Below you will find a list of venues in Los Angeles and surrounding communities. If we have overlooked a venue please leave it in the comments field and we will add it to our list.

The Echo
1822 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026-3227
(213) 413-8200
www.attheecho.com

The Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(213) 413-8200
www.attheecho.com

Spaceland
1717 Silver Lake Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026-1221
(323) 661-4380
www.clubspaceland.com

The Music Box at Fonda
6126 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 464-0808
www.henryfondatheater.com

Hollywood Palladium
6215 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 962-7600

Airliner Club
2419 N Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90031-2218
(323) 221-0771

The Smell
Neighborhood: Downtown
247 S Main St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
www.thesmell.org

Downtown Independent
251 S Main St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 617-1033
www.downtownindependent.com

L’Keg
311 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(213) 413-5534
www.lkeggallery.com

Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 S Grand Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012-3034
(213) 972-7211
www.disneyhall.org

Echo Curio
1519 Sunset Blvd
Echo Park, CA 90026
www.echocurio.com

El Rey Theatre
5515 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 936-6400
www.theelrey.com

Club Nokia
800 West Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 765-7000
www.clubnokia.com

Mr. T’s Bowl
5621 N Figueroa St
Highland Park, CA
http://mrtsbowl.tripod.com/
Converted bowling alley night spot with great sound in Highland Park.

Pehrspace
325 Glendale Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(323) 483-7374
www.pehrspace.org

Tribal Cafe
1651 W Temple St
Los Angeles, CA 90026-5026
(213) 483-4458
www.tribalcafe.com

Synchronicity Space
306 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90029
(323) 284-8960
www.syncspacela.com

Coma Alternative Space
3503 W. Pico Blvd
Los Angeles, CA, 90019
myspace.com/comaalternativespace

HM 157
3110 N. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90031

Hotel Cafe
1623 1/2 N Cahuenga Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028-6201
(323) 461-2040
www.hotelcafe.com

Silverlake Lounge
2906 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026-2128
(323) 663-9636
www.foldsilverlake.com

Troubadour
9081 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(310) 276-6168
www.troubadour.com

Viper Room
8852 W Sunset Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90069-2108
www.viperroom.com

Bordello Bar
901 E. 1st St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(213) 687-3766
www.bordellobar.com
(310) 652-7869

The Trashwomen picked up the beer cans left half-empty by the Pleasure Seekers and helped drag surf back from the sewer to the beach. They will be reuniting at Mr. T’s bowl Saturday. They speak now to Dan Collins.

