Friday, July 10, 2009
To put it mildly, the last few weeks have been filled with nothing but heartache with so many Angelenos being lost including one we'll post about tomorrow if we can muster the strength and another who is permanently leaving us tomorrow for Austin (the city, not some dude named Austin, which would be equally devastating but much less damaging to our heart considering dudes named Austin are probably fighters and gosh knows we ain't fighters, we're lovers, so if she wants to run off with Mr. Mixed Martial Artist Champion we ain't gonna fight over it, but don't come running back to us when your perfect marriage turns into another Lifetime movie on spousal abuse and you need us to come "take care of him" because that ain't gonna happen, no siree.) Damn you, Austin, you're gonna make murderers out of us, aren't you?
This weekend's Echo Park Community Festival takes the place of what would have been the 32nd Annual Lotus Festival this weekend at Echo Park Lake. As Echo Parkers have already heard, there sadly will be no festival of the lotus this year and no dragon boats to race due to financial issues. Instead, this rather interesting community-driven festival has been organized and will feature performances by Electric Skychurch, The Parson Red Heads, LA Ladies Choir, Moonrats, and many others. Seeing Electric Skychurch on this lineup in this family-friendly non-Mojave Desert environment with attendees presumably not high on shrooms should be one for the books. This also could be the first and last of this festival if the Lotus returns next year so make these memories count...
Also tonight, The Widow Babies perform on KXLU's "Demolisten" and later play The Smell with NASA Space Universe, Audacity, and The Amazements. Sara Lov, Two Sheds, and others at The Mint. The Press Fire! celebrate the release of their new EP at Bow & Sparrow. Static Static has a record relase of their own at Show Cave. The Lords of Altamont, Demonica & the Darklings, and others at the Redwood. Jon Brion at g'net. Buddyhead presents Seaspin, Dalmacio von Diamond & the Enochian Keys, and Hesta Prynn at Spaceland. Stella Im Hultberg opening at thinkspace. Spider Problem, Megalosaurus, and Mikki & the Mauses at pehrspace. And Dirt Dress, TraPs Ps, The Health Club, and Starving Daughters at The Scene.
Saturday, Aushua celebrates the release of their new EP at the Detroit Bar. The Happy Hollows, The Valley Arena, and Katie the Pest at The Prospector. Lucky Dragons, Foot Village, and others at The Smell. Vaudeville, The Damselles, and Cobra Lilies play a free show at Spaceland. Earthless opens for Tortoise at the Troubadour. Spider Problem, Crescendo, and others at pehrspace. Mandy Moore at g'net. And Almost Better Than Sex returns to the Hudson/Gotham in Pomona.
Sunday, the great Alejandro Escovedo performs at McCabe's while Johnette Napolitano makes another rare appearance at the Hotel Cafe. "Systemics" group show (curated by Divisadero's Pauline Lay) at pehrspace with performances by Ema and the Ghosts and Red Maids. Jenny Lewis opens for Ray LaMontagne at the Hollywood Bowl. Kim Lenz does an in-store at Amoeba. The Summer Cats and The Tartans at PTP. Puppy Dog, Kill Kill Kill, and others at The Smell. And Manhattan Murder Mystery, BYOB Death, and others at $ucka Free.
Full calendar listing here.
Spider Problem - "Not Down" (MP3)
Electric Skychurch - "Silver Froth" (MP3)
The Press Fire! - "Hard to Break, You Know" (MP3)
