Bikos
Lovers Drugs, Son Ark
Tue, January 3, 2012
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
Bootleg Bar
$8.00
Tickets
This event is 21 and over
http://www.foldsilverlake.com/event/78191/Bikos
"Bikos sounds like the most fun you can have without getting sponsored at happy hour, or without selling your soul to the synth devil. The Los Angeles art-punks new album "Make Your Sound Sound" binges on the pummeling rhythms and ecstatic licks of the B-52's, Talking Heads and other bands who made the clamorous glamorous. Whether they’re shouting or singing, banging the drums or clanging the glockenspiel, the sextet of Gabriel Pearlman, Austin Wester, Jaron Halmy, Daniel Hur, Dave Jones and Michaella Burton pack their debut album with electric moments. “Make Your Sound Sound” (out this week) was made in concert with producer Dean Nelson, who’s done studio work for Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Thurston Moore and Jamie Lidell, among others, and who took a shine to Bikos after his wife was passed the band’s demos. The results: Spazzy, smart songs that’ll hook you from head to toe." – Buzzbands LA
Son Ark - (Set time: 11:00 PM)
son ark arrived in Los Angeles by way of Roanoke Virginia (which lays exactly between The Grand Ole Opry and Apollo Theatre) when they heard a rumor that Sam Philips was rebuilding Muscle Shoals on the west coast. Since then, son ark has been filling establishments across Los Angeles with their unmistakably unique brand of Americana roots rock and with lyrics that tell tales of bygone eras and heartbreaking love lost, son ark longingly reminds us of days gone by. The songs are not antiques, though. Influenced by the likes of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Patsy Cline, Andrew Bird, and Led Zeppelin, son ark tells their tales in a decidedly contemporary way.
