The Monday Show Low Down (Or “We Do What We Must Because We Can...”)

While I missed more shows than I caught last week cause of work, it was still a pretty amazing concert run just between seeing Bob Mould play the loudest acoustic performance I’ve ever seen at The Roxy and watching The Happy Hollows practically end the world at The Wiltern.

But this week? It could be even better.

Monday, October 22
- Oliver Future, Something For Rockets, & Burning Brides @ Spaceland (FREE)
- Castledoor, Twilight Sleep, The Monolators, & The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra @ The Echo (FREE)
- Aushua, Eastern Conference Champions, Safetyglass, & Summer Darling @ The Silver Lake Lounge (FREE)
- Indie 103.1’s Check One.. Two w/ I Make This Sound, Ultra Sonic Edukators, Rademacher, & Model K @ The Viper Room
- Legs on Sale, New Faith, Down We Go, & Kill Detail @ The Scene (FREE)
- Limbeck @ The Hotel Café
- The ALS, Phineas Gauge, & The Campaign For Real Time @ Mr T’s Bowl
- Adeline, Tables & Chairs, & Angela Correa is Correatown @ Echo Curio
- The Fiery Furnaces @ The Troubadour

DECISION:
It's a night of tough calls, show-wise. The rad Castledoor have The Monolators and The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra at their free residency night at Spaceland ... the Echo Curio show sounds great ... and the always good Rademacher are in town at The Viper Room.

Tuesday, October 23
- Let’s Independent! w/ Light FM, Nightfur, & Lo-Fi Sugar @ Boardner’s of Hollywood (FREE)
- All Wrong And The Plans Change & Kingsize @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Jesus & Mary Chain w/ Mark Lanegan & Evan Dando @ The Wiltern
- Holly Marilyn, John Gold, & Strangers Smile @ Bordello
- Jill Sobule @ Largo
- Black Mountain & The Cave Singers @ The Echo
- Blue Jungle, Red Bacteria Vacuum (Japan), Falsies on Heat, & Las Pantuflas @ The Scene (FREE)
- Tokyo Police Club @ The El Rey
- Man Man @ The Troubadour
- Ranch Party with Merle Jagger, Honky Tonk Train (feat. Mitch Marine), The WellDiggers Banquet @ SpacelandBR> - The Moving Units @ The Viper Room
- Interpol & Liars @ The Forum

DECISION:
We've got a pretty amazing night planned for our Let's Independent! event at Boardner's this Tuesday... It's a CD release party for Light FM and Nightfur -- and I've heard their advances and they're both great. Lo-Fi Sugar is opening up the show and their lead Heather Pollock recently sang for thousands of people in Central Park with Paul Van Dyk.

It's FREE and if you haven't heard some or all of the bands before, it's a good opportunity to hear some great new music. Go right here for all the details and to hear all tracks.

Wednesday, October 24
- Halloween Bash w/ The Movies, The Happy Hollows, & The Primos @ Bordello
- Earlimart @ The Troubadour
- Band of Horses @ The Avalon
- Brandon Mayer And The Hidden Powers, Heartstring Symphony, & Kelly Demartino @ Tangier
- The Commute, Master Slash Slave, Kettle, & Rebota @ Mr T’s Bowl
- Dub Club @ The Echo
- The Waking Hours, Automatique, Beatmo, & Fangs On Fur @ El Cid
- Indie 103.1 presents CLUB NME w/ Air Traffic (from the UK) & Liam Finn @ Spaceland
- Micahel Fracasso, Claire Holley, & Andy Clockwise @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Sia @ The El Rey
- Seasons, Ghost Machinists, & Co-Op @ The Scene (FREE)
- Mum & Tom Brosseau @ The Orpheum

DECISION:
Another night of tough calls... The Movies and The Happy Hollows -- the two most energetic bands in town -- at The Bordello, Earlimart at The Troubadour, and Band of Horses at The Avalon.

