It doesn’t occur to my friend and I how one finds a secret venue. Yes, you can have the address and you can print up directions, but if you don’t know what it is you’re looking for, how can you find it? So, we’re driving through east LA, lost, unsure what to do, when we
Fun Free Residencies Are Fun, 22 February:
Are you tired of the Olympics? Can you, like me, not find it within yourself to muster up any amount of enthusiasm for the Olympics?* Both great reasons to get out of your mom/coworker/neighbor’s child’s soccer coach’s house tomorrow and actually go see something worth watching, like live music in Los Angeles. How about that?
California Guitar Trio at the Coach House, 1/29/10
Last Friday, I saw the California Guitar Trio at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, and it was a great show. I first became aware of this group when I was working at The McDonald Theatre in Eugene. CGT, Neko Case, Public Enemy, and The Decemberists are the acts that won me over with
Get Excited! (About Hi Ho Silver Oh!):
They had spoken of this band a few times, and I had managed to miss attending each show. I didn’t know anything about the band, and didn’t know what to expect that night – but halfway through the second song, my date and I turned to each other, stiff like two hot dogs and all
Light FM at Spaceland, softly
This is from a few weeks back, but there’s a nice simplicity to this Light FM song. And something special about pretty colors in soft focus.
Tonight: The Dance Party, chicks in bikinis
For those that haven’t sampled the ’00′s response to the ’80s, tonight is the night for you, because The Dance Party is playing another show at Crazy Girls, which is something of a strip club, but it can hardly be called a strip club since all the girls wear bikinis, so it’s more like a
Oy Vey in a Manger: Holiday Shows
For those of us itching for an official musical kick off to our holidays, we’ve got three (Spaceland!) options of BCTV favorites fast approaching. First off is Eagle Rock’s finest, Princeton (taking a cue from Yo La Tengo’s tradition of offering a Hannukah show) at Spaceland on the 12th, with the merry jangle pop of
The Happy Hollows make girls want to be her
Last night, at the urging of Eliza, I made it to a residency show of The Happy Hollows at Spaceland, and I must say, they were a titillating onslaught of she-rock. Not that their rock is she-centric, but rather, that the driving force of the rock-ness is a she, and she plays a mean mean
Aw, KISS. You’re so silly!
It is hard for me to believe that they have been sex monsters and the scourge of parents, or that anyone ever thought their music was the devil’s music. Maybe it was the devil’s grandpa’s music. The distance and height we were looking at them, combined with the impression I had from the media about
John Maxfield, guitar, piano, laptop
He didn’t have a band surrounding him, but John Maxfield rocked a small Whiskey crowd with acoustic guitar, keyboard and laptop providing the odd drum track Monday night. Moving between instruments, Maxfield put on a show perhaps better suited to a Silverlake venue, a raucous solo performance of hooky ballads from his latest record. Maybe