AMPS FOR CHRIST
Echo Curio
Echo Park Curiosity Shop and Art Gallery
1519 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, California 90026
DANNY B. HARVEY @ Taix
Filter Presents APOLLO SUNSHINE / THE FLYING TOURBILLON ORCHESTRA / THE CORAL SEA / KARABAL NIGHTLIFE
"FTO's sound is lush — the group sees open musical space as an opportunity to insert a guitar riff, organ fill, or percussive embellishment. Hunter Costeau's scratchy vocals blend beautifully with Kelli Kofke's soprano, giving the well crafted lyrics their due; the words to "In a Dream," a firsthand account of strangulation, might also fit comfortably in a death-metal ballad, but the band contrasts the violent tale with ringing chimes, operatic singing, and bright guitars."
-Phil Kropoth
Psychedelic rock serves variously as a baseline and a horizon for this Massachusetts band, which absorbs the weirder 1960s pop conventions into an earnest mannerism. “Shall Noise Upon” (Headless Heroes), Apollo Sunshine’s third album, revels in the trappings of a time-stamped delirium: echo-trippy vocals, analog keyboards, British accents, fuzz-tone guitars. There are lyrics about vibrations, love, reincarnation and currency. One song is called “Green Green Lawns of Outer Space.” What keeps the whole enterprise from slipping into camp (most of the time, anyway) is the care exhibited by the musicians, especially Apollo Sunshine’s core members, Jeremy Black, Sam Cohen and Jesse Gallagher. Playing many different instruments, sometimes switching off to one another, they forge a slippery continuity out of messy glory. Sometimes they also manage beauty.
- NY Times
The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra
Apollo Sunshine [Listen]
The Coral Sea [Listen]
Karabal Nightlife [Listen]
9PM / $8 ADVANCE; $10 DAY OF SHOW / 21+
Found Footage Festival
M Bar
The invigorating flipside of America's obsession with "reality" TV is the found-art movement. Case in point: FOUND magazine, which has evolved from lark to legit art rag, and its video cousin, the Found Footage Festival, which is touring the country. Curators Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher select the cream of a forgotten crop: discarded home movies plucked from thrift stores, hilarious training videos from bygone industries, and more. The guys dish and discuss afterwards, and they're always available to accept submissions of your favorite find.
– Nicholas Nauman
We’re back in Los Angeles with our brand-new 2008 show. Don’t miss it! Advance tickets are available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/41858 or by calling 1-800-838-3006
M Bar
1253 Vine St.
Los Angeles , CA 90038
Cost: $15
Laura Marling
Hotel Cafe
While it's tempting to view singer/songwriter Laura Marling through the prism of the latest UK invasion, the precocious teen's anachronistic musical qualities have no connection to Motown or Stax. Instead, Marling's debut, Alas, I Cannot Swim, is a tastefully modern spin on folk. At times, it plays eerily like the work of one of her most immediate predecessor, Beth Orton; at others, it echoes an alternate reality where Fiona Apple picked up a guitar and a stack of Joan Baez albums. And while there are occasional hints of her contemporaries, Marling ends up with something that sits more out of time than of its own.
– Doug Levy
SILVER JEWS / JAMES JACKSON TOTH
Echoplex
Silver Jews [Listen]
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea is the sixth, and best, full-length release by Silver Jews, Berman’s two-decade-long project, which he’s gradually transformed from a Pavement-infused guitar band (Stephen Malkmus was an early member) to a crystal-clear country-rock concern, with twang and torch, piano flourishes, the occasional church organ and an ever-present drive. It was produced in Nashville, Berman’s home, by Mark Nevers, who himself has carved out a secret little corner of the country-music capital by overseeing beautiful albums by Lambchop, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Calexico — as well as engineering everyone from Marie Osmond and Etta James to George Jones and Johnny Cash.
And it’s Cash’s voice that Berman’s most closely resembles. Except Berman’s is flatter, and any extended rave on his lyrical expertise must contain this proverbial asterisk: His is a punctured tire of a voice, with a sad-sack style that suggests an insurance salesman with a stuffy nose more than it does the Man in Black. It’s droll and it’s rough, but it pushes, it moves, it travels where Berman wants it to, or nearly. It’s singing as necessity, and God bless him for putting it out there. The good thing is that Berman’s wife, Cassie Berman, is the perfect foil, and her harmonies on “Open Field” and “Suffering Jukebox” help balance the tones.
- LA Weekly
David Berman's Silver Jews were once dismissed as a Pavement side project. But really, Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nostanovich's presence in the band's early incarnations were largely inconsequential: even without them, there was no denying Berman's transcendent mix of lyrical beauty (he's both studied and taught creative writing) and deadpan delivery. Whether tapping the sounds of Nashville or New York, Berman is the master of the perfect indie-folk weeper. He's recently been sharing the mic with his wife, Cassie, and it's a welcome switch-up, bringing warmth to the Jews' irreverent, poignant rock 'n roll.
– Bill Chenevert
with:
James Jackson Toth
Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
In the midst of re-creating the controversial New Yorker cover illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama for the cover photo that graces this week's print edition of Entertainment Weekly, Jon Stewart stops briefly to pose a taste question...
Well, now that you put it that way...
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¡¡¡ MARK YOUR CALENDARS !!!
The Eagle Rock Music Festival announced their line-up this week over 50 artists including locals such as Abe Vigoda, Crystal Antlers, The Flying Tourbillion Orchestra, Le Switch, Light FM, Pizza!, Radar Brothers and Upsilon Acrux (full list here).
Cult animator and Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt ("the Meaning of Life", "Rejected", "Billy's Balloon") is hitting the road this fall for a rare series of one-night-only events! A selection of Don's classic animated shorts return to the big screen, culminating in the exclusive regional premiere of his brand new film, "I am so proud of you". His longest piece to date, "I am so proud of you" is the eagerly anticipated second chapter to "Everything will be OK", winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Jury Award in Short Filmmaking and named by many critics as one of the "best films of 2007". Every screening will be immediately followed by a live on-stage interview and audience Q+A with Don Hertzfeldt.
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THE MAE-SHI @ Spaceland
THE MOVIES @ Spaceland
DENGUE FEVER @ Viper Room
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