We are very proud to announce the first ever Check Yo' Ponytail National Tour (as reported via Pitchfork)! The tour will include Spank Rock, Big Freedia, The Death Set, Pictureplane and Franki Chan! Tickets will go on sale Tomorrow in the a.m. EXCLUSIVELY through www.checkyoponytail.com!!

This is what Pitchfork had to say: "Check Yo Ponytail 2 is a monthly Los Angeles-based party run by scene magnates Franki Chan (IHEARTCOMIX), Danny Johnson (Media Contender), and Zane Landreth. (The original Check Yo Ponytail ran from 2006-2008.) This fall, that party is taking it to the next level with a North American tour featuring Spank Rock, Pictureplane, the Death Set, Big Freedia, and Chan. The dates and scheduled appearances are below.

More to come!

Check Yo Ponytail Tour Dates:

10-20 Los Angeles, CA - The Mayan $
10-21 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine $
10-22 San Diego, CA - Voyeur *
10-25 Denver, CO - Summit $
10-26 Portland, OR - Branx $
10-27 Seattle, WA - Neumos $
10-28 Chicago, IL - The Mid %
10-29 New York, NY - Brooklyn Bowl #
11-05 Miami, FL - Grand Central ^
11-06 Austin, TX - Fun Fun Fun Fest ^

$ with Secret Headliner, Big Freedia, the Death Set, Pictureplane, and Franki Chan
% with Spank Rock, Secret Guest, The Death Set, Pictureplane, and Franki Chan
# with Spank Rock, Big Freedia, the Death Set, Pictureplane, and Franki Chan
* with Secret Guest, Big Freedia, Pictureplane, and Franki Chan
^ with Spank Rock, Big Freedia, Pictureplane, and Franki Chan

Late last year I created a Video Art piece for Scion A/V. I took a bunch of footage from when I went to high school in Okinawa, Japan and edited it together into a montage of my youth, but I added a twist. Through the magic of modern tech, I went through and added some animation and score to change the feel and reality of what had come before...

Check out this Interview with me about the making ofthe video. Throughout you get to see a large portion of the project:

Scion Installation 7 Interview: Franki Chan from Scion ART on Vimeo.

Also, SCION A/V is doing a tour to showcase the video series (several other artists made their own videos as well). The next date in this tour in June 4 in MINNEAPOLIS. I will personally be in attendance. If you or someone you know live in MN, please let them know or come!

CLICK ON THE FLYER TO RSVP!

VIEW THE TRAILER FOR THE EVENT HERE:

Scion Installation 7: Video / Minneapolis, MN from Scion ART on Vimeo.

BROOKLYN! This SAT make sure not to miss the opening of SCION INSTALLATION TOUR 7 to check out my video art piece! It's a doozy! Oh, there's some other artists too! ;) Check out the video here and click the flyer to RSVP!

Scion Installation 7: Video / Brooklyn NY from Scion ART on Vimeo.

We're proud to announce our big after hours party we are doing in AUSTIN, TX during SXSW with FOOL'S GOLD RECORDS entitled: PAST YO' BEDTIME!

On FRI and SAT nights MARCH 18 & 19 we will be teaming up to do 2 star-studded after hours parties at a secret location full of all the ingredients you've come to expect from both IHEARTCOMIX and FOOL'S GOLD. While so much of what is going to happen is still under wraps, I can guarantee you one thing, it's going to be tons of fun!

In order to get the full info of Lineup and Address, you MUST RSVP! You can do that HERE!

MAKE SURE NOT TO MISS OUR SHOWCASE THURS @ BEAUTY BAR AS WELL!

OR MOBY'S VEGAN BBQ!!

CHECK YO' PONYTAIL 2 is proud to announce our latest show: the awaited return of SEEFEEL! On JULY 5 Seefeel will be coming to LA for the first time in over a decade. These pioneers sent ripples through the musical landscape that we are feeling very much today, even here in LA. See below for a full bio and video and make sure to get your tickets ASAP!

