Tonight in L.A. (November 16, 2012)

Start your weekend off properly with some good live music - whether that's closing out the Greek Theatre season with Steve Winwood and The Wood Brothers (which includes members of esteemed Medeski, Martin and Wood) or going "Hollywood" in Hollywood with Penguin Prison and The Twelves at the Private Label party at Lure - there is something for everyone.





Those that planned in advance may have tickets to sold out Tame Impala and The Amazing show at El Rey Theatre or the sold out Walk The Moon and Family of the Year show at Fonda Theatre.  For non sold out rock consider the clever and entertaining Yacht Rock Revue at The Satellite or the grit of John Wayne Bro at Alex's Bar.  Gentler ears might enjoy Joshua Radin, A Fine Frenzy and Lucy Schwartz at The Wiltern - tickets are still available.





Two steppers and beatards can enjoy Ann Arbor's Dabrye along with Shigeto and Low Limit at Los Globos or Bluetech and ILL-Esha at King King Club.



For all shows in LA tonight - see below:

• Joshua Radin, A Fine Frenzy, Lucy Schwartz @ The Wiltern

• Steve Winwood, The Wood Brothers @ Greek Theatre (Season Ender)

• Max Graham, Rank1 @ Exchange LA

• Roomrunner, Corners, Wild Pack of Canaries, Froth @ The Smell

• H & S Band & Burlesque w/ DJ Dan Mancini @ Harvard & Stone

• Young Lace, Undefined @ Key Club

• Vinnie Paz & Ill Bill (Jedi Mind Tricks), Heavy Metal Kings, La Coka Nostra, The LG w/ Drone, Hungjury, Hunter Beard & Keddy Mac, Genocide Ent. @ Key Club

• Run Run Run, Super Water Sympathy, Glass Battles, Attaloss, The Lonely Drunks Club Band @ The Viper Room

• Lianna La Havas, Van Hunt @ The Roxy

• Jon Brion @ Largo

• Tame Impala, The Amazing @ El Rey Theatre (SOLD OUT)

• Epica, Alestorm, Insomnium, Destiny Potato @ House of Blues – Sunset Strip

• Walk The Moon, Family of the Year @ Fonda Theatre ( SOLD OUT)

• Green Velvet, Pleasurekraft @ Avalon

• Hana Kim, Simone White, Noma Abadi @ Bootleg Bar

• Yacht Rock Revue @ The Satellite

• Typhoon, Lara Gibson, Los Lander @ The Echo

• Northern Soul & Boss Sound Revue, Gwen Owens, Roy Ellis @ The Echoplex

• State to State, The Palace Ballroom, The Union Lane, Cassandra McGrath @ El Cid

• Shytown @ Hard Rock Café Hollywood

• Louise Goffin, Irina Bjorklund, Amber Rubarth, Dave Eggar, Famous In Iowa, Eddie Wakes @ The Hotel Café

• Micky @ The Motorcars, The Far West, Liam Gerner @ The Mint

• Anita & The Yanks, Craic Haus, Brick Top Blaggers, Sligo Rags @ Brixton South Bay

• Barry Zweig Trio, Calvin Love @ Del Monte Speakeasy (Free before 10)

• Hunter & The Dirty Jacks @ Harvelle’s

• Super Diamond, Dane Drewis @ Saint Rocke

• SUMMRDJ, The Rogue Mechanica, DJ Don Rivers @ The Central SAPC

• The Black Watch @ Taix

• Blue October @ House of Blues – Anaheim

• John Wayne Bro, Black Market Music Brokers @ Alex’s Bar

• Grouplove, Papa @ The Observatory

• Penguin Prison, The Twelves @ Lure

• Dabrye, Shigeto, Low Limit, Colta @ Los Globos

• The Mummy Jamboree: Glowbird, Franklin’s Key @ Lot 1 Café

• The Birthday Massacre, Aesthetic Perfection, William Control, Creature Feature @ The Glass House

• Rotations: Joshua James @ Amoeba (FREE)

• Lady Danville, Magic Wands, Alma Desnuda @ Troubadour

• Feenixpawl, Mossberg Pump @ Yost Theater

• Bluetech, ILL-Esha, Yppah @ King King Club

Tonight in L.A. (October 26, 2012)

Halloween Weekend is on like Donkey Kong in Los Angeles with plenty of costume parties on the bill for tonight.  No costume party will rage harder than the Collaborative Media extravaganza at Vanguard.  The bill features not only a live performance from The Presets - but DJ sets from Australia's Miami Horror, members of The Rapture, Etienne De Crecy, Foster The People, Guns in The Sun and more.    Get tickets here.   You can also dance in a costume at clubs downtown with Sex Panther at Belasco Theater or in the O.C. at Yost Theater or Detroit Bar. 





