feel like standing around for hours on end and waiting for a bunch of old dudes to make you deaf? of course you do! Dinosaur Jr. is playing a free surprise (yeah right… there’s this thing called the internet, folks) show at the hella intimate Troubadour this coming Tuesday night. the doors open at 8pm, and it’s first come, first serve. good luck y’all. if people (morbidly OBESE people at that) are willing to spend their unemployed days in line just to get a free Moons Over My Hammy, then the wait for this one will probably go down the block. good thing Dinosaur is so loud, you’ll probably be able to hear them anyway. (Troub’s email says to send an email to dinojr@mog.com to get your name on the list, though it doesn’t guarantee entry. also it’s eighteen and over.)
here’s a rare weekend post to celebrate a record breaking traffic day yesterday as well as to point out a lot of great openings tonight in the metropolitan Los Angeles area. earlier in the week we mentioned the Brian Viveros/Dan Quintana/Bad Otis Link triple header in Santa Monica, and jesus satan also highly recommends Corey Helford Gallery’s opening for both Michael Mararian’s “Youth Parade” and Miso’s “The Cold Returns”. Mararian’s current project looks incredibly intense and wickedly funny, just the way i like my women art. there are also something like fourteen other shows tonight, so check out Sour Harvest for a fairly thorough rundown on what’s what, where and at what times. Sour Harvest also emails a great weekly newsletter on recommended art openings, so sign up for that shit here. then i don’t always have to be the one telling you what to do, where to go, how to dress, etc…. i mean, what am i, your mom?
aww… Supes, don’t get yourself down! there’s a New Year coming! to celebrate the holidays, Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City is having two festive openings that have absolutely nothing to do with xmas. this coming Saturday is a fun little group orgy opening featuring multi-plane paintings from fifty of Helford’s all-stars, including Van Arno, the lovely Ana Bagayan, Gary Baseman, Buff Monster, Luke Chueh, Coop, Korin Faught, Sylvia Ji and just a shit ton more. there should be jusssssttt enough holiday cheer for everyone, and if you’re still not feeling the fucking spirit, then a week later Immortal Artifacts from Kukula opens. it will probably be chock full of naughty NSFW paintings and sketches of, um, precocious little girls. it’s bound to be a delightful show, although unless you want to spend your holidays in federal prison, i would avoid having your picture taken at that one, especially by the pedophilia net trying to look inconspicuous in the unmarked van parked across the street.
old-school punk bands from Chicago equals awesome. the unstoppable force of Jesus Lizard singer David Yow were legendary in my hometown, ao don’t waste this chance to see them since they broke up a while ago because they were old and not making any money until that Touch and Go anniversary show got ‘em back together but who knows for how long? hitting the Henry Fonda tonight.
if you aren’t familiar with amazing Denver alt-country rockers 16 Horsepower, then you owe it to yourself to immediately stop what you’re doing and dive into their back catalog of howling, book-stomping goth americana. then feel sad because they split up in 2005, with lead singer David Eugene Edwards pressing on as Woven Hand (whose show at Spaceland last year was one of the best i’ve seen pretty much ever), and other members forming Lilium and Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. but now feel better because tonight Slim Cessna’s Auto Club makes an appearance at the Redwood Bar (316 W. 2nd St., L.A. (213) 680-2600) so it’s time to put on your shit kickin’ heels, and for once let’s try not to get in a bar fight even if that sonofabitch across the bar does keep staring…
WTTD readers meet sweet-beat-maker Nicolay and his cohort, Phonte. Together they are The Foreign Exchange, a North Carolina-based Neo Soul act that has that “something different” that us underground hip-hop heads so seek out and desire. Their new album, Leave It All Behind, has a fresh blend of chillout, electronica and soul, leaving behind the hip-hop feel of their first release, Connected. Phonte Coleman, formerly of Little Brother and the Justus League (which borne unto us producer 9th Wonder), has engineered a music career doing what any real artist should do…evolve. Lucky you L.A.! You get 2 nights of these guys! The Foreign Exchange Sept 13th & 14th. The Roxy, West Hollywood. Get tickets here.
Soulslider has a theory on chicks like Peaches. You see… guys have two lists of girls they’ve hooked up with… there are the girls you brag and tell your friends about… and then there’s the “actual” list. The “no-bragging-and-if-there-was-an-erase-horrible-memories-pill-I’d-take-it-the-morning-after” list. Peaches, although famous, falls into the “actual” list. Nonetheless, she does make an interesting song every now and again, not sure if this is one of them, however, but the video is just goofy enough for me to like, so I’m posting it.
She’s on a US tour, hitting Las Vegas on Oct. 24th, New York on Nov 14th, and Los Angeles on Jan. 28th at the Wiltern. (Not surprisingly, Amanda Blank aka Peaches Light is opening for a great deal of the tour.) One of the two last Peaches shows here sold out, so get tickets asap if you’re into that sort of thing. More tour dates after the jump.
Mew is playing a grip of shows around town the next few days, but good luck seeing them. tonight they’ll be debuting a couple new music videos and doing a special live performance (i.e. a few songs) for a Microsoft-sponsored event called “Mewseum” at Zune L.A. (8275 Beverly Blvd). tomorrow night they’re headlining a sold-out show at the Troubadour (jesus satan will be at this one), and then Wednesday night and Thursday night they open up for two of Nine Inch Nails’ four last shows ever; Wed at the Palladium (jesus satan will be at this one, too) with Qween Kwong, and Thurs at the Henry Fonda. of course, both of these shows are TOTALLY sold out (obviously), so your best bet is probably the Zune thing tonight from 7pm-10, which at the very least is free to not get into. email mewseum@sonymusic.com to try to get on the list.
The Antlers are playing a sold out record release party tonight at the Mercury Lounge in NY (that’s okay if you don’t have tix, tickets are still available for the snootiness of The Upper Crust there this Saturday night). the new single ‘Two’ is utterly gorgeous, and here’s an utterly gorgeous video to accompany it. there’s a huge buzz on these guys and for once it’s well-deserved. Murder Mystery, Twin Thousands, and Brent Arnold open.
Recent Comments