Tuesday, July 27, 2010
For our final night of these little trifecta of July shows, we now head to Echo Curio,
After only a handful of shows, LESANDS landed in our lap several months ago when they were still called Arrows (and then Arrowws and, then for two seconds, Canoes). We've known drummer Mr. Plotnik for a long while so we know he wouldn't just join any band for the heck of it, especially after being in one of the best ones ever in Castledoor for nearly half a decade. Not surprisingly, the band is already being earmarked with buzzwords like "buzzband" but that's a term we don't use around these parts. Mostly, because it's trademarked and we'll probably get sued.
We haven't done a show with Venus Infers in four years. Not only does that statement make us feel old, it makes us feel guilty for not asking them back for another. We just figured they wouldn't be interested in playing the tiny performance spaces we'd prefer seeing them in after they've been playing in all the thousand capacity joints they've graduated to (they just opened for Pinback last weekend, for the love of gosh). We were wrong. Welcome back. Oh, and our favorite VI song of all time is "Waterfalls." You're welcome. New album You'll Understand When You're Older out now.
Roughed Up Folk is one of five bands we've seen this year in the running for best new band of 2010. In fact, a year or two from now, the memory of opening this little show at Echo Curio will be long gone as they likely will be headlining much spacier spaces. Fans of Neil Young, Band of Horses, and Wolf Parade need to get in missionary position for this band right this second. New record Must Be the Moonlight available now.
Upon first glance of Your Mom/Your Dad photos on their websites you probably know what you're in for. Truth is, we can't just have a night of three hot young indie rock bands coming in to Echo Curio and making us look cooler than we are. We gotz to keep thingz realz. And, so following in line with a distinguished few that have made their debut at Echo Curio (ie. Best Coast, Let Go of the Rail), we bring you Your Mom/Your Dad.
We hope Apollo, I mean, Grant is pleased with this sacrifice, I mean, show. If not, it maybe another year before we come back. Pray for us.
July 28, 2010
Los Angeles Loves...
LESANDS
VENUS INFERS
ROUGHED UP FOLK
YOUR MOM/YOUR DAD
Echo Curio
1519 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
ALL AGES / 9pm / $5
FACEBOOK EVENT
LESANDS - "Glowing" (MP3) Limited time download
Venus Infers - "Waterfalls" (MP3) Limited time download
Roughed Up Folk - "I Knew You Knew" (MP3) Limited time download
Your Mom/Your Dad - "High School Crush (Demo)" (MP3) Limited time download
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Back in December, we presented a rather pleasant Winter get-together with a few longtime favorites and now we're back at pehrspace for the Summer version with some ol' time lovers and new time friends.
Let's start with the new since we've been running around catching Elle King, Victoria Noll, and I Hate You Just Kidding for a little while now. Ms. King is a native Angeleno but spent much of her formative years in New York. She writes some of the best love/hate folk/blues tunes we've ever heard and that voice of hers is gonna break a million hearts before all is said and done. Newly christened Angeleno, Victoria Noll, doesn't sound like anything we've ever heard out of Alabama. Her demos contain some rather haunting folk tunes gorgeously sung by perhaps the rawest artist we've come across in years. Watchers better be watching this one. I Hate You Just Kidding is just the type of folk pop duo we've been dying to hear out of Orange County. This show will mark the band's Los Angeles debut but we're pretty sure bookers will be all over them once word of their new "Untitled" EP spreads.
What else could we do to complete this delightful collection of performers than to ask our dearest Ema and the Ghosts and Miniature Houses to grace us with their presence? Ms. Ema hasn't played a show in nearly a century (or that's what it's felt like) but she's come out of her rabbit hole for this special occasion. We presume she's been crafting many a pretty tune inside her pretty little head during her time away and we're all excited to hear them. We caught Miniature Houses (formerly known as I Read Her Journal) last weekend and the once boy-girl duo has now blossomed into a boy-girl-boy-boy quartet and, hence, they're hardly miniature anymore. Nevertheless, these Houses certainly shelter some of the catchiest folk pop tunes around and you'd best be wary of them as their debut record is fast approaching.
Well, there you have it. As with most of our shows at pehrspace, complimentary food and beverage will be served, but feel free to bring your own potent potables if you care to. Again, this show starts and ends early, which will allow you to see all the other great shows happening around town on Sunday. Hope you can make it.
July 25, 2010
Los Angeles Loves... A Summer Soiree
ELLE KING
EMA AND THE GHOSTS
MINIATURE HOUSES
I HATE YOU JUST KIDDING
VICTORIA NOLL
pehrspace
325 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
ALL AGES / $5 / 5:00pm
FACEBOOK EVENT
Elle King - "Good To Be A Man" (MP3) Limited time download
Ema and the Ghosts - "dandelions" (MP3) Limited time download
Miniature Houses - "Big Dive" (MP3) Limited time download
I Hate You Just Kidding - "Lullaby" (MP3) Limited time download
Victoria Noll - "Paper Crane" (MP3) Limited time download
Monday, July 12, 2010
This is a tale as old as time: We love Summer Darling.
And so we've come out of hibernation to present tonight's show at Spaceland to celebrate the recent release of the band's wonderful self-titled new album (out now on Origami Vinyl) and the second night of their month-long residency. Masterminds of the bait-and-pounce post-rock build-ups, Summer Darling's new record lures you in with beautifully written melodies then pummels you with brutal guitar breakdowns and vitriolic narratives. First-timers who caught the band last week were noticeably taken back by the band's explosive live delivery, probably assuming a band called Summer Darling would be twee-popping around the stage. They were sorely mistaken.
If that weren't enough, we're also celebrating the birth of a one Jacqueline Santillan of Wait.Think.Fast. whose new record comes out officially next month but you might be able to pick up advance copies tonight. Rounding out the night will be The Black Apples and Cue the Moon, two of L.A.'s best newcomers.
Oh, and it's also our 13th anniversary show (yawn).
July 12, 2010
Los Angeles Loves...
SUMMER DARLING
WAIT.THINK.FAST.
BLACK APPLES
CUE THE MOON
Spaceland
1717 Silver Lake Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
FREE / 21+ / 9pm
FACEBOOK EVENT
Download Summer Darling's new record free at http://summerdarling.bandcamp.com/. Purchase at shows or at Origami Vinyl.
Summer Darling - "My Reminder" (MP3)
Wait.Think.Fast. - "Look Alive" (MP3)
The Black Apples - "Buffalo" (MP3)
