M. Ward
Old Songs Gather New Moss
World Cafe, March 20, 2009 - Once a hidden gem in Portland's folk scene, singer-songwriter M. Ward joins World Café for a live set with his full band. CLICK ON IMAGE FOR LINK
Ward's swift guitar playing, intriguing lyrics and tender vocals have caught the attention of artists, such as Jenny Lewis, Cat Power, Bright Eyes and My Morning Jacket. In 2007, he began the country-folk duo She & Him along with actress Zooey Deschanel.
EVERY Tuesday at 10pm it’s "Makin’ Groceries" with Jason Mason and Charles G. The music is an eclectic mix of vintage soul, country, reggae and rock, trying to stay under the 1973 mark.
Come on down....
The Short Stop
1455 Sunset Blvd
Echo Park.
21+
No Cover. Ever.
Ceci Bastida was born and raised in Tijuana, Mexico. At the age of 15, she joined Tijuana NO as a lead vocalist, keyboardist and songwriter and became one of the first women to rise in the ranks of Latin rock. One of Mexico's most important ska-punk bands of the 1990s, Tijuana NO performed together for 12 years and recorded three albums for BMG: NO, Transgresores de la Ley, and Contra-Revolucion Avenue. In 2000, Ceci joined the band of Mexican alterna-pop icon and top-selling Sony/BMG recording artist Julieta Venegas and has been singing back-up vocals and playing keyboards with her ever since. Ceci is now embarking on her first project as a solo artist. In 2006, she released the critically acclaimed ep FRONT BC and she is now set to release VEO LA MAREA, her full-length debut album-- co-produced by Ceci, The Gifted (Giant Drag, Gran Ronde, Dirty Little Secret) and David Green (Los Abandoned). It's due in 2009. - MySpace Profile
Review from the ROCKIT.
I wasn't expecting to find anything that night. I ended up at the Echo because I was set to review a show. After the show, I figured I would stick around for Underground. I hung out on the smoking patio with my brother and my friends, talking nonsense like we would normally do. A band starting playing and my brother and I decided to go inside, just to see what was happening.
I had never heard of the Nightbirds before. I had been told that the singer was the guy who ran the Hear Gallery, but even that meant nothing to me since the Hear Gallery's heyday was during one of my "I'm so goth, I'm just going to stay home and listen to dearly departed British bands" phases. All I knew was that it was some strange hybrid between '80s-style jangly guitar pop and stoner rock and I loved every second of it. I stayed in my spot on the floor throughout the duration of the performance and not once did I feel the urge to avert my eyes from the stage.
Afterwards, Larry G., one of the club's promoters, took me backstage to meet the band. We chatted for a bit, mostly about music and upcoming shows, and did the whole MySpace exchange thing. For a minute, I felt like a kid sneaking backstage for the first time.
Much like love or a case of the stomach flu, music just happens. When you do stumble upon something that makes your heart beat a little faster, there is really no option but to tell everyone you know.
Liz Ohanesian
editor@therockitnews.com
THE MINOR CANON's music is beautifully meloncholic and has been described as "honest to god stellar sad pop" (OC Weekly) and "Memphis soul on an indie bender" (Blackbook magazine). The Los Angeles Times named the band one of "10 to Watch in 2007" saying, "So there might not be much commercial potential in a seven-piece with a horn section, but the music is as heartfelt and as inventive as it gets."
WESTERN STATES MOTEL:
MINOR CANON 11:30p
WESTERN STATES MOTEL 10:30p
M. BARKLEY GREEN’S WORKING JAZZ TRIO 8p
BART DAVENPORT
Silverlake Lounge
This singer/songwriter was once the frontman of garage/blues band, The Loved Ones and blue eyed soul stirrers, The Kinetics. Bart spent his childhood raiding his hippie parents' record collection ,Arthur Lee/Love, Gil Scott Heron and the early solo work of Paul McCartney has sewn binding stitches into much of Davenport's own musical patchwork. HARD PLACE - Hard Place is a band on the way up, and it's going to be a wild, lucrative ride for everyone on board. A power trio from S.F. that plays catchy and quirky rock, the only way to get a Hard Place song out of your head is to listen to another Hard Place song.
“a fine example of San Fran’s vinyl and thrift shop culture, turning stuff people throw out into something new”. -Mojo
BART DAVENPORT 11p
SUGAR AND GOLD 10p
BOTTICELLIS 9p
DJ Mark Lithuanian Prince
T MODEL FORD (Early Time)
DARK MEAT / GRAMPALL JOOKABOX
Echo
T Model Ford || Watch || MP3
T-Model’s 80-something years old… his Mississippi Driver’s License says he’s 84, his US Passport says he’s 87, and he says he’s 88… so you decide. He started playing guitar based on Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, but T’s only got one style: his own. T’s illiterate, so no use in talking to him about tuning. We call it “open T” because it’s his own unique sound. T-Model says he doesn’t have a care in the world. I believe him. He’s acting like he is willing to die on the road, playing music and doing what he loves.
with:Dark Meat’s debut album, Universal Indians, begins quietly, with the lone voice of Page Campbell singing an a capella intro with a distinctly pastoral lilt. Just when your ears have become accustomed to her folksy mellifluousness, “Freedom Ritual” explodes in a rapture of sound, as approximately two-thirds of the population of Athens, Georgia, come in all at once. Or at least that’s how it sounds. Dark Meat is a Southern rock (or Southern-rock) collective headed by Jim McHugh and spiritually guided by free-jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, and Universal Indians features nearly 30 musicians seemingly playing at the same time.
