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Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]
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Sunday, November 18th: Jay Reatard @ The Smell
Jay Reatard - the one man songwriting machine - formerly of The Lost Sounds and The Reatards is touring behind his solo releases Blood Visions and Night of Broken Glass. Look out for the Flying V’s. w/Mika Miko, No Age, The Srange Boys
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Jay Reatard - All Over Again (mp3)
Also recommended: Rademacher @ Spaceland, The Strange Boys (later that night) @ The Echo
Monday, November 19th: The Strange Boys @ The Doll Hut
This is the final show of The Strange Boys stint in Southern California, they are listed as playing The Echo, but I’m pretty sure that’s wrong. w/Jay Reatard
[audio:http://www.thetripwire.com/assets/audio/strangeboys_allkingsarethesame.mp3]
The Strange Boys - All Kings Are The Same (mp3)
Also recommended: Castledoor @ Detroit Bar
Tuesday, November 20th: Pleasureboaters @ The Scene Bar
Seattle’s Pleasureboaters are on their first West Coast tour supporting their debut release, Gross, that I can best describe as a car crash between The Blood Brothers and These Arms Are Snakes. w/Tweak Bird, The Front, Tsk Tsk
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Pleasureboaters - Andalou (mp3)
Also Recommended: Big Business @ Troubadour, Skybombers @ Viper Room, The Soft Hands @ Silverlake Lounge
Wednesday, November 21st: Spindrift @ The Echo
Back from tours with The Black Angels and Hopewell, Spindrift return to Los Angeles for a pre-Thanksgiving show at The Echo.
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Spindrift - Legend of God’s Gun (mp3)
Also recommended: Municipal Waste @ House of Blues
Thursday, November 22nd: Crystal Antlers @ The Prospector
It’s always nice to spend time with family, but usually after a few hours you’ve had enough and are ready to make an escape. Normally there is no where to go on the holidays, but this Thanksgiving you are in luck as Crystal Antlers are playing. w/Dr. Frederick Phases, Sonic Dread
[audio:crystalantlers_partingsong.mp3]
Crystal Antlers - Parting Song For The Torn (mp3)
Friday, November 23rd: Minicipal Waste @ The Galaxy
Look out for flying boogie boards and brace yourself for a thrash attack, Municipal Waste are coming to Southern California with Suicidal Tendencies in support of their new album, The Art of Partying.
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Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying (mp3)
Also recommended: ExitMusic @ El Cid, Cold War Kids @ The Wiltern
Saturday, November 24th: Shields @ The Prospector
A night of fuzzy hazy spacey shoegazer rock and ambient sounds. All the bands on the bill - Shields, Tropic of Cancer, and Midnight Gardners sound like they could have contributed songs to the Lost In Translation soundtrack.
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Shields - Summer Is Here (mp3)
Also recommended: The Swedish Models @ The Roxy
Monotonix at The Smell by ME
Monotonix from Tel Aviv, Israel, who I saw earlier this year in Austin at SXSW came through Los Angeles last night for a balls to the wall ripping set at The Smell. The 3-piece (vocals, guitar, drums) don’t need a stage and actually probably prefer the floor for their hurricane-like performances that leave both themselves and the audience usually covered in some type of fluid (I’m sure most club managers are glad the band prefers the floor as well, as they have quite the knack of creating a mess wherever they go). With a lead singer who has the presence like that of Eugene Hütz and David Yow, a guitarist who plays the rhythm, the lead, and the bass lines all at once, and a stand-up drummer who doesn’t stop no matter what piece of his kit is pulled away from him and hoisted above the crowd, Monotonix just might be one of the most exiciting live bands playing today.
Download “Summers & Autumns” (mp3)
[audio:http://www.monotonix.com/audio/summers.mp3]
and “Body Language” (mp3) from Monotonix’s 2007 self-titled release.
[audio:http://www.monotonix.com/audio/body.mp3]
The Strange Boys photo by Sarah Jane Semrad
Dallas, TX’s The Strange Boys will be making their way to Los Angeles for a long weekend packed full of performances, sometimes two in one day. A quick topical comparison would be The Black Lips, except The Strange Boys don’t have a steamroller of hype behind them (Vice), which is probably why you haven’t heard of them yet. But give it time. And you can thank Sean Carlson who booked the band on past two Fuck Yeah Fests for initially kick starting our, and now your, interest in the band.
11/16 Live in the KXLU studios (5pm) - Los Angeles, CA
11/16 The Whistlestop - San Diego, CA
11/17 The Comic Bug - Manhatten Beach, CA (w/Bad Dudes, E>K>U>K, The Prayers)
11/17 The Vermont House - Los Angeles, CA (w/Brother Reade)
11/18 The Smell - Los Angeles, CA (w/Jay Reatard, No Age, Mika Miko, Disaster)
11/18 The Echo - Los Angeles, CA (Part Time Punks)
11/19 Linda’s Doll Hut - Anaheim, CA (w/Jay Reatard)
Download “All Kings Are The Same” (mp3)
[audio:http://www.thetripwire.com/assets/audio/strangeboys_allkingsarethesame.mp3]
and “Drugs Iggy Drugs” (mp3) from The States Newest Noise Makers.
