The Monday Show Low Down (Or “Let’s Put Our Clothes On Inside Out And Walk Around”)

Good music is like a bus. You wait and wait and wait and then three show up at once. That's to say, I’ve been pleasantly inundated with great new albums lately…

I’ve got in my dirty, borderline ostentatious car an advance of the next month’s Sea Wolf cd, the Princeton EP, a pre-release of Tigers Can Bite You’s album, The Happy Hollows’ Echo residency EP, and Earlimart’s Mentor Tormentor, which is by far my favorite album this year.

It’s all killer, no filler, and it sure makes my morning commute from Silver Lake out to near LAX a little easier.

Anyway, enough about me. Here’s what this week is looking like, show-wise.

Monday, August 27
- Manic, Stranger Smile, Unarmed, & By and By @ The Echo (FREE)
- The Crash Kings, The Henry Clay People, Bugs in the Dark, The Daylights, & Overnight Lows @ The Silver Lake Lounge (FREE)
- The Section Quartet @ Troubadour
- Salon K, Santina Giordano, Cactys Fire, The Joyful Process, & Legs On Sale @ Mr T’s Bowl
- The Rainman Suite, Bobot Adrenaline, & Blockage @ The Scene
- Foot Foot, Bizzart, Rhetoric, I Heart Lung, & Red Pony Clock @ Pehrspace
- Low Vs. Diamond, The Young Immortals, & IO Echo @ Spaceland (FREE)
- I Make This Sound, Le Switch, The Monolators, & Papillon @ Bordello

DECISION:
The Henry Clay People are fun live and I’ve been meaning to check out Foot Foot all month, but the addition of Le Switch and The Monolators to I Make This Sound’s residency at Bordello is pretty damn appealing.

Tuesday, August 28
- Let's Independent! w/ The Amateurs, One Trick Pony, & The Lonely Years @ Boardner's (FREE)
- Benefit for the Circle X Theater w/ The Watson Twins, King Straggler, & Everest @ Spaceland
- This Evening, Cinder Cone, A Scribe Amidst the Lions, & The Shannons @ The Scene
- Mormons Tuesdays @ Mr T’s Bowl
- No Age @ Amoeba Music (7PM)
- The Receiving End of Sirens @ The Troubadour
- Angela Correa Is Correatown @ Bordello
- The Minor Canon @ The Prospector (Long Beach)
- The Finches, Women and Children, Correatown, & Wonderground @ Bordello
- Gogol Bordello @ The Henry Fonda
- I See Hawks in LA, Bubba Hernandez, & Dave Gleason @ The Echo
- Ian Ball @ Hotel Café
- Downtown Harvest, Owl Owl, & Map @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Crowded House & Pete Yorn @ The Greek

DECISION:
If you missed our previous posts on this, we’re putting on our latest Let’s Independent! event at Boardner’s on Tuesday with The Amateurs, One Trick Pony, and The Lonely Years. It’s going to be a great night of music, we always get an excellent crowd of people, and it’s FREE. So come out and support local music, just by putting your face in the place.

Wednesday, August 29
- Jonneine Zapata @ Crane’s Tavern
- Driveblind & Back Door Slam @ The Troubadour
- Indie 103.1 presents CLUB NME @ Spaceland
- Far Away Places@ The Echo
- Wrong Way Driver, Scott Watson, & Love Lies Sleeping @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Dub Club @ Echoplex
- The Return of BPM, Our 4 Sons, Andromeda Zero, & The Bombs @ Mr T’s Bowl
- Saint Motel, Voxhaul Broacast, & Tar Volts @ Bordello
- The Midnight Shakes, The King Cheetah, The Waking Hours, & Steel @ El Cid
- The Fresas, Tanks, & Open Choir Fire @ The Scene
- Wilco @ The Greek

DECISION:
Not sure what to mention for Wednesday night. Have you ever seen Jonneine Zapata play before? It’s like performance art by someone who can sing really goddamn well.