These sprawling songs hang together loosely, dense and busy with different textures, which are caked on in thick brushstrokes to sound large and layered: Jeff Tobias and Alexis Daglis’ saxophones squall through “Assholes for Eyeballs”, adding a grainy dissonance, while the marching-band brass make “One More Trip” sound like the coolest field show ever. “Angel of Meth” features girl-group harmonies and “Be My Baby” drums. Descending guitar riffs fall through “Dead Man” and “In the Woods”; choirs of backing vocals echo the choruses, punctuating McHugh’s drunken vocals with Stonesy staccato ooh-oohs; gospel cries occasionally pierce the din. - Pitchfork
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Grampall Jookabox
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Started in the basement of an indie record shop, this clever and efficient Australian duo have experienced rapid success, scoring a U.S. deal via tourmates Tegan and Sara and placing a song (the jagged, confident “Postcards”) in a Mercedes commercial. Kate Cooper’s tales of awkward, broken love and chronic miscommunication don’t seem ripe for selling sedans, but her reedy voice and zippy melodic guitar, plus drummer Damon Cox’s imperfect harmonies, keep things from getting too depressing. Clever/corny lines — “Like that good Hole album / I can live through this” — add levity, too. - Spin
with:
Wintersleep || Listen
Amateurs || Listen
The Spinto Band || Listen || Watch
With an obvious love of Brit pop, a weakness for ecstatic vocal harmonies and a stimulant-fueled disposition, the six young men twitched, leaped and hurled themselves through a thoroughly entertaining and nearly non-stop set. These boys have played together for a long time, and the practice showed last night in the tight starts and stops and seamless transitions between songs. The band even played a note-perfect instrumental cover of “Genius of Love” as an introduction to one of their originals.
But it was the energy and obvious sense of fun with which the Spinto Band attacked its songs that made the performance so engaging. Dueling frontmen Nick Krill and Thomas Hughes each brought his own unique and quirky personality to the stage. While the lanky Krill ran in place and flopped his hair back and forth, the cartoonish Hughes spasmed with the high notes and donned a clothes-hanger apparatus that allowed him to play his kazoo (yep) hands-free. This was another performance that was so strong and just plain fun that I’ll have to go back to check out the record again (2005’s Nice and Nicely Done was the band’s first widely distributed disc, but its seventh overall). - Westword
With:
Maps & Atlases || Listen
GO SEE KIM!!! - Light FM
8:30pm / $10 Advance, $12 Day Of Show / 21+
MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY!!!
"smart, thoughtful, plus loud"-RadioFreeSilverlake.com
"fucking incredible"-ClassicalGeekTheatre.com
"MMM are inheritors of postpunk who don’t pander to its legacy, they extend it"-WebInFront.net
thanks for the 'heads up' Joe!
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
new film by spike jonze
see more pics after the jump!
you should already know about them...
COMPETITION IS NOW OPEN!
The Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council is a grassroots-level advisory committee set-up by a 1999 revision to the City of Los Angeles Charter that created the Neighborhood Council system. We represent our community on issues ranging from affordable housing and sustainability to arts, land use, education, and public safety.
Our 28-member volunteer Board of Directors represents residents, business owners, public and private sector employees, the homeless, social service providers, artists, and educators across Downtown and is elected by stakeholders every two years. Past successes include ArtWalk and other community events such as Park[ing] Day LA, Project Homeless Connect, community mixers and advocacy on many community issues.
The Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council logo competition is now open through May 12, 2009 and we're looking to redefine our image to reflect the qualities of Downtown and the neighborhood we so proudly represent.
How to Enter: Enter up to three submissions and help us define our organization by emailing your submission to logo@dlanc.com. If you have any questions, please email us at logo@dlanc.com All entries will be on display for public viewing at the May 14, 2009 ArtWalk! MORE INFO AFTER THE JUMP
It's begun...um, yeah, okay Mr. Ward...it continues...
This morning on KCRW's live coverage of SXSW, Anne Litt proclaimed "Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, you heard it here first!" A good lot of us have loved them since their conception...glad to see their notoriety growing...
click the image for a listen!
Full Coverage Of South By Southwest
Hear archived concerts and see photos at NPR Music's SXSW page.
¡¡¡ MARK YOUR CALENDARS !!!
Green Drinks allows for anyone concerned about environmental issues to get together over a drink. West Side 1st, South Bay 2nd, Hollywood/Silverlake 3rd, Valley 4th - Thursday. Downtown 4th Wednesday. Green Drinks events are very simple, informal, unstructured, and self organizing but help connect the green network. Let's bring together the huge LA environmental community and have fun doing it!
Pharmaka Gallery
101 West 5th Street at Main
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Juliette Commagere
Listen to/Watch entire show:
Queens Die Proudly
[Aeronaut Records]
Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Says Sunset Junction Needs an Overhaul
[...]Ultimately, the Board voted unanimously in favor of a motion stating that it will "oppose the Sunset Junction Street Festival in its current format." What this means for the future of the popular festival is still unknown... LAWeekly.com
Relocation, fee changes, cancellation? Speculate wildly!
Here's some video of Soko's last and only known L.A. performance:
Echo Park Named One of Top 10 Great Neighborhoods
And when you hear that, you might find yourself asking which Realtor came up with that ranking. Luckily, this time there is some creditability behind the designation: the American Planning Association. They "singled out Echo Park because of its breathtaking topography set in the hills above downtown, historic architecture, pedestrian-oriented streets and stairways, and engaged residents who, over the years, have gone to great lengths to protect and preserve their community," according to an APA release (add: their website has more info and history on why EP was chosen) .... more after you click on the image!
SUBMIT YOUR PICTURES!!!
THE MAE-SHI @ Spaceland
THE MOVIES @ Spaceland
DENGUE FEVER @ Viper Room
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