Re: HOTTEST NIGHT OF TEH SUMMAS
Posted by DJ Rick on 2006-07-20 6:33:20pm
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:HOT GIRLS COOL GUYS (usa tour homecoming party)
:NIGHTWOUNDS (los angeles)
:ABE VIGODA (chino aka los angeles)
:SHEARING PINX (vancouver, bc)
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:1915.5 22nd street...sacramento...7:30pm....bring $4-5 to give to all the bands that are on tour because they are totally worth it. no seriously:
Should you run the other way when John types in all-caps in the booyar dialect, then you probably already scoff, like "p'wah, whatever" at what I'm gonna add. But if we haven't lost your attention, I will promise you that this show will be a great, great time. All four bands on Not Not Fun...this is like a festival for the very best DIY record label in the world at this very moment (even Soriano said words to that effect in his latest S-S mailorder update).
If you've frowned at HGCG in the past, give them this chance because I'm sure that after playing like 28 shows all the way to New England and back, these guys are gonna be tight and in top form. These guys are the most encouraging signs of new life in this area's DIY music community in years and years. What other under-21's besides Hayley have done so much to make shows happen and start bands and side projects and ask nothing of you except to enjoy and have fun. It would be amazing to me even if they lived right here in Midtown, but then after they make shit happen here and in Davis and places like Fools Foundation, then they hafta drive all the way back to Placerville. And they have improved and become more interesting with each season, and I suspect they're at their best now, so please pay respect and be rewarded!
"Before we go further off the tree stump"(--Whodini from "Five Minutes of Funk")...Lemme just say also about this house at 1915? 22nd Street: This is a really nice place to see a show from all different aspects. This is a very friendly and welcoming place to strangers, and it's comfortable even when it's unholy hot outside, and it sounds really good in the basement with all the drapery absorbing noise and preventing echo, and I'm especially glad that Troy and Daniel and Genaro are so generous to provide their really nice house to serve as a public space. It's also a block from Rite Aid where many beverages of all kinds are sold. I meet a minimum of five new people at every show I see there, and all the youngbloods in Sacto are rad right now like it's 1994 all over again. I have personally never felt so welcome and comfortable at a house show than I feel at this place.
You should all know by now that Night Wounds is outstanding, since they (rather literally) blew up the spot at Plainfield during Max Freedom III. No band I can think of has ever made the authentic bleak tone of the original no wave of NYC circa 1978 sound so FUN!!!
With their darting geometric artpunk, Abe Vigoda are like eastside L.A. chicano youth version of the A Frames/Intelligence family tree. People fall in love with this band and their shyness and nervous energy and the way that singer/guitarist Juan looks like Felip? from "Three's Company."
Shearing Pinx is the band I'm most excited to see. They sport the same amazing drum-man-machine from the band Channels 3 & 4, and their double 3-inch CDR thing on Not Not Fun is really something special. It sounds like a more demonstrative and engaging take on early Sonic Youth, but at the heart of every song is the basic simple rock'n'roll rhythm of the Sonics. So, it's definitely not something too high-brow for having fun. Trust me on this one!
You won't regret it!
RE