Le Switch CD Release Show TONIGHT at The Echo

Le Switch (Los Angeles, CA) Photo by Charlie Chu It's been a long time coming. One of our local favorites Le Switch  will be hosting CD release party TONIGHT at The Echo with Nico Stai, Les Blanks, and The World Record. Their debut full length And Now…Le Switch won't officially be released until September 30th via Aquarium Drunkard's Autumn Tone Records; but tonight a limited number of records will be available at the show!! Tickets are only $5! Come hang out! [MP3] Le Switch - Simple Gifts VIDEO: Le Switch - Livin' In Another World Le Switch - Livin' In Another World from Aris Blevins on Vimeo.

Warped Tour Comes To An End

Shwayze at Warped Tour Chicago I spent all day Yesterday down at the 2008 Vans Warped Tour. I must say the tour has made huge leaps in the past few years to really diversify the music offered there. Instead of a sea of screamo, emo, and punk bands I was pleasantly surprised to see bands such as Katy Perry, Shwayze, and 3Oh!3 sharing the bill. Shwayze closed out the Hurley.com stage at 8:45pm playing to a larger than normal crowd. It's hard to keep people there that late but man the guys did to great success. Shwayze's debut album hit stores TOMORROW. be sure to pick it up on iTUNES. You can also catch BUZZIN - the new hit series all about Shwayze Wednesdays at 10:30/9:30c on MTV.

Fuck Yeah Fest August 30th and 31st

Not much time to post today because I will be heading up to San Francisco from The 2008 Bandwidth Music And Technology Conference. SF readers email me if you want to hang out! Last night's Fuck Yeah Fest Benefit Show was PACKED to the gills. It was hot as hell but the bands and people made it a fantastic night. Don't forget Fuck Yeah Fest will come to Echo Park Saturday August 30th and Sunday August 31st. Tickets are on sale now for only $18 bucks. Buy them here. JAXART Records will be helping sponsor the festival so please come out! LINEUP AND OTHER SHOWS BELOW! F YEAH FEST 5 LINE UP FOR SATURDAY, AUGUST 30th BANDS NO AGE NEGATIVE APROACH GLASS CANDY MATT AND KIM TWO GALLANTS FUCKED UP LADYHAWK CRYSTAL ANTLERS DAVID VANDERVELDE SILVERGHOST BEST FWENDS HIGH PLACES JAPANTHER OFF WITH THEIR HEADS RUMSPRINGA ANAVAN PREACHER AND THE KNIFE BROTHER READE MICHAEL RUNION TOD ADRIAN WISENBAKER WAR TAPES MIKA MIKO PAST LIVES UNDERGROUND RAILROAD TO CANDYLAND MONOTONIX DAVID DONDERO ABE VIGODA DUBLAB SOUNDSYSTEM THE STRANGE BOYS MANNEQUIN MEN FRANK FAIRFIELD GRAHAM FOREST NODZZZ 60 WATT KID COMEDIANS KYLE KINANE KEVIN KYLINE JONAH RAY MATT BRAUGNER JOSH FADEM + MORE BANDS & COMEDIANS TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY. This will be taking place at the Echo, EchoPlex, Rec Center + surrounding locations. Doors will be 4:00pm & tickets are $16. The fest is all ages. Check back the week of for a time schedule. OTHER EVENTS: Friday, August 29th F YEAH FEST PRESENTS: THE MELVINS NEGATIVE APPROACH BIG BUSINESS @ the Glasshouse 200 W. Second St. Pomona, CA 91766 $16 / 7:00pm / All Ages Friday, August 29th F Yeah Fest Presents: HOT WATER MUSIC STRIKE ANYWHERE + 1 more @ the El Rey $23 / 7:00pm / All Ages Saturday, August 30th F Yeah Fest Presents: HOT WATER MUSIC STRIKE ANYWHERE + 1 more @ the Glasshouse 200 W. Second St. Pomona, CA 91766 $19 / 7:00pm / All Ages Sunday, August 31st F Yeah Fest Presents: THE LA SCAVENGER HUNT Info on this site. Check it out. $8 / 2:00pm / All Ages Sunday, August 31st F Yeah Fest Presents: POLVO TRANS AM THE DRONES @ the EchoPlex $15 / 8:00pm / attheecho.com Sunday, August 31st F Yeah Fest Presents: Special Guest Headliner HIT ME BACK FINAL FIGHT BROKEN NEEDLE @ the Smell $7 / 7:00pm / All Ages Sunday, August 31st F Yeah Fest Presents: DAN DEACON + 2 more @ LOCATION TBA & IT'S A SECRET $? / 8:00 / All Ages

