Today: Free Dodger Takeover Party at The Echo

Today’s free event at The Echo is inspired by frustrations with Frank McCourt’s handling of the Dodgers – so Origami Vinyl is organizing an “investor group to buy the Dodgers,” and is having a party to celebrate.

Today, at The Echo, enjoy a BBQ with free Dodger Dogs, veggie dogs, peanuts, and Cracker Jacks. They’ve also invented a drink called “The Vin Scully” for $5, Heinekens for $6.

Origami’s Dodger Takeover Party Presented By Pony Attack
Saturday, September 10th from 3:30 pm – 8 pm
The Echo, 1822 W. Sunset Blvd.

Set rimes:
4pm – The Black Apples
5pm – Summer Darling
6pm – Gestapo Khazi
7pm – Future Ghost

Echo Park’s Week in Music

For the week of Monday, October 25 through Sunday, October 31

Monday
Monday Night Residency – Evan Voytas, Lesands, Allo Darlin @ Echo
Entertainment @ Origami Vinyl
Miss Josie Bunnie @ Pehrspace
Jessie Baylin, Richard Swift @ Bootleg Theater

Tuesday
The New Los Angeles Folk Festival, The Echo Present Murder Ballads @ Echoplex
Reigning Sound, The Ettes @ Echo
Giant Drag, Lonely Trees, Square on Square @ Bootleg Theater

Wednesday
Dub Club @ Echoplex
Mark Growpen @ Taix Lounge

Thursday
Raw Power Rangers, Insect Surfers @ Echo
Kiss N Grind & Artdontsleep Present Bilal, J*davey, Quadron (Unplugged) @ Echoplex
Breathe Owl Breathe, Little Wings, The Migrant, Give Me Motion @ Bootleg Theater

Friday
The Henry Clay People’s 2nd Annual Rock and Roll Circus: Halloween with the Little Ones, Andy Clockwise, We Barbarians, The Monolators, The Dig, Downtown/Union@ Echoplex And Echo
Spain @ Origami Vinyl
A Halloween Night @ Pehrspace
Devics, Jake Blanton, Willoughby @ Bootleg Theater

Saturday
Ninjatune 20th Anniversary @ Echo & Echoplex
Funky Sole @ Echo
TS and the Past Haunts, Silian Rail, Cue the Moon @ Pehrspace
Halloween Party: Tommy Santee Klaws, 5 Track & Glass Goblins, Jasper Dickson @ Taix Lounge

Sunday
Part Time Punks: Goth Ball/Darkwave Masquerade with Frank Alpine, Violet Tremors @ Echo

For more information on weekly musical events like club nights, see our community resource pages.Visit the venue website for more information on the cost and times of shows. This list may not represent all the musical events happening in Echo Park this week – feel free to add more events in the comment section. All events listed are subject to change at any time. New events announced for the week after this posting may not be included.

Waved Out 2 Fest at the Echo/Echoplex and Origami

Check out Waved Out 2 coming up on Saturday, September 25!

Aquarium Drunkard, in conjunction with the Echo, is holding its second all ages festival here in L.A. in Echo Park. Dubbed WAVED OUT, after Justin Gage’s favorite Robert Pollard solo album, this is the second recurring event featuring emerging national, local and international artists.

Featuring:

Dungen
The Entrance Band
Sharon Van Etten
Shannon And The Clams
Lord Huron
John Carpenter
Summer Darling
Hanni El Khatib

Origami Stage:
Gestapo Khazi
So Many Wizards
Young Prisms
Victoria Noll
The Zig Zags
Bowery Beasts

Plus Food Trucks, Tamales, Tarot card readers, Hit & Run silk screening on site, and more!

3:00 pm, $13, all ages. The Echoplex is located at 1154 Glendale Blvd

Want some free tickets? TheSceneStar.com is having a contest for free tickets, all you need to do is email them with you name and contact info at oscar@thescenestar.com before Friday, September 24 at 10 a.m. for your chance to win!

Spotted: Fox 11 News in Echo Park

Journalist Susan Hirasuna covered the Summer Fling Truck earlier tonight in front of Origami Vinyl in Echo Park. We’re not sure what the story is about (it couldn’t be the perpetual food truck debate, Summer Fling Truck only serves up fashion), but she tweeted that the story would air tonight on Fox 11 at 10:00 pm.

Check out that broadcast tower/pole/thingy!

Learn about album production at Origami Vinyl

Ever wondered about how to make picture discs, custom vinyl or specialty record jackets? Plan on releasing a vinyl record soon? Origami Vinyl is offering up a FREE panel discussion on the basics of album production on Sunday, August 15 from 7:00-9:00 pm.

“Getting Your Record Made: A Step-by-Step Look at Album Production” is a panel discussion with Q and A led by Origami Vinyl owner Neil Schield. On the panel is: Christian Dwiggins (mixing and mastering engineer from Engine Rooms Studios), Pet Lyman (owner and chief mastering engineer from Infrasonic Sound Recording), Kevin Smith (owner of Bill Smith Custom Records), Jennifer Freund (owner and CEO Dorado Music Packaging), and Benjamin Heywood of Summer Darling.

Along with beer, the event will also include some special offers and discounts from panel speakers on their record production services.

You do have to RSVP no later than TODAY, August 12, by emailing RSVPOrigami@gmail.com

Origami Vinyl is located at 1816 W. Sunset Blvd.

Echo Park’s Week in Music

For the week of Monday, July 12 through Sunday, July 18.

