Panda Bear- Praise
This song is from Panda Bear‘s first solo album in five years, Sinister Grift, which was released in February of this year.
On Saturday, 5/10, Panda Bear will be playing the Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena. There are several great bands on the lineup including- Vampire Weekend, Courtney Barnett, The Drums, Toro y Moi, Perfume Genius, Of Montreal, Beach Fossils, Slowdive, and more.
Lala Lala- Water Over Sex
Thing to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/25-7/28/19)-
Thursday
Megan Thee Stallion, Rico Nasty, Blueface, Comethazine, Tierra Whack, DaBaby and more will be performing for the XXL Freshman 2019 Concert at The Novo
Justus Proffit and Outer Spaces are opening for Radiator Hospital at The Hi Hat
Hammer Museum’s free Summer Concert Series continues this week with a performance by The Tracks as well as KCRW DJs, food trucks and a cash bar
Skirball Cultural Center is free on Thursdays and this week there is a free sunset concert with marimba super-group Río Mira performing
Hollywood Night Market at Yamashiro is a lovely way to have some food and drinks while enjoying beautiful views of the city- free shuttles leave from the Mosaic parking lot
Friday
The Underground Museum’s Purple Garden Cinema is hosting FWD: Short Films. The free program, curated by MEMORY, will feature a range of work from emerging and established filmmakers.
Metro Art has a new program featuring LA based DJ collectives- Movements at Union Station. The first night in the series will feature The Soul Children, an LA based crew of artist, promoters and DJs. The event will also include a drop-in silkscreen stencil workshop led by Self Help Graphics & Art, a photo booth and food trucks.
B Boys are playing a free show at Hotel Figueroa with Bodega and Shark Toys
Golden Vessel is performing at El Cid with Instupendo and The Nicholas
The Music Center’s Dance DTLA, a night of free dance lessons and music ,continues this week with a disco theme
UCLA Film & Television Archive is screening an action film double feature of Sister Street Fighter and Lady Terminator, at Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater ($9)
Florist are playing at Pico Union Project with Hand Habits (solo)
Saturday
The Getty’s free concert series Off the 405 continues this week with Lala Lala
Bergamot Station is having a Summer Open House all day with live music, art openings, a book sale, art talk, food, drink, and more
The Box is screening Leigh Ledare’s The Task at 2pm with a conversation with the artist and Catherine Taft, director and curator at LAXART, to follow from 4:30-6:30pm
Morgan Delt is playing at the Lodge Room with Pearl Charles, Vinyl Williams, The Sunsettes, and Mad Alchemy Light Show
The Drums are playing at the Hollywood Palladium with CHAI
Smokescreens, Holy Tunics, and Susan are playing at The Monty Bar
UCLA Film & Television Archive is screening a double feature of the Paris-set films Funny Face and Paris Blues, at Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater ($9)
Latin American folk-rock group Aterciopelados are playing a free show at Pershing Square with Elefante opening
Sunday
To celebrate the opening weekend of The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness, Zak Ové’s sculptural installation, LACMA is hosting an afternoon of art, music, which will include a discussion with Ové. A performance by Trinidad Steel Drum Band begins at 4 pm, followed by a conversation with Ové at 5 pm. (free)
Independent Shakespeare Co. is having a free performance of the play Pericles in Griffith Park tonight (also Saturday)
Shutups, Weird Night, Launcher, Slaughterhouse, and Shitgiver are all performing at The Rec Center
Cam’ron is playing a $5 show at The Novo
Johanna Samuels and Dylan Rodrigue are opening for Lou Roy at the Bootleg Theater
All Weekend
OUTFEST Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival continues in various locations with screenings that include shorts and television episodes. This weekend some of the screenings will be at the outdoor Ford Theatre including- the Kathy Griffin documentary, with Griffin in conversation with Louis Virtel pre-screening on Thursday, and the documentary Gay Chorus Deep South on Friday which includes a performance by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus.
