|
|
 |
|
BROKE AFTER THE HOLIDAYS? GET FREE TICKETS!!!
|
ONE PAIR OF TICKETS PER PERSON. MUST BE AT LEAST 21 YEARS OF AGE TO PARTICIPATE (BRING ID). FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE. WE WILL BE GIVING AWAY 10 PAIR OF TICKETS TO EACH OF THE SHOWS LISTED BELOW. BOX OFFICE WILL OPEN AT 6PM AND CLOSE AT 8PM.
JAN 16th - 1969 Tour with Myka Nine / Sole / Ceschi Ramos / Factor
JAN 17th - Bad Manners / Chase Long Beach
JAN 18th - Dwarves / The Uprising
JAN 21st - Peachcake / MC Lars / Get Back Loretta
JAN 22nd - Angel City Outcasts / Duane Peters Gunfight / Danko Jones / Prima Donna
JAN 23rd - Adolescents / The Crowd / White Flag / Los Creepers
JAN 23rd - The Lives of Famous Men / Anarbor / Go Crash Audio / The Sequence
JAN 24th - Bluebeat Lounge 6th Anniversary with Joey Altruda’s Classic Riddums / Viernes 13 / Chris Murray Combo / Raskahuele / The Ifficials
JAN 29th - The Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band
JAN 30th - Blood / GPKism / Vamp Star / DJ Sisen
FEB 5th - 16 / Intronaut / Giant Squid / Bastard Noise / Black Math Horsemen
FEB 6th - Mike Park / Jesse Michaels / Kevin Seconds / Andrew Jackson Jihad
FEB 7th - 3 Floors of Ska feat. Ska is Dead & Friends with Voodoo Glow Skulls / The Toasters / Buck-O-Nine / Deals Gone Bad + many more!
FEB 10th - Never Better Tour with P.O.S. and special Doomtree guests: Sims, Mictlan, & Lazerbeak (Hand Over Fist)
FEB 17th - Joey Cape (Lagwagon) / Chris Schifflet (Foo Fighters) / Jon Snodgrass (Drag the River) / Marko 72 (Sugarcult)
FEB 19th - A Wilhelm Scream / Chaser / Syncope Threshold
FEB 19th - Sound of the Blue Heart / Menew
FEB 24th - Dear and the Headlights / Miniature Tigers
FEB 25th - Damiera / The Urgency
FEB 27th - The Angry Samoans / Johnny Madcap & The Distractions / The Crazy Squeeze / Action 45
MAR 6th - Volto!
MAR 6th - Automatic Loveletter / A Cursive Memory / Tickle Me Pink / Kyle & Natalie
MAR 11th - Von Iva / Semi Precious Weapons / The Start / Roxy Epoxy & The Rebound / Killola / The Action Design
MAR 15th - Tim Barry (Avail) / Austin Lucas / Josh Small
MAR 26th - Craig Owens (Chiodos/Cinematic Sunrise) / Ace Enders / The Gay Blades / Versaemerge
APRIL 4th - Left Alone / Viernes 13 / Black Rose Phantoms / Gamblers Mark
Posted January 5th, 2009 / by Bones / Permalink / 1 Comment
|
MC Lars Review / History of Nerdcore and Other Tidbits
Local Experiences Meat Beat Visually and Aurally
|
When trying to put down words to describe a Meat Beat Manifesto Concert, I couldn’t help but think of the Elvis Costello quote, “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” But of course, MBM is not just about music. In fact, In the beginning of the concert, there was a booming voice coming over the PA that declared, “Only 11% of what we learn comes from what we hear.” The group, led by Jack Dangers, a man originally from the U.K. who now presides in San Francisco, has been active for over 2 decades. He has developed a very strong stage show that I enjoyed immensely.
The visual in an Electronic Music performance, particularly a Meat Beat Manifesto concert, is essential. In the very first song there was a collage of Moogs and a clip of Marshall Applewhite of the notoriously suicidal Heavens Gate cult saying ’surivive,’ over and over again. MBM’s music provided an angsty backbeat as further clips of George Bush Sr., Jimi Hendrix, and footage from old movies entertained us on a double screen. There were pics of Old school microphones, typewriters, buttons, fractal patterns, and a whole myriad of memes to check out. Some people were dancing as they took in the spectacle. I had to just sit and stare to process it. At the end of the first song there was MSNBC footage of a man being restrained by cops and than cutting back and forth between that and Captain Kirk. When the song ended, everyone cheered and awaited for what was next, transfixed.
I must admit for me it was different experience. I’m used to your standard rock shows. But I’ve always thought having dynamic visuals to go along with music was a wonderful enhancement. Having a live drummer, Lynn Farmer, to Jam along with the tracks was also a plus.
The bassy beats and rhythms of “Children of Earth” treated us to a paranormal array of shots of UFO’s dangling from the sky, an old shot of the LAX Encounter building, and footage of the golden gate bridge. There was A feeling that we were being looked upon, doted on as it were, from Space Beings in the sky. There was subtitles over comedic looking Aliens who were trying to figure us out, mixed in with large Yamaha keyboards and infomericals.
