Saturday start your day right. Grab some instruments, frisbee, ice block, dog, lover and head down to Mary Hotchkiss Park in Santa Monica for a day for chillin, cool peeps, new friends and great music. It’s time for the return of Thank you, Come Again in LA.
The purpose of this event is to strip a concert experience to its birthday suit. We have a performer in their most vulnerable state, an audience, and communal activities for all! Nothing will be handled but good vibes. Remember that when you come to a fmly event, you represent fmly. To those of you who do show up with substances please keep them to yourself, away from the group, and don’t be the one that ruins the day for everyone.
Then after that, it’s time to head over to the FMLY RIDE to bring it through the night with some amazing music. This is a slow ride so if you are new, don”t be afraid, we play nice and welcome everyone. We got postponed last weekend from the rain but weather is looking great so we are back with vengeance bringing the addition of The Entrance Band with us. Also joining us is Rumspringa, Insects vs. Robots, Kid Infinity, 60 Watt Kid and a ton of others. fbook event
It’s almost time to put on your frolicking boots and bust out your frisbees for our first-ever Bay Area Thank You, Come Again! We’ve got a sweet line-up for a beautiful day of jamming, hanging, playing, grubbing, and generally just living it up-ping. Many of these bands will be playing music specifically crafted for this semi-acoustic occasion, and it’ll be neat to see what creative things they come up with.
The purpose of this event is to strip a concert experience to its birthday suit. We have a performer in their most vulnerable state, an audience, and communal activities for all! Nothing will be handled but good vibes. Remember that when you come to a fmly event, you represent fmly. To those of you who do show up with substances please keep them to yourself, away from the group, and don’t be the one that ruins the day for everyone.
This is a FREE DAY SHOW in a public environment. Come on time because it gets chilly late in the day!
There will be group jamming throughout the day. Bring your instruments and/ or whatever you have lying around your house. Washboards and tambourines encouraged.
Gainesville’s Total Bummer Fest is in two weeks with oh so many of our favorite bands including Teeth Mountain, Adventure, Truman Peyote, Vacation Dad, Phillip Oskar Augustine, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emily Reo, Levek, Many Mansions, Blissed Out, Prince Rama, Michael Parallax, and the list goes on and on. The Spirit Cat bros just made a comp that you can download below, and don’t forget to preorder your tickets right here!
FMLY’s Philip Seymour Hoffman and Truman Peyote play at Spin Cycle on Sunday the 20th with Rabbit Punch, Attached Hands, TV CARNAGE, and Panther God. And for residents of Lexington (Kentucky), make sure to hit up Al’s Bar this Sunday (3/14) to peep Idiot Glee, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Trailblazer, and Henry Crawford before they hit up SXSW.
Our BFFz in Total Slacker play the Cake Shop tomorrow to raise funds for the trek down to southby, so if you’re in New Yawk then make your way over to catch ‘em with Big Troubles, Darlings, Sundelles, and more! I slept on a couch recently in the home of a Big Troubles member, so go thank him for me. More info here.
Free Kisses plays Shea Stadium in Brooklyn tonight for what I’m pretty sure is her first time trekking into the States from Toronto with music in mind. We’ve put her on the spot a few times here and there for good reason, her sounds can infiltrate your good spirits and wrap them in a jacket to keep them from catching a cold. Her voice can lay a jacket eternally for your footsteps to keep your shoes, feet, and socks from absorbing the ice cold puddles which impede a day’s path. Karen is a friend through her sounds, and thankfully a super friendly person that loves some good conversation. Playing with her tonight are Shark?, Byrds of Paradise, and FMLY’s own Philip Seymour Hoffman. Shea Stadium is 20 Meadow St in Brooklyn and the show starts at 8pm.
free kisses is on tour with our homie cloud nothings right now. tonight though, cloud nothings is at the bowery ballroom with titus andronicus, the babies, and parts & labor. tomorrow, the two will hit up the butcher shoppe in boston and you can peep the rest of their tours at cloudspace and kisspace.
Oddsac, Animal Collective’s “visual album”, opens at the Guggenheim today. Tickets sold out right quick, but it looks like a second NY date is being added before this “demonic” and “horrific” piece of audio-visual art goes on tour with members of Animal Collective and Danny Perez, the collaborator who made this psychedelic, vampiric, and allegedly epilepsy-inducing masterpiece possible.
