Friday, August 03, 2007
This past week was exceedingly busy. Last Saturday alone had us at half-a-dozen different events from Long Beach to Los Feliz to the Getty to mid-Wilshire to Hollywood and finally at some rave punk thing downtown around 4am, all in effort to be back amongst our fellow Angelenos. We love you (and yes we carpooled)...
You also might see us carpooling tonight when Mika Miko opens for Gravy Train!!! at the Echo -- they're last show before heading off to see other parts of our great country for the next month. Also Big Business returns with a headliner spot at Spaceland. Gran Ronde opens for VHS or Beta at the Troubadour. The Icarus Line and our future wives Warpaint open for The Slits at the El Rey. And, yes, we're doing a show at T's that you might like too... Tomorrow Ferdinand's (we refuse to call him Ferdie) benefit show at the Echoplex with The Circle Jerks, The Locust, The Bronx, Har Mar, Qui, and other special surprises is going to be crazy. But if you don't like crazy but still like good, upstairs at The Echo, St. Vincent and Death Vessel would make a perfectly good evening as well... KCRW is having another pledge drive starting today. Not sure if anybody still listens to it anymore but the best time to pledge is during our old friend Anne Litt's segment the A Track. She's the coolest and still the only DJ we've ever given a record to in person and then actually played it on her show (not just sold it to Amoeba)... Residencies this month are a-plenty with Meiko, Black Palms, The Finches, Raine Maida (Our Lady Peace), The Mormons, Low Vs. Diamond, Manic, I Make This Sound, Foot Foot, The Crash Kings, After Midnight Project, Underwater City People, and Stevenson Ranch Davidians. We actually stopped by the Stevenson Ranch Davidians first night of their residency on Wednesday just to confirm that we love them. And, yes, this is still true... Finally, there's a great article by Boucher in this week's Time's Calendar Weekend. We've been saying it for years, San Francisco get over yourself.
The Finches - "House Under the Hill" (MP3)
The Mormons - "Half-Polyster Protection" (MP3)
The Stevenson Ranch Davidians - "Getting By" (MP3)
