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Onion Events Newsletter - Los Angeles (September23-September29)
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| LOS ANGELES | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - Monday, September 29, 2008 | |
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| This week in A.V. L.A. | ||
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In the L.A. print edition of The Onion Ah, the side project: a time-honored tradition among musicians, particularly those who?ve reached certain levels of acclaim in their main, star-making vehicle. With the side project, they can fulfill their need to stretch artistic wings, showing the real fans their potential without all those damn commercial expectations weighing them down. Though he?s popped up in glossy tabloids lately for dating diminutive Hollywood starlet Natalie Portman, freak-folkster Devendra Banhart follows up last year?s solo record with a new group, Megapuss, featuring Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes on drums. They play their beachy, upbeat ditties at the Troubadour Thursday alongside Fab?s other side project, Little Joy, named after the popular and decidedly dingy Echo Park watering hole he frequents. An album of fresh folk ditties from Little Joy is due in November. | |
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| Wednesday October 1, 2008 | Download a free, exclusive Wilco/Fleet Foxes track! | |
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The A.V. Club is delighted to point you to a free download of a new live collaboration between Wilco and Fleet Foxes, a cover of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" which was recorded in Bend, OR on the
recent Wilco tour. Wilco's working with Headcount.org, "a nonpartisan, non-profit organization dedicated to voter registration and inspiring participation in democracy through the power of music." So
when you download this track, you'll be asked to click a simple button, pledging to vote in the upcoming national election on November 4. And if you're feeling particularly generous, Wilco's also suggesting you make a donation to Second Harvest/Feed America. For complete information, go here. | |
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Upcoming Events |
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| Friday September 26, 10pm and Midnight (two shows) | The Found Footage Festival | |
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The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event that compiles more than an hour's worth of footage from videos that were found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters throughout the country.
Curators Pickett and Prueher host each screening in-person and provide their unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. From the curiously-produced industrial training video to the forsaken home movie donated to Goodwill, the Found Footage Festival resurrects these
forgotten treasures and serves them up in a lively celebration of all things found. Among the new clips to be featured in the 2008 show: ?17 workplace sexual harassment videos, edited down to three minutes of just the best reenactments ?A brand-new collection of exercise videos featuring Playgirl's 1985 Man of the Year, a scantily-clad Angela Lansbury, and a guru who calls himself "The Laughing Yogi." ?A video cameo by Chris Elliott ?An instructional video on how to toilet train cats Purchase tickets by clicking here M Bar |
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A.V. Club Picks |
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| Tuesday September 23, 8pm | Okkervil River: + Sea Wolf | |
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It?s pleasantly surprising to see Okkervil River enjoying a jump in popularity, but it might have something to do with its wise balance of excitement and nuance. The Austin group?s been treating lead singer Will Sheff?s
tunes with creaks of folk, chamber-pop, and a little delicate dissonance on a run of solid albums, including the new The Stand Ins. Sea Wolf delivers understated indie pop on its debut EP, Get To The River Before It Runs Too Low, helping the band overcome the dubious distinction of
being the 1,500th ?Wolf? band to emerge in the past few years. The band also proved its worth with last year?s Leaves In The River, an album with a swaying, catchy, Fleetwood Mac quality to it. Also playing: Zykos. The Fonda |
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| Wednesday September 23,8pm | Cold War Kids | |
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Fullerton?s Cold War Kids have come a long way since 2004?s Robbers & Cowards, and they?re not letting small matters such as the cancellation of their tour with the White Stripes slow them down. Instead, Cold War
Kids? new Loyalty To Loyalty tackles bigger matters, such as Ayn Rand?s theories on individualism, that are bound to make the sophomore album look more like a senior thesis. A track entitled ?Golden Gate Jumpers? that deals with suicide contemplation might easily cause the band to be
