The Monday Show Low Down (Or "I'm In Love With The Stars Above Your House")

Whew! It’s done. The list on your right might just represent the most comprehensive music calendar in LA right now. It’s compiled from listings on more than a dozen venue’s web-sites and about fifty emails from local bands about their shows. (And many thanks to the fine folks over at You Set The Scene and The Scenestar for a few tips, too.)

So, take a moment to browse over it. It includes new dates for Pinback, The Silversun Pickups, The Cold War Kids, Say Hi To Your Mom, Voxtrot, and more. Go look and stuff.

Lotsa great stuff this week:

Monday, August 13
- Manic, Oreskaband, The Snow, & On The Surface @ The Echo (FREE)
- Low Vs. Diamond, Switches, The Everyday Visuals, & Sunday Drivers @ Spaceland (FREE)
- The Crash Kings, Waking Hours, & Tall Hands @ The Silver Lake Lounge (FREE)
- Foot Foot, Social Junk,Veer Right Young Pastor, Flaspar, Atole, & Copy @ Pehrspace
- The Vaginals, Clark 8, John Thill, & Lacoste @ The Scene
- I Make This Sound, Frankel, The Hectors, & Electromagnetic @ Bordello
- Gliss, IO Echo, Moderates, & Black Kites @ The Viper Room

DECISION:
I’m definitely heading over to Bordello -- for the first time since they ditched their old name and the giant stuffed polar bear – to see Frankel and The Hectors. (And I’ve been meaning to check out I Make This Sound for a long time.)

Tuesday, August 14
- Film School, Pela, & Downtown Union @ Spaceland
- The Dodos @ 6th Street Warehouse
- One AM Radio, Lymbyc System, & Montag @ The Echo
- NU-TRA, 8-Bit, The Mormons, The Bolides & The London Broil @ Safari Sam’s
- Wait Think Fast @ Chi Chis Word Parlor
- Dengue Fever @ The Knitting Factory
- Mr. Airplane Man, The Guilty Hearts, & The Slighted @ The Scene
- Buckfast & Almaden @ The Mint
- The Finches, The Coral Sea, & Ghost Town @ Bordello
- The Magic Numbers, The Little Ones, & Ingrid Michaelson @ The El Rey

DECISION:
Lots of good Tuesday night choices… Film School, The Dodos, The Little Ones, The One AM Radio …

Wednesday, August 15
- Junior Senior @ The Roxy
- Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! @ The Troubadour
- Secret Society of the Sonic Six @ Bordello
- Indie 103.1 presents CLUB NME w/ White Savage, & Static Static @ Spaceland
- The Halflings, Cathode Terror, Secretion, & more @ Pehrspace
- Hundreds and Thousands, Ancestors, Tweak Bird, & Terrors @ The Scene
- Dub Club @ The Echoplex
- Nicholas Gitomer and Susan Estrada Guitar Duo, The Last Slice of Butter, Social Junk, & Recognizer @ The Smell
- The Stevenson Ranch Davidians @ The Echo

DECISION:
The Stevenson Ranch Davidians are a solid rock act. I don’t know anyone else playing that night, really.

Thursday, August 16
- Midnight Movies, Irving, The Architects, & Gore Gore Girls @ Echoplex
- Carina Round & The Veils @ The Hotel Café
- Patti Smith @ Santa Monica Pier
- Ancestors, Glass And Ashes, El Barbaro, Hessian Wolf Children, & Singularity @ The Smell
- Tiny Vipers @ Spaceland
- Paul Avion & Crunge @ Mr T’s Bowl
- Reik & Camila @ The Henry Fonda
- Phoenix and The Turtle, The High Strung, & Whoreshoes @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Filter Magazine’s Revenge of the Sunset Strip w/ Delta Spirit, King Elementary, Sparrow Love Crew, & The Outline @ The Roxy
- Public Enemy @ The House of Blues
- The Black Pine & Princeton @ Pershing Square
- Flexx Bronco, Civet, The Legendary Swagger, & 65 OverDrive @ The Scene
- The Minor Canon @ Charlie O’s Cocktail Lounge in Alexandria Hotel (FREE)
- The Detroit Cobras @ The Troubadour

DECISION:
I haven’t seen local indie pop all-stars Irving play in forever and I hear they’ve recorded a new album since, so that would be great to catch, but that free show over at the Alexandria Hotel with The Minor Canon could be pretty amazing.

