Listen to Ships in the Night + This Weekend's Gigs
I dug up a bunch of Britpop jams to play at Hotel Ziggy last night. Some I hadn’t played in a good while. Some— Ash “Girl From Mars” (!!!)— I hadn’t played since the Bang! days. When I say that, I really mean pre-electroclash Bang! days too. I don’t even want to think about how many years ago that was, but it was when we were still making our weekend plans on AIM. Anyhow, the occasion was Olya Sonica’s single premiere/U.K. tour sendoff show and Britpop was the theme. Check out the set list and see some photos from last night on Beatique.
Tonight is Club Underground’s Pulp Party at Grand Star Jazz Club and tickets are still available on Dice. Both rooms floors of the club will be open tonight and I’ll be holding it down upstairs in the not-Pulp room. I have some new tunes I hope to try out tonight, so maybe show up on the early side.
Speaking of new tunes, Ships in the Night released a gorgeous album, Protection Spells, in May and I had the chance to talk to Alethea Leventhal, the Virginia-based artist behind the project, about the new album, as well as David Lynch, Depeche Mode and Wave-Gotik-Treffen.
Read “AS SHIPS IN THE NIGHT, ALETHEA LEVENTHAL CASTS PROTECTIONS SPELLS”
Still keeping these newsletters short because I’m in the middle of deadline hell for another week or so. I’ll have more to write in August. In the meantime, before I sign off, remember that this Sunday is Gloria Molina Grand Park’s Sunday Sessions and I’m playing alongside Clifton Weaver and Loopdropkid. It’s free, all ages and right by multiple Metro stops, so, if you’re in town, make plans to be there. Also, mark your calendars for the opening of “Monday Nights: L.A.’s Scene of the Century” opening at Leiminspace in Chinatown on August 2. I’ve been co-curating this retrospective of Sean Carnage’s Monday Nights and it has me thinking a lot about the ‘00s. I’m not nostalgic for those days, I just wished that we lived in a world where things worked.
Read “GETTING BACK INTO THE OLD INTERNET STATE OF MIND”
That’s all for now. See you on the dance floor!
Liz O.