INTERVIEW: Goldfinger at Chain Reaction Tomorrow!

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by Jonnie on January 30, 2012 in Goldfinger with Comments

Goldfinger

Goldfinger were a staple of my youth and I still love them today. They’re playing a show tomorrow at Chain Reaction in Anaheim to benefit PETA and Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles. It’s going to be an awesome time, make sure to come out and support. Lead singer, John Feldmann was cool enough to answer some questions…Check them out below.

1. Tell us about the upcoming benefit at Chain Reaction.

King Blues, who are supporting us, it’s their first US show ever. They’re a big UK band, and the singer of that band was homeless for about four years, between ages 13-17 of his life. It’s a really big deal for us to help out anyway we can. PETA has always been a huge thing for me, I’ve been involved with the animal rights movement for the last fifteen years of my life.

2. What has been going on with Goldfinger?

We toured South America a couple months ago, it was awesome…A couple thousand kids a night and just crazy, crazy shows, insane crowds.

3. I heard you have a new album on the way…What can we expect and when?

We’re probably going to be making a record around summer of this year.

4. What bands have you been listening to lately?

Lately I’ve been listening to what my daughter has been listening to, all she’ll let me listen to is Adele. That’s it, so I listen to Adele over and over…and my wife has been playing Christina Perri all the time. If I work twelve to sixteen hours a day, all I’m really listening to are the bands I work with, which lately have been, King Blues, Attack Attack!, Twenty One Pilots, The Used, so thats what I’ve been listening to; what I’ve been working on.

5. What bands should we check out?

Definitely King Blues. Definitely Twenty One Pilots.

6. Favorite places to eat in L.A.?

I love the Veggie Grill, Madeline Bistro, Native Foods, and E Baldi.

7. I’d like to make a few special requests for the Chain Reaction show: Carlita, Too Late, The End of the Day, Not Amused…..Any chance?

I don’t know if any of those requests will happen, I think we’ve played “Carlita” once, yeah “Carlita” we played once at the Whiskey, with Angelo Moore from Fishbone. “Too Late” we played once in Nagoya, Japan. “The End of the Day” we played once, and that was a long time ago…I think at a show with Face To Face. “Not Amused” we’ve never played.

8. Shout-outs, Words of Wisdom?

Follow your dreams and stay true to yourself. Shout-out’s to all of our fans, thanks for being with us for so long.

Fishbone on DVD

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by Dan on January 30, 2012 in Fishbone with Comments

Fishbone

The Cinema Guild is set to release Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone on February 21st. If you can’t wait that long, though, you can get it as an iTunes digital download beginning February 1st.

Actor Laurence Fishburne narrates this extensive documentary, which tells the tale of a wonderfully unique Los Angeles band. Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler paired to produce and direct the documentary about this veteran band; one that has seamlessly combined punk and funk styles into its politically and socially active music for the last 25 years. The film includes the wisdom and reflections of original punk-funk-er, George Clinton, actor Tim Robbins and contemporaries, like Flea and Gwen Stefani. Primarily focusing on singer Angelo Moore and bassist Norwood fisher, this is the story of a band that has somehow survived against all odds. It’s simply impossible to tell the L.A. alternative rock story without Fishbone.

Babylon Social Club at Café Cordiale

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by Kristal on January 28, 2012 in Babylon Social Club with Comments

L.A. Concert Babylon Social-Club

The Babylon Social Club are the kind of band that will leave you with chills. A power house made up of veterans of the rock and blues scene, Herman Matthews, Bennett Salvay, Leslie Smith, W.G. Snuffy Walden, and Terry Wilson, the Babylon Social Club’s most surprising element is vocalist, Sara Niemietz. Niemietz’s strong vocals and range from deep and sultry to rock scream. She has the confidence and chops of an older woman and a hurricane force brims over and out of her petit body. Any youthful innocence that comes out in between songs is forgotten when she convincingly sings both original and reworked blues and R&B.

Sara told L.A. Concert Calendar how the Babylon Social Club came into being.

“BSC has been together as a band for a little over a year now. We all wanted to go out and make some music that we love and Snuffy was the glue in bringing us all together,” she said.

The opportunity to see music this powerful in a chill, cover-free space like Café Cordiale can’t be missed. They are playing this Sunday, January 29th at 8:30, and Café Cordiale has a full dinner menu and bar. Perhaps the sweetest thing about Babylon Social Club is that they share Lil’ Herman’s Old Fashioned Peanut Brittle, artisan sweets made by their drummer, Herman.

See Babylon Social Club:

Café Cordiale 01/29 and 02/19 at 8:30 p.m.

For a preview:

L.A. CONCERT: Fishbone In Simi Valley Tomorrow

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by Jonnie on January 27, 2012 in Fishbone with Comments

Fishbone

Fishbone’s Norwood Fisher presents “All for the Angels Skankdown Music Festival” at Skatelab Skatepark in Simi Valley featuring Fishbone, Aggression, Knock Out, JFA, Pour Habit, The Untouchables, Graveyard Bandits, The Divine Crime, Ease Up, Kat, Hurly Burly, Braw and more on Saturday, January 28, 2012. The event will benefit AngelCare 4 Children’s efforts to restore life in Haiti. A full day and evening of punk, rock, ska, reggae and soul all for an important cause.

Doors open at 1:00 PM and show time is from 2pm-11pm. Tickets are $30 or $50 for 2 tickets, and can be purchased by visiting Event Brite or by calling (888) 264-5227. Skatelab is located at 4226 Valley Fair Street, Simi Valley, CA 93063.

X Marks The Spot…And It’s At MOCA

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by Mike on January 26, 2012 in X with Comments

X

Punk is not dead! It’s just on display. On Friday, January 27, legendary Los Angeles punk band, X, invades the Museum of Contemporary Art (in Little Tokyo) with fellow punks, The Avengers and the Dead Kennedys (sans estranged frontman, Jello Biafra). The show, which takes place at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary, is part of the museum’s exhibit, Under The Big Black Sun, 1974-1981. It highlights the change in the political, cultural and economic climates in California as a statement against the post-Nixon and early Reagan-regime ideologies. With the current political climate of “Occupy Everything”, several parallels can be drawn between now and then, why not relive the emotions of the late 70’s/early 80’s with the bands that provided its soundtrack?

X has been playing in and around LA for the last few years (did they ever stop?) which speaks volumes about their tenacity to continually kick out the jams. With all original members, John Doe, Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom and DJ Bonebreak, they have gone well beyond what critics expected of the punk scene. Their endurance has pushed them past the “legendary punk” moniker to Legendary LA band”. Old, schmold! This band still packs a punch with their high energy, sometimes Rockabilly, punk passion. So bring your moshing shoes, stay for some art and tell Exene I love her!

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