GET YOUR TICKETS HERE

From the band's website:

In the heady days of the early-1990s, a wave of intrepid young bands made some unexpected connections between their post-punk approach to music, the exultant electronic reverberations from the early days of Acid House and the sonic sculptures crafted by classic producers like Phil Spector. As these sounds coalesced, Spector’s vaunted “Wall Of Sound” would be a handy touchstone for the immersive latticework of distortion and melody that would be off-handedly labeled later as “shoegaze”.

Even amongst a quasi-movement as loosely defined and musically divergent as this, Seefeel emerged as the black sheep. Conceived by Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock, Seefeel immediately amalgamated electronics in ways most of their peers in traditional bands would never dream of, these sounds fused deeply with guitar, drums and bass into urgent melodic waves that on early releases like Quique and Succour oscillated between hopefulness, introspection and downright menace. As Warp co-founder Steve Beckett says, “Seefeel were the first band that Warp signed who had guitars – they were brave to sign to us because they became the ‘older siblings’ in the family and took all the flak by breaking the unwritten rules of an (up until then) purely dance label. After 1995’s ‘Succour’ they stopped performing live, but we always kept in touch and then for the first Warp20 show in Paris we asked if they would play.”

The immediate result of their live reformation in Paris was the single “Faults”, the band’s ranks now including bassist Shigeru Ishihara and former Boredoms drummer Iida Kazuhisa (aka E-Da). The band’s first release since 1996’s (CH-VOX), it proved to be a clear and welcome progression for a group that had never been predictable. Drawing on everything from gamelan and krautrock to the fringes of underground bass music, it was met with a resounding “welcome back” and an instant affinity with new peers such as Gang Gang Dance, HEALTH, Battles and Salem. Mark Clifford says of the new material, “The show in Paris really forced us to step up a couple of notches and since then, with the addition of Eda and Shige, things have developed and grown. Having two new members has really helped the dynamic of the band. Any old tensions have gone, and I feel Sarah and myself are closer than I ever felt we were in the past. Coupled with the input of our Japanese brothers there is a real dynamic, creative process that’s exciting.

Shortly after the release of the single was announced to the public, Seefeel promptly sold out London’s venerable Institute of Contemporary Arts for their first UK live show in 13 years, their last being alongside Boards Of Canada in 1997. The new material was debuted live to devastating effect. Their new rhythm section proving nothing short of a seismic addition to Mark and Sarah’s web of guitars, vocals and synths. A journalist from The Times (UK), ears certainly ringing, commented in his paper that the set was “an exhilarating collision of horror-movie noises and floor-shuddering beats… the sense-scouring intensity was hard to fault.”

Now as a new generation of young bands the world over look once again to building their own walls of sound, Seefeel stand ready again to play not only the inspired outsiders, but also the inspirational forerunners. With much talk of implied mysticism abound in music these days, Seefeel deals this out in sonic revelations. From the glacial “Not Air” to the lumbering intensity of “Dead Guitars” and the ghostly harmonics of “Faults” each step feels of deeply personal progression. Mark Clifford, “There is a real dynamic, creative process that’s exciting. I feel the music we have made for these initial releases is just the very start and we already have a number of ideas/tracks in place for future releases that I feel push our own boundaries even further. As well as this, we are growing as a live band, adding elements of improvisation and looser structures unimaginable to us a few years back, and with continued touring I’m excited to see how we develop in that direction.”

IHEARTCOMIX is proud to present our OFFICIAL SXSW SHOWCASE LINE-UP for 2011! If you're down in AUSTIN, TX for SXSW, please stop by, it's gonna be one hell of a night!

CHECK 'EM OUT!

JESSICA 6 - WHITE HORSE

QUIET LIGHTS - BREAK TROUBLE WAIT

Break Trouble Wait from Quiet Lights on Vimeo.