Happy Merry Holy Days from the Evangenitals!

As we near the end of '08 and the beginning of the greatest year to date in Evangenitals history ('09, baby!) I wanted to tell you all how much we love you.

Yes, we love YOU. A lot. :-)

I hope you are having a good holiday season and enjoying it in the way you like. Salted, peppered, fried, grilled, sweet, spicy, bold, beautiful... whatever your preference is. Yum!

As we don't have your mailing address, we thought we'd send you web presents this year, and all next year long, in the form of BLOGS!

** David Hurlin is writing an AWESOME drumming blog!
http://drumtheory.blogspot.com

** Lisa Dee is blogging again!
http://lisadeedle.blogspot.com

** And I'm writing a new blog about all the insane books I'm reading while working on my PhD dissertation in Philosophy!
http://onebookoneweek.blogspot.com

We The Evangenitals are excited about the coming of '09 -- we've got a new album on the horizon, some exciting developments in the booking & management departments, and the loving feelings just keep getting bigger and better and more more more.

We all felt pretty blessed to be able to spend Christmas Eve playing music together at the home of two of our biggest fans (Jain and Eliot Sekular), and we are REALLY excited about closing out the year with a show at Mr T's Bowl on December 30th!

Details are here: http://www.evangenitals.com/calendar.html

It's our Eve of New Year's Eve party and we're pulling out all the stops with new songs, new instrumentation, the biggest ensemble so far, and boundless optimism as we trudge nearer to 2012! :-)

Love, love, LOVE!!!!!!
Juli Crockett & the Evangenitals
http://www.evangenitals.com
http://www.myspace.com/evangenitals

The Evangenitals Reside at Mr T's Bowl

For the past few months, The Evangenitals have been making a steady habit of playing at Mr T's Bowl in Highland Park and the consistency is working a number on my heart strings. I really do love that joint. Mr T's Bowl is where the Evangenitals first stepped on the stage (at Arlo's Open Mic night) and sung our first tender tunes in public. It's where we got our first "big break" (booked to headline at El Cid by promoter Michael Anderson), and it's where we've met, made, and converted some of the most dedicated Evangenitals friends and fans imaginable.

In the olden days, all of the Evangenitals (there were only 3 of us at that time) used to live in Highland Park, IN THE SAME APARTMENT BUILDING, which made band practice a breeze & Mr T's Bowl was just a few blocks up the street. Almost every night of the week, you could find one or more of the Evangenitals at the Bowl, either playing the open mic, on the night's lineup, or supporting our friend's bands like The Natural Disasters, Fascinoma, Unpoppable, Killsonic, Cousin Junebug, Eagle and Talon, Cat Hair Ensemble, Artichoke, Ukefink, Hidden... it was a real family affair.

Then manifest destiny kicked in and we started venturing West, exploring new neighborhoods and venues all over Los Angeles, from the Derby in Los Feliz to the Knitting Factory where we opened for Trainwreck. We were regulars at Highland Grounds for a bit before it closed down, and even made it all the way to the ocean to play at O'Brien's Pub in Santa Monica. Everywhere we have played has it's charms, though none of 'em have the same home-baked feeling of Mr T's Bowl.

Well, some months ago, the booker of the bowl, Gus, decided that the Evangenitals had drifted away from our 'ol home base for far too long and it was time to get back to our roots. We, roots-loving folks that we are, were in total agreement and made a commitment to play the first Wednesday of every month. It has been good, and I hope we keep on going into '09 with it.

If you don't know the joint, not only is Mr T's Bowl an infamous and important staple in the Los Angeles music scene ("Beck used to play there!" is one of the more popular pieces of evidence toward it's cool/less factor)... the sound man, Arlo, is one of the best in the business, and plays some of the greatest in-between-acts tunes imaginable. For example, after we closed out our set last night with a rousing version of Gasoline (I even did a cartwheel into the audience, it was THAT rousing!) he turned on John Coltrane's version of "My Favorite Things".

Hells yells! :-)

So, as the year begins to come to a close, it seems that I'm having a kind of nostalgia that goes both backward and forward, simultaneously. I'm loving where the band has been, all the adventures we've had (like the epic Road to Oprah tour with The 1 Second Film!) and I'm REALLY excited about the FUTURE!

I adore the current incarnation of the Evangenitals, the ways in which we are growing, evolving, changing, the new music we are making, the revisioning of old songs, the addition of new instrumentation and players, and especially the LOVE that keeps bubbling up, flowing through me, and spouting out like a big 'ol fountain of joy. I dig it. And it seems I'm not the ONLY one that is digging it... word on the street is that we are pretty cool.

What's your word?

Evangenitals - Gasoline 11/25/08


All my lovin,
Juli

The Evangenitals are playing a free pre-Thanksgiving "Thank You" show on Wednesday November 26th, 11pm at Mr T's Bowl that is sure to be SUPER-AWESOME.

Why? Because our alt-country hillbilly love punk rock revolution SEXTET is taking it to the next level (SEPTET!) with the addition of Killsonic Marching Gang accordion player Ari Desano on this glorious night! Yee-haw!

