Artist: kissing cousins

Little Tyrant Productions recently shared a video of Travis Shettel performing performing The Rock Revolution Will Not Be Televised . These days, the former Piebald frontman is hard at work on a new project, TS and the Past Haunts . It also includes members of Summer Darling and Kissing Cousins .

Your sizable song-filled Saturday touts: ► Aimee Mann [pictured above] returns with her traditional Christmas show over at the Wiltern with friends such as Paul F Tompkins, Michael Penn, Tim Heidecker, and many more. ► NYC's Cavemen plays another SoCal show at Orange County's Detroit Bar with support from L.A.'s Races . [Check out their video for "Easy Water." ] ► Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter , whose band members include Whiskeytown's guitarist Phil Wandscher) headline the Bootleg Theater. The Watson Twins and [...]

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On the town tonight: ► Swedish new-new wavers the Sounds headline the Wiltern behind their new album "Something to Die For." That's their video for "Dance With the Devil," above. Funeral Party and the Limousines support. ► Chicago quartet Company Of Thieves , their new album "Running From a Gamble" out earlier this year, visit the Bootleg, with Motopony and Kissing Cousins supporting. ► And American-born, Montreal-based Laura Sprengelmeyeer — aka Little Scream — brings her lovely indie-pop to the Satellite. Download "Heron and the Fox" — well worth [...]

• Little Scream - The Heron and the Fox

A preview of that upcoming Markis Sage album "Paper boat" that I told you about yesterday .

[It's a little bit like our Austin showcase, all over again ...] Monday night's tunes: ► Hanni El Khatib (pictured at the Buzz Bands LA party in Austin in March) celebrates the release of his debut album "Will the Guns Comes Out" at the Echo, leading into the final performing of Kissing Cousins' residency. ► Satellite residents Big Black Delta wind up a great month by celebrating the release of their debut "BBDLP1." with Letting Up Despite Great Faults (who also [...]

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So you're out for a drink with your scenester pals in some hip locale with classically unfamiliar tunes playing overhead. And given the nasal male vox buoyed by a surf-y, smart-Alec (Firefox made me capitalize that) bass line and a snappy, clean, well-plucked guitar, perhaps you thought the Intelligence -beloved and zany Seattle glo-fi outfit-had recently released some new tunes. Or, at the very least, had some tunes you hadn't heard before. Well, you'd be forgiven for that mistake (though if someone offers to flog you, accept!), since their tunes are generally awesome and ringleader Lars Finberg has recently [...]

• Orca Team - Night Moves
• Orca Team - You've Got Everything Made

KISSING COUSINS, HANNI EL KHATIB, AND FEEDING PEOPLE ON MONDAY SEP. 26TH AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ FREE/ 21+

KISSING COUSINS, WRITER, RAW GERONIMO, AND RAINBOW JACKSON ON MONDAY SEP. 19 AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ FREE/ 21+

This qualifies as a Monster Monday: ► Bon Iver plays the first of two L.A. dates, tonight at the Shrine, and equally good, for our money, are tourmates Other Lives , whose album "Tamer Animals" will end up near the top of BBLA's 2011 lists. ► James Blake and Teengirl Fantasy do a second night at the Music Box. ► Ivy's first album since 2005, "All Hands," comes out Tuesday, and the trio (Dominique Durand, Andy Chase and Andy Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne) plays [...]

It's that time again, where the seasons start changing and the Echo rotates its Monday residency. For the lovely month of September, the club will be hosting San Diego lo-fi duo WRITER. The sibling pair has had an eventful summer, including a west coast two-week tour with indie darling Cults. Sharing the stage with the twosome is the rockin' Silverlake-based girly foursome Kissing Cousins. You've got two more chances to rock out (September 19th and 26th); Echo residencies are always FREE and 21+. - Katrina Nattress <a href=" http://writertheband.bandcamp. com/album/miss-mermaid-7in"&am p;gt;Miss Mermaid (7in) by Writer</a>

Happy Monday .. no, I really mean that: ► Louisiana-based quintet Givers bring the exuberant pop off their debut album "In Light" to the Troubadour — it's their second swing through L.A. in three months (they were good at the Bootleg in June), and this time they'll get to do the Jimmy Kimmel Show (on Tuesday). That's Givers' video for "Meantime," above. ► Arty jazz-pop five-piece Big Moves kick off their residency at the Bootleg Theater on a night Alex Steuerwald of Mere Mortals debuts his new project United Ghosts [...]

Labor Day shows you can catch if you're not seeing the Beach Boys at the L.A. County Fair: ► Jonathan Bates brings the devastating electro of his new project Big Black Delta to the Satellite, kicking off a monthlong residency celebrating the release of its first album "BBDLP1." Kate Crash and Tennis System open. [If you haven't already, check out BBD's "Huggin & A Kissin" and "Capsize." ] ► Dan Deacon , Future Islands , Lucky Dragons and Jon Barba team up for a show at [...]

If you're going to be on the West Side tomorrow night, come check out "Chicks That Bang" with Correatown, Kissing Cousins and a personal favorite Tic Tic Boom! at Central SAPC in Santa Monica. The night will be filled with some lovely female musicians and some awesome dude musicians as well. Doors at 9 and $5. DO IT and you won't regret it.

Get glammed up AND down and dirty with the heavy jams of this all girl band from LA.

Local stuff first, then the other stuff: ► Nice surprise in store at the Californian's residency at the Satellite - She Wants Revenge will play the opening slot, setting the table for the One AM Radio and the residents. And leading the late dance party will be San Francisco's the Hundred Days — whose video for "Sex U" seems almost too much for a Monday night. Then again, we like Monday nights. ► Sweet collection of songwriters at the Bootleg, where resident Henry Wolfe will [...]

Think of these as punctuation marks for your weekend: ► Swervedriver (pictured) is back, Adam Franklin bringing his band to North America for four shows. The finale is tonight at the Echoplex (7 p.m.), with the Black Watch opening. ► Ya La Bamba frontwoman Luz Elena — who delivered a rapturous set last week at the Buzz Bands LA SecondTuesday songwriter night at Lot 1 Cafe — plays the Hotel Cafe. ► Great Sunday evening at the Troubadour, with Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit , [...]

LA's Kissing Cousins will bring their moody rock to the Che Cafe on June 17. Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.

• Kissing Cousins - You Bring Me Down

San Francisco friends, tonight @ Rickshaw Stop is a show containing three acts that are longtime friends of FS - WINTER'S FALL , Michael Sempert of BIRDS & BATTERIES and KISSING COUSINS . Over the past few years we've gushed about B&B's and the songwriting prowess of their frontman, Michael Sempert. Tonight he'll give you a rare solo look at what's on his mind along with a band that headlined the Rumble SF in April, Winter's Fall. Silverlake based act, Kissing Cousins, journeys North to [...]