Longtime fans and youngsters (like me) coincided as some were taken aback to see people who were born when the Knitters formed singing along to their music. Exene Cervenka pointed out the beauty of the moon as every head in the audience turned toward the sky, and each bandmember began to play flawlessly.

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SLANG CHICKENS, PAPA, AND THE LOVELY BAD THINGS ON MONDAY FEB. 28TH AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ FREE/ 21+

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SLANG CHICKENS, PAPA, EVEREST, AND YOUNG HUNTING ON MONDAY FEB. 21ST AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 8:30PM/ FREE/ 21+

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SLANG CHICKENS, PAPA, AND JOHN CARPENTER ON MONDAY FEB. 14TH AT TH ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 9:00PM/ FREE/ 21+

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SLANG CHICKENS, PAPA, MINI MANSIONS, AND RACHEL FANNAN ON MONDAY FEB. 7TH AT THE ECHO, 1822 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 9:00PM/ FREE/ 21+

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Tuesday, Jan 19th THE SHERRIFS (members of Wires on Fire/Slang Chickens) SEAN WHEELER and ZANDER SCHLOSS Sean from Throwrag/Zander from Circle Jerks, etc)http://myspace.com/seanwheelerzanderschloss GABRIEL HART and 2/3rds of THE LADIES OF JAIL WEDDINGS (Gabriel playing selections from his solo catalogue before being joined by Katya Hubiak and Jada Wagensomer for select Jail Weddings standouts – [...]

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Elaine’s Hella Hipster Hoedown has become a welcome quarterly distraction—I’d be happy if she staged one every weekend. An indie-rock barn dance held the first Saturday this month at Pehrspace in hella non-bucolic South Echo Park, this happening was packed to the paint with veal-eyed darlings of the Eastside rock scene. I could scarce wedge my lean geezer’s carcass into the room, much less commandeer one of the authentic hay bales strewn about the room as bovine bric-a-brac, so I tarried outside and talked to the hostess. Being a Dixie lady herself, she was pretty impressed to meet a (half) authentic Tazewell Co., VA, hillbilly and I found myself unaccustomedly bashful. (About in the only other social advantage my heritage is usually good for is informing the occasional obnoxious fuck he owns a real purdy mouf’ with just the right inflection, so this kind of approval is unusual.)

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L.A. RECORD interviewed Crystal Antlers back before they’d even made their first EP and popularized the legend of Long Beach’s psychedelic chimneysweeps. Now Crystal Antlers’ Tentacles will be the final new release on Touch and Go. Founders Bell and guitarist Errol Davis—who has recently rejoined the band—meet for chicken and waffles. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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