Echo Park’s Week in Music

For the week of Monday, April 9 through Sunday, April 15

Monday
KXLU And KSPC present Monday Night Residency: So Many Wizards, LA Font, Dream Panther, Habits @ Echo
Neon Gold & Hit City present: Popshop West with Haim, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Ko Ko, Guns in the Sun, Captain Cut, Hit City DJs @ Echoplex
Monday Night open mic night hosted by David & Jayson @ Tribal Café
Sean Carnage presents: The Koreatown Oddity, Jon Barba, Johnnie Jungleguts, Walter Gross @ Pehrspace
Grace Woodroofe, Jenny O, Louise And The Pins, Tall Tales & The Silver Lining @ Bootleg Bar
Karaoke @ Lot 1 Café
Motown Mondays @ The Short Stop

Tuesday
Dante vs Zombies, The Hallucinations, New Life, Daybeds @ Echo
Check Yo Ponytail 2 presents: Oh Land, Blood Orange, Trust @ Echoplex
The Iron Giant open mic night  @ Tribal Café
Wreck of the Zephyr, TS and the Past Haunts, Neon Hymns @ Bootleg Bar
Buzzbands.LA: Ethan Gold, The Record Company, Laura Meyer, Boys School @ Lot 1 Café

Wednesday
Dorian Wood, Tommy Santee Klaws, Scott Matthew, Ghiant @ Echo
Dub Club @ Echoplex
Mike Doughty, The Book of Drugs (Reading, Concert, Q&A), Mike Viola @ Bootleg Theater
Derde Verde Residency with Tes Elations, Last American Buffalo @ Lot 1 Café
Live Jazz every Wednesday night at 7:00 pm @ Downbeat Café

Thursday
Echo & Dubfrequency present: J*Davey With DJ Duh Kid, DJ Funk The Fresh, Random Citizens, Def Sound @ Echo
Madeline Spooner open mic night @ Tribal Café
Woody Frank @ Taix Lounge
Sucre, Whispertown, The Honey Trees @ Bootleg Bar
Reese Richardson, Azniv, The Sweet Hurt @ Lot 1 Café

Friday
Acid Mothers Temple With The Phantom Family Halo, Pond, Hepa/Titus @ Echo
DJ Paul V. 30th Anniversary Mixtape Retrospective @ Echoplex
The Landers & Guests (tba) @ Tribal Café
Moris Tepper, Jon Wahl, The Amadans @ Taix Lounge
Boom Chick, Wake Up Lucid, Kera and the Lesbians @ Bootleg Bar
KXLU presents: Siddhartha, Tes Elations, L.A. Girlfriend @ Lot 1 Café
Old Time Jam @ Fretted Frog

Saturday
KXLU presents: Pontiak, All Tiny Creatures @ Echo
Funky Sole @ Echo
Stone Soup At The Tribal Cafe, Edgar Ruiz & Friends @ Tribal Café
Shaq Jizz: The Presence Group Art Show @ Pehrspace
Raerae @ Taix Lounge
Damien Jurado, Peter Wolf Crier, Churches @ Bootleg Bar
John Isaac Watters Music Video/ Newburg + Watters Art Opening, Backseat Bingo, John Carpenter, Bikos, The Sundowners @ Lot 1 Café

Sunday
Part Time Punks Presents: Minimal Wave Nite With Geneva Jacuzzi And Guest Dj Veronica Vasicka [Mw Founder & Dj] @ Echo
Tsunamedy Open Mic @ Tribal Café
Hand, Brent Rademaker (Of Beachwood Sparks), Amy Blaschke  @ Bootleg Bar
Snow Angel, Kit’n’tenders @ Lot 1 Café
Super Soul Sunday @ The Short Stop

Visit the venue websites for more information on the cost and times of shows. Feel free to add more events in the comment section. All events listed are subject to change at any time, and new events announced for the week after this posting may not be included. Visit our Weekly Events page for more neighborhood events, shows and specials.

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Meet the Easter bunny at the Echo Park Farmers’ Market

Kids get a special treat today at the Echo Park Farmers’ Market for Easter!

Hide the carrots because the Easter Bunny will be entertaining kids starting at 4:30 pm. Younger kids get a head start on the egg hunt at 5:00 pm, while the older kids get to start at 5:30 pm.