Froth- Laurel
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (6/6-6/9/19)-
Thursday
Film at LACMA is having a free screening of Empty Metal followed by a post-screening conversation with co-directors Bayley Sweitzer and Adam Khalil, an artist and filmmaker whose work is featured in the Whitney Biennial
Hand Habits are opening for Broken Social Scene at The Fonda Theatre
Filmmaker, artist, and award-winning cinematographer Arthur Jafa will be speaking with writer Saidiya Hartman at the Hammer Museum
Sebadoh are playing at The Roxy Theatre with Flower opening
Little People is performing with Arms and Sleepers, and Newman Wolf at The Echo
Jarina de Marco and Sister Mantos are playing a free show at the Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park
Spiral Stairs (Pavement co-founder Scott Kannberg), Human Barbie, and Near Beer are playing at the Bootleg Theater
Friday
Froth are having an album release show at Lodge Room with Cosmonauts, Adult Books, and Automatic also performing
FIGFEST, a free summer concert series happening at FIGat7th downtown, begins this week with performances by Cherry Glazerr, Liily, and Benjamin Lee Ritchie Handler
Artist and muralist Kent Twitchell is giving a walkthrough of Charles White: A Retrospective at LACMA
Culture Abuse are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Tony Molina, Entry, and Dare opeing
Lee Fields & The Expressions are playing at the El Rey Theatre with Holy Hive And Brainstory
Hear a discussion on earthquakes, check out DJs, have some drinks and snacks, and see musical performances by Claude Fontaine, Gavin Turek, and Brasstacks- all happening as part of Natural History Museum’s First Fridays monthly evening programming
Vundabar and Dehd are opening for together PANGEA at The Regent Theater
Friday through Sunday
LA!PRIDE Festival is taking place all weekend in West Hollywood starting with a free opening ceremony on Friday which includes a Vogue Ball & Drag Show, a film screening, and performances by Paula Abdul, Todrick Hall and DJ Goodboy. The concert on Saturday includes performances by The Drums, Cupcakke, and Meghan Trainor, and Sunday’s performers include Years and Years, Ashanti, Sateen, The Veronicas, and Miss Vanjie. There will be a parade on Santa Monica Blvd on Sunday from 11am-2pm
Saturday
Hammer Museum is having an opening celebration party for the new exhibition Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel
BoldPas: A Day of Art and Play in Old Pasadena is a free all day event where you can see art installations created by LA based artists with the artists on hand to present their work, instructor led art activities at various locations and more
Fenne Lily is opening for SOAK. at the Echoplex
Celebrate PRIDE at the Troubadour with Kitten, Iconique, Mood Killer, and Blu Detiger performing
Inner Wave are playing at The Fonda Theatre with Eyedress and Jean Dawson opening
Sunday
Field Medic is playing an early show at Moroccan Lounge
Zebulon is having a free screening of Alain Resnais’ film My American Uncle and later Erik Davis will present- Welcome to the Weird, a free slideshow and talk “that riffs on the historical, conceptual, and aesthetic considerations of living in weird times”.
Goth Babe- Car Camping
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (4/4-4/7/19)-
Thursday
The Drums are returning to play a free show at Amoeba Records and to sign their new album Brutalism
For tonight’s CraftNight at Craft Contemporary, Mimi Haddon will be leading a workshop on making sock animals
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA is hosting the free program Poets, Priests, Martyrs: Henry Dumas, Joseph Jarman, MLK, a series of collaborations between MOCA and writer and artist Harmony Holiday. This edition features musician R.A.P.ferreira live alongside a recitation of poems by writer Henry Dumas (1934–68). A recording of a Dumas poem read by the late jazz musician and composer Joseph Jarman, and a recording of a piece by drummer Max Roach made in Martin Luther King’s honor will be also be played.
Justus Proffit and Hotline TNT are playing at rec center with Gum Country and Cryogeyser
Dilly Dally are playing at The Echo with Chastity opening
Dimber are opening for Sweet Spirit at the Bootleg Theater
Friday
Goth Babe are playing at 1720 with Jurassic Shark, The Grinns, The Licks, and OMW2HEAVEN
Natural History Museum’s First Friday event this month has performances by Harriet Brown and Drama, DJs, discussions, plus food trucks and cocktails
Vaguess is having a record release party at The Factory with support from Wild Wing and Traps PS
A.O. Gerber, Small Forward, and Cape Weather are playing at Weber Rations
It’s Aquarium of the Pacific’s free night and a chance to see the sharks in Shark Lagoon. Afterwards you can check out First Friday Long Beach’s County Fair event that includes live performances, fun and games, an art show and lots more
Friday through Sunday
For LA based director, writer and visual artist Lars Jan’s work The White Album, taking place at the Center for the Art of Performance UCLA with Early Morning Opera, he created a multimedia performance that uses Joan Didion’s essay, read in its entirety by actress Mia Barron, and combines it with a parallel performance taking place behind her. The audience is also split into two sections, one large and seated, and one mobile.
