DANNY B. HARVEY @ Taix
THE NEW YEAR / A WEATHER / MODERN MEMORY @ Echo
The New Year [Listen] [Watch]
The New Year has emerged from the studio with 10 songs that will comprise their upcoming self-titled album, to be released September 9, 2008.
The Brothers Kadane, along w/ the rest of the group, have been making music for the last 17 years - in the 1990s with Bedhead and for the last decade with The New Year. They take their time making records, and this is only their third, and the first since 2004’s The End is Near.
Lyrically, these ten songs address the interlocked themes of lost time, frustrated desire, and the need for others. Although musically these may be the band’s most varied songs — for a band that made innovative use of three guitars, almost half the songs here are built around the piano — it is the careful sequence of these songs that brings the story the lyrics tell together. - Echo
Texas strummers the New Year steep their gentle arrangements and whispered vocals in subtle ironies and jaded lyrical allusions. On their new, self-titled album, the band lands a bit like Death Cab for Cutie with an extra layer of wistfulness — not surprising, considering that the New Years' members hail from '90s slowcore underdogs Bedhead. Either way, the heartfelt melodies cut straight to that sticky place at the bottom of your throat. Openers A Weather play delicate indie-folk, while Modern Memory add confident, radio-ready pop to the mix. – Natalya Krimgold
With:
A Weather [Listen]
Modern Memory [Listen]
Hammer Presents
Restless Brilliance
Film Short
Exploring current trajectories in music and video while showcasing new work in the field of experimental electronic and audiovisual performance, Restless Brilliance presents artists that are blurring the lines between music, cinema, performance, and art.
Screening: Colorfield Variations, a collection of audio/visual works reinterpreting the Color Field movement by an international array of critically acclaimed sound and new media artists. Live performance: Shuttle358 seamlessly blends the soft sounds of ambient music with the granular aesthetics of modern digital minimalism. - Hammer
You can't swing a Wii stick without hitting one blurred genre or another at audiovisual juggernaut Restless Brilliance. Presented by new-media organization Volume Projects, tonight's program features a live performance by avant-electro celebrity Shuttle 358 (aka Fenton, aka Dan Abrams) and Richard Chartier's 2007 conceptual masterpiece Colorfield Variations — a compendium of sound-and-light art by an international roster of digital and A/V artists riffing on the modern-painting idiom. – Shana Nys Dambrot
Tonight is the infamous Margarita Wednesday in Echo Park at the Barragan's. That means tasty margs for 2.50 all night and complimentary chips and salsa. And to sweeten the deal FREE nachos bar B4 7:30. SO come early. and rumor has it there will be free margarita tickets given away all night. Hump Day never tasted so sweet.
See ya tonight in the Park
-the Barragan's
The Gold Room is an attitude-free oasis of cantilevered-breasted waitresses, cheap drinks, hard men escaping the ball n’ chain (you see no women here except what the hipsters drag in), as well as banda blasting from the juke. Free food is often on the agenda as well, with free peanuts, popcorn, and sometimes even tacos being slung along with your Pacifico.
While all this sounds too good to be true, The Gold Room is actually a well-oiled machine with an interesting and innovative way to deal with gentrification. Everyone is welcome to dine, drink, and make good friends with the friendly regulars, but unwritten bar policy has it that only two small tables of punky invaders is allowed at a time. Sure enough, the second this policy is violated by some messy-haired too-cool-for-school guitar hero, every regular in the joint gets one free sock to the stomach of said interloper. It is a very nice, efficient system for keeping gentrification in check and The Gold Room in the hands of those who need it and love it. – L.A. TACO
Michael Moore is Giving Away His New Movie
Maybe a learnt lesson from when SiCKO was leaked on Google Video last year, Michael Moore is giving away free downloads of his latest documentary Slacker Uprising, his get out the younger person vote flick.
Is there a catch? Kinda. "This is being done entirely as a gift to my fans," Moore writes on his website for the movie. "The only return any of us are hoping for is the largest turnout of young voters ever at the polls in November." So yeah, free is good, but your right to vote is even better. A preview of the movie is below.
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By Zach Behrens
American Apparel's Dov Charney on SNL
America's favorite sexually-harassing clothier and Gawker Media punching bag, Dov Charney, was the subject of some SNL riffing this past weekend. Dov is being sued for the fifth time by a former employee for sexual harassment, and cast member Fred Armisen slipped into several pounds of fake facial hair so "Dov" could give his take on the charges. As someone who worked for and met Dov on several occasions, I have to say that Armisen's impersonation is pretty spot on, particularly the voice, general cluelessness about his own skeeviness, and the "so sue me!" attitude. The only thing wrong: Dov would never hit on a female over the age of 19. - Jezebel
¡¡¡ 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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