A few months ago, hundreds of L.A.'s coolest of the cool crammed into Home Room 's grand opening in what was undoubtedly the best opening night of 2011. Not bad for a room probably half the size of pehrspace. The non-profit art gallery/performance space is easily one of the most efficiently and effectively run DIY venues in Los Angeles. Located a few doors down east of the Medusa Lounge, local and touring bands won't find a more welcoming stage than this one, not to mention some of L.A.'s best artists (the paintbrush kind) and comediennes have already stopped by [...]
A few months ago, hundreds of L.A.'s coolest of the cool crammed into Home Room 's grand opening in what was undoubtedly the best opening night of 2011. Not bad for a room probably half the size of pehrspace. The non-profit art gallery/performance space is easily one of the most efficiently and effectively run DIY venues in Los Angeles. Located a few doors down east of the Medusa Lounge, local and touring bands won't find a more welcoming stage than this one, not to mention some of L.A.'s best artists (the paintbrush kind) and comediennes have already stopped by [...]
Continuing with our one-night stand we had with Daniel Ahearn & The Jones a few weeks back, here's part dos of our conversation about their life as a band in Los Angeles. For this portion, we listen in on their discussion of the local scene and their place in it coming from the perspective of ones that have been around longer than a majority of the bands around town. We had to cut a ton of great footage and commentary out just to get it into something A.D.D. video watchers could sit through but you still should get [...]
This isn't déjà vu, this is just part two. If anyone's counting, this is the second Incan Abraham residency we've had the privilege of presenting. Back in June 2011, the band was just coming into their own as an "up-and-comer" with a few EPs under their belt and a swarm of devoted fans following them from show to show. Since then, they've released yet another fantastic (and free) EP "Ancient Vacation," impressed a hard-to-impress Wiltern audience opening for Liam Gallagher's Beady Eye, and now have been offered one of the prime residency [...]
Last Thursday, we were asked (or was it reminded?) to book a show for this Tuesday at The Satellite. Six days to book a whole night at a 250-capacity club sounded like booker suicide but we love a challenge (know what I'm saying, ladies?). The plan was to ask a bunch of our favorite bands that haven't played the club in awhile then call it a day. Three bands down, we lightly poked and prodded
We set up a coffee date with the sexy duo of Daniel Ahearn & The Jones last week in Echo Park but because Stories closed early we ended up chatting at the world famous Laundromat next door. So what was supposed to be a chance to get to first base ended up being a deep discussion about their music, the Los Angeles music scene, and basically how they're surviving in this economy as indie musicians
On January 27, 2010, the world saw the end to one of the best bands on the planet, Gowns, and we were there to witness it. We do have video of that show (held at McWorld, pictures below) but we won't be posting any of it and if you were there you understand why. Instead, we will post video of EMA performing "California" at Detroit Bar back in June 2011. This is our favorite video we shot in 2011
Yes, we're still clearing out old videos from days gone by and since The Finches are performing tonight at The Smell, now is as good a time as any to say how much we love them. One video is from The Smell in November of 2009 (pictured above) and the other is from Echo Curio in October of 2009 where they opened for indie pop goddess Rose Melberg. Coincidentally, The Finches open for Key Losers
So now that we've told you about our 8-year love affair with Kate Earl, our decade-long bro-hug with Patrick Park, and our flirtatious trysts with Ema and Her Lady Parts, that just leaves Tenlons Fort who even though we've already exchanged friendship bracelets quite a few times he still deserves a little bit of lovin'. Mr. T-Fort is in town for the month of January getting the band back together
The following is a quick synopsis on how we came to love Kate Earl...With old age comes bad memories but we seem to remember Ms. Kate moved to Los Angeles 8-9 years ago from Chugiak, Alaska. We vaguely recall she was going to college down in Orange County at OCC (with Giant Drag's Annie Hardy) while pursuing music and maybe dabbling with a modeling career and it was around this time we caught her
Six years ago we posted about not seeing Patrick Park perform for six years. And six years later, we still haven't seen him nearly enough times nor given him nearly enough praise. Well, how's this (in resumé bullet form)...Patrick Park is our favorite pure singer-songwriter in Los AngelesCome What Will was our favorite album of 2010 and, hence, one of our favorite records of all time"Blackbird
Los Angeles knows only three seasons: Spring, summer, and the beloved indie rock band out of Highland Park. Six years of seemingly playing second fiddle in the scene, Seasons have finally come into their own as one of the finer melodic rock bands in town (the addition of violinist Kaitlin Wolfberg is an absolute godsend). And with their newest EP "Autumn," the band has matured to a level of
We wrote the following blog draft on May 27, 2007 about Ms. Ema prior to her playing one of our 10th Anniversary shows at Mr. T's Bowl. We never posted it:We don't know much but we know Ema and the Ghosts is a star in the making. Our first encounter with this young lady was during her short-lived stint with Artichoke, a band known for its innovative songcraft but maybe not-so-innovative career
By far one of the more glorious creations of the last decade has been the banding together of the L.A. Ladies Choir, a collection of some of the finest ladies Los Angeles has to offer. Coming from various parts of L.A.'s cultural nexus, the group has featured members of Lavender Diamond, Moonrats, Black Black, Warpaint, He's My Brother She's My Sister, The Finches, and Stone Darling along with
In our ongoing series this month of pulling out videos from oblivion and onto the web, we now come to Daniel Ahearn who probably deserves one of these "Los Angeles Loves..." things more than anybody. In previous accounts of Mr. Ahearn, we described our initial flirtation and then our full-blown love fest, so there really isn't much left to say other than that it's about time people took notice.
Here are a couple older videos we've never posted from one our most adored bands The Nocturnes. Two are from that stunner of a show back in 2009 at Synchronicity and one is from the Unknown Theater (also from 2009). The album they released in late 2008, A Year of Spring, completely blew us away and has remained as one of our favorite records of all time, which is why we were terrorizing so many
Can't remember if this was taken from his first or second show in Los Angeles, but we do remember Bar Lubitsch was packed in 2009 with only the most savvy of music scenesters who knew early on that Active Child was one to watch. It was pretty undeniable. Those celestial beats, the harp interludes, and of course that penetrating falsetto were all something fresh to the scene and L.A. was quick to
We're hosting a holiday party on Saturday at pehrspace. There will be music. There will be food. And there will be a slumber party where we hangout, watch movies, and do each other's nails until 6am. If you feel like coming, please RSVP on Facebook so we can see how good looking you are before we accept your RSVP request get a proper head count so that we bring enough food (it's technically a
This video is also from early 2010... While we were paying our monthly visit to our ol' friend Arlo at Mr. T's Bowl one night and were lucky enough to catch most of Stab City's set. Not sure how any Angeleno could miss one of their shows since they play a ton of'em, anywhere and everywhere. We actually just caught them the other night at The Satellite, not even knowing they were on the lineup,
Ok, here's a video that's actually in HD since we know your eyes must be burning from the Standard Definition quality of the past few vids...This video is from LESANDS' show at Echo Curio we presented back in July 2010. It was an honor having them play one of their first shows with us and now that they've got most everything in order with management and booking we're looking forward to seeing
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