TONIGHT IN LOS ANGELES - Ten out of Tenn at Troubadour Is My Pick!

So, not a plethora of choices for tonight's concert calendar, but enough to keep it interesting this first Tuesday of December. My suggestion is checking out the Troubadour for Ten from Tenn. I'm digging on Butterfly Boucher.

There is also a music and automobile related event at the Palladium that the Cool Haus ice cream truck is going to be at. You might find me there...

West Coast, Left Coast: Green Umbrella: Adams and Kronos Quartet @ Hollywood Bowl (8PM)

Siobhan Brugger (8PM), Jenni Alpert (9PM) @ Room 5

ASCAP Workshop @ Genghis Cohen

Bobby Long with Emma Ejwertz (7PM), Gregory Alan Isakov (9PM), Patrick Park (10PM) @ Hotel Café

The Section Quartet Holiday Show @ The Largo (8PM)

Filter Presents: The Vic Chesnutt Band w/ Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), Warpaint, Liz Durrett @ Echoplex (7:30 pm)

Swords of Fatima, New Rome Quartet, Lightnin Woodcock @ Echo (8:30 pm)

Assemble The Skyline, Haifax, Pullman Standard, It Boys, Misdelphia, Fallbrooke, Your Very Own @ The Roxy (7 pm)

Ten Out of Tenn feat. Trent Dabbs, k.s. Rhoads, Erin McCarley, Butterfly Boucher, Jeremy Lister, Tyler James, Matthew Perryman Jones, Andy Davis, Katie Herzig @ Troubadour (9 pm)

Split Lip Rayfield, Whisky Chimp, The Sequel @ The Viper Room

Vise Virsa, London To Tokyo, AM vs FM @ Silverlake Lounge

Furcast, Bear Face @ Bootleg (FREE)

Cubic Zirconia @ Cinespace

The Jakes @ Kaufman Hall

Steel Panther at The Roxy Tonight

Check out the below article picked up from theroxyonsunset.com about Steel Panther's performance there later tonight. I'm not sure if this means that there will be no Steel Panther at Key Club tonight (most likely it does), but perhaps you should see if they are playing twice in a two block stretch. Otherwise, that would mean that Key Club has already shut its doors indefinitely....

FROM THE ROXY'S WEBSITE ::::

Steel Panther is taking it old skool and returning to it’s roots, to play The Roxy for ONE NIGHT ONLY on Monday November 300, 2009!! Tickets available NOW thru the Roxy box office (310 278 9457) or Monday at the door. Tickets are $15 and doors open at 8pm. Join us as we wrap out November and rock out with one of the most entertaining acts on The Strip.

Hip-Hoppers Stunting?

So, I may be two days late and a Buckshot short....but word is that MF Doom has been sending some alternate versions of himself to perform in his place.

Slava Kuperstein of hiphopdx.com reports that MF Doom did not in fact perform at Beat Club in Los Angeles, but was rather represented by someone else in a Doom mask. The facts they provide make some sense, and the CunninLynguists have already called the artist out on the practice, so the rumor may in fact be true. Is MF Doom the Banksy of hip-hop? Masking himself so you cannot determine his precise whereabouts or know if it is really him?

I'm undecided if I think MF Doom's stunts are extremely cool - thereby raising the cultural cache of actually getting to see Doom himself - or if they are attempts to take advantage of an audience that is eager to see him and capitalize on the value of his name without doing much work for it. The story that I found on MySpace is reposted below...

MF DOOM Allegedly Puts On Another Fake Show

Los Angeles' Beat Club is the latest in a line of venues that claim MF DOOM sent an imposter to perform in his stead.

by Slava Kuperstein

Www.Hiphopdx.Com

“It’s hard to see here but you can catch glimpses of him." Explained a concert viewer who posted a video of the perfomance (shown below). "It was obvious that he was an imposter since he never once laid his hand on a microphone and just played his new tracks on a laptop.”

When asked for comment by consequenceofsound.net, the rapper's label, Stones Throw - which does not handle his booking - said it was “obvious that he wasn’t going to show up at a venue that fits only 200 people when his performance fee requires venues about 10 times that size.” It should be noted that the label did not explicitly confirm nor deny that the perfomance was an imposter's.

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In the past, DOOM has explained that the allegations were the result of his being unrecognizable due to massive weight loss. He was also called out for the alleged practice byThe Cunninlynguists' DJ Kno in an open letter.

From Ebonics to Lyrical Genius - CunninLynguists Drop Their Vernacular at The Viper Room

Tonight, the hip-hop team known as CunninLynguists will be descending upon The Viper Room for a night of below the radar hip-hop at its finest. If you have not yet seen these hip-hop maestros, now is your chance. Having just released a new LP, "Strange Journey - Volume Two", on November 3rd, they are hitting Los Angeles in support. The new album features a host of guest appearances, including some rappers, such as Evidence of Dilated Peoples, who call LA home. Thus, the likelihood of a guest appearance or surprise performance is elevated...especially when the group is playing at a historic venue.

