Weird Nightmare- Where I Belong
This song is from Weird Nightmare‘s upcoming album, Hoopla, releasing May 1st.
They are playing at Gold Diggers in Los Angeles on Saturday, 4/25/26 with Mrs. Magician.
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Sep 222016
Sylvan Esso- Radio
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/22-9/25/16)-
Thursday
For The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA’s lecture series this week, Los Angeles-based artists Liz Glynn and Aaron Koblin, along with Doug Aitken, will discuss the various intersections created by the idea of time in his, Glynn’s, and Koblin’s work. Koblin created Light Echoes for Doug Aitken’s 2013 project Station to Station and Glynn works in sculpture and performance with a focus on time. The exhibition Doug Aitken:Electric Earth is currently at the museum. (free and free entrance to the exhibition)
Still Corners are playing with Foxes in Fiction and Kid Bloom at The Roxy
LACMA’s Art + Technology Lab grant recipient Michael Mandiberg is presenting recent and in-progress work and soliciting feedback on his forthcoming project for the Lab- Mechanical Tramp. The program will be part artist talk/ part studio visit (free with RSVP)
Catfish and The Bottlemen are playing at The Wiltern
If you watched the second series of True Detective you may recognize singer Lera Lynn as the barroom singer (her music was also used for the trailer). She’s playing tonight at the Bootleg Theater
Mrs. Magician are playing at Resident with The Sloths and Susan
Friday
As part of the Getty’s film series to accompany their London Calling exhibition, Charles Atlas will introduce the screening of his film The Legend of Leigh Bowery (free with RSVP)
For Resident’s music night Feminist Friday, Memphis band NOTS is headlining a lineup that includes Batwings Catwings and French Vanilla (free with RSVP)
Sleepless: The Music Center After Hours returns with kaleidoscopic telescopes, DJ sets, a classic video arcade, video art installations, cocktails, dancing and more, beginning at 11:30 pm ($20/$30 at the door)
Royal Canoe are playing at the Hi Hat
Band of Skulls are playing with Moving Units at The Wiltern
Saturday
Part of Live Arts Exchance/LAX’s two week performance and art festival is Among Us– “an immersive sound experience about the human instinct to belong, about the tension between the individual and the community, and about what you are willing to give up to not be alone”. It takes place in two parts of the day- the morning portion will be at Union Station and the second at sunset in a secluded park in DTLA. It will be performed multiple times throughout the two weeks beginning on 9/22 ($25)
It’s day two of Long Beach’s Music Tastes Good Festival– a music and food block party. Three day tickets are $120 or you can get an individual one per day at different costs. Tonight has the largest lineup of bands including The Specials, Warpaint, Squeeze, Dr. Dog, Deltron 3030 w/the 3030 Orchestra, MELVINS, Twin Peaks, LE1F and many more for $75.
BAM Fest (Beer, Art & Music Festival) is the 18th Street Arts Center’s benefit event- $45-$50 gets you unlimited beer samples from over 40 breweries, 3 live music acts (including Alice Bag), art installations, art-making workshops and more from 1-5pm
homeLA returns with its site specific dance performance- this time the home will be in Rose Hill
Aesop Rock and Dilated Peoples are opening for Atmosphere at The Shrine LA Outdoors
Tarfest, the free music and arts festival, returns to the La Brea Tarpits Park
Lush are playing with Tamaryn at The Fonda Theatre (also on Sunday)
Mike Judge, Terry Crews and Dax Shepard are uniting for the 10th Anniversary of their film Idiocracy. The outdoor screening is at Echo Park Tennis Center as part of Eat See Hear’s series and Shepard and Amanda Fairey’s #MakeAmericaSmartAgain movement
Sunday
Sylvan Esso are playing the last day of Long Beach’s Music Tastes Good Festival with De La Soul, Gallant and more for $35.
Downtown LA’s Long Beach Ave. Lofts is having its third annual artist’s open studios
White Reaper are playing at Chain Reaction with Pity Party and Melted
UCLA’s Fowler Museum is having a special event celebrating Indonesia with specialty coffee tasting, Javanese dance performances, demonstrations of batik technique and interactive seminars and talks (free)
Cinefamily’s wine, music and outdoor film series in Barnsdall Park continues with Black Orpheus
Mac Miller, Pusha T, A-Trak and more are playing the Shrine LA Outdoors for Fools Gold’s Day Off
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead are performing Source Tags & Codes at The Echo
Jun 162016
Mashrou’ Leila- Maghawir (acoustic for NPR’s Tiny Desk)
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/16-6/19/16)-
Thursday
After 5 has singer songwriter Sara Lov performing as part of gallery Hauser Wirth & Schimmel’s weekly series. Photographer Robert Cumming will be signing his book The Difficulties of Nonsense at the bookstore there as well.
