Death Valley Girls- Sunday
This song is from the Death Valley Girls’ 2023 album Islands in the Sky.
They are playing with Deap Vally at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles on Saturday, 3/9/24.
Mar 042024
Jan 232020
Agnes Obel- Broken Sleep
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/23-1/26/20)-
Thursday
Fog Lake are playing El Cid with Foxes in Fiction
Filmmaker Jennifer Saparzadeh will be speaking at The Broad as part of their series The Logic of Poetry and Dreams (free but reserve ticket)
Artist Constance Mallinson will be in conversation with MOCA Assistant Curator Rebecca Lowery at MOCA Grand Avenue
Death Valley Girls are playing a free show at The Edison (RSVP here)
Patrick Watson is playing with Brad Barr at Lodge Room (also Friday)
Friday
Agnes Obel is playing at The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (also Thursday)
Beverly Cinema is showing Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood with a Q&A to follow with Arianne Phillips (costume designer), Barbara Ling (production designer), Wylie Stateman (sound editing), Mark Ulano (sound mixing), Michael Minkler (sound mixing) and Christian Minkler (sound mixing)
Blackbird Blackbird is performing at The Roxy with vōx
The Shivas are playing with Movie Club at the Bootleg Theater
Saturday
The Annual SoCal Museum Free For All offers free admission to museums that include The Autry, Descanso Gardens, LACMA, Natural History Museum and more
Playwright Samuel Beckett’s rarely performed Quad I and Quad II, directed by Michael Hackett, will be performed at Hammer Museum as part of a county-wide festival of performances inspired by LA Opera’s world premiere of Eurydice
Colleen Green and Weird Night are playing at Permanent Records Roadhouse
glass beach, Dogleg, and Kara’s Walk Home are playing at The Echo
The Knocks and Friends are playing at 1720
Sunday
The High Curbs are playing at Moroccan Lounge with Sad Park, Death Lens, and Super Lunch
The Theatre at Ace Hotel is showing Bong Joon Ho’s film Parasite with the score performed live by the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra and Parasite composer Jung Jaeil
It’s the last weekend to see Nayland Blake’s exhibition at ICA LA and tonight at Zebulon they are hosting DisGender Euphoria: Nayland Blake’s First International Intergenerational Gender Discard Party– an evening of performance, music, dance, and “gender discard” featuring Nao Bustamante, Ron Athey, Jamillah James, Bradford Nordeen, Jennifer Doyle and more
Cursive are playing with Cloud Nothings and Criteria at the Teragram Ballroom
Nov 212019
Julia Jacklin- Pressure to Party
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/21-11/24/19)-
Thursday
Devon Welsh of Majical Cloudz has a new solo project and is performing at Bootleg Theater with Sorry Girls. Get there early for a screening of Moses Sumney’s new music video Virile with a behind the scenes Q & A at 6:30pm (free with RSVP).
There are still free tickets available to see LA based educator, writer, theater actor, and documentarian Carolina Rivera Escamilla read her work in conjunction with Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, for The Broad’s series The Logic of Poetry and Dreams
Union Station is having it’s annual holiday tree lighting (with snow) and the first of this year’s cocoa concert series, starting at 6:30pm
Bloc Party are performing their 2005 album Silent Alarm at the Hollywood Palladium
Music producers Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Young will be performing together at The Midnight Hour at Lodge Room
The Get Up Kids are playing at the Echoplex with Kevin Devine and The Whiffs opening
Friday
Curator Jamillah James will be leading a tour of No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake followed by a happy hour with light refreshments at ICA LA for their monthly Art Buzz event (free but register)
Our Girl are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Particle Kid and a DJ set by SadGirl
Moon Duo are playing at Lodge Room with Umberto opening
Saturday
Artist Thomas Joshua Cooper, who has exhibitions currently on view at Hauser & Wirth and LACMA, will be in conversation with Michael Govan at Hauser & Wirth at 11:30am (free but register)
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) is having a cyanotype workshop with educator Marissa Gonzalez Kucheck at 12pm.
The Great LA Walk is your annual chance to walk across Los Angeles county with a group of other energetic walkers. This year’s route runs from Arcadia, through Pasadena and onward to City Hall.
