Oct 062016
Oct 062016
Tourist- To Have You Back
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/6-10/9/16)-
Thursday
Deap Vally are playing a free set at Amoeba Hollywood and signing their new album Femejism
Monument, the performance series which pairs Los Angeles–based musicians and sound artists with pieces within the current installation of MOCA Grand Ave’s permanent collection, returns with Greg Kowalsky and Damon Eliza Palermo(free)
Eric Erlandson of Hole has created Pretty Looking Back: An orchestral interpretation celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hole’s first album, “Pretty On the Inside” taking place at the Regent Theater
The Fall Market and designLAb’s gallery event are both on at the Pacific Design Center
For this week’s CraftNight at CAFAM, artist Mimi Haddon will be teaching participants to make fiber sculptures, wall hangings, or wearable art ($10 includes materials, drinks, and snacks)
Miike Snow is playing at The Shrine Auditorium with Zella Day
Tycho are playing at the Fonda Theatre (also Friday)
Friday
Tourist is playing at the El Rey Theatre
Skirball Cultural Center is hosting Into the Night, an after hours event to accompany their current exhibit Pop for the People, which will include poster printing with artists from Self Help Graphics & Art, performances by Seth Bogart and Chela, as well as food and drink
Grouplove are playing at the Hollywood Palladium
For their Cinema Under the Stars event, the Getty Villa is showing Monty Python’s The Life of Brian ($5 +$10 for parking)
Resident is hosting Feminist Friday featuring the band mini bear (free with rsvp)
Mystic Braves are headlining a night of bands at the Troubadour
Saturday
Culver City Arts District’s Art Walk runs from 2-6pm with music performances, workshops, art activities and more
The Getty Villa is showing Richard Lester’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for the second night of their Cinema Under the Stars event ($5 +$10 for parking)
Allah-Las are playing with TOPS at the Regent Theater
GTA are performing at The Shrine Auditorium
Kula Shaker are playing at The Roxy
Saturday and Sunday
Santa Monica Art Studios is having its 12th Year Anniversary Open Studios
Sunday
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel is hosting a panel discussion with Rita Ackermann, Kim Gordon, Richard Jackson, and Paul McCarthy. Ackermann will moderate a lively discussion focused on painting as performance, the importance of failure in art, the role of the accident in artwork, and the artist as exhibitionist. (free but mandatory RSVP)
Terry Malts is playing at the Hi Hat with Devon Williams
There’s a free mole festival, La Feria de los Moles, taking place on Olvera Street
Robyn Hitchcock is playing at Largo
Weirdo Night! is back at El Cid for more experimental comedic performance and video hosted by Dynasty Handbag
Sep 292016
DJ Shadow feat. Run The Jewels- Nobody Speak
DJ Shadow is playing a sold out show tonight, 9/29/16, at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles with Noer the Boy. His new album, The Mountain Will Fall, featuring the track above, was released in June of this year. Watch for cameos in the video of DJ Shadow (in a wig) and the members of Run The Jewels.
Sep 292016
For more work by Cut & Payste, check out their Instagram.
Sep 292016
Gringo Star- Rotten
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9-29-10/2/16)-
Thursday
Gringo Star are playing at The Satellite with The Relationship (Weezer guitarist Brian Bell’s band) and Night Talks
Hammer Museum is showing Eva Hesse, a documentary about the artist with a Q & A with the director Marcie Begleiter and producer Karen Shapiro afterwards
Trentemøller is performing and signing copies of his new album Fixion at Amoeba Hollywood before his sold out show at Hollywood Forever’s Mason Lodge (free but get there early)
It’s the first of two nights of UnSilent Cinema at FIGat7th (presented by Arts Brookfield) where musicians provide a contemporary score for classic silent films. Tonight Marc Ribot will score Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid and Alvin Youngblood Hart will score Fatty Arbuckle’s Out West. There will also be a Chaplin Speakeasy Happy Hour and DJs before the program begins. (free)
As part of The Broad’s film series Doll Parts, tonight they will be screening Ming Wong’s Life of Imitation followed by Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life ($12 includes same-night access to the museum
The Soul Rebels Sound System ft. Talib Kweli are playing at the Fonda Theatre
Friday
For the second night of UnSilent Cinema at FIGat7th, electronic musicians will be the focus for the program- Daedelus will be scoring Charlie Chaplin’s Easy Street, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith will be scoring Harry Smith’s Early Abstractions, Jimmy Tamborello will be scoring Buster Keaton’s Cops, and Callie will be scoring Chaplin’s One A.M.
