Los Angeles Weekend Planner 5-21-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
May 212015
 

Wallburds- Hourglass

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/21-5/24/15)-

Thursday

Audiodrome at Cinefamily (co-presented by WOAH and Tigerbeat6) combines live music,“forward thinking A/V remixes” and this time will feature a record release party for Kid606

Fahrenheit Gallery downtown is screening a Len Lye film retrospective (free)

Honor Fraser Gallery is presenting ATTACK, SUSTAIN, RELEASE, DECAY, a performance collaboration joining performance and media collectives Mutant Salon, Experimental Half Hour, and Project Rage Queen

In December The Autry Museum held a contest for artists to submit designs for a banner for the back wall of the museum and tonight they are having the High Five Art Launch Party (free with reservation) to celebrate the artists and winner

Friday

Wallburds are opening for Girl Tears and Crocodiles at The Satellite– my vote for best show of the weekend and it’s only $12

Artist and musician Dorian Wood will be performing for the closing of his and Craig Calderwood’s exhibition at Last Projects in Hollywood

It’s the first ever night for The Odd Market, on The Autry Museum’s south lawn, with cocktails, shopping, crafts, DJs and food

Roses are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Dunes

Gothic Tropic, Crown Plaza, and Life Size Maps are at the Echo

Saturday

LACMA is offering a free printmaking workshop inspired by the current exhibition The Language of Xu Bing– advanced tickets are sold out but there will be a standby line

Electric Dusk Drive In downtown is showing Rear Window (only astroturf seating is available, no tickets left for cars)-

Ceremony are headlining at the Echo with a list of bands that includes Mrs.Magician

Sunday

Artists from Pasadena City College and Art Center College of Design will be selling their work at the annual Art+Design Open Market at One Colorado in Old Pasadena

It is the final weekend for Experience 15: SPARK! Explore SPARK at ESMoA museum in El Segundo, which creates a world of fantasy with interactive exhibits that are great for kids- especially today as there is a family fun day with art making projects and a fairy tale scavenger hunt. There is also a talk with Jeff Guess, the current artist in residence

Space15Twenty in Hollywood is having a flea market

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 5-14-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
May 142015
 

Ex Hex- Don’t Wanna Lose

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/14-5/17/15)-

Thursday

Corners are playing the Echoplex with Tropical Popsicle

Or you could check out Woods at the Echo

Cinefamily is showing John Waters’ film Desperate Living with Mink Stole in attendance to introduce

Hammer Museum is showing the film The River Ran Red about the search for survivors of the Armenian genocide-

Downtown Artwalk is on and afterwards you could listen to CalArts MFA writing grads read from their work at REDCAT (free)

Friday

Ex Hex are at the Roxy with The Shivas

LA Live’s Dark Nights event includes live entertainment, street artists, and discounts on food, drink, and this time the Grammy Museum

Fartbarf are playing El Cid

UK band Fat White Family are at the Troubadour

Saturday

Cathedrals are playing as part of the Getty Center’s free music night Saturdays off the 405

The Beverly Hills Art Show is back and is a nice way to see art work while enjoying the day in Beverly Gardens Park (also Sunday)

Sewing Rebellion is having a free sewing workshop at Thank You For Coming in Atwater

Sunday

Once a year Museums of the Arroyo Day gives free admission to Heritage Square, The Gamble House, The Autry, Lummis Home, The LA Police Museum, and the Pasadena Museum of History from noon-5pm

Complex in Glendale is having an afternoon/evening BBQ Synth Party with a list of bands including Cold Showers

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 4-30-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Apr 302015
 

Doldrums- She is the Wave (feat. Guy Dallas)

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/30-5/3/15)-

Thursday

Doldrums are at the Echo with Moon King

LA Weekly’s event Artopia takes place at the Container Yard and promises art, street art, performances, DJs, drinks and more ($40)

At MOCA Grand Ave, Bruce Hainley, author of Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant’s Volte-Face (Semiotext(e), 2013), joins MOCA’s Chief Curator Helen Molesworth for a discussion on Sturtevant: Double Trouble or you could go to MOCA Geffen for a performance of Migrant (2015) made for the William Pope L. exhibition

Artist Thomas Heatherwick is speaking at the Hammer

The Soft Moon are playing the Roxy

Friday

Artist Pedro Reyes is speaking at the Hammer Museum

First Fridays are at the Natural History Museum– bands this time are Kinky and Salt Petal

