Nu Rave Brain Wave

Photo Courtesy of | Brian Swanson

Just got word in (via Twitter of course) of the following show…

My Pet Saddle | Live at Origami Vinyl
1816 West Sunset Boulevard (Next to the Echo)
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Free Show, Free Beer
7:30pm

When You Awake will take over the backyard of Historical Monument 157 for an evening to celebrate the songs of The Beach Boys and to support the Sweet Relief Musician’s Fund, a non-profit organization that provides financial assistance to career musicians who are facing illness, disability, or age-related problems.

The event will include:

Performances of classic Beach Boys songs by Victoria Williams, The Chapin Sisters, Leslie Stevens of Leslie and the Badgers, Joel Jerome of Dios, Whispertown (Morgan Meyn), Red Cortez, The Tyde, Charlyne Yi, Hi Ho Silver Oh, My Pet Saddle, The Blank Tapes and more. Plus members of The World Record and The Parson Red Heads will take up the duties of our lovely house band.

Plus:
- Between-set entertainment provided by Howard Kremer from Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Scare Tactics, Steve Agee from the Sarah Silverman Program and DJ Dougg Pound from Tim and Eric.
- Sterling Andrews of Gooseberries will host a Beach Boys-inspired photo booth
- A raffle (for $1 a ticket) featuring a guitar from Traveler Guitar signed by all of the performers, autographed Brian Wilson and Beach Boys LPs and DVDscourtesy ofCapitol Records, box sets from Rhino Records, lessons from Learn to Surf LA, dinner at Kincaid’s Restaurant on Redondo Beach, a gift certificate to Purity Organic Skin Care Boutique, a Supergirl gift basket from Warner Bros., cupcake delivery from Scootabaker and jewelry by local designer Eso Meliae. Plus! The first 50 ladies through the door get a keepsake from Bloomers! of Austin.

Tickets are $14 in advance, $16 at the door and you can buy them online or in person at Origami Vinyl on Sunset. I recommend buying them now because this event will sell out. Oh! And this goes without saying, but 60’s-inspired beach attire is suggested.

Need I say more? Go to this!

Bolded are the bands that you should be seeing. Extra bolded (if that was a real thing and could be done by someone as not savvy as myself) would be the Growlers. If you read this blog, you know why/when/how/crazy you’d be not to see them, so just do yourself and me a favor and go okay?

Saturday, May 22

SUNSET STAGE

10:30am – Sweaty Sundays
11:15am – LACER
12:40pm – Halloween Swim Team
1:40pm – Big Whup
2:40pm – The Allah Las
3:40pm – Tijuana Panthers
4:40pm – My Pet Saddle
5:45pm – The Black Apples
6:50pm – Olin and the Moon
7:55pm – Spain
9:05pm — The Living Sisters

Between sets — My Hollow Drum

UNDER the SUNSET BRIDGE

4:10pm – Killsonic

SANTA MONICA STAGE

10:00am – The Bands of Marshall High Community
1:20pm – Spider Problem
2:20pm – Manhattan Murder Mystery
3:20pm – Blue Jungle
4:20pm – Wait. Think. Fast.
5:25pm – Nico Stai
6:35pm – Eulogies
7:45pm – The Growlers
9:00pm — The Entrance Band

Between sets: Dublab DJs

EL CID STAGE

10:00am – Jubilee Comix
12:00pm – Zero Film Festival
1:00pm – Julian Wong
1:30pm – Moving Arts presents Stages of Saul
2:30pm – Dirt Bird
3:30pm – Raheem Cohen
5:00pm – The Health Club
6:00pm – Moving Arts presents Stages of Saul
9:00pm – Francisco The Man
10:00pm – Mississippi Man
11:00pm – Eastern Conference Champions
12:00am – Polls
1:00am – The Mo-Odds

Sunday, May 23

SUNSET STAGE

10:30am – Sweaty Sundays
11:15am – Fashion Show
12:40pm – Lola Red and the Kicks
1:40pm – Downtown/Union
2:40pm – Wet & Reckless
3:40pm – Dios
4:40pm – Seasons
5:45pm – The Monolators
6:50pm – Walking Sleep
7:55pm – Voxhaul Broadcast
9:05pm — The Like

SANTA MONICA STAGE

10:00am – Rock School Nation
12:20pm – The Denouement
1:20pm – Timonium
2:20pm – Moses Campbell
3:20pm – Family of the Year
4:20pm – Lilofee
5:25pm – Division Day
6:35pm – Radar Brothers
7:45pm – Foreign Born
9:00pm — TBD (who could this be? headlining and after FB? hmmm…)

