X-LARGE - art show
The X-Large store is opening up it's doors and hosting not only an art show, but a fully stocked open bar. Check out the urban duds and remember how much your city loves you. - My Open Bar dot com
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A-TRAK @ LA CITA
After winning the DMC DJ Championships at age 15, A-Trak embarked on a meteoric rise that continues to this day. The Montreal native has manned the decks for Kanye, started a record label that boasts releases from Treasure Fingers and Kid Sister, and become an important tastemaker in party circles. While his Dirty South Dance mixtape crystallizes everything that's fun about mashup culture, his first official release came this year with Running Man, the latest entry in the Nike + Original Run series. Tonight, A-Trak brings his flawless mix of electro, club bangers, and hip-hop to the beat-thrashing Dance Right weekly at La Cita. – Scott Tomford
THE OOHLAS @ SILVERLAKE LOUNGE
BOB LOG III / SCOTT H BIRAM / LEFT LANE CRUISER @ ECHO
Bob Log III
“When I turned 11 I got my first AC/DC record and that’s when I stopped putting the guitar down, let’s put it that way. I’m 33 now, my guitar playing’s 22. That means last year it became old enough to drink in America,” laughs the patently indescribable one-man-band Bob Log III. The Tucson-based Log has just lobbed Log Bomb, his latest bundle of bluesy, boozey and breast-obsessed mayhem, into an unsuspecting world. His is a baffling but playful mix of talent and novelty, truth and fiction. Accompanied only by his guitar (played with one human hand and one fabled “monkey paw,” allegedly transplanted onto his arm after a boating accident), he offers an almost ridiculous but somehow compelling musical ride, fuelled as much by his love of the guitar as his “appreciation” of the fairer sex. To truly understand the phenomenon that is Log, one must attend one of his live shows, slightly surreal, must be seen-to-be-believed experiences where Log plays the guitar like the salvation of his soul depends on it, his face hidden under a requisite helmet. Log claims the helmet serves the dual purposes of housing a mic for his vocals (”If I fall over I can still play guitar and sing,” he explains) and obscuring his face form the girl he’s hiding from (It’s like a security barricade”). - Uptown
with:
Scott H Biram [Listen]
Left Lane Cruiser
1st & Central Summer Concerts at The Japanese American National Museum:La Santa Cecilia, Cheap Landscape, and zocaloZüe
East LA meets the NY downtown music scene as these three emerging groups offer Afro Caribbean sounds with a twist. From La Santa Cecilia’s genre blurring use of traditional instruments to Cheap Landscape’s distorted Colombian cumbia to zocaloZüe’s pumped up Mexican son this evening will featuring more than a few sonic surprises. Co-curated with independent producer Betto Arcos.
The Walkmen at the Troubadour
Few bands boast the closeness of the Walkmen: featuring former members of the Recoys and Jonathan Fire*Eater, the five-piece coalition has existed in one form or other since its members were fifth graders. In recent years their U2- and the Cure-influenced rockage has catapulted the band from humble Pub gigs to world tours. These days, their bittersweet, rough-around-the-edges garage-rock taps into an often somber tone, laying organ and piano over lyrics pondering the age-old question of what might have been. Tonight they hit town in support of their new album, You & Me.
– Rachel Brodsky
¡¡¡ MARK YOUR CALENDARS !!!
Sunset Junction pre-party w/ LANGHORNE SLIM / ROBERT FRANCIS / THE HISTORIES @ Spaceland
Langhorne Slim [Watch]
An unconventional folk and blues singer from Brooklyn (by way of Pennsylvania), Langhorne Slim skillfully infuses his rootsy songs with elements of bluegrass, rock, and country music.
Once known as Sean Scolnick, Slim has got his start touring as a popular opener for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. A handful of independent releases followed, but Slim’s ascent has begun in earnest with the release of a new, self-titled CD. The disc nicely blends simplicity and eccentricity, reflecting his live-wire stage act. - NPR
with:
Robert Francis
The Histories
LA WEEKLY PRESENTS THE GERMS / THE MAE SHI / SPIDER PROBLEM @ ECHO
The Germs [Listen]
The “new Germs” have toured semi-regularly since 2005, including a run on the 2006 Vans Warped Tour and playing the “Secret” premiere in June. Fans and some punk peers initially derided the reunion, believing it to be either a nostalgic cash-in or a reputation-sullying mistake. But those aghast by Landon from “A Walk to Remember” donning Crash’s blue-circle armband, are realizing that West’s spit-soaked reprisals of his Crash role are faithful and riveting, right down to West’s spitfire rebuttals to skeptics.“If you sit home moaning about the past and haven’t seen us play, then you can go to hell,” West said. “I wasn’t going to mess with Darby’s songs or change his singing style. I wasn’t going to be sober doing lounge-jazz either.”In a way, the Germs’ sets are more live theater than reunion tour, and less of a post-mortem hit parade than a chance for a younger generation to feel the gleeful fury and bleak sadness of the ’80s L.A. punk scene for themselves.“There is a level of chaos, mischief and danger to it, but it’s fun and done in the original spirit,” said West. “We try and show them what a real punk rock show should be.” - LA Times
with:
The Mae Shi
Spider Problem
Three live music stages provide much of the energy, where local heroes like Mike Watt, Extra Fancy and Candye Kane perform back-to-back sets. Midway rides and an open-air disco add to the fun. Of course vendors are in on the action, with more than 200 booths offering everything from tamales to Greenpeace literature.
- Al Ridenour, Los Angeles Citysearch
Aquarium Drunkard presents: CENTRO-MATIC / SLEEPERCAR (feat. Jim Ward of Sparta) / SOUTH SAN GABRIEL @ Spaceland
Centro-Matic [Listen]
With the release of Fort Recovery, Austin/Denton’s favorite sons celebrate a decade together, all the more remarkable when one considers how fresh Centro-matic still sounds…The band’s 10th full-length contains some of bandleader Will Johnson’s best songwriting. He and his compatriots, Matt Pence, Scott Danbom, and Mark Hedman, have grown into a band that chills you with washes of orchestrated chaos and seductive melodies, creating intense vistas, memorable pop hooks, and moments of rare intimacy…Ultimately what makes Fort Recovery a success is Centro-matic’s ability to make distinctively American music with uncommon fervor and without cliché. - Austin Chronicle
with:
Sleepercar (Jim Ward of Sparta) [Listen]
South San Gabriel [Listen]
SUBMIT YOUR PICTURES!!!
THE MAE-SHI @ Spaceland
THE MOVIES @ Spaceland
DENGUE FEVER @ Viper Room
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