INTERVIEWS
CategoryLolly Gesserit: Wretchedness & magic (simultaneously)
Performer Elijah Forrest mixes equal parts noise & tenderness into his tractor beam-like music.
Quick hits: Summer Twins
Sisters Chelsea & Justine have been making music since before they could go to shows on their own.
If it rocks like fuck, it must be Mock Duck
No you are not seeing double—Mock Duck really is two guys named Clay who present themselves identically…and jam like Siamese twins. See them this Monday at Pehrspace!
New band alert: Skull Tape
Hear Brad Breeck’s post-Mae Shi super group with XBXRX, Robotanists, RWOF, & Signals folks.
Fantastica Bastidas confess: “It was love at first jam”
This trio is one of L.A.’s most searing rock bands & they’re playing Saturday with HNMR & Monday at Pehrspace as part of the Michael Nhat release party. Get the details.
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My friends turned their concept into D.I.Y. reality. Try it & get a podcast produced by me with tracks from The Monolators, NASA Space Universe, Tleilaxu Music Machine, Chelsea Wolfe, & more.
World premiere video: Big Whup “B.O.N.I.Z.H.E.A.R.T. <3 <3 <3″
Big Whup is premiering two videos, and here’s one of them. Directed by Kate Gill.
Quick Hits: Kid Static
Playing, MC’ing, filming slick videos that make you laugh…Everything Moses, aka Kid Static, does is scarily great.
‘ID E N TIT Y’ crisis? Crawl into the Show Cave tonight
Hazel Hill McCarthy III & the Show Cave clan have a radical agenda: a new video ID E N TIT Y for you! Interview by Big Whup singer & first time SC.COM contributor Drew Denny.
Quick hits: Peter Pants
Peter Pants is half girls, half boys—& all punk (sort of). This Monday, prepare to be rock ‘n rolled by the most savage reindeer, Christmas tree, angel and “Santa’s little elf” you have ever heard.
NEW VIDEO: David Liebe Hart “Season’s Greeting!”
You know & love him from his appearances on Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Tom Green, the Golden Girls, & more, but you’ve never seen him in a Carnage video like this one by ELLA//OHARU.
Tonight: Cristopher Cichocki transforms Pehr-ceptions
Cris Cichocki curates Pehr tonight so expect: great music, astounding visuals, mashed up movies, & stroke inducing strobe effects. Not for the weak-hearted.
Warm Climate & Robedoor: Two bands that namecheck “Sade” play Pehr
Oh Ms. Sade Adu, what fucked-upped-ness hath your smooth sounds wrought? Los Angeles will learn tonight.
Overflowing with fun: The Symbolick Jews
“Pee is liquid gold” says the band. If so, The Symbolick Jews hit the jackpot with this new video. Audio porn of the best kind…
See Anomalie play
Emilie Corpuz is one woman band Anomalie & the Speakeasy Earth. She is one of the rockinest drummers I’ve ever hosted at Pehr—you could tell she understood rock music perfectly. Now Corpuz is singing and shredding on her own songs.
Sorry for Laughing not at all sorry for hijacking my interview
This group is into: corduroy, “doing HTML,” & a computer reading back our entire interview.
Corima “Surrender to the Universe”
ELLA//OHARU travels to the Zeuhl dimension for this exclusive interview & video portrait.
Religious Girls’ rite stuff
Drums, synths, chanting, paint, pandemonium…enter the mystical world of Religious Girls.
Quick hits: Laco$te
Boys, a girl, another dimension… See the D.I.Y. K-pop-styled video everyone’s talking about.
For the Lubicz clan, cutting is in their Gene Pool
The Lubiczs are the Royal Tenenbaums of collage art. Papa Lou Beach is a famous LP designer, & kids Alpha and Sam have a whole new style.
Original video: Dicso Bunny “No Hay Ni Medio”
Director & producer ELLA//OHARU gets inside Dicso Bunny’s fusion of Latino dance music & unashamed homage to house. Watch this exclusive & evocative video.
Quick hits: Ryan G. Hinds
“I am bringing big vocals, lots of glitter, high kicks, and some dance-able house-pop-electro-y tunes. There will be some great iPhone moments, and when I’m done I wanna party with eeeeeveryone. See you on the dancefloor.”
Ladies go crazy for a sharp-dressed…lifeform?
No matter how good or bad the bands are, I can guarantee you one thing: if Narin dresses up at Pehr, that’s all anyone will be talking about after the concert.
What would Josie Bunnie do? Find out tonight
L.A.’s most outrageous burlesque girl says Pehr better prepare for “Blasphemy, metal chains, a large prop, partial nudity and a song by the Pixies.” GET THE FULL DETAILS HERE
Quick hits: Pedestrian Deposit
“All of our music is fully composed, aside from a few shows with equipment failures where we intuitively worked around the problems, we never improvise.” SEE THEM AT PEHRSPACE HALLOWEEN TONIGHT
Exclusive: Birth! returns to L.A. this Monday
Birth! is Douglas Halbert and he makes some of the most impressive and radical industrial and electronic hardcore you can ever hope to hear. LEARN ABOUT HIS RETURN TO L.A. THIS MONDAY
L.A. musician turns homemade “Obamaporn” into art; Echo Curio exhibit opens Thursday in advance of President’s visit
SEANCARNAGE.COM contributor Geoff Geis‘ first retrospective art show is not for the easily shocked. WE’VE GOT THE SCOOP…& THE DIRTY PHOTOS
“So sick they should call it malaria”: The creator of Santa Clarita’s raddest DIY event, Alan Fest III, interviews himself
“Finally, a musical event in Santa Clarita that is not shameful.” Read this incredible self-interview. DON’T MISS ALAN FEST III THIS SATURDAY
Behind the scenes of Kevin Greenspon & Nicole Kidman’s historic split set performance
I can’t think of an event that I’ve been more excited about than this. Now, Nicole Kidman and Kevin Greenspon tell us whatto expect at Dem Passwords this Saturday night. GET THE DETAILS—YOU’RE INVITED!
Quick hits: Batwings Catwings
Batwings Catwings were the inspiration for booking the first show at a brand new all-ages space called Dem Passwords. A fresh space to match BWCW’s fresh sounds. Are you ready for this? Clay Johnson tells it like it is. GET THE PARTY DETAILS HERE