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For the natural life of our environment, which recedes into hibernation at this time of year, we blossom. FMLY FEST is just ten days off, so before we cross the single digit barrier it seems about time to announce these set times. Since the lineup was collaboratively booked via volunteer meetings and email threads we thought this decision would be all the more appropriate if our schedule reflected the submissions received from our buds around town. Peep ‘em below and get your stoked on with us! <3′s represent round robins aka cuddle puddles.

by nag champoy & adam rothman

FMLY Fest 2k11 is the third annual expression of Los Angeles’ friendliest D.I.T. (do-it-together) music and arts festival. On December 29 & 30 we invite you to our open gathering: a two day long celebration of our FMLY and FRNDS representing an international community of artists, musicians, activists, free thinkers, and like-minded social do-gooders. Last year we hosted 35 bands, 15 artists, and 2,500 new and old friends over two days and four spaces. Since then, we’ve become passionate about a whole lot more and we want to share as much amazing finds with you as we can.

Ride by bike and leave your cycle with our crank valet, because this year we’ve invited 45 of the sweetest bands from all over the country to share with you. We’ve got not one… not five… but NINE combinations of round robins and head to head band battles. If that sounds like it’s a little too extreme for your weekend then our buds from local labels Complicated Dance Steps and No Kings will be on site presenting a chill-out tent with experimental and ambient live performances. You can even take a break from dancing and head over to our art galleries, zine libraries, curated lecture and workshop series, and interactive art installations.

Everyone involved with FMLY Fest 2011 would also like to extend our most sincere gratitude to the Power of Green Los Angeles for donating the solar cells and panels to make this the first solar powered D.I.Y. music and arts festival in the country, Food Not Bombs and the Revolutionary Autonomous Communities for providing environmentally conscious food, and everyone who has donated their time, resources, energy, and love towards making this happen. We are so grateful to our community for allowing us to throw such an amazing festival with zero sponsorship from any greedy or otherwise unsavory corporations and institutions. Listen to the official FMLY FEST mixtape above and click here to be redirected to our dedicated tumblr where you can watch a sweet selection of videos from our participating artists as well as purchase tickets! $10 for a day pass and $15 for the weekend. See ya there.

hey buds! come on over for dinner & a show in [bushwick] brooklyn on october19. we’re serving a homecooked vegetarian meal, some mario kart, and an acoustic set from our superbro heartthrobs cloud nothings! so stoked. if you have the day off or are in town for cmj feel free to still make plans during the day and/or night. we’re recommending you come over around 6 to hang, dinner will be served 6:30-7, and cloud nothings strut their stripped down sounds right at 7. check out some videos of our previous dinners.

RSVP MANDATORY
rsvp to noah@thefmly.com with the subject CLOUD NOTHINGS if you’d like to join us. $5 gets ya dinner. limited to 20 people, we’ll choose ya at random on october 12.

Thank You Come Again hops across the country tomorrow afternoon to celebrate a lifetime of two years, and to begin a new monthly home in New York City. The purpose is to share a bunch of sounds that we love with our friends and friends who make them, and present this as a public, free, acoustic, daytime activity in a beautiful place. For our New York series we hope to offer a small paradise within such a bubbling and rapid environment. Each month TYCA will be held in a new and fantastic location, and we hope you’re equally as excited to journey through New York as we are! For our first-coming we’ve decided to pick a neutral point where most have easy access and a knowledge of, and that point is McCarren Park. We’ll meet on the park side of Bedford, closer to Nassau, just inside the gate. We’ll be there at 2, hangin’ on our rainbow parachute!

We’d also love to thank our friends for wanting to make this happen, and The Spookfish, Max Alper, Small Wonder, Casper and the Holy Ghost, Fables, and Matthew Molnar will be hangin’ and sharing their sounds with us. Feel free to bring your own instruments and jam with us, and if you’d like to play next time just send me an email at philipseymourhoffman@thefmly.com [all spam or mailing list jerks that copy this address will be hunted down and tossed into a Han Solo death mask]. The fbook event is here, and we’ll see you tomorrow! Video above is from a TYCA early last year in Los Angeles.