Recommended Rocking: The Airborne Toxic Event + Calder Quartet, Cold Cave + Nite Jewel

A short list of recommended L.A.-area shows for the coming week (plus videos for instant gratification). Click “details” for descriptions.

  • Region: Downtown
    Music: Airborne Toxic Event w/ Calder Quartet (plus surprises)
    Vitals:
    Disney Hall on Friday, December 4
    (details at LA Weekly)
  • Region: Echo Park
    Music: Cold Cave, Nite Jewel
    Vitals:
    The Echo on Sunday, December 6
    (details at LA Weekly)

Roundup: Manimal Signs Sister Crayon, Julia Holter On Leaving Records (MP3, video)

Quick bloggy bits* from around the L.A. underground (and up). This week’s is extra short (and late) due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

  1. Manimal Signs Sister Crayon, Holds Echo Residency, Releases Warpaint Video
  2. Julia Holter Prepares Leaving Records Release, Offers Handmade Art Objects (MP3)
  3. (all stories via West Coast Sound, via LA Weekly)

*If you like it, then you better put a tweet on it.

L.A. Experiential: Leslie & The Badgers, Sing For China

If you live in/around the L.A. area, seriously consider attending these:

  • Region: Echo Park
    Music: Leslie & the Badgers, Welldiggers Banquet, Old Californio…
    Vitals: The Echo on Monday, September 7
    (details at LA Weekly).
  • Region: Downtown
    Music: Sing For China: Hedgehog, Queen Sea Big Shark, and The Casino Demon (all-Chinese indie-rock bill)
    Vitals: Silverlake Lounge on Tuesday, September 8
    (details at LA Weekly)

Night Vision: Avi Buffalo @ The Echo

Avi Buffalo (the name of the man and the band) played the third installment of his/its May residency at The Echo last night. The 18-year old frontman seems smaller and younger in person than he does in pictures, but he’s an even larger presence than one would expect. It’s mostly the effect of that impossibly youthful voice, which sounds not unlike the imagined middleground between Devendra and Danielson. Also helpful was the general freewheeling-ness of this particular set, in which Avi eschewed favorites like “Summer Cum” (playing in “Now Hear This”) in favor of loudness and jamitude.

The following clips feature poor lighting but decent sound. The first song is one of the night’s quieter ones, while the second is the band’s 7-minute closer.