Nu Rave Brain Wave

If you won’t be able to attend any of Massive Attack‘s 3 nights at The Wiltern next week, and if you have the patience to stand through a Jimmy Kimmel taping (I DO NOT), you’re in luck. Sign up for free tickets through 1iota and you’ll get yourself a nice little outdoor mini-concert from Massive Attack. And your little face might even be on the JIMMY KIMMEL SHOW! WOW!!!!!!!!

Our favorite Echo Park record store, nestled conveniently between our favorite venue and a delicious pizza eatery, is turning ONE tomorrow! And they be celebratin all day with food, live music, and re-stocks of albums from some of our favorite bands (Bob Dylan, The Sonics, Jefferson Airplane, The Stooges, and many more). So come party! Here’s what’s going down…

2pm – CAKE!!! (the dessert, not the band)
3-6pm – Appetizers
4pm – Tricky Sizzler
5pm – Future Ghost
6pm – Kissing Cousins
7pm – Twilight Sleep
8pm – Summer Darling

More info @ Origami blog

March 4th @ The Record Exchange [Boise, ID]
March 10th @ Amoeba [San Francisco, CA]
March 12th @ Amoeba [Hollywood, CA]

The Maccabees will be playing a trio of HMV in stores whilst they head up and down the country on the NME Awards Tour.

They will play:

February
5 HMV Glasgow (5pm)
15 HMV Brighton (5pm)
19 HMV Cambridge (5pm)

Tickets for the NME shows are on sale now and available here. Other bands playing the tour are: Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink and The Drums.

Fuck the Magic Kingdom (the M to the K!) because I think that the greatest place on Earth is the ECHO. Liz Garo runs a tight ship over there and here’s just another reason they are the best. Outside of booking the best in Los Angeles bands, taking the best talent and getting them ready for a national stage, they also get the best in up and coming touring bands from all over the world (dedication to having more than just indie shit), they also get really really big shows in the little venue. AND THEN, Every Monday they’ve got the residencies – four bands per night usually, with a headliner whose making waves around Los Angeles, but it’s a constant run of friends, fans, and music and they’re usually pretty great. Sometimes they’ve got Tuesday residencies which are the same as Monday, but now they’ll be a little different. This time, they’ve got less bands, more community, beer, pizza and bingo. So, here comes the Echo, the greatest place on earth, making a better community of bands and people and having great stuff going constantly. Echo, I miss you.

Tomorrow.
ADAM GREEN
San Diego
Beauty Bar
Midnight.

GO GO GO GO GO GO

Would you like to relive the greatest moments of you life at Psych Fest 2009? I know that Colette and I had a wonderful/terrifying experience at Psych Fest where we got to see some amazing bands – not as many as we’d have liked – seeing as we got chased out of the venue (full sprint!) on two occasions by Neil Young’s doppelganger. What was initially fucking terrifying, probably would be comedic now provided someone caught it on tape and put it on the DVD. Speaking of the DVD, you can purchase it through Pysch Fest’s online store.

Additionally, they’re having a really cool little screening in Austin if you’re around on the 19th of December….

CHRISTMAS CACOPHONY

The Black Angels & The Reverberation Appreciation Society present:
CHRISTMAS CACOPHONY featuring:

The premiere screening of:
AUSTIN PSYCH FEST 2
A film by Alta Real Pictures
(screening at 8PM)

followed by live music from
SHAPES HAVE FANGS
THE VIET MINH
THE GHOST SONGS
HORSE + DONKEY

“In Los Angeles during the mid-’60s, music was everywhere – from the garages of Orange County, to the dingbat apartments of the San Fernando Valley, to the bungalows of Laurel Canyon. But without a doubt, the epicenter of the music scene was the Sunset Strip, where “freaks” filled the rock clubs lining the famed Hollywood thoroughfare. Rhino continues the storied Nuggets tradition with a four-disc boxed set that mines the city’s rich musical history for unsung gems. WHERE THE ACTION IS! LOS ANGELES NUGGETS 1965-1968 will be available September 22 from Rhino Records for a suggested list price of $64.98.”
[full description + track lists on Rhino Records' website]

And our pals at Amoeba are celebrating this awesome release with in-store performances by Jackie DeShannon, Keith Allison, Danny Hutton , The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Standells, and P.F. Sloan. This all kicks off at 6pm tomorrow, September 22nd. Pre-order through amoeba.com for cool swag like t-shirts and signed posters too!

Very very cool. I would definitely pick this up if you have the cash. About time LA’s rich music scene of the 60s got some credit!