These are our picks for the week of 3/16. Tell your friends about us. We have made some cool changes to Loudvine.com, with our unique MP3 Player now “live” on the homepage.
Now you get to listen to bunch of bands you probably would not have found on your own and we started to insert cool MP3′s from sick bands into the Blog as well.
INDIE:
Voices Voices -3/16, 9PM @ The Echo, Echo Park
Black Tongued Bells – 3/16, 9M @ The Scene Bar, Glendale
Bo Beep – 3/16, 10PM @ Bordello, Los Angeles
And You Will Know us By The Trail of Dead – 3/17, 9PM @ Echoplex, Echo Park
Sucker for Pumps – 3/18, 9PM @ Troubadour, West Hollywood Read the rest of this entry »
Some great shows this week. But as always, if you want to access the biggest calendar of events, Click Here:
INDIE:
Pink Mochi -3/9, 9PM @ Silverlake Lounge, Silverlake
Roco Le Duca & The Burden -3/10, 9PM @ Troubadour, West Hollywood
Rhone Occupation, One Trick Pony- 3/11, 9PM @ Silverlake Lounge, Silverlake
HIP HOP:
Jo Wilkinson and Eligh -3/10, 7PM @ Amoeba Music, Hollywood
FOLK:
Fishtank Ensemble – 3/11, 10 PM @ Bordello, Los Angeles
POP:
Cut Copy – 3/10, 9 PM @ The Music Box, Hollywood
Lady Gaga -3/13, 9PM @ The Wiltern, Los Angeles
Katie Costello – 3/14, 9 PM @ Hotel Café, Hollywood
TROPICAL:
Pizza! -3/9, 9PM @ Perhspace, Echo Park
ROCK:
Christopher Hawley Rollers – 3/12, 9PM @ Air Conditioned, Venice
Steve Soto & The Twister Hearts – 3/12, 9PM @ Alex’s, Long Beach
Bastidas -3/13, 9PM @ Motion LA, Los Angeles
ALTERNATIVE:
Ana Egge -3/11, 9PM @ Home, Silverlake
Ghosts Machinists, Electric Children -3/12, 9PM @ Mr T’s, Highland Park
Felt Drawings, Former Ghosts -3/15, 9PM @ The Smell, Echo Park
ACOUSTIC:
Angela Wood -3/10, 9PM @ Dakota Lounge, Santa Monica
Sara Bareilles – 3/12, 9PM @ Hotel Cafe, Hollywood
Sara Bareilles – 3/13, 9PM @ Hotel Cafe, Hollywood
So…Monday again. We have decided to change up it this week and ask for you to tell US about YOUR favorite bands and we will go check them and write about them. So if you have any suggestions, just let us know.
On another note, we just uploaded about 600 shows for the next three weeks to Loudvine.com. Say it with live music this week; take yourself, your neighbor, your friends, or your imaginary lover out for a night of wonderful live music this week. I promise you we got just what you are into and then tell us about what shows you went to.
This week, as we always will, we say again thank you for supporting us and getting the word out on Loudvine.com and we will be giving away our Cut Copy Tix shortly. We also have some other cool contests on the site.
Hey Loudvine.com Friends,
So this may or may not be a short week for some of you guys. But we wanted to give you a few music choices that will make up for the filler time you have this rainy week. As always we have just updated the website with about 400 new events for the next few weeks. So we will leave it at that. But here, as always are some weekly picks that jumped out at us. For a complete calendar click on GIGS. Chances are we got something for all of you when it comes to your music tastes.
INDIE:
Sonic Medusa, Taxi, Green and Wood -2/16, 9M @ The Scene Bar, Glendale
Charlie Wadhams -2/17, 7 PM @ Hotel Café, Hollywood
The Mystery Jets – 2/18, 8:30 PM @ Spaceland, Silverlake
As Tall As Lions -2/18, 10:30 PM @ Troubadour, West Hollywood
Running out of ideas this week? We know its only Monday, but forget everything else and give the gift of live music this week. Our CALENDAR is tightly packed with hundreds of gigs, but we have also created this list with some great events all around town, for all your musical needs. Trust us, we got you covered.
