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…
Part Time Punks Shoegaze Fest
Part Time Punks is proud to present the world's first Shoegaze Festival, Sunday, June 24, 2012. A daylong event at noted Echo Park venue, The Echoplex, showcasing the legacy and future of beautiful noise. With an 11 band bill split evenly between classic Shoegaze bands of the early/mid 1990s, the new wave of Shoegaze bands (aka Newgaze), and Synthgaze, the futuristic hybrid bands fusing Shoegaze textures and electronic music.
- 05.20 ROUGH TRADE RECORDS NITE
PTP hasn't done this for over a year now. And this time around, we have a very special live performance of some of your favorite Rough Trade tracks (by The Fall, Liliput, Aztec Camera, Cabaret Voltaire and more) being covered by an all-star line up of LA musicians, including members of Bratmobile, Tamaryn, Raw Geronimo, Gestapo Khazi, Jail Weddings, Gravy Train, Punky Reggae and Bart Davenport! Many of these folks were the ones who brought you the cracking live tribute to The Slits in December, so you can expect, likewise, to be blown away tonite...
- 05.27 SMITHS/MORRISSEY NITE with Guest DJ Jose Maldonado [from Sweet & Tender Hooligans]
Come spend the evening oscillating wildly to the songs that saved your life...aka your favourite tunes by Morrissey and The Smiths! With a healthy dash of Moz's inspirations and contemporaries (and even a few Smiths clones thrown in to see just how big of fan you really are...)
Of course Cut Out Morrissey will be there courtesy of PTP photog, Dylan Gordon aka D-M-A-X, for all your endless dancefloor contortions and photo op demands...
[And since Monday is a holiday you don't even hafta call in sick to work or school!]
@ THE ECHOPLEX (1154 Glendale Blvd.)
Doors open at 9PM sharp. As with ALL PTP events, anyone 18+ is welcome!
- 06.03 VIOLENS [Slumberland Records] + CATWALK [Captured Tracks] + SURF CLUB [members of Craft Spells]
VIOLENS make their live LA debut (finally!) to celebrate the May release of their 2nd LP on Slumberland Records -- sure to be one of THE best albums of 2012. For fans of classic shoegaze bands like The Pale Saints, Boo Radleys, Moose and the best new dreamgaze bands like The Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing, Craft Spells, Minks and...well...CATWALK, who are also playing! Oh, and speaking of Craft Spells, SURF CLUB are comprised of former members of that band and make their LA debut as well that nite. Dream baby dream.
- 06.10 Darkwave Nite with BALLERINA BLACK + PEELING GREY + FLAAMINGOS
- 06.17 RØSENKØPF [Wierd Records] + BESTIAL MOUTHS + VEX RUFFIN
A nite of industrial music for industrial people.
- 06.24 PART TIME PUNKS Shoegaze Festival with MARK GARDENER [of RIDE], SKY PARADE, SLEEPOVER, LORELEI, HALF STRING, ASTROBRITE, THE KVB, TROPIC OF CANCER, WHIRR, MOONBEAMS, TENNIS SYSTEM, Guest DJ BRAD LANER [of MEDICINE]
Part Time Punks is proud to present the world's first Shoegaze Festival, Sunday, June 24, 2012. A daylong event at noted Echo Park venue, The Echoplex, showcasing the legacy and future of beautiful noise. With an 11 band bill split evenly between classic Shoegaze bands of the early/mid 1990s, the new wave of Shoegaze bands (aka Newgaze), and Synthgaze, the futuristic hybrid bands fusing Shoegaze textures and electronic music.
ALL DAY, ALL AGES @ THE ECHOPLEX in Echo Park (1154 Glendale Blvd.).
- 07.01 WAX IDOLS + DEAD ANGLE
- 07.15 DAVID BOWIE NITE with Guest DJ Jose Maldonado [from Sweet & Tender Hooligans]
Come celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the release of "Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars" in inimitable style at PTP as we devote an entire evening to the 40+ years of David Bowie's brilliant back catalogue... From psychedelic folk to glitter and glam, from funk to soul and the thin white duke. From Ziggy to Iggy to Eno to Fripp to Bolan to Lennon to Jagger and Lou and Andy and Freddy (Mercury) and even Nicholas Roeg and David Lynch...all the best of Bowie's collaborations will get a spin, too, not to mention his glam contemporaries and post-punk disciples...
