Chaka Khan- I Feel For You
This song is from Chaka Khan’s 1984 album I Feel For You. Written by Prince (it won him a Grammy), it includes rapping by Melle Mel and harmonica played by Stevie Wonder.
Chaka Khan is playing with Patti LaBelle at the LA County Fair this Friday (9/4/15)
Fool’s Gold- The Dive
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/27-8/30/15)-
Thursday
Fool’s Gold is playing at the Echoplex as part of Red Bull Sound Select- $3 with RSVP, $12 w/o
At the Central Library downtown, filmmaker Laura Gabbert and food critic Jonathan Gold will be guest speakers for Lost & Found at the Movies: Film to Table, a discussion of the way food is used in the movies (free but standby only)
The Women’s Center for Creative Work and the Craftswoman House will be showing Vega Darling’s documentary Lost Grrrls: Riot Grrrl In Los Angeles
Friday
YACHT/5 Every Day (the app they created) are hosting Friday Flights at The Getty with a list of collaborators that includes Yung Jake and a video premiere and installation by the band ($10 to park after 5pm, $15 before, with free admission to the museum)
Del the Funky Homosapien is at the Echoplex with DJ Qbert and street artist Mear One live painting
LA Live’s Dark Nights event returns with $5 food and drink specials, live art installations and performances, music, a market, fire dancers and more (free)
Cold Showers are playing with Dunes at The Echo
Annenberg Space for Photography is hosting a panel on lifestyle and commercial photography with Gray Malin, Natalie James, Lauren Randolph and Stephanie Todaro and moderated by Ilana Saul (11am-1pm -$10)
Not to be confused with Fool’s Gold the band (listed above), Fool’s Gold Records is having its Day Off concert with headliners A-Trak, Action Bronson and Travi$ Scott at the Shrine
On the more quiet end of the performance spectrum, Temporary Space LA is having “An Early evening of Ambient” with performances by Daniel Lanois + Rocco Deluca, Musician’s Friend [Brian Foote + M. Geddes Gengras], and Ken Camden, as well as an open bar (free but RSVP)
Nearby LACMA is having their late night party- Muse ‘til Midnight feat. Adrian Younge and Venice Dawn with DJ’s in the galleries and a party in the plaza ($45 for nonmembers/$35 with membership)
Sunday
Thomas Dang, an artist in the Craft and Folk Art Museum’s excellent exhibition of art made by veterans, will be there all day with his pottery wheel giving demonstrations and talking about his ceramic work
Cinefamily is showing Robert Altman’s 1977 film 3 Women, his exploration of female identity starring Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall
It’s the last weekend to see Much Ado About Nothing as part of Griffith Park’s Shakepeare Festival (free)
The Rentals- Friends of P.
This song is from The Rentals’ 1995 debut album The Return of the Rentals. The band, formed by former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp, released their first full length album in 15 years, Lost in Alphaville, last August. The video below is the first track off that album and takes place around downtown Los Angeles.
The Rentals are on tour and are playing the El Rey Theater Friday June 5th.
U2- I Will Follow
This song is from U2′s 1980 debut album Boy and was its second single. According to Wiki, it is the only song that they have performed on every tour.
U2 are playing The Forum for several nights but they are also playing an exclusive show at The Roxy on May 28th and KROQ is having a trivia contest to win free tickets.
The Replacements- Alex Chilton
This song is off The Replacements’ fifth album, Pleased to Meet Me, released in 1987. The song references singer Alex Chilton who was the lead singer of two bands, The Box Tops and Big Star. He also played guitar on The Replacements song Can’t Hardly Wait, also on the album Pleased to Meet Me.
The Box Tops are probably best known for the song The Letter (below).
Big Star’s In the Street may sound familiar too as it was covered by Cheap Trick and that cover was used as the theme for That 70′s Show.
The Replacements are playing at the Hollywood Palladium on 4/16.
Bad Religion- Los Angeles is Burning
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/16-4/19/15)-
Thursday
William Pope L.’s Migrant (2105), which was made for his current exhibit, will be performed at MOCA – free and free evening admission
The Replacements are playing at the Hollywood Palladium
Toro y Moi are at the Fonda Theatre
The Live Read series at LACMA continues this week with Major League, guest directed by Joe Manganiello (Magic Mike). A limited number of tickets will be sold at the door two hours before start time
Friday
Bad Religion are playing at the Fonda Theatre with OFF!
Peaking Lights are playing at The Echo
WAND and Dunes are playing along with two other bands for $8 at The Smell
Saturday
Record Store Day is back and there are lots of venues doing something special to celebrate. Origami Vinyl is having DJ sets, bands (including Fever the Ghost), giving gift bags to the first group of customers and there will be a free ice cream truck. Permanent Records is also having performers including John Doe and Exene from X. Amoeba Records isn’t on the list but is having events at the store as well as one across the street at Space 15 Twenty. The official list of venues is here.
