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More moving images, and much more to come, I'm afraid, what with our Parisian birthday bash recap and Alizée x David Rubato's promo video, and, and, and, Para One's video diary, featuring the whole Terror Club at their most retarded and lyrical, demonstrating there is meaning in madness. And to think that we started out as dyed-in-the-wool literary folks. What happened?
In other news, Cuizinier's street-tape-cum-love-letter-cum-ransom-note is O.U.T. And you can cop it HERE.
DOWNLOAD Magic Bullets: "Yesterday's Seen Better Days" LIVE [at the Echo]
Here's a track from one of my favorite bands. They're pretty new, just really starting to play out. Haven't really gone far out of California much. They're from the SF bay area... remind me of all of the good things about the band Television. Great musicians. Seriously, good stuff. I got Corey in the band to talk a bit about the show and what they think of playing our fine establishment. We even made a video with our good friend Michael on this one. Enjoy.
We've probably played The Echo in Los Angeles more times than any other venue in the world. And everytime it has been as a part of the Part Time Punks night. It's a night where they play the kind of records that we like to listen to back home in San Francisco. Mccarthy, Another Sunny Day, Pylon, Felt, Orange Juice, and The Feelies. Also notable about that night was an interview where a guy asked us our names and what position we play. Just like a real sports team! [Check out the video below]
I don't remember a whole lot about playing the show itself. But I definitely remember hearing it played back for the first time. It was great to hear how our new material stacked up next to our older songs.
On a whole I think it's a great album. And it's nice to hear the parts where we mess up. In fact, I think my guitar is missing from an entire verse of "Millions of People.." when Phil kicked my tuning pedal across the stage and unplugged it from the amp. But it gives the record a certain charm that a studio record could never duplicate.
-Corey Cunningham of the Magic Bullets
![LIVE [Part Time Punks (at the Echo) - July 22nd, 2007]](http://image.iodalliance.com/release/thumbs_60/209699-72.jpg)
Magic Bullets
DOWNLOAD "Yesterday's Seen Better Days" (mp3)
from "LIVE [Part Time Punks (at the Echo) - July 22nd, 2007]"
(Spaceland Recordings)
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Futurella
The IE999 Euroganza came to an apocalyptic end yesterday in Brussels and I'm sure photos and camphone videos are floating around, but I have something else to show you. Das Glow is not only our resident technomeister, not only an accomplished jeweler, he's also a budding photo- and videographer with a patented paranoia-inducing editing technique. Witness this amazing piece of cinematography, chronicling a party at Snowbombing Festival, in Austria, last month. Featuring Orgasmic & Das Glow also known as Der Gaga.
Institubes Express 999 - The Second Voyage
We have a pretty cool post coming up: Para One's video tour diary, featuring all the INS boys slapsticking their way through North America. But yesterday we went straight from Coachella (more on this later) to Geneva to kick off our trans-Europe IE999 mini-tour: Bobmo, Das Glow, Surkin, Para One, Curses!, Jean Nipon and Orgasmic, Geneva-London-Brussels, three cities, three parties but also three limited 7" singles and three limited t-shirts. All info HERE.
Let me show you the records in their Voltron-esque glory:
David Rubato feat. Teki Latex and Manda Djinn - "Institubes Express 999" remixed by Tacteel, Jean Nipon and Bobmo.
And the tees, designed by local heroes Jiro Bevis, The ERS and Schönwehrs:
Geneva was crazy, very packed, very loud, very warehouse. Today will be even louder, as we invade Fabric (room two) all night long (plus in-store at Puregroove). And tomorrow we're in Brussels at Recyclart (plus in-store at Veals 'n' Geeks). Might be fun.
--JR
DOWNLOAD The Parson Red Heads: "Mossback" LIVE [in Spaceland]
...from our favorite gingers. Evan's the singer/songwriter. his sis plays keys and sings. his wife plays drums and sings then a rotating cast of friends around them... the are really the nicest people you'll ever meet.
Hey, all. What a year this has been!
In November of last year, we sat around as a band and talked about the goals for the next year – releasing a new EP on our own, trying to get the Spaceland residency at some point, getting out on the road more. These were just a few of the things that we discussed. Well, fast forward to April of 2008: we started out the year by playing the Spaceland residency. We have already made quite a few trips out of town for shows, and have more in store. And next month we are releasing the new EP! That’s a busy 4 months!
The residency at Spaceland was everything we imagined it could be and more. It was a month of getting to play to a great audience of friends/fans, and a month of getting to play WITH and watch some of our personal favorite bands. It was really like a party every Monday night. Can’t beat that, can you? Some of my favorite moments were watching our friends bands – bands like Light FM, The Monolators, Flashing Red Lights, and Everest – play INCREDIBLE sets. Those were moments where you realize exactly who you’re surrounded by, and the sheer talent level that is all around you. That made it even MORE of an honor to play for all these people, and made it feel all the more special when they responded with such enthusiasm.
Spaceland Recordings made a live album out of our last performance of the month – January 28th, 2008. They recorded all the songs, the whole set, in all its glory. There is a moment captured on that recording that you can hear, if you listen close – a really special thing to me. I didn’t even really notice it until listening back to the recordings. Our encore song of the set was a tune called “Mossback”, which is off of our first full length. It’s a fun dance-y number. It ends with a bang, and a chorus of harmonized “ooh-la-la-la”s. When you listen to the closing section of this song, you can make out that a whole bunch of the audience was ooh-la-la-ing right along with us. It sounds great! It is a sound that can’t be achieved with just a band, playing to itself in a practice space, or in a recording studio. That is the sound of a band and an audience not only connecting, but joining together, and having fun TOGETHER. We weren’t just showing them a good time, and they weren’t just showing US a good time. It was a shared thing, it was mutual. And it is easily my favorite thing about listening to that show now – just hearing a mutual exchange between audience and band, and feeling the real energy of that show. It was an amazingly sweet way to end an amazingly sweet month.
