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.

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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!

Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival Is Back

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by Jonnie on January 25, 2012 in Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival with Comments

ROCKSTAR MAYHEM

If fans of heavy music can’t get excited about the 2012 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, somebody better check for a heartbeat.

This year’s tour, which kicks off at San Manuel Amphitheater in San Bernardino on June 30th, will be headlined by Slipknot. But, as they say on late night TV commercials, that’s not all. Thrash metal veterans Slayer will also be there on the main stage. There is also what the promoters are calling a “major special guest” third headliner, which won’t be announced until March 5th. A rotation of other acts is slated to appear on the main stage, which will vary from city to city, including The Devil Wears Prada, As I Lay Dying and Asking Alexandra. A second festival stage will be headlined by Anthrax. With its ‘best of the old and best of the new’ mixture, the 2012 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival is sure to be the metal music event of the year.

L.A. Concert: White Denim Has Greatness In It’s Jeans

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by Dan on January 24, 2012 in White Denim with Comments

White Denim

White Denim is set to open three Wilco shows in Los Angeles, including 1/24 at the Hollywood Palladium, 1/25 at The Wiltern and 1/27 at the Los Angeles Theatre, and headlines The Satellite on 2/11. Any band handpicked by Wilco (arguably the U.S. critical equivalent to Radiohead) to warm up its Spring West Coast tour, must be something special — and, White Denim is a true musical treat.

Much like Wilco, White Denim is nearly impossible to peg stylistically. This Austin, TX four piece’s new album, D, which is certainly not it’s letter grade, might sound like a tight jam band one moment and a progressive country act the next. Vocalist/guitarist James Petralli, by the way, is the son of Major League Baseball catcher Geno Petralli. The band which formed in 2005, already has five full-length albums and five EPs out. Indeed, White Denim is the perfect addition to any self-respecting wardrobe.

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