Sextile- “Modern Weekend” and “Contortion”
Sextile are playing two shows at Lodge Room in Los Angeles on Friday and Saturday (7/15 and 7/16/22).
Sextile- “Modern Weekend” and “Contortion”
Sextile are playing two shows at Lodge Room in Los Angeles on Friday and Saturday (7/15 and 7/16/22).
Alexis Taylor- Beautiful Thing
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/7- 6/10/18)-
Thursday
Artist Andrea Fraser will be at the Hammer Museum discussing her book 2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics, about the intersection of electoral politics in the form of donations and private-nonprofit art institutions
Prism Tats are opening for Maps & Atlases at Lodge Room
Chris Cohen is playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Hand Habits and Shannon Lay opening
MOCA Grand Avenue’s store is having a book launch and signing for curator and author Charlotte Cotton’s Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self, MOCA Grand Avenue is hosting a free lecture with artist Dianna Molzan, and it’s free to check out the exhibitions at the museum
King Tuff is playing at the Teragram Ballroom
Wooden Shjips are playing at the Bootleg Theater
Friday
Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip is playing at the Troubadour with Annie Hart opening
LACE is hosting MexiCali Biennial Launch/CALAFIA, a two day performance centered series that will continue at various venues across California and Mexico throughout 2018-2019
Downtown Dark Nights at LA Live returns with $5 food and drink deals at the restaurants, local artisans and vendors, performances, live painting, music and more
BRONCHO are playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Howlin’ Rain
Chaos Chaos are playing at The Echo with Tangerine and Slut Island opening
Saturday
Photographer Shaniqwa Jarvis will be signing her book at Arcana Books
Mix poetry and cocktails at LAXART’s I Heart Poetry and Day Drinking, with poets Amy Gerstler and Ariana Reines
Jeremy Enigk is playing at the Troubadour with Chris Staples opening
LACMA is having a Dapper Day event with docent tours of David Hockney: 82 Portraits, a free film screening of MONDO Hollywood (but make a reservation), music and dancing, and a Dapper Day marketplace
A Place to Bury Strangers are playing at The Regent Theater with SEXTILE and Prettiest Eyes
The Records and The Automatics are playing with Color TV and Smokescreens at The Redwood Bar
Saturday and Sunday
LA Pride returns to WeHo for their annual event- on Saturday Kehlani will be headlining the musical performances, and the parade is on Sunday with Tove Lo headlining the musical performances that evening
Sunday
Head to Union Station to check out the last day (it starts Thursday) of artist Alexa Meade’s interactive art installation and add your own contribution to the work
Business of Dreams, D.A. Stern, and nunofyrbeeswax are playing at The Redwood Bar
The Goon Sax are playing with Patience, French Vanilla and Lunch Lady at the Echoplex
Thursday-Sunday
LA Design Festival is hosting talks, installations, and events around Los Angeles, most of them free, some requiring RSVP
Shannon Lay- Asa
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/11-1/14/18)-
Thursday
Shannon Lay is opening for Ablebody and So Many Wizards at The Hi Hat
MOCA Grand Avenue and LA Film Forum are hosting the film screening- Estrellas de Ayer: Latin Camp– “a new constellation of Latina/o American fascination with Hollywood starlets: José Rodríguez Soltero’s classic Lupe (1966); the celebration of decadentism in the Colombian film Pasión y Muerte de Margarita Gautier (1964), by Enrique Grau & Luís Ernesto Arocha; and other films that pay homage to Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Lupe Vélez, replete with campy nods to the star system” ($15)
The LA Art Show opened yesterday and continues today until Sunday
The LA Launch Party for Oral History Project’s Women of Rock is tonight at Zebulon with live performances and discussion panels with artists that include Phranc, Neon Music, Alice Bag, Patty Schemel and more
Poet Srikanth Reddy will be giving a free reading and book signing at Hammer Museum
Luna are playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Big Mother Gig opening
Friday
