Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Here's some updates as to just what in the hell is going on over here at Genital Central:
*We're getting ready for shows! Big shows! Exciting shows with new songs and some new instruments and some old faces and some good friends! April's shows are ALL going to be RIDICULOUS goodtimes. We're trying some shizz we've never tried before, growing in new directions, and it's gonna be TITS, my friends. TITS!
*The Official Barcoded Album Supreme is on the horizon! Brett is tweaking and twerking and engineering his big, juicy heart out in the studio, and it's almost time! NEW mixes (with special new guests and super-sounds) of Gasoline and Never Again! Newly Added Songs! Full art with Fashion Feature of Jeffrey G. Jones, Genital Supreme.
*Jeff Jones has an email address. If you're in the know, you know how momentous this occasion is. MOMENTOUS! Drop the bee-atch a line, ya'll. Drop it like it's hot. genitaljonesie@yahoo.com
*EVANGENITALS STRIKE THE NETHERLANDS! Or, at least, the intra-web via the Netherlands. A mini-album online release of the Genitals goodness will be coming out soon, compliments of Weirdo Music's new web label, WM Recordings. We in because we're weird.
There's more, of course, but I ain't gonna beat ya'll over the gord with it just now. Not yet.
Keep the Faith, yo.
The Unicron
Friday, March 18, 2005
Saturday March 19th at 1pm. For one afternoon only.
The 24th Street Theater presents:
The Dawn of Quixote: Chapter the First
Written and directed by Juli Crockett
Featuring Shaughn Buchholz, Christopher Goodson, and Lisa Dee
Scenic Design by Melissa Ficociello
Costumes by Irina Kruzhilina
Music by Mike Ibarra
We're kicking off the Saturday Explorer Series at the 24th Street Theater and it's going to be ridiculous.
Ages 7-177 are welcome to attend.
The show is only $5. Free for neighborhood residents. Reservations strongly recommended.
This is a one-shot, one-show deal... so please come on down and catch The Dawn of Quixote one last time.
24th Street Theater
1117 West 24th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Call 213-745-6516 for Reservations
Directions to the Theater are Here:
http://www.24thstreet.org/directions.html
Friday, March 11, 2005
In a Thong
TONIGHT!
The Evangenitals are playing a free show at Mudpuppy Coffee House in Highland Park tonight. At 10pm.
Rumor has it that Jeff Jones is going to sport a Leather thong (on sale now!) for a mere $50.
The poor boy has to pay his phone bill somehow.
Tips accepted. Requests played.
Come n' get it.
Mudpuppy Coffee House
4219 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90065
Phone: (323) 223 • 4500 - Fax: (323) 223 • 4500
www.themudpuppy.net
How to get to Mudpuppy?
110 Freeway to the Avenue 43 Exit
Go North - If you were going north on the 110
Go Right - If you were going south on the 110
Go just one block to Figueroa Street
Monday, March 07, 2005
Saturday, February 05, 2005
We are playing so many shows this month it's ridiculous, and we need
all the love and support and attendance we can muster.
The tide has started to turn, and we're getting all sorts of media
attentions... which means there will be reviewers, critics, nay-sayers
and suspicious minds at many of these events.
Every single one is special, and every single one needs a good, 'ol
fashinoned, sing-along, Evangenitals audience. The band is only half
the experience, and it's our special friends in the crowd that really
makes a show night something special.
So please... rally the troops, activate your amigos, stir up a posse,
and help us conquer this concrete jungle whilst spreading the sweet
sweet Evangenital magic.
You can check out the calendar at www.evangenitals.com/calendar.html
for dates, times, and addresses.
You can even use the Yahoo Group to organize carpools! http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/evangenitals
Bring the love. Bring the lawnchairs. Bring the blankets and candy.
First stop:
Tuesday, February 8th at Tangier where we're playing with Gwendolyn
and Becky Stark. An incredible night of music, at an all-new location
for us, staring at 8pm SHARP with the Evangenitals.
Thanks to you all.
