The Monolators 7/19/10 - Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA.

(Photo: Ben Golomb, via The Monolators Myspace)

(Update: Track 4 has a name. Thanks commenter!)

Earlier this week, The Monolators shared the bill with Summer Darling on the 3rd night of their latter's Monday night residency at Spaceland. This was a special show because they are going on hiatus and will be the last one for awhile (until they release their upcoming double EP in the fall), and a unique show because they performed as a 4-piece (because one of their band members sustained injuries in an bicycle accident) Oddly enough, this show is a milestone of sorts for this blog as well - while we have featured The Monolators acoustically, doing an all ABBA cover set, and in other collaborations (Cobra Lilies, When Captain Geech Met Teardrop), and even being covered by other bands - we have never gotten a regular full-band show of theirs, until now.

Tonight's setlist covered the gauntlet of The Monolators' catalog - one song from 2004's Rejection Set Me Free ("Summertime In My Car" - which was played as a nod to band-in-residency Summer Darling), a couple from 2006's Our Tears Have Wings, one from the 2007 EP You Look Good On The Train, one from 2008's LP Don't Dance, and a few from the previously-mentioned upcoming double EP. It was a very fun show, culminating in several audience/other band members joining them onstage as a collaborative "human glockenspiel" for "Let's Be Best Friends In Space." This performance should serve as a holdover until The Monolators return to the stage in the near future.

More pictures of the show can be found on LAist.

1.) Introduction MP3
2.) You Look Good On The Train MP3
3.) 14 Degrees MP3
4.) Pickup Ford MP3
5.) Silver Cities MP3
6.) Ruby, I'm Changing My Number MP3
7.) Summertime In My Car MP3
8.) Don't Dance MP3
9.) Let's Be Best Friends In Space MP3
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Cobra Lilies 4/19/10 - Silverlake Lounge, Los Angeles, CA.

( Photo: Cobra Lilies Myspace )

On Monday night, Cobra Lilies played a show that was part of So Many Wizards' month-long residency at Silverlake Lounge. Cobra Lilies is a band that started out as a side project of The Monolators but in time has grown into ( according to their myspace ) "a Weird Folk singing and dancing supergroup formed from the ranks of some of Los Angeles’ most celebrated underground rock and folk bands" that includes members of Divisadero, Cat Hair Ensemble, Smells Like Flan, Ema And The Ghosts, and Shiloe. Last year, they released their debut EP In the Key Of Bicycle Bell (those songs were included in tonight's setlist) and are in the midst of currently recording new material.

Recorded by "markp."

Thanks to Ema for the setlist.

1.) Introduction MP3
2.) Wild Love MP3
3.) Diamond Mine MP3
4.) Blame It On The Boy MP3
5.) The Rock and Roll Song MP3
6.) Cop Car MP3
7.) Tiny Dot In The Deep Blue Sea MP3
8.) She Grows Wings At Night MP3
9.) There's Always Love MP3
10.) "Soundcheck" MP3
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