems pretentious, even ColinMeloyian, but hey, if it was good enough for the likes of Iron Maiden and David Axelrod who are we to disagree. Enter Bloomsbury, the new 4-song EP from Eagle Rock, CA’s own shaggy academes turned shaggy indie rockers, Princeton. All glib - borderline sarcastic introductions aside, Bloomsbury is well put together and accessible, surprisingly so when you consider the lyrical focus on early 20th century London intellectuals and the long list of instrumentation.
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Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul - Collectors Edition
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul is arguably one of Redding’s best albums, if not one of soul music’s best. It presents a cohesion beyond the usual collection of singles and b-sides common of the time, and it also set the stage for what would become his most recognizable and influential yet ultimately tragic song, “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”. In many ways Otis Blue is the last Otis Redding album, not technically as there’s his duet album with Carla Thomas and the posthumous Dock of The Bay, but in terms of an album that’s Otis through and through, not to mention proof of what could have been to come from the young Georgian, this is the one.
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The Heavy - Great Vengeance Furious Fire
heav·y; Of great intensity, Having great power or force, Indulging to a great degree, Of great significance or profundity…
Not since the The Clash has a band’s name been as succinct and appropriate as The Heavy. These four guys and one gal hailing from the town of Bath (UK) have an arsenal of sweet baadasssss songs that transport you back to a time when blow was big, hair was bigger and Dracula was black. However you slice, dice, cut or sort it, their album Great Vengeance and Furious Fire, released in the UK last year and here in the states just a few weeks ago, is one goddamn heavy piece of work.
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The Black Keys - Attack and Release
It can be an all-too-common occurrence for those whose musical tastes extend beyond, or completely avoid, commercial radio, that a band who one champions as underappreciated gets the recognition they deserve… but for the wrong album! And then subsequently tours ad nauseam until releasing another album to a fickle public who may or may not care anymore. Too many examples spring to mind, but my elitist and ultimately meaningless point is that while I was worried the same fate laid waiting for The Black Keys with 2006’s Magic Potion, I was thankfully wrong. It’s not that MP wasn’t a good album, it just wasn’t the album (see; Rubber Factory), but now with their latest release I can rest calmly with the assurance that The Black Keys’ (Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney) upward trajectory is analogous with the mastery that is Attack and Release.
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