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Eeeek! I have no camera. My Sony crapped out (after 20,000 photos taken in 18 months… not joking here… guess it was time for it to go…) and then the unit I was borrowing had to be returned, soooo… I guess I am going to buying a new camera this weekend, eh?

Anyhow, the situation sucks because I just hosted the most amazing show this past Monday with the Monolators, Battlehooch (from S.F.) and Right Hand Band and I want to show you all the insanity that went down.

IF YOU HAVE PHOTOS OR GOOD-QUALITY VIDEOS FROM THIS PAST MONDAY SEND ME AN EMAIL: SEAN@SEANCARNAGE.COM

All three bands were amazing, and I was knocked out by what a great crowd they drew… incredible.

Anyhow, Right Hand Band was a three-piece this time with two acoustic guitars and hand percussion. I have always wanted to be a percussionist but, despite my efforts, will never be ‘cuz I can’t seem to master that hand/foot/rightside/leftside fourway coordination split. Yeah, whatever, but the percussion dude from RHB was making me seriously jealous by playing different beats with both hands and also on each foot (he had drum sticks taped to his boots!) and singing all the while. Why can’t I be that cool?

I realized that Battlehooch is pretty remarkable—not just for their music which is a rad, fucking dizzying mash-up of ’70s prog and punk and noise weirdness—but also because they have the identical line-up as classic Roxy Music with a guitarist, a drummer, an oboe player, a bassist, a singer (who sometimes plays keyboards) and an Eno… I mean, tape and synthesizer dude. Coincidence or….!? Nah, probably not. This band really fucking rips and could they be any nicer? My vote for most congenial band dudes of 2008 so far.

The Monolators’ singer had a birthday… and a 102° fever. That sucks. Astoundingly, the dude kept playing and singing for nearly a half hour before the band called it quits. This band is THE BEST!!! They play kind of straight ahead rock songs—the kind that make me yawn when other bands play them. But the Monolators have this secret special ingredient (they listen to each other, for one…. they also are completely fearlessly rocking at all times when they are onstage) that turns ordinary material into the stuff of legend. I definitely definitely wanna have them back again. One weird thing they did that was highly amusing: after a song they would swap out an instrument and replace it with a bass guitar. By the last song they were all playing basses!!! WOAAHHHHHHH!!!! HUGE BASS DRONE!!! Sorta like My Bloody Valentine with the treble turned off. I LOVE IT!!!

DON’T MISS THIS MONDAY:

Sean Carnage presents….

Monday, April 28th
Gabbertree
Fleshtone (from Portland)
Birth!
Red Hot Silly Peppers feat. DAN DEACON

Show starts 9:30pm / all-ages / $5

Pehrspace—325 Glendale Blvd., in Echo Park

See you there?

Here are all the photos I’ve got so far, courtesy of Gerard & La-underground.net… thanks, you rule!!!

Battlehooch!!!

The Monolators!!!

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ROCK is alive in Los Angeles!!!!!!

I wanna say thank you to everyone who came to this past Monday’s show—we had an INCREDIBLE night of great new rock bands!!

Thanks especially to the bands and Kyle Mabson, who did his usual awesome job with the sound and DJing.

If you haven’t added Kuato, NASA Space Universe, Heavy Face, Dreamhouse, Brother, Destroy Tokyo and Battlehooch on Myspace DO IT NOW!!! Look them up, check out their music and dig them—all of them are the future… and they sound fucking flawless! I am really excited about this new musical era we are entering. These bands write awesome songs and go crazy onstage… Wild times!

Just a reminder: making noise outside of Pehrspace is going to mean the end of this wonderful venue. Screaming, cackling, loud talking, shouting, smashing or banging bottles and cans… PLEASE DON’T DO THIS. The venue is in a canyon and the sound amplifies as it travels up to our neighbors, who are hardworking blue-collar folks trying to get some rest. They love us, but don’t want to hear us. I don’t want to have a no ins-and-outs policy which is repugnant to me, so, please, keep it down when you are outside or going to your car. Don’t fuck this up!

The next two weeks are really exciting—one of my earliest L.A. friends, Mitchell Brown is curating. Mitch is “Professor Cantaloupe” on KXLU and is a gourmand of esoteric musics. These next two bills are perhaps our most diverse yet, and dancing is HIGHLY ENCOURAGED. Don’t miss them!

Mitchell Brown & Sean Carnage present…

Monday, February 4th
Scarnella, aka Carla Bozulich & Nels Cline
(L.A.’s most well-known & beloved contemporary avant-garde musicians)
Foot Village (drums, drums, drums, drums!)
Sonelle (”U.S. jazz minimalism informed by afro-latin reflections of U.S. jazz…??”)
Barry Conley (Buchla synth master. “Maker of the Outofcontrol-a-tron.”)
Jeff Boynton (internationally known circuit-bending wizard)
plus:
DJ Professor Cantaloupe (KXLU, DUBLAB)
*Complimentary veg soup from chef (& circuit bender!) Andy Ben

Monday, February 11th
Health (last L.A. show before their months-long international tour… do not miss this!)
Dinosaurs with Horns (L.A. Free Music Society stars Rick Potts & Joseph Hammer)
Everybody (rare groove/jazz/funk/electronic/psych trio… hottt)
Oscillator (Ben Wolcott of To Live & Shave in L.A. & Nilbog’s Nick Murray)
Kyle Mabson (are you jazz enough? find out)
plus:
DJ Mahssa (”runs Finders Keepers label, re-releasing rare 60’s/70’s international psych/folk/funk/pop/electronic/traditional/whatever. Her DJ specialty: heady Middle Eastern funk!”)

Shows start 9pm / all-ages / $5

Pehrspace—325 Glendale Blvd., in Echo Park

See you there?

Photos below by Sean & Renata & Peter Moran… Enjoy!!!

Brother!!!

Destroy Tokyo!!!

Kuato!!!

Heavy Face!!!

Battlehooch!!!

NASA Space Universe (w/ special guests Dreamhouse)!!!

DON’T MISS THIS MONDAY!!!

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