So basically, it was a blueprint of Jack Danger’s creative brain, his obsessions and possessions, fears and joys. A lot of sacred and profane, yin and yang energy, showing us the absurdity of life on earth, taking us through a safe acid trip. There was also a clip of Obama repeating the words, ‘Turn off the television,” alongside A Televangelist, Gregory Peck, someone in a rubber mask, Dr. No, and of course Marshall Applewhite kept popping up over and over. I was mesmerized, I must admit. The staples of our society had been chewed up and spit out for all to see, and there was never a second to look away. We didn’t want to miss Woody Allen, Charles Manson, and Charleton Heston all acting out Jack Danger’s script, while Obama repeatedly told us to chuck our idiot box.
A few songs in, a televangelist is heard telling us about the evils of rock music and marijuana, and we’re suddenly transported to Monterey Pop watching Jimi Hendrix destroying his guitar, as the televangelist quotes another “victim” of rock and roll, who says, “I didn’t know what I was doing, and my clothes came off,” as if the force of Rock and Roll could cause you to become that disoriented.
One of the last songs was a montage of drum solos, a simulated collage of drummers sped up and slowed down. Photos of Chris Walken, muppets playing drums, etc. I felt so overwhelmed by the footage. I was glad that before the show, I’d had a chance to catch up with Jack Danger to see how he was doing- I believe our conversation enhanced my overall concert experience, and led to a greater understanding of the show.
Posted December 9th, 2008 / by Bones / Permalink / No Comments
|
Interview with TV/TV
Cool Pics…
|
Here’s a couple of nice shots taken at the Vincent Black Shadow / Nim Vind show.
Enjoy!
Posted November 12th, 2008 / by Bones / Permalink / No Comments
|
Watain - Visually Disturbing The Women
|
Here’s a great comment posted on Blabbermouth:
“I saw Watain at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood last month. Fucking awesome show! I noticed a visual disturbance from the women in the crowd when the smell of rotton blood started to fill the air. That was cool.”
Posted November 12th, 2008 / by Bones / Permalink / No Comments
|
THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS!
|
Confounding music critics is not the Legendary Pink Dots‘ modus operandi, but it must amuse them to peruse the long lists of micro-genres that writers have come up with. For nearly three decades, the iconic experimental rock collective has distilled practically the whole of recorded music history — tape loops, synths, folk elements, drum machines, electric guitars, and whatever else the perpetually rotating roster has at its disposal — into a cohesive whole. Plutonium Blonde, the latest addition to the Dots’ enormous discography, is as bleak and gloomy as anything they’ve done before; rays of major-key sunshine and jazzy goofiness barely poke through the creeping, goth-pop atmosphere.
– Gerry Mak — Flavorpill
The Legendary Pink Dots will be performing on our Main Stage Thurs, Nov 13th (that’s in 2 days!)
Get tickets before they’re gone!
Posted November 11th, 2008 / by Bones / Permalink / No Comments
|
Scissors For Lefty - Pics!
Another LAWeekly Rock Pick - Scissors For Lefty, Killola
|
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Scissors for Lefty, Killola at the Knitting Factory
A Rickenbacker bass bouncing over a back beat evokes the British Invasion while producing weak knees in nubile girls and shaky floors in old dance halls. But we’re not talking about the Fab Four, more like the Foxy Five, after Scissors for Lefty added another family member, Steven Garza, to the band. Singer-guitarist Bryan Garza told us the update has ushered them from “radical to tubular,” now that the front man is free to prance and croon like an American-born Babyshamble. Their Britpop-meets-Williamsburg disco was perfectly captured on 2007’s Underhanded Romance, issued first by Rough Trade, then by Eenie Meenie Records, but their upcoming 2009 effort will be self-released (get the teaser EP, Consumption Junction, on iTunes now). Make sure not to miss L.A.’s own Killola, because this DIY band is going places. Their new album, I Am the Messer, is totally free (www.killola.com/free) and was among the first to be released on a USB bracelet. You’ll need to brace yourself for the drool-able Lisa Rieffel, who blazes over Sparks-like tracks like she just gave Gwen Stefani a bloody nose. (Daniel Siwek)
Did someone say tickets?! I think so… get them here or text ‘LEFTY’ to 467467 to buy tickets on your cell phone (how futuristic).
Posted November 5th, 2008 / by Bones / Permalink / No Comments
|
LAWeekly Rock Pick - Los Cenzontles & David Hidalgo
|
Los Cenzontles & David Hidalgo at the Knitting Factory
The touring-band outgrowth of a same-named Bay Area community center, Los Cenzontles (known in English and on MySpace as the Mockingbirds) just released a wonderful new collaboration with David Hidalgo of Los Lobos called Songs of Wood & Steel that offers precisely that: traditionally minded Mexican-American folk music spiked with Lobos’ adventurous brand of modern rock. (The CD features a handful of other guests, including Linda Ronstadt and the Latin-jazzy Estrada Brothers, from Camarillo.) This week, Los Cenzontles are heading out on a mini-tour of California in support of the new album; you can also catch them Saturday night at Dia de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever, and Tuesday afternoon in a performance/discussion at UCLA’s Kaufman Hall. But tonight at the Knit, they’ll be joined by Hidalgo, who might convince them to stretch beyond the Wood & Steel material and pull out something from the Lobos catalog. Dare to dream. (Mikael Wood)
Los Cenzontles & David Hidalgo will be playing our Main Stage Wednesday, November 5th. Tickets available HERE… so get ‘em!
Posted October 30th, 2008 / by Bones / Permalink / No Comments
|
|
|
|
|
|
