Rich Brian- BALI feat. Guapdad 4000
The playlists below are made up of musical selections from bands and musicians who would have played in Los Angeles in October of 2020 if not for the COVID-19 pandemic, and others who had or were part of concerts online. This month the selections include bands that would have played Coachella as well.
And part 2-
The High Curbs- Deseo
Dan Deacon- Become A Mountain
So…a lot of events have been canceled already for this weekend due to coronavirus, including Pasadena’s ArtNight. I am listing events currently (as of this writing) still happening but please follow the links below to the event (and Twitter page if available) to confirm that it is taking place.
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (3/12-3/15/20)-
Thursday
Zebulon is showing Silver Jew Documentary, a film by Michael Tully documenting two shows by the Silver Jews in Tel Aviv and an afternoon in Jerusalem during their first-ever tour in 2006, 15 years after its founder David Berman began recording under that name. Berman passed away in August of 2019. The film is short but there will also be a selection of Silver Jews and Purple Mountains (his later band) videos. It’s a free event but donations and proceeds from this screening will benefit MusiCares, a nonprofit that has provided more than $60 million in health, financial, and rehabilitation resources to musicians in times of need.
Tamino is playing with Matt Holubowski at The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
Dry Cleaning are playing at El Cid
USA Fellow and five-time Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard will be at California African American Museum (CAAM) to discuss his legendary career and his nearly three-decades-long collaboration with director Spike Lee, with Hamza Walker, executive director of the Los Angeles nonprofit art space LAXART, moderating the conversation. (free but register)
Heart Attack Man and Better Love are opening for Knuckle Puck at The Echo
Downtown Los Angeles Artwalk returns for its monthly event with various galleries staying open late
Friday
Dan Deacon is playing at The Regent Theater with Ed Schrader’s Musical Beat, R. Clown, and Sarah Squirm
Pussy Riot are playing at 1720 with special guest Deli Girls
Yves Tumor is performing at the Fonda Theatre with Theophilus London, ECCO2K & Diana Gordon
The New Beverly has a double feature of Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz and Hong Kong action film Big Bullet
The Aero Theatre has a double feature of American Graffiti and The Outsiders
Telefon Tel Aviv is playing with Chasms at Lodge Room
Saturday
Shannon Lay is playing with Boy Scouts at Zebulon
The Strokes are playing at The Forum with King Princess and Alvvays
Burgerama 2020 is taking place at The Echo/Echoplex with a huge lineup of Burger Records bands including The Mummies, Tomorrow’s Tulips, Cosmonauts, Healing Gems, Reckling, Psychic Bloom, The Premonitions, and many more
A bit further afield at Fox Theater Pomona is Minor League Music Spring Fest with a ton of Southern California bands including Sad Park, The High Curbs, Kicked Off The Streets, Makeout Reef, Ignant Benches and more
Love is Gay Fest 2020 is taking place at the Bootleg Theater featuring Polartropica, Lucy & La Mer, WASI, Guppy and Rat Fancy
Double features continue at the Aero Theatre with Out of Sight and Jackie Brown
Sunday
HTRK are playing at the Echoplex with Dry Cleaning and OTZI opening
The Egyptian Theatre has Disarm the Right to Violence!: Recent Mexican Experimental Short Films, a selection of films produced between 2018-2020 in intensive filmmaking workshops at Catedra Ingmar Bergman and Filmoteca UNAM, in collaboration with DocsMX. There will be a conversation to follow with filmmaker Andrea Rodea.
Jazz artist Cécile McLorin Salvant is performing at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with “her most ambitious project yet, combining jazz and bluegrass in the poignant fairytale Ogresse, a wickedly delicious work about a human-eating monster who lives in the woods”.
