Los Angeles Weekend Planner 8-6-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Aug 062015
 

Django Django- First Light

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/6-8/9/15)-

Thursday

Django Django are playing the El Rey Theatre with Beat Connection

Various Small Fires (VSF) is hosting Subject to Change, a panel discussion “addressing work that escapes its intended institutional frame, and the question of the unforseen audience response” with Andrea Fraser, Amelia Jones,Vanessa Place and Hamza Walker-

Ben Browning (of Cut Copy) and DMA’s are at the Santa Monica Pier for Australia Rocks The Pier (free)

Friday

The Natural History Museum is having an adults only sleepover that for $95 includes a scavenger hunt, DJs, movie screening, open craft beer and wine bar, midnight munchies, and more. It also includes their Summer Nights in the Garden program with access to the VIP lounge

The New Division are playing at Los Globos

For Stones Throw 45 Live at Fig at 7th, Peanut Butter Wolf, Dam-Funk, and Mayer Hawthorne will be spinning all 45s and there will be a live performance by Mild High Club (free)

Saturday

If you missed it last time you have a second chance to see the 24 hour screening of Christian Marclay’s The Clock at LACMA but make sure to check their twitter for wait times, they can be long

As part of Sundance Next Fest Rick Alverson’s film Entertainment will be screening at the Ace Hotel Theater and Sharon Van Etten will be performing ($25)

At Pasadena Museum of California Art there will be a docent tour of Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent and screenprinting demonstration (free with museum admission) or check out the exhibition for free all day Friday

Campfireball is happening at The Frog Spot in Frogtown and will have food, drinks, music (starts at 5pm), art, performance and more at 7pm and really that’s as specific as it seems to get (free)

Also in Frogtown at WCCW– What Trickles Down, What Accumulates: Frogtown- Art and Organizing Against The System is a series of performances, presentations, artwork and an album listening pre-release of WHAT’S WORKING IS BROKEN, “an audio piece composed of personal testimonials of police violence and sounds recorded at protests against LAPD murders”. This event runs from 2:30-9pm with a $10 suggested donation for Youth Justice Coalition

The Low End Theory Festival still has tickets available for a lineup that includes Flying Lotus, Earl Sweatshirt, Thundercat and more-

Yuna and Aloe Blacc are performing for this week’s Grand Performances at California Plaza (free)

Millionyoung are headlining the Dreamgaze festival at Los Globos

Saturday and Sunday

Unique’s Annual Summer Market is back at the California Market Center downtown. $10 gets you entrance for both days and a bunch of amenities

Sunday

Sundance Next Fest continues at the Ace Hotel Theater with a screening of Turbo Kid and DJ sets by Toro y Moi and Neon Indian (limited tickets left)

The Hammer Museum is hosting The Watts Rebellion: 50 Years Later, a discussion of race relations past and present in the US with Gerald Horne, Brenda E. Stevenson, Johnie H. Scott

To Live and Dine in LA: A Live Mixtape is a “DJ-driven, multidimensional journey through the menu collection of the
Los Angeles Public Library and shine a light on the issues of food insecurity currently facing the city” with chef Roy Choi, artist Rakaa Iriscience (Dilated Peoples), and USC professor Josh Kun ($20)

Ciclavia is back- this time its Culver City to Venice

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 7-30-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jul 302015
 

Ben Browning- Friends of Mine

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/30-8/2/15)-

Thursday

Wye Oak are playing at Club Bahia

REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival begins tonight (running through Aug 15)

Tom Of Finland: Up Close and Personal, a discussion with Durk Dehner (President, Tom of Finland Foundation), Dian
Hanson (Editor, TASCHEN’s Tom of Finland XXL), F. Valentine Hooven III (Author, Tom of Finland: Life and Work of a Gay Hero) and moderated by Joakim Andreasson is happening downtown at Austere

The Suffers are the headliners for this week’s Summer of Soul concert series at the Hammer Museum (free)

Baths is playing at the Echoplex with Wrestlers and OOFJ as part of Red Bull Sound Select- RSVP and it’s $3

Friday

Ben Browning (of Cut Copy) will be performing songs from his new solo project at the Regent Theater along with Moullinex, L.A.Girlfriend, Deep Chills, and Maikol

