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Did you know you can still get tickets for Monday night's Rilo Kiley show at the Santa Monica Civic?
Do you know why you can still get tickets for the show? Because it's in Santa Monica. And when the people of Santa Monica aren't trying to destroy old trees and houses, they're looking for things to do Other than see great rock shows.
Let's think of things they do on the Westside other than support live, local music that everyone pretty much around the nation would go nuts for: buff the Beamer, go to Palm Springs, drink in Hermosa and swerve back home via the 405, frequent the Whole Foods, talk shit about the gardener, tivo Dancing With the Stars, sit around waiting for Dave Matthews to come back to the Bowl.
Rilo Kiley have a new record out, their first video for it "Moneymaker" was hot as hell (see below), and pretty much every new band name checks them as a band and definitely Jenny Lewis. Plus they're bringing two other really good bands, The Bird and the Bee, and Grand Ole Party with em. So why aren't the kids from the westside filling the joint?
Because the westside is soft and has no taste. Just as always, just as it will always be. Bet ya Good Charlotte would sell out in minutes there. Bet Daughtry could pack the place overnight. It's all why there are no great clubs over there, it's why there aren't any good bands coming from there, it's why real bands don't want to play there.
Enjoy your Peet's coffee, enjoy your 3rd Street, enjoy your big blue buses and old people and homeless and sinkholes. But when you don't support real bands when they come to town, don't get pissed when you have to drive out to Hollywood if you want to hear good music, because you're not giving bands any reason to play there.
We hear this show is "close to" selling out, but that's not good enough. Westsiders should be ashamed of themselves. You're not gonna get a better lineup to play there. And it's not like you're doing anything better on a Monday night.
For shame.
Rilo Kiley - "Moneymaker"
The Bird & The Bee - "Again & Again"
Rilo Kiley @ The Santa Monica Civic
Monday, October 15
General Admission Tickets on sale now
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Westside, ewwww ...
you got that right TonyP !
Dear lord, PLEASE tell me I don't deserve to see Rilo Kiley. That's the best compliment anybody's paid me all day.
Nobody is going to see Rilo Kiley because they stink.
I got my tickets for Monday night long time ago. I'm hoping it's going to be long set considering it's the last show of the tour. I'm also sure it's going to be hell trying to stay awake the next day at work.
holy shit! that is some serious westside hating. i am a westsider that wouldn't be caught dead at a good charlotte show and i loathe dave matthews. but the reason i'm not going to see this show is because the venue blows. have you ever heard music in this place? it sucks. so on behalf of all the cool people on the westside [me specifically, i'm in venice where a lot of hipsters live] just because we're not going to this show doesn't mean we suck. and as we go to the eastside all the frickin time for shows, why aren't you eastsiders buying tickets to this amazing show?
Can we please make some serious editorial changes at LAist. This eastside condescension is so tired. Is Laist a site about all of LA or just the hipster eastside? Maybe we could split the site - let Tony have eastside Laist and get someone else for Westside LAist. The focus of this site is so narrow it is a joke. Is there coverage of the Westside or aimed to appeal to the Westside (other than possibly Venice which is simply like a little eastside outpost). The Westside is still part of the LA area is it not?
Uh, Rilo Kiley new album sucks, maybe that's why it hasn't sold out. It's bad enough that I actually believe the rumors that Lewis is trying to sink the band to focus on her solo career. Seriously, I don't know anyone that thinks it's good, and these are hardcore Kiley fans.
Blegh on the Westside.
The chick from The Wizard is so hot.
Sorry, man, but I have to say that some great, historic venues have been on the Westside - The Music Machine, Culver City Auditorium, and now Liquid Kitty and McCabe's Guitar Shop continue the tradition. And what about the killer summer concerts on the pier? The Santa Monica Civic is a huge venue that holds 3,000 people. The Roxy only holds 750, and Patti Smith plays there.
I have always thought we were above neighborhood hating on LAist! I have lived all over this great city of ours and there are good and bad things about living anywhere. I would love it if there were more shows at the Civic, I saw Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth and a bunch of great bands there when I was a kid. SM also has the pier in the summertime and Culver City has jazz then too. Let's not hate, but spread the good word about every part of the city.
Let's start with the first rule in LAIST's comment policy: "Do not post threatening, harassing, defamatory, or libelous material." I suggest laist.com practice what it preaches. Or maybe I should just wait for you to lose your writing gig, pawn your Gibson guitar for drug money, skip paying your rent until you are evicted, get kicked off your friend's couch, move back home to Cleveland and hang yourself with your white leather studded douche-bag belt. Then this site can return to informing its readers instead of dividing them.
Last night I was going to show my roomie something from earlier in the day and we both read this post first. We live in Santa Monica. For the most part, we like our neighborhood. We have an inexpensive apartment north of Wilshire. He's a teacher. I work at a nonprofit. We choose to live here because we like to live close to our jobs. Thanks for making us feel like real a$$holes!
Ah, now that's some good old fashioned family parochialism. I forgot how much I missed middle school.
