Los Angeles Weekend Planner 10-8-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Oct 082015
 

Tennis System- Such a Drag

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/8-10/11/15)-

Thursday

Tennis System are opening for Talk in Tongues at the Echo

Downtown LA’s Artwalk is on for this month with a fashion/textile theme

Beirut are playing at the Hollywood Palladium

Gary Indiana’s exhibition is opening at 356 Mission and he will be performing tonight with Walter Steding

The Fratellis are playing at the Wiltern

Wild Child are playing at the El Rey Theatre

Thursday-Saturday

Culture Collide Festival is happening at various venues around Los Angeles with bands from around the world including Ladyhawke, Ash, The Juan Maclean and more, with $20 daily tickets and $10 passes for the International Showcases and smaller shows

Friday

Pasadena’s biannual ArtNight is a great chance to check out many of the area’s museums and cultural institutions for free as well as catch performances and live music. Free shuttles take you to all the destinations

The Rooftop Film Club is showing The Shawshank Redemption on top of the Montalban Theater in Hollywood

Funeral Party are headlining a show at The Satellite

Saturday

Street artist Hanksy organized over 50 artists to paint inside an abandoned mansion somewhere in Los Angeles for an event called Surplus Candy. The address will be released on Saturday so keep checking this link to go

Design East of La Brea (deLaB) is hosting 10 Feet: Art Meets the River with the LA River Public Art Project “pairing seven river
sites with practicing artists, who will present a range of two and three dimensional work, including a music piece and pollinator garden” (free)

NELA’s monthly Art Gallery Night is on in Highland Park

Battles are playing at the Regent Theater with Buke and Gase

Tenacious D’s Comedy/Music Festival Supreme is back at the Shrine with a ton of performers including Die Antwoord, Dan Deacon, The Kids in the Hall, Big Freedia, Amy Poehler, and many more. It’s not cheap ($95+ $22 fees) so you may want to pick up tickets at Amoeba Records, Origami Vinyl or the Shrine Box Office to save on the fees

Sunday

Matthew Barney is discussing his film River of Fundament with scholar Homi K. Bhabha at Tateuchi Democracy Forum at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (online tickets are sold out but there will be additional tickets released at the event)

Brentwood Art Festival has over 120 artists participating

Thundercat is playing at the Regent Theater

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 10-23-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Oct 232014
 

TV On The Radio- Happy Idiot

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/23-10/26/14)-

Thursday

TV On The Radio are at The Mayan

The Pumpkin Pie group show opens at Daniel Rolnik gallery in Santa Monica- artwork starts at $20

Allo Darlin’ are playing at The Echo

Producer and musician Daniel Lanois will be at the Grammy Museum for a performance and discussion of his work

Friday

Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna) Tom Verlaine (Television), Martin Rev (Suicide) and Eleanor Friedberger (The Fiery Furnaces) will perform live original scores to 15 never seen before Andy Warhol films for- Exposed- Songs for Unseen Warhol Films at UCLA’s Royce Hall

Night of the Living Zoo at the LA Zoo has dramatic Edgar Allen Poe readings, live music, drinks, a costume contest, and of course, the animals

Friday and Saturday

Broken Bells are at the Orpheum Theatre

Saturday

At Jerry Beck’s Halloween Spooktacular at Cinefamily he is screening “a selection of strange, creepy Halloween-related cartoons using vintage prints in 16mm and 35mm that range from ghoulishly red Eastmancolor to gorgeously garish Technicolor”

If you are willing to head a little out of Los Angeles, Beach Goth at The Observatory in Santa Ana has a pretty awesome lineup which includes- The Drums, DIIV, Bleached, Tijuana Panthers, Atlas Sound and more- 3 stages $40 and also, Pauly Shore is hosting

Festival Supreme, at the Shrine, hosted by Tenacious D, is a comedy and music festival that definitely leans more towards the comedy- lineup includes Workaholics, The State, Cheech and Chong, Peaches, Fred Armisen and tons more as well as a “Circus of Death” with a carousel, haunted forest and a bounce house church among other attractions

LACMA has a double Johnny Depp/Tim Burton feature – Sleepy Hollow and Edward Scissorhands

Saturday and Sunday

Brewery Art Walk is back this weekend- have some drinks and snacks and wander around the huge complex checking out open art studios

Sunday

Daryl Hall & John Oates at the Greek Theatre

If you are at the Hollywood Farmer’s Market on Ivar, make sure to stop by Pumpkin Fest at Space 15 Twenty– DIY mini pumpkins, flea market and a DJ