Opening today and running this weekend and next is CA 101 2015 an artist exhibition taking place at the historic AES Power Plant in Redondo Beach

Porcelain Raft and Tennis System are at the Echo

Saturday

Wet Hot American Summer is the outdoor movie at The Autry this week

Or you could see Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark at the Electric Dusk Drive-In downtown (only lawn seating available)-

OR Hollywood Forever Cemetery is showing Apocalypse Now (which has a Harrison Ford cameo)

Grand Performances has Rocky Dawuni and Blitz the Ambassador in concert

Sunday

Artist Mark Bradford and law professor Anita Hill will be discussing “feminism as a gateway to activism and social justice, and their interdisciplinary methods for speaking truth to power” at the Hammer Museum (free)

Rock ‘N’ Roll Flea Market is on at the Regent Theater

Or you could check out the flea market at Pasadena City College which has a little bit of everything

*This weekend Much Ado About Nothing opens at the Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival and it’s set in Italy in 1945

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 7-16-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jul 162015
 

Real Estate- Crime

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/16-7/19-15)-

Thursday

Real Estate are playing at the Santa Monica Pier with Hippo Campus (free)

Fuzz are at the Troubadour with The Birth Defects

The Hammer Museum’s Summer of Soul continues with Sam Sparro, The Rebirth, and KCRW DJs (free)

Cold Showers are opening for Light Asylum at The Echo

Friday

At Skirball Cultural Center this week for the outdoor concert Into the Night, musical acts Tamaryn and Mystic Braves will perform while Joshua Light Show presents a “liquid light show” to accompany the music ($20)

Superhumanoids are playing with Tropics at Figat7th’s free downtown event

L7 are at the Fonda Theatre (tickets available for balcony only, or see them Thursday when tickets are available for the floor only)-

This week at Grand Performances is The Last Jimmy: A Hip Hop Musical with Dice Raw which “explores mass incarceration, the criminal justice system, and the prison-industrial complex through the eyes of young black males” (free)

Friday through Sunday

MOCA’s Step and Repeat returns to their Geffen location for three days of numerous performances that include music, performance art, comedy, poetry and dance- $12 for one night or $30 for all three- check the link for the list of all the artists-

Saturday

Artists/Street Artists Haunted Euth and T.S. Clair’s joint exhibition “Heroine” is at Stone Malone Gallery and opens tonight

Photographer Marcus Haney is screening his film “No Cameras Allowed” at Annenberg Space for Photography and afterwards will be discussing his current career and how he broke into the business through concert photography ($10)

Downtown Long Beach’s Summer and Music Festival continues with a free screening of The Wizard of Oz, a performance by the band MOVE, and for $5 you can get wireless headphones to participate in Silent Disco- all in the promenade parking lot

Willie Nelson is playing at the Greek Theatre

The Autry’s outdoor movie this week is Three Amigos

Sunday

The 18th Street Arts Center is having their “Champagne Social” with guided studio tours and of course, champagne (free)-

The second day of the Viva Pomona! festival at the Glass House has headliners Iceage, and Christopher Owens (formerly of the band Girls)

Jesse Thorn of Maximumfun is giving his talk Make Your Thing that “focuses on how he turned his college radio show into an independent media powerhouse” at Annnenberg Space for Photography ($10)

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 7-9-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jul 092015
 

Son Lux- Lanterns Lit

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/9-7/12/15)-

Thursday

Son Lux are playing at the El Rey Theatre

The theme for this month’s DTLA Artwalk is Street Art and Performance

The Hammer and KCRW’s event Summer of Soul begins tonight. For four nights this summer there will be a happy hour bar, DJ set, and band- tonight it’s Breakestra (free)

Jurassic 5 are back in the US and playing at the Nokia Theater

Morris Day is performing with Dam Funk at the Santa Monica Pier for the first of the weekly free summer concerts-

Friday

Active Child is performing at The Cathedral Sanctuary at Immanuel Presbyterian

Trans Am are playing at The Satellite

Saturday

NELA Art Gallery Night is every second Saturday of the month and is a great way to check out the Highland Park/ Eagle Rock art scene