- The Evangenitals
Friday, January 21, 2005
We have our own comic! Drawn by the keen hand and slim fingers of our own Brett Lyda, The EvangeniTales is updated weekly, with new adventures and revealing tidbits about those sweet spiritual bastards, The Evangenitals. See it here: EvangeniTALES!
We're still on the charts at Audio Street, with our slow, sultry cover of HeyYa coming in at #1 in Alternative Cover Songs. (sometimes #2)... um... it depends what time of the day you log in, methinks.
Joining us over there at Audio Street is our feminine half, Evangina, who've got their own little blog and muzak page now (due to their wild success and new fan-base in Long Beach)... They're also on MySpace! (add! add! add!)
And of course, tonight at the Derby we will be celebrating our One Year Anniversary with an ALL-EVANGENITALS set. Joining us are friends Hello Fever, Pink Mochi, Poolabomb, and Shaped Like a Gun. It's good to have friends.
Oh yeah... one more thing:
Juli is going to be in the next edition of Sports Illustrated. No kidding. It hits the newsrack on Friday (the 28th). It's kind of a long story. You can read all about it here.
That's the news.
We love you.
The Genital Gang
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
On January 21st 2005, The Evangenitals will celebrate their 1st Anniversary in a Grand Hootenanny at the world famous Derby in Los Feliz.
Local favorites Pink Mochi, Hello Fever, and our good friends Shaped Like a Gun and Poolabomb will be joining the Genitals on this joyful night.
The show is gonna start at 8:30pm. The cost is $7.
The experience of sharing this glorious moment in history with your dear darling darlings the Evangenitals?
Priceless.
It's a Friday night, so please come on down early and stay late.
The Genitals will have home-grown Unicron T-Shirts and CD's available.
We will all be filled with good cheer and hella gratitude for such an amazing year of musical love-making and sweet sweet nylon stroking.
All this is going down at the Derby.
Please join us on this special night.
The Derby
4500 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-663-8979
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
The Evangenitals would like to wish you all some very
happy holly jollies this holiday season.
To show and share our boundless joy, we will be
playing a free show at the Equator Coffee Shop in Old
Town Pasadena this Wednesday, December 29th, at 9pm
Sharp.
We will be playing for approximately an hour and
possibly and hour and a half. We will play requests.
We will be bringing the Salad to accompany on drums.
There will be Unicron T-Shirts and CD's available.
Julio's Mom will be there.
We will play our hearts out in a glorious celebration
of the year 2004 (the year which marked the birth of
the Evangenitals, among other things of varying
importance) and extend welcoming salutations to the
year 2005 which promises non-stop giggles, rainbows,
cookies and sky-skittles* to all who attend.
(*individual results may vary)
The simple version:
The Evangenitals are playing a RARE all-ages show for
FREE on Wednesday, December 29th at 9pm. Please come.
Location:
The Equator Coffee Shop
22 Mills Place
Pasadena, CA 91105
(626) 564-8656
Hope to see you there.
Sweet Sweet Holiday Love Sauce,
Juli Crockett, Lisa Dee, Brett Lyda, Jeff Jones
www.evangenitals.com
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
We're spreading ourselves thin this month. We know.
It's a sort of experiment in exhaustion, karma, and giving back. "Just say Yes" is the Genital's theme for December. Does this result in lower "draws" to shows... hell yeah. Who cares? We're going to be the most seasoned and practiced One Year Old band come the New Year that Highland Park has ever SEEN! (huzzah for small victories)
We're playing all sorts of sweet gigs this holiday season: our local coffee shop, solo & duet sets from various members, a big, free all ages show in the heart of Old Town Pasadena, a Christmas Eve Party, complete with Classic Christmas Covers. It's a good life, and the perfect way for us to end the year. Hootin' up a Storm! Howling at the Elements! Raising hell and making sweet, sweet love with our windpipes and strings. We're diggin' it.