Cultural Traffic Arts Fair is happening at Delicious Pizza, free from 12-8pm
Death Valley Girls and Crocodiles are playing at Lodge Room
Creature Feature Festival II is happening at the Bootleg Theater with performers that include The Blank Tapes, Early Evil, Young Creatures and more
L.A. Drones, Death Hags, and Big Fun are performing at El Cid
Saturday and Sunday
Renegade Craft Fair returns to Los Angeles State Historic Park with its free holiday market
Sunday
Julia Jacklin is playing at the El Rey Theatre with Christian Lee Hutson
Bootleg Theater is screening a double feature of Louis Malle’s God’s Country, about the farming community in Glencoe, Minnesota in 1979, which was thriving at the time. Forced to abandon the project early, Malle returns in 1985 to follow up, and finds that things have taken a dark turn during the Reagan era. The second film is Lee Grant’s The Willmar 8 a film about “a group of eight women who, in 1981, carried out the longest bank strike in American history to protest gender discrimination at great cost to their reputations, marriages and livelihoods in the 14,000-person town of Willmar, Minnesota- 60 miles north of Glencoe”.
Kanye West is premiering his new opera Nebuchadnezzar at the Hollywood Bowl, directed by performance artist Vanessa Beecroft and feature music from West’s Sunday Service choir.
Nov 292018
Molly Nilsson- Days of Dust
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/29-12/2/18)-
Thursday
Tennis System are opening for El Ten Eleven at the Teragram Ballroom
LACMA is hosting a free screening of the 1949 film Caught, featuring a character based on Howard Hughes. The event includes a post screening conversation with Karina Longworth and Edgar Wright, and a book signing of Seduction: Sex, Lies and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood
Union Station is having its Annual Tree Lighting and Cocoa Concert (free and indoors due to the rain)
California hip-hop collective BROCKHAMPTON are performing at the Shrine Expo Hall
SWIMM and Mating Ritual are playing at the Bootleg Theater
Friday
Molly Nilsson is playing at Zebulon with Patience and Paige Emery opening
Starting today and running until Sunday at The Theatre at Ace Hotel is HYPERSPECTIVE, a “free immersive film festival experience” in a 360 degree dome theater that include short and long-format immersive films
Spendtime Palace are playing with Pinky Pinky and The Brazen Youth at the Bootleg Theater
Doe Paoro and Springtime Carnivore are playing at the Lodge Room
Death Valley Girls are playing at The Echo with Salt Lick, Secret Stare and Adult Parts opening
Saturday
For Day With(out) Art 2018, Hammer Museum will be screening the hour long video program Alternate Endings, Activist Risings which highlights the impact of art in AIDS activism through short videos commissioned from community organizations and collectives
Justus Proffit and Jay Som will be performing songs from their recent collaboration at the Moroccan Lounge with Fime and Nikolas Escudero opening
Grand Central Market is hosting it’s Fifth Annual Holiday Marketplace (also on Sunday)
Union Station is also having a holiday marketplace which includes a performance by The Bob Baker Marionette Theater
Milagres are playing at The Echo
Tomberlin is playing at the Bootleg Theater with Christian Lee Hutson opening
Sunday
Hauser & Wirth is hosting a Holiday Market showcasing LA based makers, nonprofits, and performers (also on Saturday)
The East Los Angeles Christmas Parade is taking place, starting at noon on Whittier Blvd
Photographer Luther Gerlach will be at The Getty to demonstrate how to make wet plate collodion negatives, ambrotypes and tintypes (free)
Celebrate Hanukkah at Skirball Cultural Center with musical performances, workshops and storytelling
Zebulon is hosting a free screening of Elia Kazan’s film Splendor in the Grass, with an introduction to the film by Natasha Gregson Wagner (actress Natalie Wood’s daughter) and film scholar Jim Hosney
Artist Ed Templeton will be signing his new book at Arcana
CicLAvia is back and shutting down streets to traffic in Chinatown, Boyle Heights and DTLA
Jun 212018
Juniore- Magnifique
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/21- 6/24/18)-
Thursday
MOCA’s free music night returns to their Geffen Contemporary location with TT featuring Theresa Wayman from Warpaint, WIVES, Current Joys, and Honey Power DJs
Tonight at Hammer Museum, Made in L.A. 2018 co-curator Erin Christovale will be discussing artist EJ Hill’s practice (for his project he “ran laps around every Los Angeles school he attended, a reflection on the hardships that black, brown, and queer bodies endure as well as their resilience”) with Amanda Hunt, MOCA Los Angeles director of education and public programming and Desert X 2019 co-curator, and artist Texas Isaiah, who collaborated on Hill’s project. (free)
designLAb at the Pacific Design Center is having a reception for its Summer 2018 Exhibition
There are still tickets left for the Ted Leo and the Pharmacists show at The Echo, celebrating the 15th anniversary of their album Hearts of Oak, with Summer Cannibals opening
Anemone are opening for Men I Trust at the Echoplex
Friday
WAVVES are playing a free show at FIGat7th with Thumpasaurus opening
French pianist, composer, and musical director for Phoenix and Sebastien Tellier, Chassol, is performing his “ultrascore” project, INDIAMORE, free for Grand Performances. The film will be projected and accompanied by live music.
