Monday Night Music Options 12/3/07

A Place to Bury Strangers Play the Viper Room Tonight

The Division Day / Voxtrot show at the Fonda was a good time. Division Day is a tight and well-oiled machine right now. I’m looking forward to their new material. Voxtrot is just a lot of fun. Indie pop in the classic sense of the word. I will admit, the Voxtrot crowd made me feel a bit old.

Monday 12/3/07

In-store Alert: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings @ Amoeba (Free) – 7:00 PM – Their show at El Rey tomorrow is sold out.

A Place to Bury Strangers / In Waves / Eulogies @ Viper Room ($10 / or free with RSVP to Myspace) – A Place to Bury Strangers are a Brooklyn based, Jesus & Mary Chain, noise-pop inspired band who got a respectable 8.4 out of 10 from Pitchfork. They’re supposedly loud. If you can’t make it out tonight (or have a Westside aversion) see them at the Silverlake Lounge tomorrow.

Carbon/Silicon @ the Troubadour ($15) – Congrats to our Carbon/Silicon prize package winner. They’re the new band from Mick Jones (the Clash/Big Audio Dynamite) and Tony James (Generation X/Sigue Sigue Sputnik).

Vampire Weekend / Grande Ole Party / Princeton @ the Echo ($10) – Vampire Weekend is another NYC band that got a ton of press in 2007. Jeff Weiss checked out their July show at the Silverlake Lounge and wrote about it HERE. The gist is - New York prep school meets Paul Simon’s Graceland. I haven’t spent much (read: any) time rockin’ Graceland, so I’ll throw later era Talking Heads, early David Byrne solo and Peter Gabriel into the fire. Last time they passed through they were unsigned. This time they’re signed to XL Recordings and have their debut album due in January.

The Binges / Biblical Proof of UFOs @ Spaceland (Free) – The Binges are doing the Monday night residency at Spaceland this month. They’re more of a sleazy rock ‘n’ roll band (which we too often forget about on the eastside).

Tweak Bird / Crystal Antlers @ Silverlake Lounge (Free) - Noisey.

Patton Oswalt @ Largo – Funny bastard. I took him for granted when I’d see him once a month at Largo.

Henry Clay People @ the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa – They’re doing a Monday night residency.