KNITTING FACTORY LOS ANGELES - 8/12 CONCERT UPDATE
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Thursday, August 24th
Main Room – Chinky Eyed 5th Anniversary
A-Team (Aceyalone & Abstract Rude) / 2Mex (Visionaries) / Mr Hyde (Psychological Records) / 5th Element / The Leadership Crew / Ivan Ives w/ DJ Troma
Ticket: $15 Doors: 8:00PM Show: 8:30PM
Wednesday, August 30th
A Relief International Benefit Show…
NIYAZ & SUSSAN DEHIM, FEATURING RICHARD HOROWITZ
Main Room – $30, 8PM
Vas Vocalist Azam Ali and Axiom of Choice’s multi-instrumentalist Loga Ramin Torkian have joined forces to create a globe-spanning sound that the duo calls “world music for the 21st Century.” Known collectively as Niyaz, the group’s first release is hypnotic, ecstatic and danceable, crossing both traditional and electronic music.
“Niyaz is an alluring combination of medieval Persian and Indian exoticism and beats that are state of the art. Ali’s vocals are wholly evocative of another world and another time, which creates a wonderful tension with Torkian and Rizzo’s inspired instrumental textures.”-- Billboard
Wednesday, August 30th
Special Early Show with…
LIMBECK (ACOUSTIC), REUBEN’S ACCOMPLICE
Alterknit Lounge – $12, 7PM
Limbeck have fashioned themselves as the Kerouac of rock and roll, inheriting the hard work ethic of our best touring bands: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Fugazi. Anyhow rock and roll is about dust and grit and gasoline, and the people you meet along the way, and maybe that’s why Limbeck’s songs seem like a hello from someplace else, a postcard from an old friend.
Wednesday, September 13th
A Special Early Show…
The Wylde Bunch, VAEDA
Main Room – $5, 7PM
The 14-member, South Central L,A,-based group plays a good time, nuthin’-but-a-party blend of hip hop, rock, pop, dance, and whatever else hits their collective radar. Four MCs front a live band that includes backing singers and a horn section. No need to sample “My Sharona,” for example, the band can loop it live and the rappers take it from there. The group keeps the house dancing and accentuates the positive.
"Hip-hop is so angst-ridden,” says Yung Dane, one of the MCs. "I understand where the angst is coming from, but at the same time, you've got to give people something good for them to feed off of, and that's the energy we try to put out there all the time."
Friday, October 6th
MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. / BOTTOMLESS PITT
Main Room - $13, 8PM
After retiring the group Songs: Ohia, leader Jason Molina started up Magnolia Electric Co, a new avenue to explore his country-rock. The name of the new group was taken from the title of the last Songs: Ohia record and proved to be the appropriate connection from the past Molina’s next phase. The group recorded their debut, “Trials and Errors,” live in Belgium in 2003, released by the label Secretly Canadian in early 2005. The band and Molina have remained busy. According to an article in the June 28th issue of Billboard, Molina and crew have just finished six new albums, two of which are scheduled to come out within the year.
Bottomless Pit is a new group formed by Tim Midgett and Andy Cohen, half of the original Silkworm line-up.
Sunday, October 15th
Strike Anywhere, Bane, A Global Threat, THIS IS HELL
Main Room - $12, 7PM
Forming in Richmond, Virginia in 1999, Strike Anywhere has kept the same lineup and the same hard working attitude for seven years—they tour internationally six months a year. The band has recorded three full-lengths with Brian McTernan, two for Jade Tree Records and the upcoming “Dead FM” for Fat Wreck Chords.
Bane are something of an anomaly. Formed in ’94 by Aaron Dalbec, they are a hardcore band from Boston (where they hardest of the hardcore emerged), who ignore hardcore convention and fuse their music with skaterock, metal, trad hardcore, and, heaven forbid, melody.
Thursday, October 19th
saw doctors
Main Room - $17 Advance, $20 Day of Show, 8PM
The Washington Post has referred to the Saw Doctors as “one of the world’s most appealing roots-rock outfits.” Thing is, those roots spread quite far. The Irish band deftly mixes the tunefulness and directness of the Beatles and Merseybeat with the working class imagery of Springsteen, topped with traditional Irish music and revved up in a punk rock engine. They have become the most popular Irish band since U2. Their annual visits to the Knit are always joyous affairs, especially for our Guinness distributor.
