Hot girl on Girls action.

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.

Check out their video for “Lust For Life” here:

GIRLS - LUST FOR LIFE

Free at Home Restaurant - Viewing Party for Manu Chao on ACL

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

Mothers, hide your daughters!

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.

We're Van Stone


THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 - SILVERLAKE LOUNGE - $10
VAN STONE 11:30p
CREEDLE (S.D. -feat. Devon Goldberg and Rob Crow) 10:30p
EL TEN ELEVEN 9:30p
FALSETTO TEETH 8:30p

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

NYC's Amazing Baby - December 18 at Bordello

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

Local Natives invade Silverlake Lounge - Every Monday in February - Free

February 2, 9, 16 and 23.

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.

Sam Sparro gets a Grammy nod for our fave dance track - Black & Gold

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!

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