Monday, July 06, 2009
Thanks to NorCal for once again being such hospitable hosts this past weekend, especially to the boys and girls of Grand Fanali who presented such a great lineup at Nickel City in San Jose on Friday with The Strange Boys, The Coathangers, Nodzzz, and others. Nickel City is a great nickel arcade that has a backroom set up for children's birthday parties but has more recently been hosting indie rock shows. How they were able to book Friday's show along with upcoming nights with Azure Ray, Mika Miko/Audacity, Girl in a Coma/Miss Derringer, and Three Mile Pilot/Optiganally Yours in a room not much bigger than pehrspace is pretty fantastic, not to mention an indication that there are simply not enough all-ages venues in San Jose (the third largest city in California and the 10th largest in the United States). Local bands booking at the Nickel on weekends could very well get a visit by us. That's not a hint. We're telling you outright to play shows there.
Ok, so July. What's up?..
Residencies/Multi-night shows: Gillian Welch, 60-Watt Kid, Very Be Careful (review of last week's show here), Andy Clockwise, Last American Buffalo, Japanese Motors, Pistolero/Sederra, Bleu, David Ryan Harris, Jon Brion, Bill Harvey, Rachel Goodrich, Damion Suomi, Watts Ensemble, The Steelwells, Michelle Featherstone...
Release shows: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Army Navy, Aushua, Blank Blue, Awol One, Gina Villalobos, The Press Fire!, Bleu, Kim Divine, Vaudeville, Static Static, Sangre Sangre, Horse the Band, LMFAO, B Foundation, Jake La Botz...
Festivals/Big Events: Echo Park Community Festival, Also I Like To Rock, "Systemics" group show, Mayhem Festival, Almost Better Than Sex, Fresh Squeezed, East Hollywood Music Festival, Shakespeare LA, LA Shorts Fest, New Original Works Fest, and of course the big MJ Memorial Concert...
And we're doing some shows this month as well. 7/21 at The Prospector and 7/23 Echo Curio. Keep those in mind when planning your July.
Also, we missed some birthdays at the end of June and last week, didn't we Lisa Germano, Greg Hetson (Bad Religion), Andy Bollas (8-bit), Pauline Lay (Divisadero), Andy Siara (Henry Clay People), Justin Gage (Aquarium Drunkard), Jennifer Goodridge (Seaspin), Dan Rossiter (Summer Darling), Jose Galvez (Ozma), Noah Green (ex-Henry Clay People), Sam Farrar (Phantom Planet), Ariel Pink, Jason Schwartzman, Theresa Wayman (Warpaint), and Esa-Pekka Salonen? Happy Birthdays this week to Travis Keller and Schuyler Fisk.
Pictured above is the lovely Stephanie Luke of The Coathangers in San Jose.
