The Monday Show Low Down (Or “Black Velvet Is Actually A Really Difficult Medium”)

Today’s update has taken enormously long to put together, so I’m going to try my best to keep this kinda brief…

Tonight? There are a lot of great free shows going on here in town, but I’m definitely going to see the final night of The Pity Party’s residency at The Silver Lake Lounge with The Happy Hollows, Eagle & Talon, and Twilight Sleep. And if you like your pop music smart and fun and crazy, you'll be there, too.

Other noteworthy shows happening this week include The Black Pine at The Echo on Tuesday, The Airborne Toxic Event and The Deadly Syndrome at The Echo on Friday, and an early show with Portland’s The Blow at The Echo on Sunday night. (Huge props to the booker for The Echo, apparently.)

IN RELATED NEWS:
- Army Navy have gone into the studio to work with producer Adam Lassus (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Yo La Tengo) on their first full-length album.
- Let’s Go Sailing have announced that their album The Chaos in Order will be released nationally through Fontana Distribution on March 27th. They’re going on their first nationwide tour, too.
- The Central Second Collective -- the group of LA bands including Death To Anders, The Happy Hollows, and more – managed to raise more than $1,000 for Killradio.org at the benefit show at, again, The Echo on January 18th.
- Yes Me To Death are playing out again and will be doing a Sunday residency at The Scene in February.
- The other project band from folks from Irving, Afternoons, have a date at El Cid on Friday, February 23rd. Should be well worth checking out.
- See the right-hand column for dates and venues for the following recently-announced show: The Helio Sequence, Dirty On Purpose, The Besnard Lakes, Oh No! Oh My!, The Deadly Syndrome, Great Northern, The Western States Motel, Canon, Peter Walker, Wired All Wrong, The Colour, Totally Radd!, Enid The Dowl, Anavan, Morrissey, Paul Weller, Carina Round, The Lights From Here, Half Mantis Group, The Shins, Lily Allen, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Cold War Kids, Bitter:Sweet, Service Group, Astra Heights, The Parson Redheads Portastic, Juania May & The Hymns, Young Knives, Let’s Go Sailing, Elvis Perkins, Badly Drawn Boy, Albert Hammond Jr, Mooney Suzuki, Weird Science, Har Mar Superstar, Some Girls, & The Willowz Bright Eyes, Vetiver, Whispertown, Annie Stela, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum/Secret Chiefs, Love of Diagrams, Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3, Bright Light Fever, Aqueduct, Cause Co-Motion, Mika Miko, Simon Dawes, Richard Strange, The 88, The Morning Benders, Ferraby Lionheart, Charlie Windham, Afternoons, The Sharp Ease, The Moon Upstairs, The Abe Lincoln Story, Common Hours, Strangers Smile, The Chapin Sisters, Sparta, Glacier Hiking, Sabrosa Purr, The Intervals, Molecules, Foreign Born, The Hectors, Bodies of Water, Menomena, Explosions in the Sky, Tapes N Tapes, Air, Grizzly Bear, Jose Gonzalez, The Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, The Black Keys, Peter Bjorn and John, The Silversun Pickups, Interpol, Gomez, Rolling Blackouts, The Happy Hollows, The Monolators, PRS HLTN MTHRFCKERS!!, The Bentleys, Teaneck, Tremellow, The Friend of Dennis Wilson, The Chapin Sisters, Buffalo Roam, Casxio, In Waves, Fools Gold, Xu Xu Fang, These Orphaned Eyes, Eastern Conference Champions, The Softlightes, Lenka Kripac (Decoder Ring), Asher, Luke Paquin, Ht Heartache, The Changes, Eastern Conference Champions, Castledoor, Summer Darling, Great Glass Elevator, I Make This Sound, Afternoons, Yes Me To Death, and Busdriver.

RELATED LINKS:
- Mini-Interview: The Blow
- Mini-Interview: The Airborne Toxic Event
- Mini-Interview: The Deadly Syndrome
- Mini-Interview: Army/Navy
- Mini-Intervew: Let’s Go Sailing
- Mini-Interview: The Central Second Collective