It’s a big weekend in LA for indie music lovers with the annual FYF (Fuck Yeah Fest) kicking off on Saturday, September 4th featuring The Rapture, Dead Man’s Bones, Unbroken, 7 Seconds, Panda Bear, Off! & More! Well the party doesn’t start and stop there kids. There’s a lot of amazing music to be heard the entire weekend and it all starts tomorrow! Check out our FYF Party Calendar below for all the details.

FRIDAY, September 3, 2010

• Delorean, Superhumanoids w/ a very special guest who are also playing FYF @ The Grand Star $10 / 9:00pm / 21+ Get your tickets here!

Saturday, September 4th

• FYF Fest w/ The Rapture, Dead Man’s Bones, Unbroken, 7 Seconds, Panda Bear, Off! & More! @ L.A. State Historic Park $30/Noon/All AgesOfficial
• FYF After Party #1 with Big Freedia (1:00am) and Marijuana Death Squad (12:30am) @ LA Cita
  $5 / Show Up After the Fest / 21+
• Official FYF After Party #2 with DJ sets from The Rapture, Runaway and Goddollars @ Secret Location TBA  $10/Midnight – ??? (we’ll announce location on Friday, if you’re lucky)
• Nails & Ceremony @ 6th st Warehouse. No alcohol. $5/11:30pm

SUNDAY, September 5, 2010

• Panda Bear w/ The Goat @ The Glass House 8pm/All Ages/$10 Tickets sold day of and at FYF Merch Booth
• The Rapture and Big Freedia @ Echoplex 9pm/All Ages/$10 Tickets sold day of and at FYF Merch Booth

Each show (on Sunday) is $10. Tickets will be available at the FYF Fest merch booth starting at 11:30 a.m. when gates open.

A very limited amount of tickets for the PANDA BEAR show are available at the stores below starting today, Thursday, September 2nd at 5:00pm. There will be no advance tickets for the Rapture except for at FYF Fest the day of the event and NO ONLINE SALES. Advance tickets for this show are WILL CALL ONLY and 2 TIX limit.

Origami Vinyl
1816 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026-3227
213.413.3030

Fingerprints
4612 E. 2nd St
Long Beach, CA
562.433.4996

Vacation Vinyl
3815 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
(323) 666-2111

Glasshouse Records
248 West 2nd Street
Pomona, CA 91766-1739
(909) 865-3802

There’s nothing hotter than a sexy female drummer bangin’ some skins behind a buzzing drum kit. Well, female bassists are pretty hot too but we’ll leave that for another top 10 list. We asked our staff and a few of our fellow music snobs who they think are the hottest female indie drummers. And by “hot” we mean both visually and aurally. The girl’s gotta rock the drums while looking sexy-as-fuck doing it!

Grimy Goods Top 10 Female Indie Drummers

10. Heisenflei - The Pity Party (LA)

9. Leah Shapiro – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (SF/LA)

8. Sarah Chernoff (aka Mimi Malone) – The Franks (LA)

7. Carla Azar – Autolux (LA)

6. Kim Schifino – Matt & Kim (NY)

5. Suzanne “Honey” Pagliorola – The Vandelles (NY)

4. Akiko Matsuura – The Big Pink (UK)

3. Hannah Blilie – Gossip (Portland)

2. Janet Weiss - Sleater-Kinney, Quasi, etc. (Portland)

1. Maria “Poni” Silver – The Ettes (Nashville)

Who’s your favorite female indie drummer? Signed or unsigned, we want to know!

I probably listened to !!!’s (Chk Chk Chk) new album “Strange Weather, Isn’t It? ” about five times over before writing this review and with each listen I gladly found myself puckering my lips and bobbing my head like a duck on crack as soon as their second track “The Most Certain Sure” took its play. It’s full of funky vibes, psychedelic twists and bass thumps whereas opening track “AM/FM” is a bit more trancy and fit for a smooth intro. The party in my cerebellum continued into the next track “Wannagain Wannagain.” Adding some brass, percussion and heavy bass lines, this song has that exotic “shake your ass” element; close to that of a neo samba sound you may catch in a Brazilian bar.

