Thursday, January 11, 2007
Damn, we're behind. We've been busy (mostly with MIDEM/Sundance). Anyway, we absolutely love these bands' lists and we completely agree with them (pretty much). Health is going to kill 2007 and Clipd Beaks were fantastic last Sunday.
THE MAE SHI
BEST NEW BAND WE DISCOVERED IN 2006
Health. This band is like if Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, Dennis Rodman and James Worthy got together when they were 21 and listened to shitloads of This Heat, Public Image Ltd, Can and Kraftwerk and decided to fuck the NBA and start a band. Everyone would have told them they were crazy, that there was millions to be made in ballin'. These guys are so driven, so ambitious, so single-minded of focus. If they took an ounce of their drive and applied it to something profitable (like forming a Fall Out Boy-style band or starting a dry cleaning business) they'd be rich by now. Instead they are playing to 40 kids at Il Corral.
BEST LA BAND THAT WE MISS BECAUSE THEY BROKE UP/WENT ON HIATUS/LEFT LOS ANGELES
Tie between Holi Buffaglo and Child Pornography. Bill from Holi Buffaglo moved to Idaho, and so our favorite Los Angeles punk band pretty much ceased to exist. Luckily you can still see the other three members of the band in the 14 Year Old Girls and Jon is the new singer for our band. As for Child P -- Erin finally got out of Riverside and moved to San Francisco to study art, which of course we are really happy about because he's an amazing artist whose talents were being wasted in his civil service job. I'm glad he and Brizzah still play shows in LA once in a while.
BEST VENUE THAT ISN'T THE SMELL
Fort Cool II, which for a few months in 2006 made Adams and La Brea a really fun place to be. RIP.
BEST RECORD BY AN LA BAND
Mika Miko -- CYSLABF (KRS)
BAND THAT IS GOING TO MURDER 2007
Abe Vigoda
HEALTH
BEST OF 2006
1. Sean Carnage Monday Nights
2. il Corral
3. The Smell
4. Coughs/Dynasty US Tour
5. Crystal Castles
6. Glass Candy/Chromatics US Tours
7. 20jazzfunkgreats
8. Captain Ahab - After The Rain My Heart Still Dreams
9. Anavan - s/t
10. Italo Disco Revival
INDIAN JEWELRY
2006 was pretty easy on us. The less we worked the better off we were. May that be a lesson to the calvinists and marxists alike. that said, 2007 will likely blow up in our faces.
anyhow, keeping close track of time is a big waste of it. many of these records may have slipped out somewhere in late 2005 or early 2012. also, we toured a little bit this year, so many of these bands are from different places.
esg, live at the arthur fest.
jana hunter, live at the echo, los angeles, at the furniture records house in austin at sxsw, and on her record "blank unstaring heirs of doom."
psychic ills, live all over u.s and canada (we were lucky enough to tour with them) and also on record, "dins" and "early violence"
ariel pink, "the doldrums"
growing live at the smell 2006.
metalux live at the smell 2006.
a pink cloud, live in houston at the magnolia ballroom 7/29 and walter's on washington 11/30 2006
wicked poseur, cd-r, to be released early 2007
clipd beaks, preyers cd/ep and live at sxsw, in oakland, and in la at the mountain bar with celebration, also incredibly good.
rua minx live at superhappyfunland houston, texas november 2005
the wiggins, live in houston at the magnolia ballroom 7/29/2006
genders at sxsw
bubonic plague at the penny-ante book release party at little radio, and also the whole event in general.
movies
borat was a waste of time.
rize was pretty sweet.
nonetheless, once again nothing came out that could hold a candle to aguirre: wrath of god
otherwise
museum of jurassic technology is still the best place to visit in los angeles.
the ecstacy show at the moca had more high points than dead points.
bad painting and tendentious photography still ride ragged on the arts.
israeli armed forces pulled a hussein from the 90s move and invaded lebanon while amping up their time-worn and us-backed policies of brutalizing palestinians within and without.
there is a war.
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i think i've seen you at the last few health shows, mr. picture guy. ;)
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: 1/11/2007 11:14:00 PM
it's about time you mentioned some good bands on here for a change!!!! LOL
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