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

Throwback Thursday- Pete Rock & CL Smooth

 Music, Throwback Thursday
Mar 262015
 

Pete Rock & CL Smooth – The Creator

This song is from All Souled Out, Pete Rock and CL Smooth’s 1991 EP, and is the only Pete Rock solo track on any of their albums. They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)  is the song they are most famous for but they were also on Run DMC’s 1993 hit Down With the King, which Rock also produced. He went on to produce and sing the chorus on Nas’ song The World is Yours, from Illmatic, and later worked on several projects with members of the Wu-Tang Clan.

If you haven’t heard this song before but it sounds familiar it may be because it was just used in Android’s handshake commercial.

Pete Rock is performing at the Echo tonight (3/26) with Slum Village.

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 3-26-15

 Music, Throwback Thursday
Mar 262015
 

Slutever- White Flag

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (3/26-3/29/15)-

Thursday

Substrate Gallery presents Factory of Light– a screening for House of Light’s new music video with performances by the band and other musical guests. $10 entrance gets you a pop art print and complimentary beer and wine

Pete Rock and Slum Village are playing at the Echo

Grand Central Market is having Game Night until 9pm with classic and new games

Thursday- Sunday

Zoe Scofield’s dance collaboration with visual artist Juniper Shuey, BeginAgain is at REDCAT. Scofield is also having a dance workshop on Saturday

Friday

Roky Erickson (of 60′s band The Thirteenth Floor Elevators) & The Hounds of Baskerville are at the Roxy

Terry Malts is playing at The Smell with Wild Moth

Saturday

Robert Williams will be signing his book at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park

Bernhard Willhelm will be guiding tours and discussing his exhibit at MOCA Pacific Design Center- RSVP here (free)

For Panache Spring Fling there are several bands playing at the Echo including Jacco Gardner, Dream Boys, Happyness, and a “secret guest”

Electric Dusk Drive-In downtown is showing Mean Girls

Saturday and Sunday

Burgerama is Burger Records’ two day festival at the Observatory in Santa Ana and the lineup is incredible- Ty Segall, Fidlar, Thee Oh Sees, Weezer, Ariel Pink, Cherry Glazerr, Black Lips, Roky Erickson, Tobacco, Bone Thugs and Harmony, White Fence and many, many, many more- $47.50 for one day or $90 for two- it’s well worth it to see all these great bands

Sunday

Slutever are one of four bands opening for Pile at Los Globos ($8)

Connected Fashion Festival Pop Up is at Hotel Figueroa’s pool downtown and is a combination shopping event and boozy brunch ($30 brunch +bottomless mimosas)

Los Angeles Music Shows- Mini Mansions at Amoeba Records

 Los Angeles Music, Music
Mar 242015
 

Mini Mansions- Death is a Girl

Tonight (3/24) Mini Mansions are signing their new album The Great Pretenders and performing a live set at Amoeba Records Hollywood (and Amoeba San Francisco on 3/27). They also just released a video for their song Vertigo which features Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys.

Throwback Thursday- of Montreal

 Music, Throwback Thursday
Mar 192015
 

of Montreal- Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse

This was the first single off Of Montreal’s album Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer, released in 2007. The video was directed by The Brothers Chaps who are most famous for creating Homestar Runner, a Flash animated series that started in 2000 back in the days before YouTube and Facebook.

of Montreal are playing on Sunday (3/22) at the Regent Theater 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

Throwback Thursday- Repo Man / Black Flag

 Films, Music, Throwback Thursday
Mar 122015
 

Repo Man Trailer

Repo Man (1984), Alex Cox’s film about aliens, car repossession, and punk rock takes place in Los Angeles in the 1980′s and stars Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. It received good reviews at the time of its release and has since become a cult classic. The punk rock soundtrack is great too and includes tracks like the one below- Black Flag’s TV Party, as well as songs from Fear, Iggy Pop and Circle Jerks, who make an appearance in the film.

Alex Cox went on to make Sid and Nancy and Straight to Hell (which features Joe Strummer and Courtney Love) .

Repo Man is playing at the Regent Theater on Sunday (3/15) with a performance afterwards by Harry Dean Stanton and a band that includes Harper Simon.

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