The Pharcyde are playing a $5 show at The Novo
Hammer Museum is hosting a Bloomsday celebration with dramatic readings of James Joyce’s Ulysses, live songs, live music, and Guiness on tap in the courtyard (free)
Sepalcure is playing at the Echoplex
Mavis Staples is opening for Bob Dylan at The Shrine Auditorium
Thursday-Sunday (until 7/31)
Materials & Applications is hosting TURF: A Mini-Golf Project in which a corner lot in Echo Park is transformed into a functional mini-golf course with obstacles created by architects, designers and artists who won its 2015 competition “to design a single architectural obstacle that investigates a contemporary Los Angeles condition”
Friday
Mashrou’ Leila are playing a free show as part of Grand Performances at the California Plaza
The Music Center’s late night event Sleepless returns with a special hip-hop edition- DJ’s , dance crews, roller skating, live graffiti painting ($30 tickets go on sale Friday 6/17 at 10 am)
Toots and The Maytals are playing at The Fonda
Jaill are playing at The Blindspot Project with Warbly Jets
The Odd Market is back at The Autry with live music, food and crafts (free)
Saturday
Moses Sumney is performing a free show at the Getty Center for Saturdays Off the 405
Cults, Wavves, Allah-Las and more are playing Sunstock Solar Festival at The Autry ($20)
The first of Chinatown’s Summer Nights has performances, DJs, vendors, a beer garden, and a list of bands performing that includes The Lonely Wild (free)
Sunday
Mrs. Magician are playing with Junk, and GRMLN at the Hi Hat
The Pasadena Chalk Festival is back to transform Paseo Colorado (also on Saturday)
Hibou, So Many Wizards, and Nic Hessler are playing at The Echo
Feb 112016
James Supercave- Better Strange
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (2/11-2/14/16)-
Thursday
James Supercave are playing at Resident in DTLA
The Downtown Art Walk has a music theme and includes a mini tribute to producer J Dilla. While at the art walk there will be shuttles to LERATA’s SKYLINE 2016 Preview Event which features an interactive architecture installation as well as a DJ, free cupcakes and hot chocolate. Also nearby is Oddwalk 2.0, a one night only show from Oddville. A Creative Space that includes over 100 local artists
It’s also the opening night of a four night event at the new Project Space on 7th Street. Tonight is the opening of Aaron Rose’s La Rosa Social Club, an art bar/installation with a group of artists contributing work (free but RSVP required)
The Hammer Museum is screening The Haunted Sword, a film of a live kabuki performance. Afterwards there will be free food and free limited-edition Kabuki-inspired Uniqlo t-shirts and tote bags.
Frank Gehry is in conversation with Michael Govan at LACMA (free but standby)
Naughty by Nature are at the Regent Theater with A-F-R-O
Friday
EVERBOOKS: Artists and Writers Read from Their Favorite Books includes artists Eleanor Antin, Lisa Anne Auerbach, John Baldessari, Miranda July and more reading short passages from books they think are inspiring at The Million Dollar Theatre. Free- RSVP with promo code ForYourArt or Goodreads
Meat Wave are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Young Jesus and Slothrust (solo) opening
The Egyptian Theatre is showing Blade Runner
Howler are playing at El Cid
Super Furry Animals are playing at the Roxy (also on Thursday)
Friday through Sunday
LA Art Book Fair returns to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA with exhibits, talks and live music as well as loads of cool printed items to buy (free entry)
While downtown check out Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market presented by LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) where over 150 artists will have tables set up to sell their work ($5 donation for Friday preview, free Saturday and Sunday)
Saturday
Celebrate The Year of the Monkey in Chinatown– The Golden Dragon Parade runs from 1-3pm and there is also a festival all day with performances, workshops and more
Blum and Poe gallery in Culver City is premiering A Portrait of Henry Taylor, a film by August Blum which will be accompanied by live music sets by Detachable Men and The Florida Mistakes
John Waters new one-man show This Filthy World: Dirtier and Filthier, is at The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State
For his show Hydration at Steve Turner gallery in Hollywood, Yung Jake is having his opening from 10pm-2am with DJs Softest Hard, Sonny Digital and Lil Yachty
Mrs.Magician are playing with Dead Heavens at The Hi Hat in Highland Park
Sunday
The LA Marathon is this Sunday so get out and cheer the runners or take a good look at the map and plan accordingly, it will be challenging to get around
The Metro is having a special free art tour of the works and architecture in their train stations for Valentine’s Day. The Independent Shakespeare Company
will be accompanying the tour and performing love scenes from select Shakespearean plays. First-come, first-served leaving from Union Station and ending at Hollywood/Western.
