Wednesday, May 21, 2008
For those that didn't attend last night's stellar lineup at the Hotel Cafe, be sure to stop by tonight when My Brightest Diamond, Sara Lov, and Pedestrian are joined by special guest Alexi Murdoch. Mr. Murdoch, who's been off the radar for a number of months writing for a new record, debuted some new songs last night and will probably play a few more this evening. We hadn't seen a full set from him since 2003, right around the time KCRW started overplaying "Orange Sky" resulting in its eventual demise as the only song people wanted to hear (it was an overwhelming request last night as well.) If you go tonight, be sure and request the new one, which we'll call "The Violin Song". It's patent melancholic Murdoch and featured Stewart Cole and Joel Shearer doing lovely, ad-libbed mating call-like moans on their respective horns and guitar. Cafe regulars Ingrid Michaelson, Joshua Radin, and several others were in attendance among only a handful that stuck around, but we suppose it will be much more crowded for tonight's show. Photos up.
In other news: Indie 103.1's "Also I Like To Rock" is back in July with Thursday performances all month long from the likes of Miss Derringer, The Deadly Syndrome, Afternoons, Tokyo Police Club, The Duke Spirit, Io Echo, Nico Vega, and The Growlers... Whispertown 2000's new album is set for a late summer release and the band is looking to book a tour to support it. Contact them if you have some ideas to get them to your town... Jean Paul Yamamoto of the sorely missed Seksu Roba will be handcrafting custom t-shirts on the spot at Lallaure tonight... Our old friends The Weepies are doing a video contest for their song "Hideaway" here... Largo (is it still called Largo?) just posted prices to the June shows and it's getting a bit of talk in the forums. $55 for two sets of Jon Brion is actually pretty reasonable although why anyone would pay $30 to see that [$@!! -- very bad person] playing on the 30th is beyond us... Our ex-wives Priscilla Ahn and Katy Perry have some new videos to share with you (below). Priscilla Ahn's debut album A Good Day is available 6/10... That monthly voting thing on the Deli Mag that no one really knows what purpose it has other than to pit L.A. bands against each other features nominees Amnion, Everest, AM, The Lady Tigra this month... Laura Weinbach is moving to San Francisco and is looking for a place to stay. We don't usually post this for people leaving Los Angeles, but she's awesome -- that last house party show was amazing. Also, she plays tonight at The Bordello with the wonderful Cat Hair Ensemble and Erich Von Kneip... Peter Hook has some DJ dates in SoCal in July, spinning at Detroit Bar on 7/3 at Avalon on 7/5... Get ready for another pancake breakfast show at The Smell with No Age, Mika Miko, Abe Vigoda, and others (6/8).
Eh, that's enough for now...
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yeah, that band of the month crap is absolutely absurd. i can't believe we almost fell for it. maybe one day we'll all be president and voting will be a dangling chad in the compost pile of our inhumanity.
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