So I’m slated to DJ at the Short Stop in Echo Park on 15 May, 2012 (this coming Tuesday unless you’re pulling this from the archives). I’ll be splitting the music slanging chores with Joe Skyward (Sky Cries Mary, The Posies, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jean Jacket Shotgun), Jimmy James and Greene Candy Machine.
Of my comrades I only know Joe but I don’t even know what kind of music he’s planning on DJing. As for me, he only told me “No techno!” so I’ll ignore anything ’80s Detroit just to be safe. I do plan on focusing on the ’80s, however — chiefly Baggy, Bass, Bounce, Electro, Eurodisco, Freestyle, Garage, Italo, Spacesynth, Synthpop, Vietnamese New Wave — that sort of thing.
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If you don’t go because your typical Tuesdays are too packed with choice you should probably go see SISU in Santa Ana at the Constellation. They’re quite possibly the best band in LA currently — especially if you like Blonde Redhead, Broadcast, Midnight Movies, Ruth Hohmann & Erbe-Chor or perhaps early Pink Floyd.
So you’re spoiled for choice, really. LA or OC, which is it going to be?
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Eric Brightwell is an adventurer, writer, rambler, explorer, cartographer, and guerrilla gardener who is always seeking writing, speaking, traveling, and art opportunities — or salaried work. He is not interested in writing advertorials, clickbait, listicles, or other 21st century variations of spam. Brightwell’s written work has appeared in Amoeblog, diaCRITICS, and KCET Departures. His work has been featured by the American Institute of Architects, the Architecture & Design Museum, the Craft & Folk Art Museum, Form Follows Function, Los Angeles County Store, Skid Row Housing Trust, and 1650 Gallery. Brightwell has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Magazine, LAist, Eastsider LA, Boing Boing, Los Angeles, I’m Yours, and on Notebook on Cities and Culture. He has been a guest speaker on KCRW‘s Which Way, LA? and at Emerson College. Art prints of his maps are available from 1650 Gallery and on other products from Cal31. He is currently writing a book about Los Angeles and you can follow him on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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