in the same vein as No Shitty Kids:

After the sun sets on Sunset Junction Saturday night, come leave yr sweat on the floor of an all-new creative warehouse space.  It’s an easy walk from the Junction — no need to repark.  Home to the newly founded Goldbear Academy for Hair.

Party with locally-based [nationally regarded/internationally recognized/cosmically coveted] DJs, baptismal fonts, piñata cross-dressing, a really real-ass sound system, freebies from Evil Genius, plus even more surprises

Sam Sparro [dj set] — come on now!  Blending his voice live with music selections, get ready to get silly
Golden — Sparro’s production maverick and Modus Vivendi mastermind
Julian Brody — globetrotting laptop beatmaven with a beguiling smile
Nitedog — that white guy, from blackdisco, rearranging + changing LAs dance scene
Cole Medina — the guy behind some of this biggest summer grooves, including the Pinches mix of the BeeGees + Red Hot
Crza — the Garg’s chuggy disco diva-dantzche

Invite yr posse but leave out any null sets pls.

Cash bar
Starts at 10pm
$5

RSVP for the address (to be emailed on Friday) — and to make sure you get in if it gets crowded.

ALSO catch other events, free drinks, and hanging out ALL DAY on Hyperion:

FoundLA
1903 Hyperion Ave.
+ Pizza!
+ Rainbow Arabia
+ Vosotros
+ Gangi
+ The Nightbirds
+ SURPRISE SPECIAL PERFORMANCE
+ Julian Brody [DJ Set]

Refuge for Hair
1835 Hyperion Ave.
+ BBQ and music and A/C

Remember, as the sun heads down, please keep outside noise to a minimum + be respectful of the neighbors.  This weekend is a neighborhood event, and we want to keep it neighborly.

xoxo

the every-eighth-year rule comes in effect 2008, as the sunset junction street festival programmers have decided to invite a really solid lineup of fools to our little silver lake summer jam.  i put this pdf because there apparently isn’t one available.

download here

[via special correspondant and other important m-word, megan steinman]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/magazine/18bands-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin

The author focused on three performers:  Final Fantasy, St. Vincent and Panda Bear - all of whom I like, esp Panda Bear and his crazy-kooky Animal Collective compadres.  And yes, as author he (John Wray) has every right to select his subjects and thesis at whim.  But seems to me Wray does absolutely minimal stretching and investigating beyond June’s lineup at Northsix in Williamsburg.

Really?  You’re going to publish an entire article on the art of introducing electronic-based looping into the pop/rock idiom, giving credit to Trey Anastasio of Phish (just threw up in my mouth a bit, sorry), but no mention of the following:
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new mix by crza
recorded live from vinyl

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Hey, we at NoPerformance love us some real fakey-fakes, especially fake languages.  So, Crehnquist, if you’re out there, you’re one of us.  We’d give you an honorary fake key to the NoPerformance archives, but we don’t care that much.

tonight:

you might see:

wasn’t the guy on the left in cloverfield?

[we confessed “when we knew” to a camera in a video booth at the queer lounge at sundance — and now we’re on the WOW report]

a mix, from crza, recorded december 2007.

a whole lot of songs we loved last year, though not necessarily from last year.

note: “figure it out” refers to dealing with an ailing mixer - not song title.  xo.

Bicoastal warbler & general sweetheart Amelia June celebrates her homecoming with a FREE show at Hyperion Tavern tomorrow night, Thursday at 9pm.  ‘Twill be a good time.

Jesse Rogg & Sam Sparro just posted a nice new mixtape that is a survey of old-n-new hawkinson-rawkinson mash-ups, spliced with the absurd tomfoolery the two have utterly trademarked.

 Songs not bombs mixtape — Download