RIO ARABIA

Rainbow Arabia are heading to Brazil for a couple shows.

Jan. 20 – Sao Paulo @ Neu Club 1:00am  / Rua Dona Germaine Burchard, 421

Jan. 21 – Rio De Janeiro @ 00 club / Avenida Padre Leonel Franca, 240

West Coast Tour dates with Julian Casablancas and The Strange Boys

RAINBOW ARABIA WEST COAST TOUR DATES

11.06 || Los Angeles at Downtown Palace theater with Julian Casablancas

11.12 || Los Angeles at The Smell with Javelin, Pit er Pat, The Urxed and Black Church

11.13 || Los Angeles at Downtown Palace theater with Julian Casablancas

11.14 || Long Beach at< em>Party Weirdo with Dead Meadow, The Tyde, 60 Watt Kid and Others

11.20 || Santa Cruz at Brookdale Lodge

11.21 || Portland at Rotture

11.22 || Seattle at Showbox at Market with Julian Casablancas and the Strange Boys

11.23 || Vancouver at The Commodore Ballroom with Julian Casablancas and the Strange Boys

11.25 || San Francisco at TBA

Julian Casablancas at The Downtown Palace Theater

2nd Annual Part Time Punks Festival

UPDATED LINE-UP!
THE RAINCOATS
SECTION 25 (Factory Records)
GANG OF FOUR (Guest DJs Hugo Burnham & Dave Allen)
THE JAZZ BUTCHER
MEDIUM MEDIUM
KID CONGO POWERS
SAVAGE REPUBLIC
VIV ALBERTINE [THE SLITS]
ABE VIGODA
RAINBOW ARABIA
WEAVE
THE INTELLIGENCE
CHRISTMAS ISLAND
SHARK TOYS
BLESSURE GRAVE
SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY
+ guest DJs +
Dave Newton (MIGHTY LEMON DROPS)
DAN SELZER (ACUTE RECORDS)

PART TIME PUNKS is the name of the club which happens every Sunday night at The Echo in Los Angeles. Started in May 2005 by DJ-partners Michael Stock and Benjamin White, the club celebrates/investigates the Post Punk period and its sub-categories (DIY, synthpunk, minimal synth, punkfunk, punky reggae, new wave/no wave and industrial) as well as occasional excursions into Indiepop and Shoegaze. Not only in the form of the music Michael and Benjamin spin for the dance floor (on vinyl only), but also the bands booked to play.

The bands that have played the club have included a mix of classic Post-Punk bands (The Slits, ESG, Medium Medium, Nikki Sudden, Chrome, Nervous Gender, Savage Republic, Kid Congo Powers, Spectrum, Phil Wilson) and the best up-and-coming bands who are mining the Post-Punk world of obscurities for their inspiration (No Age, Mika Miko, Abe Vigoda, Ariel Pink, Love Is All, Tokyo Police Club, Tussle, Glass Candy, Chromatics, Cause Co-Motion, Indian Jewelry, New Bloods, The Strange Boys, Times New Viking, The Tough Alliance, The Go Team). Not to mention an impressive array of Guest DJs: Buzzcocks, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Alan McGee, Calvin Johnson, Ian Svenonious, Juan MacLean and Cut Chemist (the Sunday before last).

In short, PART TIME PUNKS has always been ahead of the curve in looking back. While punk is now retro and retro is standard fit, Post-Punk is just on the slender margin between history and pop-culture. It falls between the cracks – in the music world, in the film world, even in academia. While the word has definitely entered the vocabulary of most musically-minded kids and adults alike, most folks think it means “DFA” or, best case scenario, “Gang Of Four” or maybe “Joy Division,” when what Post-Punk really means was the most musically-diverse time in popular history: 1978-1984. Of course, Part Time Punks has always been about the mix of that period and those records AND the very bestest, newest bands who are basically mining those tracks for their influences–as opposed to yet another dancepunk rehash.

www.parttimepunks.com/

2009 Manimal Festival Line up announced

Last year’s Manimal Festival was an experience one could not forget. Just being out in Joshua Tree is a spiritual experience in itself.

This year it will be a whole weekend at the famous Pappy and Harriets in Pioneertown, Joshua Tree.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 3^RD (DOORS OPEN AT 3PM)

OUTDOOR STAGE:

PIZZA! 4PM

WEAVE 5pm

CORRIDOR 6PM

RAINBOW ARABIA 7PM

WE ARE THE WORLD 8PM

FOOL’S GOLD 9PM

EDWARD SHARPE 10PM

INDOOR STAGE:

JONSIN’ 6:30PM

AMANDA JO WILLIAMS 7:30PM

-BREAK-

HECUBA 11PM

LACO$TE 12AM

SUNDAY OCTOBER 4^TH (DOORS OPEN AT 3PM)

OUTDOOR STAGE:

HE’S MY BROTHER, SHE’S MY SISTER 4PM

EXITMUSIC 5PM

VOICESVOICES 6PM

ALEXANDRA HOPE 7PM

OTHER LIVES 8PM

POLYAMOROUS AFFAIR 9PM

CHAIRLIFT 10PM

INDOOR STAGE

ARIANA DELAWARI 6PM

JULIETTE COMMANGRE 7PM

-THRIFT STORE ALL-STARS 8PM-10:30PM DINNER CROWD-

WARPAINT 11PM

MOONRATS 12AM

The Very Best

The Very Best is this awesome new collaboration with Radioclit and Esau Mwamwaya, a singer from Malawi.  They released a mixtape of remixes with artists such as M.I.A, Vampire Weekend and BLK JKS.

