Wednesday, April 23, 2008
This is our most link-friendly post of the year. Enjoy.
The Airborne Toxic Event played a surprise show on Monday opening for their friends Radars to the Sky at The Echo. Their appearance on "Last Call with Carson Daly" (taped Tuesday) is set to air tomorrow 4/24... Earlier on Monday we caught Blondfire's first show in Los Angeles in a few years for the CD release show for their debut album My Someday. Lots of industry peeps in the audience including Wally Gagel who's produced/engineered some of our favorite locals (Eels, The Mormons, Gus Black) and not-so locals (Muse, Belly, Old 97's) and who also assisted on Someday... Later on Monday, we stopped by pehrspace to celebrate Eli Monolator's 18th birthday and 102° fever temperature. Very nice to see members of Le Switch, Laco$te, Les Blanks, Los Breakups, El Terrapin, La Manhattan Murder Mystery, Le Rock Insider, La Classical Geek Theatre, L'Koga, host L'Carnage and badass soundguy L'Kyle in the house along with Joey from Les Henry Clay and Ms. Ash'lé on stage having fun. It's honestly really a pleasure to see familiar faces everywhere we go (most everyone who was at the pehrspace show was also at The Echo to see Rademacher and Airborne)... Even later on Monday we stopped by Spaceland for Amnion just to give them the heat check -- yup, they're still on fire. Speaking of Amnion, Aquarium Drunkard has some great things to say about them and they will be performing on Le Switch's residency in May. Additionally, we've been fairly quiet about this, but in the past few months Amnion has been having get-togethers at their house that we've been very lucky to attend. These gatherings have been some of the most amazing musical experiences we've ever witnessed and very soon they hope to perhaps let more people in on these special nights. We shouldn't say too much but if we told you that members of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Amnion, Castledoor, Warpaint, The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, Avi Buffalo, Layer, Fol Chen, Cobra Lilies, Meredith Meyer, and many others showed up to play a house party you'd think we were crazy. And crazy was what that night was. So very soon, we will be presenting shows at the House of Amnion -- if you're savvy you should go befriend them on any one of their two thousand social networking profiles to get details on things to come...
Photos from some of Monday's shows are up.
In other news, Kail celebrates the release of his phenomenal new album True Hollywood Squares tonight at The Airliner. If you can't come to our show tonight at The Bordello you definitely need to be at the Airliner to see one of L.A.'s new rising stars on the mic, especially for you/us fans of Pharcyde, Del, Freestyle Fellowship, etc. OkayPlayer's got the scoop.
Kail - "Wendy" (MP3)