Thursday, August 30
- Skybombers & Run Run Run @ Hollywood & Highland
- Club Butchin, Your Mother's Lover, Royal Tears, & DJ Biz Cazsh @ Mr T’s Bowl
- Pat Todd & the Rankoutsiders, The Thingz, & The Fleagles @ The Scene
- Phanthom @ The Troubadour
- Sierra Swan, Annie Stela, Rose Rossi, & Romanovs @ Bordello
- Jail Weddings & Holy Kiss @ The Echo
- KLA Media w/ Mooney Starr, Kelly Mantle, Nancy Fullforce, & Jason Farnham @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Filter Magazine’s Revenge of the Sunset Strip w/ The Deadly Syndrome, Let’s Go Sailing, Western States Motel @ The Roxy

DECISION:
We’ve got three pairs of tickets to give away for Filter’s show at The Roxy with The Deadly Syndrome, Let’s Go Sailing, and The Western States Motel, which is one of the strongest line-ups this week. Just write us here with "FILTER" in the subject line and your full name to be entered into the drawing.

Friday, August 31
- Sage Francis @ The Silent Movie Theatre
- Paper Thin Walls, Sleestack, Great Glass Elevator, Radio Parade, Jami Ross, & The Janks @ The Troubadour
- The Mormons @ Mr T’s Bowl
- Underground @ The Echo
- Willoughby, Electrocute, & B.R.A.M. @ El Cid
- Wintergreen @ Spaceland
- Old Time Relijun, Mr. Tube, Ettrick, & Lucky Dragons @ The Smell
- Fitter & Aztlan Underground @ The Scene
- JAXart Presents: The Valley Arena, The Front, Wake Up Incinerate, & The Soft Hands @ Pehrspace

DECISION:
Rock Insider’s show at Pehrspace with The Valley Arena, The Front, Wake Up Incinerate, and The Soft Hands should be a good (albeit BYOB) time.

Saturday, September 1
- Mika Miko, Dylan Doren, The Muslims, & A.M. @ The Smell
- The Minus 5 & Jonathan Wilson @ Spaceland
- Crystal Antlers, Paranoids, Poor Excuses, & Chubby Chasers @ Que Sera (Long Beach)
- Niteshift @ Mr T’s Bowl
- SMOG 1 Year Anniversary @ The Echo
- Brandi Shearer @ Amoeba Music (7PM)
- Fatso Jetson, Dali’s Llama, Half Astro, & Velouria @ The Scene
- Brian Jonestown Massacre & Dimmer @ The Echoplex

DECISION:
People seem to like seeing this Brian Jonestown Massacre band live.

Sunday, September 2
- Lee Hazlewood Tribute Night w/ Mike Stinson, The Spires, Big Search, Claire McKeown & Brian Canning, The Finches, Charlie Wadhams & The Harmony Trio, Holly Palmer, & Correatown @ Tangier
- Kat Killers, Uptown Psychos, & Badtown @ The Scene
- Korn & Evanesence @ Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre
- Stereotype @ The El Rey
- VERITAS, Dark Horse, Spaz March, & Paranoids from San Francisco @ Mr T’s Bowl
- The Eagle Rock Bowling & Drinking Club w/ Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Art Damaged, Princeton, & Young Adult @ All-Star Lanes
- Part Time Punks w/ The Chromatics (Members of Glass Candy), New Collapse @ The Echo
- Brian Jonestown Massacre & Dimmer @ The Echoplex

DECISION:
Tough call… On one hand, you’ve got The Spires, Big Search, and more at the Lee Hazlewood Tribute Night at Tangier… On the other, there’s the start of Letting Up Despite Great Faults residency at The Eagle Rock Bowling & Drinking Club with Princeton. As they said in Miller’s Crossing, look into yeh heart…

That’s it. Did I miss anything? Please lemme know.