DJ Shadow feat. Run The Jewels- Nobody Speak
DJ Shadow is playing a sold out show tonight, 9/29/16, at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles with Noer the Boy. His new album, The Mountain Will Fall, featuring the track above, was released in June of this year. Watch for cameos in the video of DJ Shadow (in a wig) and the members of Run The Jewels.
Gringo Star- Rotten
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9-29-10/2/16)-
Thursday
Gringo Star are playing at The Satellite with The Relationship (Weezer guitarist Brian Bell’s band) and Night Talks
Hammer Museum is showing Eva Hesse, a documentary about the artist with a Q & A with the director Marcie Begleiter and producer Karen Shapiro afterwards
Trentemøller is performing and signing copies of his new album Fixion at Amoeba Hollywood before his sold out show at Hollywood Forever’s Mason Lodge (free but get there early)
It’s the first of two nights of UnSilent Cinema at FIGat7th (presented by Arts Brookfield) where musicians provide a contemporary score for classic silent films. Tonight Marc Ribot will score Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid and Alvin Youngblood Hart will score Fatty Arbuckle’s Out West. There will also be a Chaplin Speakeasy Happy Hour and DJs before the program begins. (free)
As part of The Broad’s film series Doll Parts, tonight they will be screening Ming Wong’s Life of Imitation followed by Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life ($12 includes same-night access to the museum
The Soul Rebels Sound System ft. Talib Kweli are playing at the Fonda Theatre
Friday
For the second night of UnSilent Cinema at FIGat7th, electronic musicians will be the focus for the program- Daedelus will be scoring Charlie Chaplin’s Easy Street, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith will be scoring Harry Smith’s Early Abstractions, Jimmy Tamborello will be scoring Buster Keaton’s Cops, and Callie will be scoring Chaplin’s One A.M.
Thievery Corporation are playing the Greek Theatre with Chronixx
Front Porch Cinema is hosting a free movie night at the Santa Monica Pier with a screening of Zootopia
The Regrettes are playing at Non Plus Ultra with Casinos and Liily
TV Girl, Avid Dancer, and Bad Wave are playing at The Hi Hat
Saturday
Jimmy Kimmel Live is having a yard sale in the studio’s back parking lot in Hollywood to benefit My Friend’s Place, an organization that helps homeless youth
For the performance- At the Edge of Space and Time: Expanding beyond Our 4% Universe, at the Hammer Museum, collaborators Jennifer Moon and laub will “bring viewers on an adventure through the cosmos, the multiverse, and beyond, presenting ideas about love, faith, and revolution by queering various scientific disciplines”. (free, also on Sunday)
It’s Dublab’s 17th Anniversary and they are having a party at Union Nightclub (formerly known as Jewel’s Catch One) with performances by Peanut Butter Wolf, Egyptian Lover and many more
Edward Scissorhands is the movie this week for the Electric Dusk Drive-In
Sunday
For Cinefamily’s wine tasting/film screening in Barnsdall Park they are showing Fellini’s Satyricon
Dynasty Handbag is performing at the Hammer Museum (free)
Jah Wobble And The Invaders of The Heart are playing with LA Drones at the Echoplex
The monthly Rock N Roll Flea Market returns to the Regent Theater (free)
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
ENTRANCE- Promises
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/15-9/18/16)-
Thursday
ENTRANCE is playing at Resident with Weyes Blood and Lael Neale
John Doe & Exene Cervenka are playing at the Regent Theater with special guest Howe Gelb
Eli Detweiler, Jr., a livestock and auto auctioneer, will perform a high-speed auctioneer chant and lead an informal workshop in auctioneer number-calling at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA . Detweiler is featured in Doug Aitken’s 1998 installation these restless minds which is part of the MOCA exhibition Doug Aitken: Electric Earth. (MOCA entrance and this program are free)
Cosmonauts are having an album release party at the Echoplex with Cellars and Tomorrows Tulips also playing
As part of Doll Parts, the continuing film series at The Broad that complements the Cindy Sherman exhibit, artist Lynn Hershman Leeson’s electronic video diary Binge will be shown along with the work of performance artist Narcissister, who will also perform live ($12 includes night access to the museum)
Friday
Clockshop is hosting Readings by Moonrise at the Bowtie Project in Frogtown with authors A-lan Holt and Dana Johnson and a performance by Nevenka, an Eastern European folk ensemble ($5 suggested donation- s’mores will be provided but you can bring your own picnic items)
Local Natives are playing the Greek Theatre with special guest Charlotte Day Wilson
For the last of LA Zoo’s Roaring Nights the theme is the ’80s with tributes to David Bowie and Prince, as well as food, drinks, vintage video games, and “special animal encounters”
Porches are playing with Japanese Breakfast and Rivergazer at the Echoplex
Saturday
Brainfeeder at the Hollywood Bowl has Flying Lotus, Funkadelic featuring George Clinton and Parliament, Thundercat, Shabazz Palaces, and The Gaslamp Killer performing
Electric Dusk Drive-In’s film this week is Pulp Fiction
Chinatown is having its 78th Annual Mid-Autumn Moon Festival with bands and DJs, cooking demonstrations, a market and more
Glendale is having its first Open Arts & Music Fest with bands, an arts market and kids arts and crafts workshops
The Squids are having a record release party at The Hi Hat
Sunday
Kraftwerk’s 3-D concert series is at the Hollywood Bowl
The Regent Theater is celebrating the work of Kenneth Anger with a screening of The Invocation of My Demon Brother, Scorpio Rising, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, and Lucifer Rising. Following the screening, Kenneth Anger and Brian Butler will perform as the Technicolor Skull. The evening will conclude with a Q&A.
