Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Congrats to The Voyeurs boys on a great night last night at The Echo. We knew after the end of E>K>U>K a year ago they'd come back strong but goodness gracious me oh my. As expected, a big crowd enjoyed probably the band's best show to date as the core duo of Jonathan Hylander and Sean Johnson were joined by their fellow Vaudevillians Dan Woods and Jacob Maltinsky to steamroll through all the hits. Be sure to pick up the new album Well Known Drag (released through JAXART) online and at shows. Also, congrats to Go West Young Man on the release of their new record last night as well. We picked up a copy on the way out to The Airliner (seen above) for a Manimal Vinyl lineup we couldn't miss. Speaking of miss... We sure will miss you, Tomolator.
By the way, to the door dudes at The Airliner who sneakily upped the advertised admission just so you could pocket the extra few bucks... You could have just asked us nicely to help pay for your child support payments and/or bail bondsman. We love you that much.
A benefit in support of 60-Watt Kid's Kevin Litrow is happening Monday 2/2 at Echo Curio. We love them and anything we all can do to help his situation would be great, so show your support. Playing that night is the fantastic lineup of 60-Watt Kid, Pizza!, Voice on Tape, VOICEsVOICEs, Billygoat, and others.
Benji Hughes returns to town playing Spaceland tonight. He also tapes an appearance for Jimmy Kimmel on Friday, scheduled to air that night.
Our former lover Catherine Feeny just wrote us saying she'll be back in Los Angeles on 3/15 at the Hotel Cafe with apparently a new project of some sort. We love her and miss her so of course we're going, especially since also playing that night is Alela Diane. We remmeber Ms. Alela when she went by Alela Menig several years ago and we traveled up the coast on a scouting trip to see her in Nevada City. Having both these Cali-turned-Oregon girls on one lineup is going to be fantastic. A dream would be to have Correatown, Shelley Short, and Jessica Lea Mayfield on it as well, but such is a dream. Anyway, mark your calendars for 3/15.
Other stuff: Tickets for M83 and the LA Philharmonic on 3/7 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall go on sale this Friday at 10am. Other recent on-sales: Orenda Fink @ The Bordello (2/11), The Von Bondies @ the Roxy (3/14), Great Northern/O+S @ the Silverlake Lounge (3/16), The Proclaimers @ the Hotel Cafe (3/24), Marnie Stern @ the The Echo (3/25), Stereo Total/Leslie and The Ly's at the El Rey (4/4)... Shiny Toy Guns are playing a free post-Super Bowl show at the Hard Rock Cafe (Universal City) on Sunday... Cold War Kids perform "I've Seen Enough" on Conan tonight... Those who didn't catch The Bird and the Bee's performance last Monday on Leno with the lovely Alex Lilly (Obi Best), Juliette Commagere, Willow Geer, Wendy Wang (The Sweet Hurt), and another singer we couldn't place should check it out here.
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