INDIE:
Saber Tooth Tiger, Red Exiles, Holloys, & California Party Girls – 2/9, 9 PM @ The Echo, Echo Park
Marvelous Toy – 2/9, 9 PM, @ The Silverlake Lounge, Silverlake
Anna Rossi, Happy Hollows, The Movies – 2/12 9 PM @ The Echo, Echo Park
Big Moves – 2/15, 9 PM @ Stronghold, Venice
ROCK:
Levator, Rocking Horse People, Electric Children, Spirit Vine – 2/11, 9 PM @ Mr T’s, Highland Park
Lemon Sun, Voxhaul Broadcast, Restaurant -2/12, 9PM @ Troubadour, West Hollywood
Adam Bones, Dopegirl, The Drills, Starfuckers – 2/12, 9 PM @ Cat Club, Hollywood
Very Be Careful – 2/14, 9PM @ Bordello, Los Angeles
Rickie Lee Jones – 2/14, 9 PM @ Largo, Los Angeles
FOLK:
Anya Marina – 2/12, 9PM @ Hotel Café, Hollywood
Band of Annuals – 2/12, 9 PM @ Silverlake Lounge, Silverlake
David Lindley -2/15, 8 PM @ McCabes Guitar, Santa Monica
SOUL:
Alphaeus Taylor – 2/10, 9 PM @ Dakota Lounge, Santa Monica
POP:
Sparks – 2/14, 8 PM @ Royce Hall, Westwood
JAZZ:
Larry Goldings – 2/10, 8 PM @ Vibrato, Los Angeles
Poncho Sanchez – 2/13, 8 PM @ Conga Room, Los Angeles
REGGAE:
Iration -2/13, 8 PM @ Saint Rocke, Hermosa Beach
HIP HOP:
Illa J – 2/11, 7 PM Amoeba Music, @ Hollywood
2008 has belonged to HARD. Starting with their explosive New Year’s Eve show with Justice, then with their Summer Festival with N.E.R.D. and MSTRKRFT, and most recently with the insanely popular HARD Haunted Mansion on Halloween, HARD has made a name for themselves as the biggest dance show promoters in L.A. Last night they put on a much smaller show at the Roxy for Thanksgiving cleverly titled HARD presents Turkey Soup. Unfortunately there were a large number of people that didn’t get the memo that the Roxy is a small club on Sunset, and this would not be anywhere near the hyped rave-type atmosphere that the Haunted Mansion turned into. But, since it was all ages there were a large number of teenagers twirling glowsticks and sucking on pacifiers. I heard a girl wearing a bikini and a garter belt who couldn’t have been more than 16 ask “where are all the ravers?” I wanted to grab her and say “Back in 1998. Why are you dressed like that? It’s the fucking Roxy.”
But underage rave kids aside, the show did not disappoint. French dance DJ Don Rimini is currently on his first U.S. tour and stopped in L.A. to open for Guns N Bombs. Both Don Rimini and Guns N Bombs were great showmen and kept the crowd hyped. But it seemed that most of the crowd, present company included, was there to see Don Rimini. The French newcomer has made a big splash on the dance and blog scene with a few hard-hitting singles. Crookers remixed his song “Let Me Back Up” which first got him notoriety and his remix for Young MC’s “Bust a Move” has all but solidified him as a new dance legend. He played all the hard-hitting Euro-dance cuts that the fans were hoping for like Fake Blood and Herve, as well as his own fan favorite, “Rave On” from his Kick N Run EP.
Local DJ’s and headliners Guns N Bombs have made a good case for being the biggest dance act from L.A. and hope to only add to that by releasing a full length album in the near future. But for those of you who are on the fence about dance and DJ shows, live DJ shows are one of a kind. Each show is unique as the DJ takes songs you love and transforms them into an almost original re-working of the song you won’t hear anywhere else. A good DJ has to be a good performer as well. But DJs don’t play instruments, they play the crowd, and GNB members Johnny Love and Filip Turbotito were playing the crowd perfectly last night. They built us up with a light, airy chorus and then unleashed some hard, crunchy electro bass drops to get our bodies moving. Johnny Love seemed to be doing most of the mixing while Turbotito focused on working the crowd. He pointed at fans that were already rocking to get them to rock harder. When GNB played their new single, “Riddle of Steel,” Turbotito got up on top of the DJ table and started pumping his fists to get the crowd to rock as hard as they could with him, and it worked. When a DJ is that fired up and passionate it’s hard not to feel it as well. So go support your local DJ, but if you go to a show you should probably find one that is 21+. The raving teenie boppers can definitely be a buzzkill.