No Age is headlining Runaway 2015 at Jewels Catch One- a lineup that includes Mean Jeans, The Lovely Bad Things, No Parents and loads more

Back to the Future is being shown at Centennial Square in front of Pasadena City Hall with band YoYa playing beforehand

Silverlake Flea Market is on

It’s 7-11 Day so grab a free small slurpee at a 7-Eleven store near you

Saturday and Sunday

Renegade Craft Fair is back and at Grand Park- a great way to support independent makers (free)

Sunday

Hammer Museum is having an event combining lecture, performance,and spoken word with a wide variety of contributors for Hip-hop Logic: The Role of Hip-hop in 21st Century Education & Poetics

*Starting 7/9 and running through the 19th of this month is Outfest, the LGBT Film Festival

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 7-2-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jul 022015
 

Blackstreet- No Diggity ft. Dr. Dre, Queen Pen

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/2-7/5)-

Thursday

The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) is hosting a craft night with mural/graffiti artist Man One– $8 includes supplies, drinks and snacks

Smokey Robinson is at the Hollywood Bowl for three nights with fireworks, but tonight has the best seat availability

Friday

The 90′s are back at the Greek Theatre with Blackstreet, Ginuwine, Tony!ToniTone!, SWV and Troop performing-

Television is playing the Teregram Ballroom

Friday and Saturday

Fireworks are on at Dodger Stadium today and on the 4th- the Dodgers are playing the Mets both nights

Saturday (July 4th)

Looking for somewhere to see fireworks for free? Grand Park is having a block party with DJs and perfomances- you can bring your own picnic but NO beverages of any kind, it is an alcohol free event

If you want to celebrate the 4th with beer and BBQ- Angel City Brewery is having ‘Merica Fest which will include games and live music- you could check it out before heading to see the fireworks in Grand Park

The Queen Mary in Long Beach has a fireworks event on the ship that includes a vintage traveling circus and carnival ($44) with a VIP option ($99) that adds “the ‘20s Gatsby Deck, hush hush ‘30s Speak Easy, and 2-steppin’ 2000s Country Deck with premium firework viewing”

KCHUNG Radio is having a BBQ/ performance at pehrspace

The park at the Los Angeles Coliseum is having free fireworks, as well as games, rides, and music

Sunday

The Regent Theater is having a boozy brunch bingo Sunday Funday with prizes including concert tickets- $25 (or 2 for $40) gets you bottomless mimosas, a brunch item and a cookie- and you can check out the Rock N Roll Flea Market as well

The Appleseed Cast are playing at the Echo

All weekend-

Anime Expo is at the Los Angeles Convention Center

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 6-25-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jun 252015
 

Basement Jaxx- Where’s Your Head At

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/25-6/29/15)-

Thursday

MOCA Grand Avenue is screening Take None, Give None, a documentary about the nation’s first racially integrated motorcycle club (free)

Nosaj Thing is performing a free set and signing his new album Fated at Amoeba Records in Hollywood

Griffith Park’s free Shakespeare in the Park festival begins tonight. This year it’s Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing

Friday

Miwa Matreyek is performing two shows for free at Union Station of her multimedia work which involves her shadow interacting with projected animation

Lucky Dragons are the artists/performers for this session of Friday Flights at the Getty Center

The Echo is having a pre-party for Lolipalooza 2 with a lineup including Tropical Popsicle, and The Memories- $12 or free with Lolipalooza 2 ticket

Gardens & Villa are playing at the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock 

The Lovely Bad Things are at The Smell

Saturday

MOCA Grand Ave is having a panel and book signing in conjunction with the release of Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles, with artists Zoe Crosher, Bettina Hubby, Michael Shields, and Ed Templeton and moderated by David L.Ulin of the Los Angeles Times. The artists will “share their distinct visions of the city’s visual landscape”. (free)

Lolipop Records and the Echo present Lolipalooza 2 with a list of bands that includes White Fence, Cosmonauts, Corners, Winter, So Many Wizards and more

Roses, Dunes, Sandlot, and DYGL are all playing a house show downtown for $5 with free beer

The Roots are at Club Nokia with Erykah Badu

Chinatown Summer Nights returns with live music from The Janks as well as other bands, cooking demonstrations, acrobatic shows, a beer garden, DJs, and more

