Vote for Bedtime For Toys - Deli Magazine's artist of the Month

Our local K-town heroes, Bedtime for Toys, have been nominated for Deli Magazine's Artist of the Month poll! While the toys would make for a mean sandwich, this is not a magazine about pastrami but rather The Deli LA is a 3 year-old independent publication and website that focuses on local indie music scenes and emerging artists in NY, SF, Nashville, and LA. BFT are currently in 2nd place and the poll closes Friday so please take a sec and cast a quick vote at :
http://www.thedelimagazine.com/la/

**The poll is on top of the right hand side column. Click "vote" on the bottom of the poll box and punch the Bedtime for Toys ticket in '08!**

2am Club, Bedtime For Toys, Love You Long Time @ Derby - Review + Photo Gallery

Thanks to everyone that came out to support the FoundTrack's first live music showcase at the Derby last Friday. Here is a mini-review and thanks to all of the people involved. Hope to see you very soon at our 2yr anniversary party!

Click here for the full gallery


LOVE YOU LONG TIME
Love you Long Time got the party started right and swiftly with a guest appearance from a massive 80's boombox to accompany their keytar and vivacious vocals on the vocoder. They just moved out to LA from Utah and are already making a name for themselves so let's make sure to give them a warm welcome and continue to support them at their upcoming shows including this Saturday at the Knitting Factory. Oh and this is pretty crucial..if you happen to be in Utah this Fall, they will be opening it up for MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice.


BEDTIME FOR TOYS
Bedtime For Toys of course killed it once again and opened their set with an homage to Prince. They played all of their classic cuts including "Cold Fever" but gave us a special treat debuting their new rendition of Earth Wind & Fire's "September" with Ladies Man Kenan Moore dropping the drum thunder in honor of his father's legendary band. The word on the streets is that The Toys are working on a covers record with some very special guests so stay tuned. In the meanwhile, their digital catalog was just released yesterday on itunes so get it while it's hot here.


2AM CLUB
2am Club came with the raucous once again and overwhelming support from their faithful. We'd like to thank them for asking us to get involved and putting together such a great series of shows at the Derby. They are currently working on new material in norcal with producer Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads, but will be playing a number of shows throughout the summer including a 4th of July Party on the Queen Mary in Long Beach. Check out their hit "Flashing Room" on our July compilation.


DJ KNEWJACK
Gracias also goes out to the grandmaster DJ KnewJack as well for dropping the hotness once again on the turntables between bands. Can't get enough of his disco madness? Then listen to his Behold the Spartacus mix and stay tuned for his second installment of his monthly DJ mixtapes on this very here blog.


PHOTOS BY LOLA LONDON
Special thanks to the lovely Lola London for taking some awesome shots throughout the night. We've provided a slideshow and a link to a full gallery of Lola's pictures below. Photos from some of her other projects can be viewed @ www.flickr.com/lolalondonphotography . If you're interested in getting photos like this taken at your event or show, Lola can be reached at lolalondon at mac.com. In addition to being a photograph guru, she also has great taste in music. Check out her playlists at http://www.playlist.com/playlist/user/10266304.

See slideshow below


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FoundTrack's July '08 Compilation (track 1/14) - Boy Genius feat. Tatanka - "Summer (ft intro edit)"

FT JULY '08 INTRO - Transcribed
"Welcome to the FoundTrack's July 2008 compilation. As we enter our third year we want to thank all of our listeners for their continued support and the artists on this compilation for allowing us to showcase their work. If you like what you hear this is just the tip of the iceberg. We encourage you to support these artists by purchasing their music. For more information stay tuned to FoundTrack.com. We have plenty in store this year and hope to serve as a resource to those who are willing to welcome us with open minds."

Introducing you to our 3rd year in the game is none other than FoundTrack friend for life Tatanka of National Geographic, whose vocal dexterity has provided the voiceover...over and over again ; taking on such roles as Little Superstar, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Vincent Price, Charles Bukowski, the Apple commercial dude, FoundTracula, your friendly neighbor Peter Parker, and most importantly himself (pictured above). He's so prolific I don't even think we could fit all of his work on one mixtape. In fact, i wouldn't be surprised if he was working on another voiceover project in the picture above despite tough reception in NY's underground. Many thanks goes to our reliable pal. We wouldn't have been able to make it this far without you.

