Origami Vinyl is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a 10% off sale, free birthday cake, colt45 and free appetizers provided by Fresh Girls Catering (between 3pm – 6pm).
Set times for bands:
8pm – Summer Darling
7pm – Twilight Sleep
6pm – Kissing Cousins
5pm – Future Ghost
4pm – Tricky Sizzler
Saturday, April 3, 2010
12:00pm – 10:00pm
Origami Vinyl at 1816 W. Sunset Blvd.
Once again Echo Curio has a lot of shows lined up to entertain the neighborhood. All shows are at 9pm unless otherwise noted. A $5 donation is asked for at the door.
Echo Curio is located at 1519 Sunset Blvd (at Laveta Ter).
Thurs, April 1st – CHRIS CORSANO + WARM CLIMATE + KOLOVOS / SILBERMAN DUO
Wowee-wow-wow-wow… we’re extra psyched for this show, as we all know the
CORSANO-FLAHERTY DUO, or possibly his work with Sunburned Hand of the
Man, Michael Flowers, Bjork or Jandek, and some of us will have experienced the
CORSANO-KOLOVOS DUO, but most of us have not seen Mr. CHRIS CORSANO
solo. This drummer experimentalist will no doubt take us into realms undreamed
of. As will our good friend Seth and his WARM CLIMATE project, whether it be in its
solo form or three piece mammoth form. More to come on this show!!!
www.cor-sano.com
www.myspace.com/warmclimate
Fri, April 2nd – LAURA GIBSON + ETHAN ROSE perform BRIDGE CAROLS + NOVI SPLIT + DANIEL AHEARN + CMG AND THE NIGHT
BRIDGE CAROLS was born of both LAURA GIBSON’s (amazing songstress for
HUSH) and sound artist ETHAN ROSE’s separate disenchantments with the written
and spoken word. Together they have created an almost Gysin-esque way of
chopping and rearranging word and tone in new and challenging formats. The
other three bands pretty much go about the same old way that everybody else
does, but man, do they do it beautifully.
www.bridgecarols.com
www.myspace.com/danielahearn
www.myspace.com/cmglovesyou
www.myspace.com/novisplit
The Onion and The A.V. Club present:
OUR DUMB BOOK EVENT
with Division Day, Tom Lennon, Ben Garant, and Megan Ganz
At the Echoplex, Thursday, April 1
7:30 pm
$10, 18+
Posted on The Echo website:
Beautiful people of Los Angeles, reschedule your Botox appointments. Put that anal bleaching on hold. Stop doing whatever other lazy L.A. stereotype we can’t think of, and point your Prius in the direction of Echo Park: We’re coming to see you.
That’s right, the multimedia caravan around our Inventory book is coming to the Echoplex on April 1, and this time we’re bringing with us our siblings, The Onion—who have their own awesome book to promote. (Buy them together for a low low price here!) For one night only, staff members from both publications will be on hand to read, show videos, talk, and generally goof around for your enjoyment.
And we won’t be alone. Joining us will be Tom Lennon and Ben Garant (of Reno 911!, The State, and a bunch of other stuff), reading their guest lists from Inventory, Important Things With Demetri Martin writer—and former Onion scribe—Megan Ganz, L.A. band Division Day, and others TBA. It’s going to be crazy and fun, and you should most certainly come.
The Echoplex, located at 1154 Glendale Blvd.
Part Time Punks this Sunday March 28 at The Echo is featuring the Slumberland Records 20th anniversary show. Featured bands include: Boyracer, Brown Recluse, Devon Williams, Go Sailor, Henry’s Dress, Neverever, Pants Yell!, Summer Cats, and The How.
The show is $15 and all ages; doors at 7:00 pm. Click here to purchase tickets in advance.
The Echo is located at 1822 Sunset Blvd.
In case you’re wondering what Part Time Punks is, from their website: Part Time Punks is a club that takes over noted Echo Park live music venue, The Echo on 1822 Sunset, every Sunday night. The night focuses heavily on obscure and classic music coming out of America, the UK and Europe in 1978 to the present: Punk, Post-punk, Punk-funk, New Wave, No Wave, Hardcore, Indie-Pop, Twee, Grunge, Electro, Minimal-Synth, Shoegaze, Baggy.
It’s a little early to be pulling out the Christmas tree lighting, but it might be a chance to get creative with some… body lighting? And yes we are taking bets on how long until the cops are called. Either way, you might be interested in joining glow-in-the-dark fun on Friday at 9:00 pm.
Here’s the low-down from the Facebook evite page:
That’s right, come dressed in your flashiest colorful gear! Were talking Led lights, EL wire, blinkie hats and glasses, glow sticks, Christmas lights, basically anything that lights up or glows!
Can’t find any lights? That’s OK, Bust out your freshest NEON GEAR! Just wear anything that’s gonna brighten the night. We will be bringing in the colors of spring in style!
BYOB, DJ, and free. Take some (PG-13) pictures for us if anyone gets creative!
Best Coast (Art Fag Recording, 2009) is a recent discovery for me and I love them. Luckily for me, and you as well, they will be playing Waved Out at the Echo and Echoplex this Saturday, March 27th.
Get this 7″ EP while it’s still in print. If you love thick distortion and heavy reverb, mixed with 1960’s pop sensibility song writing and a stoned-in-California vibe, this is for you.