pigeonholed with the slew of other artists trying to go deeper and darker the second time around. But don?t be fooled?cacophonies and melodies neatly entwined in bluesy riffs showcase a skillful balance of versatility and honed delivery. Fonda Theater |
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| Thursday September 25, 7:30pm | Mission Of Burma | |
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Carrying on what has become a bewildering tradition of acts performing certain records in their entirety live, post-punk totem Mission Of Burma will play its 1982 debut, Vs., at this show. However weird the premise, it?s
hard to overestimate Burma?s influence on American post-punk. In only four years together, the original iteration of the Boston band perfected a wiry, nervous style of art-rock that would inspire legions to give raw punk crunch a tight, cerebral squeeze. The group returned with a 2004 comeback
album, OnOffOn, and 2006?s The Obliterati proved that the band?s sound has lost none of its sheer power during maturation. Also playing: Hank IV. Echoplex |
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| Friday September 26, 8pm | Silver Jews + James Jackson Toth | |
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Back again after a return that counted as a triumph in 2005, Silver Jews frontman Dave Berman is a crafty songwriter whose mix of plainspoken gravity and poetic grace has gained in stature over time. His barrel-scraping
dark period?which included a suicide attempt and much subsequent explaining of same?gave way to better things on 2005?s Tanglewood Numbers. And his recent Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea features enough great rootsy story songs to make up for the ones that rank as merely good. Live,
Berman lacks a lot in the way of charisma, but his lyrics hit hardest when delivered dry. Wooden Wand?s James Jackson Toth opens with hazy country-folk from his recent solo effort Waiting In Vain. Also playing: Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band. Echoplex |
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| Saturday September 27,9pm | Juliana Hatfield | |
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Juliana Hatfield launched her college-rock career in the mid-?80s with the Blake Babies?who still sounded great when they reunited for a few years around the millennium?and eventually turned into an alt-rock princess on her
own and as an ad hoc member of the Lemonheads. She hasn?t been able to reclaim her mid-?90s glory inspired by great singles like ?Spin The Bottle? and ?Universal Heart-Beat,? but Hatfield has kept busy over the years with Some Girls (featuring fellow former Blake Babies member Freda Love Smith) and
a slew of solo releases, including the new How To Walk Away and a memoir titled When I Grow Up. Largo At The Coronet |
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| Sunday September 28, 8pm | Luis Miguel | |
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Luis Miguel continues to serenade the legions of lovelorn fans that fell under his spell in 1985, when a duet with Sheena Easton won him his first Grammy at 15. Miguel?s smooth ballads have smashed sales records around the
world, and he was the first artist in the U.S. with multiple Spanish-language platinum albums, proving that a musician doesn?t necessarily have to sing in English to enjoy crossover success. As the title of 1999?s Amarte Es Un Placer (Loving You Is A Pleasure) attests, the suave troubadour
takes pride in giving audiences the tender?though bombastic?ballads they crave. The one-time boyfriend of fellow romantic balladeer Mariah Carey is touring behind this year?s multi-platinum Complices. Nokia Theater |
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| Monday September 29, 9pm | Calexico + The Cave Singers | |
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Calexico is an alt-country band that has always swerved and wheezed, often with weird instruments and mostly through musical climes that sing of deserts and places where people go to get lost. The Tucson-based group has yet
to top the sun-scorched, cinematic quality of 2003?s Feast Of Wire, but the new Carried To Dust flits through jazzy bits, slide guitar, country tunes, and hints of mariachi, with Iron And Wine singer Sam Beam helping to give voice to a worldview that keeps getting more developed.
Opener The Cave Singers bring together former members of Pretty Girls Make Graves for a guitar pluckin?, folk-rock sound, as on last year?s debut full-length, Invitation Songs. Henry Fonda Theater |
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Win A Fine Album Set |
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| Tuesday September 22 | The Replacements: Remastered & Expanded Reissues | |
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Enter for your chance to win a collection of remastered and expanded Replacement reissues: Tim, Pleased To Meet Me, All Shook Down, and Don?t Tell A Soul. All include previously unavailable outtakes and home demos, extensive liner notes and rare photos. Tim and Pleased To Meet Me reissues are also available on 180-gram vinyl. To win, be one of the first 2.5 newsletter readers to click here or send an email to lapromo@theonion.com with ?The Mats? in the subject. | |
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