El Rey (Venue Partner)
5515 Wilshire Blvd
323.936.6400
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Akron/Family
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Saturday Aug 29, 2009 (8–11:30pm)
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- Price
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$19.50 / $20 day of show
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“Experimental freak-folkers Akron/Family have certainly evolved: what began as a wild college-rock act (see the 2006 collab with fellow experimenters Angels of Light) has become a forum for epic jams. Family may be a little more out-there than you remember, but they're as easy to love as ever.”
Rachel Brodsky, Flavorpill
Akron/Family will be celebrating the release of their new album, Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, with a very special appearance at the El Rey Theatre.
Whether it's the three members of Akron/Family (Seth Olinsky, Miles Seaton and Dana Janssen) communicating, interacting and creating with one another onstage with something like the visceral language of the classic John Coltrane or Albert Ayler ensembles, or upwards of a dozen guest musicians joining them, their live shows are becoming a thing of legend. They are a band boiling over with ideas and over the last year that has become especially apparent in a live setting -- the ever-evolving Akron/Family live ensemble has become bigger, wilder, more powerful and communal.
