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JAVELIN "Javelin, comprised of New York City crate-rats George Langford and Tom Van Buskirk, certainly do their share of jumping around, never letting their listener get too close to an idea or a groove for very long… a curiously sly concoction of found sounds and nautically dizzying loops and breaks that reference everything from beach-psych to diet-dub, all outfitted with delightfully strange ticks, grumbles, and seagull squawks." – Pitchfork MAUS HAUS "Leave it to the weirdo [...]

We are very excited about tonight's events... At Bootleg, Titus Andronicus performs w/ Let's Wrestle (U.K.) and local favorite Slang Chickens. Advance tickets are still available ($10 adv/$12 day of show), but not for long. If advance tickets appear to be sold out, a limited amount of walk-up tix will be available. At Bordello, Taylor Locke & The Roughs (featuring members of Rooney and The Like) is celebrating the release of their new album 'Grain and Grape.' White Arrows and Paper Zoo will open [...]

First Aid Kit performs at Bootleg this summer - June 1st. Advance tickets are currently on sale via InTicketing. Click here .

BLACK PRAIRIE Featuring three-fifths of The Decemberists and two of Portland's finest folk stylists, Black Prairie - whose debut was released by Sugar Hill Records, and produced by Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie) - embodies the rich sonic landscape of the Portland music scene while integrating the diverse backgrounds of its members. As described by dobroist Chris Funk, the band's sound "bridges the music of Clarence White and Ennio Morricone" in a way that defies genre characterization. Advance tickets are $12, and day-of-show tickets are $14. Click here to get tix.

ELUVIUM Born in Tennessee and raised in Louisville, KY, Matthew Cooper relocated to Portland, OR several years back and has since spent many a night holed up in his house transforming the vibrations in his brain into sweeping walls of elegant noise. With a depth ranging from fragile to glacial, he takes dense layers of guitars and pianos and builds them into an awe-inspiring fortress around himself. Resting comfortably and confidently in the spirits of Brian Eno's most accomplished ambient pieces, Eluvium is a freakishly beautiful affair. If it was ever possible for a warm gust of wind to send [...]

HOLLY MIRANDA "She's a bona-fide singer-songwriter who can and will simply sell a song around just her voice and the sound of an acoustic guitar… Miranda's mature, world-weary inflections bring everything-- nightmares, hopes, loss-- to the fore. Her crackling vocals lend themselves to murkiness and intrigue." – Pitchfork

We've just confirmed Holly Miranda for March 12th at Bootleg; Priestbird for May 8th at Bootleg; Uh Huh Her for March 31st at Bordello; Horse Feathers for May 19th at Bootleg; Phantogram w/ Love Grenades for March 4th at Bordello... Also, we recently added Great Northern to the Choir of Young Believers show on March 13th at Bootleg. Advance tickets for all of these shows are available via InTicketing.com

Shins frontman James Mercer and producer-to-the-stars Danger Mouse are now a duo called Broken Bells, and they'll drop their debut album on March 9 via Columbia. At this exact moment, the duo have played exactly zero shows. But fast-acting Los Angelenos can witness the band's very first show real, real soon. Tonight, they'll make their onstage debut at L.A.'s Bootleg Theater. If you miss that one, Mercer and Danger have three other live shows planned. At the beginning of March, they'll hit Paris and London. And on March 17, they'll play NPR Music's SXSW showcase at the Austin [...]

TITUS ANDRONICUS "Titus Andronicus' The Airing Of Grievances brooks no bullshit. The disc is the sound of lusty youth ripping a gaping hole in the fabric of reality: Throughout The Airing's nine sawed-off anthems, the Jersey collective comes off like a clunky, blood-knuckled Arcade Fire that just doesn't have time for all that respectable crap. Because, you know, the world is falling apart around their heads, and they only have this one shot at eating, fighting, and fucking the entire universe." - The Onion AV Club "None of these highfalutin' shout-outs will grab your ear as powerfully as [...]