Filmmaker Catherine Gund’s documentary Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance will be screening at the Billy Wilder Theater as part of the Legacy Project screenings curated this season by Zackary Drucker. Gund, Athey and Drucker will be in person for this event.
La Luz are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Summer Twins opening
Flora Wiegmann will be performing Reduction Burn, a series of movements with other dancers that reflect on the recent California fires, at Hammer Museum
The ‘B’ Girls, Death Valley Girls, and Kamila and the Karnivores are playing at Zebulon with performances and readings by Lydia Lunch, Carla Bozulich’s “Bloody Claws”
Saturday
Artists Nikita Gale and Candice Lin will be discussing Patrick Staff’s work during a 3pm tour of Made in L.A. 2018 at Hammer Museum
Blue Roof Studios is having a free daytime arts festival with artwork by over 60 artists, music, performances, an art makers bazaar and more
Self Help Graphics & Art is having its Annual Print Fair & Exhibition which includes free workshops and demos
The Getty’s free music night Off the 405 returns with Peaking Lights Family Band which includes drummer Onochie Chukwurah and dancers
FEELS and Hooveriii are playing a free show at the Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park
Grand Performances free programming continues with Secret Life of Muslims, an evening of live music, comedy and short films
Sudan Archives, Peanut Butter Wolf, MNDSGN, Jerry Paper, and more are playing Stones Throw Soul at 1720
Sunday
French indie pop quartet Juniore are playing at the Echoplex with Sonoda and Tangients
Get a special guided tour of Clifton’s historic restaurant with a book signing and discussion with the authors of 100 Things to Do in Los Angeles Before You Die, 2nd Edition to follow ($10)
Father John Misty is playing at the Hollywood Bowl with Gillian Welch and Big Thief
Spendtime Palace are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Dr Danny and The No. 44 opening
Mar 022018
Superet- Pay It Later
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (3/2-3/4/18)-
Friday
For the second of the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays– Superet are opening for Mondo Cozmo as well as a performance by Shannon Lay. The programming will also include a special tour and a lecture on the upcoming possibilities of the 2028 LA Olympics.
Burger-A-Go-Go is a two night event at 1720 with bands The Coathangers, Death Valley Girls, The Flytraps and Feels performing tonight
Griffith Observatory their free first Friday program All Space Considered, where the curatorial staff discuss astronomy and space science
Ex-Cult are playing at the Lodge Room with Lars Finberg, and The Side Eyes
Cut Chemist is playing a show at the Teragram Ballroom
Saturday
It’s the last weekend to see the Cuba Is, photography exhibition at Annenberg Space for Photography and tonight there is a closing celebration with live music, free Cuban coffee and treats, and extended hours (6-8pm)
Burger-A-Gogo continues its two night event at 1720 with bands Dengue Fever, Winter, Summer Twins and Patsy’s Rats performing tonight
The 2018 LA IPA Fest at Mohawk Bend is a great way to sample beers from over 60 breweries (also Sunday)
Dai Burger and Uniiqu3 are playing at Union Nightclub
Saturday and Sunday
Air + Style Two Day Festival taking place at EXPO Par at LA Coliseum is not cheap ($149 for both days, $79 for one), but there are a lot of good bands playing including Cut Copy, Mura Masa, Twin Peaks, Ex-Cult on Saturday, and Sunday’s lineup includes Phoenix, Gucci Mane, Washed Out, Cloud Nothings, and Phantogram
Sunday
For MOCA’s Artists on Artists series, photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya will be guiding a tour and discussing the recently opened exhibition Real Worlds: Brassaï, Arbus, Goldin
Beta Main is hosting the free workshop Mindfulness and Self-Care Tools for Healthy and Joyful Living, facilitated by Victor Narro, Project Director of the UCLA Labor Center, and Laureen Lazarovici, writer and managing editor for the Kaiser Permanente Labor Management Partnership
Tall Juan is playing at The Echo with Gabriella Cohen and The Pantones opening
CLARA-NOVA is playing at The Moroccan Lounge with The Mynabirds and Rainstorm Brother opening
Nov 172016
Dante Elephante- Pasadena Dreams
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/17-11/11/20/16)-
Thursday
Los Angeles musician Devendra Banhart will be performing at MOCA Grand Ave as part of a series of in-gallery programs focusing on core ideas in the exhibition Doug Aitken: Electric Earth (free)
Artist Jack Whitten is giving a talk at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery (free with RSVP)