We're still working hard on the "official" album release. We're just too excited to hold back, so we've got an advance release circulating... however, we got more songs on the grill, that just ain't quite been mixed and seasoned yet. Soon. Very soon. Expect to see a fine and fancy Evan-barcode, Evan-label, and actual credits for all the folks that made it possible (like Jeff Donovan.... who's playing jazz, this weekend. click for details)
So yeah... we're spreading ourselves thin. Fuck it. We're young. We're coming up on our 1 year anniversary. We're feeling frisky and blessed and running wild. Till the wheels fall off, ya'll. You know the drill.
xoxo
julio
Monday, November 22, 2004
we've got some field trips coming up...
we're spreading our wings and taking off to some new territory.
this wednesday, goin' on out to the west side to play Tempest - Hollywood with Walkie Talkie and friends.
next wednesday, goin' on down to the LBC to show our stuff at the tenbyten art show at Koos.
for details, addresses, info, etc... check the calendar page.
we love you.
us.
Saturday, November 06, 2004
Feeling Down? Feeling Blue?
Hopeless? Helpless? Depressed?
Feeling Feisty? Feeling Free?
Feel like Coming and Screaming with Glee?
We're having a Love-In & We Need Your help!
This Thursday
November 11th 2004
at 10pm Sharp
Be a Part of
The Evangenitals' Special
Love, Healing, and Primal Screaming Workshop
at
The Derby
4500 Los Feliz Blvd
at the corner of Hillhurst & Los Feliz Blvd
Come join us in a demonstration of music, grace, and good humor as we attempt to transform the world-famous Derby into the spiritualized sing-along center of Los Angeles for one glorious hour.
Super-Special Offerings of the Evening Include:
*Words of Hope & Healing from Her Most Holy Miss Mindy Chiu
*Primal Scream Therapy Group Exercises
(with bless'd, healing T-shirts to be given as gifts to the most zealous)
*home-made Evan-Unicron iron-on t-shirts
*BYOMC - bring your own magic carpet*
(*see Juli's personal appeal below)
and at last.... at last...
*the limited-edition first-press new-born Evangenitals Album!
*and now, a message from Rev. Dr. Juli Crockett,
singer and 1/2 size guitar player for The Evangenitals:
My Friends,
I have a vision. I have a dream. I have a suggestion.
It would please me beyond all comprehension and understanding if you would start bringing your own blankets, towels, mats, rugs, lawn chairs, meditation cushions, yoga balls, and any other lo-rider comfort seating device (aka magic carpet) to the next Evangenitals show. It's more than a show. It's a moment. A happening. A meeting of like-hearted homeboys & girls in search of the good vibe. Bring it with you. Find it here. Come on down to the front. Camp out, join in, sing along. Bask in the glow of the campfire-esque stage lights. Get closer to the Genitals.
We love you.
Live It. Be It.
Come n' Get It.
juli crockett, lisa dee, brett lyda, jeff jones
the evangenitals
more info: www.evangenitals.com/calendar.html
or call: 323-251-9645
Friday, October 29, 2004
Gasoline has slipped from #1 to #3 over at Audio Street (and I still can't figure out how their rankings are determined) which puts us at, surprisingly enough, my favorite place... #3 World Wide!
Never Again is up to 4 stars at GarageBand.com, which is pretty good, considering that we're currently filed under "Alternative", which is kinda true, but I think some of the folks who choose to review "Alternative" songs and then get "Evangenitals" are gettin' a little shook up by the experience.
Facing reviews is a strange new experience for us. Edifying, informative and painful... like a hairshirt on a sweaty, scourged martyr.
Thank you sir, may I have another.
On November 5th, we'll be moving to a newly created category on GarageBand called "Americana" which I think will suit us like a new pair of pants. A little snug, little scratchy, but exciting and snappy none the less.
In other news....
Tonight is the Halloween Party we're "hosting" over at the Derby. What does "hosting" mean? It means that Julio's workin' the door, Brett's dressing up and giving out weird prizes (compliments of our communal workplace) and we're gonna try to convince Jeff Jones to MC, or something like that.
Lisa Dee's other two bands, Las Panchas and Killsonic, are playing, along with the indubitable Robbie D and Timbaloo. It should be a nice, wild, make-up and mayhem kinda night.
Dress up and you might win an electric penis leash.
I ain't even kidding.