UTK, The Beatards’ front man, is screaming at a sold out crowd of LA hipsters that he wants a thick chick, like Jennifer Hudson. The line is too ironic coming from the lean Brooklyn rap trio, who is performing in front of a sold out Roxy crowd of teens and potential American Apparel models. I look around; the last thick girl I saw anywhere near here was back at Saddle Ranch on Sunset. The all age concert goers love the irony and laugh at the line, not ashamed to dance and grind their skinny jeans and tank tops to the Brooklyn beat.
The Beatards are Chuck Wild, UTK the INC, and Dj O. They hail from Brooklyn, New York and are out promoting their first original project Big Bad Beat. Tonight at the Roxy, they are opening for Cisco and Shwayze. The curtains begin to rise and out of nowhere, an anonymous voice makes The Purple Rain intro over the speakers, “Ladies and gentleman, the Beatards!” The trio hit the Roxy stage with early Beastie Boy swagger and energy (minus the debauchery of course, this is an all ages show), Chuck Wild literally punching the pad’s on the 303 sampler to bang out the 808′s into the crowd. “Mind if I bust a freestyle Los Angeles?” UTK doesn’t wait for a response, and dives lyrics first into a playful, off the dome rhyme about the evening’s happenings. Bold move for an up and coming act to open with a freestyle, but I admit- impressive. After the impromptu session, the group takes it straight into the energetic and fast pace Dang Diggy Dang, which has MC’s Chuck and UTK rhyming at tongue-twisting warped speed, letting the crowd know immediately, “We got that crunk hun, to make you chumps jump, to get your humps, lumps and bumps all wanting sooome!”
From there, the trio breaks into their single/youtube smash, “Make the Bed”. The post-intercourse anthem has the kids mouthing the words and grinding just a little bit harder. As the song wraps up, two sexy women, too old to be young but young enough to be hip, strut onstage and stand behind two microphones, awaiting their cue to start singing the vocals on the next songs hook. The Beatards dip into a reggae grove that’s part Sublime and part Kanye. A little switch up from the up-tempo grooves but the transition is smooth. Now, more than halfway into the set and accompanied by the seductive yet roaring vocal power of the Davis Sisters, The Beatards show the Roxy that they aren’t a one-trick pony band, but have more musical dimension than just afternoon-delight sing a long records. “Music is my occupation, I’m a slaaaaave to the rhythm!” belt the two MC’s as the crowd sings along. “Dip like a Dorito, get hot like jalapeño, shake it to the ground and shake it all arooound!” Before the group exits from the stage, Dj O spins a few records and reminds the crowd to put on their sunglasses, “Because it makes you sound cool.”With a wave of X-marked hands swinging in the air, the all age LA crowd needs no excuse to throw on the trademark frames- LA has officially welcomed the Brooklyn trio into their ipods.
I have been running a bit late dealing with my emails lately. Funny thing happened today, I randomly clicked up and down, down and up with the scroll bar in my inbox, and it ended up on this email touting Elisa Toffoli. So I downloaded the files and started listening to them.
So just a few very brief words about Elisa. So here we are, talking about an Italian girl, and finally on tour on the west coast in support of her new album, “Dancing.” All part of her own musical journey. A journey that shows honesty and a singer stretching herself to make beautiful music, the way she likes it. Personal and truthfully. So while you probably know the name of the song uploaded for you guys, it’s a new, fresh approach.
As many of you know, lately, I have really been into whole singer-songwriter thing, acoustically. I like the vulnerability and the fact that you just cannot fake your way through it. Either you have it or you do not. And Elisa has it. A great sound that accompanies a voice resonating with a soothing tenderness that soothed my travels back to the left coast through turbulent skies and a constant call from the captain to buckle my seat belt. Elisa’s voice and ability to share just a bit of herself made my flight that more calming.
And I am so glad I read this email about her. So I have plenty of time to tell you that Elisa will be performing at The Roxy on Wednesday night, November 19th. Go check her out.