Thievery Corporation are playing the Greek Theatre with Chronixx
Front Porch Cinema is hosting a free movie night at the Santa Monica Pier with a screening of Zootopia
The Regrettes are playing at Non Plus Ultra with Casinos and Liily
TV Girl, Avid Dancer, and Bad Wave are playing at The Hi Hat
Saturday
Jimmy Kimmel Live is having a yard sale in the studio’s back parking lot in Hollywood to benefit My Friend’s Place, an organization that helps homeless youth
For the performance- At the Edge of Space and Time: Expanding beyond Our 4% Universe, at the Hammer Museum, collaborators Jennifer Moon and laub will “bring viewers on an adventure through the cosmos, the multiverse, and beyond, presenting ideas about love, faith, and revolution by queering various scientific disciplines”. (free, also on Sunday)
It’s Dublab’s 17th Anniversary and they are having a party at Union Nightclub (formerly known as Jewel’s Catch One) with performances by Peanut Butter Wolf, Egyptian Lover and many more
Edward Scissorhands is the movie this week for the Electric Dusk Drive-In
Sunday
For Cinefamily’s wine tasting/film screening in Barnsdall Park they are showing Fellini’s Satyricon
Dynasty Handbag is performing at the Hammer Museum (free)
Jah Wobble And The Invaders of The Heart are playing with LA Drones at the Echoplex
The monthly Rock N Roll Flea Market returns to the Regent Theater (free)
Sep 222016
Sylvan Esso- Radio
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/22-9/25/16)-
Thursday
For The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA’s lecture series this week, Los Angeles-based artists Liz Glynn and Aaron Koblin, along with Doug Aitken, will discuss the various intersections created by the idea of time in his, Glynn’s, and Koblin’s work. Koblin created Light Echoes for Doug Aitken’s 2013 project Station to Station and Glynn works in sculpture and performance with a focus on time. The exhibition Doug Aitken:Electric Earth is currently at the museum. (free and free entrance to the exhibition)
Still Corners are playing with Foxes in Fiction and Kid Bloom at The Roxy
LACMA’s Art + Technology Lab grant recipient Michael Mandiberg is presenting recent and in-progress work and soliciting feedback on his forthcoming project for the Lab- Mechanical Tramp. The program will be part artist talk/ part studio visit (free with RSVP)
Catfish and The Bottlemen are playing at The Wiltern
If you watched the second series of True Detective you may recognize singer Lera Lynn as the barroom singer (her music was also used for the trailer). She’s playing tonight at the Bootleg Theater
Mrs. Magician are playing at Resident with The Sloths and Susan
Friday
As part of the Getty’s film series to accompany their London Calling exhibition, Charles Atlas will introduce the screening of his film The Legend of Leigh Bowery (free with RSVP)
For Resident’s music night Feminist Friday, Memphis band NOTS is headlining a lineup that includes Batwings Catwings and French Vanilla (free with RSVP)
Sleepless: The Music Center After Hours returns with kaleidoscopic telescopes, DJ sets, a classic video arcade, video art installations, cocktails, dancing and more, beginning at 11:30 pm ($20/$30 at the door)
Royal Canoe are playing at the Hi Hat
Band of Skulls are playing with Moving Units at The Wiltern
Saturday
Part of Live Arts Exchance/LAX’s two week performance and art festival is Among Us– “an immersive sound experience about the human instinct to belong, about the tension between the individual and the community, and about what you are willing to give up to not be alone”. It takes place in two parts of the day- the morning portion will be at Union Station and the second at sunset in a secluded park in DTLA. It will be performed multiple times throughout the two weeks beginning on 9/22 ($25)
It’s day two of Long Beach’s Music Tastes Good Festival– a music and food block party. Three day tickets are $120 or you can get an individual one per day at different costs. Tonight has the largest lineup of bands including The Specials, Warpaint, Squeeze, Dr. Dog, Deltron 3030 w/the 3030 Orchestra, MELVINS, Twin Peaks, LE1F and many more for $75.
BAM Fest (Beer, Art & Music Festival) is the 18th Street Arts Center’s benefit event- $45-$50 gets you unlimited beer samples from over 40 breweries, 3 live music acts (including Alice Bag), art installations, art-making workshops and more from 1-5pm
homeLA returns with its site specific dance performance- this time the home will be in Rose Hill
Aesop Rock and Dilated Peoples are opening for Atmosphere at The Shrine LA Outdoors
Tarfest, the free music and arts festival, returns to the La Brea Tarpits Park
Lush are playing with Tamaryn at The Fonda Theatre (also on Sunday)
Mike Judge, Terry Crews and Dax Shepard are uniting for the 10th Anniversary of their film Idiocracy. The outdoor screening is at Echo Park Tennis Center as part of Eat See Hear’s series and Shepard and Amanda Fairey’s #MakeAmericaSmartAgain movement
Sunday
Sylvan Esso are playing the last day of Long Beach’s Music Tastes Good Festival with De La Soul, Gallant and more for $35.
