De Lux- Morning Misses Me
This song is from De Lux’s upcoming album, Do You Need A Release?, coming out 9/23/22.
The band are playing an album release show at Lodge Room in Los Angeles on Thursday, 9/22, with James The Fifth.
Sep 192022
Sep 262019
Deadbeat Beat- You Lift Me Up
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/26-9/29/19)-
Thursday
Bombay Bicycle Club are playing at The Mayan with Blaenavon
Ghostly is celebrating its 2oth Anniversary with performances by Gold Panda, Geotic, Mary Lattimore, Shigeto, and DJ SV4 at The Regent Theater
Pop Up Magazine’s “live magazine show” returns to The Theatre at the Ace Hotel, this time with the theme The Escape Issue in collaboration with The California Sunday Magazine. Performers include comedians Jordan Carlos and Chris Duffy, poet Sarah Kay, photographers Lucas Foglia and Lisette Poole, and more
Nightmares on Wax and Luke Vibert are DJ’ing at 1720
Pacer, Simulcast, and Devon Williams are opening for Stolen Jars at The Satellite
Thursday-Saturday
Lambda Lit Fest Los Angeles celebrates LGBTQ writers and includes tons of free programming throughout the city including performances and workshops. A day long celebration on Saturday at Pico Union Project concludes the programming with a presentation by Tegan and Sara from their new memoir, performances by artists including Phranc, Dynasty Handbag and Tommy Pico, and a karaoke party.
Friday
Deadbeat Beat are playing at All Star Lanes with Gum Country, Shells, and Dummy
Van Nuys Arts Festival is taking place at the civic center with live music, interactive art, a 3D maze, and more- all free
Ty Segall & Freedom Band are continuing their residency at Teragram Ballroom– tonight playing his new album First Taste and his 2014 album Manipulator. DMBQ are opening.
De Lux are opening for Friendly Fires at The Fonda Theatre
Hot Chip are playing with Holy Fuck at Shrine Expo Hall
Saturday
Blum & Poe are screening the LA premiere of Olompali: A Hippie Odyssey outdoors behind the gallery with a performance by folk band The Storytellers (free but RSVP required)
Deanna and Ed Templeton are signing their books at Arcana Books
The 38th Annual Watts Towers Day of The Drum Festival is taking place with free music and dance performances all day
Hammer Museum is having a free opening night party for the new Lari Pittman exhibition, which will include live DJs, drinks, and food trucks, as well as late night access to the gallery
The Berries, Justus Proffit, Alms, and Dummy are playing at The Hi Hat
Sunflower Bean, Ella Vos, and Ximena Sarinana are performing free as part of Tastes & Sounds Fall Crawl on South Lake Avenue in Pasadena
Deadbeat Beat are playing a free show in Long Beach at 4th Street Vine
Tegan and Sara are performing and telling stories to celebrate their new memoir at The Orpheum Theatre
Sunday
Artist Lari Pittman will be in conversation with curator Connie Butler at Hammer Museum to discuss his recently opened retrospective
At ICA LA’s free open house, celebrate new exhibitions No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake and Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon and from 2-3pm artist Nayland Blake will be in conversation with curator Jamillah James
Events continue at Watts Towers Arts Centers Campus with The 43rd Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival
Michael Kiwanuka is opening for Gary Clark Jr. at the Hollywood Bowl
Pond are playing at The Fonda Theatre with Maraschino opening
Jun 272019
Christian Lee Hutson- Northsiders
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/27-6/30/19)-
Thursday
LACMA is showing Yasujiro Ozu’s film An Autumn Afternoon ($7 for non-members) in the Bing Theater
Emily Reo is opening for Charly Bliss at Lodge Room in Highland Park
Cape Weather and King Dream are opening for Spooky Mansion at Resident
Art Life Practice is hosting the workshop Post-Painterly Abstraction at Hammer Museum- $40 includes wine, snacks, and the art materials needed to explore the techniques of the Abstract Expressionism Movement through “pouring, spraying, dropping, sponging, smearing, and more”
Hollywood Night Market at Yamashiro is a lovely way to have some food and drinks while enjoying beautiful views of the city- free shuttles leave from the Mosaic parking lot
Friday
Christian Lee Hutson, is opening for Okkervil River at The Troubadour
LACMA is hosting a free screening of Steve Loveridge’s Sundance award-winning film MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A., a personal profile of the artist and her journey from refugee immigrant to pop star
Sad Park, The Cozzmos, MoonFuzz, and Conductura are playing at The Smell
FIGFEST, the free concert series at FIGat7th, concludes tonight with STRFKR and De Lux
L.A. Live is hosting a Friday Night Block Party with $5 food and drink menus at many of the restaurants, live painting, street performers, and pop-up shops
Rufrano and Squirrel Flower are playing an early free show at Gold-Diggers
Night Beats are performing at The Roxy with Kate Clover and Hallow Gallows and a DJ set by Cosmonauts
Lido Pimienta, Delsonido, and Subsuelo are performing as part of the free concert series at Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park
Saturday
COLA 2019 artist Alice Könitz will be hosting a Self Reliance Talk and Workshop with survival expert Christopher Nyerges at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park at 1:30pm
LACMA is hosting a free screening of the short films created in the Spring 2019 Veterans Make Movies program from 2-4pm. There will be a Q&A with the filmmakers after the screening.
Self Help Graphics is having its Annual Print Fair and Exhibition from 12-5pm
Photographer Bill Owens will be at Arcana Books to celebrate and sign his brand new book documenting the Rolling Stones’ Altamont Free Festival, Bill Owens: Altamont 1969 from 4-6pm.