Thursday, October 26th
dada
Main Room - $15, 8PM
“Dada's inaugural ‘Puzzle’ (1992) was a highly promising release from a young, creative band - pop without pandering, musicianship without pretense or formula. The group's 1994 follow-up, ‘American Highway Flower,’ played to several favorable reviews. While there's little particularly subliminal or dada-esque about dada's muscular yet adventurous ‘El Subliminoso,’ the group plays with far more horsepower and complexity than it's three-man lineup would suggest. Joie Calio and Michael Gurley make an accomplished bass/guitar tag-team, their interaction, along with precision stickman Phil Leavitt, almost always ringing much larger and intricate than power-trio life.”—allmusic.com
Thursday, November 9th
Stephen Kellog & The Sixers
Front Room - $10 Advance, $12 Day of Show, 8PM
Kellogg has built a solid fan base and a growing national buzz the old fashion way: by logging thousands of miles on the road. In the last two years alone, Kellogg & The Sixers have played more than 300 shows and sold over 10,000 copies of their independently released albums, including last year’s breakthrough, "Bulletproof Heart." With the release of their eponymous major label debut for Foundations/ Universal they’re ready to stake their claim to greatness with eleven original tunes showcasing Kellogg’s expert songwriting and the skillfully understated backing of the Sixers. The self-titled disc features guest shots by Braddigan from Dispatch, Mike Daly from Whiskeytown, Rob James of the Clarks and Rich Price. Special guests aside, it’s still The Sixers who do most of the heavy lifting, supplying the kind of muscular, sympathetic support that comes from long hours on the road and a common sense of purpose.
Tonight:
Sunday, August 13th
All Club - Residency Every Sunday – Evil Club Empire Presents…
Blacklist
Ticket: $10 Age: 18+ Doors: 10:00PM
Alterknit Lounge – Punk Rock Matinee
Blasphemy Squad / Riot This / S.C.R.S. / Fatal Riot / Social Conflict
Ticket: $5 Doors: 5:00PM Show: 5:15PM
Monday, August 14th
KCRW 89.9FM & Filter Magazine Presents…
HE BLACK HEART PROCESSION, Devics, Castanets
Main Room – $15, 7:30PM
San Diego-based Touch & Go recording artists Black Heart Procession are constantly changing their approach while remaining true to their overall dramatic, cinematic style. Their latest recording, “The Spell,” features
Album Leaf members Jimmy LaValle (bass) and Matt Resovich (violin) joining BHP co-founders Pall A. Jenkins (vocals) and multi-instrumentalist Tobias Nathaniel along with drummer Joe Plummer. Allmusic.com says the new record is “a pitch-perfect blend of Black Heart past and present, and a recording as accomplished as any that navigates similarly dark seas. It combines the musical urgency and guitar accentuation of “Amore” with the ethereal spookiness of Black Heart's earlier records, and expands the band's palette by adding ominous, riff-heavy stomps to songs awash in Orwellian menace.”
Front Room – Church of the 8th Day & Knitting Factory Present:
The Underground Railroad – A Local Artists Showcase
Takota
Ticket: $8 ADV / $10 DOS Doors: 8:00PM
Tuesday, August 15th
R.A. RUGGED MAN, PIRATE SYGNAL, AVATAR & DJ OBI
Main Room - $12 Advance, $15 Day of Show, 8PM
After conquering the New York battle scene as a teenager, stories of his ruthless rhymes and outrageous stage presence had the recording companies at attention, and soon R.A. was the subject of a nine label bidding war. At 18, he signed to Jive Records, but eventually was dropped for the violent, disgusting, and irresponsible behavior that would haunt him throughout his career. Despite a notorious reputation for pissing off executives, R.A. developed a musical resume over the next ten years that speaks for itself, as he worked with artists from Mobb Deep to Notorious B.I.G, and producers such as Erick Sermon, Trackmasters, DJ Quick, Alchemist, Havoc, Buckwild, and Ayatolah.
With the release of the album "Die, Rugged Man, Die,” his fans will finally get to see R.A.'s real-life struggles through his notoriously demented world view.
Front Room - BLUEBEAT LOUNGE-
Eastern Standard Time / Chris Murray Combo / The Roundabouts
Ticket: $5 Doors: 9:00PM
Alterknit Lounge
Nor / All Teeth and Knuckles / Max Actual/No Text
Ticket: $5 Doors: 8:00PM Show: 8:30PM
Wednesday, August 16th
The Hanks, DUSTY RHODES & THE RIVER BAND, HOLLYWOOD MANNEQUIN FACTORY, LIKEWISE
Main Room - $8, 7:30PM
The Hanks take cues from songwriters like Elvis Costello and Paul Simon, then mix in enough jagged rhythms, sparking keyboards and crashing guitars to keep any modern rock fan happy. Together for six years now, the band’s debut album, “Your New Attraction,” is out on the rip-roarin’ Caffeine Teen label.