Long Beach’s Comic Con is back for its second and final day
Manfredi Gioacchini has a new book of informal portraits of LA artists and will be discussing it with Jonas Wood at LACMA
Weirdo Night! is back at El Cid with “an evening of experimental comedic performance and video” hosted by Dynasty Handbag
clipping.- Inside Out
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/8-9/11/16)-
Thursday
clipping. is having an album release party/concert at Highways Performance Space with additional performances by Busdriver and Pedestrian Deposit ($10) or you can catch them earlier at Amoeba Records where they will be performing a free mini-set at 6pm
Downtown LA Artwalk is celebrating its 12-year anniversary with a retrospective show in their lounge in addition to the numerous exhibitions at other participating downtown galleries
Holy Ghost! are opening for the Ohio Players for the last of the free summer concerts at the Santa Monica Pier. It’s also the last night to check out the art installation Light Wave, also at the pier
Friday
The pool at Annenberg Beach House is having its last Sunset Swim, an adults only swim night from 7-10pm with free s’mores and fruit bars ($10)
The LA County Fair continues this weekend and the concert tonight is Blondie along with special guest The Smithereens
P.S. Eliot are playing with Upset at The Echo
French Vanilla, Roses, Moaning, and Lithics are playing at The Hi Hat in Highland Park
Saturday
Artist Dan Winter is giving a lecture with a Q&A session and an exhibition walk through at Fahey/Klein Gallery
The Los Angeles International Neon Jubilee is having a free all day event at The Velaslavasay Panorama to celebrate the re-lighting of their 1939 neon marquee. There will be live music, animation activities and workshops with the Echo Park Film Center, puppet shows by the Bob Baker Marionette Theater and more. (RSVP strongly recommended)
NELA Art Second Saturday Gallery Night is a great chance to check out the Northeast Los Angeles art scene
British electronic music duo Demdike Stare will perform an original live set created in response to atmosphere of the Getty and to complement the exhibition London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj as part of the Saturdays off the 405 series
Sunday
Artist Doug Aitken will be discussing his work and his current exhibition with MOCA Director Philippe Vergne at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (free with museum admission)
Cinefamily continues its outdoor movie series at Barnsdall Art Park with the Truffaut film Jules et Jim and pre-show music by Tortoise ($25 includes a wine tasting)
Joshua Payne Orchestra are performing on the LA River in Frogtown with live projection artwork by Ryan Patrick Griffin as part of his Projected Visions series. Donate any amount to find out the exact location.