Let me get this out of the way—why did you form, and why did you break up?
Tina Lucchesi (drums): We got together as an idea from Mike Lucas of the Phantom Surfers to have an all-girl band called the Trashwomen who do Trashmen covers open for them one New Year’s, oh, like 1992 or so.
Elka Zolot (guitar): It was supposed to be a joke that was for one show, but it just kinda took off.
Dannielle Pimm (bass): Since I already had a bass, I became the bassist. And since Tina was going out with a drummer she became the drummer. Elka was the only one who knew how to play her instrument. Tina and I had only 4 weeks to learn how to play before the show. We were only planning on playing that one show but we got calls after to play more shows. So we started practicing weekly and started writing our own songs.
T: We broke up because I think we ran our course and we were kinda over it and each other!
E: It was over some stupid argument in Japan and we just never played again after that. Try keeping three opinionated girls in a single venture without hormonal upsets getting in the way. Add long plane trips and tiring tours to the mix and you have three whiny, grumpy girls in matching outfits!
D: We started fighting for the same things at the thrift stores and it got ugly.
How was the Japanese tour?
E: The Japan tour was so much fun! It was like being on another planet. I’m like a little bird so all the lights and Blade Runner scenery scared me a bit. I had a bad cat allergy to the cats where we were staying—it didn’t help that the biggest furriest one insisted on sleeping on my head, so actually one of my favorite parts was getting up in the wee hours when everyone was still passed out and walking through the little neighborhoods by myself. The rest of our days were filled with shopping trips and shows, so this was a nice little time to have for myself. The crowd in Japan is the BEST! They really get into it, genuinely love music and nobody has that ‘too cool’ attitude. I met some of the greatest people I ever met in my life in Japan!
After all that time, why did you decide to get back together?
E: We reformed for the millions of dollars that await us… errr…
T: Now we’re all into each other again, and Chris from Budget Rock offered some good cashola for us to play last October for Budget Rock! So what the fuck, right? Plus, it’s fun to play those songs again! I think we’re ready to have some rehashing fun, ya know what I mean?
I can guess that the Fender Four, the Astronauts, Annette and the Trashmen influenced your sound. But what bands from the eighties and nineties made you want to make music?
D: My first ‘rock concert’ I went to was the B-52’s.
T: I think the Cramps, the Ramones, Nikki and the Corvettes, the Mummies, and the Phantom Surfers also—they were our bros!
E: I’ve played guitar since I was about eight. One of my first lessons was a record my dad had: Learn to Play Guitar with the Ventures. He lost the sleeves to the records, so I did it all by ear—the reason I don’t know notes, it’s all by ear. So that was the first influence for sure. Then over the years I turned into a teenybopper, listening to the Go-Gos & Joan Jett. I played air guitar and sang into a soda bottle in front of the mirror pretending to be in the band. I was known as the girl who brought her guitar everywhere. Once I saved enough money up, I bought a crappy electric guitar and a tinny sad little amp from a school garage sale. I took every Ramones tape I had and played every day after work for hours and hours.
Were there bands or guys (or gals) in the garage-rock scene who were total assholes to you for being an all-woman band?
T: Actually the bands that were closest to us—our bro friends—would get weird and say stuff like ‘Oh, people only like them because they were girls and wear sexy outfits, blah blah.’ They were right, kinda! Ha ha ha! Because man, we sucked for a long time! Elka was always the skillful one! Me and Dannielle sucked!
D: We also had people make fucked up flyers of us. One time we had a show in L.A. at the Jabberjaw and some fucker made this really messed up flyer of us and put it all over the club just when we arrived. It was actually really funny. It was of us in a bathroom crapping all over the floor. There was some really funny stuff going on in the flyer. I think I have a copy somewhere. Also when we went to Holland to play there was a flyer in the club’s window of us as pigs. I decided I was going to get the bastard who made the flyer back, so during one or songs I tried to drench him with my water bottle, but when I went to spray him, the bottle flew out of my hands and landed on some other dude’s nose. Great—he had a huge welt on his nose afterwards!
What’s the story behind the Wongs’ ‘Jerkin It to the Trashwomen?’ Did they really send a copy to you covered in blood and ‘other’ fluids?
T: Yeah, they did that song. And no, we never got a copy of that so-called grimy 7” from those dudes! Ryan Wong is sooooo hot by the way! I chase his ass all over every time I run into him! Ha! He’ll give in one day!
D: Hey, they are more than welcome to resend the record now with their unidentified ‘fluids’ on it. Maybe we can trade the record for a free haircut. Tina and I are both hairdressers.
Do you think that Dick Dale’s inclusion in the soundtrack to Pulp Fiction single-handedly drained all the fun out of playing surf rock?
E: No way—nothing could drain the fun out of surf! I totally respect Dick Dale for what he does. I think sometimes it was my Dick Dale records that made me work even harder to play even better.
T: He’s awesome! I think ‘Misirlou’ made the movie! Surf rock got overblown in the garage world in the ’90s. It happens with everything! It just got tired with too many copy-cat bands. It got booooorrrrrring! Now it’s happening with power-pop bands! So many skinny ties, polka dots and stripes and chick singers doin’ the same thing. Get creative, people!
Who was the absolute worst band of the ’90s surf-rock revival?
D: The Trashwomen!
After your show on July 12, will you be playing lots and lots of shows so we can all come see you? And when?
E: If I told you, I’d have to kill you.
D: Nothing is set up yet. We are really green now, so we would like to do a Save the Earth Day concert.
T: We are goin’ for the green now! Hahahahaha! No, I dunno, if something sounds awesome and funtastic, we’re in! A little cash wouldn’t hurt neither!

REAL BOSS HOSS AND THE EYE PRESENT THE TRASHWOMEN WITH THE FLAKES, THEE CORMANS, THE JINXES AND THE SOUTH BAY SURFERS ON SAT., JULY 12, AT MR. T’S BOWL, 5621 1⁄2 FIGUEROA ST., HIGHLAND PARK. 9 PM / $10 / 21+. MYSPACE.COM/REALBOSSHOSS.

The Soft Hands @ The Prospector
Codpiece @ Mr. T’s Bowl
The Figgs @ Spaceland

Quick list of all last week’s previews, reviews, interviews and MP3s!

