Act As If, Lovers Drugs, Tic Tic Boom!
Sat, October 6, 2012
Doors: 9:00 pm / Show: 10:00 pm
El Cid$5 at the door.
Tickets Available at the Door
This event is 21 and over
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Tic Tic Boom! - (Set time: 10:00 PM)
Tic Tic Boom! is all heart and angst wrapped up in synthesized musings and wandering guitar riffs...
“It’s a Way of Life.” For Mike DeLay and Leilani Francisco, that’s exactly what Tic Tic Boom! has been for the last five years. The two founding members live together above their home studio in Los Angeles. They pride themselves in independently handcrafting everything from start to finish—from the home recordings to screen-printed merch and DIY music videos.
DeLay moved to Los Angeles from Seattle in 2001 and befriended Francisco who introduced him to some songs she had written. Their relationship—-musically and romantically—-blossomed from there. They moved into Mike’s back-alley rehearsal studio and holed up for a year just writing and practicing. The band released their first punk-influenced EP How to Defuse a Bomb in 2008.
Tired of relying on outside engineers and producers to record their music, in 2010 DeLay decided to attend the audio engineering program at the Musician's Institute in Hollywood, CA. While Mike was studying the two began writing and recording their second EP, drawing inspiration from new wave, punk, and indie rock. Released in January 2011, Reasons & Rhymes received a wealth of praise and recognition from publications like Sonicbids, Buzzbands LA, and The Owl Mag. CMJ.com described their music as “hook-laced synthpop that casts live drums and guitars as conspicuously as it does sugary vocals and catchy synth loops.” It also earned the band the opportunity to do an official remix of one of the most popular songs of 2011, Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks,” and an invitation to showcase at CMJ Music Marathon in New York.
In April 2012 Tic Tic Boom! released their third EP, Before the Sun Rises. It was dubbed thus by the two’s nearly nocturnal writing and recording schedule and, as with each of their previous releases, the EP showcases a different side of Tic Tic Boom! “[Before the Sun Rises] deals with concepts of life and death,” explains Francisco about the inspiration behind the EP. “How all things are cyclical and we're all just a small piece of an enormous never-ending puzzle. It's about struggling to understand your place in all of that.”
To support their live performance, DeLay and Francisco are joined by Trevor Hunnicutt on drums and Matt Gurgol on bass. Live, Tic Tic Boom! commands the crowd to dance with floor-shaking bass synths, sweeping and sometimes jittery arpeggios, disco-drum beats, and distorted guitars, all under Francisco’s dreamlike vocals. “You can almost smell the perfume and sweat from the dancefloor in the electro-pop of LA quartet Tic Tic Boom,” depicts Kevin Bronson of Buzzbands.la.
The band performed an official showcase at SXSW 2012, played the Musician's Institute tent at The Coachella Music Festival in April 2012 and was invited to showcase at CMJ 2011. Tic Tic Boom!'s music has been placed on programming on Showtime, MTV and Bravo and can be heard on over 100 college radio stations across the nation.
“It’s a Way of Life.” For Mike DeLay and Leilani Francisco, that’s exactly what Tic Tic Boom! has been for the last five years. The two founding members live together above their home studio in Los Angeles. They pride themselves in independently handcrafting everything from start to finish—from the home recordings to screen-printed merch and DIY music videos.
DeLay moved to Los Angeles from Seattle in 2001 and befriended Francisco who introduced him to some songs she had written. Their relationship—-musically and romantically—-blossomed from there. They moved into Mike’s back-alley rehearsal studio and holed up for a year just writing and practicing. The band released their first punk-influenced EP How to Defuse a Bomb in 2008.
Tired of relying on outside engineers and producers to record their music, in 2010 DeLay decided to attend the audio engineering program at the Musician's Institute in Hollywood, CA. While Mike was studying the two began writing and recording their second EP, drawing inspiration from new wave, punk, and indie rock. Released in January 2011, Reasons & Rhymes received a wealth of praise and recognition from publications like Sonicbids, Buzzbands LA, and The Owl Mag. CMJ.com described their music as “hook-laced synthpop that casts live drums and guitars as conspicuously as it does sugary vocals and catchy synth loops.” It also earned the band the opportunity to do an official remix of one of the most popular songs of 2011, Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks,” and an invitation to showcase at CMJ Music Marathon in New York.
In April 2012 Tic Tic Boom! released their third EP, Before the Sun Rises. It was dubbed thus by the two’s nearly nocturnal writing and recording schedule and, as with each of their previous releases, the EP showcases a different side of Tic Tic Boom! “[Before the Sun Rises] deals with concepts of life and death,” explains Francisco about the inspiration behind the EP. “How all things are cyclical and we're all just a small piece of an enormous never-ending puzzle. It's about struggling to understand your place in all of that.”
To support their live performance, DeLay and Francisco are joined by Trevor Hunnicutt on drums and Matt Gurgol on bass. Live, Tic Tic Boom! commands the crowd to dance with floor-shaking bass synths, sweeping and sometimes jittery arpeggios, disco-drum beats, and distorted guitars, all under Francisco’s dreamlike vocals. “You can almost smell the perfume and sweat from the dancefloor in the electro-pop of LA quartet Tic Tic Boom,” depicts Kevin Bronson of Buzzbands.la.
The band performed an official showcase at SXSW 2012, played the Musician's Institute tent at The Coachella Music Festival in April 2012 and was invited to showcase at CMJ 2011. Tic Tic Boom!'s music has been placed on programming on Showtime, MTV and Bravo and can be heard on over 100 college radio stations across the nation.
Lovers Drugs - (Set time: 11:00 PM)
Lovers Drugs is a spry indie-rock band from the Echo Park/Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. This three piece band draws influence from Brit-pop bands like The Libertines, Supergrass, The Cribs and The Smiths. You can feel the band's smart pop influences in their crisp melodies and musical performances.
Act As If - (Set time: 12:00 AM)
Act As If is an indie/rock band from Los Angeles, CA. They released their first full-length album "There's a Light" in May 2010, and recently released a new 4-song EP entitled "The Iron Is Hot" [Feb 2012]. The band has been featured as 'New and Noteworthy' by iTunes Music and "Fuseworthy" by Fuse TV. Several songs are in rotation on DMX radio (being played in retail nationwide), and have been heard in TV shows across ABC, CBS, MTV, and IFC. Also, they find you (yes, YOU) very attractive.
The sweet chimes of the xylophone, the weeping electric guitar, and the lightly crashing cymbals will have you snapping your fingers and swaying side to side.”
- The Deli Magazine
“With a vaguely emo/hard-rock alternative style and a truckload of biting hooks, this is music that haunts and inspires."
- Scratch Magazine
The sweet chimes of the xylophone, the weeping electric guitar, and the lightly crashing cymbals will have you snapping your fingers and swaying side to side.”
- The Deli Magazine
“With a vaguely emo/hard-rock alternative style and a truckload of biting hooks, this is music that haunts and inspires."
- Scratch Magazine
