Music Picks: Lila Downs, Merle Haggard, I See Hawks in L.A., Die Antwoord
Also, Das Racist, Gonjasufi, Roky Erickson and others
Also playing:
JOHN C. REILLY, BECKY STARK, TOM BROSSEAU at Bootleg Bar; TOM RANIER TRIO at Vitello's; AUDACITY, COSMONAUTS, UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO CANDYLAND at Silverlake Lounge.
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Blue Whale
123 Astronaut E S Onizuka St., No. 301
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Chinatown/ Elysian Park
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wed 2/29
Grove of Anaheim
When Merle Haggard landed in a Macon, Ga., hospital last month, it was one of those hit-the-panic-button moments every fan dreads. A bout of pneumonia is rough for any 74-year-old, but Hag's a reliably unreconstructed hell-raiser with a schedule of road dates men half his age would have balked at, and the prospect of losing this ornery cuss was too ghastly to bear. Hag is an irreplaceable talent who, despite country radio's ridiculous, decades-long boycott, still towers over American music via his complex mixture of drastic musical creativity and excruciatingly well-crafted lyrics. Filtered through his singular, cannabis-fueled jazzman's head and grizzled, honky-tonk heart, every Hag performance is one of a kind. Don't screw up and miss this. He ain't gonna be around forever. —Jonny Whiteside
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LOW END THEORY
One of the top three Los Angeles records of 2010 was A Sufi and a Killer, for very simple reasons: bass, dirt, echo and obliterating force of personality from Gonjasufi and Low End resident Gaslamp Killer both, who hacked together two thick LPs' worth of psycho-conceptual hard-core future-primitive freak music. (Somewhere, most likely in his Swiss ice cave, Lee Perry nodded in salute.) "Timeless, incredible filth," said Flying Lotus when it came out — probably the best piece of music writing of 2010, too — and two years later, every word remains true. With Brainfeeder's Jeremiah Jae, a Chicago transplant finding his way to personal truth one limitlessly idiosyncratic beat exploration at a time, at this release party for new Alpha Pup signee Dot, whose debut, Calliope, would be perfect for a hypothetical Tim Burton movie where Daedelus is the star. —Chris Ziegler
Victorian Halls
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While these Chicagoans have been rightly roasted for sounding like the Blood Brothers, well, blood brothers, there's still space for their spastic, vaudeville punk (the BBs were hardly household names after all, and left us five years ago). Victorian Halls mash some squelchy electroclash keys and robotized vocals into their itchy 'n' scratchy post-hardcore to spawn something both danceable and moshable. It's the seedy, suggestive sound of after-hours and side doors, with Sean Lenart's agitated (yet tuneful) whine adding a layer of almost reluctantly androgynous discomfort. If you can put your hardcore history books aside for an hour, Victorian Halls will demonstrate that wanton artsiness needn't preclude an adrenalized good time. —Paul Rogers
Also playing:
THE COALS at 1642; CPT KIRK at the Baked Potato; MR. OIZO at Roxy; CROOKED FINGERS at Hotel Café; REPTAR, QUIET HOOVES at the Echo.
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Few bands in the tumultuous 1960s were as wild as Austin's 13th Floor Elevators, who were best known for the classic track "You're Gonna Miss Me," which was a key link between primitive garage rock and the more free-flowing psychedelia that closed the decade. Bandleader Roky Erickson was the Lone Star State equivalent to Love's Arthur Lee and Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett — a brilliant and misunderstood madman who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent many years out of the limelight, living on the streets or incarcerated in Kafka-esque psychiatric hospitals. Much of the horror he endured (including dubious treatments with Thorazine and electroshock "therapy") was documented in the 2005 documentary You're Gonna Miss Me. Long dismissed as a dysfunctional burnout, Erickson finally got proper medical care, thanks to the intervention of his brother Sumner, and has returned to action in one of the more unexpected rock & roll comebacks. —Falling James
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