It was long ago… when we record a long time Spaceland friend Patrick Park. This show was opening up for his friend and sometimes tennis competitor Alex. Alex was the resident that month at Spaceland for his new project Sea Wolf [see our last post about Sea Wolf/Irving/The Afternoons]. Today [Thursday, June 19th, 2008] he’s playing with Alex again at another one of our clubs the Echoplex… Full circle, eh?

the free download of “Life’s a Song” was recorded at this show. It had been a while since Patrick had played the club. Most of the songs on this record hadn’t ever been release before. For his fans, it was a well appreciated gift!

enjoy.

KamranV

Patrick Park

“Life’s a Song” (mp3) from “LIVE [in Spaceland - September 26th, 2006]”
(Spaceland Recordings)
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So there’s this band in Silverlake called Irving. They’ve been around for a while. Kind of like the city council of the music scene out here. Everyone knows ‘em and likes ‘em. We did a live record with them last year and it turned out to be their last Spaceland show as the band as it was. Turns out Alex the bass player had been working on his own project called Sea Wolf and it got to the point where he wasn’t able to do both. Everyone supportively agreed that Alex doing Sea Wolf full-time was the best thing to do for everyone. They’re all still great friends and I wouldn’t be surprised if a reunion happened at some point in the future…. From all that that Irving decided to for a new band called The Afternoons.

The Afternoons= Irving-Alex+Tom Biller+Operatic Singer(Claire)+2nd drummer(Sam)

They just played their first night of the Spaceland Monday Night Residency (FREE, drink specials, rad band, good people) and it was pretty damn amazing. They’ll be playing every Monday for the rest of June (4 more!). We’re gonna be recording one of these nights too. For those of you who don’t know Tom, he’s worked as the right hand man of Jon Brion. He also happened to work on the Irving Covers EP that we put out as well.

For your enjoyment and to give you an idea how very good this band is, check out the download below.

Irving
“If You Say Jump, I Will Say No” (mp3) from “LIVE [in Spaceland - November 16th, 2006]”
(Spaceland Recordings)

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below is something from what most would call the “leader” of the band Michael is modest, at best, about his music. Check out what he had to say about the live record we did with ‘em. Download the track. It will make you happy.

FROM: Mike of Rademacher

It is really nice when someone asks you to do something for them that you enjoy doing. Not like, “can you help me move,” or “what do you know about computers?” sort of shit.

So we were pretty excited when our friends at Spaceland asked us if they could record the Record Release Show we had booked at the Echo in LA — and then to take that live recording and make a record out of it. Does that make sense? I thought it was a very “meta” move for us to record the release party to make a record out of it. I guess, I mean, I thought it was kinda “arty” or something. The show was a pretty big deal at the time too ( our first record ) so we decided to bring our friend Kim Haden (from the LA band Light FM) on board to play keys with us on some tunes. So the band is Rademacher + Kim. We don’t usually get to tour with a keyboard player because we don’t have enough room in the van… we don’t want to get a bigger van ‘cause gas is really, really expensive!

The recording has been out a few months and my friends who have bought it have given me really nice compliments.

So. Yeah. Now we have OUR live record and some people like it. It sounds like us. Listen!

Rademacher
“What Yr Used To Back At Home” (mp3)
from “LIVE [at the Echo - December 21st, 2007]”
(Spaceland Recordings)
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Liam Finn, son of Neil Finn of Crowded House, is one of those artists where because of his lineage some in Silverlake (including myself) can be a little skeptical of our little bearded dude. Through your good friend Brady at KUFALA we heard his inspired album “I’ll Be Lightening” and gave Liam his first ever solo show in LA as the first of 4 bands on a free night… Maybe 30 people were there but one of them was me recording what turned out to be quite an historic show for the club and for Liam. As you’ll here in this FREE download of Second Chance, homie rocks and rocks it solo. Here those drums and guitars and layered vocals. That’s all Liam, by himself… LIVE! He’s really a genuine guy and so fucking talented.

Also at that show, in the audience was his current label Yep Roc who signed him and released “I’ll Be Lightening” [click to buy] this year and apparently Eddie Vedder heard our recording and decided that Liam had Juice to make it happen on tour with him.

Liam Finn
“Second Chance” (mp3)
from “LIVE [in Spaceland - April 30th, 2007]”
(Spaceland Recordings)
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We’ve probably played The Echo in Los Angeles more times than any other venue in the world. And everytime it has been as a part of the Part Time Punks night. It’s a night where they play the kind of records that we like to listen to back home in San Francisco. Mccarthy, Another Sunny Day, Pylon, Felt, Orange Juice, and The Feelies. Also notable about that night was an interview where a guy asked us our names and what position we play. Just like a real sports team! [Check out the video below]

I don’t remember a whole lot about playing the show itself. But I definitely remember hearing it played back for the first time. It was great to hear how our new material stacked up next to our older songs.

On a whole I think it’s a great album. And it’s nice to hear the parts where we mess up. In fact, I think my guitar is missing from an entire verse of “Millions of People..” when Phil kicked my tuning pedal across the stage and unplugged it from the amp. But it gives the record a certain charm that a studio record could never duplicate.

