Los Angeles Tonight (Monday, April 29th)

Booo hooo, the Lakers lost. Get over it by seeing some live music tonight.

For an energetic Monday, Pitchfork's favorite Canadians, Metz, bring their hard-hitting sound to the Troubadour with support from White Lung and Mrs Magician.





KCRW'S It's a School Night is bringing the beats proper this evening with Big Black Delta's record release party going down at Bardot. Shy Girls, Emma Ejwertz and The Last Internationale fill out the bill.





Tonight is Gavin Turek's last night of her April residency at The Bootleg Theatre. Helping Gavin close out the month are Zak Waters, Fellow Bohemian and a special guest is substituting in place of Boom D, who is stuck in NOLA.





Don't forget to head on out to the West side this coming weekend and join us at the Cinco de Mayo bash "El Dia De La Heady." Lagunitas and Sailor Jerry are providing libations, The Record Company, The Dustbowl Revival, Ivory Deville, The Dead Ships, The Diamond Light and Highway Poets are providing the tunes, and, most importantly, Jam in the Van is providing the headiness. Hope to see you all out there.

• Big Black Delta, Shy Girls, Emma Ejwerts, and the Last Internationale @ Bardot


• Metz, White Lung and Mrs. Magician @  Troubadour


• Campfire Girls, Plexi, Lifter and Aaron Embry @ Dragonfly


• Chief, Carly Ritter, Thumb Wars and FMLY @ Satellite (FREE)


• Gavin Turek, Zak Waters, Fellow Bohemian @ Bootleg Bar (FREE)


• Baby Alpaca, Mt. Ossa and Skin Town @ Echo


• Team Supreme @ Echoplex


• The Wingard Manor, Bird Mad Girl and Nodigga @ Los Globos


• Abbot Kinney, the Moth & the Flame and Lindsay Rae Spurlock @ Silverlake Lounge


• Merx, Broken Water, Tara Jane O’Neil and Naps @ the Smell


• Debaser, Marmits, Precious and Capt’n Fresh & the Stay Fresh Seals @Pehrspace


• Jason Joseph & the Spectacular (FREE), David Poe, Mike Elizondo, Lindsey Ray and Sky White Tiger @ the Hotel Café


• Poor Yorik, Faydean, Laura Cheadle and Dawn Oberg @ the Mint


• Higher Flux, Ryan Crosby, Barnaby Saints and Crown City Krooks @the Viper Room


• The Circus Kids@ the Central SAPC


• Omagaro Miguel @ Molly Malone’s


• Gardeners Logic, Stacy Clark and Billy Kernkamp @ Detroit Bar


• The Agonist, Light Up the Eyes, Beneath the Buried, Apathy and Our Own Accord @ Alex’s Bar


• Andre Nickatina, Roach Gigz and MUMBLS @ Observatory


• Blood Red Shoes @ Constellation Room

Show Review: METZ and more at The Echo (by Jake Cotler)

 

DAYUM.  That is how I will start this recant of the Metz show that I caught at The Echo in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.  

I wanted to see if the post-CMJ-hype was legit.  Since Echo Park is kind of a hike for me I brought my geologist friend as a failsafe plan...because having a geologist around will always lighten the mood.  As it turned out, I did not need him. 

We arrived in the middle of the Batwings Catwings set.  The room was semi-full, semi-enthused.  The lead singer reminded me of Tia Carrere in Wayne’s World.  Wayne’s chick who sings in the band…if you don’t know, you are probably way young, so stream that on a I-Pad and learn something.  

They were pretty tight.  Home-girl had edge.  She screamed hard, and bounced around with affect.  I give it a punk-rock salute.  The geologist dug it too, and he’s an OG punker.  He said “she’s hot,” which meant he dug it.

            So then Metz came on, and the music-blog reading-crowd came out of the woodwork, or rather, in from the smoking porch where they just butted their American Spirits.  Anyways, holy-yell-a-lot, Metz was legit.  

