PART TIME PUNKS takes place at The Echo on 1822 Sunset in Los Angeles, every Sunday night.
PART TIME PUNKS is a club that takes over noted Echo Park live music venue, The Echo on 1822 Sunset, every Sunday night. The night focuses heavily on DIY and Indie vinyl coming out of the U.S., UK and Europe from 1977 to the present: Punk, Post-Punk, Synth-Punk, Synthpop, Minimal Synth, Dark/Cold/Minimal Wave, NDW, Industrial, New Wave, No Wave, C86, Indiepop, Twee, Shoegaze, Baggy and even Krautrock…
Art Time Punks
ART TIME PUNKS: 5 Years Of Art from Part Time Punks is a lovely limited edition book that has just been published by the kindly folks at Echo Park Books. The edition is strictly limited to 250 copies & can be purchased here. DIY indeed.
- 01.29 THE CURE NITE with Guest DJ Alex Transistor!
Come spend an evening devoted to one of PTP's all-time favourite bands: THE CURE. Dance from 10pm to 2am to tracks spanning the 35 years of THE CURE's back catalogue...from the punky stylings of The Easy Cure to the band's lovely/catchy 2008 comeback, "4:13 Dream"...and of course all the records in-between... PLUS, you can expect tracks by Robert Smith's collaborations (Cult Hero, The Glove & Siouxsie And The Banshees), Simon Gallup's side projects (Fool's Dance & Lockjaw), some Cure-clones who are so close you won't be able to tell the difference (The Essence, just to name one), and possibly some trax by The Presence & And Also The Trees for good measure...
With Guest DJ Alex from Transistor, AM/FM, Re-Flex (and regular collaborator from PTP's Depeche Mode, Pulp & Britpop Nites)
It's been nearly 18 months since we did this the last time, folks, so this one goes out to all by long-overdue request(s)!
- 02.05 INDIAN JEWELRY + JEWELS OF THE NILE
- 02.12 WEEKEND [Slumberland Records] + GRIMBLE GRUMBLE + TROPIC OF CANCER = PTP's 3rd Annual MY BLOODY VALENTINE NITE!
- 02.19 SMITHS/MORRISSEY NITE with Guest DJ Jose Maldonado [Sweet & Tender Hooligans]
NOTE: this event is in The Echoplex, the larger & fancier venue underneath The Echo! (So enter on 1154 Glendale Blvd.)
- 02.26 TERRY MALTS [Slumberland Records] + DEAD ANGLE + PERMANENT COLLECTION
Listen to PERMANENT COLLECTION.
- 03.04 TRIBUTE TO 120 MINUTES
Part Time Punks pays tribute to 120 MINUTES...Sunday, March 4th at 10pm PST, 1am EST (which happens to be the program's original time-slot back when it debuted on MTV Sunday, March 10, 1986).
Details soon, so stay tuned!
NOTE: this event is in The Echoplex, the larger & fancier venue underneath The Echo! (So enter on 1154 Glendale Blvd.)
- 03.11 Darkwave Nite with GRAVE BABIES + TUNNELS + DEATHDAY
Come drown in a nite devoted to some of the best new darkwave in the country...including Seattle's GRAVE BABIES [Hardly Art], TUNNELS and DEATHDAY [labelmates on the Sweating Tapes label, the label responsible for releases by Jewels Of The Nile, Animal Bodies and Vice Device]
- 03.25 KRAUTROCK NITE with NEU!, CAN and FAUST cover bands!
To the best of my knowledge, Part Time Punks' annual KRAUTROCK NITE is the only one of its kind (at least in this country). And it's certainly the only place yer gonna find members of Best Coast, Moving Units, Upsilon Acrux, Chelsea Wolfe and more...coming together to form NEU!, CAN and LA DUSSELDORF cover bands!
This is a serious nite of music folks--one that was booked FIVE months ago, with all of these bands working out their sets & practicing since then! So. FYI...here's the break-down on who comprises the bands:
NEU! cover band [aka HALLO! GALLO!] and FAUST cover band is comprised of members of BEST COAST, MOVING UNITS, UPSILON ACRUX & BAD DUDES
CAN cover band is comprised of members of UPSILON ACRUX, JAPANTIES, CHELSEA WOLFE, GRANDPIRE & TES ELATIONS
And, of course, the whole nite will wrap up with a Krautrockcentric dance party--meaning you'll be hearing tracks by Stereolab, Broadcast, Clinic, Spiritualized, Loop, Heldon and other Krautrock-influence bands mixed in with Kraftwerk, Cluster, Harmonia, Holger Czukay, La Dusseldorf and all the rest...
