MR. GNOME
Silverlake Lounge
"This duo's debut full-length balances a soulful, feminine power that recalls Scout Niblett and a drummer who coldly demands dymanic shifts with almost electronic precision. It's an earnest tug-of-war.
~Spin
The excellent "Night of the Crickets," where great swipes of serrated guitar slash across Nicole Barille's gooey vocals. The absolute antidote to all those shrinking violets we've been big upping lately.
~ Rolling Stone.com
"Rabbit" from mr. Gnome's debut full-length, Deliver This Creature, pulls a heckuva lot of noise out of a small hat, pretty much just Sam Meister's tribal drums and the reverberating vocals and sludgily atmospheric guitar fills of Nicole Barille.
~Pitchfork
Breathy femme vocals waft airily through ethereal soundscapes. Surges of jagged hard-rock guitars come out of nowhere, shake things up and disappear again. Boxy rhythms trip and hop, connecting disparate pieces of sound. Disembodied vocals float above churning snare rattles. Something weird and wonderful is going on in Cleveland.
~LA Weekly
BROKEN DREAMS - Hosted by China Art Objects
Mountain Bar
Hosted by China Art Objects Steve Hanson & The Red Krayolas Tom Watson, as well as some very special guests.
Playing old faves that you thought you forgot, but are so glad to remember.
Come be down with us. - MB
DAN LE SAC VS. SCROOBIUS PIP / B DOLAN /
DJ PAUL V.
Echo
Dan Le Sac v. Scroobius Pip
Pip, the man with the densest, most imposing beard in UK rap, has a similarly formidable set of rhymes that delight throughout Angles. On Development, Scroobius praises Mos Def for rhyming the alphabet, before a mid-song switching of beat sees him rap the periodic table to hilarious and exhilarating effect.
This smart spitting, redolent of a suburban Skinny Man or more long-in-the-tooth Mike Skinner, is used to effectively elicit poignancy on Tommy and most notably on Magician’s Assistant. While a moody soundscape sounds like a scary stagger away from consciousness, Pip chats about self-harm. The result is a better anti-suicide ode than REM’s Everybody Hurts.
Le Sac’s production highlights include cutting Dizzee Rascal grime beats into Fixed, meaty trance throbs on the malevolent shoplifting tale of the title track and his inspired use of a sample from Radiohead’s Planet Telex on Letter From God To Man. It’s to his credit there’s as much deft imagination in the music as there is in the lyrics.
- BBC
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip return to LA after a spring supporting Mark Ronson on the road — and managing to shoehorn in a whistlestop tour of the US while out and about. Big man Dan lays down wicked trip-hop beats while beardy man Scroobius provides the angry but hysterically witty lyrics. With a new album out and the memory of last year's chart hopping still in mainstream consciousness, this could be the last opportunity to see them without having to book in advance.
– Gavin Cassidy
BEACH HOUSE / LAZARUS / SHUGO TOKUMARU
Spaceland
Beach House [Listen] [Watch]
Their music was like waltzing wedding cake models in a music box; the sound of atrophied romance, obscure regrets and flickering confetti set to a shoegaze siren call that brought to mind the likes of Mazzy Star and Slowdive whilst gently asserting a hushed authority all of its own.
Devotion resonates with the same formless essence as its predecessor, but also far exceeds it in both composition and execution. The funereal organ and sparse, chintzy beats remain, but the sound is more fleshed-out and vivid with harpsichord and lushly textured keys, Alex Scally’s slide guitar in particular more languidly expressive than ever, as if tracing the curves of old flames on the brilliant ‘Gila’.
To say this record elevates the band far above the swollen ranks of shuffling shoegazers currently doing the rounds is putting it mildly - in Devotion, Beach House have created as profound an invocation of the sacred and the sentimental as you’re ever likely to hear.
- Drowned in Sound
A self-proclaimed master of more than 100 instruments, avant-folkie Shugo Tokumaru fuses traditional Japanese tropes with the more-precious-than-thou twee-isms of Sufjan Stevens and the dissonant orchestrations of Animal Collective. Using a mélange of guitars, mandolins, strings, harmonicas, bike wheels, ambient atmospheres, and found sounds, Tokumaru's complex structures retain a universal appeal. Recent release Exit is a less tentative endeavor than earlier, more minimalist masterworks Night Piece and L.S.T. — it's a confident mash of bizarre instruments and off-kilter harmonies. He plays tonight with Baltimore-bred psychers Beach House.
– Andrew Phillips
with:
Lazarus
Shugo Tokumaru
9PM / $12 ADVANCE; $14 DAY OF SHOW / 21+
Dear Friends and Family,
Just a small note to let you know that I am writing a tour blog for the next three months while I am traveling and playing with M83 throughout Europe and the US. The blog will be hosted by Kevin Bronson who was a senior music writer and editor for the LA Times. I am thrilled and honored that he asked me to do this. Should you have the time and the inclination to check it out, the link is as follows:
BUZZ BANDS
I hope this email finds you all healthy and happy, and hopefully i will see you while I'm on the road.
Lots of love,
Morgan
¡¡¡ 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.
SUBMIT YOUR PICTURES!!!
THE MAE-SHI @ Spaceland
THE MOVIES @ Spaceland
DENGUE FEVER @ Viper Room
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