Dirty Snap Shots at Part Time Punks

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If you go see Blue Jungle, best to forgo the concussion

The members of Blue Jungle hail from countries all across Latin America, but they fused their sound in the party houses and warehouses of Los Angeles.
Fans of goth-rock will likely enjoy Lately Blu Blu’s childlike vocals, which echo almost eerily through each of the group’s heavily reverbed songs.
“Blue Jungle sounds like going to a garage show with a concussion, or like an Interpol/Mamas and the Papas supergroup,” says the L.A. Record, which calls itself the city’s “biggest music publication.”

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DREAM BABY DREAM

Pick up a copy of the latest “The District Weekly” (Long Beach) to read our Interview, you can also follow the link below the post to read the article.

PHOTO by ILANA SHULMAN

“We’re into the things that went bad in this world,” says Blue Jungle guitarist Cory Hurricane. When asked for an example, Hurricane first suggests Charles Manson, then himself. Hearing no objection from the rest of the band, it’s safe to assume they agree: Blue Jungle is great music about going bad. Singer Lately Blu Blu and Argentina-born guitarist Nosebleed (who also co-runs Los Angeles’ L’Keg Gallery, both a show space and art venue) first conceived Blue Jungle as a kind of gag band, originally making tongue-in-cheek goth music; but invariably the joke took over, and the label didn’t wash. Blue Jungle’s music is dark, sure, but not hopeless: for every morose, minor-key slow burner on their debut LP Baby Don’t Cry, a major sits waiting inside the next track ready to elevate your deflated spirit. (Not that they lack an excuse to be dark, evil and spooky: Hurricane and Lately Blu Blu met inside a South Central juvenile detention center before later becoming neighbors and, eventually, bandmates.)

The music they create sounds weirdly spiritual. Take, for instance, the moment the first chord is strummed on “Oh Suicide” (Baby Don’t Cry’s epiphanic opener): we’re dropped into a delirious half-realm of consciousness, fading in and out among the simultaneously desperate and dreamlike vocals of Paley King and Lately Blu Blu; euphoric church organs; and loud, punchy drums—all awash in miles and miles of echo. I like Blue Jungle for kind of the same reason I never got into Mazzy Star: energy. Where Mazzy Star excelled in lush, gorgeous dream pop, they failed in passion. Blue Jungle certainly don’t lack in that area, as exhibited on “Mean Things,” which in fact one-ups passion with aggression in the vein of bands like Gun Club, Psychedelic Furs and Rain Parade.

As tied into Los Angeles as the band is, Blue Jungle remains too ethereal for our neck of the woods. But without some fresh air, our state would suffocate. Blue Jungle resuscitates California.

The District Weekly: You started out as just two members. Now you’re six. Why keep adding?
Lately Blu Blu: So we can have more drinking buddies! We’re growing each month. Nosebleed: The real reason is ’cause we want more people on the guest list. Plus, more drink tickets! More drink tickets! Cory Hurricane: We’re so good of a band that we’re just functional.

What do you say when people call you goth?
NB: We laugh when we hear it.
LBB: I smile. We still get a kick out of it because we get shoegaze shows and all that. CH: We ask them if they’re high. We actually bring in fans from our other shows, and it’s a completely different crowd!

What’s the biggest advantage to wearing high heels on stage?
LBB: It’s great at poking eyes and stepping on people! You take ’em by surprise and step on both of their toes as hard as you can. Plus, it’s the advantage of looking good!

How did Lately and Cory end up in juvenile hall?
NB: We can’t tell you how they got in there. Sorry.
CH: Wait until the next album, though! We’re in the studio right now. There might be some songs about juvie in there.

What are your songs about?
LBB: They were about the American dream. It was more like the nasty American dream. And since Nosebleed was a part of it and the people in our band were part of this wave of immigration, we sang songs about how it’s all gonna be better. But then we realized that it’s a terrible thing, we don’t want to be a part of the American dream. Booze, sex, I guess. What else?
CH: All the difficulties of being a pervert!DREAM BABY DREAM

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Part Time Punks

Eating Diamonds.

I have a fever, I have a drill in my hand and I want to place it against my head, and wish you gone. explode into excitement, explode into tears. i know you’ll never take the needle again.

Upcoming Show

Say what you will, we’ll do what we must.

Los Angeles is burning and I can’t breath. Our mountains are on fire and my bedroom is exhausted from my sock slides.

Tomorrow we will be playing a show at our space L’KEG Gallery. This event will be special, ha before we get in our new PA system. We’re changing up alot of things in the next months to come.

2 years in the run, big deal for a small DIY space. We’re finally going to be able to give back in bigger smaller amounts.

Please join us and TRMR’s (Jungle Peeps), Okie Dokie, Leash Kids, and UV Lights on Friday Aug. 28.
$5. If you would like to be on our guestlist please email us at bluejungle@antifiesta.com

** Free wine while supplies last.

Free Downloads

We are now giving away five downloads, download em’, burn em’, share em’ and eat em’.

Miss me?

Tonight we are celebrating the release of our friends Jail Weddings “Inconvenient dreams” @ The American Legion Hall in Highland Park. Take a peek…

Now for those of you who are too lazy to come out to one of our shows (shame on you!), tune in on Wednesday the 26th at 6PM on KSPC 88.7 or www.kspc.org and check out the Blue Changos in action live.
xoxoxo
Nosebleed aka The Meaniewinnie

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