Screaming Females are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Alice Bag and Generación Suicida
Agnes Obel- Broken Sleep
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/23-1/26/20)-
Thursday
Fog Lake are playing El Cid with Foxes in Fiction
Filmmaker Jennifer Saparzadeh will be speaking at The Broad as part of their series The Logic of Poetry and Dreams (free but reserve ticket)
Artist Constance Mallinson will be in conversation with MOCA Assistant Curator Rebecca Lowery at MOCA Grand Avenue
Death Valley Girls are playing a free show at The Edison (RSVP here)
Patrick Watson is playing with Brad Barr at Lodge Room (also Friday)
Friday
Agnes Obel is playing at The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (also Thursday)
Beverly Cinema is showing Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood with a Q&A to follow with Arianne Phillips (costume designer), Barbara Ling (production designer), Wylie Stateman (sound editing), Mark Ulano (sound mixing), Michael Minkler (sound mixing) and Christian Minkler (sound mixing)
Blackbird Blackbird is performing at The Roxy with vōx
The Shivas are playing with Movie Club at the Bootleg Theater
Saturday
The Annual SoCal Museum Free For All offers free admission to museums that include The Autry, Descanso Gardens, LACMA, Natural History Museum and more
Playwright Samuel Beckett’s rarely performed Quad I and Quad II, directed by Michael Hackett, will be performed at Hammer Museum as part of a county-wide festival of performances inspired by LA Opera’s world premiere of Eurydice
Colleen Green and Weird Night are playing at Permanent Records Roadhouse
glass beach, Dogleg, and Kara’s Walk Home are playing at The Echo
The Knocks and Friends are playing at 1720
Sunday
The High Curbs are playing at Moroccan Lounge with Sad Park, Death Lens, and Super Lunch
The Theatre at Ace Hotel is showing Bong Joon Ho’s film Parasite with the score performed live by the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra and Parasite composer Jung Jaeil
It’s the last weekend to see Nayland Blake’s exhibition at ICA LA and tonight at Zebulon they are hosting DisGender Euphoria: Nayland Blake’s First International Intergenerational Gender Discard Party– an evening of performance, music, dance, and “gender discard” featuring Nao Bustamante, Ron Athey, Jamillah James, Bradford Nordeen, Jennifer Doyle and more
Cursive are playing with Cloud Nothings and Criteria at the Teragram Ballroom
Goon- Choke Throat
This week from Thursday to Sunday (8/15-8/18/19) is Echo Park Rising and there are SO MANY bands playing- all for FREE! (full list here) There are also deals from local businesses, DJ sets, and more, happening as well so make sure to check out their website.
In the listings below I have chosen some of the best shows to see for each day. I’ve also made a playlist if you want to check out some of the bands ahead of time.
Thursday
Janelane are playing at The Echo from 6-6:30pm and later Skin Mag are at there from 7:40 to 8:10pm.
Beauty Queen are at Sticky Rice from 8:10 to 8:40pm
Billy Changer are playing at Spacedust from 9-9:30 followed by Foliage from 10-10:30pm
Healing Gems are at The Echo from 10:30-11pm followed by Goon from 11:30-11:59pm
Friday
If you are starting the day early- Cigarette Bums are playing at Spacedust from 3:30-4pm followed by Vaguess from 4:30-5
Jane Church is playing at Sticky Rice from 4:50-5:20pm
Rosie Tucker is playing at Sticky Rice from 6:30-7pm
Veronica Bianqui is playing at TAIX French Restaurant from 7-7:30pm
Ariel Beesley is playing at Little Joy Cocktails from 7:10-7:40pm
Paper Idol are playing at The Echo from 7:30-8pm
Colleen Green is playing at Cosmic Vinyl from 8-9pm
Tracy Bryant is playing the Echoplex from 8:30-9pm
Sister Mantos is playing on the Liberty Stage from 8-8:40pm followed by The Red Pears playing from 9-10pm
Justus Proffit is playing at Stories Books & Cafe from 9:30-10pm
ela minus is playing at The Echo from 9:45-10:15pm
Death Hags are playing at Sticky Rice from 9:50-10:20pm
Juiceboxxx is playing at TAIX French Restaurant from 10-10:45pm
The Paranoyds are playing at the Echoplex from 10-10:30pm
Neil Frances is playing at The Echo from 10:30-11:30pm
MIRSY is playing at Sticky Rice from 11:30-11:59pm
Drinker are playing at The Semi-Tropic from 12-12:40am
Saturday
LA Qoolside are playing the Liberty Stage from 4-4:30pm
Tanukichan is playing at The Echo from 4-4:30pm
Small Forward are playing at Trencher from 6-6:30pm
Los Retros is playing at The Echo from 6:30-7pm
French Vanilla are playing the Liberty Stage from 7-7:45pm
Matt Rose is playing at The Semi-Tropic from 7-7:40pm
Ryan Pollie (LAPD) is playing at Sticky Rice from 8:10-8:40pm
Sofia Bolt is playing at The Echo from 8:20-8:50pm
Cosmonauts are playing the Echoplex from 9-9:40pm
Austin Manuel is playing at Cosmic Vinyl from 9-10pm
SadGirl are playing the Liberty Stage from 9-10pm
Big Search is playing at Sticky Rice from 9:50-10:20pm
