Evening of Photography & Music in LA

Tonight @ REHAB PROJECTS:
2324 Cotner Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90064
7:00PM - 10:00PM

Bautista & LA’s best DJs in the HOUSE!
Music by (old school Steady Vibes crew):
Sir Denkym
HIdeo
Tony Jr.
DJ Ogg

REHAB

courtesy of: mwmphd

Holy moly, this band is awesome. Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, the 1990’s boast notable former members such as Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos and drummer Paul Thomson as well as current lineup members Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub. Singer Jackie McKeown has the most gnarliest teeth I have EVER seen. There’s practically a gap in between every single tooth, yet he has the confidence of a spandex wearing 70’s rockstar. The music evokes images of beer suds flying in the air with super hot girls hugging onto super lucky guys - plus they have a cool logo.

SDAFF Afterparty Coverage at Airport Lounge

The San Diego Asian Film Festival is now in full effect. If you missed this rocking party don’t despair! Blowfish is on and poppin at Aubergine tonight!For the rest of the coverage check my myspace! www.myspace.com/richandcreamy

P.S. I’m the guy in the FRA shirt!

In Rainbows Tracklisting (discbox version):

CD 1 AND VINYL:
15 Step -
Bodysnatchers -
Nude
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi -
All I Need -
Faust Arp - no audio available.
Reckoner -
House of Cards -
Jigsaw Falling Into Place -
Videotape -

CD 2:
MK 1 - no audio available.
Down is the New Up -
Go Slowly -
MK 2 - no audio available.
Last Flowers -
Up on the Ladder -
Bangers and Mash -
4 Minute Warning -

One day you wake up and find out that parties have secretly turned into work. It’s not like your 9-5 office job, but it’s definitely a different kind of grind. Don’t get me wrong, I love the work I do - but a weekend like this requires another weekend of vegetation to relax.

Rescue grand opening: Located right next to the 7-11, right next to Spaceland. This boutique store offers eclectic, hard to find, couture. Amongst other things the opening featured the photographs of photographer Alan Chapman. The owner Corey was pro and friendly, check out the spot.

Stopped by the Sibling Artistry show - Eric aka PlayKill was a colleague of mine in a couple of ways - fellow Art Center alumn, and fellow musician. He had two different styles of artworks up that night. One style featured thick, textural portrait paintings while the other featured his more light hearted editorial illustrations. Good times and great seeing the guys of Invid there.

Alas this past Friday was the last Club Bingo night. Xavier says he’s off to go overseas for a couple of weeks. Congratulations Xavier - when you get back you gotta let me throw an event at Blackball! (is that David Hasselhoff pictured with Xavier?)

it is time for another two minute concert review.

metric… i never really knew you. too look at emily you wouldn’t be able to tell that she could thrill a crowd as much as she did. i love the moody tracks with emily gently telling you a story. but maybe because it was frihighday she decided to forget the sap and put out a head banger which the crowd was lucky enough to jump around in. so if you are not big on synthesizer rock or a great live act you need not apply.

btw. the echo. i hate you. can’t you figure out how many tickets you have sold and just let the rest of us in. take off your shoes and socks if you can’t count that high.

Too many people are unfamiliar with The Yardbirds. One word: sacrilege. Three letters: wtf.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not judging you. After all, not everyone was equipped with older, precocious sisters who shunned Boy George and company throughout the 1980s and pledged allegiance to the British Invasion of the 1960s. Growing up with a teenage sister during that heinous decade (from which no fashion trend has ever returned), rather than crooning “Old MacDonald Had a Farm” by Mother Goose, four-year-old annarepublic belted out “Purple Haze” by Jimi Hendrix.

Legitimate question: “Why the flip is annarepublic writing about a band from yestereon on FR*A, whose very name promotes fresh meat?”

Straightforward response: Because they are one of the most underrated rock bands of all time. And it would be a public disservice not to pay homage to a groundbreaking quintuplet that has so much to offer to the future of music, that is, if we want it to be sound.

If you already know the lyrics to classics like “Lost Woman”, “Happenings 10 Years Time Ago”, and “Over Under Sideways Down”, power to you (virtual high five). Otherwise, you are in danger of failing this round of Rockology 101.

Crash Course on why The Yardbirds represent a great paradigm for future rockstars:

(1) Substance – The heart of a great rock band is its members and their musicianship. Were The Yardbirds beauty contestants? Did they bite off rats’ heads during concerts? Did they have straight teeth? No to the third power, aka no cubed. But rather than riding The Beatles’ coattails, they established a very unique sound and composed incredible music.

Furthermore, The Yardbirds were…

(2) Ahead of Their Time – They took chances with their music, so much so that their contemporaries did not fully appreciate them and countless audiophiles remain unaware of them. Let us remedy that affliction right this instant.

Finally, they feature…

(3) Bad @ss Alumni – What other band graduated Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton? Don’t fret. You don’t need these three exact men to have a slammin’ band. They’re probably busy, anyway. The last time I checked, Jeff Beck was preoccupied with his year-round impression of a cadaver, Jimmy Page was trying to beat Marlon Brando’s record of weight gain in one lifetime, and Slowhand was dating lasses 50 years his junior.

Brilliant musicians, they are. Infallible creatures, they are not.

But to quote the prolific readers from “Reading Rainbow,” “You don’t have to take my word for it.” Take The Yardbirds for a test flight on your own.

I speak on behalf of many who do not want B.S. to “gimme more” of anything (her initials…coincidental? I think not). Here’s to more original music and a better future for our lobes. Let us fight the good fight against atrocious music. Future rockstars of America, unite.