THE WATSON TWINS "Their soulful harmonies are at the center of a sparkling pop sound that has a Memphis-meets-L.A. texture and hooks that work their charms on you instantly." Elle Magazine "As sisters Chandra and Leigh's harmonies wrap around hissing cymbals and jazzy guitar, this languorous, closing-time cabaret song builds into a long slow good-night kiss to melt all your late-winter blues." – Marie Claire Magazine "A dark yet mellow record in which the sultry vocals of Chandra and Leigh Watson stand out enough without overshadowing the retro guitar and organ parts they accompany. The sisters [...]

If you haven't purchased tickets for the upcoming Delta Spirit show at Bootleg, get on it. This event is close to selling out! Get tix here .

We have confirmed some great shows this week... Aqualung - April 26th at Bootleg The Watson Twins - February 17th at Bootleg Field Music - March 27th at Bootleg More to come!

RED CORTEZ "They are cut from a cloth that embraces the free-thinking spirit of 60s, via San Francisco and Woodstock. They tap into the liberating sense of possibility and scoff at any kinds of limitations imposed on the people of this country. They gravitate toward the melancholic dimension of the war – or any war – that's being waged and chronicle it with a new song about a wife continuing to receive letters from her soldier husband though he's already dead. She chooses to think of him still as a living person and the letters are all the indication she [...]

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Curious about Timber Timbre? The elements are deceptively simple: a confident, but hushed voice, understated guitar, strings and keyboard flourishes, and a subtle percussive beat. Timber Timbre front man Taylor Kirk is making pop as if it was meant to sound haunted. Something grounded in a strange place where genre descriptions like blues, country, and folk intersect becoming secondary to the precision of the moods being conjured. 89.9 KCRW, When You Awake, and Rollo & Grady will present the show - March 25th at Bootleg. Advance tix are $15 !

MAUS HAUS "Leave it to the weirdo mecca of San Francisco to produce a smart psych rock band in Maus Haus that practices the biggest rock perversion of them all - complete lack of guitars. Hailing from the Bay Area, Maus Haus combine a paranoid insomniac vibe with playful pop lines and cleverly cinematic lyrics that make them out to be the bastard child of Kraftwerk hanging with Captain Beefheart that would obviously have a video starring Simon Le Bon and the boys. That is an admittedly nutso sentence, but it's hard to pinpoint exactly what Maus Haus [...]

Bo-Peep , Tokyo's overadorably happy 3-piece girl rock collective makes their LA debut at Bordello on this Monday, March 16. Their fast, short, and catchy tunes will have you dancing. Deerhoof, beware. Bo-Peep's vocals & harmonies are reminiscent of the good punk rock from the 80's, ie. Black Flag and the Dead Kennedys, with a little bit of the Ramones and Sonic Youth thrown in just for giggles. "It's hard to imagine the extent of this 3-piece girl band's dense, intense sound piercing the world as it does". – BOUNCE Magazine, Tower Records, Japan. [...]

Brandon Bethancourt, AKA Alaska in Winter , is a one man production who sings, plays piano, accordion, melodica, synthesizer, electro drums & programming. Think Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, Crystal Castles or Goldfrapp with male vocals. Since the inception of Alaska in Winter, Bethancourt has released a handful of music including "Holiday," his 2nd full length album. Bethancourt's high school buddy Zach Condon of Beirut, contributes his trumpet and ukulele efforts, while Heather Trost from A Hawk & A Hacksaw plays the violin. Alaska in Winter is joined by Juliette Commagere , New Villager [...]

Our songstress of choice Sara Lov performs at HOME - 2500 Riverside Drive this coming Friday evening the 20th February at 10pm. This event is Free! Joining her on the night are Manuok from S.D. and Toby Burke of Horse Stories. DJ Melissa Renee Hernanadez of Lo and Behold! opens festivities at 9p and spins into the night. Also Thanks to Kevin Bronson for pointing the way to this little gem that Sara Lov recently posted to the web.

Doods dig Girls, girls dig Girls - the SF scraggly white boy (not girl) band. This is a show you do not want to miss. Girls will journey down to the Southland and play a long awaited Los Angeles show on February 26th at the Silverlake Lounge with Wounded Lion. Christopher Owens and Chet JR White perform pop songs that contain aggressive dramatic guitar playing with bright catchy hooks. Think Jesus & Mary Chain, MBV, and Glasvegas. Last year, their limited edition 7" entitled "Lust for Life," sold out in just a week. The song [...]