Origami Vinyl is located at 1816 West Sunset Blvd, (213) 413-3030
The Echo is at 1822 Sunset Blvd, (213) 413-8200
I stopped by El Prado last night to grab two rounds after work. I’ve been a long time fan of microbrews and Belgian-style ales and it’s such a treasure to have a bar so close to my house that serves these style of beers. I had the Allagash Tripple.
When I was there I noticed that the room was split, almost equally, into wine & beer drinkers. It’s just that type of place. Being a fan of mid-week bar time, this is a great night at El Prado. Tuesday night’s are also Record Club Night, which is hosted by Origami Vinyl. Details for the night can be found on Origami’s blogsite.
All and all, fun times.
El Prado is located at 1805 W. Sunset Boulevard, (213) 484-6079
Well, the long wait is finally over–after releasing their excellent debut, The Ortolan on Dim Mak records in 2007 and playing a slew of shows, tours, and sweater festivals, The Deadly Syndrome have finally returned with a new disc of their frenetic and hook-charged rock. Nolens Volens (Latin for “whether willingly or unwillingly”) will be independently released by the band on March 23rd–meaning you’ll be able to purchase digital copies from the usual gang of distributors like iTunes and Emusic, or you can buy a physical copy from the band’s website.
Produced by the band and co-mixed with Kennie Takahashi, Nolens Volens‘ sound, according to the band, promises “less ghosts, and less wolves. We tried to be as honest as we could. Hopefully we succeeded.” And, from the sound of “Wingwalker,” a preview track on the band’s website, it may well have been worth the wait. – Web In Front
The Deadly Syndrome || Listen || Watch
Signals
Rabbits
Thursday, March 25th
8:30pm
$10
18+
Via Burger Records
Burger Records is releasing three Cleaners from Venus tapes (with a hand stamp by Martin Newell himself) and they are celebrating! The FREE show is at 9:00 pm Thursday, March 25 at 2Headedhorse
The bands include:
Audacity
Pearl Harbor
Cleaners From Venus (cover band)
along with Djs Sean Bohrman and Jessica Espeleta
2Headedhorse is located at 1770 Glendale Blvd.
Abe Vigoda, Lovvers, and The Black Apples will be playing tonight The Echo at 8:30pm.
“Along with Women, Dirty Projectors and Wavves, Abe Vigoda is chipping away at our expectations of how a 21st century rock band should function.
“Reviver doesn’t simply take the concepts laid down in Skeleton and give them a novel new twist. Instead, this is the sound of a completely different band, barely recognizable from the fumbling, itchy and trebly guitars that prickled through tracks like “Dead City/Waste Wilderness” from the preceding record. They’ve undergone a process of attrition, of paring down the Abe Vigoda sound until it represents something totally new. All the energy and ideas poured into their music have been un-learned and spewed out into a different musical space.” – Prefix Mag
About Abe Vigoda || Listen || Watch video
About Lovvers || Listen
About The Black Apples
Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 day of show, and is 18 and over. Click here to purchase tickets.
March 6, 2010
la-underground presents:
TEARIST
SISTER CRAYON
THE NOCTURNES
BLACK CHURCH
plus special guest
and DJ BOY WITHOUT ORANGE
pehrspace
325 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
All Ages / $5 / 9pm
http://www.myspace.com/teariststst
http://www.myspace.com/silentandclementine
http://www.myspace.com/thenocturnesmusic
http://www.myspace.com/blackchurchplus
Text from the Echo Curio website.
Mon, Mar 1st – ZAIMPH + STELLAR OM SOURCE + PACIFIC CITY NIGHTLIFE
VISION BAND + M. GEDDES GENGRAS
This is gonna be a killer show, PCNVB is Spencer from SKATERS and VODKA
SOAP jamming with two other dudes. We also got the incredible NYC sound
artist/explorer Marcia Bassett, playing here as ZAIMPH. And to top off the deal, we
have the Dutch vibrationist and keyboard ritualist STELLAR OM SOURCE here to
shake us slowly to sleep.
www.zaimph.org
www.myspace.com/omsource
good luck finding the PACIFIC CITY NIGHTLIFE VISION BAND anywhere.
Tues, Mar 2nd – PEACE, LOVING + HORAFLORA + headlight + LOLA LOSHKEY
Well, we moved our art drop back a day to help out these fine folks, slyly named
PEACE, LOVING travelling from New England, bringing with them a calamitous
cacophony of metal and whirling free jazz. SF’s HORAFLORA also shares this love
of prepared instruments and strange sonic disturbances. Our very own headlight,
on the other hand, will seem like a gentle dream, a synth-based slalom into the
abyss. And also recently added is the newly developed LOLA LOSHKEY, a
frightening trip into the realm of dead pets, stuffed unicorns and skeleton suits.
http://whitehausfamilyrecord.com/blastzone/artists/peace-loving/
www.myspace.com/horaflora
Wed, Mar 3rd – ART DROP for the PEOPLE WE KNOW SHOW 7p to 10p
I know, we usually do art drops on Tuesdays, but this one is gonna be Wednesday,
so that we can have the Peace,Loving guys play. But don’t let out tardiness fool
you, we’re super psyched about the phenomenal Rebekkah Clendening coming up
with the idea for this show, and we’ll be featuring many of her portraits of local
figures from the neighborhood. But what kind of neighbors would we be if we didn’
t open up the show to everybody… so come and bring us your portraits, photos,
sculptures and even stories about people you know, people we might get to know!!!
Hightower, Space Vacation (SF)