The sad news is that because of the pandemic Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s grounds are closed for its annual Día de Los Muertos Festival.
The good news is that they are having a Día de los Muertos event online today at noon! It’s hosted by Fernanda Kelly and includes performances by David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez of Los Lobos, Buyepongo, and Tropa Magica.
Bee Bee Sea- D.I. Why Why Why
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/26-7/29/18)-
Thursday
As part of Hammer Museum and KCRW’s Summer Concert series, tonight Cut Chemist will be performing with Buyepongo
LACMA is screening Edward Yang’s film Yi Yi ($7)
Thurmon Green is performing free at MOCA Grand Avenue to continue the series of Listening Sessions presented as part of Lauren Halsey: we still here, there
Send Medicine are having a record release concert at Moroccan Lounge with Tashaki Miyaki and Ramonda Hammer also playing
Avid Dancer are opening for Rainstorm Brother at the Bootleg Theater
Friday
Sleepless, The Music Center’s late night event (11:30pm-3am), returns with pop up dance performances, a virtual reality experience, a molecular gastronomy lab, DJ sets, art installations, musical performances and more ($20 advance/ $30 at the door)
Roger Guenveur Smith’s Frederick Douglass Now is a free solo movement and performance taking place as part of Grand Performances and featuring Lulu Washington and percussionist Marcus Miller
Billy Changer, Healing Gems, Pancho & The Wizards and The Gnars are playing at The Smell
VOWWS are playing at Resident with Second Still, Creux Lies and Shitgiver
Saturday
Bee Bee Sea are playing Dirty Water Records night at Zebulon with The Darts, The Atom Age And Mean Motor Scooter
Artist John Houck will be at the Hammer Museum to discuss the work of Christina Quarles, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, and Nancy Lupo that is included in the exhibition Made in L.A. 2018, of which he is also a part
Arcana Books is having a book signing and conversation with artist Simone Shubuck (and there will be cake!)
The Broad’s Summer Happenings series continues with an evening inspired by Joseph Beuys and the Fluxus movement, with performances by Matmos, EYE, Pharmakon, FlucT, Total Freedom, and Nelson Patton with Lonnie Holley ($30)
For the last of Resident’s free summer concert series, FEELS will be performing
Ain’t I A Womxn?A Genders Promenade is Freewaves’ free event taking place in LA State Historic Park featuring 20 independent artists and 10 art collectives that aims to explore intersectional identities with performance art, spoken word, sonic art, media projections and zines
Chastity are opening for Mourn at the Bootleg Theater
Sunday
X-Tra is having a Summer Issue Launch and Sketchy Garden Party at Hauser & Wirth (drawing and pens will be provided along with refreshments-all free)
Airiel, Tennis System, and Topographies are playing at the Echoplex
At ICA LA for the opening of Maryam Jafri’s exhibition I Drank the Kool-Aid but I Didn’t Inhale, ICA Curator Jamillah James and Maryam Jafri will discuss “her process using research and interdisciplinary approaches to make work of conceptual inquiry on such perennial subjects as consumer culture, representation, economics, and politics” (free but RSVP)
Street and graffiti artist Eric ” KING CRE8″ Walker is giving a free workshop in drawing fonts and elements used in graffiti and street art at The California African American Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Charting the Terrain (free but register)
The Hidden Depths and The Hurricanes are opening for Santoros at the Bootleg Theater
Rostam- Gwan
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/14-9/17/17)-
Thursday
Rostam from Vampire Weekend has a new album out and to celebrate he will be performing a free set at Amoeba Records in Hollywood
Tonight’s Downtown Art Walk will focus on LA Street Artists in the Art Walk Lounge
To mark the opening of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, MOCA Grand Ave will re-present Anna Maria Maiolino’s performance piece Entrevidas in conjunction with the exhibition Anna Maria Maiolino. Maiolino will perform the work. (free)
Daryl Hall & John Oates are playing with Tears for Fears at the Staples Center (also Friday)
Friday
James Supercave is playing at the Teragram Ballroom with The Seshen
Enjoy a kid free night at the LA Zoo’s Roaring Nights, which also has bands, DJs, “special animal encounters” and more (check Goldstar for discount tix)