Well the show IS on a MONDAY. Which is a little difficult for a lot more people. Especially all those teenyboppers...they were out in full force last night at SOMA. Yes, I drove to San Diego to see the show b/c my friends and I couldn't watch it on a Monday night (and not because of football! and so i could eat at PHil's bbq).
But it was a great show. GOP is fucking awesome (they were on tour with the elected last year). Rilo Kiley even do a nice cover :).
Santa Monica also happens to do a much better job regarding sustainability/environmental issues than the rest of Los Angeles. And better weather.
Wow. I mean, WOW. This is so incredibly misguided, I don't know where to begin.
I'm curious: Do you actually introduce yourself in public as an LAist writer, so you can be linked with inane thoughts like these?
This stunningly inaccurate view of Westside is not befitting of someone with your pulpit. (Tivo "Dancing with Stars" as a "Westside" thing? Really? How?)
Step down before you really harm any shot at a real career in the future. Seriously, the whole city is laughing at you. You will not be able to point to anything you did on LAist proudly besides a raw hit count that can be achieved by loading content with TMZ scraps.
And uh, using your bizarre logic, the reason the Interpol show at the Forum hasn't sold out is somehow the City of Inglewood's fault. Explain that one, Einstein.
Maybe because the new RK album is s stinker.
Hey Tony, ever heard of Temple Bar?
wow - tony pierce really is a dick. I subscribe to this site to get news about what's happening in LA, not listen to some adolescent, hipper-than-thou dipshit. Can anyone suggest an alternative site?
Suck smog Tony.
Patti Smith LOVED playing Santa Monica - for free
agreed, no one is going to this show because "moneymaker" has GOT to be the cheesiest stupid-ass song to come out in a while...the lyrics are LAME and its a Cars "living is stereo" ripoff - embarassing
What a fuckin' douche
my god, tony you are such a fucking idiot.
1) this Rilo album sucks
2) this venue sucks
3) this venue is huge (3,000 capacity!)
4) it's on a Monday night
5) so now you don't like Whole Foods? Where is it okay for people to fuckin' grocery shop according to you?
6) you love public transit, why diss the blue buses?
p.s.
no one should be allowed to remain the LAist editor while not living in SoCal for over 6 months at a time.
What do you have against Peet's Coffee??
I'm with the guest #19 looking for an alternative site. I don't read LAist nearly as often as I used to thanks to Tony's rants and his rude comments to readers.
I get entertainment info from LAWeekly.com and LA.com, but if anyone knows of other good sites, please post them!
I used to support you Tony. Not anymore. I live in Santa Monica. I have lived all over LA (including many parts of Hollywood) and Santa Monica is far and away my favorite to date. I happen to not like RK. But the Westside has many great music venues (mentioned above) and no one yet has asked the obvious question... if you expect Westsiders to go East for a great show and if you love RK so much why don't YOU go west? I think you lost all of the support you might have once had on this site. Even from eastsiders.
i agree - tony is an idiot.
his moronic ranting that "garrett anderson hates black people" was enough for said conclusion several months ago, but why must we suffer through his eastside indulgence?
Tony, Sorry buddy but your an idiot!
First, Rilo is great and all, but I wouldn't back to see her live, unless she was with postal service.
Second, that song moneymaker is god awful, maybe your the one without taste if you actually think thats a good tune. Only good moneymaker I have ever heard was done by The Black Crows, and that would be shake your moneymaker.
Third, I love how you say how the video is "Hot" if I judge music by the bands being hot or videos being hot then I would prob be able to write an idiotic article like you did.
Tony is one of those band wagon indy fans who just found out about these tunes, otherwise he would be bitchin about how Rilo is playing such a large venue that seats 3000 people.
Well, just got back from the show and have to say it was kinda amazing. Never knew how awesome the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was. Not usually a big fan of larger venues, but the SMCA seemed to do everything right - the lighting design was pulled off with a gusto usually reserved for amphitheatre-or-larger venues, and the sound was top-notch. And it was fucking loud - what an idea for a rock show! As for the crowd draw, the place seemed pretty packed - the crowd was thick all the way from the front of the stage to the rear entrances, and there weren't more than handful of open seats in the stands. Being LA, not a lot of dancing to be seen in that crowd, but still . . . More importantly, Rilo Kiley kicked ass! (There's more to them than just 'Moneymaker' guys.)
the smca did many things right, but not *everything*.
they clearly were not prepared for so many drinkers -- they only had two bars and the lines were RIDICULOUSLY long. the wait looked about 15 minutes. so the lady and i didn't bother.
parking lot filled up quickly of course, but fortunately there was a parking structure a coupla blocks away that was free. would have been nice for the smca to post some signs directing peeps to the structure.
the band, the sound and the lighting were all pretty good.
I live on the Westside, and would have gone to the show, but I was too tired from my day job of kicking puppies and evicting the elderly from their homes. Instead, I mellowed out to Phil Collins "No jacket Required" with a $100 cigar, waxed my beemer, and put in some work for the vast right wing conspiracy. You really have us figured out Tony.