Artist Carolina Caycedo will be speaking as part of a participatory book launch/event at LACMA that begins in the exhibition A Universal History of Infamy, and includes performances by Marina Magalhães, Isis Avalos, and Samad Raheem Guerra (free)
Sextile are playing at The Hi Hat with Flat Worms and Warm Drag opening
The Egyptian Theatre is showing a double feature of The Florida Project and Shadow of the Vampire with a discussion in between the films with Willem Dafoe
Emily Wells is playing at the Bootleg Theater with Haunted Summer opening
Red Aunts are playing with The Lamps and Des Roar at The Echo
Saturday
Sadly, gallery and event space Machine Project is closing its doors- for their final event they are having a print sale from 2-6pm, followed by a closing party with beer and surprise performances
The Bookstore at MAF is hosting a reading with writers Alissa Bennett and John Marr- Bennett will share two of her essays about dead celebrities and Marr will read from his work chronicling tragic accidents (both will be signing their respective zines after)
Neon Indian and Holy Ghost! are playing DJ sets with Gigamesh at Exchange LA
American Culture are playing with Plague Survivor at Zebulon
Sunday
The California African American Museum is hosting an all day symposium to mark the closing of the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85- with opening remarks by Alison Saar honoring her mother Betye Saar and Samella Lewis, Faith Ringgold in conversation with her daughter Michele Wallace, a workshop, a performance, a closing reception and more (free but register)
White Magic are opening for Linda Perhacs at Zebulon
Big Boi is playing at The Regent Theater with The Cool Kids opening
No Win are opening for Teenage Faces at The Hi Hat
Justus Proffit and The She’s are opening for Potty Mouth at the Bootleg Theater
All Weekend
The Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA has numerous performances happening throughout the weekend at REDCAT (many of them free)
dineL.A. is back for its winter edition and runs until 1/26
My Goodness- Islands
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/13-7/16)-
Thursday
My Goodness are playing at Resident with Al Lover
LSD & The Search for God are headlining the Mad Alchemy Liquid Lighting Tour at the Bootleg Theater with a list of bands that includes The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Jesus Sons and Dream Phases
Hammer Museum’s music night Rebel Rebel continues this week with Niia and SPELLES (free)
LACMA is screening an episode of Preacher that includes a conversation with writers/executive producers Sam Catlin, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg (free)
MOCA Grand Avenue and the Los Angeles Filmforum are showing Alexandra Cuesta’s film Territorio, an experimental film about the people of Ecuador, with Cuesta present for the screening ($15)
Sextile, Flat Worms, Crush, and Glaare are playing at Zebulon
Friday
Getty Museum’s Friday Flights program includes artist Molly Surno presenting We of Me, a performance featuring Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs; LA artist collective Institute for New Feeling presenting a site specific project, and there will be music by Sun Araw
Lonely Hearts Ball at the Teragram Ballroom has Pity Party, The Red Pears, Jurassic Shark, and The Beach Bums playing
Natural History Museum’s Summer Nights in the Garden returns with cocktails, music, science and nature activities, and more (free)
For tonight’s part of Nonplussed Fest at Zebulon, Pink Mountaintops will be playing with Joe Cardamone and Annie Hardy opening
DJ Nights returns to Grand Park, this time curated by Monalisa (free)
Saturday
The Agenda Festival is happening in Long Beach with pop up shops, art installations, panel discussions and performances by Tyler the Creator, Ludacris and more
KP Projects is having an opening reception for their exhibition of Vivian Maier photographs (RSVP essential)
Dead Heavens are playing at Resident with ÆGES
The outdoor movie in Griffith Park near the Autry Museum this week is The Sandlot
Nonplussed Fest at Zebulon continues with HOTT MT and Vinyl Williams
Palm are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Palberta and Shit Giver
Sunday
Artist Sam Durant will be in conversation with Timothy Phillips of Beyond Conflict at Art Catalogues at LACMA, with a book signing to follow (free)
