The New LA Folk Festival + LA Record present:

Bloody Death Skull
Website  Audio: Girls Like You  Audio: Will Ya Willyam
OH MY GOSH record release show!
The new BDS album “OH MY GOSH” is a golden block of wood you can take home and hold in your hand while listening to the new songs. Each luminous piece comes with a magical code you stick in the computer to retrieve the music.

9p/$5/all ages

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Pappy & Harriet’s
53688 Pioneertown Rd, Pioneertown, California

Amanda Jo Williams will unfurl her latest musical confessions surrounded by friends and aliens at El Cid on May 24.

The new album, “You’re The Father Of My Songs”, is being released by Neurotic Yell Records on May 21. Have a listen to “2000 Hell”.

Tickets: $10 at the door
Location: El Cid 4212 W Sunset Blvd., 90029

TONALISM
an all night ambient music happening
at Zorthian Ranch
6pm-6am

About Zorthian Ranch:
At the foot of the beautiful San Gabriel Mountains in Altadena sits the one and only Zorthian Ranch, a legendary party place built by hand out of spare parts by Jirayr Zorthian. This junkyard oasis seems like the type of place you stumble into lost in a ghost town, but the Ranch leads a peaceful weird existence with its pet llamas and chickens just 15 miles from downtown Los Angeles on a mountainside surrounded by trees. Up until Jirayr’s death in 2004, the ranch served as a haven of bohemian life and a backdrop for his artistic expression—salvaged wood, bed springs, rusted vehicles, broken concrete, movie set pieces, beer bottles, old props, more than one kitchen sink, and other junk he could recycle into various sculptures and architecture. By hosting events at this special place over the last few years, The New L.A. Folk Fest has revived the spirits that once danced around these grounds in red long underwear.

About Tonalism:
Tonalism is a dusk-to-dawn event inspired by La Monte Young’s “Dream House” as well as the work of musicians and composers such as Terry Riley, Yoko Ono and John Cage. Tonalism combines harmonious textures in a surround sound system with visual elements to create an atmosphere where the audience is encouraged to bring pillows, cushions and sleeping bags to lay down, listen and watch for an extended period of time. DJs, live musicians and video artists play and perform throughout the night; starting at sunset and ending at sunrise. Complimentary tea and water are provided to all who attend.

Open wide to a new world. Expansive radiance awaits in this environment of elevation. We have entered a glowing landscape of transformative tones. The horizon line fades and every edge softens. Natural laws dissolve as we float on pure sound particles. Vibration has become the new vision and your being beams brightly, blurring into harmonic hum with the universe. “You” and “I” are no longer. This is all together. Transformation complete.

Escape wherever you are and meet us in Ojai for the weekend. See them rolling hills, breathe that ocean-kissed air, and have a party at a cozy tavern nestled in the woods.

GOOD LUCK THRIFT STORE OUTFIT
Rooted in Americana, country and hillbilly influences, this band delivers soul donning beards, overalls, and flannel. They sit at the throne of a revival scene in their native Oakdale.

RESTAVRANT
Restavrant is junkyard high art. Electrocana, roots, punk, country and slide blues merge through the mad science of frontman Troy Murrah’s mischievous guitar and his drummer’s homemade drum set’s beer buckle breaks.

OCHA LA ROCHA
Johnny la Rocha’s grainy vocals and irreverent lyrics evoke a juke joint bluesman, a libidinous southern rocker, and a tender-hearted, crooning cowboy. His band juxtaposes stripped down rock songs with lavish, quasi-psychedelic arrangements, next to wailing country folk.

BLOODY DEATH SKULL
The band swirls together ukulele with whatever sounds, toys and instruments they enjoy into a pleasant, lo-fi sound, rooted in the sort of fun, sappy, playful and sneaky tunes you find in late-50s American Rock and Soul. Visually, the outfits, toys, lights and bubbling test tubes are a feast. It’s a PBS daycare set.

The Deer Lodge
Built in 1932 as a general store where travelers could pick up picnic supplies and ice, the Deer Lodge also served as a place for hunters to skin deer, hence the name. In the 1930s and ’40s its basement was reputed to be a secret gathering spot for gamblers and ladies of the night, and in 1947 it was transformed yet again into a popular bar and dance hall. By the 1960s, it had become a rugged roadhouse, where cowboys, bikers and hunters could shoot pool, play darts and get into a brawl or two.

Tickets: $10 available online or at the door.

Photos by Abby Linne

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Watch “Tales That I Tell” live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bigAFfVNrpM

Tommy Santee Klaws 8pm
http://tommysanteeklaws.com/
Ramshackle 8:45pm
http://www.facebook.com/emilyosment
Jenny O. 9:30pm
http://jennyo.com/
He’s My Brother She’s My Sister 10:30pm
http://hesmybrothershesmysister.com/

We go way back with He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, way back to 2008, pretty sure, when we first saw this family band sing through clattering teeth on a wooden porch in Pioneertown, the ghost town behind Pappy and Harriet’s desert hideaway.

It was late, windy, and whiskey passed between the freezing hands of a tightly knit audience. Once the band got going, the would-be popsicle people were dancing and clapping and begged the band never to stop. Right then, we knew these guys were special. Plus they had a tapdancer for percussion.

They became early members of the Folk Fest family, actually, and played our first festival in 2010. Since then, Brother-sister Rob and Rachel Kolar, Lauren Brown, Oliver “Oliwa” Newell, and Aaron Robinson have toured the country and beyond, refining their sound and costume selection, leaving a trail of new fans wherever their gypsy wagon travels.

Not every show can take place in a desert saloon or mythical mountain ranch, but some bands manage to deliver a slice of that atmosphere when they perform for city-folk at a concert venue. With a vintage gleam and carousing mood they feel at home in a ghost town but it’s music very much present in the whimsical here and now. We like that.

Hope you’ll join us for our first show of the year, way out yonder in West Hollywood.

Bloody Death Skull, Christian Lee Hutson (Driftwood Singers), Dirt Bird, Dorian Wood, Geronimo Getty, Gizzelle, Jenny Luna and the Moondogs, Marlene Perez (The Rhythm Shakers) with Alex Vargas, Papercranes, Restavrant, RT N’ The 44s, VUM

Watch videos of the participating bands at this link.

Dig up the foundation of American music and you’ll find that when love turned deadly, someone was there to sing about it. And these songs have lasted because, well, people like to sing about bodies floating in the river and driving a knife through a lover’s back.

SPINDRIFT

RESTAVRANT

RT N’ THE 44′s

The Deer Lodge
Saturday, November 10, at 9pm
2261 Maricopa Highway Ojai, CA 93023
Call to reserve a table: (805) 646-4256