TV/TV played on our Front Stage Nov 13th. Before they hit the stage they sat down with the good people at Beatcrave.com

Read the interview and see some cool shots of their performance.

Here’s a couple of nice shots taken at the Vincent Black Shadow / Nim Vind show.

Enjoy!

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.”

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!

Check out a nice handful of pictures taken of SCISSORS FOR LEFTY @ their CD Release show this past Saturday!

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).

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!

Hey friends. Thought you all might like to hear some great news about our good friends in The Briggs.

LA’s very own NHL team, The Kings, have adopted The Briggs’ “This is LA” as
their official pre-game song. So make sure to check it out on TV right before the game starts to see our Briggs/Kings music video!

Listen to “This Is LA” on The Briggs myspace page - www.myspace.com/thebriggs

Also, make sure to get tickets to see The Briggs on our Main Stage with Black President, Old Man Markley and Cobra Skulls Saturday, December 6th. Tickets?… yeah, get ‘em…

From Alarmpress.com

With stunning compositional skills and an impressive stylistic convergence, Jason Schimmel’s Orange Tulip Conspiracy hits the West Coast in November for eight tour dates. Combining jazz fusion, metal riffs, psychedelic jam sounds, and prog rock, the group’s recently released debut from Mimicry Records must be heard.

You might recognize Schimmel’s name from being the guitarist (and one of many multi-instrumentalists) in Estradasphere. His compositional excellence and crossover aptitude are apparent in both endeavors, but this project is borne from his solo material and doesn’t touch quite as many genres.

The short tour includes contributions from current Estradasphere drummer Lee Smith and former Estradasphere saxophone madman John Whooley. Rounded out by bassist Dan Robbins and guitarist Zach Cline, the group will play new cuts as well as covers that include 1960s Italian film scores and “bastardized” jazz standards.

Orange Tulip Conspiracy will be playing on our Front Stage November 21st. Get your tickets now!

Check out this YouTube clip of The Jonas Brothers Episode 5 Preview. You’ll see some shots of them rehearsing on our Main Stage!

Jonas Brothers - Band In A Bus - Episode 5 Preview