To move to some filthy beats - go to Club Nokia for Flying Lotus, The Gaslamp Killer and Jeremiah Jae or - if you want lyrics and posses - go to A$Ap Rocky, Schoolyboy Q and Danny Brown at Hollywood Palladium.  Downsize for some more intimate hip-hop at The Roxy with Dilated Peoples, Fashawn, LMNO and DJ Mishaps.





Punk out for a homo-ween event at Los Globos with SSion.  Go for free by winning tickets through us - just tweet out @iheartcomix @clublosglobos and @supergoodmusic in the same tweet to enter.  If you want to be spooked by guitar play - Jon Brion at Largo could be your jam.  



Other notables include Macklemore & Ryan Lewis show at The Observatory, Matthew Dear live at El Rey Theatre, Bone Thugs N Harmony at City National Grove of Anaheim, and an M83 DJ set at Lure in Hollywood - with opening sounds provided by Jason Bentley!

• The Presets, Miami Horror (DJ Set), Foster The People (DJ Set) , Etienne De Crecy, The Rapture (DJ Set), Guns in the Sun + More @ Vanguard

• A$AP Rocky, A$ap Mob, Schoolboy Q, Danny Brown @ Hollywood Palladium

• Claude Vonstroke, Justin Martin @ Avalon

• Diamond Lane, Lonely Drunks Club Band, Future Villains, Delta Rose, Trick Pistol @ The Viper Room

• Dilated Peoples, Fashawn, LMNO, DJ Mishaps @ The Roxy

• Mike Taylor, Abstract Funky People, The Local Weather, The Lucky Lonely, DJ Kid Peace @ On The Rox

• IAMEVE, Tyler Conti, Jessica Fine, Sarah Pigion @ WitZend

• Chris Pierce, Big Joe Hurt @ Harvelle’s

• Matthew Dear (Live Band), Light Asylum, Survive @ El Rey Theatre

• Jon Brion @ Largo

• K,noup & Kelly, Cromwell, Downtown Attraction, Ceasefire, Red 9, Lido Beach @ Troubadour

• Rusted Root, Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk @ Key Club

• Snacktime and Creeps @ Lot 1 Café (FREE)

• Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders @ Origami Vinyl (FREE)(7 PM)

• James Supercave, M31, Jack Littman, Snow White @ Pehrspace

• Gary War, Purple Pilgrims, Night Control, PROTECTME @ The Smell

• Lucha VaVoom Halloween: Aztec Horror @ Mayan Theater

• Kyau & Albert, Ashley Walbridge @ Exchange LA

• Sex Panther @ Belasco Theater

• Tiger Army, EXENE, Suedehead @ Fonda Theatre

• Joel Osteen @ Staples Center

• Flying Lotus, The Gaslamp Killer, Jeremiah Jae @ Club Nokia

• War Tapes, Jutty Ranx, Last American Buffalo, Strange Tongues @ Bootleg Bar

• Church Sessions w/ Lost In Trees, Midtown Dickens, Dan Buoy @ First Unitarian Church

• Beyond The Witching Hour in Crystal Vision w/ Peaking Lights, Lumerians, Dahga Bloom, Guy Blackslee, Golden Animals, Juju, Supertall Paul, Diva Dompe, Blackfeet Braves, Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel, Runson Willis, Cosmonauts @ The Echoplex

• Pangea, The Shrine, Meat Market, DJ Neil Schield (Origami Vinyl) @ The Echo

• St. Lucia, Night Terrors of 1927, Beat Club @ The Satellite

• Storm Large, Nataly Dawn, Taylor Greenwood, Sonnet @ The Hotel Cafe

• Zigaboo Modeliste, Carnival Dogs, Liam Gerner @ The Mint

• Alesana @ House of Blues - Sunset

• EEK! At The Greek, Symphony in the Glen @ Greek Theatre

• Bob Dylan, Mark Knopfler @ Hollywood Bowl

• Travis Mersola, Rodello’s Machine, Denny White, Lily Elise, Garrett Lee Robinson @ Room 5 Lounge

• Ssion, House of Ladosha, Ab Soto, DJ Josh Peace @ Los Globos

• Chris Malinchak, James Del Barco, J99, Calcat @ The Central SAPC

• Black Rainbow + Zane @ Amoeba

• DJ Paul V @ King King Hollywood

• Barry Zweig Trio @ Del Monte Speakeasy (FREE)

• Dj Alfred Hawkins @ Del Monte Speakeasy

• House of Nightmarez w/ Alex Dreamz, Kris P., Dirty Lou @ Yost Theater

• Halloween Horror Costume Party feat. Marc Crenshaw, Khoizilla, Menikmati, Simon lefisch, Dmctchr, Death House of Love, Audio-C, Clevergirl @ Detroit Bar

• Cash’d Out, Clownvis Presley, Sina and Josh Unpunked @ Saint Rocke

• Dammit Janet, The Fling @ Alex’s Bar

• The Cabin Project, Sound Cannon, Beau James @ Molly Malones

• White Fang, Cosmonauts, Burnt Ones, Guantanamo Baywatch, White Mystery, unnatural Helpers, Nude Sunrise @ Blue Star

