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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

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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).

Let’s gets it poppin’ like it’s New Year’s Eve.

Or so goes the sample from “The Game Is Not Over” by EdIT–one of Glitch Mob’s three scientists-of-sound.

Glitch Mob got it poppin’ at Club Nokia on Friday, August 19, with a loud, late-night, thumping Los Angeles homecoming show, drawing their national tour to a close. DJ sets from Photek and RJD2 opened the night.

The Glitch Mob’s sound is surging, dramatic, hip-hop flavored electronica. Usually it can be a bit tedious to watch guys fiddle around on their laptops on stage, but Glitch Mob has a stage show that is alive with lights and energy.

Continues with more photos below.

A wall of screens flashing behind, each of the Glitch crew stands at a station with drums and all kinds digital equipment, and thunderbolts of light tubing running up either side. Their touch-screen controllers are tipped downward so the crowd can see. It looks almost like an electrified Tron forest, with the trio (EdIT, Boreta, and Ooah) manning the controls in black button-up shirts and white skinny ties.

The trio has gotten so tight and flawless with their production and signature surging Glitch sound that it has almost gotten too perfect. I was missing the raw energy of when this group was more underground, playing at Lightning in a Bottle a few years ago with a stage full of writhing, dirty, feathered and fringed festival-goers. The dirt in their dirty beats is in danger of getting a bit too scrubbed. Reflecting their new polish and popularity, the audience at this show looked more like the laptop set than the Burning Man crowd.

It’s all part of the evolution though. The Glitch Mob upgrades their equipment and production level, puts on their shirts and ties, and still gets it poppin’ like it’s New Year’s Eve.

The Glitch Mob | theglitchmob.com

I love Swedish things. Ikea furniture. Death metal. Swedish fish. The occasional Saab. Well, maybe not meatballs and Abba.

And I love Little Dragon, the electronic pop four-piece from Gothenburg, Sweden, fronted by Japanese-Swedish singer Yukimi Nagano. Evidently the LA scene loves them, too – their show at the Roxy on Monday, August 15, sold out within an hour of going on sale.

Playing with no opening act, the crowd was amped with anticipation waiting for Little Dragon to take the stage around 9:30. A quick glance of their set list from behind a keyboard stand to see what we were in store for, but I couldn’t recognize a single song title. When they started playing the first song, marked “Spegel” on the set list, the unforgettable opening tones of “Looking Glass” filled the room and the crowd started bouncing along with Little Dragon’s tempo. Thank you, Google translator.

Yukimi looked like a post-bohemian Judy Jetson, wearing batik printed cotton pants and a shiny purple futuristic top. Her voice is ethereal, with a sometimes neo-soul tone. Her stage presence is both playful and emotionally exposed.

Yukimi and her band take their familiar tunes like “Never Never” and “Swimming,” and let them ride into dance remixes and drum and synth tangents. When Nagano isn’t crooning the infectious hooks of songs, she’s filling in the gaps dancing around, playing a tambourine, joining bassist Fredrik Källgren Wallin on cowbell, or drumming on an electronic kit that looked like an oversized sparkly Sephora eye shadow set.

The band is on tour supporting their new album “Ritual Union.” Big love for Little Dragon. xoxo