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John Doe will play Fingerprints record store tomorrow evening, free; the guest list is currently open. The store is also giving away tickets to a RHCP simulcast concert screening, which will be happening tomorrow evening at the Art Theatre, a few blocks from the store down Fourth Street. Maximize your evening and hit up both events:

Tuesday, August 30th 7:00pm (Tomorrow Night)

John Doe, the legendary frontman of LA punk heroes X, is stopping in for his fourth in-store visit and we couldn’t be happier. Seriously. Could not be happier.

While John is still active with X, as well as their country cousins The Knitters, it’s his work as a solo songwriter that continues to blow our minds.

Keeper is John Doe’s 9th solo record, from a solo career that has run from dusty country to fiery ass-kicking punk rock, John Doe’s songs are usually peopled by decent folks who find themselves on the wrong side of the coin-flip, but Keeper finds John on the sunnier side of the street, where he’s found out that songs about good things happening to decent folks, in the right hands, makes for very compelling listening. John gets a little help on this one, from friends like Patty Griffin, Don Was, Smokey Hormel, Steve Berlin, Cindy Wasserman and the wonderful Jill Sobule.

There are a handful of recent tracks available to listen to on John’s myspace page, click over for a little taste.

We have opened the guest list, first come, first served, but your pre-order of Keeper on CD or LP will get you priority entry and a poster, so give us a call at 562.433.4996 or stop by and we’ll get you all set-up for the show (with or without a pre-order). Hopefully we’ll see you at this sure to be memorable event.

RHCP simulcast at the Art
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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Live Simulcast at the Art Theatre 8/30 9:00pm

Red Hot Chili Peppers will be playing their new album, and a bunch of hits, live in Germany tomorrow night and the Art Theatre is hosting a simulcast (big seats, big sound, good popcorn). We’ll be there slinging CDs and we’ll be bringing some cool goodies, including a few posters and badges to supersize your purchase. There will also be a drawing for a signed poster and a complete Warner Bros RHCP catalog on CD. Tickets available at the door, the new album, I’m With You, is available today at the shop, and it will also be available at our booth at the screening tomorrow night.

The first 4 people to come into the shop and tell us the name of your favorite RHCP song will receive a free ticket to the screening. One per person.

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420 East 4th St
Long Beach, California 90802
562-433-4996

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CYHSY @ Troub by Sung

People of Los Angeles,
 
Due to the fact that all of our flights have been canceled, there is no possible way for us to make it to LA to play our show at the Echoplex.   We were really looking forward to coming out west and seeing all your lovely faces!  Between Sunset Junction and Irene it’s been a rough couple of days.  We’ll make it back to LA soon, we promise.  
 
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

CYHSY @ Troub by Sung

FRIDAY
That Dog @ Troubadour
Bilal @ El Rey
The Meters Experience @ The Mint
B+ and special guests @ Hyperion Tavern

SATURDAY
Art Brut @ Satellite (Sunset Junction Make-Good)
Butthole Surfers w/ 400 Blows @ Echoplex (Sunset Junction Make-Good)
Dear Hunter @ Glass House
Growlers @ Amoeba (5pm; Free; Sunset Junction Make-Good)
Growlers @ Nomad Gallery (9pm; Sunset Junction Make-Good)
Buskerfest (FREE) Long Beach 5-11pm @ First and Linden (Everest, Matt Vasquez, Jay Buchanan, much more)
dublab presents Cosmic Harp: A Tribute to Alice Coltrane @ Levitt Pavilion (FREE)

SUNDAY
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah w/ Charles Bradley; Hands @ Echoplex (Sunset Junction Make-Good)
Dam-Funk & Master Blazter, The Milky Way @ Alex’s Bar (Long Beach)
Serge Gainsbourg Tribute with Jean Claude Vannier w/ Beck, China Forbes, Sean Lennon & more @ Hollywood Bowl
That Dog @ Troubadour

MONDAY
Tapes ‘n Tapes @ Satellite

Also check the numerous listings at ECHO PARK RISING and Origami Vinyl for Saturday and Sunday fun.