Saturday
Kitten and Hatchie are opening for Girlpool at The Regent Theater
The Warlocks are playing with Stevenson Ranch Davidians at The Hi Hat
The Egyptian Theatre continues its Festival of Film Noir with a double feature of Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil and Louis Malle’s Elevator to the Gallows
The Pesos are having a free record release party at Zebulon with The Tyde and Red Theme
Stella Donnelly is performing at the Bootleg Theater with Faye Webster opening
Saturday and Sunday
Brewery Art Walk returns and is a fun way to spend the day seeing artists work in their studios in the huge complex
Renegade Craft Fair is taking place at Los Angeles State Historic Park and includes over 200 local and national makers and designers (free)
Sunday
The Regent Theater is showing the film STIV: The Life And Times of Stiv Bators, a documentary about the former lead singer of the bands Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church
Zebulon is having a free screening of Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise with a Q& A to follow with actor Richard Edson
José González & The String Theory are playing at the Los Angeles Theatre
The Prids and Soft Science are playing at the Echoplex with Tangients and Sick Wish
The Blank Tapes are playing at The Hi Hat with Blanco Niño, Ecstatic Union and Cosmo Gold
The Growlers- Good Advice
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (8/2-8/5/18)-
Thursday
Swearin’ and Mike Krol are playing at Highland Park Ebell
Artist Shinique Smith will be discussing his work with executive director of LAXART Hamza Walker at The California African American Museum (free)
British artist Lucy Sparrow’s all felt supermarket Sparrow Mart opened yesterday at The Standard, Downtown LA, with all items inside available for purchase. It will be open until 8/31 and is free with no reservation is required
Titus Andronicus is now part of Griffith Park’s free outdoor Shakespeare performances by the Independent Shakespeare Co.
Owen is playing at The Echo with Laura Stevenson and Goon opening
Trace is playing at the Echoplex with Moontower opening
Friday
There’s a lot to do in Pasadena tonight- Pasadena Museum of California Art is having one of its last free Fridays (it’s closing for good the beginning of October) and you can check out their Summer Book Sale (continuing throughout the weekend). Also tonight, Norton Simon Museum is free, and you can head to Jackalope’s Summer Nights evening artisan market (also taking place on Saturday 3-10pm)
The Molochs are playing at The Hi Hat with Janelane, Post Life and Gold Cage
The Egyptian Theatre is hosting a weekend of 3D horror movies- tonight it is Friday the 13th III and Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror
Directors Jim Abrahams and David Zucker and actor Robert Hays will be discussing Airplane! after a screening at the Aero Theatre
As part of a Worble Skate Video premiere, Cobra Man are playing a free show with Wild Wing at the Bootleg Theater
Kedr Livanskiy is performing at The Roxy Theatre with Gel Set, Avalon, and Sage Caswell
Saturday
Artist and musician Phranc will be discussing her work with Tom Knechtel over coffee and donuts at 11am at Craig Krull Gallery
As part of Hammer Museum’s programming for the exhibition Made in L.A. 2018, artist Gelare Khoshgozaran will be discussing Daniel Joseph Martinez’s work for the show at 3pm
The Midnight Hour featuring Ali Shaheed Muhammad and composer Adrian Younge are performing for KCRW HQ’s free Summer Nights’ Backyard Party
Gabba Gallery is having an opening night reception for Remix: The Art of Music, featuring over 70 artists’ work inspired by music, with a portion of proceeds from the sales going to Adopt the Arts, which helps fund arts programs in elementary schools
Cat Power is playing a free show as part of Marina del Rey’s Summer Concerts
Jeff Lynne’s ELO is playing at The Forum (also Sunday)
Sunday
The Growlers Beach Goth 2018 is taking place at Los Angeles State Historic Park with a great lineup of bands that includes The Drums, The Voidz, Bleached (as The Ramones), Doug E. Fresh, GWAR, La Luz and more, plus Death of a Clown Cabaret- “LA’s queer showcase of demented drag”
Bon Iver will be performing Come Through, a collaboration with TU Dance company, at the Hollywood Bowl
Actor George Segal will be at the Aero Theatre to discuss the film Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf after the screening