Hooveriii are playing at Little Joy Cocktails from 10-10:30pm
Caught a Ghost are playing TAIX French Restaurant from 10-10:45pm
TV Party are playing at Sticky Rice from 11:30 to 11:59pm
Sunday
Loyal Lobos is playing at Sticky Rice from 4-4:30pm
Brendan Eder Ensemble are playing at Stories Books & Cafe from 5-5:30pm
Spelles is playing at Trencher from 5:30-6pm
The Entrance Band are playing at the Echoplex from 7:30-8pm
Draemings are playing at The Echo from 8:15-8:45pm
The High Curbs are playing at Spacedust from 8:30-9pm
Photo Ops is playing at Sticky Rice from 9-9:30pm
Fell Runner are playing at The Semi-Tropic from 9-9:40pm
Steady 45s are playing at the Echoplex from 10-10:30pm
Susan are playing at Sticky Rice from 10:40-11:10pm
Dream Phases are playing at Sticky Rice from 11:30-11:59pm
Cut Copy- Standing In The Middle Of The Field
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/6-9/9/18)-
Thursday
Milo Greene are playing a free show at Amoeba Hollywood
Artist Todd Gray will be discussing his work at Meliksetian Briggs gallery
The High Curbs are playing at The Hi Hat with Ah God, On Drugs, and Cigarette Bums
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA is having a free outdoor film screening with work from Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema and The Echo Park Film Center
Rico Nasty is performing at the Echoplex with special guest Maliibu Miitch
The Memories are playing with Wild Wing and Rumblepak at The Echo
Twin Seas and TWINKIDS are opening for Balún at the Bootleg Theater
Friday
Cut Copy are playing at The Wiltern
Dance DTLA continues in Grand Park, this week with music from the 90s
The Molochs are having a record release show at the Lodge Room with Smokescreens opening
The Egyptian Theatre is showing Jean-Luc Godard’s film Sympathy for the Devil with a discussion with cinematographer Tony Richmond following the screening
The Entire Universe and Crush (Cole & Zumi from The Black Lips) are opening for Easy at The Echo
Saturday
At Zebulon from 2-4pm there will be a performance by Modular Soundbath with visuals by Vinyl Williams plus tarot readers and reiki ($5 suggested)
Grand Park and Outfest are hosting Proud Picnic and Movie Night– featuring the full length film When The Beat Drops as well as several short films
Bergamot Station in Santa Monica is hosting a night of Fall openings at its galleries which will be open until 8pm
The Babe Rainbow are playing at Zebulon with Mapache opening
Slaughter Beach, Dog are playing at the Moroccan Lounge
Fitness are playing a free show at The Hi Hat with Beginners
Sunday
LVL UP are playing at The Echo with Pllush and Follies opening
The Egyptian Theatre is showing Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon with an introduction by actor Leon Vitali
Long Beach Comic Con continues today (also Saturday)
Billy Changer- She’s Good To Go
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/23-8/26/18)-
Thursday
The Frights are signing their new album and playing a free show at Amoeba Hollywood
As part of Hammer Museum’s free programming for Made in L.A. 2018, artist Suné Woods, award-winning poet Fred Moten, and pianist & composer James Gordon Williams will present “a multimedia evening of wordplay, found imagery, improvised music, and moving images” titled You are mine. I see now, I’m a have to let you go.
Kishi Bashi is playing a free show at Skirball Cultural Center
It’s the last two weeks of free Shakespeare in Griffith Park, tonight’s play is Titus Andronicus, with a free pre-show discussion of LACMA’s current exhibit, To Rome and Back: Individualism and Authority in Art, 1500-1800, with Leah Lehmbeck and David Bardeen
The Delirians and Jackie Mendez are playing a free show at the Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park
Lee Fields & The Expressions are performing at the Echoplex
Friday
The Wende Museum in Culver City is hosting a Happy Hour with drinks in the garden and a curator’s talk on art and alcohol (free but RSVP required)
No Parents are playing with The Paranoyds, Junkie, and The High Curbs at 1720
Church in The Park, described as “equal parts jazz club, dance party and live remix experiment”, is taking place free at Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park with Mark de Clive-Lowe, The Beat Junkies, Ras G, Linafornia and more
La Brea Tar Pits Museum has free admission from 5-8pm
Super Whatevr are playing at The Hi Hat with King Shelter, Beach Goons, and Ridgeway
Bambu and DJ Phatrick are performing at the Bootleg Theater
Saturday
Rodriguez, from the famous documentary Searching for Sugarman, will be performing at The Luckman Fine Arts Complex
For The Getty’s free music night, Off the 405, Combo Chimbita will be performing
Hammer Museum is hosting a group therapy session followed by a sewing workshop (free)
LACMA’s Summer After-Hours Party Muse ‘Til Midnight, includes late night access to the special exhibition 3D: Double Vision and LACMA’s permanent collection of Modern Art and European Painting and Sculpture in the Ahmanson Building, DUBLAB DJs, visual installations, performances, drinks, and more ($30)
