CORRIDOR plays at the ECHO tonight, June 30th.
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6/30/2011
Happy Birthday Alessi's Ark
Alessi Laurent-Marke finally turns 21 today. You are old now like the rest of us.
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6/29/2011
Glastonbury 2011
Glastonbury was this past weekend. We were not there, but these bands were:
TAME IMPALA
THE KILLS
LITTLE DRAGON
WARPAINT
YUCK
FOSTER THE PEOPLE
JAMES BLAKE
GRUFF RHYS
SEA OF BEES
ESBEN AND THE WITCH
GLASVEGAS
THE HORRORS
All photos by ANGEL CEBALLOS
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TAME IMPALA
THE KILLS
LITTLE DRAGON
WARPAINT
YUCK
FOSTER THE PEOPLE
JAMES BLAKE
GRUFF RHYS
SEA OF BEES
ESBEN AND THE WITCH
GLASVEGAS
THE HORRORS
All photos by ANGEL CEBALLOS
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6/27/2011
Blonde Redhead WIN TICKETS
Blonde Redhead will be playing here again in a week at the ECHOPLEX on Friday July 1st. In celebration of all those great albums over the years, we are giving away two pairs of tickets to those amazing LA music lovers out there. All you have to do is send your name or email address and mention Blonde Redhead. 1) Leave a comment below, 2) follow us on twitter, or 3) send an email to PORTINFINITE @ aol.com and we will pick a winner at noon on Friday. Don't just stand around. This is for real. Enter sooner than later. Good luck.
Blonde Redhead Interview 2004
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6/24/2011
The Black Lips @ The Glasshouse
The Black Lips
Cerebral Ballzy, PERSONAL & THE PIZZAS
@ The Glasshouse, Saturday June 25th 8pm
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Blonde Redhead @ Echoplex
BLONDE REDHEAD @ Detour Fest 2006
I must have seen Blonde Redhead over ten times. In Boston at Middle East, in NYC at Bowery Ballroom, in SF at Bottom of the Hill, and in LA at the Music Box. So many times and good memories.
Blonde Redhead will be playing here again in a week at the ECHOPLEX on Friday July 1st. In celebration of all those great albums over the years, we are giving away two pairs of tickets to those amazing LA music lovers out there. All you have to do is send your name or email address and mention Blonde Redhead. Leave a comment below, follow us on twitter, or send an email to PORTINFINITE @ aol.com and we will pick a winner at noon on Friday. Enter sooner than later. Good luck.
Blonde Redhead Interview 2004
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Middle Class @ Echoplex
LA RECORD presents TONIGHT
MIDDLE CLASS / KID CONGO and The Pink Monkey Birds /
GRANT HART (founding member of Husker Du) / The Urinals @ Echoplex
A few weeks ago, Frontier Records announced that for their 30th anniversary, they were hosting a show featuring a reunion by Santa Ana hardcore pioneers Middle Class.
The label (which released punk classics such as The Circle Jerks’ Group Sex,” The Adolescents self-titled blue album, and Suicidal Tendencies’ self-titled release) had reissued Middle Class’ seminal 1979 EP, Out of Vogue.
Soon after, members of the band (which broke up in 1982) refused interviews, saying the label was premature in announcing their reunion, as they were only “99.9 percent” sure that they were performing.
But OC punk history was made Friday when the reunion of hardcore originators the Middle Class went from 99.9 happening to 100 percent on as the foursome practiced in an undisclosed location for its first show in nearly three decades.
The Middle Class 2.0 includes original members Jeff Atta (vocals), Mike Atta (guitar) and Mike Patton (bass) and Matt Simon, the group’s second drummer. Original skinsman Bruce Atta-now a college professor-was asked to participate but “couldn’t put in the time,” said brother Mike.
The six-stringing Atta also said the group is hoping to get approximately 15 practices before taking the stage in less than two months. Currently, the band is hoping for a 45-minute retrospective set comprised of songs from its two singles and a few tracks from 1982′s full-length Homeland.
Depending on who you talk to, the band is regarded as either the first or second hardcore band ever (some say it’s Black Flag) thanks to the 1979 EP Out of Vogue, a four-song aural assault that took the Ramones’ penchant for downstrumming and sped it up to then-unheard speeds. This will be their first live show in since then.
For now, the Middle Class reunion (which will also feature The Adolescents, Flyboys, The Pontiac Brothers and Rikk Agnew) is shaping up to be a one-time thing, but Mike Atta said that could-or could not-change. OC Weekly
Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds || Listen || Watch
Anyone who ever played with LA blues punks The Gun Club should be afforded the status of rock’n’roll legend. The fact that Brian Tristan – aka Kid Congo Powers – followed such a feat by playing with both The Cramps and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds means the man is beyond mere mortal categorisation.