Mikal Cronin is at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock with Wand

Terry Malts is at La Cita with Hard Left as part of La Cita’s all weekend long Cinco de Mayo Fiesta

They Might Be Giants are playing the Regent Theater

Friday through Sunday

Paris Photo Los Angeles is back at the Paramount Studios

Photo Independent will also be back nearby at Raleigh Studios

Saturday

If you missed Coachella but still want to go to a festival out in the desert, this weekend is Desert Daze where $55 gets you a lineup that includes Dan Deacon, Warpaint, DIIV, RJD2, Fever the Ghost, Mini Mansions, and more

John Zorn is performing at LACMA for free (with museum admission)

Manic Street Preachers are at The Fonda

OK Go are at the Wiltern with Kitten

Sunday

HomeLA, the artist/dance troupe that performs in various residences will be be at the J.B. Merrill House

If you are up early Luis de Jesus Gallery is having an informal breakfast and artist talk with Ken Gonzales-Day

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 4-23-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Apr 232015
 

Eternal Summers- Wonder

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/23-4/26/15)-

Thursday

Eternal Summers are opening for Turbo Fruits at The Roxy

Tonight is the last screening of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster series with Cremaster 3 (2002) at the Hammer

Friday

Matthew Barney and composer Jonathan Bepler will discuss their recent collaboration River of Fundament (premiering at UCLA on Saturday) with professor Kenneth Reinhard at the Hammer Museum. Free but get there early

Fuzz are playing the El Rey Theatre

Saturday

Kaiser Chiefs are at The Wiltern along with We Are Scientists

The Dead Milkmen are at the Troubadour tonight and Sunday

Saturday and Sunday

The Brewery is having the first of its biannual art walks (free admission and parking)

The Jackalope Art Fair is taking place in Old Pasadena

Sunday

LACMA is having a community day to celebrate their 50th Anniversary with free admission (even to ticketed exhibits) and events

Artist Vincent Lamouroux is painting Silver Lake’s deserted Sunset Pacific Motel, also known as the “Bates Motel”, and its surroundings (including trees) white with lime wash to turn it into a temporary art installation that will be completed today for the opening (3-6pm)

Reptar will be playing a free in-store show at Origami Records

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 4-16-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Apr 162015
 

Bad Religion- Los Angeles is Burning

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/16-4/19/15)-

Thursday

William Pope L.’s Migrant (2105), which was made for his current exhibit, will be performed at MOCA – free and free evening admission

The Replacements are playing at the Hollywood Palladium

Toro y Moi are at the Fonda Theatre

The Live Read series at LACMA continues this week with Major League, guest directed by Joe Manganiello (Magic Mike). A limited number of tickets will be sold at the door two hours before start time

Friday

Bad Religion are playing at the Fonda Theatre with OFF!

Peaking Lights are playing at The Echo

WAND and Dunes are playing along with two other bands for $8 at The Smell

Saturday

Record Store Day is back and there are lots of venues doing something special to celebrate. Origami Vinyl is having DJ sets, bands (including Fever the Ghost), giving gift bags to the first group of customers and there will be a free ice cream truck. Permanent Records is also having performers including John Doe and Exene from X.  Amoeba Records isn’t on the list but is having events at the store as well as one across the street at Space 15 Twenty. The official list of venues is here.

You may not have heard of many of the bands playing Brokechella, BUT it is an annual event that gets bigger every year, just like its namesake, and it’s a pretty good deal. For $20 you get art shows, bands, comedy and variety, giant jenga puzzles, a vendor fair, Puppychella for dog owners, and more- all in Downtown’s Warehouse District

Always wanted to see the inside of the Magic Castle but never scored an invite from a magician? One way to get a peek is to check out their Swap Meet taking place 9am-3pm (from the Terrace to the Peller Theatre) where you can also shop around for a variety of magic related items ($8)

If you are around WeHo and see people dressed in black with bowler hats and wearing artistic looking sandwich boards, they are part of the 100 Walkers performance piece. More info here

Saturday and Sunday

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is back with a huge list of free and ticketed (many only $1) events and readings- authors include Tavis Smiley, Billy Idol, Octavia Spencer, Kate Mulgrew, Amber Tamblyn, Patton Oswalt, Vikram Chandra, Roy Choi and many, many, more