We had speculated earlier in the night on whether or not there would be a mosh-pit.  I assumed given the geographical location that there might be a rocking back and forth from one leg to another-pit, but I was wrong.  Metz handles biznass.   

            The drummer was ridiculously good.  I mean, dude was loud, dude was, BANG BANG BANG, and dude was sick.  It was a strong musical backbone, made your head shake.  Then on top of that you’ve got quick-ass guitar blended with quick-ass bass, and a lead singer who is sweating buckets and screaming his face off, jumping on the drums and like I said, dayum! 

It was a twenty-five, thirty minute set, quick and raging, like the tunes.  I figured if they played any longer the singer might have passed out.  Which is to say, I dug every minute of it.    

Show review by Jake Cotler via @jaminthevan

Tonight in L.A. (November 7, 2012)

This humpday throw down trapper style with UZ, Trap Arnold and Djemba Djemba at Low End Theory, laugh about election shenanigans with Russell Brand at Largo or indie rock out with JJAMZ and Mini Mansions at Troubadour.  I definitely recommend Metz and Vinyl Williams at The Echo too.

Other notables include Birdy Nam Nam, Monsta and Nick Thayer at Yost Theater, White Arrows at Harvard & Stone or House of Vibe All Stars at Harvelle’s.  There is a full list of shows below - recommendations are in bold.

• Joe Firstman, Bronze Radio Return, The Endangered, Brandon Coleman @ The Hotel Café

• Poetronigirl: Acoustically Speaking @ Room 5 Lounge

• Jackyl, Scattered Hamlet, Beta Wolf @ The Viper Room

• Premios De La Radio @ Gibson Amphitheatre

• Roshambo, Rare Monk, Cogito, Herculion, Badass Magic @ Silverlake Lounge

• Rt n The 44’s @ One Eyed Gypsy

• Mr. Gnome, Little Red Lung, Eighteen Individual Eyes @ Bootleg Bar

• He Met Her, AK @ The Satellite

• UZ, Djemba Djemba, Trap Arnold @ The Airliner (Low End Theory)

• Burning Jet Black, Young Creatures, Shotgun Revolution @ Molly Malones

• Hedwig & The Angry Inch @ The Roxy

• Blackfeet Braves, Corners, Froth, Santoros @ Lot 1 Café

• Hedwig & The Angry Inch @ The Roxy

• Chris Assad, Casey Hurt, Nicki Bove @ WitZend

• House of Vibe All-Stars @ Harvelle’s

• The DOllface Dames TRiPTease Burlesque Show, Nostatic @ TRiP

• JJAMZ, Mini Mansions, Thrillionaire @ Troubadour

• My Satellite, Leda Atomica, Tremor Low, Ballerina Black @ The Central SAPC

• Russell Brand @ Largo

• Jimi Blaze (6 PM), Ben Sollee, Luke Reynolds, Mojo Stone @ Saint Rocke

• Matty Shea, Ed Galvez, Francisco Ramos, Tony Baker, Courtney Barnett, Noah Drucker, Kip Madsen @ The Mint

• Murzik, James Apollo and His Sweet Unknown @ The Mint (930)

• Metz, Vinyl Williams, Batwings Catwings @ The Echo

• Dub Club @ Echoplex (FREE)

• Birdy Nam Nam, Monsta, Nick Thayer, Mister Blaqk b2b Hogwash @ Yost Theater

• Orca Team, Summer Twins, Meow Twins, Suzi Star, Coli Galdjie @ The Smell

• Miss May I, The Ghost Inside @ House of Blues - Anaheim

• Larry & His Flask, Willy Tea Taylor, The Copyrights, Two Cow Garage @ Slidebar (FREE)

• Nostatic, The Dollface Dames TRiPTease @ TRiP

• Statue of Liberty @ Redwood Bar

• White Arrows, Fortress Social Club @ Harvard & Stone

• Tyrone Wells @ SLO Brew

• Globus @ King King Club

• Jonny POlonsky, Matt Mann @ 3 Clubs

• Oak & Gorski @ Ground Zero – USC

• Alaska Reid @ Standard Hollywood