Downtown LA’s Long Beach Ave. Lofts is having its third annual artist’s open studios
White Reaper are playing at Chain Reaction with Pity Party and Melted
UCLA’s Fowler Museum is having a special event celebrating Indonesia with specialty coffee tasting, Javanese dance performances, demonstrations of batik technique and interactive seminars and talks (free)
Cinefamily’s wine, music and outdoor film series in Barnsdall Park continues with Black Orpheus
Mac Miller, Pusha T, A-Trak and more are playing the Shrine LA Outdoors for Fools Gold’s Day Off
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead are performing Source Tags & Codes at The Echo
Sep 152016
Sep 152016
ENTRANCE- Promises
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/15-9/18/16)-
Thursday
ENTRANCE is playing at Resident with Weyes Blood and Lael Neale
John Doe & Exene Cervenka are playing at the Regent Theater with special guest Howe Gelb
Eli Detweiler, Jr., a livestock and auto auctioneer, will perform a high-speed auctioneer chant and lead an informal workshop in auctioneer number-calling at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA . Detweiler is featured in Doug Aitken’s 1998 installation these restless minds which is part of the MOCA exhibition Doug Aitken: Electric Earth. (MOCA entrance and this program are free)
Cosmonauts are having an album release party at the Echoplex with Cellars and Tomorrows Tulips also playing
As part of Doll Parts, the continuing film series at The Broad that complements the Cindy Sherman exhibit, artist Lynn Hershman Leeson’s electronic video diary Binge will be shown along with the work of performance artist Narcissister, who will also perform live ($12 includes night access to the museum)
Friday
Clockshop is hosting Readings by Moonrise at the Bowtie Project in Frogtown with authors A-lan Holt and Dana Johnson and a performance by Nevenka, an Eastern European folk ensemble ($5 suggested donation- s’mores will be provided but you can bring your own picnic items)
Local Natives are playing the Greek Theatre with special guest Charlotte Day Wilson
For the last of LA Zoo’s Roaring Nights the theme is the ’80s with tributes to David Bowie and Prince, as well as food, drinks, vintage video games, and “special animal encounters”
Porches are playing with Japanese Breakfast and Rivergazer at the Echoplex
Saturday
Brainfeeder at the Hollywood Bowl has Flying Lotus, Funkadelic featuring George Clinton and Parliament, Thundercat, Shabazz Palaces, and The Gaslamp Killer performing
Electric Dusk Drive-In’s film this week is Pulp Fiction
Chinatown is having its 78th Annual Mid-Autumn Moon Festival with bands and DJs, cooking demonstrations, a market and more
Glendale is having its first Open Arts & Music Fest with bands, an arts market and kids arts and crafts workshops
The Squids are having a record release party at The Hi Hat
Sunday
Kraftwerk’s 3-D concert series is at the Hollywood Bowl
The Regent Theater is celebrating the work of Kenneth Anger with a screening of The Invocation of My Demon Brother, Scorpio Rising, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, and Lucifer Rising. Following the screening, Kenneth Anger and Brian Butler will perform as the Technicolor Skull. The evening will conclude with a Q&A.
Long Beach’s Comic Con is back for its second and final day
Manfredi Gioacchini has a new book of informal portraits of LA artists and will be discussing it with Jonas Wood at LACMA
Weirdo Night! is back at El Cid with “an evening of experimental comedic performance and video” hosted by Dynasty Handbag
Sep 082016
clipping.- Inside Out
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/8-9/11/16)-
Thursday
clipping. is having an album release party/concert at Highways Performance Space with additional performances by Busdriver and Pedestrian Deposit ($10) or you can catch them earlier at Amoeba Records where they will be performing a free mini-set at 6pm
Downtown LA Artwalk is celebrating its 12-year anniversary with a retrospective show in their lounge in addition to the numerous exhibitions at other participating downtown galleries
Holy Ghost! are opening for the Ohio Players for the last of the free summer concerts at the Santa Monica Pier. It’s also the last night to check out the art installation Light Wave, also at the pier
Friday
The pool at Annenberg Beach House is having its last Sunset Swim, an adults only swim night from 7-10pm with free s’mores and fruit bars ($10)
The LA County Fair continues this weekend and the concert tonight is Blondie along with special guest The Smithereens
P.S. Eliot are playing with Upset at The Echo
French Vanilla, Roses, Moaning, and Lithics are playing at The Hi Hat in Highland Park
Saturday
Artist Dan Winter is giving a lecture with a Q&A session and an exhibition walk through at Fahey/Klein Gallery
The Los Angeles International Neon Jubilee is having a free all day event at The Velaslavasay Panorama to celebrate the re-lighting of their 1939 neon marquee. There will be live music, animation activities and workshops with the Echo Park Film Center, puppet shows by the Bob Baker Marionette Theater and more. (RSVP strongly recommended)
NELA Art Second Saturday Gallery Night is a great chance to check out the Northeast Los Angeles art scene
British electronic music duo Demdike Stare will perform an original live set created in response to atmosphere of the Getty and to complement the exhibition London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj as part of the Saturdays off the 405 series
Sunday
Artist Doug Aitken will be discussing his work and his current exhibition with MOCA Director Philippe Vergne at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (free with museum admission)
Cinefamily continues its outdoor movie series at Barnsdall Art Park with the Truffaut film Jules et Jim and pre-show music by Tortoise ($25 includes a wine tasting)
Joshua Payne Orchestra are performing on the LA River in Frogtown with live projection artwork by Ryan Patrick Griffin as part of his Projected Visions series. Donate any amount to find out the exact location.
Human Resources gallery is having a one night exhibition on the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11
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