8:00 PM
to 9:00 PM
Soko
32 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about half folky / half punky half french / half polish half actress / half music-nerd half singing / half talking half dreaming / half dancing half joking / half deep half tearful / half crazy half wise / half child half orchestral / half lo-fi half depressed / half joyful half...
event::tags Singer-Songwriter
9:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
Choir of Young Believers
49 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about When listening to Denmark’s Choir of Young Believers, it’s hard not to imagine an army of white-clad singers with arms outstretched, their voices raised in holy polyphony—in fact, the Danish group is the brainchild of one 26-year-old Jannis Noya Makrigiannis. For years, Jannis moved in the underground circles of the Copenhagen...
event::tags Rock
10:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
Fanfarlo
179 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about FANFARLO “Reservoir” October 13, 2009 (Canvasback/Atlantic) One of the UK’s most refreshing new talents, Fanfarlo, are poised to release their debut-album, RESERVOIR here in the U.S. on October 13, 2009 on Canvasback/Atlantic Records. It is with good reason that the band’s star has been on the rise since RESERVOIR became available...
event::tags Rock
11:00 PM
to 12:00 AM
Ozomatli
73 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about OZOMATLI IN 2009 From L.A. to the World In their fourteen years together as a band, celebrated Los Angeles culture-mashers Ozomatli have gone from being hometown heroes to being named U.S. State Department Cultural Ambassadors. Ozomatli has always juggled two key identities. They are the voice of their city and they...
event::tags World
12:00 AM
to 1:00 AM
Fitz and The Tantrums
38 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about It all started with a phone call. The X. Best to let voicemail pick that one up! YOU HAVE 1 NEW MESSAGE: “Hey, sorry to call but my neighbor has got to leave L.A in a hurry, he’s selling everything including this old church organ for 50 bucks. Do you want...
event::tags Rock
1:00 AM
to 2:00 AM
Miike Snow
191 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about A large portion of the people involved in the "creative" side of the music business spend their entire career dedicated to the singular goal of recognition, specifically the type that gets you recognized - be it magazine covers, billboards, TV, etc. In a culture obsessed with becoming famous, what do we...
event::tags Electronic
8:00 PM
to 9:00 PM
Jaill
8 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
9:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
Happy Birthday
20 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about Happy Birthday. Take your mother’s hand as she leads you to the table of your friends. You are about to eat musical cake and ice cream and see colors that you’ll dream about in future nights’ sleeps. They are pink and lime green and they are glowing electric and you will...
event::tags Rock
10:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
Male Bonding
13 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about Made up of Robin Silas Christian (drums), John Arthur Webb (guitar & vocals) and Kevin Hendrick (bass and vocals), and rising from a flourishing DIY scene in their adopted hometown of Dalston, London, Male Bonding became a very real thing in May, 2008, with their first show, at an insane house...
event::tags Punk
11:00 PM
to 12:00 AM
Avi Buffalo
70 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about Avi Buffalo was once just the kid named Avi (short for Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg). He’s now singing and playing guitar, but was then a vaguely aspirational skateboarder living in Long Beach, who figured between hip trauma and a never-quite-conquered fear of dropping into a half-pipe that he might need to come up...
event::tags Rock
12:00 AM
to 1:00 AM
Dum Dum Girls
69 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about Led by Dee Dee, Dum Dum Girls churn out pop music that adheres to her self-proclaimed M.O.: “blissed-out buzz saw.” Dee Dee formed DDG in late 2008 as a solo project—the name a nod to both The Vaselines’ album, Dum-Dum, and the Iggy Pop song “Dum Dum Boys”— and released a...
event::tags Rock
1:00 AM
to 2:00 AM
The Ruby Suns
54 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about ‘Fight Softly’ is the third album by New Zealand’s pop masters The Ruby Suns. Ryan McPhun (their prime mover) has the kind of voracious musical mind that cites as equal influences ’80s/’90s New Jack Swing and modern Angolan kuduro, Fleetwood Mac and Britney Spears, Brazilian tropicalia and Argentinean cumbia. He’s the...