The Egyptian Theatre is showing Harold and Maude
May 212015
Wallburds- Hourglass
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/21-5/24/15)-
Thursday
Audiodrome at Cinefamily (co-presented by WOAH and Tigerbeat6) combines live music,“forward thinking A/V remixes” and this time will feature a record release party for Kid606
Fahrenheit Gallery downtown is screening a Len Lye film retrospective (free)
Honor Fraser Gallery is presenting ATTACK, SUSTAIN, RELEASE, DECAY, a performance collaboration joining performance and media collectives Mutant Salon, Experimental Half Hour, and Project Rage Queen
In December The Autry Museum held a contest for artists to submit designs for a banner for the back wall of the museum and tonight they are having the High Five Art Launch Party (free with reservation) to celebrate the artists and winner
Friday
Wallburds are opening for Girl Tears and Crocodiles at The Satellite– my vote for best show of the weekend and it’s only $12
Artist and musician Dorian Wood will be performing for the closing of his and Craig Calderwood’s exhibition at Last Projects in Hollywood
It’s the first ever night for The Odd Market, on The Autry Museum’s south lawn, with cocktails, shopping, crafts, DJs and food
Roses are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Dunes
Gothic Tropic, Crown Plaza, and Life Size Maps are at the Echo
Saturday
LACMA is offering a free printmaking workshop inspired by the current exhibition The Language of Xu Bing– advanced tickets are sold out but there will be a standby line
Electric Dusk Drive In downtown is showing Rear Window (only astroturf seating is available, no tickets left for cars)-
Ceremony are headlining at the Echo with a list of bands that includes Mrs.Magician
Sunday
Artists from Pasadena City College and Art Center College of Design will be selling their work at the annual Art+Design Open Market at One Colorado in Old Pasadena
It is the final weekend for Experience 15: SPARK! Explore SPARK at ESMoA museum in El Segundo, which creates a world of fantasy with interactive exhibits that are great for kids- especially today as there is a family fun day with art making projects and a fairy tale scavenger hunt. There is also a talk with Jeff Guess, the current artist in residence
Space15Twenty in Hollywood is having a flea market
Feb 122015
Mrs. Magician- The Dead 80’s
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (2/12-2/15/15)-
Thursday
John Craig Freeman is previewing and discussing his project EEG AR: Things We Have Lost at LACMA. Viewing devices will be provided to check out the virtual objects he’s created. If you miss this, you could also visit on Saturday and participate in this work by conjuring images with your brainwaves (equipment provided)
Downtown Artwalk is tonight and this time there is an art show celebrating the life of producer J Dilla-
Create:Fixate 13 Year Anniversary Celebration- I Art You event in Venice is an art show and benefit- there will also be cocktails, music and other entertainment (20$)
Friday
Mrs.Magician are opening for Swami John Reis and The Blind Shake at the Satellite
Hollyhock House in Barnsdall Park will re-open (after major renovations) from 4pm to 11am on Saturday for free self-guided tours. The house has made appearances in Blade Runner, Karate Kid, and The House on Haunted Hill
LACMA is playing a double bill of The Goonies and Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
Cherry Glazerr is hosting “A Very Musty Pre-Valentine’s Day Affair” at the Echo with LA Witch, The Frights, Buttertones, and Tête- advanced tickets are sold out but there may be some at the door day of
The Dodos are playing the Roxy
Saturday
NELA’s Second Saturday gallery night is a great chance to spend some time in Highland Park
Don Bachardy is speaking about his work at Craig Krull Gallery
Silverlake Flea is on at Micheltorena St. Elementary School and there will be free ice cream
LACE + Artillery are having a Valentine’s Day Party with cocktails and performances. It’s also the last day to check out the current group show
The Growlers are at the Hollywood Palladium
Sunday
LA Zine Fest is in Glendale this year with 200 exhibitors and free
The Festival of (In)appropriation is at the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian and features a program of “cutting-edge experimental found footage shorts”, including Nothing by LJ Frezza which is 6 minutes of footage where nothing happens from the TV series Seinfeld