As the majority of dance albums go, the tracks on “Strange Weather, Isn’t It?” tend to melt together making it hard to differentiate one song from another. They all have that funky disco element mixed in with some trance and a reoccurring selection of instruments, especially that funky bass guitar (which I totally love).

Although !!! have always been coined as a dance-punk outfit, their latest album brings out a more diverse realm of sound totally opposite of punk. Maybe some disco and funk, but not the raw, raucous sound and heavy guitars of punk. “Strange Weather, Isn’t It?” is full of those sexy luscious beats, taking much influence from the sultry sounds of blues and jazz, with a strong flavor of bossanova as heard in their song “Steady as the Sidewalk Cracks.” Whether you’re chilling at a lounge or working out, !!! has created one sexy album that will definitely get your body movin’ and groovin.”

If you dig Hot Chip, Delorean and Yeasayer, you’ll love !!! and their new album “Strange Weather, Isn’t It?”

Words: Sandy Burciaga

Artist: !!! (Chk Chk Chk)
Album: Strange Weather, Isn’t It?
Label: Warp
Release Date: August 24, 2010

!!!  (Chk Chk Chk) TOUR DATES

08-15 Brooklyn, NY – Williamsburg Waterfront

09-04 Los Angeles, CA – FYF Festival

09-05 Tempe, AZ – The Clubhouse

09-06 Tucson, AZ – Club Congress

09-07 Santa Fe, NM – Corazon

09-09 Denver, CO – The Blue Bird Theater

09-10 Boulder, CO – Fox Theater

09-11 Salt Lake City, UT – Club Sound

09-13 Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s

09-22 Washington, DC – Black Cat

09-23 Boston, MA – Royale Boston

09-24 Northampton, MA – Pearl Street

09-25 Lincoln, NH – The Nor’easter

09-26 Toronto, Ontario – Lee’s Palace

09-28 Ann Arbor, MI – The Blind Pig

09-29 Chicago, IL – The Bottom Lounge

09-30 Louisville, KY – Headliners

10-01 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom

10-02 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory

10-03 Pittsburgh, PA – Lawrenceville Moose

10-05 Pawtucket, RI – The Met Café

10-06 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg

10-16 San Francisco, CA – Treasure Island Music Festival

The recently-reunited 90s Chicago punk act Cap’n Jazz played and epically memorable show at the Echoplex with Abe Vigoda and The Black Apples last Saturday, August 28th at the Echoplex. Check out the photos from their sold-out show below!

Cap ‘N Jazz

Abe Vigoda

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It’s all to often that people get stuck in their golden days. Whether it’s with the kind of music they listened to in their prime or a style/fashion genre that they just can’t let go of: move the fuck on! But I gotta admit, this goofy couple straight out of a time warp circa ’87 are kid of cute. Dude has the Hasselhoff feathered fro in full effect and that 80s Bugle Boy Jeans booty going. At least the tattoo on his forearm reads: “Born To Rock.”

You have to “like it” to watch it, but how can you not like Cee-Lo or his new pottie mouthed video, “Fuck You.” All it’s lacking is the Fonz! Head on over to Cee-Lo’s Facebook Fan Page to watch his new video. In the spirit of fowl language, the video is “good shit” and it will totally make you want to bust a soulful groove, and if it doesn’t, well then “fuck you.” Click here to watch Cee-Lo’s video for “Fuck You.”

“Fuck You” is from his forthcoming album, “The Lady Killer,” set for a December 7 release via Elektra Records.

The Morning Benders have dropped a new video for their song “All Day Day Light.” As the seasons change so does the boys’ wardrobe. It’s simple and sweet, but does the job, and totally makes you want to get up and dance — whether the boys are taking you through a beautiful sun filled day or a crazy blizzard! Check it out below and let us know what you think.

If you don’t already have The Morning Benders’ latest album “Big Echo,” I highly suggest you get it. It’s that good.