• M83 (DJ Set), Jason Bentley @ Lure

• Earth, Fontanelle, Stebmo @ Center for the Arts – Eagle Rock

• Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group @ Constellation Room (The Observatory)

• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis @ The Observatory

• Motion City Soundtrack, Jukebox The Ghost, Now, Now @ The Glass House

• Hip Hatchet Maesa Vermouth Paulene @ El Cid

• Freak Star, The Dagons, Igor Spectre @ Redwood Bar

• H & S Band and Burlesque w/ Dan Mancini @ Harvard & Stone

• Japanese Horror Night w/ DJ’s Tense & Daniel Graves @ Das Bunker

• SciFiDie, Luciano Palacios, Wade Weston, Jounce, Beta Control, Frequency K, Camilo Rave, Hike, Baron JL, Skuzzo @ Bardot

• Neil Halstead @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop

• Bone Thugs N Harmony @ City National Grove of Anaheim

• Thee Oh Sees, Amplified Heat, Olneyville Sound System @ Pappy & Harriet’s 

KXSC Fest Announces Flying Lotus & Delicate Steve to Festival - Playing Today for FREE

Yes. Its true. The amazing electronic production wizard Flying Lotus is playing at KXSC Festival today. Its FREE. Its going to be dope and there are going to be Trojan cuties in full force on this excellent Sunday.

Not only is the L.A. Dilla-inspired beat champion going to be in the house, up and comer Delicate Steve is also going to be there as well...

They join a line-up that already features Sister Crayon, Abe Vigoda and SUPERGOODMUSIC's very own Boom D in the DJ Booth. With Marko from Downtown Lobby and Dublab Derek also DJing - it should be a continuous banger from 4 pm to close (around midnight).

If you come by - please visit the SUPERGOODMUSIC.com booth so we can meet you. Plus we'll have some CDs to give-away, some stickers to give-away and some clothing to give away - so its worth your time.

Don't be a stranger. Hope to see you there!

HARD Weekend...

After jumping through some hoops to acquire the HARD press pass, I finally parked near the LA State Historical Park and waded through the sea of people that was the raver task force and potential concert attendees. Before I could even enter the event, the first "did I just see that?" experience occurred, when a pedestrian was struck by a car.

The police were certainly out in full force; the city made it quite clear that they were going to amp up their police presence with the raver task force and not tolerate a lot of the shenanigans that were routine at EDC (i.e. teenagers doing ecstasy). As a result of concentrating police efforts on eradicating drugs from the concert going experience (has that ever worked?) the city's boys in blue just weren't patrolling street traffic. Maybe if the cops spent more time doing what they had done at EDC (direct traffic) and less time fulfilling the calling of the raver task force (make drug related arrests), the victim of this accident wouldn't have been carried away on a stretcher. While I understand the motives for the city to make a strong showing against underage drinking and drug consumption in light of the death at EDC, I'd prefer to see the city direct the resources toward a problem they can actually control (traffic congestion and pedestrian foot traffic) than one that they cannot (drug consumption).

Once I finally got inside the venue, I b-lined to the alcohol area because it had been a good two hour ordeal just to do the damn thing and I felt like celebrating. I drowned my sadness over missing The Twelves and Breakbot with a little bit of hoppy nectar and sought to find some good photo subjects and a good vantage point for Diplo.

The alcohol control was admittedly a lot more under control than it had been at EDC, so props to the HARD organizers for keeping the tweener set away from the booze for the most part. Inside the tent, I had the pleasure of bumping into some cats from the Jungle Riddim and Media Contender camp. We chopped it up while indulging in Diplo at the main stage - who was creating some impressively hard dubstep that I did not expect from him.

As the sun faded down, I thought it would be wise to see what was up at the dubstep stage. Meandering through the sea of candy flippers, girls in yeti boots, rolling rollers and teenagers womp stepping, I stumbled into John, better known as the rising star 12th Planet.

A Rolling Roller

12th Planet (yellow & black plaid)

Benga

After kicking it over some drinks with 12th, Benga and the entourage, and absorbing the electro-dub-compositions of Flying Lotus (his set was spectacular and J Dilla inspired), I felt a bit of a need to get my dance on. Luckily for me - this girl in the pink had the same idea and we battled (check out my dougie!).

Boom D dance off

After turning heads with wicked dancing in the alcohol tent, I ventured out to the teenage zone to see if I might have other challengers or another b-boy-esque cypher to join. With attendees focused on the LED screens and the headlining acts, I didn't find the competition I was looking for. But, I made a handful of new friends, saw some shining faces and ended the night with some fantastic music (Soulwax).

Can only hope the rest of the tour goes off as it did on Saturday and that the next HARD LA event has as interesting of a line-up...