The craft table will also feature bunny ear making with Cindy!

And, as always, make sure to stock up on plenty of tasty veggies from our local farmers. See you there!

 

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Echo Park Quinceañera mural restored to its former glory

Retouching the mural. Twitter photo via @andresjcruz

Andres Cruz on Twitter sent us the above photo yesterday, showing the progress made on the Quinceañera mural on the former Pescado Mojado building. The mural, painted in 1996, was being sanded off for the new Señor Fish restaurant when the neighborhood protested. Work stopped immediately, and the new restaurant owners hired an artist who had worked on the mural before to begin the retouching immediately.

Before restoration started. Photo via KCET

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Origami Vinyl anniverary celebration at tonight’s Record Club

If we could make a cake for Origami, this is what it'd look like. (Flickr photo via Sugar&Lace)

Origami Vinyl is turning three!

The record store/music venue is celebrating at tonight’s weekly Record Club across the street at El Prado. Bring some cupcakes and some 45’s to spin on the record player any time from 9:00 pm – 12:00 midnight. Perhaps you’ll make some vinyl record themed cupcakes for the occasion?

if you can’t make it tonight, mark your calendars for Record Store Day – a nation-wide event celebrating, you guessed it, record stores – on Saturday, April 21. Origami plans on throwing a grand fiesta with eight bands at The Echo, DJs at Origami Vinyl, giveaways, and we’re sure much much more.

Read more about Origami Vinyl on just-published interview on LAist.

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Why hang Teddy Bears from power lines?

Photo via ironiclast.com

The last time we wrote about things hanging from power lines, it was the red glittery shoes (that are still there, btw) put up by artist Manny Castro to advertise his show at Echo Park gallery iam8bit. Now joining the sun-soaked glitter shoes are stuffed teddy bears hanging from power lines all over Los Angeles, including Echo Park, West Hollywood, Silver Lake, and Los Feliz so far. We’ve heard the rumors, but the Franklin Avenue blog also asks the question we are asking – what’s up with all the hanging teddy bears?

It’s probably not some Build-A-Bear ad campaign, but we’re thinking something more like a some hipster art project and less like the Care Bears are going to sell you some drugs. Let us know if you’ve got the details.

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Echo Park’s Week in Music

For the week of Monday, April 2 through Sunday, April 8, 2012

Monday
KXLU and KSPC Present Monday Night Residency: So Many Wizards, Geoff Geis, Night Control, Peter Pants @ Echo
Grace Woodroofe, Rumspringa, Terraplane Sun, Dayna Kurtz @ Bootleg Bar
Sean Carnage presents: Realization Orchestra, Sister Fucker, Generation, Fart Machine @ Pehrspace
Motown Mondays @ The Short Stop

Tuesday
The Far West, Jackson Tanner, Geronimo Getty @ Echo
KCRW Presents: Heartless Bastards, David Vandervelde, Brian Lopez @ Echoplex
Bronze Swagger, Dylan Trees, Escalator Hill, Song Preservation Society @ Bootleg Bar
Pat Regan, Dustin and the Explosions, Emperor X, Kool Skull, Paper Slang @ Lot 1 Cafe

Wednesday
The Red Paintings, Timur & The Dime Musesum @ Echo
DUB CLUB @ Echoplex
SanguinDrake, Hana Pestle, Charlie Wadhams Band @ Bootleg Bar
Derde Verde April residency with Sanglorians, Wyatt Blair @ Lot 1 Cafe
Live Jazz every Wednesday night at 7:00 pm @ Downbeat Café

Thursday
Bear In Heaven, Blouse, Doldrums @ Echo
Megafaun, Field Report, Henry Wolfe (Solo) @ Bootleg Bar
The Gajillionaires, The Obsessd, As If and The Whatevers @ Lot 1 Cafe
ETM, Track @ Taix Lounge

Friday
Bear In , High Places, Blouse @ Echo
Take aka Sweatson Klank (Alpha Pup), Free Moral Agents, Mono/Poly (Brainfeeder), RYAT (Brainfeeder), Doldrums @ Echoplex
Rubblebucket, Noah and the Megafauna, Big Tree @ Bootleg Bar
The Kris Special, Borrelia, The Spires, Minor Me  @ Pehrspace
SHAME, The Vitals, The Withers @ Lot 1 Cafe
Abe Lincoln Story, Ruby Sue and the Ethereal Blues @ Taix Lounge
McDougall, Triple Chicken Foot and Rabbit Foot Stringband @ Echo Country Outpost