The Lotus Festival returns to Echo Park Lake with Bangladesh as the host country this year and activities that include a dragon boat race, music, performances and more (free, also on Saturday)
The Rock N Roll Flea Market returns to The Regent Theater (free)
Independent Shakespeare Co.’s version of Measure for Measure is on at Griffith Park (free, Wed.-Sunday 7/23)
Surf Curse- All is Lost
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/12-1/15/17)-
Thursday
The theme of the main exhibition for tonight’s Downtown LA Artwalk is “We the People” and check out Indoek’s 27 Frames Art Show, Silent Auction and after party at Think Tank Gallery (free)
Pearl Charles of The Blank Tapes is headlining a night of bands at The Echo that includes Big Search, GospelbeacH, and Golden Daze
MOCA Curatorial Assistant Rebecca Matalon is leading a walk through of Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady? on MOCA Grand Ave’s free night and/or check out the last week of Doug Aitken’s exhibition Electric Earth at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (also free tonight)
Photo LA begins at The Reef (and runs through Sunday, with discounted tickets on Goldstar)
And so does the LA Art Show at the Los Angeles Conventions center
Friday
Surf Curse are playing at the El Rey Theatre with Palm Reader and BOYO
iam8bit gallery and Everything is Terrible! are hosting a free opening party for The Jerry Maguire Video Store, a recreation of a video store except with every video being Jerry Maguire. Check here for additional ticketed performances during the show’s run from tonight until 1/29
DineLA begins and runs through 1/27
The Regrettes are having an album release party at The Echo with Dog Party and Starcrawler
Mike Watt and The Secondmen are playing with DIEGROUP at The Redwood Bar
Potty Mouth are headlining a free show at The Hi Hat with Lindsay B, Fast Friends, and Justus Proffitt
Foxes Magazine is hosting a night of Elvis tributes at The Satellite with a long list of bands that includes The Blank Tapes and Veronica Bianqui
Saturday
Trajal Harrell will be performing a customized version of his dance piece Judson Church Is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure) / Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church in the Hammer Museum courtyard (free, also on Sunday)
Geneva Jacuzzi, Sextile, L.A. Drones, Egrets on Ergot and Second Still are playing at HM157
The Aero Theatre is showing Bob Fosse’s classic film Cabaret
Purity Ring is doing a DJ set for Exchange LA’s Inception night
Sunday
Regen Projects is hosting a conversation between artist Theaster Gates and Hamza Walker, executive director of LAXART
Head to LACMA to experience Ana Prvacki’s Tent, quintet, bows and elbows, “a sculpture, a sound piece, and a performance”. It will be activated at 4:15 with a conversation and book signing to follow. (free)
Comedy collective Power Violence are at The Satellite with guests that include Pete Holmes and band Roses
Tennis System- Here We Go
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (12/15-12/18/16)
Thursday
Tennis System are playing at Non Plus Ultra with Gateway Drugs and Second Still
LACMA is having a free screening of As You Are which includes a conversation with writer and director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, actor Owen Campbell, producer Brent Stiefel, and producer Justin Lothrop
The Bootleg Theater is having a benefit for the victims of the Ghost Ship fire with bands Sextile, Everyone is Dirty, TV Heads and Psychic Jiu Jitsu
Friday
The Music Center is having a free Holiday Sing-a-Long with lyric sheets provided and a live accompaniment
The Glow Battle Tour is taking place in Pershing Square- it’s free to attend but they are selling 6 color glow swords for $10 with part of the proceeds going to the victims of the Oakland Ghost Ship Warehouse fire
Alamo Drafthouse and Non Plus Ultra are having a two day event featuring the L.A. premiere of Goodnight Brooklyn, a documentary on the now closed Brooklyn venue Death By Audio. Tonight includes “L.A. DIY State of The Union” a Q&A panel with Jim Smith (The Smell), Pauline Lay (Pehrspace), Sean Carnage (Pehrspace, Il Corral), Max Baumgarten (Basic Flowers), Randy Randall (No Age), Matt Conboy (director, Goodnight Brooklyn) and more.
