UPCOMING SHOWS
Here is a listing of shows by both the emerging bands featured here and the classic bands we all know and love. If you like what you've heard on these band pages, get out and support the bands!
====So Cal Shows====
Saturday, 21 June, 2008
Chrystal Antlers
@ The Prospector
Long Beach
Veil Veil Vanish & Amazing Reverb Engine
@ Club Violaine
Roberto's
Chinatown
The Raveonettes & Autolux
@ Make Music Pasadena Festival
Old Pasadena
Cost: Free!
Note: daytime show, starting at 4pm
Monday, 23 June, 2008
The Idyllists
@ The Viper Room
West Hollywood
Shiloe
@ Mr. T's Bowl
Highland Park
The Holloys
@ The Echo
Echo Park
Cost: Free for over 21
IO Echo
@ Crash Mansion
Los Angeles
Tuesday, 24 June, 2008
In Waves
@ Spaceland
Silver Lake
Mighty Six Ninety
@ the Troubadour
West Hollywood
Wednesday, 25 June, 2008
Repeater
@ Club Moscow
Boardner's
Hollywood
Saturday, 28 June, 2008
The Rocket Pockets
Somewhere in East LA
Monday, 30 June, 2008
War Tapes
@ Detroit Bar
Costa Mesa
The Idyllists
@ The Viper Room
West Hollywood
Happy HOllows
@ Spaceland
Silver Lake
Cost: Free
Wednesday, 2 July, 2008
Magic Lantern
@ Bats Over Broadway
The Blue Cafe
Huntington Beach
Andy Rourke (bass player of the Smiths and Free Bass) - DJing
@ The Beauty Bar
Los Angeles
Friday, 4 July, 2008
Catalog
@ Echo Curio
Echo Park
Thursday, 10 July, 2008
The Idyllists
@ Silverlake Lounge
Silver Lake
Saturday, 12 July, 2008
Shiloe
@ the Fly By Day Festival
Los Angeles
Sunday, 13 July, 2008
War Tapes & Repeater
@ Que Sera
Long Beach
Thursday, 17 July, 2008
War Tapes
@ Safari Sams
on Sunset
IO Echo
@ The Hammer Museum
Westwood (next to UCLA)
Cost: Free, but get in line early!
Friday, 18 July, 2008
Darker My Love
@ The Echo
Echo Park
Cost: free
Tuesday, 20 July, 2008
JAMC, Gang of Four, Datarock, m83
@ Some All Day Festival
Universal Amplitheatre
Universal City
Thursday, 22 July, 2008
The Prids & Shiloe
@ Silverlake Lounge
Silver Lake
Wednesday, 23 July, 2008
Warlocks & Vandelles
@ The Beauty Bar
San Diego
Thursday, 24 July, 2008
Warlocks & Vandelles
@ The Troubadour
West Hollywood
Friday, 25 July, 2008
Darker My Love
@ The Echo
Echo Park
Cost: free
Wednesday, 30 July, 2008
The Rocket Pockets
@ Motion LA
Los Angeles
Thursday, 7 August, 2008
Airborne Toxic Event & Radars To The Sky
@ The El Rey
Los Angeles on Wilshire
Darker My Love record release party
@ The Troubadour
West Hollywood
Someday, 16 July, 2008
The Rocket Pockets
@ The Elephant Room
Pasadena
Saturday, 23 August, 2008
Sunset Junction Street Fair
@ Sunset Blvd.
Silver Lake
Catalog
@ Dysfunction Junction
Silver Lake
Sunday, 24 August, 2008
Sunset Junction Street Fair
@ Sunset Blvd.
Silver Lake
Saturday, 30 August, 2008
Ojos Rojos
@ The Airliner
Los Angeles
Someday, 10 September, 2008
Ojos Rojos
Silverlake Lounge
Silver Lake
Nextday, 11 September, 2008
Ojos Rojos
The Scene
Glendale
Someday, 13 September, 2008
Ojos Rojos
Unknown (secret show - ask the band)
Los Angeles
Someday, 3 October, 2008
A Place To Bury Strangers opening for The Dandy Warhols
@ The Wiltern
Los Angeles
I'd like to meet:
All these bands!