2MEX @ URBAN UNDERGROUND: PREVIEW

2MEX “Shades Of Orange”

A-BONES AND ROY LONEY @ REAL BOSS HOSS: REVIEW

AFRIKA BAMBAATAA @ DETROIT: PREVIEW

Afrika Bambaata “Metal” (f. Gary Numan and MC Chat)

ARI UP @ PUNKY REGGAE PARTY: PREVIEW

ARI UP @ PUNKY REGGAE PARTY: VIDEO

Click here to watch

BLACK LIPS @ THE EL REY: REVIEW

Black Lips “O Katrina”

DAEDELUS: TRAINSPOTTING Q & A AND PODCAST

Daedelus’ L.A. RECORD Podcast

DAN’S EUROPE TOUR PHOTOS : FEATURE PART 2, PART 3

The Sads “Miniature Moons”

DARKER MY LOVE + MORE @ THE ECHO: PREVIEW

Darker My Love “Summer Is Here”

DEL THA FUNKEE HOMOSAPIEN @ VAULT 350: PREVIEW

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien “Bubble Pop”

DJ VADIM @ LOW END THEORY: PREVIEW

DJ Vadim “Got To Rock” (f. Zion)

EVEREST @ BOARDNER’S: PREVIEW

Everest “Into Your Soft Heart”

HENRY CLAY PEOPLE @ THE ECHO: PREVIEW

The Henry Clay People “Andy Sings!”

L.A. RECORD ANNIVERSARY @ 6TH ST.: REVIEW

Crystal Antlers “Parting Song For The Torn Sky”

LIARS + NO AGE @ THE EL REY: PREVIEW

Liars “Plaster Casts of Everything”

MAGIC LANTERN @ ECHO CURIO: PREVIEW

Magic Lantern “At the Mountains of Madness”

THEE MAKEOUT PARTY @ EL CID: PREVIEW

Thee Makeout Party “2 EZ 2 LUV U”

MANNY NIETO AND THE MATT CRONK BENEFIT: INTERVIEW

Qui “Freeze”

MIKE BONES: LIVE FROM NEW YORK

Mike Bones “Love’s Not Yours”

MIKE STINSON + MORE @ CHARLIE O’S: PREVIEW

Mike Stinson “Take Out The Trash” (clip)

NIKKI CORVETTE + MORE @ REAL BOSS HOSS: REVIEW

Nikki Corvette and the Stingrays “Back To Detroit”

NUDITY @ MOUNTAIN BAR: PREVIEW

Nudity “Nightfeeders” (Concentricks) (clip)

PEANUT BUTTER WOLF: TRAINSPOTTING Q & A AND PODCAST

L.A. RECORD Stones Throw Podcast

PINBACK AND MC CHRIS @ AVALON: REVIEW

Pinback “From Nothing to Nowhere”

SIAN ALICE GROUP: LIVE FROM NEW YORK

Sian Alice Group “Motionless”

ST. VINCENT @ THE ECHOPLEX: REVIEW

St. Vincent “Marry Me”

VAMPIRE WEEKEND: HERU REVIEWS

Vampire Weekend “Walcott”

WAIT THINK FAST + MORE @ SPACELAND: PREVIEW

Wait Think Fast “Lightning”

WEST INDIAN GIRL @ TROUBADOUR: REVIEW

West Indian Girl “All My Friends”

WOODEN SHJIPS @ McCABE’S: REVIEW

Wooden Shjips “We Ask You To Ride”

The A-Bones rocked L.A. like it hasn’t been rocked since the Rev. Roky Erickson tore it up at the El Ray this summer. From the first song on it didn’t let up—the whole event reminded me of that Animal House frat party, high voltage R&B, rockabilly and just plain old can’t-stand-still rock ‘n’ roll. They didn’t come on til midnight so that should tell you something—on a Sunday night, I’m usually in bed with my little wooden head screwed off and sitting on the night stand. But the whole place was jumping like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin’ chairs, and all the coolest kittens and rockabilly grandpas were there, like Johnny Legend, Charmin’ Allen Larmen, and Big Sandy. The biggest commotions of the night were of course Miriam’s “A-Bone Bop” and a heartfelt rendition of “The World’s Greatest Sinner” dedicated… well, let’s just say it was dedicated to the one I love. Ah, shucks—it was ME! They dedicated the song to ME! Me and nobody else! Nobody but me! Then as we thought the show was over, Roy Loney from the Flamin’ Groovies—this little drunk pixie of a man!—went through a few of their hits, including a most excellent version of “Teenage Head.” I hope we don’t have to wait another fifteen years for the A-Bones to come back!

— Malibu Mike Murphy

— Daniel Clodfelter