The Tuesday Show Low Down (Or "We Were Working Part Time, All The Time...")

So I hear that I missed one of the best shows this year at Spaceland last Friday night at The Henry Clay People's cd release show w/ Le Switch and The Parson Redheads. And then some great performances at the Detour Festival with The Monolators, Noah and the Whale, and more the next afternoon.

But I did catch Pizza!, Princeton, Earlimart, and more at The Eagle Rock Music Festival on Saturday, so I guess I'm one for three. I kind of love that event. It's nice to see folks who don't normally get out to LA music venues get to see some of the best local bands -- and I think the babies and dogs probably enjoyed it, too. It was funny to watch the dads in the crowd make scrunchy dad faces when Aaron from Earlimart fulfilled his regular role as resident f-bombadier.

Enough about the past, let's look to le future. (That's French.)

Tuesday, October 7
- SubRock/KXLU presents... PISTOL FOR RINGO, THE STUDIOFIX, CRAIG CRAIGSTOFFERSON @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Heavy Trash feat. Jon Spencer, Champagne Velvet, Power Solo @ The Echo
- Racheal Yamagata @ Largo
- Margot & The Nuclear So & So's & David Vandervelde @ The Troubadour
- Divisions of Laura Lee, Run Through The Desert, Geltleman Prefer Blood @ Spaceland
- Mincemeat Or Tenspeed (Philadelphia, PA) - Realicide, A Thirst For Blood Rockin' In My Dick, DJ Skull Vomit (member of Eustachian), & Captain Ahab @ The Smell
- Bobb Bruno, We You, Double Naught Spy Car, & Thruster @ Mr T's Bowl(FREE)
- Jackson Browne @ Amoeba Music (6PM)

DECISION:
I really like what (admittedly little) I've heard from Captain Ahab. Need to see them play.

Wednesday, October 8
- Buzz Bands radio show w/ Kevin Bronson and RFSL on Little Radio
- Indie 103 presents CLUB NME @ Spaceland
- Joe Frank @ Largo
- Sherwood @ The Troubadour
- Filter Presents Dead Ponies, Dirty Kings, Roses on Her Grave @ Redwood Bar
- Solar Wimp, Ask Alice, Hurtmodel, & Mad Planet @ Mr T's Bowl (FREE)
- The Color Turning & Lemonwilde @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Giant Sand, Robert Francis, Bucksworth @ The Echo
- JULIETTE COMMAGERE, GUY FANTASTICO, LIFE UNDERWATER @ Tangier Restaurant
- Marathon Live w/ Silver Rockets + Goldrush @ 3 of Clubs

DECISION:
Duke at You Set The Scene is giving away tickets to Giant Sand at The Echo.

Also, I'm making a special guest appearance on Kevin Bronson's Buzz Bands show on Little Radio from six to eight on Wednesday night. Tune in to hear some new songs from your favorite local acts. Have some good stuff planned...

Thursday, October 9
- Clean Air Clean Stars kick-off party with Sky Parade, Swoon 23, and Special Guests @ Spaceland
- Abe Vigoda @ Amoeba Music (7PM)
- Mythical Beast, Sasqrotch, VOICEsVOICEs, Residual Echoes @ The Smell
- Killing Joke @ The House of Blues
- Love Psychedelico @ The Troubadour
- Elizabethan Report, National Treasure, The Christopher Walk-ins, & Codpiece @ Mr T's Bowl (FREE)
- Adele with Priscilla Ahn @ Avalon
- RIVIERA, IVY WALLS, NEW AGE KATO, & EXTRA @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Rival Schools, Innaway @ The Echo
- Saint Motel, The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, Listing Ship, & Writer @ Pehrspace

DECISION:
Sure, I probably recommend seeing The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra every time they play, and I likely will keep doing that, too. But this seems like a good opportunity to catch a few local bands who don't play that often and at a nice small venue, at that.

Friday, October 10
- The Minor Canon, The Physics of Meaning, & One Trick Pony @ Pehrspace
- Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Golden Triangle, Static Static @ Echoplex
- Restiform Bodies @ The Echo
- Territory presents: Graveyard, Night Horse, Imaad Wasif @ Spaceland
- Weather Ground, Santina, The Sundowners, Ojos Rojos, & Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters @ Mr T's Bowl
- Jon Brion @ Largo
- Facing New York @ The Troubadour
- High Places, Abe Vigoda, Ponytail, Snowsuit, & David Scott Stone @ The Smell
- Eli Paperboy Reed @ The Orpheum
- The 2008 Hotel Cafe Tour w/ Meiko, Brooke Fraser, Jaymay, Erin McCarley, Holly Conlan, & Laura Jansen @ Hotel Cafe
- Club Underground presents: Love Grenades, Pop Noir @ The Echo

DECISION:
I've heard very good things about The Physics of Meaning and really like the hell out of some One Trick Pony and The Minor Canon. Once again, Pehrspace FTW!

Saturday, October 11
- Super Karma, Telematique, & Laundromat United @ Site LA
- Rafter & more @ Pehrspace
- Automatic Drawing, Logan's Heroes, Army of Kings, & Knights of Monte Carlo @ The Viper Room
- Sybris, A Decent Animal @ Spaceland
- The Sword @ The Henry Fonda Music Box
- MOGGS + POLAR GOLDIE CATS + EMPTY ROOMS + PETER KOLOVOS @ Echo Curio
- Descarga @ The Echo
- Ron Sexsmith @ The Troubadour
- Noise For Obama and The Smell present... A Barack Obama benefit show! w/ The Mae Shi, Bad Dudes, Bastidas, & The Widow Babies @ The Smell
- Hoist The Colors, The Dirges, The Mighty Regis, & The Gobshites @ Mr T's Bowl
- Echo & F Yeah present: Denali, The Holloys @ Echoplex
- THESE UNITED STATES, VANDAVEER, INTRICATE MACHINES, STOP REVOLT @ The Cocaine at Live Jazz

DECISION:
Tough call between the fucking wonder that is The Mae Shi live at The Smell, my new band crush (who we're interviewing next week) Automatic Drawing at The Viper Room, and mucho interesante Super Karma at Site LA.

Sunday, October 12
- The Rhone Occupation @ The Airliner
- Shiloe CD Release Party, The Pacific, Love’s Like Smoke, Kissing Cousins @ Spaceland
- Cancer Benefit w/ No Age, David Scott Stone, The Movies, Modern Memory, The Tyde, Dublab @ Echoplex
- Grand Ole Echo @ The Echo
- BRAD SENNE + FORT KING @ Echo Curio (2pm)
- LATERAL HYETOGRAPHY + ((SOUNDER)) + FANTASTIC SLEEP @ Echo Curio (9pm)
- Part Time Punks presents: Killdozer @ The Echo
- RACHAEL CANTU, ALEX & SAM, MY HAWAII, MAD GREGS @ Tangier Lounge

DECISION:
Space rock act Shiloe celebrate the release of their album on New & Used Records on Sunday at Spaceland and with good cause: There's some really quality tracks on there.

Meanwhile, any excuse to see The Movies is a great one and that it's all for a good cause multiplies it all by a factor of ask-some-math-guy-to-figure-it-out...

And I like singer-songwritery group The Rhone Occupation.

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