Friday, September 18, 2009
It's Friday and we know you're ready to get your lobster on. The annual LobsterFest in Pedro is one of the big highlights of the festival season. Especially, since the last few years have brought some of L.A.'s best indie rock bands to a part of town that rare gets L.A.'s best indie rock bands. Pictured above is one of the yummy lobsters you get with a first class ticket (admission plus lobster meal). We couldn't finish ours last year because we ate entirely too much funnel cake. Something we will consider but probably not learn from this time around. Mmm... funnel cake.
Tonight, listen up for a performance by Cobra Lilies on "Demolisten" and see them tomorrow at American Legion Post in Highland Park. Elsewhere, Everest, The Parson Red Heads, and These United States at the Troubadour. Dead Man's Bones continues their residency at Bob Baker Marionette Theater. Joe Henry and Alicia Witt at Room 5. Meat Puppets at the El Rey. Very Be Careful and Pilar Diaz at The Mint. Saccharine Trust, The Urinals, Chuck Dukowsky Sextet, and others at The Smell. The Monolators, Wait.Think.Fast., and Seasons at American Legion Post. Jon Brion at g'net. Meho Plaza, Kill Kill Kill, Octave Cat and others at pehrspace. Funeral Party, Layton, Firs, and Plastiscene at Spaceland. And Pocahaunted and others at Sync. The Humpers, Lords of Altamont, and others at Alex's Bar. Also, L.A. Ladies Choir and Linda Perhacs perform live on KPFK on Dublab's Future Roots Radio.
Saturday, Robotanists play a free early evening show at Pershing Square. Cobra Lilies celebrate the release of their new EP "Songs in the Key of Bicycle Bell" at American Legion with Moses Campbell, Amanda Jo Williams, and Tommy Santee Klaws. Mike Watt, Nels Cline, Saccharine Trust, and others play a benefit show at the Knitting Factory. Chelsea Girls, Killola, and Go Betty Go at the Roxy. Orange celebrates a new record at the Key Club. Hiking, The Deadly Finns, and Devon Williams at pehrspace. Shiloe, The New Room, and others at The Prospector. And The Humpers, The Hangmen, Stab City, and Barrio Tiger at Redwood.
Sunday, Brian Eno discusses his genius to youngsters at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. Dead Rock West opens for Pieta Brown (daughter of Greg Brown) at McCabe's. Mount Eerie, Karl Blau, No Kids, and Tara Jane O'Neil at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock. Shirley Rolls, Last American Buffalo, Chris Garneau and others at Spaceland. The Mulhollands, Idyllists, Prayer, and others at Cinespace. The Avengers, Pansy Division, and others at PTP. Best Coast and Pearl Harbor do Territory. And N'dambi at the Savoy Entertainment Center.
Full calendar listing here.
Last American Buffalo - "Breaking Up Mine" (MP3)
