ANDREW W.K. will be playing their ever so awesome “I Get Wet” album in it’s entirety for the bands ten year anniversary tour. The show hits the Avalon in Hollywood on March 8th. Party Til You PUKE!!
Merle Haggard Is Unstoppable
Merle Haggard’s February 29th date at the Grove in Anaheim is still ‘on,’ even though his January Southern trek has been postponed until April after a recent hospital stay due to pneumonia.
Such news is sure to make fans of The Hag nervous because the iconic Bakersfield singer/songwriter just recently had surgery for lung cancer in 2008. Shortly thereafter, Haggard was declared cancer-free. However, pneumonia is nothing to take lightly – especially since this man of 74 is getting up there in years. Haggard accepted a lifetime achievement award from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2010, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994. He’s also a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Few artists deserve to be called living legends, but Merle Haggard is, without question, must-see musical royalty.
Gonjasufi And Friends
What does one get when they mix Woodstock and rap music? GonjaSufi and one of the best albums of 2010, A Sufi and a Killer. Now, GonjaSufi is releasing his second album, MU.ZZ.LE, via Warp records. The album comes out on January 24th, and you can download one of tracks from the forthcoming LP here.
To celebrate MU.ZZ.LE, they are having an album release party on January 27th, which will surely be an incredible show. It takes place at the Hummingbird Nest Ranch in Santa Susana on a large field, directly in front of a beautiful, Spanish-style villa. Since GonjaSufi show by itself is a rare opportunity, performances by Eskmo, Zackey Force Funk, and Crime Killz makes it unmissable. If all that wasn’t enough, there will be live screen printing done by the Hit+Run crew, with plenty of cool shirts and designs to buy.
Tickets for this 21+ event are $15 online and $22 at the door. The show starts at 10pm, but if you are interested in attending a private listening of the album, come at 9.
BEATLES VS ROLLING STONES
While there is no debate on who is the greatest in the boxing ring (Muhammad Ali, turned 70 two days ago) the verdict is still out on which band is the greatest rock band in history.
If you know anything about music, you most likely narrowed your options to two. If you narrowed your options to Limp Bizkit and The Insane Clown Posse, you truly do not know anything about music. The two bands in debate are The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
The British Invasion brought us the two most popular rock groups of all time, as well as the liveliest debate in rock history…which band is the greatest? To settle the debate once and for all, Abbey Road and Jumping Jack Flash, will pay tribute to the British rock legends and duke it out for the greatest rock band in history. Each band will sing their greatest hits shootout style, until the kings of rock are finally crowned. One would never think a classic ongoing British battle would finally be settled once and for all in Redondo Beach, California.
Friday, January 20th
$15
Brixton South Bay
100 W. Torrance Blvd.
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
310-406-1931
http://www.brixtonsouthbay.com/
MUTEMATH Get Weird
The New Orleans band MUTEMATH makes a local stop at Club Nokia on February 2nd.
The group’s latest Warner Bros. album, Odd Soul, speaks to how these musicians sometimes feel a little like fish out of water. “Well, to me, it represents the idea that I’m strange,” drummer Darren King explains. He goes on and states…
I mean, I remember growing up as a kid thinking that to be me, to be a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant teen, growing up in Missouri, was sort of the absence of culture. I thought that I was raised with a blank canvas regarding culture and that I had nothing in that regard. And then as I get older, I do start to see it differently. And I bear both this pride and also embarrassment for who I am culturally and religiously. And I feel strange. I feel like a weird person. And I feel like it comes from within me. I feel like, from inside out, I’m a bit odd. I see things weird and I think weird and I do weird things. And I’m even weird to myself. I’ll do something and I’ll think, ‘That’s just so weird. That’s a weird way to go about that.’ Whether it be in a relationship or just in everyday life trying to solve a problem. Even the way we record a record, with songwriting, sometimes I feel like we go about it the most backwards way.
Weird is good for creativity, though, so plan to catch MUTEMATH at Club Nokia.