For the uninitiated, the hip hop trio from Kentucky first stepped onto the hip-hop scene in 2001 with their debut "Will Rap For Food." After working the rap grind for a few years (and putting out another album) they finally achieved larger success with their third album, "A Piece of Strange", which was released in 2006 and is probably my favorite work of theirs to date. With another LP in the bag in 2007 - and tours around the world where they performed on the same stages as Kanye West, Pharrell, The Strokes, Cee-Lo (Goodie Mobb, Gnarls Barkley) and members of the Wu Tang Clan - this hip-hop group has put in the time and effort to perfect their craft.

Catch them tonight at The Viper Room before its too late.

Two Nights with LA Artist Samuel Stewart

One of the great things about living in Los Angeles is that we have the privilege of seeing before they make it big. Well take note now because Samuel Stewart is one of those artists. After catching his intoxicating performance at the Hollywood Brewfest, SUPERGOODMUSIC has been informed of two ways you can see this talented artist live. The first is a show at The Bootleg Theater on Thursday November 19th (Doors @ 9PM). The second is what is sure to be a special set at one of my favorite places in LA, Origami Vinyl in Echo Park on Friday November 20th at 7:30 p.m. To attend the show at Origami Vinyl just rsvp via email to kelsea@planetarygroup.com.

The Stone Foxes play 3 nights in LA - Starting With The Viper Room

Kicking off a 3 night run through Los Angeles at The Viper Room tonight is the emerging bluesy-rock sensation from San Francisco, The Stone Foxes. With a sound that is rock, blues, indie and folk all rolled into one eccentric and intoxicating blend, and a few placements on the absolutely fucking awesome FX show, Sons of Anarchy (watch it, for real), this quartet of bad asses are drawing comparisons to everyone from The Black Keys to The Rolling Stones.


Although they will be heard on airwaves and download streams for years to come, and sure to be back in L.A. again, they're unlikely to give us the pleasure of playing in three intimate venues in three nights. Thursday they hit the historic The Viper Room on Sunset Blvd, Friday they are in the South Bay at Saint Rocke and they close out their three night stint at the 70+ year old The Mint on Pico. No matter where you're at - you won't have to brave much traffic to catch these future superstars if you plan accordingly.

Weekend in Los Angeles

Brewfest went down (see Friday's post) at Henry Fonda on Saturday. The SUPERGOOD caravan arrived around 5 pm and was surprised to find a rather sparsely packed venue. You might think that unlimited access to beer for 8 hours would draw the crowds early...but maybe LA is just not a beer drinker's stomping grounds. OR, maybe, the fact that it wasn't being done outside (similar events in the Spring drew many many more patrons) had something to do with it?

There were some important LA music community faces in the crowd, including Kevin Branson, Lindsey Cook and her MySpace Records crew and the family from Spaceland too. Got to bump into Russ Rubin of Fresh Management, and manager of the amazing indie-sensation Saint Motel.

While I was admittedly more focused on the amazing beer from Bootlegger's Brewery and Coronado, I did enjoy the set by Samuel Stewart in the Blue Palms Lounge. Thank you for the tip off Kelsea! With the endless stream of booze flowing my direction, I had to head out to save myself...ending up on the Westside in Venice for a night of continued drinking sans live music. And, thankfully, no stalled vehicles, unlike Friday....

Friday night's caravan ended in an empty gas tank and less than fulfilled brains because Semi Precious Weapons and Saul Williams were both underwhelming (sorry The Viper Room and The Roxy, no disrespect to you at all...they just didn't deliver). I had high expectations for the SPW show but whomever the androgynous woman DJing in fishnet stockings was - she was way too uninspiring and predictably attempting to look cool that me and the rest of the SUPERGOOD crew with me just couldn't handle it. The flamboyant man in a grey tanktop and no pants also didn't make the spectacle any better.

SO, we bounced to The Roxy - hoping to improve our luck with a unique night of hip-hop. But, the Afro Punk Tour and Niggy Tardust performance was a bit too avant-garde and not enough of the "Twice In A Lifetime" Saul Williams that I was yearning for. With his feathery cape-like get up, he was certainly a spectacle to watch but audibly, not what I was desiring. Rather than the griping lyricism that he so easily possesses and displays, there was more screaming and emo than I had expected. Although there were plenty of heads pumping their fist and digging his flavor, myself and the mini SUPERGOOD entourage were not AND we were in the majority.

That said, the venues were not to blame for the sub-par Friday night shows. And despite their being faultless for the less than thrilling performances echoing from their stage on Friday, The Roxy and The Viper Room are hitting us hard this week with incredible music.... Start your week off right at The Roxy as they just announced that Them Crooked Vultures, Dave Grohl's new supergroup, will be performing a special show there on Monday November 16th. DON'T MISS OUT. You can start lining up at 2 pm....