Wagatail Productions Presents…
Rehab, OPM, MOONSHINE BANDITS
Front Room - $10 Advance, $12 Day of Show, 8PM
From Allmusicguide.com: “The Southern hip-hop duo called Rehab were literally a product of their namesake. Original members Danny Boone and Brooks Buford, both recovering alcoholics and drug addicts, met at a local rehab facility and connected over their love of music. Mashing rap with rock, the duo released their debut album, ‘Southern Discomfort,’ in 2000 on the Sony label. Cee-Lo (Gnarls Barkley), Goodie Mob, and Cody ChesnuTT were some of the guests on the album, which would spawn the Top 15 modern rock hit ‘It Don't Matter.’ Two years were spent on the road supporting the album, including a stint on the Vans Warped Tour, and then the duo splintered. Boone retained the name and recruited four veteran musicians for a new Rehab. Now a quintet with Boone as the lone singer/rapper — and also using his birthname, Danny Alexander — Rehab signed with Arshid Entertainment and released the ambitious ‘Graffiti the World’ in 2005.”
Alterknit Lounge
Sundance Kids / Cataldo / Whispertown 2000 / Michael Runion
Ticket: $7 Doors: 8:00PM Show: 8:30PM
Thursday, August 17th
Main Room
Ben Kenney of Incubus & The Roots with Ashley Mendel & Sekou Lumumba / DJ Kilmore of Incubus (DJ Set) /The Smyrk
Ticket: $15 ADV / $17 DOS Doors: 8:00PM Show: 8:30PM
Alterknit Lounge – Knitting Factory Presents…
Hotel Room
Ticket: $5 Doors: 8:00PM
Friday, August 18th
Main Room – Sean Healy Presents…
Suspects / 1AD7 / Natural Cause / Cynical / Operation Downfall / Native of the Dawn
Ticket: $12 Doors: 8:00PM Show: 8:10PM
Front Room – Early Show
MLC / Whipped Cream (Cream Tribute Band)
Ticket: $8 Doors: 7:00PM Show: 7:15PM
Front Room – Late Show…
Dirty Kings / The Scene / The Pacific / Casper
Ticket: $5 Doors: 9:00PM Show: 9:15PM
Alterknit Lounge
The Ghost Next Door, Avatar & DJ Obi, 2nd Class Citizens
Ticket: $7 Doors: 8:00PM Show: 8:30PM
Saturday, August 19th
KCRW 88.9 FM & Filter Magazine Present…
The Clientele, Great Lakes, Bedroom Walls
Main Room - $12 Advance, $14 Day of Show
Retro-fitted pop band the Clientele had obvious roots in the hazy, autumnal glare of Galaxie 500 and Felt. Just as those bands took their Velvet Underground and Television records to heart without being derivative, the Clientele were able to chalk up an extensive discography riddled with lush melodies of their own without sounding like a tribute band. Think of your favorite 60s pop band and odds are they're in the Clientele's blood. -Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
Front Room – Local Pacific & Tin Panda Present…
Cavil at Rest / Matcli / InMemory / Fetterline / The Remus Lupins
Ticket: $10 ADV / $12 DOS Doors: 7:30PM Show: 8:00PM
Alterknit Lounge – Church of the 8th Day Presents…
Wrench in the Works
Ticket: $8 Doors: 8:00PM
Sunday, August 20th
All Club - Residency Every Sunday – Evil Club Empire Presents…
Blacklist
Ticket: $10 Age: 18+ Doors: 10:00PM
A Special Early Benefit Show with…
The Postmen
Main Room – $20, 7PM
Also known as the Four Postmen, there are actually five band members in the L.A.-based rock group. Featuring electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, drums, bass, and strong emphasis on three-part vocal harmony, their live show is highly energetic and theatrical, complete with non-stop comic banter between songs. Sometimes compared to Barenaked Ladies, GQ Magazine prefers to call them, "The Seinfeldesque Monkees." Their songs “Lost Vegas” and “The Horrible Movie” feature nutty arrangements and Gregorian harmonies, and frankly need to be heard to be believed.
Alterknit Lounge – Matinee Show…
Societies Parasites / Another Dam Disappointment / The Scuffs / Defied / Plan Anarchy
Ticket: $5 Doors: 5:00PM Show: 5:30PM
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