THIS WEEKEND IN LOS ANGELES: SILVER LAKE JUBILEE

This weekend the SILVER LAKE JUBILEE takes place from 10am-1am all weekend and has something for everyone - food, music, arts, children's villages, and vendors all for $5.

Many of our friends and former Future Sounds/Rumble family members will be performing, here are some of the highlights (see the full schedule here):

SATURDAY MAY 22

SUNSET STAGE

4:40pm – 5:15pm My Pet Saddle

SANTA MONICA STAGE
3:20pm – 3:50pm Blue Jungle
5:25pm – 6:05pm Nico Stai
7:45pm – 8:30pm The Growlers
9:00pm The Entrance Band

EL CID STAGE
7:35pm – 8:10pm Weave!
9:00pm – 9:35pm Francisco The Man
10:00pm – 10:35pm Mississippi Man
11:00pm – 11:35pm Eastern Conference Champions

SUNDAY MAY 23

SUNSET STAGE
3:40pm – 4:10pm Dios
7:55pm – 8:35pm Voxhaul Broadcast

SANTA MONICA STAGE
4:20pm – 4:55pm Lilofee
7:45pm – 8:30pm Foreign Born
9:00pm The Like

EL CID STAGE

11:00pm – 11:35pm Useless Keys

12:00am – 12:35am Tenlons Fort

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Here's today's playlist...

Future Sounds #5 – 12/08/2008

Black Taxi – Wanted Man – New Demos – Unsigned
Links – Testify – Links (a Band) – Unsigned
Brazos – Mrs Virginia – A City Just As Tall – Unsigned

BREAK

Black Whales – Books On Tape – Black Whales – Unsigned
The Filthy Souls – Coz I Know Who You Are – The Filthy Souls – Unsigned
Thomas Function – Snake In The Grass – Celebration – Fat Possum
Hot Springs – Headrush – Volcano – Quire Records

BREAK

Lilofee – Lock & Key – Lilofee – Unsigned
Creature – Brigitte Bardo – Demos – Unsigned
I Blame Coco – I Blame Coco – I Blame Coco – Island Records UK
Little Comets – Joanna – Demos – Unsigned

BREAK

Rainbow Arabia – Holiday In Congo – Rainbow Arabia – Unsigned
Fool’s Gold – Surprise Hotel – 7” – Unsigned
Weave! – Bravery – Weave! – Unsigned

BREAK

LONGWAVE LIVE ON FUTURE SOUNDS ON WOXY AT ARTINSOUND STUDIOS

Satellites
I Don't Dare
Life Is Wrong

BREAK

Violens – Spectator & Pupil – Violens EP – Unsigned
Your Twenties – Caught Wheel – Caught Wheel – Germs Of Youth
Forest Fire – Fortune Teller – Survival - RMT
Pop Levi – Calling Me Down – Never Never Love – Counter Records

BREAK

Babystone – Ask Me (featuring Sly Stone) – Demos – Unsigned
Alexander G. Muertos – Salvation Comes – Demos – Unsigned
Clare Maguire – Strangest Thing – Demos – Unsigned

BREAK

Les Blanks – Grand Kickstand – Shoot The Horse – Unsigned
The Diamond Light – Orphan – Demos – Unsigned
The Brothers Movement – Sister – The Brothers Movement – Unsigned
The Growlers – Soul Of Coral – Greatest sHits – Unsigned

END OF PROGRAM

*Bold denotes debut appearance by artist on the Future Sounds radio program

Longwave's Shannon Ferguson on Future Sounds

BECAUSE SOMETHING IS HAPPENING AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS...DO YOU MR JONES

Last night's trip out to The Echo could be very accurately called a trip. I had been hearing of the "movement" taking place with a dozen or so bands happening that seem to be taping into a world sound, with tribal rumblings, painted faces and dancing (that's right, on the east side of LA). People at the show were even on boomers. Talking with people throughout out the night there was a growing sense of pride that a large number of artists could put down their competitiveness and share in something centered around art and rhythm and less about being obviously cool. While the three bands I observed had a common thread, they were all unique in sound and presentation.

Opening up was RAINBOW ARABIA, a two-piece using a middle-eastern keyboard with sounds from a distance and a frontwoman that could play dubbie guitar parts and sing like a banshee. I had heard their name circulating around the CMJ chatter this year, and apparently they just finished a successful tour. I spoke with Danny from the band, and again this theme of pride was lifted at this network of friends playing music that supported a vision. Lee loved the band.

FOOL'S GOLD took the stage next, filling it completely with their 10 members, some from various LA bands of distant pasts, and this band gave us something part African, part middle eastern, almost yiddish music that was reminecent of a KING SUNNY ADE set. At this point in the night many people's trip started to turn into a bolder flash, and the dancing lifted with the tempos and I saw some people whose faces were melting.

The night was running an hour behind so the old man in me had to keep it to three bands and sadly I had to miss the headliner, WE ARE THE WORLD, which seemed to be what everyone was anxiously waiting for, but I did see WEAVE!, the band who put together this residency. As noted previously, references to THE SLITS come to mind immediately, but live there was more LiLIPUT and ESG in there for good dance-art measure. Here were four people that might not be the most talented technical players, but the 'feel' and the diving head first into the art approach over compensated any of that. I liked that they were unorthodox and didn't even line up on stage in a normal fashion. Last night I kept having that feeling that I had slipped back in time almost to the NO NEW YORK era, where commercial interests weren't present and inspiration was the status quo. Refreshing.

Now I know that Brooklyn will probably thump it's chest about the MGMT/YEASAYER scene that launched, and rightfully so they should be proud, and if part of the embers from that fire jumped west and landed in Echo Park, then an even bigger thank you goes out, because people dancing, being engaged in music and including others instead of holding what's cool for themselves, is worthy of appreciation.

Keep your eye on this pack of 12 or so groups playing shows together, it's worth the trip.

TONIGHT IN LOS ANGELES: SOMETHING INTERESTING IS HAPPENING @ THE ECHO

Lisa tipped me off to a bunch of bands that are all playing together tonight at The Echo and from a quick listen, it's all interesting (especially WEAVE!). It's free, my favorite price, and the whole line up is making noise locally> WEAVE!, RAINBOW ARABIA, WE ARE THE WORLD and FOOL'S GOLD. Check out what INFLIGHT AT NIGHT had to say about it and listen to some tracks HERE