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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.
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.
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
“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
Quick hits: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Owen Ashworth says he had no idea that 13 years after he started Casiotone for the Painfully Alone that it would still be drawing crowds. Now, the Chicago musician is calling it quits. For good? read & learn. SEE THE FINAL SHOW AT THE SMELL TONIGHT
So Many Wizards bring magic to L.A.’s musical “renaissance”
Los Angeles is teeming with great music, & So Many Wizards is one of the bands that make it so. Now they are dishing on what they think about the L.A. scene. Watch the new So Many Wizards video & see them play this Saturday!
Blissed Out to “re-brand” drug-loving Lindsay Lohan
Blissed Out are returning to Los Angeles (see them at The Smell this Saturday with KIT) & they are are reaching out to one Angeleno specifically. YOU GOTTA SEE/HEAR THIS!
Surrealist glamour photographer Sarah Morrison re-makes & re-models Fancy Space Person Don Bolles
Sarah Morrison is not a musician, but her images are as clever & unshakeable as the most golden hits.
Alien artifacts: Halloween Swim Team explores the unknown
Dustin M. Krapes, Jon Navarro, & Scott Carillo bring the synths to the L.A. underground scene. Now they reveal all to Melvin Butel. SEE THEM AT PEHRSPACE TONIGHT!
No band is an island: Kevin Greenspon connects with concise music & a well curated label, Bridgetown Records
Quietly and purposefully, Kevin Greenspon has given shape & direction to contemporary underground sounds. Learn how & why he does it & SEE KEVIN PLAY THIS MONDAY NIGHT AT PEHR
Quick hits: Diamond Catalog
Diamond Catalog loves Ministry, songs at 138 BPM, and Ministry. Is there anything else you need to know? Oh yeah—THEY ARE PLAYING PEHRSPACE THIS MONDAY!
Quick hits: Vehicle Blues
Gabe Holcombe is Vehicle Blues from Chicago. He plays, he sings, he releases cassette tapes…he writes a song for Justin Bieber! READ THE INTERVIEW & SEE HIM AT PEHR THIS MONDAY
Musical experimentalist Michael Nhat on Woody Allen, racism, LSD (literally!) & his newest album
The “Ariel Pink of Los Angeles hip hop’s” newest, Swimming to Cambodia, will totally blow your mind.
Explore the “world of tween culture” with Extreme Animals
It’s the brain-fry movie & music event of the fall. Read this exclusive Extreme Animals interview to find out what it’s all about. TICKETS JUST $8 WHEN YOU ORDER HERE
Exclusive: Behind the scenes of Former Ghosts’ newest video with director Michael Fierstein
Static Aktion honcho & man about town Michael Fierstein’s newest big project is producing & directing a music video for “New Orleans” by Former Ghosts. GO BEHIND THE SCENES….
Quick hits: Real Noriegas
“People ask us if we’re twins all the time. We’re not even related! We’re just fetishists.” READ ABOUT REAL NORIEGAS & SEE THEM AT PEHRSPACE TONIGHT!
Pet sounds: Ghost Animal at Pehrspace tonight
Snow Cat. Phantom Falcon. Captured Koala. Meet the animals at the audiophonic petting zoo that is Ghost Animal. Includes two MP3 downloads. SEE GHOST ANIMAL PLAY PEHRSPACE TONIGHT!
Quick hits: Total Fang
Elemental, catchy, savage…My evil side is already cackling in anticipation. See Total Fang tonight, Sunday, August 15, at The MIME and tomorrow, Monday, August 16, at Pehrspace.