Tijuana Panthers are headlining Summer and Music a free festival in Long Beach

Sunday

Basement Jaxx are at the Hollywood Bowl with Bootsy’s Rubber Band featuring Bootsy Collins and Tuxedo opening

For the panel discussion Photography and Composition at the Hammer Museum, Thomas Demand, Elad Lassry, and Catherine Opie will discuss themes in the exhibition Perfect Likeness with curator Russell Ferguson

Devendra Banhart is talking with Zach Pennington, the head writer of the awesome LA app 5 Every Day, at LACMA’s Art Catalogues. There will be a DJ for the reception and a performance with Banhart’s band as well as a book signing (free)

All weekend–

The BET Experience is taking place at LA Live with a mix of free (including a Janelle Monae performance) and ticketed events-

Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) has events all weekend to celebrate the culmination of The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, which had different artists putting up billboards along Interstate 10. Events include film screenings, artist talks, bus tours of the city, workshops and more

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 6-18-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jun 182015
 

Cayucas- Cayucos

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/18-6/21/15)-

Thursday

The Art of Melrose is a series of themed events taking place on the third Thursday of the month this summer, from Fairfax to Highland on Melrose with a focus on a three block section. This time for Focus on Fashion it will be Gardner, Martel and Fuller, and the businesses will be offering everything from discounts and gifts with purchase to free food and drink

Cornerstone Theater Company is performing California:The Tempest based on Shakespeare’s play, for free in Grand Park (through the 20th)

Venice Art Crawl has art events, music, entertainment and local business discounts

Friday

The Gas Lamp Killer Experience is the DJ/Producer playing with a 10 piece band-FREE as part of Grand Performances Summer Program at California Plaza

Fever the Ghost, Fartbarf, and Harriet Brown are playing at the Echo

Surfer Blood are playing with Gothic Tropic at the Troubadour

The Container Yard is celebrating its one year anniversary party with a party that will include music, art and food trucks ($5 with a portion of the proceeds going to Self Help Graphics)

Jonathan Richman is at the El Rey Theater

Saturday

Cayucas are playing a free show at One Colorado in Pasadena for KCRW’s Summer Nights

Nearby is the Pasadena Chalk Festival at Paseo Colorado which features some incredible sidewalk murals (also on Sunday)

The band for Saturdays off the 405 at the Getty Center is Shannon and the Clams (free/ parking at the center after 5 is $10)

Culver City’s Summer Crawl includes a free figure sketching class at Graphaids, discounts at some of the local businesses and other events in the area while you check out the art galleries- several shows are opening that night as well

Sunday

Underworld and Jungle are at the Hollywood Bowl

All weekend and through the end of the month is The Hollywood Fringe Festival which has a VERY extensive list of programming (over 250 shows!)

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 6-11-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jun 112015
 

Mystic Braves- Desert Island

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/11-6/14/15)-

Thursday

June’s DTLA Artwalk has a film and video theme- stop by the Regent Theater for a short film festival (free) in between checking out the galleries

Writer Claudia Rankine is reading at MOCA Geffen (free with RSVP)

The LA Film Fest has begun (running til 6/18) and tonight at LACMA they are showing Too Late, “a dark love letter to Los Angeles”, which stars John Hawkes and includes a conversation with the filmmakers

HOLYCHILD are playing a free set at Amoeba Hollywood

Neon Trees are at the Fonda Theatre with Alex Winston

Friday

Downtown Dark Nights returns to LA Live with $5 food and drink specials, live music, art installations and live painting by several street artists

Producer and DJ Peanut Butter Wolf is kicking off the Music Center downtown’s Bring Your Own Dance Moves, their free weekly dance party

MOCA Grand Ave is having a book launch at their store for Architectones: Art In the Living Environment which will feature a roundtable conversation with François Perrin, Maura Lucking, Jan Tumlir, Bryony Roberts, and Mark Hagen; a performance by Veilhan and James Goldstein; music by DJ Vincent Tajan, and a book signing

Friday through Sunday

It’s LA Pride and the festival goes all weekend with a parade (Sunday), Thunderground Roller Disco, and live music from artists including Kesha and Tinashe

