Last weekend we played at the event Mi Vida At Night, hosted by Olmeca and Mi Vida. For anyone who lives in the LA area I suggest that you visit Mi Vida in South Pasadena for clothes, jewelry, greeting cards etc.
At this event they had all the bases covered with great food, music, and clothing. I highly recommend that people give their business to stores like this.
Check out these photos by the talented Kristy Palomares of kbean ink.
CD Release
Buenos Dias
Travel Tips for Aztlan - KPFK
Luis Rodriguez is another major literary influence on Monte Carlo 76 and on Saturday 3/28 his store, Tia Chuca’s, is having a Grand Opening. Performing will be La Santa Cecilia, Olmeca, Nahuatlaka, Las Cafeteras, Fosforo, Funkhahuatl & John Densmore, and AhWomb Collective.
Mark Scaggs played drums for us at our CD Release, this weekend he’s playing with Burkhart on Friday 3/27 at 9 PM at the Palms Bar in West Hollywood.
Palms Bar
8572 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood 90069
$10
We are pleased to announce that Monte Carlo 76 is being featured in Amoeba Music’s Homegrown program. The Homegrown program highlights local independent music championed by Amoeba employees. If you haven’t picked up a copy of Marisela yet, here’s yet another way while also supporting one of the last record stores in LA.
www.montecarlo76.com
www.amoeba.com/music/homegrown/index.html
Here’s the first of the video from last night’s show at Teocintli. More to come!
I had a practice studio across the street from Avalo’s on City Terrace drive. Sometimes, I would be in the studio all day and night and never see that place open more than a few hours at a time. Because of that, I never bothered to eat there. On this night, we managed to catch that place open. Anton Morales and I went inside looking for someone who worked there. We saw three neighborhood guys. Two of them were sitting in the booths, sipping on tall cans wrapped in a brown paper bag. The other was playing a slot machine, quite passionately. On the side of the slot machine, it read, “for amusement only” All the guys looked at us as to say, “What are you guys doing here?” as if we walked into a clubhouse of some sort. Anton asked them if we could order food to go. One of the guys kinda got up, looked at the other guys and said, “Yeah….I can make you something…what do you want?”
We ordered our food. I ordered a quesadilla and Anton ordered Carne Asada tacos. The same guy went into the kitchen. He looked awkward in the kitchen, like one of those old school Mexican fathers who never cooked a day in his life suddenly forced to cook for his children. We sat down and watched the guy play the “for amusement only” slot machine along with the guys sipping their tall cans wrapped in a brown paper bag.
Coming Next Avalo’s Part 2: The Juniors
I read the LAEastside blog from time to time and saw a great post on mural art there. Go check it out for some good discussion and pictures.
LAEastside also has a great ongoing discussion on gentrification and it’s potential impact on East LA. Gentrification is an underlying theme of Marisela and the subject of Love, the Night, and Gentrification, one of the songs on the album.
