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
Filmmakers Alliance
Screening Members Work
Mon 9/22 (7:30PM)
Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado St.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Map
donation suggested
http://www.filmmakersalliance.com/
Monday Night Residency - DIOS (MALOS) / SONADORA / THE BIBLE CHILDREN / PEACHFUZZ @ Spaceland
Dios (Malos) Listen
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
LAist Interview: Dios (Malos)
with:
Sonadora
The Bible Children
Peachfuzz [Listen]
9 pm / FREE SHOW / 21+
Monday Night Residency Acoustic Night - DEATH TO ANDERS / SARAH NEGADARI (from Happy Hollows) / MAD GREGS @ Echo
Death to Anders [Listen]
While it’s up to the listener to decide whether or not Death to Anders’ new album, Fictitious Business, is a concept album — Danson says “maybe” — there’s no question that it’s an ambitious accomplishment both in songwriting and production that demands to be listened to in its entirety. A self-described “surreal and cryptic look at life in the 21st century,” the album takes listeners on an intense journey full of abrupt turns through beautiful and paranoid terrain marked by lush walls of sound, rollicking melodies, noisy swells and questioning lyrics. There’s a lot of variety within and between each of the 10 songs, but an ongoing narrative with repeating themes sews it all together. - Performer Mag
with:
Sarah Negadari (from Happy Hollows)
One Trick Pony [Listen]
Mad Gregs
8:30pm / FREE / 21+
¡¡¡ MARK YOUR CALENDARS !!!
CRITICAL BRASS plays FAREWELL PARTY
4 the TEMPLE BAR
1026 Wilshire Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90401
New Orleans hiphop jazz dixiesoul secondline FUNK!
http://www.myspace.com/criticalbrass
Rumours of the Temple Bar's imminent demise have NOT been greatly exaggerated... you heard that, there's just time 4 one last hurrah, & we can't close the chapter withoutcha, so let's kick this secondline in2 a highsteppin' sixth gear & party like pie in the eye of the hurricane!
A New Orleans Dixiefunk Hiphop Jazz Funeral
for our Westside Headquarters and CD release ground zero, go to the beautiful beloved TEMPLE BAR as CRITICAL BRASS pours it's last pint of polyrhythms at the legendary TEMPLE BAR.
http://www.templebarlive.com/
CRITICAL BRASS plays at 11 pm
21+, $5 or $10 (depends when?)
very SPECIAL GUESTS will include--
* MARDI GRAS INDIAN CHIEF Alvin Harrison(direct from the Louisiana bayou deep)* Maria Eugenia Castro(La Delta Jazz Orquesta, Buenos Aires, Argentina)* The Sir Albus Manchild Social Aide & Pleasure Club
The time is once again ripe to parachute in to hot pursuit of our pan-planetary musical roots, to sample the splendiferous fruits of ubiquitous trumpets and trombones in cahoots gettin' freaky with makeshift mutes and supersonic zoot suits....FEAST YO' EARS & STEER YO' FEETS, come on down and turn it loose, y'all.... - Schwee
Rock the Vote Benefit with LADY TIGRA / THE BIRD AND THE BEE / WILLOUGHBY / ELECTROCUTE / HARD PLACE / POLYAMOROUS AFFAIR / WOLFKIN / DJ LANCEROCK
The Barack Obama-rama: An Obama fundraiser with:
The Lady Tigra
The Bird and the Bee
Willoughby
Electrocute
Hard Place
Polyamorous Affair
Wolfkin
DJ Lance Rock spinning all night
Music festival and Voter Registration Drive. The donation at the door will go to the Obama Campaign. Presented by Filter Magazine, The 008 Movement, Spaceland and the local musicians of East Los Angeles.
8 pm / $12 advance; $15 night of show; $10 when you show your voter registration card or register to vote / 21+
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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