Diamond.Rings and Icona.Pop...(L!VE)

CYPT2.

Two.Year.Anniversary.2012

@the.EchoPlex (Los Angeles, CA)

Tuesday.November.6th

Okay...what the hell was that.  It feels like I am watching a variety show.  The first band reminded me of A.R.E. Weapons, but a fucked up version of them.  This is more  noise guitar, think of Sleigh Bells.  The lead singer came out with this black cloak with the hood up and his face painted like a skeleton ghost.  To top this off, he was wearing Adidas flip flops.   It was a fucked up outfit.  This guy would sometimes put his foot on the monitor's and almost trip over it.  Not just once but several times.  On the last song, he took off his black cloak and reveled his Lakers outfit.  GROOVY?!

The second artist was a little better, but not that great.  She looked very Jersey and had two back-up dancers.  Is this the new JLo?  It was very electro-pop.  NEXT! 

Diamond.Rings was up next (Thank God!).  What a step up from the last time I saw him (only him and a keyboard).  Today, he has a four piece  band and they where great.  Looking at John O'Regan (Diamond Rings), he reminded me of Bowie mets Grace Jones with some glam.  This is what we need right now, style with some substance.  When he took off his white Michael Jackson jacket, boy did he have a smell.  Jesus.   Someone hasn't touched water for about a week or two.  With his new album out, Free Dimensional (It has some good tunes), his set was short.  But for sure, I'll see him again. 

Icona.Pop...BLEW ME AWAY!!!  I thought it was gonna be just two girls dancing and singing to a backup track and that was not the case here.  They actually play instruments.  I couldn't stop watching them.  They reminded me of Simian Mobile Disco, playing with knobs and tweaking sounds.  For sure, I would see them again. 

I was not going to stick around for Andrew W.K. or the special guest, Skrillex.  It was getting late and besides, Diamond Rings and Icona Pop made my night and they...

\m/ - K!CKd A$$

THEESATISFACTION/GRIMES.(L!VE)

THEESatisfaction/Grimes.2012

@the.Echo.(Los Angeles, CA)

Tuesday.June.19th

Two good things going on tonight and I might just go downstairs to check out Grimes DJ.   Curious on what she is going to spin.  I missed her...TWICE already and kicking myself because she is getting a bunch of press now.  DAM!!!  She recently was in Pasadena doing a free concert event and of course I couldn't go.  Double DAMMM!!!

So far, the first section of the parking lot is full already (good sign).  Once inside the Echo, I could count 20 people.  It was a Hip-Hop night (I think) and it's a bit lame.  Maybe later during the night it might pick up and it did.  You can say thirty more people showed up.  THEESatisfaction was going on at 11pm and Grimes goes on at the same time, $H!T.  

Once THEESatisfaction went on, they  bored me.  I guess because I wanted to checkout Grimes, who knows.  They where good rappers, but it was not grabbing me.  What grabbed me was the 90's outfits they where wearing.  It's for sure, the 90's are making a comeback.  GROOVY! 

I stuck around for three songs and headed downstairs to check out Miss Grimes on the one's and two's.  Well,  she played a very strange set.  She played Outkast "Hey Yea" and some other Hip-Hop music that I couldn't recognize.  I should of Shazamed her playlist, but I was not thinking at the time.  I was just tripping out on the fans who came out to see her tonight.  She had some fans on stage dancing.  Maybe around thirty people on stage.  They where getting off and singing to the songs that she would spin.  It was a very colorful crowd, I liked it.  But of course, I had to be next to a drunk!  FCVKn A!!!  He was sloppy and he was bumping into a bunch of people.  But no one complained, odd.  

Grimes killed it!  I liked her pink butterfly outfit she had on, very ravey.  After Grimes DJ set, the crowd started to leave and Lemonade was the closing act for the night.  Let me tell you...Lemonade was lemon's.  Left after the second song.

\m/ - GR!MES, ROCKs!!!

Is.tropical/Crystal.Fighters.2012 (L!VE) in L.A.

Is.Tropical.2012

@EchoPlex.(Los Angeles, CA)

Tuesday.June.5th

FCVK!  I am still jet lag (just a little).  I hope it goes away soon.  Ten o'clock hits, I get sleepy.

I arrived at the parking lot and its filling up quick and it's only 9 o'clock at night.  It looks like this is going to be a good night.  I arrived at the EchoPlex and there was a line to get in.  It did not take that long to arrive inside.  I headed to my spot and I noticed my friend, Zowie their (cool).  She told me the first band was, terrible.  The second band was up next and they where...I'll  just leave it at that.  

Is Tropical was up next.  I was watching them set up there equipment and they where not what I expected.  I thought they where gonna look very proper indie kids, but they looked like Metal heads.  They had long hair with a scruffy look.  I like.  When they preformed, they sounded a little different.  At first, I was, is this Is Tropical?  But it was them.  They where good and I liked the little changes on "Lies".  Groovy.

After Is Tropical, I was gonna leave.  I have not heard of Crystal Fighters and I could see why.  Zowie told me I should stick around for them because they are good.  So I did and they where...okay.  I think the lead singer of CF was HIGH!!!  When I arrived at home, I listened to a couple of songs on iTunes.  The songs sounded better, L!VE.  

\m/ - Groovy