Friday, October 10, 2008
Oh weekend, you're back again...
Hearts of Palm UK on "Demolisten" tonight. Julieta Venegas and Ceci Bastida at the Nokia. Stop by the Peterson Automotive Museum for the 11th Annual Fresh Faces in Fashion show hosted by Mandy Moore kicking off L.A. Fashion Week. Hotel Cafe tour kicks off at the Hotel Cafe with Rachael Yamagata, Meiko, and others. Love Grenades and Pop Noir at The Echo. Imaad Wasif opens for Graveyard and Night Horse at Spaceland. The Ditty Bops at McCabe's. Mike Watt & the Secondmen open for Youth Brigade down at Alex's. Akil, I & I, Three-D, and others at The Airliner. Abe Vigoda, David Scott Stone, and others at The Smell. The Minor Canon, Daniel Brummel, One Trick Pony, and The Physics of Meaning at pehrspace. Crystal Antlers, Mikki and the Mause, Slang Chickens, and others at Unknown. We Are the World open for Restiform Bodies. Jon Brion/Dave Palmer at g'net. And Clean Air Clear Stars begins its three-day affair out in Pioneertown.
On Saturday, Happy Hollows, AM, The Primos, Dirt Dress, and others do GuerrilLA Fest with six bands performing at six different parts of Los Angeles guerrilla-style... Sara Bareilles returns home for a show at The Wiltern. Very cool/strange catching part of her set a few weeks back in London when we used to see her in little cafes around UCLA for so many years. Free Moral Agents, Blank Blue, and Zechs Marquise at The Prospector. The Crystal Method at the Vanguard. At the Echoplex, Holloys and The Valley Arena open for Denali (long time no see Ms. Davis). My Pet Saddle, Major Grace and others at On the Rox. Radars to the Sky, Daniel Brummel and others at Spaceland. And Polar Goldie Cats, Moggs, and others at Echo Curio.
Sunday, Shiloe celebrates the release of their new EP "...And Now The Screaming Starts" at Spaceland. No Age, The Movies, The Tyde, and others at Echoplex. The Deadly Syndrome, Afternoons, Patton Oswalt and others play an afternoon kids show at The Echo. Later at The Echo, Dead Rock West does Grand Ole Echo. And even later at The Echo, Sabrosa Purr opens for Killdozer. Inara George and Greg Kurstin play the front room of Tangier while Rachael Cantu continues her residency in the main/back room (go see this girl). And everyone's favorite pretentious guitar hero Yngwie Malmsteen does a clinic at the Avalon.
Happy Belated's to Britney Westover (The Damselles) and Jimmy Fusil (Bloody Robots). This weekend, our girlfriends The Haden Triplets celebrate birthdays on Saturday. As does Buzz Bands know-it-all K-Bronze.
Julieta Venegas - "De mis pasos" (MP3)
Sara Bareilles - "Fairytale" (MP3)
Killdozer - "King of Sex" (MP3)