Sunday

CAFAM (Craft and Folk Art Museum) is hosting a gallery tour and conversation  with exhibition juror Cat Jimenez, Executive Director of the Lucie Foundation, and a group of exhibiting artists from the show Focus Iran: Contemporary Photography and Video (free with RSVP)

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 4-9-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Apr 092015
 

Cherry Glazerr- White’s Not My Color This Evening

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/9-4/12/15)-

Thursday

MOMA curator Stuart Comer will be discussing the work and career of William Pope L. at MOCA (free with RSVP)

The Hammer Museum is screening Barbara Kopple’s new documentary film, Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation, which focuses on the writers, columnists, editors and interns of The Nation magazine.  The film will be followed by Q&A with Kopple, writer Amy Wilentz, and Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel. Norman Lear will begin the evening with opening remarks (free)

Downtown ArtWalk’s theme this month is Books, Comics and Zines also make sure to check out the sculptures made of cans for Canstruction, also part of the art walk

Friday

Cherry Glazerr are playing with White Fence at the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays

The Aero Theater is showing the first part of the Agnés Varda documentary Agnés Varda: From Here to There Part 1 followed by her film Jane B. for Agnés V.  (about Jane Birkin) with a discussion with Varda in between the films

French band Yelle is playing the Roxy with Hibou

Saturday

Otis College of Art and Design is hosting its 4th Annual Kite Festival in Santa Monica where you can make and fly your own kite (free kite and admission)

Eastside Handmade is having their popup market in Highland Park

Afterwards stay for NELA Art Gallery Night, a good opportunity to check out Highland Park and Eagle Rock galleries including Gold Haus Gallery which is having an opening for Ryan McIntosh’s show

Sunday

The First Annual Long Beach Zine Fest is at the Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) and admission to the fest and museum are both free

All Weekend

Cinema at the Edge (CATE) is having it’s independent film festival in Santa Monica

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 4-2-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Apr 022015
 

Kitten- Cut It Out

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/2-4/5/15)-

Thursday

Artist talk: Charles Gaines and Sam Durant at the Hammer Museum

The G2 Gallery is kicking off Earth Month by having an off site exhibition of photos taken at various national parks. The reception takes place at Pico House downtown with wine and hors d’oeuvres (free with RSVP)

Guster is playing with Kishi Bashi at the Wiltern

Mikky Ekko is performing at Sonos Studio for free with RSVP but get there early as there will be a big crowd and the studio is not that big

Thursday through Saturday

Cinefamily is showing the films of Hal Hartley with the director himself in attendance

Friday

Kitten is playing at the Troubadour (also on Saturday)

New York performer and nightlife personality Linda Simpson is presenting The Drag Explosion, a collection of her snapshots of the 80′s and 90′s drag community, for which she will provide live narration to accompany her photos and will also host a post-performance Q&A. It’s free and happening at the West Hollywood Council Chambers

TV on the Radio is at the Hollywood Palladium

Artists Ed Templeton and Thomas Campbell will be signing their books at Arcana Books in Culver City

Los Angeles Beer Fest is at LA Center Studios downtown- $40 for a three hour session of beer tasting (food not included)

Sunday

The Bunny Museum in Pasadena is open from 2-7pm (usually it’s only by appointment) and you can celebrate Easter by feeding some of their live bunnies while looking at the collection of over 30,000 bunny items

Also worth noting:

April is here and so is MOPLA, the month long photography event in Los Angeles

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 3-19-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Mar 192015
 

Sea Lions- Tell You

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (3/19-3/22/15)-

Thursday

The first of the four Venice Art Crawls this year is tonight and will have art, live painting, music, performances and more

Jason Reitman’s live read at LACMA for tonight is Dazed and Confused. Advanced tickets are sold out but there will be some available at the door two hours before showtime

Thursday and Friday

The members of The Both return to Largo for Aimee Mann and Ted Leo’s One Way Mission to March: a Springtime Variety Show along with Jonathan Coulton and Tim Heidecker

Friday

Tijuana Panthers are playing with Oxnard band Sea Lions at the Echo

Saturday

The Million Dollar Theater downtown is showing Bonnie and Clyde with live jazz/ragtime before the screening ($10)

Church Sessions is hosting an evening with John Doe and Exene from X and Robyn Hitchcock at the First Unitarian Church

