THE STORY TO DATE
Some manager (and Agent for Service of Process) at El Coyote, an insufferably terrible restaurant with strong drinks to make you forget about the mind-blowingly horrible food and parking nightmares, donated $100 to a direct “Yes on 8″ organization (protectmarriage.com), thereby potentially giving outraged citizens a tangible reason to not further patronize the insufferable, taste-void, overblown, overpriced tourist haven.

»continue reading DEVELOPING: Following “Yes On 8″ Donation Discovery, LA Blog Commenters In Full-On Crazy Tizzy Over Boycott of Insufferably Bad Restaurant

Brainfeeder LA–featuring Flying Lotus (above), Daedelus, Exile, Gaslamp Killer, Kode9, Martyn, Ras G, Nosajthing & Samiyam.

PICK OF THE WEEK

PART TIME PUNKS FESTIVAL
A Certain Ratio, Pylon, Love is All (pictured), Medium Medium, Savage Republic, Vivian Girls, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Warpaint, The Muslims, Mika Miko & many more
Sun 11/16 | Echo & Echoplex
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Contest closed.

KAISER CHIEFS
w/ Hockey
Tues 11/11 | Henry Fonda
Info | [ENTER TO WIN]
Contest closed.

JOHN DOE
w/ Kathleen Edwards
Thurs 11/13 | El Rey
Info | [ENTER TO WIN]
Contest closed

DEERHOOF
w/ Experimental Dental School
Fri 11/14 | Echoplex
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Contest closed.

MUDHONEY
w/ Japanese Motors
Fri 11/14 | El Rey
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Contest closed.

GANG GANG DANCE &
MARNIE STERN
Sat 11/15 | El Rey
Info
[ENTER TO WIN]

ADULT.
w/ Pop Noir
Sat 11/15 | Echoplex
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Contest closed.

ELLIS MARSALIS QUARTET
McCoy Tyner Trio & Brad Mehldau
Sun 11/16 | Greek Theater
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Stella @ Orpheum Theatre Sat 12/13
Stone Temple Pilots @ Club Nokia Wed 12/31
Animal Collective @ Henry Fonda Fri 1/23
Moving Units @ Glass House Sat 1/24

MONDAY
Beck @ Club Nokia
King Khan & BBQ Show @ The Echo
Vic Chesnutt w/ Elf Power @ Echoplex

TUESDAY
Earlimart w/ Afternoons, Red Cortez & Dazzler @ Echoplex (Indie 103.1 Check One Tuesday)
Bishop Allen @ The Echo
Kaiser Chiefs @ Henry Fonda
Pit Er Pat @ The Smell
Travis @ Troubadour

»continue reading Losanjealous Concert Picks: Nov. 10 - 16

KCRW’s Music Director Steps Down

Nic Harcourt will continue with the station, hosting a 3-hour show on Sundays from 6 –9pm

After 10 successful years as host of Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW’s signature music program, KCRW Music Director Nic Harcourt is stepping down November 30 to pursue several independent projects. Harcourt will continue as a KCRW deejay, hosting a 3-hour show on Sundays from 6-9 pm.

»continue reading New Music Director Wanted: KCRW’s Harcourt Steps Down Following 10-Year Run

HEADS UP
Legendary Pink Dots @ Knitting Factory Thu Nov 13

Send me an email with your first and last name - and the most interesting food you ate this weekend - if you’d like a pair of tickets.

UPDATE: We have our winners, and all of them eat interesting food. Winners will be notified EOD. Thanks for playing.

The Legendary Pink Dots: Myspace | Official

 

Did you make it down to the LA Times building this weekend to pick up a commemorative paper or 30, or one of those nifty $10 aluminum plates? The lines were long, but jubilant. Fear not if you missed the party; the Times is now offering the paper and the plate for sale online. The prices have jumped, naturally: the aluminum plate is now $20, and you have to figure in an additional $12 shipping. The order form is right here.

This move should, in theory, take care of those $695 craigslist ads and $140 “Buy It Now” eBay auctions…

RARE L.A.TIMES PRINTING PLATE ‘OBAMA WINS’ NOV 5, 2008 ELECTION !!!! - $695(craigslist)

» Historic Times Obama front-page, posters, printing plates on sale online now (LAT)

Quick reminder that the Kaiser Chiefs will be taping the new WB.com “Echo Park Totally Gets The OC Treatment With Live Bands” show at the Echo this Wednesday. It’s a daytime taping, they’ll play at least two songs and the festivities begin around noon. Want to check it out? Shoot me an email with your first and last name. Full details here.

» Kaiser Chiefs Return To Town: Win Tickets to “Rockville” Daytime Taping @ Echo on 11/12 (Wednesday)

KCRW’s giving you a great opportunity to see what’s going on at the Bowl this evening from the comfort of your own home. Better still, they’re promising “full screen” capability. Now, before you get too excited, you’re not going to get the “Astral Weeks featuring original session players” portion of the evening - you’ll have to wait for the DVD from Van’s camp for that - but you might still get a few chestnuts nonetheless (”Into the Mystic”? “And It Stoned Me”? Tune in and hope for the best. Streaming instructions will show up here sometime today.) Finally, KCRW would like you to know that (a) this will not be archived, and (b) it is a triply-historic first time event for the Bowl, Van Morrison and KCRW. For the fathers and dads out there going to see Pete Townshend at the Troub this evening, see if you can stream the event on your smartphone and show it to Pete, just for kicks. Godspeed.

