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.)
Ok Go is playing the Music Box at Henry Fonda Theater (get your tickets here tomorrow), and i don’t really care too much about that, but it gives me a chance to post their awesome This Too Shall Pass videos that are such a big deal all over the internets and worlds wides webseses. here is the new one:
and here’s the older one, which isn’t executed nearly as well, but it’s still pretty damn neat.
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
that's a lot of woman.
just too many amazing shows tonight to go into in full (so check out Oh My Rockness here), but jesus satan is hitting WTTD fav Leslie and the Lys at the Echoplex with Christopher and the Conquered (tickets here) (and i’m totally going to make another jesus satan sandwich with the Leslie and the Lys backup dancers.)
if there’s one thing that jesus satan hates, it’s hate. tonight Manifest Equality opens at 1341 Vine St. in Hollywood with a splendiferous group show in support of equal rights for everyone, not just old white people. you better be there even if you don’t care too much about humanity and stuff, because the roster of artists (posted below) is absolutely stellar with pieces from Shepard Fairey, Harvey Pekar (American Splendor!), Ron English, Tim Biskup, El Mac, and a ton more awesome commies. (also, while i’m on the subject of hate, on March 29th that sonofabitchmurderingfuck Karl Rove is doing a paid speaking engagement at Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, so start rotting your tomatoes now, Los Angeles.)
just a quick post to let you know that WTTD pal Adam Bones is opening up for Visqueen and Bear Hands tonight at Spaceleand. not a fan of Visqueen, but Bear Hands definitely merits a listen. good stuff. Ari Shine also opens.
Scion Presents: ‘It Was On Earth That I Knew Joy’ at Scion’s Installation L.A. Gallery Space in Culver City
Tony Alva, Richard Villa III and Levis present Dagger’s Rule! at the Exhibit A Gallery (FUCK this flyer is just SICK) *UPDATE: OOPS, THIS IS ON THE 27TH. MY BAD.
LeBasse Projects – Yoshitaka Amano’s Deva Loka: Los Angeles and Yoskay Yamamoto’s Tell Me a Story
Werewolf Art Gallery group show 5419 Cleon Ave 91601
New Image Art – 2-The-Wall group show
a bunch of j. satan’s fav newish bands are hitting sunny Los Angeles so yay for me! The Smith Westerns and Best Coast are opening for the stellar Cold Cave tonight and tomorrow at the Glasshouse in Pomona and at the Echoplex in Echo Park respectively. AVI Buffalo (meh… not so great live, though i do like their studio music) also opens tonight at the Glasshouse. both shows are all ages but whaddayagonnado? this is a three thumbs up show from jesus satan, the show this last December in Eagle Rock was painfully short, but well worth the drive nonetheless.
damn, those Yeasayer kids are going to be kind of a big deal, and Warpaint kind of rulz the schulz, too, so i was really looking forward to tonights First Fridays‘ double header tonight at the Natural History Museum. (Deer Tick closes out the season on March 5th.) oh well, as compensation here’s a bunch of awesome Yeasayer-ness. firstly, their new album, Odd Blood, which has finally released, is available right now to preview in its entirety on their Myspace page here, and it’s also available for download in a variety of packages here. some really great stuff, although nothing as stellar as their Ambling Alp single, NSFW video of which is below. which brings me to my second note. check out the naked psychedelica weirdness of their Ambling Alp Single experience that’s meant to accompany the video at their site here. kind of like watching porn while you drop some acid. (the image above is a screen capture from it.) fuck i love this song. (*update: they’re streaming the live show starting at 8.30 here.)
Yeasayer – Ambling Alp from Spy Films on Vimeo.
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