This is Powers’ second album with The Pink Monkey Birds, and it sees him returning to his roots with a set of raw and raucous garage rock so primitive that it was actually recorded through the shitty PA of a high school gymnasium somewhere in the Midwest. You can just imagine the scene – a B-movie called something like Hell On Wheels and directed by Roger Corman, with a motley crew of leather-clad juvenile delinquents roaring off on their motorbikes after causing a rumpus at the prom; The Pink Monkey Birds’ ‘Hitchhiking’ is blasting over the top.
But this is not just a collection of straight-up garage nuggets, there are nods to Powers’ Chicano roots with
a cover of Thee Midniters’ spectacularly dumb ‘I Found A Peanut…’ and, courtesy of bassist Kiki Solis and drummer Ron Miller, there’s a real groove here. ‘Funky Fly’ (actually a cover of a track from Bo Diddley’s obscure ‘Black Gladiator’ album) and ‘Black Santa’ sound like The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion circa ‘Orange’, without the added annoyance of someone shouting “blooooze explosion!” every five seconds, while ‘Bobo Boogie’ and ‘Kris Kringle Ju Ju’ strut like The Meters in their prime. In short, on ‘Dracula Boots’ Kid Congo Powers has once again found the juicy jugular of soul-fired, funked-up rock’n’roll. You’d be foolish not to take a bite. NME
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Keren Ann "My Name Is Trouble"
Keren Ann plays at McCabes tonight, Jue 24th, and Luckman Fine Arts tomorrow, June 25th.
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6/23/2011
Black Lips @ Detroit Bar
(Photo: Angel Ceballos)
The Black Lips will be playing Detroit Bar tonight, June 23rd.
Thursday, June 23rd: Black Lips @ Detroit Bar
Friday, June 24th: Black Lips @ The Music Box
Saturday, June 25th: Black Lips @ The Glasshouse
The Black Lips interview 2007
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6/22/2011
The Black Lips: we love LA
(Photo: Angel Ceballos)
You waited and waited and now all the shows are sold out or nearly sold out. You can still go down to the venue and beg for tickets. It is worth it because these will be the most exciting shows of the summer. The Black Lips have secret guests and new songs to unveil. So make sure you catch one of their THREE big shows at Detroit Bar, Glasshouse and Henry Fonda. See you there.
Thursday, June 23rd: Black Lips @ Detroit Bar
Friday, June 24th: Black Lips @ The Music Box
Saturday, June 25th: Black Lips @ The Glasshouse
The Black Lips interview 2007
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6/20/2011
Parenthetical Girls @ The Echo
Parenthetical Girls Return to Los Angeles on July 21st @ The Echo!
photo by Angel Ceballos.
"...a wildly ambitious swirl of hyper-literacy, orchestral grandeur and incredible intimacy"—L.A. Times
Following a lamentable two-year absence, Portland, Oregon's progressive pop powerhouse Parenthetical Girls finally mark their return to Los Angeles on July 21st, at The Echo. The Girls have been busy: the group is currently in the midst of an ambitious experiment—self-releasing our fourth record, Privilege, as a sequential series of 5 extremely limited (500 copies) 12” EPs on our own Slender Means Society label, each hand-numbered in the BLOOD of its members—a project that has attracted a great deal of media curiosity (Pitchfork, Stereogum, L.A. Times, Drowned In Sound, RCRD LBL, etc. have all run stories or features about the series). What's more, lead (((GRRRL))) Zac Pennington was recently recruited as a member of experimental pop titans Xiu Xiu, and Parenthetical Girls themselves have been joined by multi-instrumentalist Paul Alcott, touring member of the group Menomena.
The group will be joined in Los Angeles by hometown heroes Abe Vigoda, Brooklyn's baroque metal group Extra Life (fronted by former Dirty Projector Charlie Looker, who was recently ranked one of NPR's top "100 Composers Under 40"), and a solo set from Dead Science frontman/Xiu Xiu member Sam Mickens.
7/15 Vancouver @ Astoria Bar
7/16 Seattle @ Highline
7/17 Portland @ Holocene (w/Vice Device)
7/19 SF @ Hemlock Tavern
7/20 Oakland @ Lobot Gallery
7/21 LA @ Echo (w/Abe Vigoda)
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6/19/2011
The Black Lips start a riot
(Photo: Angel Ceballos)
The Black Lips invade LA this week and bring their "flower-punk" to the people. They hope to bring riot-like atmosphere of their albums to the stage. They will be taking no prisoners. So make sure you catch one of their THREE big shows at Detroit Bar, Glasshouse and Henry Fonda. See you there.
Thursday, June 23rd: Black Lips @ Detroit Bar
Friday, June 24th: Black Lips @ The Music Box
Saturday, June 25th: Black Lips @ The Glasshouse
The Black Lips interview 2007
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6/18/2011
Kisses @ Make Music Pasadena
(photo: Angel Ceballos)
Kisses perform today at Make Music Pasadena @ 9pm, June 18th.
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Zola Jesus @ Make Music Pasadena
(photo: Angel Ceballos)
Zola Jesus headlines Make Music Pasadena tonight @ 10pm, June 18th.
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