Death Valley Girls are playing at the Echoplex with Gateway Drugs, C.G. Roxanne and the Nightmares, and Kill A Punk For Rock and Roll with DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, and Dave Foley (Kids in the Hall) hosting
As part of Hammer Museum’s Bureau of Feminism Initiative, they are showing Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, a film “about a young black lesbian trying to make a film about an obscure 1930s black actress”. Dunye will join curator Erin Christovale after the screening for a discussion. (free)
Rainbow Arabia is playing at Non Plus Ultra with KATIEE
Water Slice, Klangstof, and Slow Talker are playing at The Satellite
Friday
Slow Club are playing at The Echo with Annie Hart
It’s the first night of LA Zoo Lights, the annual holiday event at the zoo
Ricky Eat Acid is headlining a night at Union
Fartbarf are playing with David and the Curse at El Cid
Saturday
The Great Los Angeles Walk returns and the route this year is Pico Boulevard from downtown to the ocean (free)
REDCAT is hosting The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation (also Sunday)
The Egyptian Theatre is showing a double feature of the Warren Beatty films Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait
Meatbodies are playing with Feels, Melted, and Ivy Leaguers at The Hi Hat
Saturday and Sunday
DesignerCon at the Pasadena Convention Center mixes collectible toys and designer goods with pop art. The event also features panelists and art demonstrations happening over both days
Sunday
Dante Elephante are opening for The Orwells at Resident
Angels Flight Literary West is launching its monthly literary salon series, focused on writing about Los Angeles, at Clifton’s Cafeteria. This week’s authors are Dana Johnson and David Kukoff
For MOCA Grand Ave’s Artists on Artists series, Lauren Halsey will be leading an informal walkthrough of the exhibition Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like A Lady?
L.A. Drones!, Future Shoxxx, TV Heads and more are playing at The Echo for Subspace’s Zine Release Show
Nov 032016
Deep Fields- Salazar
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/3-11/6/16)-
Thursday
Saint Motel are at Amoeba Hollywood for a free performance and album signing
Drink craft beer and make your own felt beer cozy at the Craft and Folk Art Museum ($10 includes materials, drinks and snacks)
Artist Amie Siegel is giving a lecture at the Hammer Museum
The lecture this week at MOCA Grand Avenue is The Idea of Oceans, with Scott Bolton, principal investigator of NASA’s Juno mission; Shawn Heinrichs, filmmaker and activist; Greg Long, big wave surfer; and artist Doug Aitken; moderated by Cyrill Gutsch, founder of Parley for the Oceans (free)
Bobcat Goldthwait is hosting the a 25th Anniversary screening of his directorial debut Shakes The Clown at the Regent Theater with a Q & A to follow
Goldroom and Autograf are playing at The Novo
Friday
Deep Fields are playing with Yeesh at Non Plus Ultra
The Getty is showing Derek Jarman’s Blue outdoors in their garden terrace (free but $10-15 parking and advanced ticket required)
Miss Kittin is part of a show at a secret location with Adana Twins
Union Station is hosting a free screening of the film noir classic Criss Cross
The New Beverly Cinema is showing the Academy Award winning film The Deer Hunter
Saturday
Wild Beasts are playing with Porcelain Raft at the El Rey Theatre
For the closing of Marnie Weber’s solo exhibition at GAVLAK Los Angeles, she will be performing with visual artist and experimental musician Daniel Hawkins as well as costumed birds (free)
Primal Scream are playing at the Regent Theater with Death Valley Girls opening
There are still tickets available for Stones Throw Super Fest ft. Common, Peanut Butter Wolf, MNDSGN, Chrome Canyon and more, as part of Red Bull Sound Select’s 30 Days in LA
From Indian Lakes are playing with Made Violent and Wild Wild Horses at The Echo
Saturday and Sunday
There are still tickets available for ComplexCon in Long Beach. The concert lineup includes Skrillex, Kid Cudi, Metro Boomin, Snoop Dogg, and 2 Chainz. There are also art installations, vendors, and speakers including Vince Staples, DJ Mustard, Pete Rock, Ilana Glazer, Ice Cube, Angie Martinez, Lil B, Mike Judge, Pharell Williams and many more big names speaking on panels for different issues.
Sunday
It’s the last day to see Pat Graney’s Girl Gods dance performance at REDCAT which looks pretty incredible (tickets available 11/3-11/6)
Peach Kelli Pop and Upset are opening for The Regrettes at The Echo
The Rock N Roll Flea Market returns to the Regent Theater for its free monthly event
Sextile are playing with Bootblacks, Liste Noire and Second Still at Complex in Glendale
Deep Fields are playing with Avi Buffalo at The Smell ($5)
All weekend
The WestEdge Design Fair is at The Barkar Hangar in Santa Monica with exhibitors, seminars and more