Sunday

of Montreal is playing at the Regent Theater

LAXART gallery in Hollywood is having another panel discussion on photography titled Remembering Forward from 4-6pm (free)-

Heidi Duckler Dance Company’s newest piece explores the intersection of dance and architecture as the audience moves around Mayne’s Morphosis in Culver City for Space Opera– discounted to $15 if you are a Culver City resident, or $25 if not

Artist William Pope.L and MOCA Senior Curator Bennett Simpson discuss Pope.L’s Trinket at the MOCA Geffen (free with RSVP and museum admission)

Ciclavia is taking over the San Fernando Valley this time

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 3-12-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Mar 122015
 

Thee Oh Sees- Minotaur

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (3/12-3/15/15)-

Thursday

MUSICAL EXPOSITION featuring Thee Oh Sees and Caldwell/Tester at Human Resources LA in Chinatown-

DTLA Art Walk

Television great Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family and Sanford and Son will speak with Phil Rosenthal, creator of Everybody Loves Raymond at the Wallis Annneberg Center for the Performing Arts

Artist Cauleen Smith will screen and discuss The Way Out Is the Way Two: Fourteen Short Films About Chicago and Sun Ra at MOCA Grand

Friday

ArtNight Pasadena is a great biannual event where many of the museums and galleries are free, with shuttles connecting the institutions. This year you can tie it in with the last days of Old Pasadena Happy Hour Week if you like your culture to include a little booze

As part of Atlas in LA, 356 Mission will be screening several of his short films and he will be in conversation with Laurie Weeks for a book release

Chicas Rockeras of Southeast LA is having a fundraiser for their Girls Rock Camp with Upset (Patty Schemel and Ali Koehler) and other rock bands

Dream Boys are playing with Shy Boys at La Cita

Friday and Saturday

LACMA is having a two day symposium- Photography and Philosophy-with various speakers

Saturday

NELAart’s Second Saturday art walk takes place at galleries around Highland Park and Eagle Rock- http://www.nelaart.org/

Two of Charles Atlas’ most famous dance narrative films Ex-Romance and Hail the New Puritan will be screened at Human Resources gallery

Santa Monica Airport Art Walk

North London band Wolf Mother are playing a sold out show at the Bootleg Theater but tickets maybe available at the door

Sunday

Harry Dean Stanton will be performing after a screening of cult film Repo Man at the Regent Theater

A Place to Bury Strangers are playing at the Echo

Also part of Atlas in LA, the Egyptian Theater will be screening two of his films

Russell Ferguson and Thomas Demand join Michael Fried for a conversation about painting, photography and film, focused on Fried’s new book Another Light: Jacques Louis David to Thomas Demand at LACMA (free)

The LA Marathon is on so don’t make plans before noon in most parts of the city

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 3-5-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Mar 052015
 

Eleanor Friedberger- Stare at the Sun

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (3/5-3/8/15)-

Thursday

Eleanor Friedberger (of The Fiery Furnaces) is playing at the Echo

MOCA Grand Ave along with REDCAT is co-presenting a lecture with curator Raimundas Malašauskas

Director Jim McBride (Breathless, The Big Easy) will be in conversation with Peter Markham at Veggie Cloud in Highland Park after a screening of his 1967 film David Holzman’s Diary

Friday

Viet Cong are playing a sold out show at the Echo but there may be some tickets at the door

Canadian band Stars are at the Fonda with Leisure Cruise

First Friday at the Natural History Museum has JMSN and starRo performing

Marco Benevento is playing at the Bootleg Theater

Friday and Saturday

REDCAT is premiering Thom Anderson’s (who also made Los Angeles Plays Itself) newest essay film The Thoughts That We Once Had

Saturday

The group show Paper Cut opens at Subliminal Projects and the cut paper related works look pretty incredible on the website (RSVP required)

Sunday

Farrah Karapetian and Zoe Crosher are among the artists who will be discussing photography for week one of Remembering Forward: Conversations on Photography at LAXART’s new space in Hollywood- for the full list and to RSVP

It should be good weather for the Rose Bowl Flea Market this Sunday

All weekend

PaleyFest Los Angeles runs through 3/15 and gives fans a chance to see the casts of popular tv shows discuss them live at the Paley Center. This weekend’s lineup includes Homeland (3/6), A Salute to Comedy Central (3/7), The Good Wife (3/7), Girls (3/8) and Scandal (3/8).

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