According to the band’s Q&A after the video’s original premiere at Sundance last week, the video is four years of footage craftily compiled into 54 minutes, originally inspired by the image of “a sad vampire in a rowboat” (via). I aim to check this out when it hits the left coast but, if you see it first, let us know you came out in one piece.
Our favorite dance party is this Saturday. DANCEiSM is back for their two year anniversary and they are bringing it back to the warehouse. The usual shenanigans will be taking place like body painting but word has it there are a lot of new surprises taking place as well.
The Muddy Flowers is the new found folk rock project of Zoology member, Amir Razmjou. His voice resonates with the same sincerity his lo-fi garage recordings suggest, and Muddy Flowers songs stand out among the waves of mediocre folk released over the past years. You can pick up his first EP, Summer Pop Songs, on Psychedelicate Records, or wait for the LP, Winter Lullabies. Come check out his Neutral Milk Hotel inspired jams tonight, at Acrobatics Everyday with Mason Lindahl, Ellie Fortune, and Canyons. Liz Suh of Tan Dollar will be accompanying Amir with vocals tonight as well.
Hey Irvine FMLY, our boys Professor Calculus (maybe the most badass band in the world) were just added onto tomorrow night’s Acrobatics Everyday show with Tera Melos and All Leather. Seriously, the science trailer is going to be shaking so hard it’ll beat diamonds out for Cameron’s best friend…ZING! But seriously, if you feel like a hearty rocking out then this show comes with the highest recommendation. Feel free to download Prof Calc’s Booty Wrap for free courtesy of the band and FMLY RCRDS.
Wonder Wheel is Paul Rosales, along with homies Raul Esparza and Anthony Bosque. The sheer amount of music they release, makes it a challenge to pick just a couple of their jams to show you so I have some other ways to scope their songs. Life’s Blood is about to release their newest tape, Succotash Xs, Paul posts a bunch of tracks on the Wonder Wheel Blog, and you can cruise down to Irvine to come see them with me at Acrobatics Everyday with Smith Westerns, Audacity, and Cosmonauts.
Everyone knows that Moby makes that mad funky music we all like to get down to but he also cares about our planet. In his new book, Gristle, he talks about the impact of our food resources.
For the book, Moby and Miyun Park brought together fifteen of the country’s leading voices on this issue-including foodies, policymakers, food business leaders, and food activists-who eloquently lay out how and why the over-consumption of industrially produced meat unnecessarily harms agricultural workers, communities, the environment, human health, as well as animals. Combining hard-hitting facts with a light touch—plus fascinating charts and illustrations depicting the stark realities of America’s industrial food system—Gristle is the first stop for everyone who wants to make informed choices about the food they consume.
It’s important to know where our food comes from and the process by which it gets to us. On March 23rd Moby will be participating in a Q&A at the Skirball center followed by a book signing. If you don’t know where you are eating from, maybe it’s time to hear it from Moby. Tickets are free but a reservation is required which you can sign up for right here.
Thank You Come Again
Lady Bird Lake Trail
March 20, 3PM
w/ dead gaze, easyboy, mistlefinger, big whup + pizza!, white fang, jonesin', tempo no tempo, dream panther
FMLY Group Hug
Dominican Joe, 515 South Congress
March 20, 8pm
w/ MillionYoung, Truman Peyote, Michael Parallax, Wampire, Idiot Glee, I Am The Dot, Magic Man, Philip Seymour Hoffman fbook event
Los Angeles
Kria Brekkan & Drawlings
McWorld
March 24th fbook event
Evan Voytas, WAMPIRE, Battlehooch, Pizza! + Afterparty for Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) and The Hood Internet
McWorld
March 25th Fbook event
FMLY RIDE
April 3rd 2010
Dinowalrus, Tempo No Tempo
May 1
Santa Cruz
FMLY RIDE
April 3rd 2010
Pacific and Water
Boston
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
PPALMM's Chinatown Loft
April 16
New York
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
April 18
Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) & Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Knitting Factory
April 24 fbook event
IcyDemons, Truman Peyote, Trouble Books
Glasslands
May 2
San Francisco
Thank you Come Again
The Neighbors, Wes Leslie, Shaw, Maus Haus, Mistlefinger, Goliath the Giver
March 21st
Dolores Park f book event
Questions? Comments? Want to play a FMLY event? Want to learn how you can play an integral role in your FMLY? Shoot us an email anytime, we're usually around. We also accept demos, songs you're into, songs you've made and bribes.