9pm. $5
at The Derby
4500 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
The Evangenitals are doing great and going strong, and we're trying to keep this ball rolling. We're thinking that lightning speed would be a suitable pace. Think meteors. Comets. Faster than a speeding bullet.
What's the big deal, you ask? Well, we've got some super-duper studio recorded versions of classic songs up on the web for your listening pleasure. They ain't technically "done" yet, however I've uploaded them in a couple of spots for some advance playing and reviewing.
Here's where YOU come in.... we're asking ya'll to follow these links. Listen to the songs. Enjoy 'em. Play them loud and proud. Rate 'em if you can. Send the links to your friends and ask them to give 'em a listen. Dance a bit. Laugh. Cry. Bathe in the soft haze of nostalgia and melancholy. Support your Genitals. Every little bit helps. It takes a village to raise a phenomenon.
The filthy hillbilly mucky love classic Gasoline can be found at
AudioStreet.net:
http://www.audiostreet.net/artists/006/962/evangenitals.html
(We're actually still #1 on AudioStreet's Alternative Country Charts right now, and you listening to our song over and over again will help to keep us there!)
The doo-wop 50's ode to dysfunctional relationships Never Again is over at GarageBand.com:
http://www.garageband.com/artist/evangenitals
Thank you for your love and support.
- juli crockett, lisa dee, brett lyda, & jeff jones
the evangenitals
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Thanks folks for clicking the clicky.
We're currently number one at AudioStreet.net!
http://www.audiostreet.net/charts.aspx?genreid=3
Keep up the good work! Fight the Good Fight! Spread the Genital Love!
The Evangenitals. Topping the Charts Overnight!
Monday, October 18, 2004
I don't really know how it happened... but we are! On some little download site called AudioStreet.net --- check it out:
http://www.audiostreet.net/charts.aspx?genreid=3
I don't know who's determining the rankings... but if you have a chance, go there and download the song. Give it a listen. Trust me, you wanna hear it. It's the special studio recorded version of Gasoline. Jeff Donovan on drums. Pure hillbilly goodness and filth. Mad hootin' and hollerin'. A good time to be had by all.
Hear. Feel. Help.
- julio
Friday, October 15, 2004
Today is the Day and Tonight is the Night!
Our left-handed genital Mister Brett Lyda, aka Mr Fantastic, aka New SUV Owner Extra-Ordinare, aka Grampa-Love-Shake-Pull-The-Other-Leg-Charlie is having a BIRTHDAY!
TODAY!
TONIGHT!
AND IT'S ALLLLLLLLL RIGHT!
I sure hope you bring him something special tonight... like your sweet face, pats on the back, warm hugs, hot kisses, and best wishes. That'll do.
He'll be at The Derby. Lettin' it all hang out.
Everybody now.........
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOOOOOOOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOOOOOOOOOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISTER GENITALS! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOOOOOOOOOU!
Keep smokin', Brett.
We love you somethin' terrible.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Alright folks...
The Time Hath Come!
The Evangenitals are playing on a FRIDAY NIGHT!
THIS FRIDAY NIGHT!
October 15th - 11 o'clock sharp
@ the World Famous Derby
4500 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, California, USA
And we're taking requests!
Send us your favorite songs and dedications...
Let us know what you wanna hear...
we'll put 'em all together and serve 'em up just right!
evangenitals@yahoo.com
We're thinking of this as a "Greatest Hits" show... celebrating the songs that got us in the pickle of playing the Derby at 11pm on a Friday night... so come bask in the warm glow of Genital love whilst we revisit the showtunes of yesteryear.
The Full Run of the Evening:
Cathy Rivers, 8pm
Sandy Chila, 9pm
Chromosome Tea, 10pm
Evangenitals, 11pm
Morcea, 12am
All for $8*
*Please be sure to tell 'em at the door that you're there to see the Evangenitals. Say it with pride and a fist to the sky.
We're bringing the Rug. We're bringing the Love.
We're bringing the Salad.*
Come Hither! Come Hear!
juli crockett, lisa dee, brett lyda, jeff jones
the evangenitals
(we love you already)
*dave salardino.drums.