The Los Angeles County Fair is coming! Kicking off September 3 – October 4, get ready to eat some nasty fried foods; from fried Twinkies, sticks of butter, pickles and more, it’s like a personal invitation to a heart attack. But there’s an upside — you can work off all those weird and tasty fair treats at the LA County Fair Concerts! They have some cool shows (and not so great shows) lined up for you to bust a hipsta-shake to. Here’s our top picks:

• Boyz II Men w/ En Vougue – Thursday, Sept. 23   $19.50-$100 Buy tickets here!
• War – Friday, Sept. 24 $19.50-$100 Buy tickets here!
• Hall & Oates – Friday, Oct. 1 $19.50-$100 Buy tickets here!
• Bad Company – Saturday, Oct. 2 $25-$125 Buy tickets here!
• Ok Go with 3OH!3 – Sunday, Oct. 3   $19.50-$100 Buy tickets here!

To vie the entire LA County Fair concert schedule, click here.

We’ve been listening to their self-titled debut album for quite some time now and totally dig on their fusion of 50s and 60s pop gems amongst other aural delights. With that sweet and classic boy band/girl group sound from yesteryear, The Drums have released a new video for their song “Down By The Water.” For a blast to the past a la Drums, check out their new video below.

The band’s co-headlining tour with Surfer Blood starts September 11. For more information on The Drums, click here!

The Drums self-titled album will be released September 11, 2010 via Downtown Records. Pre-order the album here.

The Drums Tour Dates:

09/11: PROVIDENCE, RI @ Jerky’s Live Music Hall
09/12: WASHINGTON, DC @ The 9:30 Club
09/13: CHAPEL HILL, NC @ Local 506
09/15: ATLANTA, GA @ The Loft
09/17: ORLANDO, FL @ Social
09/18: MIAMI, FL @ Grand Central
09/19: TAMPA, FL @ State Theatre
09/20: GAINESVILLE, FL @ Common Ground Coffeehouse
09/21: TALLAHASSEE, FL @ Club Downunder
09/23: HOUSTON, TX @ Fitzgerald’s (The Drums ONLY)
09/24: DALLAS, TX @ The Loft (The Drums ONLY)
09/25: AUSTIN, TX @ ND (The Drums ONLY)
09/27: PHOENIX, AZ @ Clubhouse
09/28: POMONA, CA @ Glass House
09/29: LOS ANGELES, CA @ The Music Box
10/01: SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ The Independent (The Drums ONLY)
10/03: PORTLAND, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
10/04: SEATTLE, WA @ Neumos (The Drums ONLY)
10/05: VANCOUVER, BC @ The Biltmore Cabaret
10/07: BOISE, ID @ Neurolux
10/08: SALT LAKE CITY, UT @ Urban Lounge
10/10: DENVER, CO @ Bluebird Theater
10/13: MINNEAPOLIS, MN @ The Varsity Theater
10/14: CHICAGO, IL @ Lincoln Hall
10/16: TORONTO, ON @ Mod Club (The Drums ONLY)
10/17: MONTREAL, QB @ Cabaret du Musee Juste Pour Rire (The Drums ONLY)
10/18: BOSTON, MA @ Paradise (The Drums ONLY)
10/20: NEW YORK, NY @ Webster Hall
10/22: PHILADELPHIA, PA @ Making Time

Whether you’re a fan of Yoko Ono or not, the fact that she has some awesome special guests at her upcoming LA shows are a reason enough to get some tickets. Check it out! The legendary Iggy Pop will be playing a show with the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band on October 1st at the Orpheum Theater! Additionally, Perry Farrell Tuneyards, Vincent Gallo, Harper Simon, RZA, Nels Cline, Mike Watt, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lady Gaga (unfortunately), will also be special guests at the Orpheum Theater (check below for specific show dates appearances)! And on top off all that, her son Sean Lennon will also be playing, along with Cornelius and Haruomi Hosono. This is going to be one hell of show with an all-star line up!

October 1st show with: Iggy Pop, Nels Cline, Mike Watt, Perry Farrell, Tuneyards, Vincent Gallo, RZA, Harper Simon, Sean Lennon, Cornelius, Haruomi Hosono, and Carrie Fisher! Get your tickets here!

October 2nd show with: Lady Gaga, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, RZA, Perry Farrell, Tuneyards, Vincent Gallo, Harper Simon, and Carrie Fisher! Get your tickets here!