Fime- Better Half of a Dollar
This song is from LA band Fime‘s recently released second album, Just Can’t Win. The album was produced by Melina Duterte aka Jay Som.
The band is part of a great lineup of bands playing at The Echo in Los Angeles on Sunday, 12/14/25, for No Ear Buds Fest. Also on the ticket- Prince Daddy & The Hyena, JER, yungatita, Bones Shredder, Glass Generation, Soft Blue Shimmer, and Hudson Freeman.
This song is from the 2025 Jay Som album, Belong. She is currently on tour and playing at the El Rey in Los Angeles on Sunday, 11/23/25, with Fashion Club.
The War Toys- 9 to 5
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/12-9/15/19)-
Thursday
(Sandy) Alex G will be performing free at Amoeba Hollywood at 6pm
Artist Larry Bell will be in conversation with MOCA curator Mia Locks to celebrate the debut of Bell’s Bill and Coo at MOCA’s Nest (2019), located in MOCA’s sculpture garden at MOCA Grand Avenue (free)
Gouge Away, G*U*N*N*, Justus Proffit, and Entry are playing free at Chewing Foil for a Vans sponsored event which also includes free art and food
The Hollywood Bowl is screening the classic musical An American in Paris with the score performed live by the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Explosions in the Sky are performing at the Hollywood Palladium with Sessa opening (or catch them Friday at the Yost Theater)
Charlie Cunningham is playing at The Echo with The Still Tide opening
Joey Pecoraro is playing at the Echoplex with Ian Ewing opening
Friday
Cate Le Bon is opening for Mac DeMarco at The Greek Theatre
Young Jesus and Ada Lea are playing at the Bootleg Theater
LACMA is free after 3pm today (and all weekdays) for Los Angeles residents and stay for the free jazz concert from 6-8pm
Gruff Rhys is performing at Zebulon with Sophia Knapp opening
Jay Som is playing at the Echoplex with Affectionately and Boy Scouts opening
Generacion Suicida are playing at The Hi Hat with Zoloa, Fuga, and Stormhouse opening
Saturday
The War Toys are playing at The Smell with Makeout Reef, Archer Oh, and Los Shadows
Open Arts and Music Festival is taking place in Glendale from 3-10pm with music by performers including Kilo Kish, Nick Waterhouse, and Sister Mantos, public art, an arts market, a Golden Road beer garden and more, all free
LAMAG is hosting a discussion at 2:30pm titled Making a Living as an Artist, with Offal exhibition artists Panteha Abareshi and gloria galvez, moderated by Gas founder/director Ceci Moss
Mar Vista’s mile long music and art walk (Venice Blvd from Inglewood Blvd to Lyceum Ave) is taking place from 4-10pm
18th Street Art Center is hosting a free evening of video screenings, open studios, and performances
Ex Hex are playing a free show at The Getty as part of their Saturdays Off the 405 concert series
Deca and Ehiorobo are performing with DJ Marvl at The Hi Hat
Sunday
Bon Iver is playing at The Forum with Sharon Van Etten
Cake and Ben Folds are performing with special guest Tall Heights at The Greek Theatre
Learn how to make cyanotypes (photo blue prints) in the sun at The Getty’s free photography workshop
The Egyptian Theatre is showing a double feature of The Godfather and The Godfather II
Cafe Tacvba are playing at The Hollywood Bowl with Cherry Glazerr
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
Jay Som- The Bus Song
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (2/2-2/4/18)-
Friday
Beastie Boys Mike D and Ad-Rock will be at the Egyptian Theatre for the double screening of Fight for Your Right Revisited and AWESOME; I FUCKIN’ SHOT THAT
Habibi are playing at The Factory downtown
UC Santa Barbara professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse is giving a lecture on contemporary art and globalization at the West Hollywood Public Library as part of Cal Arts WHAP! Lecture Series
Girlschool 2018 runs all weekend at the Bootleg Theater with panels, workshops and bands that tonight include Kristin Kontrol, Drum & Lace, Marian Mereba and more
Saturday
Forest Lawn is hosting a free performance for Black History Month of WITNESS: The John Edgar Wideman Experience (also you can hear him discuss the work at CAAM on Sunday)
The Annenberg Space for Photography is hosting a film screening of Run Across Cuba– a film which follows Cuban born professor and marathoner Alexis Garcia as he runs more than 1000 miles, from the eastern most tip to the western most tip of Cuba. A Q & A with Garcia and his wife will follow. ($12)
Mind Monogram are giving a free live performance at Pop Obscure Records
Sunday
Jay Som, Moon Honey, Soccer Mommy and more are playing at tonight’s Girlschool 2018 event at the Bootleg Theater
Writer John Edgar Wideman will be in conversation with former LA Times book editor David Ulin at CAAM
The Good Works Executive Director Elsa Longhauser will be at ICA LA to give a tour on the opening day of Harald Szeemann’s legendary exhibition Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us
