Our songstress of choice Sara Lov performs at HOME - 2500 Riverside Drive this coming Friday evening the 20th February at 10pm. This event is Free! Joining her on the night are Manuok from S.D. and Toby Burke of Horse Stories. DJ Melissa Renee Hernanadez of Lo and Behold! opens festivities at 9p and spins into the night.
Also Thanks to Kevin Bronson for pointing the way to this little gem that Sara Lov recently posted to the web.
Doods dig Girls, girls dig Girls - the scraggly SF white boy (not girl) band. This is a show you do not want to miss. Girls will journey down to the Southland and play a long awaited Los Angeles show on February 26th at the Silverlake Lounge with Wounded Lion.
Christopher Owens and Chet JR White perform pop songs that contain aggressive dramatic guitar playing with bright catchy hooks. Think Jesus & Mary Chain, MBV, and Glasvegas. Last year, their limited edition 7” entitled “Lust for Life,” sold out in just a week. The song is not a tribute to or an Iggy Pop cover, but a fun happy song that will have you singing along and dancing to after a few listens. The band has received rave reviews and accolades from SF Bay Area press (as well as our pals at Pitchfork Media and Gorilla vs Bear) and are currently working on new material for their forthcoming debut full-length.
Saturday, January 24th - Home Restaurant - 2500 Riverside at Fletcher in Silverlake - Free Nacional Records presents... Viewing Party for MANU CHAO's performance at Austin City Limits - 8pm - 2am
Episode airs at 8pm DJ Mexican Dubwiser spins from 9p into the night Including a special live performance from LA SANTA CECILIA at 11pm
“The Spanish-French singer’s U.S. performances are rare, and his American television appearances even rarer. Everyone in the room for the intimate taping seemed to recognize it was a special evening and the entire audience was on its feet well before Manu Chao took the stage. And we remained standing, dancing for the bulk of the show. The performance was an exhilarating journey as the defiantly political artist sang with raw heart that transcended any language barrier. It was also an exercise in audio whiplash as the pace of the show vacillated between easy skank and breakneck, moshable ska.” - Austin360.com
This is the least pornographic video available on Van Stone's myspace. They rape and pillage Silverlake Lounge on January 22 joined by SD's avant-jazz-punk-art-damaged Creedle.
VAN STONE “After an ill-fated attempt to start a mercenary group in the same vein as TV's "A-Team," the Van Stone brothers (Randy and Lonnie) decided to do the next best thing: form Van Stone: the band! The brothers recruited Cliff Steinberger on lead guitar and Kurt Gibson on lead, lead guitar, threw irreverent and mostly unprintable song titles (Show Us Yer T***, 25 Dollar Blow***) on some killer '80s metal riffs, and quickly skyrocketed to self-proclaimed "3rd Best Rock Band" of Palmdale, Calif., status.” - SignOn San Diego
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18 - BORDELLO - $10 AMAZING BABY DJ Sam James Velde
AMAZING BABY “These Brooklyn scenesters (and MGMT confreres) pile layers of noisy, cascading guitar onto an “aohw aohw” chorus like wayward glam refugees munching ‘shrooms.” - Spin
“We've been known to enjoy music that sounds like it either comes from outer space or the bottom of a bong, so when we were presented with New York's Amazing Baby, who sound like Bongs In Space, it didn't take long to decide that they were pretty great.” - Fader
Amongst the myriad of musicians that call Los Angeles home, Local Natives, a band favoring a new breed of energetic, percussion driven indie rock, have come to fruition. This clan of five gentleman craft songs reminiscent of a musical tribe, singing and dancing in harmony. Imagine if Beirut and Sufjan Stevens decided to join the eccentricity of Talking Heads and the aura of Broken Social Scene for lunch in Columbia and you’ve pinpointed what is Local Natives. In the age of auto tune and vocoders, Local Natives is one of those rare bands who is defined by their ability to deliver live. In fact, it has been more of challenge for the group to translate the vibrant and exciting nature of their performances to a recording than vice versa. But blessed with the charisma to tempt even the most despondent hipsters and shy concert goers into dance machines, Local Natives have honed their skills in both recording and performing the past few years.
Here they are doing a righteous cover of S&G's Cecilia... if that doesn't put a smile on your face, you're a vampire.
This one comes straight from the Told-You-So department. Mr. Sam Sparro, patterned sparkle leggings dance pop soul singer extraordinaire, has nabbed a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording. It seems like it was only last year that we were shaking our bodies and swaying to his ode to the Big Guy down the street at Silverlake Lounge. Oh wait, it was and a year later, the train keeps speeding on...
Warmest congrats to Sam and Jesse from the Fold family!
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 - TANGIER - $10 before 8p/$7 after OPA CUPA (Lecce, Italy) 7:00p
Opa Cupa! (read: "Opa chupa"), it's a shout of exhortation to the dance used by gypsies of South-Eastern Europe. Musicians coming from different cultures (Bosnia-Erzegovina, Albany South Italy) gather around the leader, the trumpeteer Cesare DellAnna.
This 12 piece band play a "marginal" music, blending the kaleidoscopic sounds and fascinating melodies of ancients Balkan songs with the traditional music of southern Italy.
later show from CHARLIE WADHAMS 10:30p http://www.myspace.com/charliewadhams MARVIN ETZIONI 9:30p http://www.myspace.com/marvinetzioni MICHAEL MANGIA 8:30p http://www.mysapce.com/michaelmangia
Our songstress of choice Sara Lov performs at HOME - 2500 Riverside Drive this coming Friday evening the 20th February at 10pm. This event is Free! Joining her on the night are Manuok from S.D. and Toby Burke of Horse Stories. DJ Melissa Renee Hernanadez of Lo and Behold! opens festivities at 9p and spins into the night.
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