Entrance and Moonrats @ the Knitting Factory--6 bucks for two shows.

Entrance is totally awesome. He put out this album called Prayer of Death in like 2006 that totally owns every other album put out in 2006. I've never seen the Entrance Band but I'm told they're even better and that I'm about to be blown away or some shit like that.

Download Entrance's Grim Reaper Blues here.

Now, Moonrats is ex-members of Your Enemies Friends and Pretty Girls Make Graves, and it makes me super stoked to write about them cause the bass player/keyboard player is my best friend from high school. And they're good.

Listen to FLM by Moonrats:



The bass player/singer from Crystal Antlers used to live across the street from me when I lived at the Booby Trap. I was really surprised to meet someone in that house who wasn't a piece of shit so I tried to get him to move into my house but as soon as he realized that no one in their right mind would live even 3 blocks from EITHER of these places, he was gone.

Listen to Crystal Antlers here.

A little note about the flyer: it was created by another OCHSA alum, Mr. Luke McGarry, who is 1/3 of Orange County electro-pop outfit Pop Noir. The kid also does a ton of artwork for shit like L.A. Record and the District Weekly, and you've probably seen his work in other places. It's good though huh?

The point of all this: if you feel like being blown away, get your ass to the Knitting Factory on Thursday, pay 6 bucks, and prepare to be stoked. I'd be there if I didn't live so fucking far away.

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Let them eat Cake: Kate Nash @ Amoeba

Everyone's been comparing this little piece of hotness to the likes of Lily Allen or Lethal Bizzle. I just think I like her more than chocolate cake?
(Yeah man, I don't know where I was going with that one either. I kinda just accept it.)

Lady Kate Nash performed a free show last night at Amoeba only hours before her sold out debut at the Troubadour. I posted about this earlier last week but for some reason the blog never showed up. I don't know why. Quite frankly, one of my New Year's resolutions was to rekindle my bitter relationship with blogger... and quite frankly, I don't know how well it's working. Maybe I should go eat worms.

Dude, home videos are rough... Click below to observe. God bless camera phones.

Nash's 'Foundations' was the 17th highest-selling single in the U.K. in 2007, released on Fiction Records (home of Elbow) in July of same year. Rock on sista.