Crystal Antlers Sign To Touch And Go Records Play Fuck Yeah Benefit Show TONIGHT

Crystal Antlers (Long Beach, CA) Photo by Grant Peterson Congratulations are in order to Crystal Antlers - who recently signed to Touch and Go Records!! The band will be playing the Fuck Yeah Fest Benefit TONIGHT at 6th Street Warehouse with Slang Chickens, Tweak Bird, Brother Reade, and Totally Michael. You may have heard about the absolutely awesome F Yeah Tour which hit 27 cities and featured bands like Monotonix, Matt & Kim, Team Robespierre, and The Death Set. They did the entire tour summer camp style in a white school bus powered by vegetable oil. The New York Times even featured it (read the article here). Needless to say some additional expenses were incurred and the guys now find themselves heavily in debt for bringing great music to the masses. Read a message from Sean Carlson below. Please come out F Yeah Fest Benefit Tuesday, August 12th Crystal Antlers Brother Reade Tweak Bird Totally Michael Slang Chickens + Todd from Sea Level will be djing @ 6th St Warehouse 1269 E. 6th St.  LA, CA $6 / 9:00pm DONATE ON PAYPAL ------- F YEAH FEST BENEFIT TOMORROW NIGHT AT THE 6th STREET WAREHOUSE IN DOWNTOWN LA. I apologize about the mass email and even more so if you receive this and you live 40,000 miles from Los Angeles. I rarely send these out and when I do I make sure that they are important. And obviously this is pretty important so if you have minute please read the info below.     Tomorrow night, August 12th a benefit will be taking place at the 6th St. Warehouse in LA with Crystal Antlers, Brother Reade, Tweak Bird, Totally Michael & Slang Chickens. The benefit is to help raise money so we can continue to do events like the F Yeah Fest, the LA Scavenger Hunt & shows through out the year.     Here is an explanation. This year the F Yeah Fest took a huge hit. The original financial backer pulled out days before we had planned to announce the line up, leaving the fest in a very bad position. We had to choose between canceling it entirely or scaling it down and risking going into an incredible amount of debt. We chose to go ahead and take the financial hit in order to keep what we have worked to build for the past five years alive. We didn't realize how bad it would be.   Now we are well over $15k in debt. We do not have a financial backer to pull us out of this and it is impossible to get a loan when you are 23 years old and the only thing you own is a car worth about $400 (I'm referring to myself here).   The show tomorrow show is to raise a few dollars so we can continue to do events. If you can't make it to the show but would like to make a donation please use the paypal link below. 100% of your contribution will go towards keeping these events alive and will allow us to continue to grow. Anything you can donate will help us tremendously.   Thank you again for the years of support. We plan on doing this forever, even if it means we have to continue to live at home with our parents cause we can't afford rent. Sean Carlson & the Fuck Yeah Fest Crew fyeahfest@gmail.com fyeahfest.com

Own A Piece Of JAX History...

Well everyone - It's official. I'm moving to a new apartment in Los Feliz! I've been living in Echo Park for over 3 years now and I have to say I'm going to be sad leaving the neighborhood. I'll still be there hanging out almost everyday and I'm super excited for my new place! Expect invites to house parties soon! In anticipation of the move I've decided to put a few things up for sale on EBay. Mostly to clean house but also because I need some cash to rent a truck, buy boxes, etc. I'm starting off by selling my Boss Multiple Effects Pedal for Bass. I've played this on stage for the last year and must say it's mighty tasty. Retails for around $300 bucks and I'm hoping to get 220-280 for it. Check out the Ebay auction right here! Please forward it to anyone you think may be interested. I need green!

In Remembrance Isaac Hayes

The music world is stunned and saddened by the death of legendary soul singer Isaac Hayes who passed away this weekend in his Memphis home. LA Record's Rena Kosnett interviewed the singer last week in preparation for his performance at Sunset Junction. It is one of his final interviews.   READ ISAAC HAYES INTERVIEW RIGHT HERE

Your Weekend Plans

TONIGHT: 88 Boadrum @ La Brea Tar Pits 88 Drummers will play for 88 minutes beginning at 8:08 SHARP! They are doing the same thing in New York TONIGHT, Obtain free tickets at Amoeba Music, LACMA or online. One ticket per person. First come first served. DETAILS Karin Tatoyan will be performing at Spaceland with Sarah Neghadari and the Sad Solids (aka The Happy Hollows - GET IT?) Karin Tatoyan @ Spaceland w/ Learning Music Sarah Negahdari and the Sad Solids (happy hollows) Special Guest at midnight *please email karinguestlist@gmail.com with your full name in the header to be placed on a $5 list Ema & The Ghosts celebrates the release of her debut EP TONIGHT at pehrspace while Lindsay from the Karabal Nightlife will be celebrating her birthday! Should be a really fun night Psychedlic L.A. Underground/la-underground present: THE KARABAL NIGHTLIFE SHIRLEY ROLLS EMA AND THE GHOSTS THE DIGS QUEEN KWONG Keith Wilson will present his weekly party at HYDE. Just drop his name at the door to get in TOMORROW Castledoor will celebrate their EP Release Party at the {open} gallery in Long Beach. Agent Ribbons will also perform who I HIGHLY recommend. ALL AGES. $5 gets you in the door or $10 gets you in the door with new Castledoor-’Til We Sink vinyl EP. 8pm. FREE WINE & TREATS! SUNDAY Fuck Yeah Fest will be hosting a benefit at 6th Street Warehouse with performances from Crystal Antlers and more. these guys work INSANELY HARD to bring great music to Los Angeles and Great LA bands to the rest of the country. Please go down and support. ADDRESS: 1269 e. 6th st, Los Angeles, California

You Say Party We Say Wallpaper!!!

You Say Party We Say Die (Vancouver, BC) Check out this AWEEEESOME o.g. style remix of You Say Party We Say Die's track "Moon" by Oakland's own Wallpaper. You Say Party We Say Die still remain one of my favorite bands I have yet to see because of stupid Canadian border issues. The track is part of the YSPWSD's Remix album entitled Remik's Cube. The album will be out digitally August 26th. [MP3] You Say Party We Say Die! - Moon (Wallpaper Remix)

Even High Rollers Need Their Ciabatta Fix

Sorry I've been a hermit lately. Regular scheduled posting will resume tomorrow. In the meantime check out this hilarious photo I took with my cell last night. Yes thats a brand new red BENTLEY going through a jack n the box drive in. HILARIOUS PS. If you must know I had the Chicken Fajita Pita and a Mango Smoothie. It was delicious!