Before the guys head out to SXSW, Burger Records in Fullerton is having a sale this Friday and Saturday. Get used records and used cassette tapes for 15% off if you purchase something on Friday and it’s 10% off if you make a purchase on Saturday. The store is known for having music by Jail Weddings, Cosmonauts, Audacity, Black Lips and a ton more artists. Stop by the store and check out the selection for yourself…and save some $.
Burger Records is located at 645 S. State College BLVD. in Fullerton. Open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day.
TONIGHT is the kick-off of hip-hop/electro group Wildboys‘ residency at Detroit Barin Costa Mesa. Accompanying the band is Maxx Femm, Kiven, and DJ Beefam. Wildboys were up for Best Hip Hop at the OC Music Awards this past Saturday AND if you didn’t hear already, it is true they pulled a Kanye West on stage when Avenged Sevenfold won for Best Album…hey, they had to show their love for indie pop group The New Limb.
As for tonight’s show, the first 50 people through the door get a free compilation of the artists performing that night. Also, every Monday (except the 14th) you can see Wildboys perform and they will be doing some fun giveaways…yes, koozies may be involved. Expect some new mashups by Wildboys as well. Why not start the week off with a dance party? Heck yes!
The shows are free, 21+ and start at 9 p.m. As Wildboys would say, BSNP (translated as Bullshit ‘N Party).
It’s Friday and time for some weekend fun. While you’re a little over half-way done for the day, I’m sure you need a pick-me-up to blast you through the next few hours. These two things got me a little too excited so I thought I would share the feeling with you all.
2) STREAM Voxhaul Broadcast’s new album Timing Is Everything onbandcamp.com. Definitely listen to “Leaving On The 5th,” “Blackout,” “Loose Chains” and “Drysand” but the whole album is what I had anticipated…most likely the best local record to come out this year.
Officially open, Creme Tangerine Records at The Lab in Costa Mesa will be having their launch party today at 6 p.m. with founder Parker Macy performing some blues along with special guests Billy Kernkamp (Americana/folk) and Honeypie (pop/folk). The store will be located outside of Urban Outfitters…and get this…it’s a trailer. Yep, you get to shop out of a vintage trailer. Come by today and check out the collection!
Got an email from the guys at Burger Records in Fullerton about their newest sale items and I knew it deserved a post…especially if it has to do with “I’m a burger bitch” buttons, which I need to get immediately. See below and stop by the store!!!
NEW TAPES NOW ON SALE…
Magic Jake & The Power Crystals (CASS)
Garage punk featuring Bobby Harlow of Conspiracy of Owls/The Go!
Feeding People – Peace, Victory & The Devil (CASS)
Hard psych rock with awesome female vocals!
Apache – Radical Sabbatical (CASS)
Sleazy, drugged up rock n roll straight outta 1976 by way of 2010!
Peach Kelli Pop (CASS)
Lo-fi punk pop recorded and played by Canada’s Peach Kelli Pop!
Head over to The District Lounge in Orange for Vintage Wednesdays!!! Featuring art, DJs, music, charitable groups like 31 Bits and Chains For Chains, Vintage Wednesdays is changing things up at The District Lounge. No cover and 21+
A lot of words come to mind when you think of “vintage.” It could be “old,” “classic” or even “dirty” but we would say the best word is “preservation.” And preserving art, music and fashion is exactly what we’re thinking for the new weekly event VINTAGE WEDNESDAYS at The District Lounge of Old Towne Orange. Showcasing local artists, DJs, musicians and designers while offering a creative place for socializing and schmoozing (afte…r a couple drinks we all will be) is what we’re up to every week, starting March 2.
To kick it off right, the Vintage Wednesdays launch party includes music by Beefam, CQ and DJ Davy (of We Are The Pilots), artwork supplied by FIND Art Magazine and an eclectic mix of fashion pieces by activist groups 31 Bits and Chains For Chains. Photographer Josh Beck will be on site taking snapshots of the event as well.
This past weekend, a particular Echo Park indie rock four-piece caught my attention. The Outdoors, forming this past summer, recorded their debut EP over a period of two weeks in an Arizona condo.
Sweating in the desert air, the result was a standout record of distant guitars and elevating vocals, reflecting a Radiohead-esque feel like in “I’m Just Drifting” and “The Listener.” But the song that has been stuck on my mind these last few days is “Seven Six Zero,” which you can hear in this fun video of the guys just being themselves…sunbathing on a moving RV named “The Rogue” and so on.
Download The Outdoors’ self-titled EP for free HERE and if you donate a couple bucks to their Kickstarter campaign then that would make for one heck of a good deed this week.
Check out the guys performing March 9 at the Bootleg Theater with Kiev and more artists for a benefit show supporting the Los Angeles Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. More information and tickets can be found here.
