Killer Mike and El-P’s collaboration, Run The Jewels, is having a good year. They played Coachella this past April and are now on tour around the country. There are tickets available for their show at the Fox Theater in Pomona on Friday 10/16/15, which is the closest they are coming to Los Angeles for awhile.
The song above is off their first self titled album from 2013 and has Big Boi of Outkast, providing guest vocals. Killer Mike was featured on Outkast’s 2001 song The Whole World. Currently their second album, Run The Jewels 2, is on their website as a free download. You can also download a free version of that album remixed by Just Blaze, Zola Jesus, Dan the Automator and more, with cat sounds added, called Meow the Jewels, created after a very popular Kickstarter campaign.
This video for Beirut’s song from 2007 was directed by Alma Har’el who also directed the famous Sigur Rós video Fjögur píanó which stars Shia LeBeouf (seen below). She also directed the documentary film Bombay Beach which takes place in the community near the Salton Sea.
Culture Collide Festival is happening at various venues around Los Angeles with bands from around the world including Ladyhawke, Ash, The Juan Maclean and more, with $20 daily tickets and $10 passes for the International Showcases and smaller shows
Friday
Pasadena’s biannual ArtNight is a great chance to check out many of the area’s museums and cultural institutions for free as well as catch performances and live music. Free shuttles take you to all the destinations
The Rooftop Film Club is showing The Shawshank Redemption on top of the Montalban Theater in Hollywood
Funeral Party are headlining a show at The Satellite
Saturday
Street artist Hanksy organized over 50 artists to paint inside an abandoned mansion somewhere in Los Angeles for an event called Surplus Candy. The address will be released on Saturday so keep checking this link to go
Design East of La Brea (deLaB) is hosting 10 Feet: Art Meets the River with the LA River Public Art Project “pairing seven river
sites with practicing artists, who will present a range of two and three dimensional work, including a music piece and pollinator garden” (free)
NELA’s monthly Art Gallery Night is on in Highland Park
Battles are playing at the Regent Theater with Buke and Gase
Tenacious D’s Comedy/Music Festival Supreme is back at the Shrine with a ton of performers including Die Antwoord, Dan Deacon, The Kids in the Hall, Big Freedia, Amy Poehler, and many more. It’s not cheap ($95+ $22 fees) so you may want to pick up tickets at Amoeba Records, Origami Vinyl or the Shrine Box Office to save on the fees
Sunday
Matthew Barney is discussing his film River of Fundament with scholar Homi K. Bhabha at Tateuchi Democracy Forum at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (online tickets are sold out but there will be additional tickets released at the event)
First released as a single in 1980, it was later put on overseas versions of Numan’s album of the same year, Telekon, but was not on its original release. I Die You Die was also covered by Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields in 1997.
Gary Numan will be performing Telekon in its entirety at the Teregram Ballroom tonight (10/1/15).
This song is from Belgian EBM band Front 242′s 1988 album Front by Front. The video was made by photographer and director Anton Corbijn, whose new film Life, releasing in the US in December of this year, is about Life magazine photographer Dennis Stock (played by Robert Pattinson) and his friendship with James Dean.
Front 242 are playing at the Avalon in Hollywood this Sunday, 9/27/15.
This song is from Cut Copy’s 2013 album Free Your Mind. The video was directed by Christoper Hill and stars Alexander Skarsgard as a cult leader. For more info on the video there is an interesting interview with Hill here.
Cut Copy is playing at the Mad Decent Block Party this Sunday 9/20/15.
At Pehrspace tonight (9/12/15), Peach Kelli Pop are playing as part of Razorcake’s Residency which includes bands Massenger, Winter Break and King Walrus & the Magicians. It’s their last show before leaving for a European tour. Or you can just watch them running around Los Angeles in the video above.
This song is off the band’s 2010 album Champ. Tokyo Police Club are currently touring for their 2014 album Forcefield and playing at the Regent Theater in Los Angeles on Saturday 9/12/15.
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)
This track from Del’s 1991 debut album I Wish My Brother George Was Here, was his biggest solo hit. He has, however, had an incredible career that has continued to the present day.
He got his start working with his cousin Ice Cube writing lyrics for Da Lench Mob before releasing his first two solo albums. In 1999 he teamed up with Dan the Automator and Kid Koala to form Deltron 3030 which produced two successful albums, one in 2000, the other in 2013. Dan the Automator produced the Gorillaz self-titled album and put Del on two of the singles “Clint Eastwood” and “Rock the House”. Del continues to work on solo projects as well. His most recent release was in 2014 of Iller Than Most which is free to listen to on Soundcloud.
Del Tha Funky Homosapien is playing at the Echoplex this Friday 8/28/15, with DJ Qbert and DJ Nobody with Los Angeles based street artist Mear One live painting.