Echo Park Film Center is hosting the Nihilist International Film Festival
The Dandy Warhols are playing at the Fonda Theatre with Telegram and Warbly Jets
Saturday
James Supercave are playing with SWIMM at the Troubadour
There is a murder mystery/ scavenger hunt at the Getty Museum ($22 per person with recommended teams of 3+)
The second part of Non Plus Utra’s event (see Friday’s listing) includes a screening of Goodnight Brooklyn, filmmaker Q&A, and live sets by Flat Worms and CFM
Echo Park Film Center is having a free screening of It’s A Wonderful Life
Kim and the Created are playing with The Paranoyds, Sadgirl, and Espresso at the Teragram Ballroom
Sunday
Michéle Lamy will be discussing the her husband Rick Owens’ new furniture exhibition (currently at MOCA Pacific Design Center) with Helen Molesworth at the West Hollywood Council Chambers (free)
The Joey Altruda Trio are playing a tribute to A Charlie Brown Christmas for Grand Performances (free)
Peach Kelli Pop, French Vanilla, Post-Life, Janelane, and Mo Dotti are playing a show at The Smell
The Depressed Cake Shop is having a bake sale at The Hive Gallery to benefit the Los Angeles LGBT Center
Girl Tears are opening for Ghost Noise at Union Nightclub
Deep Fields- Salazar
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/3-11/6/16)-
Thursday
Saint Motel are at Amoeba Hollywood for a free performance and album signing
Drink craft beer and make your own felt beer cozy at the Craft and Folk Art Museum ($10 includes materials, drinks and snacks)
Artist Amie Siegel is giving a lecture at the Hammer Museum
The lecture this week at MOCA Grand Avenue is The Idea of Oceans, with Scott Bolton, principal investigator of NASA’s Juno mission; Shawn Heinrichs, filmmaker and activist; Greg Long, big wave surfer; and artist Doug Aitken; moderated by Cyrill Gutsch, founder of Parley for the Oceans (free)
Bobcat Goldthwait is hosting the a 25th Anniversary screening of his directorial debut Shakes The Clown at the Regent Theater with a Q & A to follow
Goldroom and Autograf are playing at The Novo
Friday
Deep Fields are playing with Yeesh at Non Plus Ultra
The Getty is showing Derek Jarman’s Blue outdoors in their garden terrace (free but $10-15 parking and advanced ticket required)
Miss Kittin is part of a show at a secret location with Adana Twins
Union Station is hosting a free screening of the film noir classic Criss Cross
The New Beverly Cinema is showing the Academy Award winning film The Deer Hunter
Saturday
Wild Beasts are playing with Porcelain Raft at the El Rey Theatre
For the closing of Marnie Weber’s solo exhibition at GAVLAK Los Angeles, she will be performing with visual artist and experimental musician Daniel Hawkins as well as costumed birds (free)
Primal Scream are playing at the Regent Theater with Death Valley Girls opening
There are still tickets available for Stones Throw Super Fest ft. Common, Peanut Butter Wolf, MNDSGN, Chrome Canyon and more, as part of Red Bull Sound Select’s 30 Days in LA
From Indian Lakes are playing with Made Violent and Wild Wild Horses at The Echo
Saturday and Sunday
There are still tickets available for ComplexCon in Long Beach. The concert lineup includes Skrillex, Kid Cudi, Metro Boomin, Snoop Dogg, and 2 Chainz. There are also art installations, vendors, and speakers including Vince Staples, DJ Mustard, Pete Rock, Ilana Glazer, Ice Cube, Angie Martinez, Lil B, Mike Judge, Pharell Williams and many more big names speaking on panels for different issues.
Sunday
It’s the last day to see Pat Graney’s Girl Gods dance performance at REDCAT which looks pretty incredible (tickets available 11/3-11/6)
Peach Kelli Pop and Upset are opening for The Regrettes at The Echo
The Rock N Roll Flea Market returns to the Regent Theater for its free monthly event
Sextile are playing with Bootblacks, Liste Noire and Second Still at Complex in Glendale
Deep Fields are playing with Avi Buffalo at The Smell ($5)
All weekend
The WestEdge Design Fair is at The Barkar Hangar in Santa Monica with exhibitors, seminars and more