Saturday
Echo & LA Record present: Feedtime, Jon Wayne, Lamps, Dead Meat @ Echo
Bootie LA @ Echoplex
Funky Sole @ Echo
Julia Holter @ Origami Vinyl
Book Release for Strange Light, Derrick Brown, You Belong Everywhere (film screening), Caught a Ghost @ Bootleg Bar
Dallas Don Burnet CD Release Party w Echo Park Players, The Black Watch @ Taix Lounge
Open mic night @ The Fretted Frog
Joel Walter, Detective, The Great Invisibles @ Echo Country Outpost
Azucar LA @ Los Globos

Sunday
Part Time Punks Presents: Britpop Nite with Guest DJ Jose Maldonado @ Echo
Moses Campbell, Bohdi, The Lovely Bad Things, Peter Pants @ Bootleg Bar
Super Soul Sunday @ The Short Stop

Visit the venue websites for more information on the cost and times of shows. Feel free to add more events in the comment section. All events listed are subject to change at any time, and new events announced for the week after this posting may not be included. Visit our Weekly Events page for more neighborhood events, shows and specials.

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Echo Park’s week in music

For the week of Monday, March 26 through Sunday, April 1, 2012

Monday
Origami Vinyl Presents: No Monday Night Residency with Raw Geronimo, Black Flamingo, Young Hunting @ Echo
FYF Presents: Nicolas Jaar with Nicola Cruz and guests @ Echoplex
Gregory Alan Isakov, Patrick Park @ Bootleg Theater
The Janks, Olin And The Moon, The Lonely Wild @ Bootleg Bar
Monday Spring Break presented by Sean Carnage @ Pehrspace
Motown Mondays @ The Short Stop

Tuesday
The Moth Grandslam: X @ Echoplex
Telepathe, Tearist, Duologue @ Echo
Pharaohs, Young Adults @ Los Globos
Abby, Harriet, High Rise, Husky @ Bootleg Bar

Wednesday
Cuckoo Chaos, Gangi, Gothic Tropic, Dream Panther @ Echo
Dub Club presents: Ken Parker, Fully Fullwood Band, Tony Screw (aka Downbeat The Ruler) @ Echoplex
Gold Fields, Touche, The Neighborhood @ Bootleg Bar
Bob Woodruff and His Royal Giants, Rod Melancon @ Taix Lounge
Live Jazz every Wednesday night at 7:00 pm @ Downbeat Café

Thursday
Dinosaur Feathers, U.S. Royalty, Strange Markings, The Art @ Echo
A Silent Film, Mr. Gnome, Gabrielle Wortman @ Bootleg Bar
Twin Steps, Brainstorm @ Origami Vinyl
The Authentic Sounds of Silverlake, AK & Her Kalashnikovs @ Taix Lounge

Friday
Races, Living Things, Incan Abraham @ Echo
Trannyshack! LA @ Echoplex
Big Sir, Lisa Papineau, Juan Alderete (Mars Volta), Different Fountains, Greenhorse @ Bootleg Bar
Electric Flower Group @ Origami Vinyl
Evan Aproberts, Seth Peterson, The Underflow @ Taix Lounge
Gothic Tropic, Twin Steps, Basement Babies, Brainstorm @ Pehrspace

Saturday
Blundertown + L.A. Record present: Metallagher, White Shit, Mikki and The Mauses, Death Hymn Number 9 @ Echoplex
Funky Sole @ Echo
Dunes, Abe Vigoda, Stephanie, Infinite Body @ Bootleg Bar
Lovely Bad Things @ Origami Vinyl
Thy Odd Birds @ Taix Lounge

Sunday
Part Time Punks Presents: Joy Division (tribute by Boy Division), Suicide (tribute by Deathday) @ Echo
Charlotte Martin, Mariah Mcmanus @ Bootleg Theater
Super Soul Sunday @ The Short Stop

Visit the venue websites for more information on the cost and times of shows. Feel free to add more events in the comment section. All events listed are subject to change at any time, and new events announced for the week after this posting may not be included.