Friday, August 17
- Earlimart CD Release Event w/ The Happy Hollows & Castledoor @ The Santa Monica Women’s Club
- Alo @ The Troubadour
- Brodie Foster Hubbard @ M Bar
- Golden State, Emma Burgess, & The Underwater @ The Viper Room
- The Flying Tourbillon Orchesta & Exitmusic @ El Cid
- The Aquabats @ The El Rey Theatre
- Sister Nancy @ The Echoplex
- Abe Vigoda, Screamin' Cyn Cyn And The Pons, Gay Beast, Bad Dudes, & Sleeping People @ The Smell
- Club Underground Presents: A For Attack, Sabertooth Tiger, & The Nation Blue @ The Echo
- Fortunes Flesh & The Guilty Hearts @ The Scene
- One Trick Pony, Davin Givhan, & Correatown @ Pehrspace
- The Buzzcocks, The Adored, & Easy Image @ Spaceland

DECISION:
Earlimart’s having two CD release events book-ending this weekend… This Friday with The Happy Hollows and Castledoor at The Santa Monica Women’s Club and next Tuesday at The Jensen Rec Center with The Parson Redheads and The Pity Party.

And it’s worth noting that what I’ve heard off that album is fucking fantastic...

Saturday, August 18
- Knight Rider, Love Boat, Kinky Method, & Harlem @ The Smell
- Echo & IHEARTCOMIX present Check Yo Ponytail - Dandi Wind, Passions, & Bedtime for Toys @ Echoplex
- IO Perry @ Taix Lounge
- Family Underground, Damion Romero, & Robedoor @ Pehrspace
- Black Sugar, Red Hearts, & Su Blah Nu @ The Scene
- Hang The DJs @ The Echo
- Amy Winehouse & Paolo Nutini @ The Wiltern
- The French Semester & Ollie Bird @ The Good Hurt
- Sunset Junction After Party w/ Infinity, & Randy Kaplan @ Spaceland
- Division Day, Sea Wolf, Autolux, Blonde Redhead, Ben Harper, Broken West, The Parson Redheads, & More @ Sunset Junction Street Fair

DECISION:
If you’re in town on Saturday and miss seeing Division Day, Sea Wolf, and Autolux play at Sunset Junction… well, you shouldn’t.

Sunday, August 19
- No Age, Mae Shi, Abe Vigoda, & Bad Dudes @ Fur Gallery
- Colorforms @ The Viper Room
- Part Time Punks Smiths Morrissey Nite w/ Languis, & The Tartans @ The Echo
- RX Bandits @ The Troubadour
- Seymour Saves The World @ Spaceland
- Bourgarelli, HT Heartache, & Wulf Anderson @ Tangier
- 311 & Matisyahu @ Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre
- Esthero & One Trick Pony @ The Roxy
- The Littlest Viking @ The Cocaine at Live Jazz
- Prize Country, Loom, A District of Evolution, & The Ten Bells @ The Scene
- Blonde Redhead @ The Glasshouse (Pomona)
- Amy Winehouse & Paolo Nutini @ The Wiltern
- The Beastie Boys @ The Greek
- The Eagle Rock Bowling & Drinking Club w/ Underwater City People, Birds and Batteries, Mospeada, & The Powercords @ All-Star Lanes
- The Airborne Toxic Event, The Movies, Eskimo Hunter, The Pity Party, Hot Hot Heat, She Wants Revenge, The Buzzcocks, The Bronx, & More @ Sunset Junction Street Fair

DECISION:
Sunset Junction amazes again with The Airborne Toxic Event, The Movies, and more, while No Age plays over at The Fur Gallery.

That’s it. If I’ve missed anything, please lemme know.