Thursday, October 30, 2008
This Saturday, November 1st, marks Dia de los Muertos. It's a holiday that seriously creeps us out, more than Halloween and right up there with National Chocolate Covered Insects Day. So, obviously, it's best not to be alone on this night so we thought why not spend it with a few of our favorite Los Angeles bands?
* It isn't much of a secret how much we love Summer Darling. It also isn't a secret that we sing along to every one of their songs like 12-year-old girls watching High School Musical. They've already released two stunning digital EPs this year and are set to put out their third very soon, thus completing a trilogy of recordings that will undoubtedly become one of our favorite albums of the year.
* Hello Dragon's debut The Quantum Explorers is easily the sleeper pop album of the decade. It's the perfect L.A.-via-Boston flashback fascination, as if Fort Apache crash landed onto Silver Lake and time-warped Gen X'ers right smack into the soundtracks of "Reality Bites" and "Singles".
* It was only a few months ago, Valentine's Day in fact, when Los Angeles lost our dearly beloved grunge rockers The Front. After a brief mourning period, members of the band have resurfaced with two separate projects. Useless Keys features former Front frontman (say that five times fast) Michael Bauer while Billygoat features ex-Front bassist Nick Woolley and you have no idea how excited we are to see them both together on one night.
* We've been wanting to do a show with Blackbird for a few years now since the release of his superb Bird's Eye View. He's as punk, psychedelic, and soulful as one man and a mic can be. And, seriously, there is no one even remotely in his universe when it comes to stage presence and raw passion. He's magnetic.
So that's the night. We're truly honored that these bands could make time for this little show and we hope that you can too. We'll have some complimentary food and beverage available but it's also BYOB. Incidentally, we got a message from a young Facebook friend asking us what BYOB meant. Because we've always wanted this to happen and we could never understand the argument otherwise, we told them it means Bring Your Own Band (T-shirt) and that everyone should wear their favorite band t-shirt to the show -- especially if it happens to be one of the five bands that are playing Saturday. We may make this mandatory to get into any la-underground show someday. Until then, it's always cool to be uncool. And we're as uncool as they get. But, yeah, the other "BYOB" is also in full effect as well.
November 1, 2008
Los Angeles Loves... Dia de los Muertos
SUMMER DARLING
HELLO DRAGON
USELESS KEYS
BILLYGOAT
BLACKBIRD
with DJ Boy Without Orange
pehrspace
325 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026 | Map
All Ages / $5 / 8:30pm
BYOB
Summer Darling - "Ride This Wave of Good Feeling" (MP3)
Hello Dragon - "Birds of Prey" (MP3)
Blackbird - "Outro" (MP3)
Useless Keys - "Down Threw" (MP3)
Summer Darling - "Ride This Wave of Good Feeling" (Live at The Bordello)
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We are excited to play! Coincidentally, The Front's first show was February 13, 2006: We opened up for Blackbird and Future Pigeon. It all comes full circle now....
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