-Corey Cunningham of the Magic Bullets

Magic Bullets
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from “LIVE [Part Time Punks (at the Echo) - July 22nd, 2007]”
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Hey, all. What a year this has been!

In November of last year, we sat around as a band and talked about the goals for the next year – releasing a new EP on our own, trying to get the Spaceland residency at some point, getting out on the road more. These were just a few of the things that we discussed. Well, fast forward to April of 2008: we started out the year by playing the Spaceland residency. We have already made quite a few trips out of town for shows, and have more in store. And next month we are releasing the new EP! That’s a busy 4 months!

The residency at Spaceland was everything we imagined it could be and more. It was a month of getting to play to a great audience of friends/fans, and a month of getting to play WITH and watch some of our personal favorite bands. It was really like a party every Monday night. Can’t beat that, can you? Some of my favorite moments were watching our friends bands – bands like Light FM, The Monolators, Flashing Red Lights, and Everest – play INCREDIBLE sets. Those were moments where you realize exactly who you’re surrounded by, and the sheer talent level that is all around you. That made it even MORE of an honor to play for all these people, and made it feel all the more special when they responded with such enthusiasm.

Spaceland Recordings made a live album out of our last performance of the month – January 28th, 2008. They recorded all the songs, the whole set, in all its glory. There is a moment captured on that recording that you can hear, if you listen close – a really special thing to me. I didn’t even really notice it until listening back to the recordings. Our encore song of the set was a tune called “Mossback”, which is off of our first full length. It’s a fun dance-y number. It ends with a bang, and a chorus of harmonized “ooh-la-la-la”s. When you listen to the closing section of this song, you can make out that a whole bunch of the audience was ooh-la-la-ing right along with us. It sounds great! It is a sound that can’t be achieved with just a band, playing to itself in a practice space, or in a recording studio. That is the sound of a band and an audience not only connecting, but joining together, and having fun TOGETHER. We weren’t just showing them a good time, and they weren’t just showing US a good time. It was a shared thing, it was mutual. And it is easily my favorite thing about listening to that show now – just hearing a mutual exchange between audience and band, and feeling the real energy of that show. It was an amazingly sweet way to end an amazingly sweet month.

As for the EP – we began recording some material for it in December. We recorded two songs right before Christmas, one of which ended up on the EP (“Got It All”). After our residency in January, we pretty much spent all our free time, and all our time that we normally spent playing shows, either at The Boat Studios, or at David Swensen’s apartment (David is our bass player, and also produced the record), recording various things for the record. This was our first time really doing EVERYTHING ourselves – from engineering, to producing, to album art … it is quite a labor of love. We are really really proud of how it has turned out. Because it was all on us, and because we were so invested in it, we really feel it turned out to be something special – something that really sounds like a lot of effort and pride was put into making it. We worked hard to get the sounds we wanted on the record, and David spent hours upon days mixing it, until we really felt it was layered right, and that everything was just as we heard it in our collective (Red) head. “Owl & Timber” is kind of like our new-born baby. We’re VERY excited for you all to meet him (her….it…).

Cheers!

Evan

The Parson Red Heads
“Mossback” (mp3)
from “LIVE [Mondays (in Spaceland) Vol. 6 - January 28th, 2008]”
(Spaceland Recordings)
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At the bottom there are some reviews of some of the residency shows for you to check out too. At spaceland and the echo we have a resident band that plays every monday in the month. its FREE to attend and a great way to see a band “grow up” some of my favorite shows at the club have been these. -kV

The Henry Clay People
“Children of Chin” (mp3)
from “LIVE [Mondays (at the Echo) Vol. 7 - February 4th, 2008]”
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FROM JOEY:

The residency was a blast.  We tried to have something a little different each night to keep the spirit spontaneous.  Rock and roll should be shot from the hip.  We relearned some Op-Ivy covers that we hadn’t played since high school, we got alot of friends to join us on stage.  It was chaos and I loved every minute of it.

REVIEWS:

http://classicalgeektheatre.blogspot.com/2008/02/henry-clay-people-w-monolators-service.html

http://squaregirls.blogspot.com/2008/02/see-her-runing-around-shes-girl-about_19.html

http://classicalgeektheatre.blogspot.com/2008/02/henry-clay-people-w-happy-hollows-death.html

Check out these links: us featured on the home page, our label page, our first blog post, White Rabbits, The Thermals, Rademacher, The Parson Red Heads, The Henry Clay People.

enjoy!

]]> http://www.spacelandrecordings.com/blog/2008/03/18/the-thermals-live-at-the-echoplex/feed/ http://www.spacelandrecordings.com/blog/2008/02/28/liam-finn-on-letterman-tonight/ http://www.spacelandrecordings.com/blog/2008/02/28/liam-finn-on-letterman-tonight/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:29:07 +0000 KamranV http://www.spacelandrecordings.com/blog/2008/02/28/liam-finn-on-letterman-tonight/ Our one-man-band friend Liam Finn will be on The Late Show with David Letterman tonight. While he was in LA a couple of weeks ago we did another amazing LIVE recording. Its coming together very nicely and will be out this summer, after his studio album gets going. Speaking of you can buy his studio album here! We love you.