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Tonight: 826LA celebrates publication of Literary Los Angeles: A Road Guide

In partnership with PEN, Poets & Writers, and the Ayrshire Foundation, 826LA has published Literary Los Angeles: A Road Guide – a visual guide to the literary hotspots in Los Angeles.

They’ll celebrate tonight at 826LA / The Time Travel Mart in Echo Park, and along with libations will feature readings from contributors Wanda Coleman, Nina Revoyr, Luis J. Rodriguez, and David Ulin, and moderated by Tom Lutz.

Tonight’s event is just $12, includes a map, and benefits 826LA. Click here for ticket, or buy them at the door for $15.

You can also order the 24″ x 18″ posters or fold-out online (or purchase at The Time Travel Mart in person) for $10.

Doors open at 7:00 pm, the event starts at 7:30 pm.

The Time Travel Mart is located at 1714 West Sunset Boulevard

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Murals take the stage at EPIA neighborhood issues meeting

A Chango mural concept

One of the iconic symbols of Echo Park, and one that residents take a lot of pride in, are the colorful murals that decorate our streets. The Sunset Boulevard and Echo Park Avenue mural is one of the most iconic, but look around a little more and you’ll start to notice a myriad of new and old designs that give this neighborhood a colorful background.

Cock-fight mural. Flickr photo via Michael Taft

You may have noticed some changes happening at Chango, which is undergoing minor renovations under new ownership (Jenna Turner, who owns a Susina Bakery on Beverly Boulevard, and Fix Coffee owner Marc Gallucci). But the new owners weren’t prepared for the community’s reaction when they white-washed the property’s cock-fight themed mural. We’re glad they arrived at last night’s Echo Park Improvement Association’s Neighborhood Issues Committee meeting to address any concerns, and assure everyone that they didn’t mean to offend anyone by painting over the mural.

That corner has been through a couple of murals the past decade or so – first there was the more infamous painting of chickens by artist Aaron Donovan, a piece painted because of the corner’s “Chicken Corner” nickname. The original mural was removed when Chango put in windows at that wall. Then a few years ago, the cock-fighting themed mural took its place.

Jenna assured committee members last night that they did, indeed, get permission from the original muralist Richard Meinhardt via the new artist, by the name of Axis,  to remove the piece. Pictured above is a new concept (not the final, final one yet) the new owners designed for the new mural, but at the EPIA meeting said that they were open to including a chicken in there somewhere.

One mural that was saved, probably due to public outcry from coverage on news websites like The Eastsider LA, was the Logan Street mural decorating the former Pescado Mejodo restaurant. Senior Fish has been renovating the corner restaurant for quite some time now, but surprised residents when workers started sandblasting the mural.

Jesse Pimentel represented Senior Fish at the EPIA meeting, saying “We certainly didn’t intend to offend anyone.” Today they will have a retoucher, who has worked on the mural, bring back the mural to its state before the sandblasting began.

The lesson here is that Echo Park loves its murals, and there are many community resources like the EPIA if there are questions about the neighborhood murals. We have to give kudos to the recently opened Red Hill, which kept a colorful mural on the Montana side of its building even after a complete renovation.

As for Senior Fish opening, they are expecting a (hopefully successful) visit from the health department next week, and may open as early as one month from now. Chango is re-opening on Saturday, and will keep the same staff along with the menu.

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Echo Park’s Week in Music

From Monday, February 27 through Sunday, March 4

Monday
Unique LA’s Movie Night Presents: Chinatown @ Echoplex
Filter presents Monday Night Residency: Electric Guest, Chains of Love, Gangi, Evan Voytas @ Echo
Sunland-Tujunga Music Festival: Dream Being, Tujunga, Snorlax, Diet Thrills Foreman, Foreman Submissions, Parallaxscroll @ Pehrspace
LA Underground Presents: Incan Abraham, Harriet, Gothic Tropic, Cuckoo Chaos @ Bootleg Bar
Motown Mondays: Stax vs. Motown With DJ Platurn, E Da Boss, And Expo @ The Short Stop

