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
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.
Matt & Kim- Lessons Learned
Matt and Kim are playing a free mini-show at Amoeba Records tonight (4/7) to celebrate the release of their album New Glow.
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.
Jon Brion- You Can Still Ruin My Day
Even if you have not heard of composer, musician and producer Jon Brion, chances are you probably have heard something he created or participated in creating. He has produced albums for a huge list of artists including Best Coast, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, Spoon, and of Montreal. He also co-produced Kanye West’s Late Registration.
Brion also composed the scores and created original music for a number of films including Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ParaNorman, and Synecdoche.
This Friday (2/27) he is playing original music and covers at Largo
Dengue Fever- Seeing Hands
Dengue Fever was formed by two brothers, Ethan and Zac Holtzman, along with saxophonist, David Ralicke, drummer Paul Dreux Smith, and bassist, Senon Williams in Los Angeles in 2002. They soon found Chhom Nimol, who is originally from Cambodia, to be their lead singer. The band’s earlier work contained lyrics that were entirely in Khmer and many of the songs were covers of 1960s Cambodian rock songs. This song is off their third album, Venus on Earth (2008), which was the first to include songs in English.
They are playing on Thursday (2/5) at the Echoplex
The (English) Beat- Mirror in the Bathroom
This song is from The Beat’s (The English Beat in America) 1980 album, I Just Can’t Stop It. The band is now split into two touring bands- the US version led by Dave Wakeling and the UK version led by Ranking Roger, both members of the original 80’s group.
The US band are playing at The Roxy on Saturday 1/17.
John Grant- GMF
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/15-1/18/15)-
Thursday
John Grant is having a free concert at the Hammer Museum and it’s the last weekend of the Jim Hodges show as well
Tennis System are performing at Amoeba Hollywood for free
Friday
LACMA is showing Network (ticket also includes admission to Klute)
Glaswegian musician Rustie is at El Rey
Saturday
Part pot luck, part slide show Slideluck LA will present the work of over 20+ photographers set to music while you eat and drink (5$ open bar-beer and wine)
Artist Chelsea Knight drove around the country having local actors read monologues and break character- tonight at ltd los angeles, actors from LA will try to do the same, drinks will be served as well
LACMA’s film double bill today is East of Eden and The Godfather– see both for $5
Also at LACMA, as part of The Director’s Series, Michael Govan (LACMA CEO) will be speaking with Tacita Dean following a screening of Manhattan Mouse Museum, Dean’s film about the artist Claus Oldenburg in his studio
The English Beat are at The Roxy
Sunday
Photographer Mark Ruwedel will speak with author Tyler Green and sign his book at LACMA
Dead Kennedys are at the Roxy
All Weekend (Thursday-Sunday)
There are two big art fairs this weekend- Photo LA and the LA Art Show, both downtown.
Miwa Matreyek’s incredible dance/animation projection performances have been mentioned on this site before– and this weekend along with the performance group Cloud Eye Control (Anna Oxygen, and Chi-wang Yang) she will be performing Half Life at the Redcat which was inspired by blog entries by women who experienced the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis
The Dodos- Confidence
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (12/11-12/14/14)-
Thursday
Michael Auder, who was once involved with Andy Warhol’s Factory and lived in the Chelsea Hotel, will be presenting and discussing his films at Farenheit gallery
Author Joshua Wolf Shenk continues his Cheap Talk series at Clockshop this week with author Sarah Tomlinson in which they will discuss working in Los Angeles. It’s aptly titled “Collaborations with a Difficult City”($5)
Allah-Las are playing at the El Rey with Dream Boys
Friday
Grant recipient Rachel Sussman is speaking at LACMA in a talk titled “The Poetics of Space” (free but standby)
A former member of LCD Soundsystem makes up half of the band Museum of Love and New Build has two members of Hot Chip- both of them are playing the Regent Theater
Saturday
Luis de Jesus gallery is hosting an informal talk with artist Nicholas Grenier
Echo Park is having a holiday parade
NELA (Northeast LA) is having its gallery night- http://nelaart.org/
Barnsdall Art Center is having a free holiday art sale (or $8 with a drink and tamale)
Santa Monica’s Annual Pub Crawl benefits Westside Food Bank and participants are asked to come dressed in “Santa/Holiday attire”
American Football are playing with The Dodos at the Fonda Theatre
Saturday and Sunday
Harry Shearer & Judith Owen Present… Christmas Without Tears(Aka Does This Tree Make Me Look Fat?) at Largo is holiday fun, songs, and special guests with proceeds going to various charities
Get your local Xmas gifts at Renegade Craft Fair in Grand Park (free)
Also try the Echo Park Craft Fair
Sunday
The Dodos are at Alex’s Bar (in Long Beach)
Yusuf / Cat Stevens is playing at the Nokia Theatre