A Certain Ratio, Pylon, Love Is All Play Post-Punk Fest

As do Vivian Girls, Mika Miko, Savage Republic, Ariel Pink, the Muslims
A Certain Ratio, Pylon, Love Is All Play Post-Punk Fest

Part Time Punks will graduate from being a weekly L.A. post-punk/indie club night to being an L.A. post-punk/indie festival on November 16. Headlining the festival will be A Certain Ratio, making their first U.S. appearance in over 20 years.

Also on the Part Time Punks Festival bill are Pylon, Love Is All, the Urinals, Mika Miko, Vivian Girls, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Savage Republic, Nervous Gender, Medium Medium, the Nightingales, the Wild Stares, Magic Bullets, the Muslims, Grimble Grumble, Warpaint, Softboiled Eggies, and Nodzzz.

The festival will also feature DJ sets from David J (Bauhaus/Love & Rockets), Dave Newton (Mighty Lemon Drops), Brendan Mullen (author/owner of legendary punk club the Masque), Chuck Warner (Messthetics/Hyped 2 Death), Dan Selzer (Acute Records), and Kevin Pedersen (What's Your Rupture?). And there will be screenings of various post-punk-related films and videos as well.

The Part Time Punks Festival will go down at the Echoplex in Los Angeles.

Posted by Dave Maher on Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:00am