Summer Happenings at The Broad continues with a night of “Chinese punk, post-punk, ritual performance, film, psychedelia and more” with performances including- Xiu Xiu and Re-TROS, Daniel Collás, Juliet Swango and Jie Ma performing Collás’ original score to accompany Zhou Hongbo’s film Lotus Ferry and more
Mura Masa is performing at The Novo with Empress of opening
Highland Park Bowl is hosting a free night of music with Insect Surfers, The Hidden Depths, and King Flamingo
Sunday
Billy Changer and Rudy de Anda are opening for Combo Chimbita at The Echo
LAMAG is hosting the free talk A Guide to Gallery Representation, moderated by Jonathan T.D. Neil, exhibition artists Andrew Norman Wilson, Lena Daly, and Château Shatto Director/Founder Olivia Barrett from 2-4pm at the gallery in Barnsdall Art Park as part of LAMAGLearn
In conjunction with Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity at the California African American Museum, Guerrier and Los Angeles based artist Todd Gray will discuss their related interests in examining landscape and history through photography and collage, moderated by curator Diana Nawi. This event is followed by a special garden tour from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the Natural History Museum that includes free NHM admission with event RSVP.
CHANGES: Works at Union Station, is a free afternoon (1-6pm) of 20 site specific performances and interactive works from Los Angeles artists taking place in and around Union Station
Acid Tongue- Get Free
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/19-4/22/18)-
Thursday
Acid Tongue are opening for Moonwalks at Resident
LACMA has a free screening of United Shades of America: The Border which includes a conversation with W. Kamau Bell
MOCA Music returns to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA with performances by Berhana, Rayana Jay and Linafornia plus Modern Funk Fest DJs, food trucks, and drinks. You can also check out the Adrián Villar Rojas exhibition at the museum (free with RSVP)
Sarah Blasko is playing at the Bootleg Theater
Friday
Art Buzz, ICA LA’s Happy Hour, returns with a tour of Harald Szeemann’s exhibition followed by drinks and snacks (free but register)
It’s the first night for performances of Stardust, A Dance Tribute to David Bowie by Complexions Contemporary Ballet at The Music Center (runs through Sunday)
Tomo Jacobson + Sun Araw, The Orchardist, and Embassador Dulgoon are playing at Coaxial Arts Foundation
Guantanamo Baywatch are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with French Vanilla, Dumb Fucks, and The High Curbs opening
Saturday
Bring a mat or blanket to VSF gallery for Healing Sound Bath, an immersive 45-minute set on gong by Sat Purkh of Rama Institute amid Kathryn Garcia’s outdoor installation (free)
CAP UCLA is hosting Eighth Blackbird featuring Will Oldham (Bonnie “Prince” Billy) at The Theatre at Ace Hotel
Peach Kelli Pop are celebrating their new EP, Which Witch, with a free in-store performance at Permanent Records and later in the evening Permanent Records is hosting a free Record Store After Party at The Hi Hat with Hooveriii, RFRC (Rearranged Face & Red Channel), and Golden Grease
The Aero Theatre is showing a Godard double feature of Breathless and Band of Outsiders
Frankie Rose, Cold Beat, and Business of Dreams are playing at Zebulon
The Nude Party are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Liily, and The Pantones opening
Saturday and Sunday
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is at the USC Campus and has a TON of free and ticketed programming
Renegade Craft Fair returns to Los Angeles State Historic Park (free)
Sunday
Take advantage of free Metro rides for Earth Day
LACMA is showing the documentary A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or Surface is Illusion but So Is Depth, a film by directors Phillip Haas and David Hockney (free)
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock is hosting their 14th Annual Art Auction from 1-5pm (free)
Guest curator Jackie Clay will be at ICA LA to discuss the exhibition sisters and brothers, and her research into black visual culture and queer video as part of an open house day of events that also includes Rafa Esparza in conversation with Jamillah James
The Thai New Year Songkran Festival is happening in Thai Town
Levitation Room are playing at Resident with The Mad Walls, Grave Flowers, and Supermercat opening
Sugar Candy Mountain- Eye on You
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/25-1/28/18)-
Thursday
designLAb is having an art opening at the Pacific Design Center with numerous galleries showing work
The Wombats are playing at the Fonda Theatre with Future Feats and Nation of Language opening
Co-curator of A Universal History of Infamy, Pilar Tompkins Rivas, is giving a walkthrough of the exhibit at LACMA
