Zooey Deschanel is so cute. i just want to punch her in those sweet little eyes. She & Him (i.e. Zooey and M. Ward) are playing around LA over the next month with shows at Largo (sold out), the El Rey (sold out) and the Glass House (sold out) to warm up for Coachella on the 16th, which is apparently the only way you’ll get to see them. or you can just watch the new video for In The Sun.
this amazing song deserves a far better video than this. The Big Pink is hitting the El Rey tonight with the Jesus and Mary Chain-ish A Place To Bury Strangers, Active Child and IO Echo, and tickets are still available here. (Big Pink will be back for Coachella next month, too.)
somehow i get the idea that this video is really what Jay Reatard’s day to day is like. all. the. time. his show tonight at the El Rey has been cancelled, probably because he’s hungover from his life.
pretty cool video, pretty amazing band. tonight MONO gives the kissing disease to Los Angeles with an intimate group grope at the El Rey (5515 Wilshire Blvd. L.A. (323) 936-6400). tickets are still available for $21 each here. Maserati opens.
here’s a lovely new video of weirdness for the song “Sing Along” from goofball Icelandic troupe Múm. not sure what they’re smoking up there what with Bjork and Sigur Rós et al, but i wish they’d stop bogarting and send it down our way. that or they’re all just insane from spending so many long dark winters stuck inside with nothing to do but make emotional pop music.
Múm is playing New York on the 24th of October at the Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, 10012 – tickets here) and they stop by Los Angeles at the El Rey (5515 Wilshire Blvd, 90036) in June (tickets here). they’re fun live, should be a quirky good time for all, and this one gets a three thumbs up recommendation from j. satan.
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros are playing a sold out show tonight at the El Rey so who cares because i can’t go and you probably can’t either, unless you already have tickets. but whatev because the only reason i’m even saying something is because i wanted to post this motherfucking amazing video for Desert Song, in which, and this is direct from the band’s Myspace video page, “This is PART 1 of a 12-Part feature-length movie musical. Part 1: Desert Song is about singer Alex Ebert’s reckoning with the middle name his father secretly wrote on his birth certificate – a Native American name which means ‘Devil’ or ‘Demon’. The opening footage is of his father chanting in Monument Valley – shot by his mother.”
Bat For Lashes is playing tonight at the Henry Fonda to make up for her sold out show a couple months ago at the El Rey. “security” wouldn’t let me in since i didn’t have a “ticket”, and the “police” didn’t understand that i’m not “stalking”, either, i just needed to “talk” to her. all said and done it was a terrible night and i’d like to put it behind me. so this time i bought a ticket and i think she’ll be really happy to see me there. can’t wait to see the look on her face!
Matt and Kim – No More Long Years (Radioclit Remix)
Matt and Kim – It’s A Fact (Printed Stained) (Mano Remix Feat. Hollywood Holt)
tonight über-cute pop sensation Matt and Kim are playing the El Rey. i can’t help but wonder how much of the rather amazing video (below) for Lessons Learned is staged and how much is real. don’t know too many cops that let two naked people and a camera crew get away. seems more like a Benny Hill episode than NYC’s finest, but it’s a great video nonetheless.
Santogold – I’m A Lady (Diplo Mix Ft Amanda Blank)
randomly, miss sweet thang herself Amanda Blank goes on first. should be a good show all around, even if Blank is a total mismatch as an opener.
somehow i get the idea that this video is really what Jay Reatard’s life is like. all. the. time. he’s headlining the Shattered Records Tour with Nobunny, Digital Leather, Box Elders and Hunx & His Punx at the El Rey in October. haven’t seen him yet, but i’ve heard really good things. get tix here. (cheap! only $15.50! kind of sad that that’s cheap these days! exclamation points are fun!)
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