Thursday, October 25
- The Pipettes @ The Echoplex
- Tar Volts, Electromagnetic, & Cavil At Rest @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Pedestrian, Sally Jaye, Sabrosa Purr, & The French Semester @ Bordello
- Josh Ritter @ The El Rey
- Eject, Paul Avion & Par Avion Band, The Trade, Sigmund @ The Scene
- Blonde Redhead & Autolux @ The Wiltern
- Elliott Smith Tribute Show w/ Tenlons Fort @ Canter’s
- The French Semester @ Bordello
- Club Bucthin @ Mr T’s Bowl
- Debaser (member of Friends Forever), Voice On Tape (member of The Sea Beasts), & Knight Rider @ The Smell
- Two Ton Boa, Dirt Bird, & Horse Thief @ Spaceland
- Matt Ellis @ Tangier
- The Good Life @ The Troubadour
- Gogol Bordello @ The Mayan
- The Sex Pistols @ The Roxy
- Saucy Minx & Electric Children @ Echo Curio

DECISION:
Blonde Redhead and Autolux sound like a pretty good night, if you've given up trying to secure tickets for The Sex Pistols at The Roxy.

Friday, October 26
- Aquarium Drunkard Presents Phosphorescent, Robert Francis, & Firs @ El Cid
- UNKLE & Goon Moon featuring Chris Goss @ The Echoplex
- Hell Yeah! @ The Echo
- Keith Walsh Experience, Multiple Now Syndrome, The Lofty Cananites, & The Shards @ Mr T’s Bowl
- Babyland, Not the Government, & System Syn @ Spaceland
- A++ (member of Foot Village), Bizzart, Casy And Brian, & The Red Hot Silly Peppers @ The Smell
- JAXArt Presents Peter and the Wolf, Birds & Batteries, Ghost Bees, & Foot Foot @ Pehrspace
- "Get Yer Rocks Off!" Halloween Spooktacular with Far*Out & Shiloe @ The Scene
- Club Underground w/ Monsters Are Waiting & War Tapes @ The Echo
- Caribou @ The Troubadour

DECISION:
It's the battle of the blogs on Friday night, with Rock Insider presenting a killer line-up at Pehrspace and Aquarium Drunkard presenting a line-up I don't know anything about but geesh that guy knows a lot about music at El Cid.

Saturday, October 27
- The Softlightes @ The Scene
- The Donnas @ The Roxy
- Outre @ Pehrspace
- Blue Mask, Mad Lovers, The Fleagles, Motorcycle Black Madonnas, Backbiter, & The Beggars @ Mr T’s Bowl
- Captain Ahab, Copy, Atole, & I.E. @ The Smell
- David Kilgour & Euros Childs (Gorky’s) @ The Echoplex
- Deadbolt, The Ghastly Ones, & The Killdevils @ The Echo
- Richard Buckner, David Dondero, War Children @ Spaceland
- 1990s & The Airborne Toxic Event @ The Troubadour

DECISION:
Not too much going on on Saturday night besides an good opportunity to see The Airborne Toxic Event open for The 1990s at The Troubadour.

Sunday, October 28
- The Eagle Rock Bowling & Drinking Club w/ The Nixes, The Bentleys, & Tremellow @ All-Star Lanes
- Pinback @ The Wiltern
- Teaneck, The Numbers Station, The Loving, & Flashing Red Lights @ The Scene
- Josh Ottum, The One AM Radio, & Tara Busch @ Tangier
- Hot Hot Heat @ The Henry Fonda
- Pantuflas, Hard Place, & Blue Jungle @ Mr T’s Bowl
- Child Abuse, Upsilon Acrux, & Bipolar Bear @ The Smell
- Neil Hamburger & Friends @ Spaceland
- Grand Ol’ Echo pres Mike Stinson, Old California, Triple Chicken Foot, & Madam Pamita @ The Echo
- Roky Erickson & The 1990s @ The El Rey
- Final Fantasy @ The Troubadour

DECISION:
If Pinback at The Wiltern sounds like just too much money, even though you love them, there's the fun pop music with The Bentleys at The Eagle Rock Bowling & Drinking Club.

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