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Check out this rad video of Delta Spirit from their Roxy show this past August 16th.
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A one-time member of the West Coast neo-psychedelic bands the Three O’Clock and Jellyfish, Jason Falkner went out on his own by 1996, playing jagged power pop with impeccable arrangements, a clue to both his classically trained childhood and additional time spent working on the first LP by another classical popster, Eric Matthews. Born in Los Angeles in 1968, Falkner grew up listening to West Coast pop bands like Love and Crosby, Stills & Nash but later began taking piano lessons in preparation for a classical career. Pop music regained control of his life when he discovered his sister’s punk/new wave collection, and Falkner began playing the guitar, later appearing in several bands from his high school. After stints with Three O’Clock and Jellyfish, Falkner worked with Eric Matthews on the 1996 LP It’s Heavy in Here, and finally got what he had been looking for all the time: a solo deal. Through Elektra Records, he released his acclaimed debut Presents Author Unknown, also in 1996. The following year, he played on Matthews’ second album, The Lateness of the Hour, and in early 1999 issued his own sophomore effort, Can You Still Feel? It was followed in 2001 by Necessity: The 4-Track Years, a collection of home recordings, and Bedtime with the Beatles, a covers album featuring instrumental lullabies of Fab Four favorites.
Jason Falkner plays on Filter’s Revenge of the Sunset Strip on September 13th, 2007 with Castledoor and Annie Stela. Tickets are now available - call the Roxy or purchase through Ticketmaster.
Check out this video of Jason Falkner performing “Holiday” live:
You’ve heard opera, and you’ve heard rock—but you’ve never heard opera rocked like the East Village Opera Company. The East Village Opera Company —a powerhouse five-piece band, a string quartet, and two outstanding vocalists—brings the towering emotion and timeless musicality of opera into the 21st century on its Decca/Universal Classics debut with its inventive, hard-hitting arrangements of the music’s “greatest hitsâ€â€”including “La donna è mobile†from Rigoletto, “Habanera†from Carmen, and “Nessun dorma†from Turandot — performed at full length and in the original languages.
The concept of the East Village Opera Company is totally fresh, but not unprecedented in pop. In 1985, for example, former punk-rock impresario Malcolm McLaren released Fans, an album of “hip-hopera†that brought funky beats and electronic programming to the works of Puccini and Bizet. But EVOC is a whole new thing: an integrated, eleven-strong working band dedicated to rocking the opera and electrifying the classics, as the ensemble has been doing to spectacular effect ever since its New York stage debut in the spring of 2004.
The East Village Opera Company is coming to The Roxy on Wednesday, September 19th. Tickets go on sale today at 11:00am at Ticketmaster or through the Roxy box office.
After an extremely successful show just this past July, Beth Hart is coming back to The Roxy for a night with The Quiet, Dilana, and Lara Gatling. Beth Hart is an amazing songstress and performer, and The Roxy is proud to have her back.
Tickets are available now at Ticketmaster and through the Roxy box office. 310.278.9457.
The Roxy has been nominated for Best of Citysearch Los Angeles 2007 - and voting begins today! Show your love for The Roxy as the best Live Music Venue in Los Angeles…..Thanks to all that voted. The votes are in and winners will be announced soon.
Among the true talents in the late-’90s new skool of old-school hip-hop, Peanut Butter Wolf began DJing as a teenager and became quite an entrepreneur at his San Jose, CA, high school, selling mix tapes of his turntable work. He debuted on wax in 1989 with “You Can’t Swing This” on All Good Vinyl, recorded with a smooth MC named Lyrical Prophecy. By the end of the year, PBW began working with MC Charizma, and the two gelled quickly, perfecting their skills at block parties and shows with the likes of the Pharcyde, House of Pain, and Nas. Just after the duo gained a record deal with Hollywood Basic in 1992, Charizma was shot and killed.
