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PICK OF THE WEEK

FYF Fest Presents: Save Our State Parks
Sat, Sept 5 | Los Angeles State Historic Park
1245 N. Spring (Chinatown) | Black Lips, Lightning Bolt , Tim & Eric, Lucero, Converge, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dan Deacon, F* Up, The Thermals, Glass Candy, No Age, Torche, Japanther, Times New Viking, Darker My Love, Carbonas, Peanut Butter Wolf, Crystal Antlers, Mika Miko, Wavves, Nobunny, Telepathe, Cold Cave, Har Mar Superstar, The Strange Boys, Dios, Woods, NinjaSonik, Kurt Vile, Eat Skull, Avi Buffalo & more TBA

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THIS WEEK’S TICKET GIVEAWAYS

The Duke Spirit
w/ Band of Skulls
Tues, Sept 1
El Rey Theatre
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Ween
Tues, Sept 1
Fox Theater Pomona
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The Pretenders
w/ Cat Power
Thurs, Sept 3
Greek Theater
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The Avett Brothers
w/ Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
Sat, Sept 5
Orpheum Theatre
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Har Mar Superstar w/ Boom Bip @ The Echo Thu 10/8
Starf*cker @ The Echo Tue 10/6
Part Time Punks 2nd Annual Festival featuring The Raincoats, Section 25 (Factory Records), Medium Medium, The Jazz Butcher, Crystal Stilts, Abe Vigoda & more @ Echoplex Sun 10/11
Dan Deacon @ The Echo Thu 10/15
Gwar @ Glass House Mon 11/23
Tahiti 80 @ Troubadour Thu 11/5
Sondre Lerche @ Troubadour Fri 9/25
The Used @ The Palladium Mon 11/9
Peaches @ The Wiltern Sat 11/28
Michael Franti & Spearhead @ The Wiltern Fri 10/9
Alice In Chains @ Avalon Wed 9/30
Mika @ The Palladium Fri 10/23
Paramore @ The Palladium Thu 10/1
Gogol Bordello w/ Apostle of Hustle @ Grove of Anaheim Sun 10/18
Paramore @ Fox Theater Pomona Tue 9/29
Friendly Fires @ Henry Fonda Sat 11/21
La Roux @ El Rey Mon 10/19
Tegan and Sara @ Orpheum Theatre Sun 10/25
Ray Lamontagne @ Orpheum Theatre Sun 11/22
 

TUESDAY
John Legend w/ India.Arie & Vaughn Anthony @ Greek Theatre
Mew @ Troubadour
Peanut Butter Wolf @ Glass House
The 88 @ Spaceland
The Duke Spirit w/ Band of Skulls @ El Rey
Ween @ Fox Theater, Pomona

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HEADS UP
ZZ Top @ Nowhere Near Los Angeles Sat Aug 29 (tonight!)

In Fact Yes! The above photo was found on my point-and-click Canon handheld, having missed the cut for inclusion into the DSLR gallery long ago. Introducing: Dusty Hill!

Mayhap you have been following the saga of The Green Truck And The Plight of Trendy Gourmet Mobile Food Providers Along Miracle Mile, The Grouchy Local Purveyors, The Incensed Office Workers and The Man in the last couple of weeks. Mayhap not. Still, mayhap you have. At this time, we can now finally and truly report that there be Nothing Of Interest Whatsoever To Be Gleaned From This Post Regarding The Green Truck, The LAPD, Museum Square’s Grouchy Restaurant Row And Its Nearby Office Tenants. Ready? Begin.

FROM: Ryan’s Wireless Device
TO: Bob N/A
TIME: 11:59am 28 Aug 2009 Fri
What’s going on down on The Mile?

FROM: Bob N/A
TO: Ryan’s Wireless Device
TIME: 12:01pm
Barbie’s Q, Marked 5 are here. No sign of the police just yet. Eating some lunch. Will it be a peaceful day?

»continue reading PROBABLY NOT DEVELOPING: Nothing Of Interest Whatsoever To Be Gleaned From This Post Regarding The Green Truck, The LAPD, Museum Square’s Grouchy Restaurant Row And Its Nearby Office Tenants

HEADS UP
Ted Leo + Pharmacists @ The Echo (evening show) Fri Aug 28
Ted Leo @ The Smell (Noon Breakfast Show; vegan tacos, pancakes, coffee etc) Sun Aug 30

This Just In from the FYF crew:

We want to let you know that we are doing a breakfast show with Ted Leo & the Pharmacists this Sunday, August 30th at the Smell. Coffee, pancakes, tofu tacos, high fives blah blah blah. Will be fun

Breakfast Show Part #2
This Sunday, August 30th
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
Davila 666 (HOLY COW THEY ARE EPIC!)
Moses Campell (MILES!!!!!)
@ The Smell
247 S. Main St.
LA, CA 90012
$8 / All Ages / 11:30am
Get there early.

Photo: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, El Rey, 4/12/07 by Karen

Following our recent, topical, txtmsg-suffused posting about the LAPD’s targeted harassment of the gourmet food trucks near 5750 Wilshire Blvd, the inbox has been flooded: carbon-copies of outraged letters to Tom LaBonge, gratuitous linking from angry yelpers, 5750 Wilshire office resident petition signers (120 sigs at press time!) requesting mentions, at least one LA Times piece (wherein The Man pooh-poohs last week’s fiasco as a simple, one-day, non-permit-having-truck-targeted sting) and more than a few recently-submitted food truck reviews and op-ed pieces that I still have yet to parse, process and post live to the site. Meantime, Bobby’s back on the scene down Wilshire way, right now:

FROM: Bob N/A
TO: Ryan’s Wireless Device
TIME: 11:49am
I am at museum square stop now to scope things out. Here come the cops

More as it develops; stay tuned.

Green truck photo by jojomelons

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REMINDER
Matt & Kim @ El Rey Thu Aug 27 (tonight!)

Interview with Matt from Matt and Kim
By The Experience Gallery

They only intended to play in the privacy of their own bedroom until a friend made them play in front of others. They have since developed a reputation for putting on energy-packed live shows that get everyone on their feet and bouncing to the music. We caught up with Matt on the road heading towards Los Angeles for tonight’s show at the El Rey and their first appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in support of Grand, their second album released earlier this year.

Hi, how are you?

I’m good.

Do you prefer performing in smaller venues or larger ones?

I think there is something about both that makes it desirable to go back and forth. You play a festival where thousands of people are there you have a certain energy there; where there are so many people cheering and singing. But it is difficult to see a person in the mix. It becomes more abstract. Whereas you play a small show where there are less than 500 people there you start picking out faces and seeing individual reactions. It is a different sort of feeling. You kind of want to do both and we are in the position to do that right now.

You have so much energy on stage and you don’t need a lot of space. Even your “Daylight” music video has you playing in a small space. How do you bring so much energy wherever you play?

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