Frankie and the Witch Fingers are having a record release party at The Echo with POW! and The Mad Walls opening
The Church are playing at the Fonda Theatre with The Helio Sequence opening
Golden Animals, decker., The Astronots, and Joy Downer are playing at The Hi Hat
Together Pangea are playing with Tall Juan, Side Eyes and Daddy Issues at the El Rey Theatre
Saturday
The free 2nd Annual Open Arts and Music Festival is in Downtown Glendale with bands that include Run River North, DUCKWRTH, and Buyepongo plus art installations and an art market
Black Kids are playing with Seratones and LondonBridge at the Echoplex
Hammer Museum is having a free party to celebrate the opening of Radical Women, with galleries open late, performances,live music by Jungle Fire, DJ sets by Chulita Vinyl Club, and a cash bar (RSVP here)
Street Food Cinema’s outdoor movie in Poinsettia Rec Park is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
L7: Pretend That We’re Dead, the documentary about the band, is screening at the Regent Theater with a meet and greet with the band to follow
Tristen is playing an early show at Resident with Jenny O. opening
Sunday
For Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA’s Launch Weekend, several museums and art institutions are free in and around LA, Santa Barbara, the Inland Cities and San Diego
Tijuana Panthers, Slothrust, Mourn, and Dude York are playing at the Regent Theater
Café Tacvba, La Santa Cecilia, and Mon Laferte are playing at the Hollywood Bowl
Oddisee & Good Compny are playing at The Echo with SALES and LVL UP
Day Wave- Something Here
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/4-5/7/17)-
Thursday
Day Wave is giving a free in-store performance at Amoeba Records with a record signing to follow
Hammer Museum is having a free screening of Do Not Resist, a documentary on the militarization of American police, with a discussion to follow with Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors
MOCA Senior Curator Bennett Simpson is leading a walk-through of the current Carl Andre exhibition at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (free and free entrance to the museum)
The Stevenson Ranch Davidians are playing a free show at Harvard & Stone
Avec Sans are playing at Resident with Fiona Grey
Friday
To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, Hecho in LA: Taco Madness & Micheladas is taking place at La Plaza de Culturas y Artes downtown, with DJs and live art to go along with the food and drink (free and 21+)
LACMA is having a free screening of an episode of the series Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, with a conversation with Bourdain to follow
Chico Mann & Captain Planet, Buyepongo, and QUITAPENAS are performing at the Natural History Museum as part of their First Friday event (and Cinco de Mayo)
The New Beverly is showing a double feature of Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Richard Compton’s Macon County Line
Saturday
Los Angeles Family School is having its daytime Spring Fair 2017 with live music by Moby, The Pop Ups and Freedom Fry
The Eclectic Festival is taking place in Pasadena with an art walk and music that includes OZOMATLI and Irene Diaz (free)
Photographer Robert Herman is giving a lecture at Annenberg Space for Photography on how to self publish a book from start to finish ($15 for lecture only/$50 plus signed book/ $75 book and 20 minute private consultation)
Oddisee and Good Compny are performing at the Regent Theater
The Glitch Mob are playing a DJ set at Exchange LA with Nosaj Thing
Paul Bergmann is headlining a show at The Echo with Bart Davenport and Dimber performing
Sunday
The Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre is having two free site specific dance performance for The 1988 series: Punctuation Station, at Westfield Culver City, and includes a public discussion after (reservation required)
It’s probably a good time to check out the Artists Political Action Network who are having a meeting on Sunday with a voter registration to follow at the American Legion in Highland Park (if you miss this one, meetings are on the first Sunday of every month)
LAXART Executive Director and Curator, Hamza Walker and MOCA Senior Curator Bennett Simpson, will be discussing the Maximalist work of Jason Rhoades at Hauser & Wirth (free but registration recommended)
This is the last night of Feist’s three night visit to the Palace Theatre and at this writing, it’s the only night with pairs of tickets left