The Love Language are playing at Harvard & Stone
Artist and Seeld Library co-founder Thomas Hutton is giving a free guided tour along the periphery of MOCA Grand Avenue
Sean Gadd is playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Blackpaw and Pavo Pavo opening
Friday
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is hosting a Welcome Party for the 2018 PEN Emerging Voices fellows with short readings by the authors
Anna Meredith is playing at the Bootleg Theater with Silentshout opening
The Mynabirds are playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Doe Paoro and Hayley Coupon opening
The High Curbs, The Ombres, Ariel View and The Chonks are all playing at The Smell
Sun Seeker are opening for Jessica Lea Mayfield at The Echo
Saturday
Night on Broadway is a great annual free arts and music event starting at 3pm with many of the theaters opening their doors for performances and art installations as well as outdoor stages on Broadway and musical performances that include- The B-52s, War, La Santa Cecilia, Madame Gandhi, Buyepongo, Combo Chimbita + tons more things to see and do
As part of Night on Broadway’s free programming- the Orpheum Theatre has a great list of bands playing including Sugar Candy Mountain, Morgan Delt, Frankie and the Witch Fingers and The Entire Universe
Lyle Ashton Harris will be signing his book as well as having a discussion with Walead Beshty, Charles Gaines and Naima J. Keith at Arcana Books
Hammer Museum is having an opening celebration for its Winter Exhibitions (free but register)
Facial and dimber are opening for Piebald for The Hi Hat’s 2nd Anniversary
Lawrence Rothman is playing at the Lodge Room
Sunday
It’s SoCal Museums Free-For-All Day and a good chance to check out participating museums that include the Grammy Museum, MOCA, LACMA, and Descanso Gardens
Artist Skip Arnold will be giving a free talk at the Institute of Contemporary Art in conjunction with his exhibition Truffle Hunt
Curatorial Associate Rebecca Matalon is leading a walkthrough of Welcome to the Dollhouse, the current exhibition at MOCA Pacific Design Center
There are still tickets to Ty Segall’s show at the Teragram Ballroom with Lamps opening
Boy Harsher are playing with High-Functioning Flesh and DIN at the Echoplex
Here Lies Man are opening for Combo Chimbita at Resident
All Weekend
Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair returns to Barkar Hangar and while you are there check out Santa Monica Art Studio’s open studios event More Art Here across the street
stARTup Art Fair returns to Los Angeles- this time the independent artists will take over rooms at The Kinney Hotel in Venice Beach
The High Curbs- Empty Bottles
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/30-12/3/17)-
Thursday
Writer Raquel Gutiérrez will be giving a walk through and discussing certain works from Hammer Museum’s exhibition Radical Women. Later in the evening there is a film screening of various experimental films created by Latin American women artists (both events free)
FYOHNA is opening for Wildling at Resident
CAFAM is hosting CraftNight at Angel City Brewery where you can have a pint while enjoying an air-dry clay workshop ($10)
Summer Moon and Mereki are opening for Dhani Harrison at the El Rey Theatre
Prism Tats is opening for Dommengang at The Hi Hat
Downtown Boys are playing with Generacion Suicida and Ex-Stains at the Echoplex
iam8bit gallery is having its 3rd Annual Handmade Holiday Show
Friday
Metro Art is showing Ava DuVernay’s documentary This is the Life at Union Station (free)
Slothrust are playing at The Echo with And The Kids and SLUGS
Hundred Waters are playing at the El Rey Theatre with Julianna Barwick and Banoffee
Blitzen Trapper are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Lilly Hiatt
Saturday
DocuSlate, a day dedicated to documentary films presented by NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFLMA) is $10 per program or for $25 you can see all the programs and enjoy an open bar
Hauser & Wirth is having a Holiday Market (also Sunday)
Union Station is also having a Holiday Market with live entertainment, a beer garden and Santa
The Dandy Warhols are playing with POW! at the Teragram Ballroom
HUNNY’s Winter Talent Show at the Echoplex includes bands Potty Mouth and King Shelter
Sunday
The High Curbs are opening for Hockey Dad at the Bootleg Theater with Jurassic Shark
Artist Alec Soth will be in conversation with photographic historian Kate Albers at Arcana with a book signing to follow
LAXART will be screening States of Crisis at the City of West Hollywood Library- a video program that includes videos by artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Honduras and Peru reflecting on political, economic and ecological crises. This program is in conjunction with the exhibition Pacific Standard Time LA/LA: Video Art in Latin America at LAXART. (free)
John Waters performs A John Waters Christmas, his one man show, at The Comedy Store