Music:
This is a listing of bands to check out, with links:
(always incomplete, always growing)
The kinds of bands you will find on this list are often difficult to categorize, so I'm using the labels they gave themselves (with editing where necessary), and adding commentary as time permits.
New additions to the list are marked with an asterisk(*) for the first two weeks.
----Los Angeles bands----
The Adored
Powerpop / Garage / Punk
The Distortions
indie /shoegaze /post-punk
---current favorite track: Shoegazer
The Meek
rock /experimental
Midnight Movies
Psychedelic / Pop / Indie
The Outline
Experimental/garage/indie
Shields
Shoegaze / Rock
Sky Parade
Indie / Alternative / Psychedelic
Sleepmask
gothic/post-punk/shoegaze
The Warlocks
Psychedelic / Rock / Experimental
War Tapes
Indie / Post punk / New Wave
--------O.C. bands--------
Faded Paper Figures
Indie /Electronica /Pop
-----San Diego bands-----
---San Francisco bands---
Darker My Love
pop /psychedelic
Veil Veil Vanish
Post punk / Shoegaze / Indie
---Arizona bands---
Glass Heroes
Punk
---Atlanta bands---
Black Lips
Psychedelic / Comedy / garage
---Austin bands---
The Black Angels
Psychedelic / Folk Rock / Experimental
-----Dallas Bands------
Black Tie Dynasty
Indie / Rock / New Wave
------Florida bands------
Hanged Men Dance
Experimental / Psychedelic / Garage
---current favorite track: mentalist doom
-----Las Vegas bands-----
---Michigan bands---
The Swellers
punk / rock
---New Jersey bands---
The Black Hollies
Psychedelic / R&B / Garage
-----New York Bands------
A Place To Bury Strangers
Rock / Psychedelic / Experimental
------Seattle bands------
Romance
Post punk / New Wave / Gothic
---Scandinavian bands---
Dinah Wants Religion
Indie / Psychedelic / Rock
Mono Stereo
Indie / Psychedelic / Rock
Swedish Polarbears
pop/jangles
------Bath bands------
-----Glasgow bands-----
The Spirals
Shoegaze/Powerpop
------Kent bands------
The Higher State
Garage / Psychedelic / Folk Rock
---current favorite track: The Advertisement, of course!
-----Liverpool bands-----
------Oxford bands------
The Anydays
Mod / Powerpop / Psychedelic
------Welsh bands------
Curtis Ian & The Joy Division
--This is a Joy DIvision cover band that experiments with the original songs while staying true to them. Very good. Highly recommended.
----Australian bands----
The New Black
Indie Pop / Garage
---current favorite track: See You Tonight
------German bands------
Max Raabe & Palast Orchester
--This is a recreation band: a 1920s/30s German Cabaret Orchestra.
Palastorchester & Max Raabe
Comedy / Big Beat / Lounge
--Same people as above, doing covers of pop songs (modern and otherwise)
-----Spanish bands-----
Then
Shoegaze
-------Tokyo bands-------
The Monorals
Rock / Indie
---current favorite track: Lost Age
-----Icelandic bands-----
Singapore Sling
Rock / Alternative / Psychedelic
Heroes:
This is a listing of older, established bands, well-known & not, sorted by style. Here you should find both old favorites & great new finds.
Like above, this is a work-in-progress. Latest entries will be marked with an asterisk (*) for the first two weeks.
------60s Garage------
--Paisley Underground--
The Bangles(early years)
The Dream Syndicate
Game Theory
Rain Parade
Salvation Army
The Three O'Clock
------Post-Punk------
--------Punk--------
----Proto-Punk----
------Shoegaze------
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