[audio:http://audio.sxsw.com/2007/mp3/The_Strange_Boys-drugs_iggy_drugs.mp3]
I went and caught Pieta Brown’s set at the Silverlake Lounge last night, the Iowan and daughter of the folk singer Greg Brown, just released her third album, Remember The Sun on One Little Indian (you can stream the album in it’s entirety there).
Pieta played solo, giving the performance a real “coffee shop” feel, which was a little disappointing given that a set with a backing band would have, in my mind, made a more striking impression. Don’t get me wrong, the songs were there as was Pieta’s beautiful voice, I just think that the Silverlake Lounge was not the ideal place for such a set from a singer-songwriter who has a very reserved stage presence and seems kind of lost in her own head.
If you happened to miss Pieta’s performance on KCRW yesterday morning (which is what I imagine she was in town for in the first place), it is streaming in both audio and video formats now on KCRW’s website, and was a pretty good precursor to her performance later that night with Pieta performing the songs “West Monroe”, “In My Mind I Was Talking To Loretta”, “Rollin’ Down The Track”, “Remember The Sun”, “Rolling and Tumblin” (Muddy Waters cover), and a new song called “Calling All Angels”.
Download “In My Mind I Was Talking To Loretta” (mp3) from Pieta’s new album Remember The Sun.
[audio:http://www.onelittleindian-us.com/freemp3/pieta_in_my_mind.mp3]
Also, take a listen to the song “807″ (mp3) from her previous album, In The Cool.
[audio:http://audio.sxsw.com/2006/mp3/Pieta_Brown-_number_807.mp3]
Remember The Sun is out now, get it from: Amazon
Sunday, November 11th: The Masque 30th Anniversary Party @ EchoPlex
Classic live footage of the Avengers, The Weirdos, F Word, Screamers + The Diffs covering The Germs, The Dogs, Wild Weekend does The Zeroes, Deadbeats, Billy Bones - original singer from The Skulls, Shock / Holly Vincent, The Crowd, The Flyboys, Controllers, The Eyes featuring Charlotte Caffey, Dj Bonebrake and Joe Ramirez, The Plugz featuring Tito Larriva, Charlie Quintana and Barry McBride performing “Electrify Me”, The Stitches, The Gears
Also recommended: Cursive @ Spaceland, Moonrats @ Scene Bar
Monday, November 12th: The Jealous Girlfriends @ Silverlake Lounge
I keep hearing good things about The Jealous Girlfriends and since I missed their show with Great Northern, this is a nice second chance. w/Casxio, Evan Voytas, A For Attack
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The Jealous Girlfriends - Heiroglyphics (mp3)
Also recommended: Radars To The Sky @ Detroit Bar
Tuesday, November 13th: Pieta Brown @ Silverlake Lounge
I really like Pieta Brown’s new album Remember The Sun. The daughter of Greg Brown, this is Pieta’s fourth album and was produced by Lucinda Williams’ guitarist and bandleader, Bo Ramsey.
[audio:http://www.onelittleindian-us.com/freemp3/pieta_in_my_mind.mp3]
Pieta Brown - In My Mind I Was Talkin’ To Loretta (mp3)
Wednesday, November 14th: The King Kahn & BBQ Show @ The Juke Joint
Another great Tiger Mask line up at The Juke Joint with Mark Sultan’s King Kahn & BBQ Show with The Rolling Blackouts and Thee Makeout Party!
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The King Kahn & BBQ Show - I’ll Never Belong (mp3)
Also recommended: The Valley Arena @ Scene Bar
Thursday, November 15th: Citay @ 6th St. Warehouse
San Francisco’s Citay at first was just Ezra Feinberg and Tim Green from The Fucking Champs, but now there is a live band that includes members of Tussle, Crime in Choir, The Dry Spells. Their new album, Little Kingdom is quite good. w/The Moon Upstairs, Sea of Air, Joseph Mattson
[audio:http://www.scjag.com/mp3/do/firstfantasy.mp3]
Citay - First Fantasy (mp3)
Also recommended: Division Day @ Echoplex, Monotonix @ The Smell, Free Blood @ Detroit Bar, The King Kahn & BBQ Show @ Spaceland
Friday, November 16th: Ya Ho Wa 13 @ EchoPlex
I think this all too weird to pass up, with the cult thing, rock bands, hippie attire, and other assorted odd shit. Plus Entrance is playing so if everything else is a bust, at least there’s that. Performances by Ya Ho Wa 13, Sly Saxon & The Seeds, Entrance, and Hecuba
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Ya Ho Wa 13 w/Sly Saxon - Wolf Pack (mp3)
Also recommended: Crystal Antlers @ Que Sera, The Strange Boys @ The Echo
Saturday, November 17th: Darker My Love @ Troubadour
The new Darker My Love record will be out next year, but if you don’t already have their debut, you can download it for free from Dangerbird Records. w/The Warlocks
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Darker My Love - Summer Is Here (mp3)
Also recommended: The Strange Boys @ The Comic Bug, The Parson Red Heads @ The Echo