event::tags Rock
8:00 PM
to 9:00 PM
Freelance Whales
112 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about Freelance Whales found one another in late 2008, in Queens, amidst a strange amalgam of unfamiliar instruments, and precariously arranged pop songs. Using whatever musical gadgets they happened upon (mostly harmonium, banjo, glockenspiel, synthesizers, guitars, bass, drums, waterphone), the five members worked at crafting songs with interlocking rhythmic patterns, lush textural...
event::tags Rock
9:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
10:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
An Horse
46 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about It is not because Kate is the size of jockey or because Damon was once kicked by a goat that An Horse bears its name. There’s no sense in that. A friend once gave Kate a sweater with An Horse written on it because he thought it was grammatically correct. It...
event::tags Rock
11:00 PM
to 12:00 AM
Suckers
41 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about Quinn Walker (who released last year's acclaimed solo double-album, Laughter's An Asshole/Lion Land on CocoRosie's label Voodoo-Eros) and Austin Fisher are cousins who grew up just down the street from each other in a small fishing village in Connecticut, home to 35 tiny islands topped with Victorian homes. As children, they...
event::tags Pop
12:00 AM
to 1:00 AM
The Antlers
112 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about Sometimes you have to put yourself first, no matter how difficult that notion seems; no matter how much time and effort you’ve already put into this one person—the person who’s reduced your very being to its absolute core. Just ask Peter Silberman, the string-pulling founder of The Antlers, a solo project...
event::tags Rock
1:00 AM
to 2:00 AM
Les Savy Fav
136 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
8:00 PM
to 9:00 PM
Big Light
6 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about San Francisco-based rock band Big Light first emerged circa 2007 as a vehicle for aspiring singer/songwriter/guitarist Fred Torphy to get his songs into the world. The band would spend the next three years honing their sound and performing around the West Coast relentlessly. Now hailed as one of the fiercest young...
event::tags Rock
9:00 PM
to 10:00 PM
Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights
15 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about Jonathan Tyler and The Northern Lights formed in the fall of 2007. Consisting of Jonathan Tyler, Jordan Cain, Nick Jay, Brandon Pinckard and Mo Brown. Since formation they have signed with F-Stop/Atlantic Records, received media attention in over 50 markets nation wide. They have toured and opened up for the likes...
event::tags Blues
10:00 PM
to 11:00 PM
Kings Go Forth
32 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about The American music underground is having what you might call a Kings Go Forth moment. Need proof? Over the past year, their seven inch singles set the soul blogs swooning and became instant collectors items. Legendary producer Tom Moulton called them to remix one of their songs. DJ Shadow’s playing them...
event::tags R&B
11:00 PM
to 12:00 AM
Dios
17 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about dios are defined by their four-track mission statement: "proud to be a home recording;" an experimental approach to song and studio-craft, creative freedom, and lack of time constraint that had informed the hundreds of recordings the band made during their ascent from backyard party band to critical darling. dios began working...
event::tags Rock
12:00 AM
to 1:00 AM
Darker My Love
25 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about Let’s not fuck about here. It’s 2008. Some people say the world is coming to a close. The sun is getting hotter. Ice isn’t what it used to be. Irony is dead, and spring no longer exists. Everyone everywhere is sick and tired of the rock and roll ruse. And, so,...
event::tags Rock
1:00 AM
to 2:00 AM
The Black Angels
72 schedule::attendees
Location
Galaxy Room Backyard
eventtype Music
event::about Since Aristotle, man has organized his knowledge vertically in separate and unrelated groups---Science, Religion, Sex, Relaxation, Work, etc. The main emphasis in his language, his system of storing knowledge, has been on the identification of objects rather than on the relationships between objects. He is now forced to use his tools...
event::tags Rock
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