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»continue reading Photos: Perfume Genius, Matador at 21, Las Vegas, October 3, 2010 #Matador21

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»continue reading Photos: Yo La Tengo, Matador at 21, Las Vegas, October 3, 2010 #Matador21

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»continue reading Photos: The New Pornographers, Matador at 21, Las Vegas, October 3, 2010 #Matador21

HEADS UP

Brandon Flowers w/ Fran Healy @ Fox Theater Pomona (presale password: FLAMINGO) Tue 11/9
Kelis @ Club Nokia (presale password: MILKSHAKE) Fri 11/19
OK Go @ Club Nokia (presale password: OKGO) Sat 11/27

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»continue reading Photos: Spoon, Matador at 21, Las Vegas, October 2, 2010 #Matador21

Arcade Fire play the Shrine Auditorium Thursday and Friday.

PICK OF THE WEEK
Chapterhouse w/ Ulrich Schnauss
Troubadour
Friday, October 8, 2010
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THIS WEEK’S TICKET GIVEAWAYS » CocoRosie @ Music Box (ENTER TO WIN TICKETS) » Filter Magazine Culture Collide Festival w/ Black Lips, Klaxons, Tokyo Police Club, Phantogram, Casiokids, Monotonix, The Boxer Rebellion, Land of Talk, The Besnard Lakes, Voxhaul Broadcast, The Bronx, Sea Wolf, Suuns, Amusement Parks on Fire & many more @ Echo, Echoplex, The Standard, Downtown LA and Taix (ENTER TO WIN TICKETS *Include shoe size and a mailing address for a bonus prize from Converse) » Liz Phair @ El Rey (ENTER TO WIN TICKETS) » The Fab Four @ Club Nokia (ENTER TO WIN TICKETS) » Caribou @ Music Box (ENTER TO WIN TICKETS)

TUESDAY
Belle & Sebastian w/ Trainspotting The Movie @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Jenny & Johnny @ Troubadour

»continue reading Losanjealous Weekly Concert Picks + Giveaways: October 5 – 10, 2010

Celebrity. DF has it. And while the hoi polloi typically regard my famousness with the kind of gape-mouth adulation that one normally sees from starstruck teens at a Justin Bieberlake concert, being a public figure ain’t all free A1 sauce and gratuitous shoulder massages. For example, DF receives literally tons of fan mail, of both the snail- and e-variety, in any given month. [This is true only if you define Viagra-related spam and entreaties from expatriated Nigerian princes as fan mail.—Ed.] And this past Saturday eve, I finally did my readers the inimitably gracious favor of returning the crème de la crème of this fanmail, whilst also covering the very fine and compelling LA Derby Dolls bout ‘twixt the Fight Crew and Sireens. An impossible test of literary versatility? Posh. Behold:

Damn, it’s hot in this-here Doll Fac, from track-level all the way up to the media aerie that is the DF HQ. Arrival well before bout start time allows me to start getting to these fan-letter responses. Why, here’s one now: DF, how long have you been covering derby? Sheeit, fool—DF’s been writing about derby since Methuselah was clean-shaven. Compared to the length of DF’s derby-coverage stint, “Benjamin Button” seemed short (though not, obviously, entertaining). Hell, when DF started covering derby long ago, the Cookies were doormats and the Fight Crew was dominant.

Yes, you heard right: that’s the selfsame Fight Crew that will be facing off with the Sirens in tonight’s steamy, dreamy Doll Factoire. In point of fact, both of these teams have lustrous pasts (FC were 2006 LADD champs, Sirens won it all in ’07), but tonight they fight for survival. Bottom line: The winner of this bout stays alive for the 2010 Championship, loser is eliminated. Just like Yanks/Sox or Coyote/Roadrunner, this is a classic rivalry regardless of the stakes, but this eve the tang of desperation adds a special sauce that will make it extra-delectable.

»continue reading Rocktoberfest: Fight Crew v. Sirens @ the Doll Factory, 10/2/2010

I saw something for the first time at The Sword concert, at the El Rey on Friday, October 1: three fans putting all their fists side by side with pinkies up on just the end fists, joining together to make one giant devil’s horn to pump in the air. So instead of \m/, it looked like this \mmmmmm/.

Really, a 6-fist-wide devil’s horn is still not big enough to honor the retro-metal Austin band, The Sword.

The subject matter of The Sword’s music ranges from fantasy–-wizards, warlocks, stories of yore–to a new turn towards sci-fi. The band’s influences range from the holy metal lineage of Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden, to the visionary worlds of books like Dune and The Teachings of Don Juan by Carlos Castaneda. And their sound is heavy, loud, guitar rock thunder.

Their newest release Warp Riders stands as a cohesive story about a space dude named Ereth on his space journey, on which “he encounters strange warriors, mysterious witches, ancient androids, and a crew of space pirates with a vessel that will alter the course of history… a vessel known as, The Sword.” (That was from the “Lore” section of The Sword’s website.)

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»continue reading The Sword at The El Rey, October 1, 2010

It begins…

»continue reading Matador at 21 at the Pearl at the Palms at Las Vegas