Video: The First Ever Check Yo Ponytail Tour - Trailer #1

LOTS going on this weekend in New York. Here's what we recommend: Friday 10/28 Wale, SAVOY, Miami Horror @ Terminal 5 Porter Robinson, Madeon @ Webster Hall Matt Pond PA @ Maxwells Wale ft. Kid Cudi - "Focused" Saturday 10/29 Holy Ghost!, Jessica 6, Eli Escobar @ Bowery Ballroom Check Yo Ponytail Tour feat. Spank [...]

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Dance party on a Tuesday night! That's pretty gangsta, considering that it's a school night and all. Spank Rock, Big Freedia, Pictureplane, The Death Set and Franki Chan will take the stage over at the Summit Music Hall in downtown Denver and C=T wants to send a lucky reader to shake their can tonight along with a friend. Send me your name via Twitter @ Causeequalstime or email (julio.enriquez@gmail.com) and the tickets are yours. Listen to the Pictureplane Check Yo Ponytail 2 mixtape below to get you hyped for tonight! [...]

• PICTUREPLANE - CHECK YO' PONYTAIL 2 MIXTAPE

You may not know this, but our interview with Franki Chan of iHeartcomix was actually one of our first, after meeting him at SXSW in 2008.  Franki is also from Bloomington, Indiana, where I went to school. He left B-Town for LA, launched Check Yo' Ponytail and tons of other things, and hasn't looked back.  His party has grown into its first ever tour featuring Spank Rock, Death Set and more. It hits Chicago on 10/28.  Check out the trailer below.

In the past, L.A’s celebrated Check Yo Ponytail 2 monthly concert series has welcomed everyone from Justice and Matt & Kim to The Horrors and Dan Deacon to venues across the City of Angeles. Come later this month, however, organizers will bring the CYP2 show on the road with the shindig's first national tour. The 10-date tour will feature Spank Rock, Big Freedia, The Death Set, Pictureplane, and Franki Chan (one of the event's organizers) rocking clubs across the country. In addtion, surf-rockers Wavves will act as special guests when the show kicks off on October [...]