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Los Angeles Weekend Planner 12-17-15

Dec 172015

Vince Staples- Señorita

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (12/17-12/20/15)-

Thursday

Thee Oh Sees, Fuzz, and WAND are playing A Holiday Homeless Charity Event at Teragram Ballroom with proceeds going to LA Kitchen. It’s sold out, but there are always ways to find tix.

The Center for the Arts at Eagle Rock is hosting The Winter Solstice Sound Bath, which “offers audience members the opportunity to achieve a deep meditative state through the experience of pure sound” ($25)

For some different, less meditative sounds, EDM DJ Dillon Francis is at The Shrine with T-Pain, Valentino Khan, Anna Lunoe & Neo Fresco (or see him Friday with ILoveMakonnen)

Friday

Vince Staples is worth taking a trip to Santa Ana for, where he’ll be playing at The Observatory

At the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) gallery they are having the opening for the exhibit Molybdomancy followed by a Holiday Party with Night Gallery which will have performances, DJs, and hot cider

Get in the holiday spirit with The Music Center’s free outdoor Holiday Sing-along (tickets are distributed to the line at 6pm)

J Fernandez is playing at the Bootleg Theater

Can’t get enough of Star Wars?- you can participate in Light Saber Battle LA 2015 in Pershing Square (if you have one- they have sold out) or just check it out (free)

Fishbone are playing at The Roxy

Pity Sex are at The Echo with Colleen Green and Eskimeaux

Friday and Saturday

At REDCAT, The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts is having its annual Winter Dance Concert

Saturday

Artists Risk and Axis are live painting from 3-5pm at Buckshot Gallery

Moving Units are playing at The Roxy

The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica has a holiday double feature showing of Elf and Bad Santa

The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood is showing National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and Scrooged as its double feature

The Bots are at The Echo with Buttertones and Thee Commons

Sunday

Dan Harmon and Jeff B. Davis are hosting Harmontown at Nerdmelt in Hollywood

The Aero Theatre and the Egyptian Theatre are both showing holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life

All weekend

Check out the recreation of Seinfeld’s apartment on Melrose from 10am- 7pm (free)

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 7-16-15

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Jul 162015

Real Estate- Crime

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/16-7/19-15)-

Thursday

Real Estate are playing at the Santa Monica Pier with Hippo Campus (free)

Fuzz are at the Troubadour with The Birth Defects

The Hammer Museum’s Summer of Soul continues with Sam Sparro, The Rebirth, and KCRW DJs (free)

Cold Showers are opening for Light Asylum at The Echo

Friday

At Skirball Cultural Center this week for the outdoor concert Into the Night, musical acts Tamaryn and Mystic Braves will perform while Joshua Light Show presents a “liquid light show” to accompany the music ($20)

Superhumanoids are playing with Tropics at Figat7th’s free downtown event

L7 are at the Fonda Theatre (tickets available for balcony only, or see them Thursday when tickets are available for the floor only)-

This week at Grand Performances is The Last Jimmy: A Hip Hop Musical with Dice Raw which “explores mass incarceration, the criminal justice system, and the prison-industrial complex through the eyes of young black males” (free)

Friday through Sunday

MOCA’s Step and Repeat returns to their Geffen location for three days of numerous performances that include music, performance art, comedy, poetry and dance- $12 for one night or $30 for all three- check the link for the list of all the artists-

Saturday

Artists/Street Artists Haunted Euth and T.S. Clair’s joint exhibition “Heroine” is at Stone Malone Gallery and opens tonight

Photographer Marcus Haney is screening his film “No Cameras Allowed” at Annenberg Space for Photography and afterwards will be discussing his current career and how he broke into the business through concert photography ($10)

Downtown Long Beach’s Summer and Music Festival continues with a free screening of The Wizard of Oz, a performance by the band MOVE, and for $5 you can get wireless headphones to participate in Silent Disco- all in the promenade parking lot

Willie Nelson is playing at the Greek Theatre

The Autry’s outdoor movie this week is Three Amigos

Sunday

The 18th Street Arts Center is having their “Champagne Social” with guided studio tours and of course, champagne (free)-

The second day of the Viva Pomona! festival at the Glass House has headliners Iceage, and Christopher Owens (formerly of the band Girls)

