Tickets & Merch
A one-day all-ages MINI MUSIC FESTIVAL is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. on March 6, 2010 at the Echoplex, featuring The Submarines, Summer Darling, The Happy Hollows, The Growlers, and more! Get in the mood with punk rock hairdos from The Hive Hair Shop, rocker accessories from local LA designers, burgers from Grill ‘Em All Food Truck, and more.
Tickets: http://826lachickensinlove.eventbrite.com
CHICKENS IN LOVE is a full-length album of original songs with lyrics written by 826LA students and recorded by Los Angeles recording artists. This album will feature recordings by She & Him, Fiona Apple, Cold War Kids, Tim and Eric, The Submarines, Summer Darling, The Happy Hollows, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Dum Dum Girls, The Growlers, Crystal Antlers, and The Pity Party!
Chickens in Love limited-edition vinyl LP (pre-order, release date TBD), $20
Chickens in Love CD (pre-order, release date TBD), $15
Chickens in Love official concert/album T-shirt (pre-order), $20
Limited edition concert/album poster (pre-order), $20
Chapbooks:
Make It Punk
$5.00
Make It Punk is the story of rock ‘n’ roll as seen through the eyes of budding punk enthusiasts in Venice, California. Spray-painting bystanders, tattooing secrets, drinking blood, and writing about it in your journal: all the hallmarks of the anarchist lifestyle get their moment. Released on the 15-year anniversary of Dookie, this book is readable in the time it takes you to listen to a Ramones compilation—and as an added bonus you can read Nancy’s track-by-track Ramones reviews at the same time (recently published on the 826 National website).
Tight Red Pants, Tight Red Shirt, and a Mohawk
$5.00
Tight Red Pants, Tight Red Shirt, and a Mohawk contains music-inspired pieces written by two dozen of the students who attend after-school tutoring at our Echo Park writing lab on weekday afternoons. Local elementary, middle, and high school students have contributed pieces ranging from original rap song lyrics, to musings on their favorite musicians (Michael Jackson, Selena, Justin Bieber, and Guns N’ Roses, to name a few), to rhapsodies about the rock star lives they imagine for themselves.
The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get
$5.00
Named after a Morrissey song, The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get takes inspiration from music written by members of the Smiths from 1984 to 2009. Containing never-before-published work by students from John Adams Middle School, Grand View Elementary, Mark Twain Middle School, and others, 826LA’s new book covers topics from the Smiths themselves to “my worst summer love story” to “listening to my mom’s bedtime stories” to “a pony with a ponytail.”