AND...

We just got an AWESOME write-up in the Pasadena Weekly that speaks in great detail and descriptiveness of what a spectacular LIVE act we are... so if you've been putting off seeing us in the flesh, THE TIME IS NOW!

Check out the article here:
http://pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/freaky_hillbilly_punk_rock_hippie_love/6637/

Wednesday November 26th
Mr. T's Bowl
5621 1/2 N. Figueroa St
Los Angeles, CA 90042
Seeing Thingz, We You and Under the Asbury are also on the bill.
Evangenitals at 11pm
Call (323) 960-5693 for details

WE LOVE YOU IN THE GOOD WAY!

Juli & the Evangenitals
http://www.evangenitals.com

Can't make it? No worries!

More upcoming shows:
December 3rd: Mr T's Bowl, Highland Park
December 4th: The Buccaneer, Sierra Madre
December 14th: Redwood Bar, Downtown Los Angeles

I feel like it's New Year's Eve Deluxe Day! I've got that Christmas morning feeling. I'm feeling Thankful about Thanksgiving. This is a Holy Holiday indeed!

Change is in the air, it's happening, it's everywhere, permeating the pores, in all directions, and it's EXCITING. I'm excited. I'm friggin' delighted.

To celebrate, the Evangenitals and friends are playing at Mr T's Bowl TONIGHT, Wednesday November 5th. And it's FREE... just like health care and education ought to be. :-)

Mr T's Bowl - 10pm
5621 1/2 Figueroa Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90042

Our good friends Confessions of a Corn Silo are playing at 9pm and we highly suggest you hear them, too. Evangenitals play at 10pm. Kid Moxie (11pm) and Death to Fresh (12am) will take care of your later night needs. :-)

In other news, this new age of love that is being ushered in has made us realize that we're really not the Battle of the Bands type. No more aggression. Only love. Tough love, sure. Dirty hillbilly love, hell yeah. Tender "hand is a talon" love, bring it on. No more winners and losers in the New Paradigm. Just share-ers and lover-ers. So, no show in Hermosa Beach on November 9th. We'll have something lovely to offer you soon. :-)

All my lovin'
Juli & the Evangenitals
http://www.evangenitals.com

I'm going to try to keep this simple, as there's no way for me to keep it very short cuz this is likely one of the BUSIEST weeks in Evangenitals history! We hope you can share some of it with us. :-)

Here's the dill, pickles:

Tuesday September 30th
Evangenitals @ Mr T's Bowl
5621 1/2 N Fiqueroa
Los Angeles, California 90042
(w/ Andrea Baker on Fiddle!)
9pm. 21 & up. Free!
http://www.evangenitals.com/news.html

Thursday October 2nd
Evangenitals & Improv @ studio (experiment)
5029 York Blvd (on York between Ave 50 & 51)
Los Angeles, California 90042
9pm. All Ages. $3 donation (if you're in the giving mood)
http://www.myspace.com/yorkstudioexperiment

Friday October 3rd
Evangenitals IN STORE PERFORMANCE @ Rhino Records in Claremont, CA! 7pm. All ages. Free!
Rhino Records
235 Yale Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
http://www.rhinorecords.cc

Saturday October 4th
The Evangenitals CLOSE OUT the Eagle Rock Music Festival!!!
11:25pm. EMERGING STAGE. Free!
Shearin and Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
http://www.myspace.com/eaglerockmusicfest

Sunday October 5th
The Evangenitals are closing out the week by playing a Barack Obama Fundraiser in Mt Washington!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gplyqc

Whew! That's gonna be quite the whirlwind!

And for those of you who may be far from Los Angeles, here's some cyberspace stuff to reach out and touch you with:

**Evangenitals drummer David Hurlin just started an AWESOME new music blog and posted a BRILLIANT performance art/spoken word video on YouTube.
Check 'em out here:
http://davidhurlin.livejournal.com/1161.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdBst89kmX4

**Evangenitals Henry Bermudez, Keith Lubow, and David Hurlin provided the live score for Juli Crockett's ponderous play "The Dawn of Quixote: Chapter The First" which was performed as a radio drama on KPFK. You can have a listen to this poetic meditation on Love, Idealism, and The Void here:
http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_080920_070223special.mp3

**And Juli started a VLOG. Oh dear Lord: http://www.youtube.com/user/julicrockett

Love is burning in our collective heart for you. Just for YOU!

Peas,
Juli & the Evangenitals
http://www.evangenitals.com
http://www.myspace.com/evangenitals

Hiya.

Seeing as many of the Evangenitals extended family of fans, friends, and free-loving frolickers are spread out all over the globe, and/or really busy, and/or broke or somehow otherwise unable to make it out to our live shows (mainly occurring in Los Angeles) I have gone ahead and posted a few tracks from last night's performance at Molly Malones on the Evangenitals website for your listening pleasure!

http://www.evangenitals.com/music.html

You can even download the tracks for FREE should you want to listen to them again and again, forever and for aye.