As for the EP – we began recording some material for it in December. We recorded two songs right before Christmas, one of which ended up on the EP (“Got It All”). After our residency in January, we pretty much spent all our free time, and all our time that we normally spent playing shows, either at The Boat Studios, or at David Swensen’s apartment (David is our bass player, and also produced the record), recording various things for the record. This was our first time really doing EVERYTHING ourselves – from engineering, to producing, to album art … it is quite a labor of love. We are really really proud of how it has turned out. Because it was all on us, and because we were so invested in it, we really feel it turned out to be something special – something that really sounds like a lot of effort and pride was put into making it. We worked hard to get the sounds we wanted on the record, and David spent hours upon days mixing it, until we really felt it was layered right, and that everything was just as we heard it in our collective (Red) head. “Owl & Timber” is kind of like our new-born baby. We’re VERY excited for you all to meet him (her….it…).
Cheers!
Evan
Download: The Parson Red Heads - Mossback (LIVE [in Spaceland])
The Henry Clay People: "Children of Chin" LIVE [at the Echo]
hey everyone. I thought that it would be fun if as we put some of these tracks up, we got the artists to chime in, a bit. This one is from Joey. the singer of The Henry Clay People. He's brother is the other guy that looks similar to him, playing guitar... that's andy.
At the bottom there are some reviews of some of the residency shows for you to check out too. At spaceland and the echo we have a resident band that plays every monday in the month. its FREE to attend and a great way to see a band "grow up" some of my favorite shows at the club have been these. -kV
Download: The Henry Clay People - Children of Chin (LIVE [at the Echo])
FROM JOEY:
The residency was a blast. We tried to have something a little different each night to keep the spirit spontaneous. Rock and roll should be shot from the hip. We relearned some Op-Ivy covers that we hadn't played since high school, we got alot of friends to join us on stage. It was chaos and I loved every minute of it.
REVIEWS:
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LIVE DOWNLOAD from Spaceland Recordings: The Thermals - " A Pillar of Salt "
Hey everybody. We're very excited to introduce our live recording label to you all. A little over a year and a half ago, myself and Mitchell Frank (the founder of Spaceland, the Echo and Echoplex clubs) decided that it was time to properly document the unique shows that happen at the Spaceland clubs.
For those of you who don't know the club, Spaceland just celebrated its 13th anniversary and for 13 years Spaceland events have been at the center of what I like to think of as "the good music" in LA. Before I started this label with Mitchell, I was already a very big fan of the club and the bands playing there... I remember going to the secret come-back show for Weezer at Spaceland. The name on the marquee was "Goat Punishment" for the night but you could tell by the line out the door that night that no one was fooled...
To this day, the Spaceland clubs host musical legends' experiments, secret shows, and new bands on-the-verge of greatness. In fact, the first show in Spaceland Presents' history was Beck, Foo Fighters, Possum Dixon, and Lutefisk at club Spaceland. I think that it was a benefit for Lutefisk. They got their gear stolen or something. Brandon (aka Lutefisk) still plays the club today as Quazar and the Bamboozled and in his wife's band Gwendolyn and the Good Time Gang. Even as recent at this past December, Beck showed up for an unannounced show. It was a nice Christmas present for Silverlake/Echo Park (our hood)! Artists like Beck, Silversun Pickups, Quazar and the late-great Elliot Smith consider Spaceland their home and what really makes the club feel like home is the people that come to and work at our clubs: They are fellow musicians, fine artists, writers, producers, film-makers and other creative folks. These amazing people are what makes playing shows at our clubs so much fun for bands. Our goal with this label is to do all of those fine people right by helping our favorite bands grow far beyond the walls of our club.
Anyway...so, this site is all about free downloads, right? Here it is: an monumental show that we recorded with Portland, Oregon's The Thermals on December 7th, 2007 at the Echoplex. The audience was drenched in sweat by the time that this song was being played... quite a show indeed!
Look forward to many more free downloads from us. We hope that if you like these you'll support the bands further by going to their shows, buying their t-shirts, or maybe even letting them crash at in your mom's basement while they're on tour!
--KamranV: producer and co-founder of Spaceland Recordings
LIVE: Matthew Dear at the Hiro Ballroom
It's official. Matthew Dear is performing with his band, 'Matthew Dear's Big Hands,' tonight at the Hiro Ballroom. Not only that, the Junior Boys and Karraskilla & Pito will be DJing. Doors at 10pm. There's even a Lucky Beer Open Bar from 10pm-11pm. It begs the question: could life be any sweeter?
Download: Matthew Dear - Don't Go This Way
DIM MAK SXSW SHOWCASE!
Dim Mak returns to Austin for this year's SXSW. We kick it all of with a Dim Mak showcase at The Beauty Bar on March12th. We have The Willowz and The Deadly Syndrome performing live as well DJ sets from our head honcho Steve Aoki, opening up the night are Ghosthustler, Aaron Lacrate, Crunc Tesla and The Fluokids. It all goes down at Beauty Bar, 617 E. 7th st, Austin, TX on Wednesday March 12th from 8pm to 2am. Free for badge-holders... otherwise there will be cover charge.
Grizzly Bear on KCRW
just a quick note for you Grizzly fans out there -
Grizzly Bear will be on KCRW today at 11:15 am PST / 2:15 EST. tune in for a very special live performance!
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