A Look Inside the RNC Protests
Thousands of protesters gathered in St. Paul, Minn., the site of the Republican National Convention. As tensions mounted between those gathered and police, AP photojournalist Evan Vucci was in the middle of the crowd. (Sept. 2)
KCRW presents LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III @ Largo
Singer-songwriter-actor Loudon Wainwright III was once tagged as one of the "New Bob Dylans," a group of performers with sharp and insightful songwriting. However, that moniker was shaken off quickly as his career gathered steam in the 70s and 80s. He is a multi-faceted performer (at times funny, at other times introspective) and overall one of America's great tunesmiths.
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
THE NIGHT MARCHERS / COLOUR REVOLT /
SLANG CHICKENS @ ECHO
The Night Marchers
John “Speedo” Reis is, without a doubt, one of underground music’s finest showmen, and it could also be argued that he’s the most underappreciated frontman from the alt-rock ’90s. Not to dismiss his work with Pitchfork, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Sultans, etc., but Reis always seemed to put his best foot forward with Rocket From The Crypt, and he’s injected The Night Marchers with a similarly ecstatic mix of ferocious garage-rock and populist pop. As always, this stuff is better suited for the stage, and it would be foolish not to assume that horns could make The Night Marchers even better, but with the assistance of a band that includes a couple of fellow ex-Snakes, Reis has made his best record since Rocket’s Scream, Dracula, Scream! heyday. Simple certainly doesn’t equal thin on See You In Magic, a 47-minute blitzkrieg bop that balances punky stompers with perfectly subdued moments like “Panther In Crime” and “We’re Goin’ Down.” The latter even finds Reis’ rough croon somehow making Armageddon sound truly wonderful.
- The Onion AV Club
with:
Colour Revolt [Listen]
Slang Chickens
Sister Carol [Listen]
with Resident DJs:
Tom Chasteen
Roy Corderoy
The Dungeonmaster
Boss Harmony
Spinning the best in classic reggae, dub and dancehall
Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd(Main Entrance is through Alley)
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Vote for Light FM to play Detour Festival!
Hey all,
So the LA Weekly/Detour Festival has chosen LIGHT FM to participate in their BYOB(Bring Your Own Band) contest! It's really really awesome that they chose us, but now the hard part is getting everyone I know to vote for us.The voting goes like this:
You can vote once a day from the same computer/ISP. So for example, if you had two email accounts, you would have to go to two different locations in order for both votes to count.
But honestly, I'd be happy if you just voted once a day until the contest ends in a few weeks.
The actual Detour Festival is on OCT 4 in Downtown LA. Lots of great bands will be playing(the Mars Volta, Datarock, Gogol Bordello), and we would be beyond ecstatic to share the stage with them.
It's gonna take a lot of votes in order for us to win, and I'm sure somebody in one of the bands works at some office with a hundred different ISP's, so there's a big chance this whole thing could be a pointless exercise and very much like a high school popularity contest, but you have no idea how much we would love to play the Detour Festival.
Sooo, go vote! And then put a little post-it note on your computer and vote again every morning.
I would do it for you. I swear.
Love - Kim
http://detour.laweekly.com/byob/byob.php
¡¡¡ MARK YOUR CALENDARS !!!
Answering the question, nay, even making an attempt at answering “So, what do they sound like?” is deserving of a gold star. WHY? is a three-piece from Oakland, composed of beat- and word-smith Yoni Wolf, his brother Josiah, and Doug McDiarmid, joined on Alopecia by bassist Mark Erickson and Fog’s Andrew Broder. They’re really less of a black hole and more of a modified vacuum cleaner. They suck up everything along with the dirt: experimental hip-hop, indie rock, sugar-loaded pop, minimalist balladry, etc. And then, once the components are all bundled together, they flip the switch and send it all tumbling back out again and into the recording studio. More plainly, WHY? is the alphabet soup of independent music. Clever, biting, creative, intense, storied, and lurid. There’s really nothing else like it.
Alopecia, their third full-length release and second as a full band, is a darkly tinged juggernaut. 2005’s supremely wonderful but admittedly melancholic Elephant Eyelash is downright cheery in relation. The songs of Alopecia find a renewed interest from Yoni Wolf in delivering straight-up beats and rhymes alongside his more sing-songy efforts. Unsurprisingly, his styles of old and new fit together like it ain’t no joke. - Tiny Mix Tapes
California's genre-bending art-hop outfit Why? bring their deranged, poetic pop back to LA in support of their latest album, Alopecia. Frontman Yoni Wolf spits wordy diatribes that fall somewhere between the precise verses of his Anticon backpacker brethren and Stephen Malkmus' free-associative drawl. His band follows suit, shifting chameleon-like between hip-hop panoramas and indie-pop jangle. Alopecia is a masterpiece of hybridity, full of complex, upsetting songs — the sort of stuff that gives pigeonhole-happy music journalists nightmares. For the rest of us, it's a dark, bittersweet delight. – Oliver Spall
with:
Dub Lab DJs
Hello Friends!
Please join us at FreshPressed, a new public screen-printing shop in Los Feliz along with exhibiting artists: Kime Buzzelli, Sean Cassidy, Rory Wilson, Frohawk Two Feathers, and Andy Mueller for a truly unique event. All are welcome especially kids to come and play! Create your own design or borrow / revamp someone else's art and bring home a one of a kind! - FP
Hit the Uber page for more info & photos.
"This might be the best party in LA." - Vice Guide to Los Angeles
FIRECRACKER HAPPENS 1st 3rd & 5th FRIDAYS OF THE MONTH
"Roberto Gutierrez: The Old Neighborhood"
August 9 - September 13, 2008
Reception: September 6, 2008
6 – 9 pm
Roberto Gutierrez is a veteran of Self Help Graphics (SHG). His works speak to the Eastside neighborhoods that make up a large part of SHG's audience. This exhibition focuses on familiar neighborhoods that are now undergoing changes, including gentrification and rehabilitation, while others remain familiar, evoking conflicting emotions to those who grew up in them.
Free; Reception is open to the public.
Work by Roberto Gutierrez also appears in Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of L.A.
: Selections from the Cheech Marin Collection showing now through November 2 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Spaceland Monday Night Residency - DIOS (MALOS)
Dios (Malos) [Listen] [Watch]
Dios Malos have a sound as big and beautiful as you’re willing to let it be. Consider any one of their songs on its own, and you have a relatively simple concoction. Retro surf and sunshine pop are the basic templates — Dios (Malos) is a world where even heartbreak is rendered in primary colors and ornamented in glittering bells and cheerful whistles. A psychedelic haze floats over much of their work, but it’s a cheerful psychedelic haze.
For most artists, tackling such a variety of styles in one album would be overwhelming at best; at worst, it would invite the sort of stylistic excess that leads to anonymity. Through smart songcraft, a powerful command of pop vocabulary, and skillful track sequencing, Dios Malos deliver an album that expands and grows more complicated with every listen. “Epk” will help you to better appreciate “My Broken Bones”, which will in turn enhance “I Want it All”. As you learn to understand and decode the band’s songwriting decisions, your appreciation will grow that much deeper — and what seemed like simple, straightforward music will become increasingly engrossing.
- Splendid Magazine
with:
The Underground Railroad to Candyland
Miguel Mendez
Audacity
8:30pm / FREE!
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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