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| LOS ANGELES | Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - Monday, November 17, 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 If you hang out anywhere east of La Brea and have dithered away a few afternoons inside of L.A.'s music mecca, Amoeba Music, chances are you've heard of the Part Time Punks, a DJ collective and popular club night organized every Sunday at The Echo. Over the past two years, the weekly dance-fest has crowded the Echo Park venue and demanded the services of DJs Michael Stock and Benjamin White, who spin punk, post-punk, new wave, no wave, indie-pop, and electro coming out of the U.S. and Europe since 1978. Thanks to the group becoming a hot ticket, this Sunday marks the First Annual Part Time Punks Festival, held all day and night inside The Echo and Echoplex. Along with acts like Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Mika Miko, Vivian Girls, Warpaint, and The Muslims the Punks have wrangled UK post-punk legends A Certain Ratio for their first U.S. performance since 1985. There will also be the first band-sanctioned screening of Throbbing Gristle's live performances as well as recordings of Joy Division, New Order, Cabaret Voltaire, and many more to while away the daylight and nighttime hours. | |
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| November 11,12,13,14,15 | Win Tickets To The L.A. Comedy Festival | |
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Featuring over 160 performers from across the USA, Canada and L.A., the Los Angeles Comedy Festival returns for its fourth season offering 17 consecutive nights of fun. From TROOP! to The Birthday Boys to OPM to FUCT (adult variety), to alternative comics Kyle Kinane, Dan Telfer, Bryan Gutman, Aristotle Athiras to urban comics, Shang, Andrew Mitchell to the political, Citizen Kate, to musical acts, Vomit! and Mandy Steckelberg there's guaranteed to be something to laugh at for everybody. Tickets are just $10 and FREE (with prior purchase of another show) for the late night variety shows, 'Your Girlfriend' (featuring John Ennis, HBO's Mr. Show), 'The Hour of Power', hosted by Rebecca Addelman, featuring Eddie Pepitone and 'Small Gravy' with Jen Kober, Chris Fairbanks. Enter to win tickets to this event on November 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 by sending an email to lapromo@theonion.com. Be sure to type 'LA Comedy Festival tickets' in the subject line. For tickets and more info click here. Or visit www.myspace.com/lacomedyfestival. | |
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| Friday Nov. 14, 8pm, Sunday Nov. 16, 7pm, Tuesday Nov. 18, 6:30pm | Win Tickets To One Of These Goldenvoice Shows | |
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Mudhoney with Japanese Motors, and Model/Actress Friday November 14 / El Rey Theatre / Doors: 8:00pm / Tickets: $25 Buy tickets here The B-52s with The 88 Sunday November 16 / Club Nokia / Doors: 7:00pm / Tickets: $75 / $55 / $45 Buy tickets here Minus the Bear with Annuals, and Helms Alee Sunday November 16 / The Music Box @ Fonda / Door: 7:00pm / Tickets: $18 adv / $20 dos Buy tickets here Matisyahu with Flobots, and Chester French Tuesday November 18 / Club Nokia / Doors: 6:30pm / Tickets: $25 Buy tickets here Enter to win tickets by sending an email to lapromo@theonion.com with the words 'Goldenvoice Tickets' in the subject heading. | |
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| Thursday November 20, 8pm | Win Tickets To See Rob Cohen And More At The Skirball Cultural Center | |
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Come check out an evening of comedy and storytelling from top Hollywood writers like Un-Cabaret's Beth Lapides, Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City), Dana Gould (The Simpsons), Rob Cohen (The Simpsons), Cindy Caponera (Saturday Night Live, The Norm Show), Sue Murphy (Chelsea Lately) and more. Enter to win tickets by sending an email to lapromo@theonion.com with the words 'Season Freely tickets' in the subject heading. For performer updates and ticket information click here or visit www.skirball.org. Skirball Cultural Center |
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Upcoming Events |
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| Sunday November 16, 7:30pm | The Ellis Marsalis Quintet featuring Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis | |
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The Ellis Marsalis Quintet featuring Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis / The McCoy Tyner Trio featuring Gerald Cannon, Eric Kamau Gravatt and special guest Marc Ribot / Brad Mehldau (solo) To buy tickets click here For more information click here The Greek Theatre |
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| The Dave Cox Show | ||
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With his pal the Evil Hypnotist Monkey, magician Dave Cox has performed at hundreds of corporate and private parties, and for A-list celebrities Tom Cruise, Dick Van Patten, Pink, Lucy Liu, and more. Make your party extra magical by booking him now for the upcoming holiday season. For booking and additional information visit www.thedavecoxshow.com or www.monkeymagician.com | |
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| Sale at The DXC Store | ||
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Zoom's H2 and H4 Handy recorders are on sale. H2 is $179.99 (originally $199.99) H4 is $269.99 (originally $299.99) For more information click here DXC Store, Digital Xperience Corporation | |
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A.V. Club Picks |
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| Tuesday November 11, 8pm | Spindrift | |
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A seven-piece band as indebted to the cowboy boot as the go-go boot, San Francisco's Spindrift creates shagadelic, reverb-drenched soundtracks to spaghetti Westerns that have yet to be made. (Or biker films: The group also recently contributed a song to the Quentin Tarantino-produced Hell Ride). And in case there was any doubt the band loves Westerns, Spindrift member Kirpatrick Thomas recently helped pen the script and soundtrack to the film The Legend Of God's Gun along with filmmaker Mike Bruce. The band follows up last year's Songs From The Ancient Age with The West, released today.