Tuesday
The Echo & Buzzbands La Present: The Dead Ships, The Ross Sea Party, Hello Echo, The Muddy Reds @ Echo (8:30 Pm)
Check Yo Ponytail 2 with Das Racist, Mr. Muthafuckin’ Exquire, Young L @ Echoplex (9:00 Pm)
Holy Fever, Amigo The Devil, The Record Company, Fat Tony @ Lot 1
Soft Swells @ Origami Vinyl
John Reilly and Friends (featuring Becky Stark and Tom Brosseau) @ Bootleg Theater
Terraplane Sun, Jamestown Revival, Coyol @ Bootleg Bar

Wednesday
Reptar, Quiet Hooves, Lucius @ Echo
Dub Club @ Echoplex
Leap Day Show with Hearts & Minutes, Barrows, Derde Verde @ Lot 1
Chadwick Stokes, Bhi Bhiman, Aras Baskauskas @ Bootleg Bar
Live Jazz Every Wednesday night at 7:00 pm @ Downbeat Café
Live Pinata Hour Broadcast Party @ Los Globos

Thursday
He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister, Bad Weather California, The Lonely Wild, The John Steel Singers @ The Echo
!!!, Wild Belle, DJ Nobody @ Echoplex
Crashing Star, E.W. Project, Midnight Vultures @ Taix Lounge
Maria Volonté @ Bootleg Theater
Jenny Owen Youngs, Little Hurricane, Rene Breton @ Bootleg Bar

Friday
Natural History Museum First Fridays With Zola Jesus, Ema @ Natural History Museum
Iron Room Presents: Nunslaughter, Sadistic Intent, Insanity, Dreaming Dead, Mutilacion @ Echoplex
Cloud Nothings, Mr. Dream, Talk Normal @ Echo
Charles The Band, The Bamboozeled @ Taix Lounge
Cymbals Eat Guitars @ Origami Vinyl
Jarrod Gorbel, Now the Rabbit has the Gun, Miracle Days @ Bootleg Bar
J Hawk uncloaking and album performance, Ghiant, Tommy Santee Klaws, Brass Tax @ Echo Country Outpost

Saturday
Elliot Brood, The Pack A.D.@ Echo
Bootie LA @ Echoplex
Funky Sole @ Echo
Joe Purdy & All Spots to the Black, The Roof Beam, Carpenters @ Taix Lounge
Kiven, White Lights, Golden Ghost @ Bootleg Bar

Sunday
Fidlar, Pangea, Lovely Bad Things, Anus Kings, DJ Blaque Chris @ Echo
Part Time Punks Presents: Tribute To 120 Minutes (aka 80s/90s Alternative Music Dance Party) @ Echoplex
French Toast Weekly Standup Comedy @ Taix Lounge
Jolie Holland, Emily Jane White @ Bootleg Theater
Super Soul Sunday @ The Short Stop
The Summer Bros., Olentangy John, Leslie Stevens, Matt Taylor and His Laurels @ Echo Country Outpost

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Echo Park’s Week in Music

For the week of Monday, February 13 through Sunday, February 19, 2012

Monday
42nd Anniversary of Black Sabbath’s Debut LP with Back Stabbath, Ace Diamond Experience, Special Guest DJ Pete Majors Of Harassor & Vacation Vinyl @ Pehrspace
Monday Night Residency: Electric Guest, Cuckoo Chaos, Summer Camp, Haim @ Echo
NO Record Release Party @ Origami Vinyl
LA Underground Presents: Incan Abraham, Nightmare and The Cat, Pity Party, High Rise @ Bootleg Bar
Motown Mondays @ The Short Stop

Tuesday
Valentine’s Day Song Massacre aka The Sad Hour: Grant Langston, The Driftwood Singers, Matt Adams & The Blank Tapes, Aaron Ballard, Alex Maslansky, The Far West, Yellow Red Sparks, Don Chiant, Ryan Fuller (Fort King), Steffaloo, Michael Ubaldini, Andrea Cohen, Death To Anders, Aaron Kyle, Aaron Ballard, Andy Siara & Clare Paladino, Soft Swells @ Echo
Filter Presents: The Asteroid Galaxy Tour, Vacationer, DJ Paul V @ Echoplex
The Grind: 90s Dance Party, featuring DJ Automation and Lifepartner @ Los Globos
Romantic Event In Lounge with Gem Silver and Her Jazz Rhythm Players @ Taix Lounge
A Valentine’s Day Release Show for ‘A Sleep & A Forgetting’ (Anti-): Islands, Idiot Glee @ Bootleg Theater

