Monday, March 02, 2009
Had some fun at a few shows this weekend, but first congrats to Molly Jenson on the release of her new record Maybe Tomorrow. It's available this week through Amazon and iTunes. Additional congrats go to photog studs Simon Cardoza, Jeff Koga, and Benjamin Hoste who debuted their photo exhibit on Friday at Where. We stopped by and got scared off by a big crowd. Hopefully, we'll be able to get in this Friday for another great lineup. More congrats go to whoever helped get a few Eastside bands to the Westside last night with The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, Calamity Magnet, and Yearbook Pictures at Dakota and The Parson Red Heads, The World Record, One Trick Pony, and Flashing Red Lights at Air Conditioned Lounge. That took guts. The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, by the way, debuted their new singer Jamie Drake and ohemgee you're going to absolutely love this girl.
We should also mention that last Thursday, we did go to the Roxy to see the one-and-only Chelsea Girls. We don't go to the Roxy too much (actually hardly ever), but if we do it's to see rock shows like that one, since the likelihood of seeing such a lineup at, say, The Smell isn't very good. Consisting of a dream team of rock goddesses, Samantha Maloney (Hole), Corey Parks (Nashville Pussy), Allison Robertson (The Donnas), and world famous DJ turned Playboy covergirl Tuesdae on vox were also joined by Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, RATT's Stephen Pearcy, Quiet Riot's Carlos Cavazo, and stage candy Carmen Electra. We understand cover bands are a dime-a-dozen in Hollywood, but for whatever reason all-star cover bands make it a bit more enjoyable when the players involved are your rock idols. The mere mention of Maloney, Robertson, and Parks (still a vision in her gorgeous 6'3" frame) crunching through bullhorns-to-the-air hard rock classics like "Barracuda," "You've Got Another Thing Coming," and "Lay It Down" should make every Steel Panther, Atomic Punk, and everyone in the Freddy Camp shaking in their leather buckle boots. Check out video from the show here and we've posted some photos.
So, here we are, already in March. March means SXSW and SXSW means touring bands. Some of the big ones include M83, PJ Harvey, and MSTRKRFT then there's on-the-radar bands like Ladyhawke, Sky Larkin, and O+S. Residencies/multi-night stays this month include: Summer Darling/Wait.Think.Fast., Nico Stai, Pedestrian, Jon Brion, Sara Bareilles, Sara and Sean Watkins, Aushua... Record release shows include: Deep Sea Diver, Randy Weeks, Nightfur, Boomkat, The New Room, Oh No Not Stereo, Realicide, Days of the Outlaw, Eliza Rickman, Oak & Gorski, Shaimus, The Flutterbies... Big nights/festivalish types: "The Good Life" reunion show, HARD 13, How Sweet It Is, and Create:Fixate.
Full calendar listing aqui.
Pictured above is Bianca Oblivion's awesome monthly Pinche Way!, held every last Saturday of the month at Mountain Bar. This month's scheduled guest is the hot, new electro duo Mega Wand. By the way, we worship the ground Ms. Oblivion moonwalks on.