Human Resources gallery is having a one night exhibition on the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11
Night Beats- Power Child
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/1-9/4/16)-
Thursday
Night Beats are playing at the Echoplex with C.G. Roxanne and the Nightmares, Vanilla, and L.A. Witch
Matthias Müller’s Home Stories and Ida Lupino’s The Bigamist are being shown this week as part of The Broad’s film series Doll Parts ($12 includes night access to the full museum)
Get creative for CraftNight: Recycled Puppet Making Workshop with Invertigo Dance Theatre at the Craft & Folk Art Museum ($8 includes materials, drinks and snacks)
LACMA is having a free screening of Kicks, writer/director Justin Tipping’s debut film, with the director and actors discussing the film afterwords
Unknown Mortal Orchestra are playing a free concert at the Santa Monica Pier with Steady Holiday
Friday
Film composer John Williams (of Star Wars fame) returns to the Hollywood Bowl to conduct music from various films with a selection of clips projected on the big screen (also Saturday and Sunday)
The LA County Fair returns to the Fairplex in Pomona and runs until the end of the month
Dance Downtown is at the Music Center- this time with a disco theme (free)
Saturday
Cinespia is showing Alfred Hitchock’s The Birds at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Cinefamily is showing the David Bowie concert film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in Barnsdall Art Park
Melissa Brooks & The Aquadolls are headlining a show at The Echo
Love The Lord of the Rings Trilogy? You can see them all, in their extended versions, for $15 at the Aero Theatre today from 1pm
Fiesta Hermosa, billed as the “Largest Arts & Crafts Fair in Southern California”, returns to Hermosa Beach for the weekend (including Monday)
Sunday
Mykki Blanco is headlining a show at Union Nightclub
Cinespia is showing True Romance at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
It’s the last night of the last weekend to see free Shakespeare (The Tempest) in Griffith Park
L.A. Drones are part of the electronic band lineup for the last night of Complex’s three night concert series Manufactured in Los Angeles
Sex Stains are having an album release party at The Echo with The Side Eyes and Egrets on Ergot
L.A. Drones! ” The Rachel’s Hyperbolic Decay” “Official Video” /// A band from “Subterranean Film”
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/18-8/21/16)-
Thursday
Multimedia artist Niko Solorio is performing at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel as part of their After 5 event (free with reservation)
Mavis Staples is playing a free concert at the Santa Monica Pier with The Suffers
For The Broad’s Doll Parts film series this week they are showing Luther Price’s Clown and Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu (House)
Today is the first day of Echo Park Rising- a free all ages music and local business event taking place at different venues throughout the weekend. Tonight’s highlights include The Frights, The Regrettes, and Pale Blue at the Echoplex. Consider getting the VIP tix to skip the lines, have easy bar access and get a goodie grab bag-$30 for the whole festival, $11.50 per day
Guns N’ Roses are playing at Dodger Stadium (also Friday)
Friday
PJ Harvey is playing at The Fonda Theatre
Guided by Voices are playing at the Teragram Ballroom (also Saturday) with Broncho
Highlights for Echo Park Rising today include Chastity Belt and Ducktails at The Echo and Roses and Colleen Green at Taix. Full schedule here
Saturday
Highlights for Echo Park Rising today include L.A. Drones at the Echoplex; Feels, Froth, La Luz, and Bleached on the Liberty Stage; So Many Wizards at Stories Books & Cafe; and Kolars at Taix. Full schedule here
Muse til Midnight, LACMA’s late night event, is teaming up with Rhonda Int’l for this installment
Parquet Courts are playing the Regent Theater
The movie at Hollywood Forever Cemetery is 2001: A Space Odyssey
Chinatown Summer Nights is back with bands, DJs, a beer garden, a magician, cooking demonstrations, a market and more, all free
Sunday
LA writer Marisela Norte will be in conversation with artist and friend Gronk at the Craft and Folk Art Museum
Peach Kelli Pop are opening for Audacity at The Smell
It’s the last day of Echo Park Rising and highlights include The Lovely Bad Things and Meatbodies at The Echoplex and Billy Changer and So Many Wizards at Spacedust. Full schedule here
Lucy Dacus- I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/11-8/14/16)-
Thursday
Lucy Dacus is playing at The Echo
This month’s Downtown LA Artwalk is transportation themed
If you are downtown you can also check out gallery Hauser Wirth & Schimmel’s After 5 event which has Robert Crouch and Gregg Kowalsky performing and DJ sets by Pinkcourtesyphone (free but RSVP)
Young The Giant are playing a free acoustic set at Amoeba Hollywood
Chrome Canyon are playing at the Bootleg Theater
The free show this week at the Santa Monica Pier is Rüfüs Du Sol
Friday
As part of the three day music festival Berserktown 3 at the Teragram Ballroom, Psychic TV will be performing Force the Hand of Chance, their first album