Monday
Mississippi Man, Superhumanoids, Dahga Bloom, Useless Keys @ Echo
New Music Monday With Greg Mullen, Glacier Saint, Maraca Mouths, Air Surgeon @ Echo Curio
Hyena, Kid Infinity, Myths, Professor Calculus, Sean Pineda, DJ Mapi (KXLU) @ Pehrspace
Residency Night 2: The Black Apples, Wait. Think. Fast., Cue The Moon, Summer Darling @ Origami Vinyl

Tuesday
Smog Sessions With Mrk1, Juan Basshead, Emu, Kemst @ Echo
Big Tree, The Shade, C-horse, Birdlips @ Echo Curio
Open Mic night hosted by Josh Bassett at 7:30 pm @ Tribal Café
Superhumanoids @ Origami Vinyl

Wednesday
Dub Club With Echodelic Soundsystem, Jah Faith, DJ Danny Holloway, DJ Expo, J1 @ Echoplex & Echo
Basshaters, Mirage (Featuring Members Of Smegma + Sissy Spacek), Damion Romero, Indian Mound @ Echo Curio
i can be cheery and LA Record 100 Present: Lola Loshkey, VOICEsVOICEs, Halloween Swim Team, Corridor, DJ Jung Hollywood @ Pehrspace
The Breeding Ground Open Mic (every Wednesday) hosted by Joe Mullenix at 7:00 pm @ Tribal Café

Thursday
Threadless West Coast Social With Special Guest DJ Greg Dulli (Of The Twilight Singers), Teen Inc, The Samps @ Echo
Antibalas, The Sway Machinery @ Echoplex
The Gripping Play Ulysses Crewmen, Performance By Peter J Woods, Moment Trigger, True Womanhood @ Echo Curio
Open Mic night hosted by Jackie at 7:30 pm @ Tribal Café
Foxtails Brigade @ Origami Vinyl

Friday
Club Underground With Secret History, Sweater Girls, Waterlaso @ Echo
Trannyshack La @ Echoplex
Kacey Johansing, Honeycomb, Nightmare And The Cat, Kandyce And The Killdozer @ Echo Curio
Otik Records Presents Shirley Rolls Video Release: Shirley Rolls, C-Horse, Brown Irish, Mountain Animal Hospital @ Pehrspace
G.T.Y.E Presents America Eats its Young, Michelle Macedo and Co. @ Tribal Café

Saturday
Bootie La With Dj Shyboy, DJ Paul V., Raid @ Echoplex
Funky Sole @ Echo
Heather Woodbury’s “As The Globe Warms” followed By Simon Joyner, Queen Victoria, Claire Cronin @ Echo Curio
Oh Yeah, The Future, Therapy Session, Tubby Boots @ Pehrspace
Mystery Claws @ Origami Vinyl
Indie Rock Night featuring alternative country band, Oak Street Blues and more TBA @ Tribal Café

Sunday
Part Time Punks: Factory Records Night With DJ Tim Burgess (of the Charlatans) @ Echo
Echo Obscura @ Echo Curio
Diggin’ Sunday is Back, Failings Exposed (music event to raise money for lupus) @ Tribal Café

Listening Party Tonight (Friday) At Origami Vinyl

Friday, April 23rd

8:00 pm

Origami Vinyl will be premiering ‘Together’ by The New Pornographers

Free drinks and goodies.

Stop by for your chance to win tickets to see the New Pornographers at the Music Box on July 20th.

RSVP: gettogetherla@gmail.com

Record Store Day

This Saturday, April 17th is Record Store Day!

Echo Park’s Origami Vinyl will be participating.

They will be opening 2 hours early for the occasion: 10am – 10pm

Free Origami Vinyl/Altamont canvas totes*
Free Shapes and Sizes / The Weird Weeds split 7″*
Free Hooper Heroes Comic Book*
Free Colt45 (21+)

* With purchase while supplies last

Spend $50 and get 20% at etnies.com
Enter to win 500 printed 7″ standard jackets

CoolHaus Ice Cream Truck will be serving up treats from 7pm – 8:30pm.
Non alcoholic beverages and margaritas (21+) will be provided by Function Drinks.

Dum Dum Girls – 2pm
Male Bonding – 3pm
The One AM Radio – 4pm
Adam Harding – 5pm
Lou Barlow + The Missingmen – 6pm

Origami Vinyl is located at 1816 W Sunset Blvd.

Here is a little info on Record Store Day from their website. “This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on.”

Origami Vinyl Celebrates First Birthday

Origami Vinyl is celebrating its one-year anniversary with a 10% off sale, free birthday cake, colt45 and free appetizers provided by Fresh Girls Catering (between 3pm – 6pm).

Set times for bands:
8pm – Summer Darling
7pm – Twilight Sleep
6pm – Kissing Cousins
5pm – Future Ghost
4pm – Tricky Sizzler

Saturday, April 3, 2010
12:00pm – 10:00pm

Origami Vinyl at 1816 W. Sunset Blvd.

Origami Vinyl: Recent Purchase

Best Coast (Art Fag Recording, 2009) is a recent discovery for me and I love them. Luckily for me, and you as well, they will be playing Waved Out at the Echo and Echoplex this Saturday, March 27th.

Get this 7″ EP while it’s still in print. If you love thick distortion and heavy reverb, mixed with 1960′s pop sensibility song writing and a stoned-in-California vibe, this is for you.

Origami Vinyl is located at 1816 West Sunset Blvd, (213) 413-3030‎

The Echo is at 1822 Sunset Blvd, (213) 413-8200‎