LESBIAN Free in-store Fri April 2nd 7pm

FREE IN-STORE
Friday April 2nd 7pm
with
LESBIAN


The Seattle-based quartet's multifaceted debut album Power Hör on Holy Mountain (Om, Six Organs of Admittance) heralds the birth of The New Wave of American Psychedelic Metal. Each of the album's four tracks shifts moods, dynamics and styles. In any given song, Lesbian deftly lunges from black metal-style blast-beat-and-16th-note-guitar-lines into '70s styled stoner rock riffing and then leaps into lush melodic passages reminiscent of Godspeed You Black Emperor! The band blends the best elements of many styles of metal: doom, thrash, black, progressive and, yes, even good old "heavy" metal.

Lesbian was formed on a whim in April 2004 by members of Pacific Northwest thunder-sludge bands Golgothan Sunrise, Asva and The Abodox for a one-off set at Seattle's Funhouse. The response was so overwhelming that guitarists Arran McInnis and Daniel La Rochelle, bassist/vocalist Dorando Hodous and drummer Benjamin Kennedy decided to continue on with Lesbian as their primary focus. The band's riffs are dissected and cut into vivid and imaginative parts that splinter and shift in shades of light and dark without coming across overly-technical and soulless. The cinematic quality of Power Hoer envelops a vast array of moods and ideas. It's entrancing and psychedelic while utterly pummeling at the same time.

LESBIAN

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OVIDEO Free in-store Sat March 27th 7pm

Saturday March 27th @ 7pm Free in-store with
OVIDEO
OVIDEO is a Los Angeles-based group that aspires to ugly beauty, creating grating melodies both synthetic and the organic - glitter found in the gutter... OVIDEO first convened on New Year's Day 2008. OVIDEO is: R.V. Parks (Baritone Guitar, Voice), Tony Product (Aluminum Guitar), Juice (Bass), Jerry Kerstain (Keyboards), and CW(Drums).

OVIDEO

+ special guests
Colt 45
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for those 21 years of age and older

OJOS ROJOS In-Store Tue March 23rd 7pm


Tuesday March 23rd at 7pm
Free IN-STORE w/
OJOS ROJOS

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UPCOMING
Free In-Stores
with
OVIDEO Sat March 27th 7pm
LESBIAN Fri April 2nd 7pm
CULT of YOUTH
Sat April 3rd 7pm
ACROSS TUNDRAS
Wed April 7th 7pm
5SIGNS Fri April 9th 7pm

ALSO:

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Vacation.

DEATH ANGEL
and
ARSIS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010
8:00 P.M. - 11:00 P.M.
ALL AGES
@THE ROXY
9009 SUNSET BLVD
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA 90069

TONIGHT March 18th BRANT BJORK

TONIGHT!
Vacation is proud to present a free in-store performance by:
BRANT BJORK

New Album “Gods & Goddesses”

coming March 26 Europe & March 30 US


Gods & Goddesses pairs Brant Bjork, originating from Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Ch’e with producer Ethan Allen, best known for his work with Tricky, Luscious Jackson, Gram Rabbit and The 88 and former tour mate, Billy Cordell of the acclaimed Yawning Man. The Los Angeles based desert-founded rock band—vocalist/guitarist Brant Bjork, guitarist Billy Cordell, bassist Brandon Henderson and Italian drummer Giampaolo Farnedi—recorded Gods & Goddesses in Los Angeles in late 2009.

Free download of the first single “The Future Rock”

NANDA DEVI Free In-Store Monday March 15th 7pm


MARCH 15th 7pm
FREE IN-STORE
with
NANDA DEVI
(postrock doom from Portland)
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EAR/SPLITTERS

LA APPROVED @ ALL STAR LANES Sunday March 7th

JUCIFER Free in-store Thur March 11th @ Vacation

JUCIFER
 MARCH 11th 7pm
FREE IN-STORE
with
JUCIFER

Jucifer, founded in Georgia in 1993, are pioneers of the sludge metal two piece. They are notorious for their use of massive amplification, and for their entirely nomadic lifestyle since moving into their tour vehicle a decade ago.

Early on, Jucifer shared stages with many underground legends, including Lubricated Goat, Bloodloss (Mark Arm/Mudhoney), and Eyehategod. Years based in Athens, Georgia from 1991 until 2001 were pivotal both for Jucifer and the Southern scene itself, which has evolved to strongly reflect bands such as Jucifer and contemporaries Harvey Milk.

Jucifer's first foray into the studio produced the iconoclastic Calling All Cars On The Vegas Strip. The album, released on Athens indie label Crack Rock Records, charted well on college radio with little promotion and was widely acclaimed by critics as groundbreaking. Attention from this drew scouts from various major labels--- most notably Capricorn Records, then home of 311, as they would ultimately sign Jucifer.

Like many since, but few before, Jucifer's early recordings combined elements of metal and punk juxtaposed with oppositional sounds and instruments drawn from pop, folk, classical, and hip hop music. Over the years the name Jucifer has become synonymous with experimentation and breadth of concept.


Jucifer also means a literal "wall of sound"--- morphing in shape from stage to stage but ever looming. Interviews have often found the band regaling with stories of decibel overload and its effect on fans, which can easily be envisioned as powerful in context of the sixty plus speakers Gazelle Amber Valentine regularly runs her guitar through.

Jucifer has been constantly on tour for ten years and was on tour much of the ten before that. They've played and toured with hundreds of bands including Melvins, Melt-Banana, Mike Watt, High On Fire, Mastodon, Torche, Today Is The Day, Cutthroats 9, Keelhaul, Big Business, TSOL, Against Me!, Hawkwind, Genghis Tron, Thrones, Vic Chesnutt, Acid King, Skeletonwitch and Valient Thorr.

Jucifer New LP

NEW album: Throned In Blood comes out April 6, 2010.



JUCIFER


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Colt 45
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