This Friday, The Boys Club Presents THE MEDIC DROID, playing with Good With Grenades, Hyper Crush, and DJs Heather Peggs and Jax live at The Roxy Theatre.
Check out a video the band made about the show:
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Filter Magazine & Stones Throw Records Present PEANUT BUTTER WOLF & FRIENDS TOMORROW NIGHT at The Roxy Theatre. Tickets are still available!
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.
Droid has just been added to the INVITRO record release party. Don’t miss it! Monday, September 10th.
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”
Difficult to pigeonhole yet instantly recognizable, Los Angeles-based Foreign Born vexes indie taxonomists like hardcore porn does Supreme Court justices, leaving critics to play the Potter Stewart “I know it when I see it” card rather than enumerate the requisites. In the Remote Woods is too fidgety for shoegazer, too upbeat for dour post-punk, and too varied for indie pop. Nevertheless, Foreign Born evoke all the familiar touchstones, stitching together Slowdive and the Stone Roses with newer benchmarks the Walkmen and Arcade Fire while carving their own niche alongside those artists.
Foreign Born hit The Roxy on Septemter 5, 2007, with Gran Ronde and A Shoreline Dream.
Tickets are available now!
A Shoreline Dream - “Love Is A Ghost In America”
The Deadly Syndrome: a bio in two parts
Part One, “The Truth”
Four young gentlemen were born to 8 parents. One from New York, One from Louisiana, and the rest from California. Through a series of fortunate events (broken bones, concussions, divorces, successful marriages, siblings, fishing trips, and dreams), the boys all found their way to Los Angeles. The California boys had already known each other from University, and moved there together. The New Yorker moved because it was time to move, and the New Orleanite, moved because of the weather. Then through jobs, and girlfriends the fellows came to realize that they wanted to do something more with their hands, so they built bridges, and verses, and pre-choruses. The 4 guys are now The Deadly Syndrome, where all have a hand in writing the music.
Part Two, “The Lie”
One of them is a liar.
THE END.
Continue reading ‘The Remedy For Your Deadly Syndrome…’
The Rock Life
Don’t miss the premiere of the newest VH1 Celebreality show, The Rock Life, featuring Roxy family, Whitestarr. This show is absolutely HILARIOUS and definitetly not to be missed.
Led by singer/songwriter Cisco Adler, son of music mogul Lou Adler, Whitestarr has been kicking around the L.A. basin for seven years. They’ve been signed and dropped by Atlantic Records, and virtually ignored by the industry they hope to conquer. They’ve been in rehab, in the tabloids, and in relationships with some of Hollywood’s hottest starlets. The only place they haven’t been is the Billboard charts. But with Roy Orbison’s son on drums and a fleshy former lawyer named Tony Potato as backup dancer, Whitestarr is a rock and roll circus that’s as much fun off-stage as they are on. Throw in an afro-ed axeman named Rainbow, and you’ve all the ingredients for the ultimate rock and roll cocktail. Get an insider’s look at the backstage drama as these four rockers (and one dancer) fight to keep the band together and stop at nothing to realize their rock dream. It’s going to be an uphill battle, and it’s going to take more than a famous name to get there. - iTunes
Watch The Rock Life Mondays at 10:30pm on VH1!
Beth Hart is a singer who became famous with the hit “L. A. Song”.
Beth Hart dropped out of high school to focus on her songwriting. Her vocal style has been described as raw and passionate, with some similarities to Joan Armatrading and Janis Joplin, but differing from her contemporary folksingers. Recorded while she was heavily addicted to drugs, in Immortal she projected a tone of anger, confusion, and imbalance.
Continue reading ‘We Hart Beth’
Man its good to be back in California. I’ve been having one big summer party
since we got home on the 4th of July. I was just at Sam from phantom planet’s
wedding over the weekend. It was really insane and the music was awesome. Simon
Dawes (the band) learned a ton of covers and special guest singers included
Olivia Newton John, Jimmy Buffet, Adam Levine, Alex Greenwald, and yours
truly…I sang “cupid” by Sam Cooke. It was a nice taste of the performer’s life
but I’m already bored and ready to play again. See you Monday night!
-Ned, Rooney
We are honored that the Roxy will be hosting our record release
party/show. This album has been a long time in the works, and we are
thrilled to finally be putting it out. The residency gigs at the Roxy
in April were the highlight of our year so far….we are attempting to
top all 4 of those gigs next monday night!!!
-Taylor, Rooney
Pre-emptive to their tour with Maximo Park, MONSTERS ARE WAITING will be performing at The Roxy Theatre with a masterful line-up of bands: Mellowdrone (doing what will surely be an amazing acoustic set), Scientific Phenomenalist David Lovering of The Pixies (with an inspired magic show), Gliss, and Meho Plaza. Prepare to get your boots knocked off and get thrown against the wall for a night of pure enjoyment!
MONSTERS ARE WAITING
MELLOWDRONE
DAVID LOVERING
GLISS
MEHO PLAZA
Tonight at The Roxy! Jonatha Brooke with Maia Sharp!
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Jonatha Brooke has been issuing albums that merge folk and pop since the early ’90s, first as a member of a duo called the Story and now as a solo artist.
Being the child of country songwriter Randy Sharp (he’s written hits for Clay Walker, Patty Loveless, and others) and growing up in the San Fernando Valley in the ’70s had to have given Maia Sharp a leg up on her way to a musical career. That was the era of Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, and Rickie Lee Jones and music was in the Southern California air. By age 12, Sharp was noodling around on the piano, saxophone, oboe, and guitar. Fast forward to her early twenties, and she could be found on-stage at one of L.A.’s many acoustic venues performing her own jazz/folk songs to an engaged throng of fans. When not on-stage, Sharp could surely be found collaborating with artists such as Carole King, Jules Shear, Lisa Loeb, and Jonatha Brooke.
Check out Jonatha’s video for “Better After All” below, and don’t miss her performing it live tonight!
