Saturday, August 20, 2005

PLEASE PASS AROUND AND REPOST!!!

This info comes from one of the music groups I belong to. Even if you're not from Los Angeles originally, add your voice to the cause...or see Los Feliz become the 3rd street promenade! yuck...EASTSIDE RESISTANCE!!!...thanks!

Friends, fellow Los Felizians, members of the media & other cool folks:

I am reaching out to inform you of a horrifying scheme now moving forward to demolish the world-famous Derby nightclub and adjacent Louise's restaurant and replace them with a generic five-story condo / retail development in the heart of wonderful little Los Feliz! With zero publicity and notice to neighborhood residents thus far, Woodland Hills-based Alder Realty Investments Inc. has purchased the property and is quietly navigating the zoning approval process necessary to carry out their dastardly plans.

I doubt I'll have to sell many people on the coolness and historical importance of the Derby in the Hollywood community. Built as the Willard's Chicken Inn restaurant circa 1928 -- with the backing of none other than longtime Los Feliz resident Cecil B. DeMille -- it eventually became one of the five legendary Brown Derbys where Tinseltown's elite gathered between 1940 and 1960. Joan Crawford famously tended bar there in 1945's "Mildred Pierce." And of course Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau memorably entered via the kitchen in 1996's "Swingers" -- helping to trigger a nationwide swing craze with the Derby as its indisputable epicenter. Whether you're into swing dancing or, like me, have enjoyed seeing local music acts play under its distinctive wooden dome in recent years, the Derby's place in the thriving local arts / nightlife community is unassailable. It's the Derby, for cryin' out loud!

This is the unique historical venue the developers feel they must destroy and replace with condos and chain retail space that could be found on any corner in any city in America. And with the Derby would die one more place in the world with a special character and energy all its own. Another piece of L.A. history gone forever. And that could be the beginning of the end for the Los Feliz we know and love, which is already fighting to hang onto its special vibe in the face of encroaching Starbucksization.

The good news: Resistance to the Development From Hell is already forming! Last night, I attended a meeting of the Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council Planning/Zoning and Historic Preservation Committee -- an advisory board to the city of L.A. -- and I was encouraged to learn that a group of concerned local residents and Derby fans has begun organizing the Save the Derby Coalition to focus local opposition to this horrible idea. But they're going to need a lot of help to win this David-V.-Goliath battle.

As I understand the situation after the meeting last night, this thing is a freight train moving on well-lubricated rails toward a destination that will turn a fat buck for people who really, really love money. The only thing that will stop it is a loud outcry from the community -- loud enough to get the city council's attention and make them think twice about the cost-benefit ratio. They need to know a lot of people will be fighting mad about this or it's goodbye, Derby.

With that in mind, I urge anyone still reading this e-mail to:

E-MAIL L.A. CITY COUNCILMAN TOM LaBONGE (who represents the Los Feliz area) at: Labonge@council.lacity.org
As I understand it, LaBonge and the council are the crucial pressure point for this deal. While various committees will be weighing in over a long process, the development will ultimately require city approval to go through. If LaBonge and others on the council see the outcry against it as dangerous enough to themselves, the Derby just might be saved. So outcry today and outcry often! (LaBonge's website: http://www.lacity.org/council/cd4/)

Members of the media: You know what to do.

The Save the Derby Coalition website and e-mail list should be operational soon.

The Derby's webpage on their history:
http://www.the-derby.com/history.html?20,15

Alder Realty's webpage on their plans for the Derby property:
http://www.adler-realty.com/ARI/Investments/Los%20Feliz.htm

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Friday, July 15, 2005

HOT SAX!!!!

Well, Not exactly, but....

HOT TRAXX, fo shizzo!

We got a new mix of Never Again up on the page, with added treats and
mad mixin' skillz.... check it out, y'all. Please give it a listen
and leave your comments. Rate that shit. Get involved in the muzak.

Get hip, right here: http://www.myspace.com/evangenitals
(where the wild musics are)

The BIG SHOW is coming soon, so ya gotta start memorizing the lyrics
for sing-a-long fun, dig?

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK! FEEDBACK, YO! BRING IT!

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

We're Back on the Saddle Again!

HELLO EVERYBODY! How's everyone doing?

Happy first full day of official SUMMERTIME!

The Evangenitals have been on "break" for over a MONTH... We know, it was a scary time for all of us, HOWEVER, we are happy to bring you great news and tidings of joy. Tidal waves of joy!