You may not have heard of many of the bands playing Brokechella, BUT it is an annual event that gets bigger every year, just like its namesake, and it’s a pretty good deal. For $20 you get art shows, bands, comedy and variety, giant jenga puzzles, a vendor fair, Puppychella for dog owners, and more- all in Downtown’s Warehouse District
Always wanted to see the inside of the Magic Castle but never scored an invite from a magician? One way to get a peek is to check out their Swap Meet taking place 9am-3pm (from the Terrace to the Peller Theatre) where you can also shop around for a variety of magic related items ($8)
If you are around WeHo and see people dressed in black with bowler hats and wearing artistic looking sandwich boards, they are part of the 100 Walkers performance piece. More info here
Saturday and Sunday
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is back with a huge list of free and ticketed (many only $1) events and readings- authors include Tavis Smiley, Billy Idol, Octavia Spencer, Kate Mulgrew, Amber Tamblyn, Patton Oswalt, Vikram Chandra, Roy Choi and many, many, more
Sunday
CAFAM (Craft and Folk Art Museum) is hosting a gallery tour and conversation with exhibition juror Cat Jimenez, Executive Director of the Lucie Foundation, and a group of exhibiting artists from the show Focus Iran: Contemporary Photography and Video (free with RSVP)
Mini Mansions- Death is a Girl
Tonight (3/24) Mini Mansions are signing their new album The Great Pretenders and performing a live set at Amoeba Records Hollywood (and Amoeba San Francisco on 3/27). They also just released a video for their song Vertigo which features Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys.
Ariel Pink- Picture Me Gone
Things to do this weekend (11/28-11/30/14)-
Friday
Ariel Pink is at the Regent Theater playing songs from his new album pom pom
Alvvays is playing at the Echo
2001: A Space Odyssey is at the Egyptian Theater
Saturday
The Fourth Annual Eagle Rock Block Party is all about Small Business Saturday and getting people to shop locally-there will also be a wine tasting at MilkfarmLA (free)
The Craft & Folk Art Museum is having their Holiday Marketplace
Sunday
The Hollywood Christmas Parade is taking over the streets from Hollywood and Highland to Vine and back on Sunset- Stevie Wonder is the Grand Marshall
Connected Festival Black Sunday Holiday Market/Sample Sale is downtown and free with canned food donation
All Weekend–
SoCal Etsy is having an event for Small Business Weekend at the Arts District Flea Market– music, food, drinks, and workshops on business and making crafts, and more- free with RSVP- if you have original work to sell you could even get a booth
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/30-11/2/14) for Halloween and Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)-
Thursday
Lucha VaVoom: Night of the Vampire– Mexican masked wrestling and burlesque with a Halloween theme
Thursday and Friday
It’s the last two days of the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride in Griffith Park which also includes a haunted house, maze and sideshow
The Mondrian Hotel is hosting Strange and Unusual: An Interactive Experience for the Recently Deceased- a Beetlejuice themed party complete with recreated sets from the film
Friday (Halloween)
The biggest event of the night is the West Hollywood Annual Halloween Carnival– over 500,000 people are expected to attend
At Crawloween, an event sponsored by ACME Hospitality group, all five of their downtown bars Library Bar, Sixth Street Tavern, Beelman’s Pub, Spring St. Bar and King Eddy Saloon are having differently themed parties, candy and $4 cocktails (including one called the Skullsplitter, a hangover predictor if ever there was one)
Cinefamily is hosting a “Childhood Haunts” Halloween party with scary video compilations, a midnight ghost story, drinks, dancing and more
LACMA Costume Ball: The Living Museum where people dress as works of art and enjoy DJs, food and drink, late night gallery walks and live horror installations
Friday and Saturday
Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton is at the Nokia Theater
Saturday
Día de Los Muertos at Hollywood Forever Cemetery is Los Angeles’ biggest Day of the Dead event and has altars, face painting, food and live entertainment including La Santa Cecilia
Grand Park is having a Dia de Los Muertos party as well with music, altars, and dancers
Thursday through Sunday
Dark Harbor on the Queen Mary in Long Beach has mazes, monsters, rides, live entertainment and of course food and drink-
Olvera Street has numerous Día de los Muertos events
The Purge:Breakout requires you and your group to solve puzzles and clues to escape or be purged
Alone: An Existential Haunting is not the usual haunted house experience- it describes itself as a “site-specific, immersive and artistic exploration of fear, loneliness and self preservation” which you must go through, you guessed it- alone
Also- through November 8th at the Mountainview Mausoleum and Cemetery in Altadena, Unbound Productions presents Wicked Lit- classic horror literature is transformed into an immersive theater experience
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