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Feb 13 2008, 19:23
Wednesday, February 27th
8mm, Miniature Tigers, Black Black, Edison Gem (CD Release)
7:30 PM, $8 advance, $10 day of show
Sean Beavan moved to New Orleans with Trent Rezner and Nine Inch Nails. As Trent's longtime engineer, co-producer, and musical director, Sean helped forge the sound of NIN from studio to the stage. While in New Orleans, Sean met his soon-to-be-muse and eventual wife, Juliette. After Sean wrapped production on Marilyn Manson’s Mechanical Animals, the couple resettled in Los Angeles. The two decided to become 8mm, a name that reflected the tone of their songs. The image of an old 8mm projector whirring in a clandestine back room called to mind innermost secrets and forbidden desires; musically they are a catchy mix of trip hop, down-tempo and nu jazz. Very much influenced by the pulse and undercurrent of the haunted and haunting New Orleans and the bluster and underlying power plays that accompany even a simple "hello" in Los Angeles, 8mm has opened our diaries and shown us how alike we are.
Friday, March 7th
World/Inferno Friendship Society, Intro5pect, Max and the Marginalized
8:00 PM, $10
NYC's disturbingly cult-like, circus-related, Halloween-tent-revival orchestra The World/Inferno Friendship Society perform red-eyed soul show tunes for the swarming punk rock masses. The World/Inferno Friendship Society is not a rock band with a horn section; it's a fully-integrated orchestra of young men and women writing for you songs of the wine, freedoms and foibles which make life more than waking up and going to work every day. Nine pieces - two drummers, four horns, two guitars, and accordion and way too many teeth.
Thursday, March 20th
The Cliks
8:00 PM, $10 advance, $12 day of show
Says fan and comedienne Margaret Cho: “The Cliks are the band we have all been waiting for. No one else can inspire such crushed-out admiration and full-on rock star screaming. I thought those embarrassing fangirl days were long gone for me, but the Cliks have brought them back with a vengeance.”
Thursday, April 10th
The Mother Hips, New Monsoon
8:00 PM, $20
Kiss the Crystal Flake, the new studio album by California’s the Mother Hips, will be released April 3 on New York based-indie Camera Records. It is the follow up to the acclaimed Red Tandy EP (Camera Records, 2005), and the first full album for the Hips since 2001’s Green Hills of the Earth. Featuring 12 new songs, Kiss The Crystal Flake reintroduces the world to the Mother Hips’ own brand of California rock, blending a natural psychedelia with their own 21st Century musicianship and songwriting.
“The Mother Hips are divinely inspired by the four great (North) American B’s: the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Band and the Beach Boys" - Rolling Stone
Wednesday, May 21st
The Fall of Troy, The Dear Hunter, Foxy Shazam, Tera Melos
7:30 PM, $12 advance, $14 day of show
Written in 2006 during what singer/guitarist Thomas Erak calls a "really dark time" in his life, Manipulator, the follow-up to 2005’s Doppelganger, discards everything you think you know about the Fall of Troy. Eschewing the inevitable conventions of genre or scene, the record is constantly in motion, taking its listener to a brutal place where lying and cheating are the norm, and where despite its dark but staunchly realistic take on human nature there is a palpable sense of hope and catharsis. Erak’s signature fast-picked guitar work flies around bassist Tim Ward’s dynamic low-end and drummer Andrew Forsman’s heavily throbbing beats, driving the disc to explore newly discovered heights and depths in the band’s sonic landscape with evident fervor.
8mm, Miniature Tigers, Black Black, Edison Gem (CD Release)
7:30 PM, $8 advance, $10 day of show
Sean Beavan moved to New Orleans with Trent Rezner and Nine Inch Nails. As Trent's longtime engineer, co-producer, and musical director, Sean helped forge the sound of NIN from studio to the stage. While in New Orleans, Sean met his soon-to-be-muse and eventual wife, Juliette. After Sean wrapped production on Marilyn Manson’s Mechanical Animals, the couple resettled in Los Angeles. The two decided to become 8mm, a name that reflected the tone of their songs. The image of an old 8mm projector whirring in a clandestine back room called to mind innermost secrets and forbidden desires; musically they are a catchy mix of trip hop, down-tempo and nu jazz. Very much influenced by the pulse and undercurrent of the haunted and haunting New Orleans and the bluster and underlying power plays that accompany even a simple "hello" in Los Angeles, 8mm has opened our diaries and shown us how alike we are.
Friday, March 7th
World/Inferno Friendship Society, Intro5pect, Max and the Marginalized
8:00 PM, $10
NYC's disturbingly cult-like, circus-related, Halloween-tent-revival orchestra The World/Inferno Friendship Society perform red-eyed soul show tunes for the swarming punk rock masses. The World/Inferno Friendship Society is not a rock band with a horn section; it's a fully-integrated orchestra of young men and women writing for you songs of the wine, freedoms and foibles which make life more than waking up and going to work every day. Nine pieces - two drummers, four horns, two guitars, and accordion and way too many teeth.
Thursday, March 20th
The Cliks
8:00 PM, $10 advance, $12 day of show
Says fan and comedienne Margaret Cho: “The Cliks are the band we have all been waiting for. No one else can inspire such crushed-out admiration and full-on rock star screaming. I thought those embarrassing fangirl days were long gone for me, but the Cliks have brought them back with a vengeance.”
Thursday, April 10th
The Mother Hips, New Monsoon
8:00 PM, $20
Kiss the Crystal Flake, the new studio album by California’s the Mother Hips, will be released April 3 on New York based-indie Camera Records. It is the follow up to the acclaimed Red Tandy EP (Camera Records, 2005), and the first full album for the Hips since 2001’s Green Hills of the Earth. Featuring 12 new songs, Kiss The Crystal Flake reintroduces the world to the Mother Hips’ own brand of California rock, blending a natural psychedelia with their own 21st Century musicianship and songwriting.
“The Mother Hips are divinely inspired by the four great (North) American B’s: the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Band and the Beach Boys" - Rolling Stone
Wednesday, May 21st
The Fall of Troy, The Dear Hunter, Foxy Shazam, Tera Melos
7:30 PM, $12 advance, $14 day of show
Written in 2006 during what singer/guitarist Thomas Erak calls a "really dark time" in his life, Manipulator, the follow-up to 2005’s Doppelganger, discards everything you think you know about the Fall of Troy. Eschewing the inevitable conventions of genre or scene, the record is constantly in motion, taking its listener to a brutal place where lying and cheating are the norm, and where despite its dark but staunchly realistic take on human nature there is a palpable sense of hope and catharsis. Erak’s signature fast-picked guitar work flies around bassist Tim Ward’s dynamic low-end and drummer Andrew Forsman’s heavily throbbing beats, driving the disc to explore newly discovered heights and depths in the band’s sonic landscape with evident fervor.