Of course, it wouldn't have flowed so nicely without the beatmaster himself Boy Genius (Toussaint Hunt of Bedtime For Toys) laying down his "summer" jam. Outside of his work for the Toys of K-town, he is a producer prodigy and this is a mere sample of this boy's genius skills. If you're interested in any licensing opportunities don't be shy. Hit him up through the Bedtime For Toys MySpace page.

Stay tuned to the blog throughout this month for more features on the rest of the artists on our July Compilation

FoundTrack presents 2AM Club, Bedtime For Toys, & Love You Long Time !

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WHEN: Friday, June 27th 8:00pm

WHERE: The VIP Lounge of The Derby in Los Feliz, 4500 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

TICKETS: Print out the Flyer above for discounted $10 admission at the door

PARKING: Valet Parking is available at the Derby, and street parking is available within a few blocks walk

FREE DRINK SPECIALS by HYPNOTIQ
FREE ADVANCE FOUNDTRACK CDs & MIXTAPES FROM DJ KNEWJACK with the purchase of any merchandise from any of the bands

** IMPORTANT VENUE / STAGE NOTICE- The Derby has two rooms with live music. Once you enter the venue, the V.I.P. Lounge door will be on your left and the Main stage will be on your right. Our event is in the V.I.P. Lounge so the important people, i.e. YOU, will be making lefts.


2AM CLUB:

(click to checkout band's site)

Sample Tracks:

"Flashing Room"

"Worry About You"



BEDTIME FOR TOYS:

(click to checkout band's site)

Sample Tracks:

"Cold Fever"

"My Last Goodbye"



LOVE YOU LONG TIME:

(click to checkout band's site)

Sample Tracks:

"I Had You Wrong"

"The Power Dud Mix"

DJ KNEWJACK (providing the tunes between bands):

(click to checkout DJ KnewJack's newest MixTape-

"Behold the Spartacus")

Come Party with our favorite Birthday Girl!

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FoundTrack's favorite birthday girl, Marchelle from BFT is having a fiesta with the Awesometown folks tomorrow night. Come get crazy with us! 10pm Wednesday June 11th at the Short Stop 1455 W. Sunset Blvd, Echo Park.

* $3 Dewars all night!
* Photos by ShadowScene!
* DJs Dan Sena, Jasepi, GMO, and Josh(UA).
* Marchelle!
* Us!
* You!
* (what more could you need!?!)

For more Bedtime For Toys and Marchelle goodness, listen to FoundTrack's June '08 MixTape.

New Bedtime for Toys music video - "Cold Fever"

FoundTrack Amigos Bedtime for Toys (the kickass party rockers that they are) have just premiered their new music video to "Cold Fever" directed by Timothy Garrett... be cool and check it out. I want their outfits from the shoot:



Bedtime for Toys Myspace

FoundTrack vs Coachella ... 1 Week Later

Here are a few photos and favorite moments from FoundTrack's excursion to Coachella- We know we're a week late, but it's taken us that long to recover...

(DJ KnewJack and his new friend playing at the Corona Yacht Club)

DJ KnewJack's top moments:
* "Rocking out to 'Living in America' and slugging down fruit punch Gatorade vodkas like it was 1995..."
* "Not being able to feel my legs after 2 blisteringly badass hours of losing my mind watching Prince"
* "Runner up... Anthem Party = Hedonistic madness- coulda stayed there all day. They shoulda played some hip hop though!"

(Anthem Pool Party Madness)

(Styles G programming the FoundTrackMobile's top secret super computer)

Styles G's top moments:
* "Prince. He 'seperated the men from the boys' (that's a technical Rock n' Roll term)"
* "Purple pleasure cruisin' with Bright Orange Sirens" - more on that to come...
* "$10,000 for an inflatable pig shorn to pieces? God Bless America!"