Head over to Origami Vinyl in Echo Park for The Hectors andSeasons new 7″ split. While both bands are finishing up their upcoming records, they’ve decided to release each of their singles on vinyl. The in-store celebration takes place from 6:30 to 9 p.m. with performances by the LA bands.
Check it out and watch the video below for the Seasons’ single track “These United States.”
Origami Vinyl is located on 1816 W. Sunset Blvd.
https://vimeo.com/20363877
This is where I will be tonight…rooting on five Orange County acoustic artists competing for the title of Best Acoustic at the 2011 OC Music Awardsas well as a four-day recording session at Red Bull Studios, $1,000 Best Buy gift card, an Ernie Ball endorsement and a chance to perform at the big event on March 5th at The Grove of Anaheim.
Tonight’s show is taking place at the Fullerton Museum at 7:30 p.m. It’s all ages. And you get free popchips, first 50 people get tacos from Wahoo’s, and Bud Light is sponsoring the event as well. No cover.
If you do one new thing this week, it better be to check out 31 Bits. For those of you unfamiliar, this is what the group is all about:
31 Bits is a community based organization, based out of Gulu, Uganda. They work with displaced women who use their talents to create beautiful jewelry made from recycled paper. 31 Bits is centered around using the creative art and entrepreneurship already present in the women, which empowers them and enables them to have a sustainable income.
This Thursday, 31 Bits launches their spring line of necklaces, bracelets and headbands. Expect musical performances by singer-songwriters Marc B., Anna Nelson and Jayme Dee, plus DJ Flo with be spinning all night. The event is located at The OC Mart Mix on 3313 Hyland Avenue in Costa Mesa.
LA’s rock/Latin pop band Wait. Think. Fast. go back and forth from singing in Spanish to English while meshing guitars, synthesizers and piano. What’s great about the group is that they can take on a variety of sounds from the rock-driven “Covina Park” to the pop-fused “Si Es por Amor” to the misty intrigue of “Hidden.”
Filmed right outside the steps of their Echo Park home, here is their music video for “Hidden,” featuring the song’s lyrics. Purchase the album Lucas del Sur oniTunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYYw_ahPTJY
The best way to start off the week while trying to fight those Monday blues is with some great music and you don’t even have to touch your credit card to do so. Now, download all this wonderful freeeeee and new music. Listen loudly, of course.
The female led indie pop band Robotanists cover every song on Radiohead’s new album The King of Limbs within 24 hours of the release. The group performs at Silverlake Lounge every Monday this month.
Rock group Red Cortez release their third EP, which is one of four new EPs to go along with their residency at The Satellite every Monday. Just enter your email and you get access to download the last three EPs.
Orange County folk/Americana band Preacher’s Sons have their debut album Looks Like a Flood, Feels Like A Drought available for free. Catch the guys tonight at the Commonwealth Lounge in Fullerton.
I once met Jeremy Sole a few months after I moved to Los Angeles in an old converted theater turned community center. It was 2004 and I was staking out a little neighborhood called Leimert Park—an Emerald City of sorts plotted along Crenshaw Boulevard. Sole, who was emceeing a show inside turned the old playhouse into a percussive, ass-shaking revue that was an outright nod to the Nigerian legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
https://soundcloud.com/jeremysole/rootsndub1
Sole is a white guy from Chicago who has prodigious knowledge of black music. I know this because his musical vocabulary is robust with beats derived from the likes of Cymande, Bill Withers and Marvin Gaye, to name a few. He’s a resident DJ at Zanzibar in Santa Monica where he heats up the floor Thursday nights with funk influences from around the world.
Afrofunké, Sole’s Thursday show, is an incantation of Third world rhythms. Fela, one of DJ’s influences, didn’t just make music for self-satisfaction, royalties or other reasons musicians make music. His music asserted an inherent problem that plagued his people and his nation—the lack of democracy. Fela’s long gone but Sole is ushering the beats continuously on the dance floor and on the airwaves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXtg0enY1Gs
Los Angeles is a lucky town to have Afrobeat—the formal name of Fela’s music—as a subculture. Afrobeat transcends any specific race or creed. And DJ Jeremy Sole Thursdays night shows have sealed rifts between black, white, yellow and brown. Imagine a time in the not-too-distant future where “black music” artists will be categorized with Def Leppard and Of Montreal. It’s not far-fetched. Jeremy gets it.
If I had to describe LA Font with only one word, I would have to say “sexy.” Between lead singer and guitarist Danny Bobbe’s infectiously brooding vocals and the lustful angst that transpires from every song, LA Font encourages any uptight individual to let go and be a little mysterious. And luckily, you’ll understand what I mean after you watch the video of the guys doing a live session of their song “Fine Lines” ….plus you get up close with Bobbe….sweat and all.