Saturday

Mystic Braves are the headliners of a four band show at the Troubadour that also includes So Many Wizards

The Los Angeles Design Festival closing night street party is free and in Chinatown with the addition of a pop up market

NELA Art Gallery Night is a great way to check out the galleries in the Highland Park area

The Autry in Griffith Park is having a movie night on their south lawn- this week it’s The Grand Budapest Hotel with Mansions on the Moon playing before the show

Sunday

Rob Forbes, creator of Design Within Reach along with Eric Heiman, creative director of the San Francisco design studio Volume Inc., will discuss Forbes’s new book, See for Yourself: A Visual Guide to Everyday Beauty, with a book signing afterwords at LACMA (free)

Ink-N-Iron, a festival celebrating hot rods, tattoos, 50′s fashion and burlesque returns to the Queen Mary in Long Beach (also Friday and Saturday) and tonight the live music includes Fishbone, Gary Numan, and Peter Murphy among others

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 6-4-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jun 042015
 

Hanni El Khatib- Moonlight

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/4-6/6/7/15)-

Thursday

Artist Andrea Fraser will be discussing William Pope L.’s exhibition at MOCA (Geffen Contemporary)

UCLA’s award winning student poets are reading at the Hammer Museum

Friday

Hanni El Khatib headlines the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays with a concert outdoors this time

Palma Violets are playing at the newly opened Teragram Ballroom

Martin Solveig is at Create Nightclub in Hollywood for Noize Fridays

Saturday

Make Music Pasadena is a huge FREE music festival- this year’s lineup includes Kishi Bashi, Sir Sly, How to Dress Well, and tons more

Harold and Maude is the movie this week at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

MOCA is screening Marlon Rigg’s documentary Tongues Untied in conjunction with his new exhibition

Saturday and Sunday

If you like the idea of being in a horror movie, The Great Horror Campout is back in Griffith Park with different levels of intensity, including a Chicken Zone where you just watch horror movies without creatures disturbing you throughout the night

Ooga Booga has cool stuff and this weekend is having a warehouse sale

Catcon describes itself as ComicCon for cat people ($25)

The biannual Parachute Market which focuses on design is downtown at One Santa Fe ($10)

Sunday

Venice Art Block is having its fifth open studio tour

Nick Brandt is at Art Catalogues at LACMA to talk about art and activism with Kathryn Bigelow, and to sign books (free)

Cinespia is showing Disney’s Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 to benefit the Los Angeles Historic Theater Foundation at the TCL Chinese Theater (formerly Grauman’s Chinese Theater) with drinks in between shows ($35)

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 5-28-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
May 282015
 

Diarrhea Planet- Platinum Girls

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/28-5/31/15)-

Thursday

The Hammer is having its Open Projector Night (free)

Photographer Sally Mann is speaking to David Ulin at The Attic in Hollywood- tickets are $38 and include her book

ACME Gallery is hosting a launch party for Merkel Magazine- The Pit Gallery’s artist book

King Tuff is playing the Del Monte Speakeasy (basement of Townhouse in Venice) for $3- RSVP here

Robert DeLong is playing for free at Lure in Hollywood

Friday

Diarrhrea Planet are at the Echo with Lovely Bad Things and Left & Right

The Getty’s Friday Night Flights continues with Total Freedom (Ashland Mines who co-produced the party Wildness with Wu Tsang)-

Sea Lions are playing at Ham and Eggs Tavern with Fungi Girls for $5

Friday- Sunday

It’s a big weekend for design with Dwell on Design back at the LA Convention Center and the Los Angeles Design Festival which has events around the city

Saturday

There is a closing party for A+D Museum’s exhibition Beyond Graffiti 2 and it is the last day at its current location on Wilshire

It’s Atlas Obscura Day and all around the world are events celebrating “curious places”

LAMAG in Barnsdall Park is having an artist talk with Harold Greene, Alan Nakagawa, Baumgartner + Uriu (B +U) who are in the current exhibition

Spoon are at the Wiltern

Wire are playing at the Echo

Sunday

The biannual vintage design marketplace Downtown Modernism is today ($5)

CicLAvia is in Pasadena this time

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