(Purple Prince People Eater)

(Marchelle modeling our primary source of nourishment for the weekend)

Marchelle from Bedtime for Toys' top moments:
* "Searching for Styles in various locales"
* "Sleeping under the desert stars listening to Portishead while trying to forget the imminent threat of being stepped on by a hippie or hipster"
* "Posing with KnewJack and 2 donkey pinatas miming a sex act at the Anthem Party"

(who says the donkey show only happens in Tijuana?)

(NWA hat and "Boobs on Patrol" t-shirt... I'D kill for either of those)

Nasty Nass' top moments:
* "Asking Bijou Phillips to take a picture of US at the Spin Party"
* "Taking a photo with the donkey at the Anthem Party"
* "taking chances eating lunch at a Salvadorian strip mall restaurant, but learning you won when they're playing old episodes of Yo MTV Raps"

(photo by Bijou Phillips)

(V modeling the sunglasses he sweet talked Megan the bartender at the Fader / Boosted party into lending him)

V's top moments:
* "Being smuggled OUT of the Filter Party in the back of a pickup with three other random derelicts..."
* "Commandeering the paddle boat at the Smurf Village/BPM Party" (more photos here)
* "Portishead, M.I.A., and the being totally high on life and seeing a giant pig fly by after being kidnapped by Amanda ..."

(crazy ass M.I.A. visuals)

(random girlies who climbed the rafters to get a better view of M.I.A.)

(The FoundTrackmobile - with fully operational sirens and scrolling message marquee for speedy parking exits)

(pigs CAN fly... at least giant graffiti inflatable ones can)

(Wallpaper, once again rocking the house- this time at the Filter Party)

(sometimes we forget what we're actually at Coachella for- the tunes, the tunes, the tunes)

(the fabulous life- lounging at the Fader/Boosted House)

See the FULL GALLERY in the slideshow at the bottom of this post:

** SPECIAL THANKS to:
* Jose from Indie 103.1 (and Coachella birthday boy) for giving us the heads up on the Spin Magazine party
* Amanda for kidnapping me to see Roger Waters on Sunday night
* Margaret for trying to leave the ticket at will call
* The random guys in the pickup truck that smuggled Styles and I out of the riot at the Filter Party
* Mommy dearest for using her mad hookups to make sure Styles and I didn't end up as squatters on Thursday night
* Boosted, 55DSL, Skull Candy, and Better Bacon for the headphones and t-shirts with the hot designs on them. (All you LA people can checkout Boosted and 55DSL's stuff over at Barracuda)
* The amazing Hispanic lady at the Boosted party that cooked up the most phenomenal carne asada and guacamole we've ever had
* Ohara for hooking us up w his friend at Music Loves Fashion, where consequently my little brother ended up partying a lot longer than I did
* Cheyne (C-town) for waving us into the ridiculously over-capacity Anthem Party
* Jiro for putting up w hundreds of drunk people wanting to have him take a picture of them with his donkey
* Valida for playing non-hipster essentials at said party
* Jazzy for not flaking ;)~
* Shehan for being our honorary Ticketmaster operator when we found out they released more tickets for Saturday (Portishead and Prince day)

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL GALLERY

Bedtime for Toys w Wallpaper Cinespace Tuesdays 2/12/08 Photos

Bedtime for Toys and special opening act Wallpaper both totally killed it last night at Dim Mak's Cinespace Tuesdays. Checkout a few highlights in this slideshow, and find a link to the entire album on the bottom of this post:



Full Photo Album Here

BedTime for Toys Show @ Cinespace Tuesdays !!! Tues 2/12

Hola LA People:

Come checkout FoundTrack Friends Bedtime For Toys as they headline Steve Aoki and Dim Mak's tuesday night party at Cinespace! The band goes on at midnight and there's an open vodka bar from 10-11pm so make sure to get there early.

These guys and they're hybrid rock/hiphop/electro sound annihilate it on stage... and so does their wicked sense of style. RSVP for $5 cover at partyline@dimmak.com

Checkout this little featurette from VIMBY: