Los Angeles Weekend Planner 10-1-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Oct 012015
 

Gal Pals- Ex-Marionette

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/1-10/4/15)-

Thursday

Craft Night at the Craft and Folk Art Museum has artist Meghan Gordon hosting a night of socializing, drinking and collaborating through clay. Objects made will be fired and glazed and picked up at a later date- $8 but make sure to RSVP

Art critic and historian Hal Foster is reading from his latest book, Bad New Days at MOCA Grand Ave (free)

Gary Numan is performing his album Telekon in its entirety at the Teregram ballroom

Ultimate Painting are playing at the Satellite with Morgan Delt and the Dreamboys

LACMA is screening the first two episodes of the second season of the series The Knick for free (with a reserved ticket). There is a reception afterwards

Makthaverskan is playing with Roses at The Smell

Gal Pals are headlining a free show at Acerogami in Pomona

The Gaslamp Killer Experience is at the Regent Theater

THE SIDE PROJECT screening series will be focused on Music & Sound and The Moving Image, “exploring the integration of visuals with music and sound”. Eight short films will be shown with the last one being a virtual reality film. Additional event info here RSVP here

Thievery Corporation are at the Greek Theatre with Cypress Hill

Saturday

Learn about screenprinting and make your own print inspired by the excellent Corita Kent exhibition currently on view at the Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art (free with admission $7 or go metro and pay $5)

MOCA is hosting a book launch for Outside the Lines, Too: An Inspired and Inventive Coloring Book by Creative Masterminds, with over fifty artists on site to sign the book as well as music by Money Mark and activity/coloring stations

LACMA is having several speakers discuss the themes behind the new exhibition New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic 1919–1933, including the curator Stephanie Barron

The Bread and Puppet Theater is performing FIRE at Blum & Poe Gallery in Culver City at 7pm (free but limited seating- RSVP)

A Day in the Desert Festival is a concert/music event taking place in an open space in Pioneertown near Joshua Tree. Simian Mobile Disco are headlining the event that takes place all day Saturday, although you can camp there all weekend. $150 is a little steep but it includes food, snacks and yoga. There is a limited capacity of 250 people.

Night Terrors of 1927 are playing at the Troubadour with Machineheart

Saturday and Sunday

Fall 2015 Brewery Art Walk and Open Studios event is a fun way to see artists’ work where they create it. Free entrance and free parking with a beer garden and food as well

Sunday

Artist Magdalena Fernández will be speaking with Alma Ruiz about her work in conjunction with her first U.S. solo museum exhibition at MOCA Pacific Design Center (free)- http://www.moca.org/program/art-talk-magdalena-fernandez-and-alma-ruiz

KCRW is hosting the 7th Annual Good Food Pie Contest at the Fowler Museum. Music, pie tasting and more

homeLA is having another site specific dance performance- this time at the foundation of a home at sunset

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 1-22-15

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Jan 222015
 

Night Terrors of 1927- When You Were Mine (featuring Tegan and Sara)

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/22-1/25/15)-

Thursday

Tickets are still available to see Bill Nye (The Science Guy) and Eugene Mirman talk about science and space for StarTalk LIVE! at the Palace Theatre with special guest Tig Notaro

Or for a smaller space-related event -check out The Last Bookstore’s talk with George D. Morgan who wrote a book about Mary Sherman Morgan- America’s first female rocket scientist

Heidi Duckler Dance Theater is re-imagining Parts and Labor, 23 years later in the parking lot behind Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Also happening on Friday (1/23)

SoCal band The Donkeys are playing at the Echo

Friday

Night Terrors of 1927 are having a record release show for their debut album at The Roxy

designLAb at the Pacific Design Theater is having its first opening reception of the year with over 10 new contemporary art exhibitions

Arts District Alliance is hosting two shows at two different galleries downtown- one with artists from China, the other, artists from the Arts District- RSVP for the party at the Container Yard and a chance to meet the artists

Artist Alice Wang and curator Michael Ned Holte will be in conversation at the 18th Street Arts Center

Missing snow? Angel City Brewery is having a “snow day” complete with hot toddies in a real snow outside garden and a showing of The Goonies by a simulated fireplace before live music in the evening

FIDLAR are playing a sold out show at the Regent Theater– it might be worth hunting down tickets

Saturday

Subliminal Projects is having an opening for Agents Provacateurs, a group show of “ subversive skateboard graphics and artworks”

GRMLN are playing a free show at Origami Records

Sunday

Artist Kaz Oshiro will talk/play music at his book signing with artist and musician John Wiese at LACMA

West of Rome Public Art is debuting CANDIDATE: Execution in Progress– a performance that will include music, political theater and movement at Church of the Epiphany

Los Angeles Weekend Planner 11-20-14

 Los Angeles Weekend Planner, Music
Nov 202014
 

Nosaj Thing- Eclipse/Blue

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/20-11/23/14)-

Thursday

Authors Geoff Dyer and Ricky Jay are speaking at the Hammer

Capital Cities are at the Fonda Theatre with Night Terrors of 1927 (also Friday)

Friday

It’s opening night of the No Budget Film Festival and the feature film is The Past is a Grotesque Animal, a portrait Kevin Barnes of of Montreal, after which there will be a talk with the director and editor and later a cocktail reception with DJs and visual projections at the Vortex Immersion Dome. Events run all weekend.

Saturday

The annual Great LA Walk will take on the Valley walking 17 miles along Ventura Blvd from Woodland Hills to North Hollywood (free)

LACMA has a Woody Allen double feature for $5- Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway

Peter Hook & The Light are at the Fonda performing New Order’s Low Life & Brotherhood in their entirety and an opening set of Joy Division material

The Bots are playing at the Bootleg

Found Magazine’s Re-Ignition Tour and Book Release Party with editor Davy Rothbart and friends at the Bootleg ($10 includes the book)

Sunday

Nosaj Thing is playing with Mangchi, Upsilon Acrux at The Smell

Artist Pierre Huyghe and Emma Lavigne, curator of contemporary art at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, housed in the Centre Pompidou will be in conversation at LACMA

Biz Markie, Peanut Butter Wolf, J.Rocc, and Break Beat Lou are DJing at the Echoplex

Los Angeles Music Shows- Night Terrors of 1927 at the Echo

 Los Angeles Music, Music
Nov 052013
 

Night Terrors of 1927- Dust and Bones

This song seems destined to be played incessantly on the radio in the near future. It sounds like a lot of other indie pop songs, but that isn’t always a bad thing.

A very good thing about this band- free shows. Tonight (and every Monday in November) they are playing The Echo free with RSVP