When: Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 9.00 pm
Where: Spaceland and Maps
Website: MintyFresh and MySpace
The band Time Magazine calls “One of the sweetest sounds in underground music today.”
Indie pop group White Shoes and the Couples Company from Jakarta, Indonesia, are bringing their mix of orchestral pieces, clap-along pop tunes, and dandelion-delicate love songs to Los Angeles for the first time.
2008 has been a great year for White Shoes & The Couples Company. The band performed at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, Texas in March to rave press review, and sold out one of the best music venues in San Francisco. The band will perform at the CMJ Music Festival in New York prior to their Los Angeles date. They’ve been named one of the Top 25 Bands on MySpace by Rolling Stone, featured in Time magazine, praised by Pitchfork and named “One of the Most Crush-worthy Bands” by All Music Guide.
Their new EP Skenario Masa Muda will be available October 28, 2008, a follow up to their self-titled debut, released on the Chicago based Minty Fresh record label. Singing in both English and Indonesian, this sextet makes pop songs that you’d be excused for thinking had come straight off the soundtrack of Katamari Damacy, or a tender Sonny Chiba movie.
Indeed, these former art school classmates (the band met each other while attending the Art Institute of Cikini in Jakarta) cite 1970s movie soundtracks as an influence. No surprise, as it’s easy to picture a bell-bottom-entangling embrace to at least a few of their sweeping tracks. Asian directors have already spotted the band’s cinematic sound, and have featured their songs in a pair of Indonesian films, Janji Joni and Berbagi Suami.
White Shoes & The Couples Company will perform on October 30, 8pm, at Spaceland, 1717 Silverlake Blvd, Los Angeles.
FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE THE Mp3 of “TENTANG CITA” http://www.mintyfresh.com/promo/whiteshoesandthecouplescompany/tentangcita.mp3
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