This fine evening of music featured me, Juli Crockett (Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar) with:
Henry Bermudez: Lead Guitar
Lisa Dee: Vocals, Tambourine, Kazoo
David Hurlin: Drums, Shakers, Percussion
Keith Lubow: Bass is the Place

In other news, we just found out that we're going to be closing the show at the Eagle Rock Music Festival on Saturday October 4th. We will be playing on the main "Emerging" stage, with video projections and other theatrics, at 11pm. The last act! Yee-haw!

We'll be getting our act TIGHT and RIGHT by working it out at our home-base -- the infamous Mr T's Bowl in Highland Park -- for the next 3 Tuesdays, hosting music nights with various music-making friends.

Check out the show dates here:
http://www.evangenitals.com/calendar.html

Now, if you have any suggestions for our Eagle Rock Music Fest set list, I'd love to hear 'em! We only get one chance to make a first impression on the throngs of people that attend this Fest! So tell me... What made YOU fall in love with the Evangenitals? What do YOU want to hear belted through the streets of Eagle Rock? Let me know! I care! :-)

Much love,
Juli & the Evangenitals

Official Site: http://www.evangenitals.com
On Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/evangenitals
On Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5456766961
In Your Heart: Always

Hello there, sugar dumpling.

I wanted to be sure to give you plenty of advanced notice so you can
mark your calendar, cancel plans, and/or book plane tickets for the
Evangenitals "official" Everlovin' Record Release Party!

It is on Sunday December 16th. It's going to be at Mr T's Bowl in
Highland Park. It's going to start early so you don't have to stay
out late. It is going to be a beautiful celebration of beautiful
music and the beautiful people that helped make this album possible.
And that means you, buddy!

To tide you over until you get there, here's a video mash-up by
Jefferey G Baker and Levi Brewster featuring the song Quee Queg by the
Evangenitals, the dancers of Desi Matsi, and the Ocean. Please play,
pass, and enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ1G2wvpPGU

In the meantime you can download the album from iTunes or buy a copy
from CDBaby.com and learn all the words so you can sing-a-long at the
big show!
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/evangenitals2

SAVE THE DATE!
Sunday December 16th
The Evangenitals Present:
The Everlovin' Record Release Party
Mr T's Bowl
5621 1/2 Figueroa
Los Angeles, CA 90042
Free!
Special Guest, Music, Prizes, and more

Much love,
Juli & the Genitals

http://www.evangenitals.com
http://www.myspace.com/evangenitals

Hello there.

Yes, I know this is kind of late notice... a sign of a full life, indeed!

Tonight at Mr T's Bowl the awesome/spectacular music experience
"Ollin" will be closing out their Monday night residency and they have
invited the Evangenitals to come join in the fun.

It's our first show since the Road to Oprah tour, and we're happy to
be coming home to Mr T's Bowl.  If you can make it out, we're going to
be hammering out the hits at 11:30pm, right after Ollin who go on at
10:30pm.  Yes, we know it's Monday night.  Perhaps the writer's strike
has many of you not going to work tomorrow? 

Ollin @ 10:30pm
Evangenitals @ 11:30pm
Mr T's Bowl (in Highland Park)
5621 1/2 Figueroa
Los Angeles, CA 90042

In other news, we're still encouraging folks to not only buy but
REVIEW our new album Everlovin' on CDBaby.com:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/evangenitals2

My old friend Jeffrey from my NYU days made his very first music
video, using an Evangenitals tune:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oDuZN9bZmqo

Over 500 people have seen our Sun is Shining Video on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3kMky9EinZY

And life is good.  It really is.  Need proof?  Give me a call.

Much love,
Juli & the Evangenitals
http://www.evangenitals.com
http://www.myspace.com/evangenitals

Awesome News and our First Review!

Finally.... someone has reviewed our new album! Thankfully, they really liked it. :-)

Peter is a fan from the UK that we met when we opened for Trainwreck at the Knitting Factory. He came to see Trainwreck, and left loving the Evangenitals. I was hoping he would really dig our 2nd album, especially after waiting for it to make the long journey across the Atlantic.

You can read his review on our album page at CDBaby.com, and hopefully, for those of you who have heard the new album, it will inspire you to write your own!

http://cdbaby.com/cd/evangenitals2

You can also log in and review the album on iTunes. Every review is incredibly helpful, as it helps us get "star ratings" and spreads the good word about the Evangenitals.

And now, here's some Awesome News:

*We're on Last.fm! http://www.last.fm/music/The+Evangenitals

If you are not familiar with Last.fm, I'd highly recommend checking it out. It's incredible internet radio.

*We got an awesome write-up from Orphan Records!
Check it out!

*George's Birthday is on November 17th!

*We're playing a welcome home show at Mr T's Bowl with Ollin on November 26th!

And if you haven't seen/rated/commented and passed on the new Evangenitals video to everyone you know... you can do it here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3kMky9EinZY

Remember, anything you can do to help spread the word about the Evangenitals helps to keep the dream alive, so thanks for everything!

Cheers,
Juli & The Evangenitals