White Reaper- Pages
This song is from White Reaper’s 2023 album Asking for a Ride.
The band are playing with Weezer and Spoon at the FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine, CA on 9/2/23.
Aug 282023
Jan 182018
Joyce Manor- Last You Heard Of Me
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/18-1/21/18)-
Thursday
Tennis System and Souvenirs are opening for Teenage Wrist at The Hi Hat
Artist Gala Porras-Kim will be discussing her work from A Universal History of Infamy with curator Megan O’Neil, at LACMA (free but ticket required)
Also at LACMA is a screening of John Carpenter’s classic They Live
Guards and Veronica Bianqui are opening for The Soft White Sixties at The Echo
At REDCAT, LA-based performers Rubén Martínez and Raquel Gutiérrez will be performing VARIEDADES, “an interdisciplinary performance that brings together music, spoken word, theater, comedy and the visual arts, loosely based on the Mexican vaudeville shows of early 20th century”
Friday
Surfer Blood are playing at The Hi Hat with Terry Malts opening
Sociologist and writer Greg Snyder will be discussing his book SKATEBOARDING LA at The Last Bookstore with some of the professional skateboarders profiled in the book joining him (free)
De Lux are playing with The Juan Maclean at The Regent Theater
Suno Deko is performing at the Bootleg Theater with special sets/collaborations with Zach Tetreault, Cyrus Gengras, Alex Somers, and Julianna Barwick
iHeartRadio ALTer Ego 2018 is happening at The Forum with Beck, The National, Spoon, and more
Saturday
The Women’s March is taking place in downtown LA- moving from Pershing Square to City Hall
Joyce Manor are playing two shows at Union Station– tickets are still available for the earlier one (3pm) with Surf Curse and Peach Kelli Pop
For the final weekend of Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999-2011 at Hauser & Wirth, Extended Organ, Lonely Street and Telecaves will be performing (free)
There are still tickets available for the later show at The Broad of En Cuatro Patas: The Formaldehyde Trip, a work by Mexico City artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo, that includes songs and videos dedicated to murdered Mixtec activist Alberta “Bety” Cariño, performed live with props (part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA)
Wolf Parade are playing at The Fonda Theatre with Charly Bliss opening (also Friday)
Sondre Lerche is performing at Largo
Sunday
Worn-Tin is playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Small Forward and runnner opening
Hammer Museum is showing the experimental short films of Narcisa Hirsch as part of Los Angeles Filmforum’s Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (free)
Death of Lovers (members of Nothing) are playing at the Echoplex with Choir Boy opening
Aug 032017
Hand Habits- Book on How to Change
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/3-8/6/17)-
Thursday
Filmmaker Ericka Beckman will be in conversation with visual artist Matt Mullican for The Broad’s The Un-Private Collection conversation series ($12)
The Molochs are opening for Juan Wauters at Resident
Chastity Belt are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Never Young and Lala Lala opening
The free concert this week at the Santa Monica Pier is Valerie June with Irma Thomas opening
Artists Star Montana and Shizu Saldamando will be in conversation at The Main Museum (free but RSVP)
Loyal Lobos are headlining a show at the Bootleg Theater that includes Aldre’ Williams, Sam Valdez, and The Moderns
Friday
Alex Napping, Hand Habits, and Justus Proffit are playing at the Bootleg Theater
Artbook at Hauser & Wirth is hosting a reading series called Out of the Hat “where various artists writers, dancers, poets, and theoreticians will share—and be called—to the stage through an old adage of chance: the pulling of names out of a hat”. This Friday the participants will be Tosh Berman, an. cinquemani, Leslie Dick and Marsie Scharlat.
For Grand Performances’ free Friday program this week, there is a dance performance- No Side Now- Dance That Abandons Boundaries- curated by Los Angeles Performance Practice
Cosmonauts are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Adult Books and Winter
Fatal Jamz are playing at The Echo with Franky Flowers, BOYO and Sugarcube
Boogaloo Assassins are performing a free show at the Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park
Saturday
Maiden LA is facilitating an open studios program with Studio C Gallery and other galleries in the Santa Fe Art Colony complex from 12-5pm
Dorian Wood will be performing Entre Les Étoiles (Among the Stars) in a free performance with Hawaiian singer Kaumakaiwa Kanaka’ole opening at California Plaza as part of Grand Performances’ programming
Toad the Wet Sprocket are playing a free show in Pershing Square with 10,000 Maniacs
Chinatown Summer Nights returns for its free monthly summer event with bands, culinary demonstrations, DJs, art demonstrations, performances, a market, and more
Sunday
At LACMA, curator Howard Fox, who organized the current exhibition Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz, will be in conversation with Elsa Flores, the artist’s widow, who is also a noted activist and photographer. The talk will also include a sneak peek at the upcoming documentary film about the artist, Carlos in Wonderland, which will be aired by KCET in early 2018. (free but ticket required)
The 3rd Annual Long Beach Zine Fest is taking place at the Museum of Latin American Art (free)
Belle and Sebastian are playing at the Hollywood Bowl with Spoon and Kristin Kontrol
Tennis System are opening for Swirlies at the Echoplex
Rapper Sasha Go Hard is performing at Zebulon
New Orleans’ New Breed Brass Band is playing a free show at the Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park
The Rock N Roll Flea Market returns to the Regent Theater for its monthly free event
May 282015
Diarrhea Planet- Platinum Girls
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/28-5/31/15)-
Thursday
The Hammer is having its Open Projector Night (free)
Photographer Sally Mann is speaking to David Ulin at The Attic in Hollywood- tickets are $38 and include her book
ACME Gallery is hosting a launch party for Merkel Magazine- The Pit Gallery’s artist book
King Tuff is playing the Del Monte Speakeasy (basement of Townhouse in Venice) for $3- RSVP here
Robert DeLong is playing for free at Lure in Hollywood
Friday
Diarrhrea Planet are at the Echo with Lovely Bad Things and Left & Right
The Getty’s Friday Night Flights continues with Total Freedom (Ashland Mines who co-produced the party Wildness with Wu Tsang)-
Sea Lions are playing at Ham and Eggs Tavern with Fungi Girls for $5
Friday- Sunday
It’s a big weekend for design with Dwell on Design back at the LA Convention Center and the Los Angeles Design Festival which has events around the city
Saturday
There is a closing party for A+D Museum’s exhibition Beyond Graffiti 2 and it is the last day at its current location on Wilshire
It’s Atlas Obscura Day and all around the world are events celebrating “curious places”
LAMAG in Barnsdall Park is having an artist talk with Harold Greene, Alan Nakagawa, Baumgartner + Uriu (B +U) who are in the current exhibition
Spoon are at the Wiltern
Wire are playing at the Echo
Sunday
The biannual vintage design marketplace Downtown Modernism is today ($5)
CicLAvia is in Pasadena this time
Aug 062014
Spoon- Inside Out
The new Spoon album, They Want My Soul, came out yesterday and they are playing Amoeba Hollywood tonight 8/6, at 6pm for free.