Anderson .Paak and The Free Nationals are performing at The Forum with special guests Earl Sweatshirt and Thundercat
Cinespia’s movie in Hollywood Forever Cemetery tonight is Reality Bites
Sinkane is performing at the Bootleg Theater with The Mad Alchemy Liquid Light Show
Steady Holiday are opening for Yeasayer at the Teragram Ballroom
Saturday and Sunday
If you are a fan of Stranger Things– this weekend the Santa Monica Pier will be transformed into the “Upside Down” of Hawkins, Indiana, including carnival games, a slime dunk tank and The Curiosity House which will include Demogorgons
Sunday
From 11am-6pm Hauser & Wirth will host a screening of Art21’s Extended Play featuring artist Luchita Hurtado, running it on a loop throughout the day
CicLAvia returns- this time it’s Mid City Meets Pico Union- closing streets to traffic from Washington and La Brea (Mid City Hub) to 7th, and Venice Blvd from 7th to Hoover (Pico Union Hub)
Independent Shakespeare Co. heads back to Griffith Park this weekend with free performances of the play Twelfth Night
Mara Connor and Pete Molinari are playing a free early show at Gold-Diggers and if you missed seeing Sinkane on Saturday stay to catch his DJ set
The Technicolors are playing at The Roxy with King Shelter and Palm Springsteen
Jan 182018
Joyce Manor- Last You Heard Of Me
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/18-1/21/18)-
Thursday
Tennis System and Souvenirs are opening for Teenage Wrist at The Hi Hat
Artist Gala Porras-Kim will be discussing her work from A Universal History of Infamy with curator Megan O’Neil, at LACMA (free but ticket required)
Also at LACMA is a screening of John Carpenter’s classic They Live
Guards and Veronica Bianqui are opening for The Soft White Sixties at The Echo
At REDCAT, LA-based performers Rubén Martínez and Raquel Gutiérrez will be performing VARIEDADES, “an interdisciplinary performance that brings together music, spoken word, theater, comedy and the visual arts, loosely based on the Mexican vaudeville shows of early 20th century”
Friday
Surfer Blood are playing at The Hi Hat with Terry Malts opening
Sociologist and writer Greg Snyder will be discussing his book SKATEBOARDING LA at The Last Bookstore with some of the professional skateboarders profiled in the book joining him (free)
De Lux are playing with The Juan Maclean at The Regent Theater
Suno Deko is performing at the Bootleg Theater with special sets/collaborations with Zach Tetreault, Cyrus Gengras, Alex Somers, and Julianna Barwick
iHeartRadio ALTer Ego 2018 is happening at The Forum with Beck, The National, Spoon, and more
Saturday
The Women’s March is taking place in downtown LA- moving from Pershing Square to City Hall
Joyce Manor are playing two shows at Union Station– tickets are still available for the earlier one (3pm) with Surf Curse and Peach Kelli Pop
For the final weekend of Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999-2011 at Hauser & Wirth, Extended Organ, Lonely Street and Telecaves will be performing (free)
There are still tickets available for the later show at The Broad of En Cuatro Patas: The Formaldehyde Trip, a work by Mexico City artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo, that includes songs and videos dedicated to murdered Mixtec activist Alberta “Bety” Cariño, performed live with props (part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA)
Wolf Parade are playing at The Fonda Theatre with Charly Bliss opening (also Friday)
Sondre Lerche is performing at Largo
Sunday
Worn-Tin is playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Small Forward and runnner opening
Hammer Museum is showing the experimental short films of Narcisa Hirsch as part of Los Angeles Filmforum’s Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (free)
Death of Lovers (members of Nothing) are playing at the Echoplex with Choir Boy opening
Nov 092017
De Lux- Oh Man The Future
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/9-11/12/17)-
Thursday
Artist Artemisa Clark will be giving a walk-through and discussing artworks from Hammer Museum’s Radical Women exhibition (free)
Blanck Mass are playing at Resident with Egyptrixx opening
Red Nation Film Festival continues with independent films showcasing the Native American and Indigenous perspective (running until 11/19)
Pete Tong is at the Hollywood Bowl presenting Ibiza Classics with the Heritage Orchestra with a special appearance by Moby
Hovvdy are playing with Jurassic Shark and Young Jesus at the Bootleg Theater
Friday
LA based artists Candice Lin and Miljohn Ruperto will be discussing Lin’s article and Ruperto’s work in the new issue of X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, at Ghebaly Gallery
De Lux are opening for Cut Copy at The Shrine Auditorium
Hamilton Leithauser is playing at the Fonda Theatre with Courtney Marie Andrews opening
Saturday
Artist Zoe Leonard will be discussing her work with curator Hamza Walker at Hauser & Wirth (free but register)
DUBLAB is hosting a free record fair at Zebulon
Shigeto is playing at the Echoplex with Ela Minus opening
Tropicalia Fest is happening at Queen Mary Park with a TON of bands playing including- Los Tigres del Norte, Chicano Batman, Kali Uchis, King Krule, Jhené Aiko, Surf Curse, Thee Commons, Slow Hollows, Red Pears and more
The Dead Ships are playing at The Moroccan Lounge with SPELLES and Velvet opening
Hennessey + Ingalls are having their annual art book sale- a good chance to start getting some holiday gifts (running till 11/12)
Sunday
Artist Sterling Ruby is doing a walk through of the exhibition Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999-2011 at Hauser & Wirth
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA is celebrating recently opened site-specific exhibition, Adrián Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance, with free admission all day, DJs and more
It’s the second and last day of DesignerCon at the Pasadena Convention Center
Artist Alex Israel will be in conversation with critic and curator Jack Bankowsky at LACMA Art Catalogues with a book signing and reception to follow (free)
Fazerdaze is playing at The Echo with Common Holly opening
The Grove’s Annual Tree Lighting celebration returns with performances and fireworks
Rebirth Brass Band are playing at the Teragram Ballroom