The Roxy |
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| Wednesday November 12, 8:30pm | Dungen + Women | |
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The newest album from indie psych-rockers Dungen, titled 4, picks up much where the group's 2004 breakthrough album Ta Det Lugnt left off, tightening up the fuzzed out sounds of last year's Tio Bitar and focusing back on lead singer Gustav Ejstes' swirling vocals -- despite the fact his lyrics are entirely in Swedish. The album smoothly bleeds together strings, willowy guitar licks, and wild percussion, as on the standout single 'Satt Att Se.' Also playing is Women, an Alberta outfit that sounds like The Byrds at their psychedelic peak, all jangle and bells, reverb and drones. Opening: Life On Earth.
The Echo |
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| Thursday November 13, 8pm | John Doe + Kathleen Edwards | |
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John Doe's solo work shows that punk isn't so far away from the 'three chords and the truth' attitude of much country music. Doe, founding bassist of legendary L.A. punk group X, has been making rough-edged alternative country music for nearly two decades now -- plenty of time to develop a genuine if artistically useful world-weariness. Doe's current 'Hurtin' and Flurtin'' tour comes on the heels of X's 31st anniversary tour, an assurance of Doe's continuing ability to rock hard. Co-billed artist Kathleen Edwards lent her strong voice and wit to several tracks from A Year In The Wilderness, Doe's solid release from 2007.
El Rey Theatre |
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| Friday November 14, 9pm | Dead Confederate + Apollo Sunshine | |
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Dead Confederate hails from Athens, Ga., so it's tempting to lump it in with similarly reverb-drenched, neo-Southern rock groups such as My Morning Jacket. But whereas that band tempers its bleakness with the occasional ray of sunshine, Dead Confederate aims for a starker, grungier sound, a slow-moving storm cloud built on guitars that buzz like beehives and Hardy Morris' plaintive, needling vocals: Imagine a post-millennial Neil Young reborn as a 'Southern Man' and raised on a steady diet of shoegaze. Alt-country rockers Apollo Sunshine open.
Spaceland |
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| Saturday November 15, 8pm | Gang Gang Dance + Marnie Stern | |
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On the new Saint Dymphna, Gang Gang Dance really means 'dance.' The experimental group has gotten down before, but those arty rhythms and percussive thumps often drifted into ethereal atmospherics, taking the vibe with them. With newfound focus, the band keeps the motion going on Saint Dymphna, to the point where tracks such as 'House Jam' could even -- gasp -- soundtrack a high-end clothing store. Opener Marnie Stern is one of few indie-rock guitarists today with a legitimate claim to the status of 'shredder.' But her fretboard pyrotechnics were only part of the story behind last year's In Advance Of The Broken Arm, a breakout album of caterwauling quasi-pop songs that stick and linger. She recently released her sophomore record, (deep breath) This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That.
El Rey Theater |
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| Sunday November 16, 7pm | Minus The Bear | |
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'Traditional' isn't a word that springs to mind when listening to Minus The Bear. Still, singer-guitarist Jake Snider made a leap to tried-and-true -- if ingeniously tweaked -- pop songcraft when he formed the Seattle band in 2001. Minus The Bear has devised a sound full of cryptic experimentalism and rich, complex melody over the course of a string of stunning releases. For the 2007 full-length P***t Of Ice, gone are the long, goofy titles and a lot of the noodly guitar of past releases; instead, Snider and company have crafted a disc of fantasy, darkness, sex, and quantum-level hooks. This year, the band followed up with a pair of EPs: A remastered version of 2004's They Make Beer Commercials Like This, released in July, and the new Acoustics Also playing: Annuals, Helms Alee.
Henry Fonda Theatre |
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| Monday November 17, 8pm | The Breeders | |
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It's been years since fuzz-gun femmes The Breeders have been a functioning band -- and even longer since Last Splash vaulted them from curious side project to 'alternative rock' stars. But, as with the Pixies reunion, absence has only made the heart grow fonder. Enduring breakups, rehab stints, and cold indifference (check cutout bins for 2002's Title TK), the Deal sisters return with the recent Mountain Battles just in time to ride the cresting wave of '90s nostalgia. Not much has changed: Kim still has a knack for oblique arrangements that are greater than the sum of their parts, and she and twin sister Kelley still harmonize like dirty-faced angels; of course, there's nothing here as instantly arresting as 'Cannonball.'
The Wiltern |
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