Descendents, Death From Above 1979, Explosions In The Sky, Broken Social Scene, Cold War Kids, Guided By Voices, Simian Mobile Disco (Live), The Dead Milkmen, Girls, No Age, Kid Dynamite, Glass Candy, Dan Deacon, Four Tet, The Head & The Heart, Off! , Yacht, The Weakerthans, Chromatics, Cults, The Olivia Tremor Control, Smith Westerns , Strange Boys, Japandroids, Nosaj Thing, Ty Segall, Mister Heavenly, Pink Mountaintops, Avi Buffalo, Cass McCombs, Title Fight, Fools Gold, Tijuana Panthers, Touche Amore, Purity Ring, Twin Sister, Future Islands and Comedians Matt Besser, Natasha Leggero, Matt Peters, Joselyn Hughes, Marc Maron, The Sklar Brothers, Matt Braunger Ron Funches, Matt Dwyer, Steve Agee, Emo Philips, Nick Thune, Sean O’Connor, Jon Dore, Jim Hamilton & Chris Hardwick

Silverlake Conservatory of Music | silverlakeconservatory.com

Club Nokia | clubnokia.com/events

Blondie with Nico Vega, Oct 5
OMD with Washington, Oct 7
Friendly Fires with Theophilus London, Oct 15
Empire of the Sun with Mayer Hawthorne & The County, Oct 16
Yngwie Malmsteen, Oct 29

2009 by Sung

Sunset Junction 2011 Cancellation Sound-Off Wall

It finally happened after three decades – the 2011 street festival has been cancelled, and the official Sunset Junction website remains down at the time of this posting. Feel free to sound off here: favorite memories, favorite scandals, favorite ways to sneak in, favorite complaints, what you will miss or not miss. Giant sausages sizzling in the sun, that time Elliot Smith was too drunk to play, the time I stood on top of the ferris wheel console in order to see Sonic Youth. I’ll try to dig some of our better photos and write-ups out of the archive and add them to this wall as the day progresses.

Atmosphere, 8/26
Thievery Corporation w/ Fitz & the Tantrums, 9/9
Fleet Foxes w/ The Walkmen, 9/14
Elbow, 10/1
Beirut, 10/4

HEADS UP
The Meters Experience @ The Mint
Friday 8/26

THE METERS EXPERIENCE featuring Leo Nocentelli of the original Meters, Stanton Moore of Galactic and Bill Dickens of Janet Jackson. Yes! Of Janet Jackson. +2 other bands.

Friday, August 26
At The Mint – 11:00 PM (7:00 PM doors) / 21+
$17.00 / $22.00 day of show

ENTER TO WIN TICKETS NOW
Please include your first and last name. You will be contacted if you are a winner!

Leo and Stanton bios after the jump.

Leo Nocentelli

Known throughout the music industry as the “funkiest, fast-fingered” guitarist there is, a musician who can control your mind, body and soul with his experience, superior talent, musical mastery and inimitable style, he is LEO NOCENTELLI. Leo is the lead guitarist, composer, innovator & the musical originator of the syncopated funk-style that won international acclaim for him and the band known as the “Pioneers of Funk”, THE METERS, the 2001 Gramy Lifetime Achievement Award Winners. Leo has recorded with a list of Grammy Award Winners such as, Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, The Supremes, The Temptations, Paul McCartney, Dr John.

Stanton Moore

Born and raised in New Orleans (and living there still, when he’s not on the road), Stanton Moore is very much a product of geography, culture and creative networking. He grew up in the thriving music scene of his hometown that included Professor Longhair, Doctor John, the Meters and countless other Big Easy mainstays.

Moore has also been keeping busy with numerous side projects, including new albums with Galactic and Garage a Trois. He’s also working on his second book/DVD project, Groove Alchemy, an instructional package focusing on groove drumming (Groove Alchemy is the followup to a similar instructional package in 2005 that focused on New Orleans drumming styles).