Wayside gallery is hosting an opening for their new exhibit Girls Who Dance In Dissonance which focuses on artwork made by female artists of color. The opening will have free food and drink as well as live DJ sets from Honey Power Collective
Bands DIIV and Nothing are playing Shugazi– a show on top of the Long Beach Marriott parking lot
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre are performing Fisheyes– a dance performance that incorporates a giant stainless steel fish sculpture- free as part of Grand Performances at California Plaza
Hockey Dad are playing at The Echo along with Muuy Biien and The Gloomies
Saturday
From 6am until 8pm artist Rafa Esparza will be performing RED SUMMER, freedom is an endless meeting. and i don’t miss your heat. but here we are again., a piece that is “a meditation on the year 2015—the bloodiest in the recorded history of police killings in the United States” in Elysian Park as part of a Hammer Museum offsite program
Junior High gallery/venue is hosting Lucky Day Fest with a “tiki themed magic show”, karaoke, a dance party, a documentary screening and performances by the bands Summer Twins, Winter and more
Weaves are playing with Tennis System and French Vanilla at The Echo
Cinespia is having their annual all night movie Slumber Party at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Tickets for the earlier entrance and Heathers showing are sold out but there are some available for the midnight showing of Edward Scissorhands, followed by Crybaby
As part of Sundance NEXT Fest 16, a music and cinematic pairing at the Ace Hotel Theatre, Goat is the film and Sunflower Bean are the band
Ra Ra Riot are playing a free show at Burton Chase Park in Marina Del Rey
Silversun Pickups are playing with A Silent Film at the Hollywood Palladium
Sunday
Another good selection from the many offerings of the Sundance NEXT Fest 16, at the Ace Hotel Theatre, is the film The Greasy Strangler and a live performance by New Orleans bounce artist Big Freedia. There will also be a short by Flying Lotus before the show.
Artist Geneva Jacuzzi is performing at the Echoplex with Rolodex, Skeleton Hands and Ari Mason
CicLAvia is taking over Wilshire Blvd this time
Radiohead- No Surprises
This song is from Radiohead’s third album, OK Computer, which was released in 1997. The video was directed by Grant Gee, who also followed the band on tour after the release of the album. The result was Meeting People is Easy, a combination music video/documentary from which the clip below is from. Thom Yorke’s struggles to hold his breath through numerous frustrating takes gives a new appreciation for the video’s visual success.
Radiohead are playing two shows in Los Angeles on 8/4 and 8/8 at The Shrine Auditorium.
Dilated Peoples- Show Me The Way ft. Aloe Blacc
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/4-8/7/16)-
Thursday
Dilated Peoples and The Visionaries are playing The Official 2Mex Benefit Show at The Regent Theater
Tickets are still available for the Iris Nights Lecture Series at the Annenberg Space for Photography with Heather McClintock and Colin Finlay (free)
Artist Wu Tsang will be discussing filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl for MOCA’s Artists on Artists series (free)
The Theatre at the Ace Hotel is screening Toro y Moi: Live From Trona with a Q &A afterwards and an after party with a Toro y Moi DJ set
Natalia Lafourcade is playing a free show at the Santa Monica Pier with Monsieur Periné
For The Broad’s film series Doll Parts, there will be a screening of Paul McCarthy’s Cultural Soup and David Schmoeller’s Tourist Trap ($12 ticket also includes entrance to the Cindy Sherman exhibition)
Mother Feather are playing a free show at the Bootleg Theater
Thursday- Saturday
It’s the final weekend of the New Original Works Festival 2016 at REDCAT
Friday
For its 50th anniversary, Ford Theatres will be screening Tiempo de Morir, based on Gabriel García Márquez’s short story, which was adapted by Carlos Fuentes and Márquez for film. Film director Rodrigo García, Márquez’s son, will be discussing it with the co-founder of Libros Schmibros, David Kipen. before the screening. ($18)
Brew at the L.A. Zoo combines live music, DJ’s, and craft beer with pop up keeper talks and “close up animal encounters” ($65 includes beer samples)
HAELOS are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Golden Daze
Saturday
Blitzen Trapper are playing opening for Kansas as part of Pershing Square’s free concert series
Theater director Peter Sellars will be in conversation with Gronk at CAFAM
Proud + Outfest Movie Night in Grand Park is a free outdoor movie (Moulin Rouge!) and live music event
Tijuana Panthers are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with The Buttertones
Details are still limited but so far Audacity and No Age will be among the bands playing Save The Smell Fest, an event to raise money for the venue. Tickets are $25 but the location is still unknown (although it will probably be downtown)
Sunday
Sufjan Stevens is playing along with Kurt Vile and the Violators and Ibeyi at the Hollywood Bowl
DTLA Proud Festival has performances, parties, a pop-up water park and more to celebrate the revitalization of DTLA and the growing LGBT community ($10)
The Rock ‘N ‘Roll Flea Market returns to the Regent Theater (free)