Along with the sun and the summer, Genital Juli has finally returned to her homeland from the Alps of Switzerland -- chock full of knowledge and knick-knacks -- with some new tunes and a new tan to boot. (Full story on her blog)

IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T HEARD YET...

*Our album WE ARE THE EVANGENITALS is available ONLINE for your purchasing pleasure at CDBABY and TOWER RECORDS!

*If you have already gotten the album, PLEASE add your reviews to BOTH the CDBaby and Tower Records pages. If you don't got no money, you can hear two minutes of every track on the album at CDBaby, and a few full songs over on Myspace! (FYI: Both Evangina and Brettsky have music pages on Myspace as well)

*All the tracks off the album are also becoming available for digital download RIGHT NOW on MP3tunes, Rhapsody, Apple iTunes, Puretracks, MusicMatch, MusicNow, MusicNet, LoudEye, MSN Music, NetMusic, and Sony Connect. Believe it or not, even if you just jump on iTunes and put in search requests for The Evangenitals, it helps us. I don't know how, but it does. I think it's Karma.

*We are in the pre-production/planning/deliberating phases of our first Music Video! That's gonna be crazy. Keep an eye out for upcoming requests for extras.

And...

This is the big one...

Word on the street is that the Genitals are getting back together after Juli's
abandoning the nation, and they're going to be playing a "reunion" show soon. And rumor is that Ukefink is going to come out of "retirement" to join us. That's gonna be one hell of a party.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Holy mother of all that's sacred.... the Evangenitals new album can now be found on TowerRecords.com!!!
CHECK THIS SH!T OUT!!!!!!!

Please click the link and give it a looksie... and let those suckas at Tower know that somebody's looking at the Evangenitals!

Help us out by hittin' it, here: http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=3256289

Friday, May 06, 2005

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Well now.... here's the news:

*The Evangenitals are working on some new music for the sequel of Sean Sullivan's Ben: the angriest canary. More or less, we are hoping to be the Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem for the year 2005 and beyond. And we're hoping that some forward-think producer gives this project the shiny green light and we all go skipping the light fantastic onto ye olde televisor and can touch some lives with the happy mind-control medium.

*Our awesome import limited release Jeff Jones autographed CD "We Are The Evangenitals" has just been mailed off to the fine folks at CD Baby to be added to their online catalog and facilitate intra-web purchasing of this musical masterpiece. We're very excited. Expect linky buttons everywhere, and SOON!

*We're adding a couple more shows before Julio goes to Switzerland to fill her head with rubbish for a month at the PhD school in the Alps. Last time she was there, she came back with "Lisa's Song" and the break-up song "Time to go"... we're looking forward to what seeds some more travel with a small guitar and some mad philosophizing will sprout in her melon patch. Both Evangina and the Evangenitals will throw down some goodbye goodness before May 24th. Look for it.

*Julio's $5 Hippie Love Money Tree campaign has been working out swell. Many thanks and high-fives to all who have saved her from starvation, homelessness, and not getting that all-important plane-ticket to school! Please let the love flow, and any time any of you need a 5-spot, don't hesitate to ask. Activate the money tree, shake that trunk and watch the rain of co-operation trickle down.

*Did you know we had our own health food store? It's true! Check it out: http://evangenitals.wholefoodfarmacy.com/ Julio's sister turned us on to this place. The Personal Care section is our favorite. Julio's sister is quite the mountain hippie. Hell, she lives in a Yurt, she's hiked almost the entire Appalachian trail, and she eats raw foods and grows her own veggies. She is hippie. Hear her rawr.

We love you all.
Spread the good news.
Amen.

Monday, April 11, 2005

I don't know how this happened, or how long it will last, however....

Evangina's "Beautiful Boy" is topping the Indie Charts over at AudioStreet.com.

See for yourself: follow this link!

The Evangenitals are still holding strong on Audio Street as well, with Gasoline and The Work Song in the Alternative Country Top Ten, and Hey Ya dominating the Alternative Cover Song charts.

Go pay a visit, download, rock out, and help us keep rocking them charts. Small victories keep us keeping up.

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Get Excited!

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

Our play. Tomorrow afternoon. $5. One last chance.

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

Jeff Jones

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

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Saturday, February 05, 2005

Hey folks... this is the heads up.

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

Updates and Reminders:

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

THIS IS A SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT:

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

Greetings Everyone.

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

Yeah.. so...

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