The Rock N Roll Flea Market returns to the Regent Theater
Paul Bergmann- Ocean Song
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (12/1-12/4/16)-
Thursday
For MOCA Grand Ave’s Artists on Artists series, Mayo Thompson will be discussing the work of R.H.Quaytman (free)
For World AIDS Day, David France, author of How to Survive a Plague (and creator of the documentary of the same name) will be speaking with physician activist Dr. Mark H. Katz and LGBT activist Tony Valenzuela at the Central Library (free with RSVP)
The band HUNNY is hosting a night of music at the Echoplex that includes Melissa Brooks & The Aquadolls, Wax Idols, Private Island, Kid Bloom, Shaking Hands and more
Lee Fields and The Expressions are playing with Lady Wray at the El Rey Theatre
Friday
It’s Paul Bergmann’s last show in LA and he’s having a musical going away party with Media Jeweler, Sapierre, and Traps PS at Non Plus Ultra
Film Noir at Union Station continues with a free screening of Too Late For Tears
Colleen Green is performing a free show (with RSVP) for the Shrine book release at Junior High
The Besnard Lakes are playing at The Echo with Nightjacket and Brass Box
Saturday
The Annenberg Space for Photography is hosting Work It, Girl: Female Illustrators Panel with Ann Shen, Emily McDowell and Kate Bingaman-Burt. ($12) Bingaman-Burt is also having a day-long workshop on creating content for small press publications which includes tickets to the later lecture ($45)
Machine Project is hosting a free event with LA Cryptoparty titled Modern Hellscapes: How to Resist a Trumpling at which the basics of cyber security will be discussed. Also free beer!
Haley Bonar is playing with Night Moves at Resident
Pieter Gallery is hosting Making Art During Fascism a free community building event at which attendees will also be given a free instructional guide
Jay Som is playing at The Echo with Los Angeles Police Department
Mr Little Jeans is at the Teragram Ballroom
Sunday
Barnsdall Art Center is having its annual Holiday Art Sale and Fundraiser (free)
Filmmaker Arthur Jafa will be in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist at LACMA (free)
Body Language are playing at The Echo with SUMif and Mothlight
Kristin Hersh is playing at The Echoplex
Mutual Benefit- Not for Nothing
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/9-6/12/16)-
Thursday
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery in the Arts District is hosting a series of live music performances Thursdays from 5-8pm called After 5, with DJ Son Zoo performing this week. (free with RSVP)
MOCA Grand Avenue is screening Open Window, a film about artists who use the computer desktop in their work (free)
For Cinefamily’s Band and a Movie, Ted Leo will be playing live and the film is Radio On
Downtown LA Artwalk is back with it’s monthly event- this time the focus is on new filmmakers. Also check out the opening of LACDA’s (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art) exhibition of the winners from their recent juried competition (the artist’s reception is Saturday)
Islands are playing at the Teragram Ballroom
Friday
Mutual Benefit are playing with Florist and Jay Som at Resident
Friday Flights, the Getty Museum’s art and music event returns for it’s third year with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith performing with projected visuals, dancer/choreographer Kianí del Valle giving a solo performance, as well as other performances and installations around the Getty complex
Friday through Sunday
LA Pride Festival is on in West Hollywood with a weekend music festival which includes performances by Faith Evans, Le1f, Charlie XCX, Bebe Rexha, Trina, Big Freedia and more, and the large Pride Parade on Sunday
Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo is showing Sunset Boulevard with music played on their famous pipe organ, an audience singalong, and a comedy short before the film (also Saturday night and Sunday afternoon showings)
Friday and Saturday
The Great Horror Campout returns with various levels of terror – this time in Elysian Park
Saturday
Make Music Pasadena, the annual one day free music festival returns with a great list of bands including Atlas Genius, Bear Hands, Small Black, James Supercave, Jay Som and more
The Hollywood Forever Cemetery film this week is Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief
Today is the last day to see the giant lit up bunny sculptures downtown, created by artist Amanda Parer
Saturday and Sunday
The Playboy Jazz Festival is at the Hollywood Bowl with Jon Batiste and Stay Human, Seth MacFarlane and more on Saturday; Janelle Monae and Pete Escovedo Orchestra featuring Sheila E., Juan and Peter Michael and more on Sunday
Sunday
Long Beach Patchwork Show has over 200 local vendors, chosen by a jury, selling their unique products outside at Marine Stadium as well as multiple music stages
Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only opens at the Hammer Museum