The Very Best are playing July 16th at The Echoplex in LA.

with Rainbow Arabia

Check out their video and come out to the show

Omar Souleyman live in Paris “Jani”

Here it is. The first clip of many from Omar Souleyman’s live show in Paris on June 3, 2009. This song is “Jani”

An encounter with Omar Souleyman

It’s June 3rd and it is my birthday. Tiffany and  I were in Paris for a couple shows. Our scheduled show on the 3rd with Wavves and Lemonade was cancelled last minute due to Wavves cancelling the remainder of their tour. But this was a blessing in disguise cuz we knew that Omar Souleyman had a gig in Paris that night.

So, us and our friend, Clemence, planned for a night of middle eastern music and food. We arrived just in time for the last 10 tickets at this small performing arts center. Alan Bishop and Mark Gergis from Sublime Frequencies were Djing sick shit before Omar hit the stage. The local Parisiens looked pumped for the show along with myself and Tiffany. I don’t think Clemence knew what she was getting into.

Then, Omar was introduced to the stage by Mark Gergis and the party began. About an hour of Debke party beats, sick saz solos, micro tonal keyboard heaven and chants and rhymes by Omar. After the show, the Djs continued playing sick shit. We hung around hoping to meet the band. Our hopes came true when we first met the sick keyboard player and had someone translate to him that he was rad. We then met the saz player and the poet and I had everyone sign my vinyl copy of Omar’s record. But still no sign of Omar. But decided to hang around longer.

Then about a half an hour later the keyboard player wrangled us up and said we can go upstairs to meet Omar. We were super exciting but nervous too. We climbed the stairs passing Alan and Mark, which I hit up for autographs as well, cuz they are rad for everything they’ve done.  Entering the room we see Omar sitting down on an old lazy boy chair. We were shitting. We didn’t know what to do.  There was another fan in the room who spoke arabic.  So, I had him translate to Omar that he’s the reason we started Rainbow Arabia. Omar then reached out to us and pulled us in his arms. We felt great love and appreciation from him. It was amazing. The picture explains the rest.

I will add some video footage of the show soon.

Live footage from Nuits Botanique in Brussells

Kabukimono will drop on July 27th.

Our 2nd EP is set for release on July 27th, 2009 on Manimal Vinyl Records. It will be released in the US, UK and EU. It will include four new tracks, a new version of “I Know I See I Love I Go” and 2 remixes of “Omar K” and “Let Them Dance”. The record was co-produced by Butchy Fuego (Pit Er Pat).

Final European Tours Dates

May 9 2009 8:00P	Paradiso w/ Mstrkrft and La Riots	Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
May 10 2009 8:00P	Nuits Botanique w/ Telepathe	Bruxelles, Brussels-capital
May 11 2009 8:00P	Ekko	Utrecht, Netherlands, Utrecht
May 12 2009 8:00P	Rotown	Rotterdam, Netherlands, Zuid-Holland
May 13 2009 9:00P	Podium de Spot	Middelburg – Netherlands
May 14 2009 8:00P	Start the Bus	Bristol, England, Southwest
May 15 2009 8:00P	The Great Escape Festival	Brighton, England, London and South East
May 16 2009 8:00P	Macbeth – Dirty Bingo vs. Loud and Quiet	London, London and South East
May 17 2009 4:00P	SPEX Fest	Nottingham, England
May 18 2009 8:00P	Deaf Institute	Manchester, England
May 19 2009 8:00P	Cave aux Poetes w/ Icy Demons	Roubaix, France
May 20 2009 8:00P	La Laiterie w/ Pit er Pat	Strasbourg, France
May 22 2009 8:00P	Control Club	Bucharest, Romania
May 23 2009 3:15A	Nuit Sonores	Lyon, France
May 24 2009 8:00P	Magnolia	Milan, Italy, Milano
May 25 2009 8:00P	Circolo degli Artisti	Rome, Italy, Roma
May 26 2009 8:00P	Spazio 211	Turin, Italy, Torino
May 27 2009 8:00P	B-Side Festival w/ Mahjongg	Marseille, France
May 28 2009 9:00P	Deep inside	Dijon, France
May 29 2009 8:00P	Arsenal	Metz, France
May 30 2009 8:00P	Bad Bonn Kilbi Festival w/ Mogwai and Micachu and the Shapes	Dudingen, Switzerland
May 31 2009 9:00P	Razzmatazz @ Lolita	Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona
Jun 3 2009 9:00P	Californie Mon Amour! @ Point Ephemere	Paris, Ile-de-France
Jun 4 2009 12:00A	NY Club	Paris, Ile-de-France
Jun 5 2009 8:00P	TerraTrema Festival	Cherbourg, Basse-Normandie