If you are in Austin hitting up the hot sauce store, drinking all that free beer and being bombarded with music from every direction, take a break on Saturday and head down to the river for Thank you, Come Again for some outlet free music with some new and old FRNDS.
: EASYBOY*
:: Big Whup
::: Pizza!
:::: Dead Gaze
::::: Jonesin’*
:::::: The Splinters
::::::: Moses Campbell
We will be hanging out from 3 till 7 and then all walking over to Dominican Joe’s across the river for a night of sweet, inspiring jams that will make you want to be making more music yourself.
The homie VerBS, I think he’s with Team Zissou or something, came on the FMLY DNR TR and it has seriously taken us thiiiiis long to show mad props, but the dude is a sweetheart machine! He has toured with Murs, has who knows how many jams under his belt, kicks it with Professor Calculus, and of course he is a loved member of the FMLY. Spreading the positive hiphop vibes and being an all around chillster, Kyle has some new tunes that I’m going to throw up on the site because they’re oh so relevant to this week. “Stop Actin’ Like A Douche” has been a hit since we heard it in the tour van, and I’m bringin’ it to SXSW so get ready Tejas! Second jam is a Pizza! loop from my favorite tune, “Bird Dreams” with Kyle droppin’ some well felt words. In short since I’m still packing and dubbing cassettes for sxsw, VERBS IS THE HOMIE. Hip hop needs to go DIY.
Jon Barba – the gentle, relentless, and cathartic force behind the guise of Los Angeles’ Nicole Kidman – brought some of our mutual pals with him to Pehrspace on Monday to perform a new story, “I Don’t Want To Die.” As he says in the beginning of the video, the first part is about a girl Jon knew when he was younger, the second part is about Miley Cyrus, and the third part is about God. Our bros standing off to the side providing accompaniment are Geoff and Tyler of Pizza!.
It’s difficult for me to write about Jon’s music, he hits a soft spot internally that is painful to massage…but to acknowledge these places inside, I can only appreciate with all of the emotional energy that I can invest. Whether it be love in a variety of situations, eccentric confusion, or coping with life when it lies out of your hands, I believe it’s impossible to fully grasp the weight of these songs, let alone entire cassettes. They are each fogged windows which allow us to just take small peeks into this sweetheart’s guts, mind, heart, and presence. His output is far too great for me to keep track of, but he has a running list on his MySpace and his recent release Teen Worship (on Obeast Tapes) is one of my most treasured pieces of physical music. You can read a great piece about Nicole Kidman and FMLY’s Philip Seymour Hoffman in a Seattle newspaper, The Stranger, right here. Lyrics for “I Don’t Wanna Die” are after the jump.
Every show we take on we make sure we have pride for the bands that play. They are not just bands, but they are our friends and a part of theFMLY, McWorld has been the best example of this. We’ve had the privileged of sharing our shows with some incredible musicians, formal and informal. Sometimes a show will come together with some of FMLY’s closest members and that’s exactly what will happen on March 25th at McWorld. If you haven’t seen any of these bands live, you are in for a great surprise. Time to bring the party. Thanks to Geoff Geis for the great flier as usual.
Winter in LA is always a funny thing. It gets slightly colder and overcast on certain days. Every once in a while it will sprinkle and the city will shut down due to the rain. In most other places, people are contained to their dwellings, bundled up in big puffy jackets. This creates a certain gloom for a lot of people and that is reflected in music that comes out this time of year but since LA doesn’t have that, we get Big Whup. Moving through different levels of emotions, instruments, and eras with their own style of pop, you better be prepared to dance. It’s no surprise that a couple of the guys from Pizza! are a part of this group given both bands ability to reach a variety of musical ideas.
You might remember our Friends Pizza! from this week’s Public Education playlist as well as Beach Dazed and the Museum of Neon Art show a while back (memory refresher here). Well the boys have just joined Manimal Vinyl’s already awesome roster for the release of their second EP in 2010. On October 5th Manimal will be releasing a digital only compilation of Pizza!’s best stuff. “The release will include fifteen remastered favorites, representing all of our official releases and including a couple of other goodies.” In preparation for this new life for Pizza! They must remove their free discography from their site on Monday, September 21. This leaves us all with one more week to grab all those years of music for free.
To really welcome Pizza! to the Manimal crew, they were added to Manimal Festival in Pioneer Town, which I was already wetting myself over, joining Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Rainbow^Arabia, Fool’s Gold, Juliette Commagere and many others. I can’t think of any better way to spend $30 and a weekend than in the desert in an old movie set listening to some of the best music LA has to offer.
We busted all over another two hours of new music. Keep sending stuff in! We had enough music sent in this past week to fill half the show but we will continue to listen to every shred of music you send. You can send physical CD’s to
Public Education
5700 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90036
or email us some mp3’s to publiceducation@thefmly.com and then listen in on Sundays from 6-8 pm pacific time because we’ll be playin’ it.
You check out the playlist after the jump with a ton of downloads from the show. Enjoy!
I’d like to thank some of my favorite Los Angeles locals – Vibes, Pocahaunted, Pizza!, and Magic Lantern – for delivering one of the greatest shows that I’ve had the honor of witnessing and luckily being a part of. Thank you to Not Not Fun for being the best and thank you to those who were there, and followed the show to the resulting house portion of the night for Magic Lantern. Finally, thank you to the Museum of Neon Art in Downtown LA, you’re the sweetest group of folks! Review after the jump and pictures to come one day…
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.