Wednesday
Mucho Wednesdays presents Love & Liberation featuring two performances with Las Cafeteras, Irene Diaz, Mucho DJ’s @ Echo
Dub Club @ Echoplex
Kip Boardman @ Taix Lounge
Liquid Love Letter, John Gold, Stephen Sowan @ Bootleg Bar
Live Jazz every Wednesday night at 7:00 pm @ Downbeat Café

Thursday
Howlin Rain, The Allah-Las Plus Very Special Guest Neal Casal @ Echo
Riton And Others Tba @ Los Globos
Marcus Watkins, Claremont Voodoo Society @ Taix Lounge
Tammy Faye Starlite As Nico In Chelsea Madchen, Blaqstarr @ Bootleg Bar

Friday
KSPC Presents: Space Age Bachelor, Poppet, Habits, Letters @ Pehrspace
Neutral Uke Hotel (a ukulele-fueled sing-a-long of Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” Album), Michael Epstein Memorial Library, Golden Bloom, Miracle Parade @ Echo
Bearracuda LA, Bears Love Honey, featuring Honey Soundsystem (San Francisco) DJs Jason Kendig, P-Play, Robot Hustle @ Echoplex
Moris Tepper, Pete Fahey @ Taix Lounge
Buddha: A Fantastic Journey @ Bootleg Theater
Tammy Faye Starlite as Nico in Chelsea Madchen, Mad Planet @ Bootleg Bar

Saturday
Sara Radle (Record Release), Rachel Haden, Kissing Cousins @ Pehrspace
Emily Wells (early show), Funky Sole @ Echo
Retox @ Origami Vinyl
The Lift (LA) featuring Rich Medina, Jeremy Sole, Wiseacre, Jonathan Rudnick @ Los Globos
Buddha: A Fantastic Journey @ Bootleg Theater
Tammy Faye Starlite as Nico in Chelsea Madchen, The Fling @ Bootleg Bar

Sunday
LARecord, Blundertown, City of Devils present: Vektor, Witchaven, Exmortus @ Echo
Part Time Punks presents: Smiths/Morrissey Nite with guest DJ Jose Maldonado (Sweet & Tender Hooligans) @ Echoplex
French Toast: Weekly Stand-Up Comedy @ Taix Lounge
Hi Ho Silver Oh, Keychain and Friends @ Echo Country Outpost
Broadcast Station: Cave Country, David Rosales @ Bootleg Bar

Visit the venue websites for more information on the cost and times of shows. Feel free to add more events in the comment section. All events listed are subject to change at any time, and new events announced for the week after this posting may not be included.

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In case you missed it: Headlines from around Echo Park

Amish journey from homespun to hipster – LA Times
How Refuge salon and Form Academy owner Miriam Jones went from an Omish upbringing to Echo Park.

Capping an era of L.A. oil exploration – LA Times
This week the city started plugging an old oil well just south of Glendale Boulevard and Rockwood Street to make way for a 45-unit apartment complex. Just up the street, where the Echo Park Pool is now, was the first oil well in Los Angeles.

Robert DeLong’s electronic dance music residency, Monday nights at Los Globos – Examiner.com
If only we didn’t have to work on the weekdays! The Examiner.com gives out rave reviews for Echo Park resident Robert DeLong’s Monday night residency at Los Globos: “He is salvaging what is left of everything great about electronic music and creating something fresh and so immediately appealing that you can’t help but start moving to the music as soon as he starts playing.”

Planning board supports Elysian Heights coffee house plan to serve wine and beer – The Eastsider LA
Fix Coffee in Elysian Heights is one step closer to serving beer and wine after an appeal failed to convince the planning board to block the application. The coffee shop will still need to obtain a state beer and wine license from ABC.

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Alfredo Market on Glendale Boulevard gets a colorful makeover

Driving along Glendale Boulevard just got a lot more colorful!

