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Thorns Of Life photo by Christina Voudouris
Thorns of Life is the new band from Blake Schwarzenbach (Jawbreaker, Jets To Brazil), Aaron Elliot (Crimpshine, Pinhead Gunpowder) and Daniela Sea (actress who plays “Max” in The L Word and who played in the Berkeley punk rock bands The Gr’ups, Cypher In The Snow), who’s existence was widely reported last month when the band began playing house shows in New York and Philadelphia (where the photo above was shot).
Now us West Coasters and more specifically Los Angelenos will get a chance to see live for ourselves what Schwarzenbach and Elliot’s new group is all about when they play the Center for Arts in Eagle Rock on January 23rd. For now the only audio that exists is in the form of YouTube videos which have been posted all over, and of which you can see a good amount of over on Zane’s blog.
This show is being brought to you by the F Yeah Fest folks and tickets will be available at Headline Records in Los Angeles and Fingerprints in Long Beach starting Saturday, December 27th as well as online (sold out already).
Friday, Jan. 23rd: The Thorns of Life, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Audacity @ The Center for Arts, Eagle Rock (2225 Colorado Blvd) / All Ages / $8 / 8pm
24. December 2008 at 3:26 pm :
Yes. Thank you, baby Jesus.
26. January 2009 at 12:31 pm :
hate to say it…this was not good.
blake sang well, songs seemed decent…later jets simplified with more of east bay sensibility. BUT, the drums and bass were terrible. sure, they hit the notes, very few ‘miscues’… but not a slight bit of groove, soul or dynamics. Wierd how 40 year old musicians could be so poor.
listened to the last jets record (what I figure is blakes worst recorded album…don’t people agree?) on the way home…it was fantastical compared to the thorns.
I think they will either blake will replace them with better musicians or the band won’t last. I know having Aaron on board sounds good ‘online’ for hype…but no one was bobbing their heads or tapping their toes…and the sold out room was dying to do so. the blake-love was deep…
26. January 2009 at 2:15 pm :
that’s too bad, i couldn’t make it out to this show or the 2 other secret ones (babe’s warehouse on sat. and sis’s bar on sun.) to judge for myself (for the record, i’ve only seen Jets live), but my friend Andrew did and he snaped some photos for stereogum.