Unsure of where to turn without the talents of his MC, Peanut Butter Wolf began issuing strictly instrumental work, including his first release, Peanut Butter Breaks on Heyday Records. Tracks followed for the Bomb label (on the excellent Return of the DJ compilation) as well as Om Records. Though the MC had ruled the world of hip-hop since the mid-’80s, selected DJ crews began to get exposure in the dance underground by the late ’90s, including DJ Shadow, the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, and the X Men (whose name was later changed to the X-Ecutioners, for copyright reasons). Peanut Butter Wolf joined the elite as well, recording for dance labels 2 Kool (the Lunar Props EP) and Ninja Tune (remixing the Herbaliser) as well as contributing production work for fellow old-schooler Kool Keith.
With the foundation of his Stones Throw label, PBW began developing tracks recorded earlier with MC Charizma and released work by another Bay Area crew, Fanatik. His debut production LP, My Vinyl Weighs a Ton, appeared in 1999. The year 2002 brought two excellent compilations, The Best of Peanut Butter Wolf and the Stones Throw 7″ collection Jukebox 45’s. In 2003 he put out Badmeaninggood, Vol. 3 and the next year he produced a compilation CD/DVD of his label’s artists, Stones Throw 101. Since then he has focused more of his energy in building up Stones Throw, though he still performs the occasional DJ gig in Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan, and the U.S. Peanut Butter Wolf is also a member of the L.A. hip-hop orchestra Breakestra. To celebrate the decade his label had been in existence, Chrome Children was released in collaboration with Adult Swim in 2006, and Stones Throw: Ten Years in early 2007.
Filter’s Revenge of the Sunset Strip and Stones Throw Records present PEANUT BUTTER WOLF & FRIENDS at The Roxy on Wednesday, September 19th 2007.
Tickets are NOW AVAILABLE through The Roxy box office, and will be available at Ticketmaster on Saturday, September 1st.
WESC is bringing some of the hottest acts out of Sweden for a special night at The Roxy on September 17th. Its a FREE SHOW so come on down and party with us, Swede style. Ya.
Van Stone is the #3 band in Palmdale, Ca. behind #1 Skirge and #2 Wind Jammer. It began with Randy and Lonnie Van Stone who are 39 and 33 year old irish twin brothers who live at home with their mom. It is debated whether they actually left Skirge or were kicked out of the band, but the early incarnation of the band consisted of Randy, Lonnie and Glen Wolfe who they met in high school. While messing around out down at the train tracks they met drummer Yugoslavian Alexis Patinkov, also known as Mr. Bonze.
Later they added Palmdale legend B.C. Rich, until he lost his hand while making homemade sausages in a meat grinder in meat grinding accident. He was later replaced by Cliff Steinberger.
In order to further the band’s rise to stardom, Randy Van Stone sends the U.S. military a demo tape in hopes of performing a show. However, Lt. Perry (played by Scott Baio) finds their music so bad, that they use it as a weapon against insurgents in Afghanistan. Unaware of the real reason for their trip there, they play a concert in which they believe enemy fire is pyrotechnics and Hawk moshes with the insurgents. In the course of amplifying Van Stone’s live performance, they manage to break the world decibel record held by either Overkill or Manowar. However, they accidentally leave Hawk there when they return to Palmdale.
Van Stone is still together touring and pleasing crowds all over the world. Every time Van Stone performs their venues report sold out crowds. Salvadore Ramalitin the organizer of one of these venues accounts-”It’s like the Beatles all over again, the mania that comes from these fans is unbelieveable!”
Van Stone “Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Growing up a skinny preacher’s kid in Spokane, Washington, Tyrone Wells was discouraged from listening to pop music and only exposed to gospel. Little did he know a decade later, the roots of soul would become a key element of his passionate, irresistible and utterly unique songs. Combining pop, soul, and rock, Tyrone sings about true love, war and heartbreak with equal power and sincerity, coming across as a voice for a generation that’s both idealistic and confused.
Tickets are available now at The Roxy or through Ticketmaster.
The Mother Hips, The Broken West, and Let’s Go Sailing… how could you go wrong!? We’ll see you at The Roxy on Friday! Get your tickets before they sell out!
