After spending the better part of 2012 touring in support of our new record Twenty-Five for the Rest of Our Lives, we, The Henry Clay People, are thrilled to announce that we are teaming up with the Songs For Kids Foundation, along with our buddies at ConsequenceOfSound.
net, Buzzbands.la, Origami Vinyl, Moheak Radio, and FILTER, to bring you a very special December Residency at The Satellite.

There are several reasons to celebrate:

1. This marks 10 years since the earliest incarnation of when the The HCP started bringing its brand of bratty indie rock to drunken college parties at UCSB. Since then we have played hundreds of shows
throughout North America. Southern California has always been our home. Suburban born and bred.

2. Songs For Kids, a charitable organization that sends indie rocker types to perform at Children's Hospitals throughout the country, will be on hand every week to talk about what they do and how you can
get involved in making a difference. Several members of the band have worked or volunteered for the organization. Songs For Kids is a wonderful organization and we believe in what they do.

3. The Henry Clays will be recording a LIVE ALBUM throughout the month.

4. You can pre-order the live album simply by donating whatever you want to the Songs For Kids Foundation at songsforkidsfoundation.org and keep a copy of the receipt. Or you can wait for the live album to be released in early 2013, at which point we’ll be donating the proceeds to Songs For Kids.

5. The first 3 shows (12/3, 12/10, 12/17) are FREE!

6. The last show is on New Years Eve and is only $10. The Henry Clay People have a rich history of ringing in the new year at The Satellite with an always rowdy post-midnight covers set. Audience participation strongly encouraged.

7. On 12/10 we’ll be doing an all HCP request set. Email requests to thehenryclaypeople@gmail.com

8. This will be end of drummer Eric Scott's 10 year tenure in the band. He will move on to pursue a career in architecture full time.

9. The lineups feature some of the best local bands and comedians that LA has to offer.

This residency marks the end of an era for the HCP. We will be taking some time off after these shows to regroup, reevaluate, and catch up on some much needed sleep. We want to thank everyone who has
helped us out over the past ten years: all the bands, all the folks at the shows, all the people who have shared their floor space. You are all Henry Clay People. We feel extremely lucky that we got to turn our little rock and roll hobby into a full-time thing. It was a complete accident but a very happy accident and we remain eternally grateful for the adventure.

So Many Wizards, a dynamic four piece from Los Angeles, has been causing a stir with furious live performances and a sound that Aquarium Drunkard describes as an “enigmatic blend of pop, rock, ballads, and zany nuggets” that come together to form “a cohesive whole.” The band started as the solo project of Nima Kazerouni, who crafted the first So Many Wizards songs to cope with his anxiety after a childhood that began with an escape from war-torn Iran and took him through Europe, South America, and a month in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica before landing him in LA. On the strength of his debut EP, Tree,Kazerouni found a community of musicians at famed underground venues like the Smell and Pehrspace and recruited a band of scene veterans including Erik Felix, Geoff Geis, and Frank Maston. As a four-piece, the band has become a centerpiece of LA’s vibrant DIY scene, recently representing the “new class” at the Smell’s sold out 14th Anniversary show with Best Coast and Abe Vigoda. A staple of Southern California college radio since the 2009 release of “Fly a Kite,” So Many Wizards earned airplay on BBC 1 with the 2011 single “Inner City” and was subsequently invited to tour the UK in March of 2012.

Future Ghost is a Los Angeles based band that formed in early 2008. From the first jam session in a Silverlake apartment, they knew this was the beginning of a long lasting and incredibly loud relationship.
Future Ghost songs pulse with emotion and rigorous tension. Lead singer, Brandon Tomas' often harsh delivery are completed with bassist, Kim Hellweg's ghostly harmonies. With swirling guitar riffs, growling bass, and a pulverizing drum cadence from Brandon Hardy, their sound is loud and gritty, while maintaining a certain hypnotic quality.
Future Ghost has shared the stage with many established Los Angeles bands like Dead Sara, Pyyramids, White Arrows, NO, Youngblood Hawke, Vanaprasta, and after bombastic performances at the 2011 Silverlake Jubilee Festival and the 2012 Echo Park Rising Festival, Future Ghost are on their way to conquering the LA music scene and beyond.
After three years of honing their style, gigging, writing and recording, Future Ghost will unveil their first full-length album "Missing Teen," produced by Pete Lyman (No Age, Abe Vigoda, Waaves) at Infrasonic Sound in Los Angeles.
The record will take you back to what you miss most about the 90s and punk rock. Fans have compared the band to The Pixies, Pavement, Fugazi and even Nirvana. The record is filled with unforgettable melodies stemming from the heart-on-your-sleeve vocals and hooky, thrashing guitar lines that are all embraced by its heavy rhythms and punchy bass lines.

The projected release date for the album is Fall 2012.