Eastern Conference Champs a late addition to tonight's VAMPIRE WEEKEND show

"Hey isn't the Silverlake Lounge over that way past the reservoir?"

Tonight, July 17th - Silverlake Lounge - $8
Vampire Weekend 10:30p
Faker 9:30p
French Semester 8:30p

Eastern Conference Champions (pictured!) go on 11:30p

Tickets available at http://www.virtuous.com

Metric - Between the Bars (by Elliott Smith)

Castledoor are Thursday night residents all of June at the Silverlake Lounge

We are devoted to Castledoor for their talent, hard work, rowing skills and tuxedos.

Come check Castledoor out at the Lounge this June Thursdays.


Check out this new video for the song Zaika here....

Congratulations, my friends

I'd like to offer sincere thanks and congrats to Nous Non Plus, whose songs successfully perked up my Monday morning like nobody's business. Oh wait, sorry- Monday afternoon already. Jeez. Anybody else in need of some additional up-beat quirkiness right now? This is like the zingiest, tastiest cup of coffee you've ever had, and it comes with crunchy multi-coloured guitar sprinkles on top, super-sugary-sweet vocal froth, peppermint-flavoured keyboard syrup, and an additional shot of high-energy drum espresso. Dance, bitches!

Nous Non Plus play at Safari Sam's on May 25th. If you're concerned the mega-dose of pop might prove a little hard to stomach in one go, don't freak out. The Pity Party are also playing, and the power of their angular rock will balance out the sugar rush perfectly.

If you require further arm-twisting, might I suggest you go here for additional persuasion? Or maybe even here?

We dig Great Northern

And if you don't yet, listen to this, and you will.

Xu Xu Fang Residency- Thursdays in April at Silverlake Lounge

Layered, dreamy, complex music absolutely worth checking out. I'm giddy about this one, but please don't ask why they always have horses in their promo shots. I don't get it either, but that's okay.

Song set from Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, Spectrum, E.A.R) - April 9th at Safari Sam's

I missed his last show, but fate and Safari Sam have apparently given me a second chance to catch Pete Kember (who dubbs himself Sonic Boom), a former member of the legendary psyche-rock outfit Spacemen 3, and Experimental Audio Research (aka E.A.R.)

Next month, Kember will be playing a song set at Safari Sam's, and I was just told that "instead of doing the experimental electronic bits, he's going to do song-based stuff, most likely old and new Spectrum, Spacemen 3, and other stuff." So says Andy, vocalist for the ethereal San Franscico psychedelic shoegazers LSD And The Search For God, who open the show along with the swelling pop-electronica of L.A.'s own Eskimohunter.

Very cool.

The Fold's 10th Anniversary Show- OMG!

You may recognize the above photo as Lifter, and its bassist as one Mr. Jeffrey Sebelia, fashion maven and victor of Project Runway. It's from the Fold's first show on April 17, 1997, nearly a full decade ago, and we've just asked Scott Sterling to approximate how many shows he's orchestrated since then. At this moment in time, he's mumbling an incoherent stream of numbers like Rainman.

He's still multiplying.

Hold on.

I'm just sitting here waiting.

Okay, finally he uttered: "Let's say 18, 24,....3,000, maybe? I guess." Then he added: "That's a fairly conservative estimate," before returning to his mud-thick coffee.

So the point is: it's been a busy ten years at the Fold. And it's time to let loose with a little anniversary show Tuesday, April 17th at the Silverlake Lounge...