Jesse Thorn of Maximumfun is giving his talk Make Your Thing that “focuses on how he turned his college radio show into an independent media powerhouse” at Annnenberg Space for Photography ($10)

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 4-23-15

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Apr 232015

Eternal Summers- Wonder

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/23-4/26/15)-

Thursday

Eternal Summers are opening for Turbo Fruits at The Roxy

Tonight is the last screening of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster series with Cremaster 3 (2002) at the Hammer

Friday

Matthew Barney and composer Jonathan Bepler will discuss their recent collaboration River of Fundament (premiering at UCLA on Saturday) with professor Kenneth Reinhard at the Hammer Museum. Free but get there early

Fuzz are playing the El Rey Theatre

Saturday

Kaiser Chiefs are at The Wiltern along with We Are Scientists

The Dead Milkmen are at the Troubadour tonight and Sunday

Saturday and Sunday

The Brewery is having the first of its biannual art walks (free admission and parking)

The Jackalope Art Fair is taking place in Old Pasadena

Sunday

LACMA is having a community day to celebrate their 50th Anniversary with free admission (even to ticketed exhibits) and events

Artist Vincent Lamouroux is painting Silver Lake’s deserted Sunset Pacific Motel, also known as the “Bates Motel”, and its surroundings (including trees) white with lime wash to turn it into a temporary art installation that will be completed today for the opening (3-6pm)

Reptar will be playing a free in-store show at Origami Records

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 7-17-14

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Jul 172014

Melpo Mene- I Adore You

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/17-7/20/14)-

Thursday

Melpo Mene is opening for Figs Vision at the Bootleg

An evening with Genesis Breyer P- Orridge at the MOCA book store- a book signing, screening, talk, and performance by DJMREX

Francisco Goldman discusses his latest book The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle at the Central Library downtown

Made in L.A. Music: An Evening of Community Music hosted by Alex Ebert (of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) at the Hammer

Friday

No Age is hosting Friday Night Flights at the Getty– They are presenting assorted installations, three experimental performances that will culminate with “an altered concert experience” of their latest album An Object, and a curated program of videos by filmmakers and artists

Masters of Ceremony Hip Hop Reunion is at the Nokia Theater with DMX, EPMD, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Naughty by Nature, Slick Rick, Special Ed and more

Jonathan Wilson and Mystic Braves are playing as part of the free weekly FIGat7th Downtown Festival

Saturday

MOCA curator Bennett Simpson discusses the Mike Kelley exhibit and afterwords there is an Extended Organ Music Event (an experimental band Mike Kelley was once a part of) -both free

The Autry’s outdoor movie this weekend is American Psycho and yOya are playing

Blue Velvet is playing at Hollywood Forever cemetery

Saturday and Sunday

Viva Pomona is two days of great music at The Glass House in Pomona- some of the bands include- !!!, Thee Oh Sees, Fuzz, Crystal Antlers, Porter, So Many Wizards, and more- 20$ each day

Sunday

Closing reception for the exhibition “Phantom Color” at CB1 Gallery downtown features a talk with the artists (Eric Beltz, Brian Scott Campbell and Nathan Hayden), wine, DJs from the band Gardens and Villa and a dance performance

Jimmy Cliff is at the Hollywood Bowl

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 12-12-13

Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music

Dec 122013

Jagwar Ma- The Throw

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend:

Thursday-

Downtown Art Walk
Fuzz (another Ty Segall project) at El Cid
Dinner and a movie (Chinatown) at Grand Central Market and the Million Dollar Theater

Friday (THE 13TH)-

Jagwar Ma at El Rey
GRMLN at The Smell (part of a KXLU residency)
10th Annual LA 3-D Movie Festival (all weekend)
S.I.D. (Superman is Dead) opens at Shepard Fairey’s gallery Subliminal Projects– with a musical tribute to Sid Vicious by Ritchie Love (a band consisting of Billy Idol, Steve Jones, Leigh Gorman, and Clem Burke)

Saturday-

Cinefamily’s 24 Hour Holiday Telethon begins
A Can for A Can at Space 15 Twenty– (6-9pm)- bring a food donation and get a beer plus check out some bands-
Singin in the Rain at the Egyptian

Saturday and Sunday-