» Van Morrison at the Hollywood Bowl Live Webcast Friday, Nov 7, 8pm (KCRW)
» Van Morrison Brings Astral Weeks to Hollywood Bowl

HEADS UP
Pit Er Pat @ The Smell Tues Nov 11

This has been on the calendar for some time now, but in case you’ve been snoozing I wanted to draw your attention to a great lineup this Tuesday: Excellent Thrilljockey noisemakers Pit Er Pat will play some tunes off their latest release and will also be joined by Hecuba, Lucky Dragons and PALMS down at the Smell. The whole evening should be sublime. Think about it, man. Not only will you have a chance to see a bunch of great bands, you’ll have a chance to be at the Smell at 11:11 on 11/11. You know what to do.

MP3: “Evacuation Days” (Pit Er Pat, from the October 21 full-length High Time)

Myspace: Pit Er Pat | Hecuba | Lucky Dragons | PALMS

Did You Know?
Pit Er Pat drummer Butchy Fuego joined the Boredoms for both 77 Boadrum and 88 Boadrum during the last two years

With The Last Shadow Puppets, Alex Turner accomplishes to create music suitable for even the baby boom generation, and in turn, demonstrate further that whatever people say he is, he’s still not. Along with Miles Kane, the equally young singer of The Rascals, their album The Age of The Understatement, is one of the most unexpected releases of the year. On stage the duo bring the same energy they display with their respective bands as well as a spookily identical voice. Avert your eyes and you may be hard pressed to know which of the two were singing. Somewhat lost in the, ahem, shadows of the two, as well marvelous sounding sixteen-piece orchestra, is Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford who handles the drumming duties. And if the resemblance wasn’t similar enough by their outfits the two sang a cover of The Beatles’s “I Want You (She’s so Heavy)” much to the delight of the crowd. Some reports have a follow up album as early as next year.

Full photo gallery and set list below.
»continue reading The Last Shadow Puppets, Mayan Theater, November 3, 2008

Wayne Coyne will screen Christmas on Mars, a film some 50 years in the making by Wayne Coyne shot entirely on location in his backyard and, apparently, Mars, next Tuesday in Hollywood. RSVP instructions on the flyer after the jump. The long-awaited (by Coyne) film will then be followed by a Q&A with everybody’s favorite blood-soaked, puppet-utilizing, hamster-ball-enjoying, raincoat-and-bowtie-wearing frontman. You have been advised.
»continue reading Coyne Brings Mars to Los Angeles

HEADS UP
Rachel Fuller presents Pete Townshend with Friends @ Troubadour Fri Nov 7

Pete At The Troubadour: What Is Known At This Time

• Tickets go on sale Thursday, 1pm at Ticketmaster
• They are $100
• The show is Friday
• The tickets are will-call only
• Pete Townshend is billed with “Special Guest(s)”
• The Troubadour has finally acknowledged the show
• The “Special Guest(s)” will not be fellow contemporary Van Morrison. That dude’s up at the Bowl doing his own thing
• Ticketmaster has no idea how to spell “Pete Townshend”
• The Who is playing Nokia the very next night after this show
• The Who now consists of Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, and some filler guys
• Jesus Christ! Baba O’Riley is one hell of a song
• Roger Daltrey is Free
• And Freedom Tastes of Reality

Buy tickets here Thursday at 1pm.

» Pete Townshend Joining Rachel Fuller @ Troubadour This Friday; Limited Tickets May Surface

Suffice say the Century City Hyatt, home of the official Obama for America party in Los Angeles, was off the hook Tuesday evening. As to the Presidential election results, we simply could not be more thrilled, blown away, moved, joyous, or compelled at this time. You name it, we felt it Tuesday night. Truly, history was made.

President Obama: Congratulations. Let’s do this.
Los Angeles: Congratulations. Let’s do this.
California: Congratulations. Let’s do this.
The United States of America: Congratulations. Let’s do this.
The Watching World: Congratulations. Let’s do this.

Victor: Regrettably, I was unable to procure one of those gigantic-ass balloons for posterity as requested.

PostScript, speaking of balloons. I cried just before the balloon drop during that “106-year-old” speech. Who wouldn’t.

HEADS UP
Kaiser Chiefs @ Echo Wed 11/12 (No tickets for sale - win tickets from us below)

The Kaiser Chiefs are returning to the Fonda next Tuesday. The following day (11/12), they will be performing at the Echo for a special taping of “Rockville” … wait…what the hell is “Rockville”?

TheWB.com - a premium, ad-supported, video-on-demand, interactive and personalized network - today announced the cast and the first group of bands to be featured on “Rockville, CA,” the music-themed scripted web series created by Josh Schwartz (”Gossip Girl,” “Chuck,” “The O.C.”). Production on the show began earlier this month at The Echo, a popular club and indie music venue in Los Angeles.

»continue reading Kaiser Chiefs Return To Town: Win Tickets to “Rockville” Daytime Taping @ Echo on 11/12 (Wednesday)

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Pictured below, from bottom to top: 2 Many DJs, Crystal Castles, Daedalus, Dan O., Deadmau5, DJ AM, Justice, Keith 2.0, Simian Mobile Disco, Soulwax and… you?