LAist got the story on who’s behind the new colorful mural on the wall of Alfredo Market on Glendale Boulevard, between Alvarado and Berkeley. Street artist and Echo Park resident Kophns One (aka Koffinz) painted the mural at the end of December. According to The Site Unseen website, “Kophns is well-known within the LA street scene for his distinct and bold artistic style, dynamic characters and his always engaging art placement.” Hopefully a city-wide mural ordinance being debated won’t interfere with local art like this!

The Site Unseen uploaded this video of the mural process. Enjoy!


Kophns One: Kophenjoy from The Site Unscene on Vimeo.

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Echo Park’s Week in Music

For the week of Monday, January 2 through Sunday, January 8, 2012

Monday
The Echo and LA Underground present Monday Night Residency with: Seasons, One Trick Pony, Count Fleet,  Torches @ Echo
Princeton, Lesands, Red Pony Clock @ Bootleg Bar
Sean Carnage Monday Nights: Manhattan Murder Mystery, I.E., Nicole Kidman + Pawko, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and more @ Pehrspace
Motown Mondays @ The Short Strop

Tuesday
Beer and Bingo Tuesday with Olin & The Moon and Maxim Ludwig, Willoughby, Jeff Crosby @ Echo
Bikos, Lovers Drugs, Son Ark @ Bootleg Bar
Ray Argyle of Sunken Ships, Craig Elkins, Davd Shane Smith @ Lot 1 Café

Wednesday
Hepa, Titus with Virginia Reed, Dead Dawn, Kill Kill Kill @ Echo
Dub Club Featuring: Anthony B with His Band @ Echoplex
Hi Fashion, Professor Possessor, Actually, Waterlaso @ Bootleg Bar
Live Jazz every Wednesday night at 7:00 pm @ Downbeat Café

Thursday
Summer Darling, Birds & Batteries, Vice Cooler, The Hunting Accident, Baron Von Luxxury @ Echo
Stonefeather, King Devil, Bad Lamps @ Bootleg Bar

Friday
Backbeat- Northern Soul Dance Night with DJ Mark Morales @ Echo
Echo, Origami & Kxlu Present: Black Flamingo, No, Crooked Cowboy, Batwings Catwings @ Echoplex
Jacuzzi Boys and Hanni El Khatib, Marcus Very Ordinary @ Bootleg Bar
Chuck Dukowski Sextet, Voodoo Merchant, and more @ Lot 1 Café
Kate Earl, Patrick Park, Ema and Her Lady Parts, Tenlons Fort plus special guests @ Pehrspace

Saturday
Bootie La @ Echoplex
Funky Sole @ Echo
Salon Music Night with members of Shadow Shadow Shade, Henry Clay People, Jail Weddings, Square On Square, Just an Animal @ Bootleg Bar
Tenlons Fort, The Wildbunch, Avi Of Avi Buffalo, Will Courtney @ Lot 1 Cafe
Dream Homes, Foot Foot, Pek Pek, Dali’s Rose @ Pehrspace

Sunday
Echo, Grand Ole Echo & Art Fein Present: Elvis Presley Birthday Party @ Echoplex
Part Time Punks presents: David Bowie Nite with guest DJ Jose Maldonado (Sweet & Tender Hooligans) @ Echo
Coyol, Molly Marlette, The Mowgli’s @ Bootleg Bar
Elvis Brunch: Celebrate Elvis Presley’s Birthday With An Elvis-Themed Brunch, Karaoke, Live Music, Games, Special Guests, Bloody Marys, crazy surprises, and more @ Echo Country Outpost

Visit the venue websites for more information on the cost and times of shows. Feel free to add more events in the comment section. All events listed are subject to change at any time, and new events announced for the week after this posting may not be included.

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Portlandia coming to Echo Park

Did you know…. In Portland you can go to a record store and sell your CDs?

That’s right – we’re talkin’ Portlandia. They’re coming to Echo Park on January 17, 2012 and well, let’s face it – you could re-name the show EchoParklandia and it’d basically be the same show. I have to say, I’m a fan!

The event at The Echo is one of six city tours (dubbed Portlandia: The Tour), and features co-creators Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. They’ll be performing live music, talking about the show, and playing clips from the show’s second season, which premieres on January 6, 2012. Here’s a little sneak peak of what you can expect (from the show’s website):




Tickets are $20.00 advance BUT here’s the deal – it looks like it’s already sold out. You might be able to get the $26.00 tix on the day of the show, if there are any available.

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