Italian Gypsy virtuosos OPA CUPA perform dinnertime show Sunday at Tangier!

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

Grampall Jookabox (Asthmatic Kitty) tonite 11/11 at Silverlake Lounge

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11th
SILVERLAKE LOUNGE - $8
ADVANCE TIX HERE

GRAMPALL JOOKABOX 10p
DEATH TO FRESH 11p
KID MOXIE 12a
BRANDON MAYER & HIDDEN POWERS 9p
CHRIS ROBLEY 8p

PLAY THE GRAMPALL JOOKABOX HERE!!!

GRAMPALL JOOKABOX
Enter the private, brightly infantile, electrically sanctified world of Grampall Jookabox's idiot-savant folk-rock. The spectrum of influences and appropriations feeding into this album are impressively, almost schizophrenically varied. There are hints of early blues, notes of civil war ballads, and children's sidewalk-chalk rhymes, all filtered through spastically epic and innovative intuition, creating a final product not unlike the early work of Daniel Johnston. - Joyful Noise

Grampall Jookabox, the name of Indianapolis native David "Moose" Adamson's musical project, sounds like a child slurring the words “Grandpa Jukebox,” implying filial connection with an archaic musical object. Jookabox’s debut record, Scientific Cricket, samples a kind of primordial blues sound, children's sidewalk-chalk rhymes and Appalachian folk. But his latest effort finds him moving into new, unplumbed territories. Ropechain pinwheels kaleidoscopically through old-time spirituals, punk, chain-gang hymnal, deep house, and club music hip-hop, blending these disparate elements into a cohesive and unique synthesis.

“Anyone called a "ghetto-folkster" is alright by us, but this is real Marmite stuff - it's either genius or moronic, but is probably blessed with a touch of both. There's definitely something arresting about the soulful warbling of "Now don't it make you feel good when a girl ain't preggers?" over the kind of music Kings Of Leon would have made if they'd been brought up on a pirate radio instead of rock'n'roll.” - The Lipster

tWO gALLANTS' Adam Stephens performs Wednesday at Tangier

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12th
TANGIER - 2138 Hillhurst - $10
ADAM STEPHENS (tWO gALLANTS) 10p
FRANK FAIRFIELD 9:15p
EVAN WAY (Parson Redheads)8:30p

ADAM STEPHENS
“Adam Stephens is best known as guitarist and vocalist for San Francisco duo Two Gallants. Stylistically rooted in the blues and folk influences of decades past, Stephens offers an independent voice seemingly unaffected by the confines propagated by musical contemporaries. For those accustomed to the rhythmically backed context in which Stephens typically performs, expect a performance more akin to Two Gallants' 2007 acoustic release "The Scenery of Farewell", complete with Stephens' intricate fingerpicking and lyrics befitting a classic novelist.” Anne Ostrowski

FRANK FAIRFIELD
“’He's like 26 years old and he sounds like Mississippi John Hurt," says Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes). Fairfield plays fiddle and banjo player and strums back-porch bluegrass, complete with shaky jug-band vocals reminiscent of The Foggy Mountain Boys from way back in the '40s (think O Brother, Where Art Thou?). "He's kinda crazy. He has his own radio show where he just plays these old gramophones. He just puts a mic up and plays all these field recordings from the 1900s; it's insane. He dresses like it's the early 1900s. He's born out of time, and his voice is amazing.’” - Rolling Stone

ADVANCE TIX HERE!
http://www.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=29336

Honky Tonk Happy Hour w/ SHOOTER JENNINGS on New Years Day

New Years Day
January 1st, 2009
El Cid
4212 Sunset Boulevard
No Cover

HONKY TONK HAPPY HOUR
3-8pm
with SHOOTER JENNINGS,
EARL GREYHOUND, and Ghost Gamblers

Sausage, Sauerkraut, Collared greens and Rock and Roll in the afternoon...