Between sets: Punky Reggae

EL CID STAGE

10:00am – Jubilee Comix
12:00pm – Zero Film Fest
1::15pm – Holiday, Beans & The Remainers
2:15pm – Paper Pilots
3:15pm – Social Studies
4:15pm – Bowery Beasts

6:00pm – 6:30pm Moving Arts presents Stages of Saul

7:00pm – Amanda Jo Williams
7:30pm – Mary Mack’s Comedy Showcase
9:00pm – Death Kit
10:00pm – So Many Wizards
11:00pm – Useless Keys
12:00am – Tenlons Fort

DOWNLOAD -> The Growlers - My Forehead\'s Dripping Ocean

Yo, sorry I’ve been completely neglecting my this ol’ blog, but I moved a few days ago and I’ve apparently stopped taking days off work so now when I get home all I want to do is eat a bowl of pasta and pass out, but I’m back to give the Angelenos a few music picks for tonight.

Firstly, Spindrift and Magic Mirror at The Echo is always a worthy choice, and the band Nurses from Portland is in town and supporting and they’ve got a bit of that mystical, Edward Sharpe-y, mountain dwelling, bearded, lots of funky instruments thing going on. And we all know that can be astoundingly boring or really cool, luckily they’re the latter.

And then there’s this rad lineup at Spaceland, seriously, all of these bands are winners. The younger, fresher, yet to be drug-addled faces of LA’s psychedelic rock scene. I kind of saw Spirit Vine by accident last summer, enjoyed the show a lot and I’ve been meaning to see them again ever since. I’m sure they’ve only gotten more awesome in the last 10 months, so I’m expecting a killer show tonight. Plus Hocus Pocus aka Special K and Flying J aka Dios?! and My Pet Saddle? Can’t go wrong….see you there.

Definitely check out this great lineup, the Entrance Band, My Pet Saddle and Mississippi Man are all Nu Rave Brain Wave Favorites and worth more than a hot minute of your time.

DOWNLOAD -> The Entrance Band – Lookout!
DOWNLOAD -> My Pet Saddle – Young Neil
DOWNLOAD -> Mississippi Man – The Jester

If you live in Los Angeles and need something to do this fine Saturday evening, check out two of our favorite bands Lower Heaven and My Pet Saddle at the Redwood Bar downtown. Do ittttt

MY PET SADDLE were awesome opening up for the Growlers. They are an awesome up and coming band. Colette had turned me onto them, but seeing them live was awesome. They’re still really young and fresh-faced but their songs sounded awesome and I liked the two lead singers and the energy that they gave off. They also had some elongated jams at the ends of songs which were excellent. Shit review of a soon-to-be great band.

THE GROWLERS. What am I supposed to say about the Growlers that I haven’t already said about 1500 times? I’ve seen them 9 times this year, and all nine times have been 150% awesome. New Years Eve was such a special concert (as was the Halloween gig before it) that I can’t in any way describe it for you – but you can just read all my old Growlers posts because the gigs were as per the usual – GREAT. What I appreciate about the Growlers is their ever-changing setlist. Of course, there are live favorites that we hear everytime like ‘Something Someone Jr.’ and ‘Acid Rain’ but they always manage to throw in some weird ones like ‘Kick The Habit of Dredd’ and ‘Nosebleed Sun Blues’ which was AMAZING and I don’t think I’d ever heard that one live before. I also really love their dedication to being ridiculous. Clearly, all the members of the band are mentally insane – in a very functional, artistic way, but they really are! The outfits they showed up in just made me laugh and it’s always a pre-Growlers gig ritual to guess what they’ll be wearing, although NOTHING (NOTHING!!!) will top the Halloween garb. Anyway, the Growlers truly are the greatest band on the planet right now. If you can’t see it now, you certainly will see it by the close of 2010, that is guaranteed!

Well, it’s the end of 2009. I still have a big roundup post to make, or that I’m telling myself to make, who knows if it’ll happen. I still have to pack, anyway. As Liz Lemon would say, Blergh! But this year’s New Years Eve looks like t’will be the best in years. I’ve had a couple of traumatic new years eve’s in a row, I know Jamie T knows what I’m talking about…. but this year is NOT going to be shit because THE AMAZING GROWLERS and the awesome MY PET SADDLE are playing at the best venue in the world. I would get tix for this, as it’s going to be amazing!

My Pet Saddle @ Myspace
love love love them