Slow Club- Beginners

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/2-10/5/14)-

Thursday

Mark Mothersbaugh is speaking at MOCA Grand Avenue with Adam Lerner, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. He will be discussing his art and music before DEVO through the present day- which includes being a composer for film and television (he most recently did the original score for The LEGO Movie). He will also be signing his new book Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia. Admission is free to this event and to the museum, where Andy Warhol’s Shadows is currently on display.

LACMA is screening Aberdeen, the newest film from Hong Kong director Ho-cheung Pang (free)

Friday

Bombay Bicycle Club are playing The Wiltern with Milo Greene

Blitzen Trapper are at The Troubadour

LA Live is doing Dark Nights again- $5 food and drink specials at several restaurants, $5 parking and free entertainment (musicians and artists) from 5-9pm

Baauer, Boyz Noise and Spank Rock are at Club Nokia

DJ Shadow with Cut Chemist at the Hollywood Palladium

Saturday

It’s the last of MOCA’s Step and Repeat nights- this one features Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Neil Hamburger, Heather Lawless, and more

Slow Club are at The Echo with Roses

Barnsdall Art Park is having outdoor movie nights on the lawn of the Hollyhock House.  This week it’s Rock ‘n’ Roll High School starring The Ramones. It’s $10 for the movie, $25 if you want to add 3 drinks (beer and wine)

Glass Animals are playing a free show at Origami Vinyl at 1pm before their sold out show at the Troubadour

Stromae at The Fonda

Sunday

The Drums are at the Mayan Theater for their new album Encyclopedia

Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer, curator of African Cosmos: Stellar Arts, is giving a lecture on “the historical legacy of African cultural astronomy and its intersection with both traditional and contemporary African arts”

Ciclavia is back this Sunday creating car free streets from Echo Park to Downtown to East LA