The Rock ‘N’ Roll Flea Market returns with its free monthly event to The Regent Theater
yOya are having a release party at The Hi Hat with Colyer, Sheriffs of Schroedingham, and Sofia Wolfson opening
Hott MT- Tranceforming
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/2-11/5/17)-
Thursday
MOCA Grand Avenue is having a free (but RSVP) music night with DJDS, DJ Frosty, Wyldeflower and Deejay.fm
At The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, architect Liam Young will be discussing artist Adrián Villar Rojas and his current MOCA exhibition (free)
Daniel Johnston is playing at the Orpheum Theatre
Artist Nao Bustamante will be discussing certain works on a walk-through Hammer Museum’s Radical Women exhibit. There will also be music for Latinas Out Loud:Ayer Es Hoy with Sotomayor, Sin Color and Chulita Vinyl Club performing (free)
Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha are playing at The Echo with JJUUJJUU
Friday
Metro Art is screening Agnés Varda’s film Mur Murs at Union Station as part of its series of documentaries about Los Angeles (free)
A Giant Dog are playing with Wild Wing and Chief White Lightning at the Bootleg Theater
The Drums are playing at the Fonda Theatre with Methyl Ethel (also Thursday, and Saturday with Slow Hollows)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Ian Sweet opening
Yaeji is having an EP release party at El Cid
Saturday
Grand Ave Arts All Access has free admission and events planned all day at many of the cultural institutions located on Grand Ave including MOCA and the LA Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Grand Park still has its altars for Día de los Muertos up until Sunday
Wand are playing at the Hi Hat with Lars Finberg and Olga opening
Self Help Graphics are having a Día De Los Muertos Celebration
“Weird Al “Yankovic, John Stamos, Elle King and more will be singing iconic songs from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film as it plays on the Hollywood Bowl movie screen
Dopium.LA is a one night event in Chinatown where artists will create “original pieces to bring the plaza (aka the “Canvas”) to life through mixed media, from sculptures, paintings and photographs to video and light projections” plus music, food and drink (free but register)
Ministry are playing at the Hollywood Palladium with Death Grips opening
Saturday and Sunday
ComplexCon’s two day event has performers that include N.E.R.D., A-Trak, A$AP Ferg, M.I.A., Young Thug, Gucci Mane, D.J.Khaled; as well as panels, an art exhibition, shopping and more
Sunday
Hott MT are opening for Reptaliens and Fawns of Love at the Echoplex
Artist Ellen Gallagher will be in conversation with LACMA curator Christine Y. Kim at Hauser & Wirth, where Gallagher’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles is currently on view (free but register)
Yelle is playing at Resident with Lewis OfMan opening
The Rock N Roll Flea Market returns to The Regent Theater (free)
The Drums- There Is Nothing Left
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (9/10-9/13/15)-
Thursday
MOCA is screening Stan VanDerBeek: Newsreel of Dreams at their Grand Avenue location ($12)
For the last free concert of the summer at Santa Monica Pier, the tUnE-yArDs are performing along with Avid Dancer
The Hammer is having a forum titled 9/11, The Saudi Connection with Senator Bob Graham and Robert Baer. Baer was the CIA veteran played by George Clooney in Syriana
Downtown’s Artwalk is back for its monthly event
The Church are playing at the Roxy
The Drums are playing a free show (with RSVP) along with Nathaniel Rateliff @ The Night Sweats in Laguna Beach
The More Than A Cone Art Festival, a benefit for animal advocacy groups, is taking place at the Autry and includes a runway show, live music, live painting and an art show. $35 includes beer/wine
Friday through Sunday
It’s the Hollywood Bowl’s Fireworks Finale with the B-52s and the Psychedelic Furs playing with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
LACE in Hollywood is having its second Resonant Forms festival of performance art and electronic music- $20/night or $30 for the weekend
Saturday
Tokyo Police Club are playing at the Regent Theater
Outdoor movies begin in Barnsdall Park with Shaun of the Dead. $15 for the movie or spend $25 and include the wine tasting
Pasadena’s City Hall outdoor movie this week is The Princess Bride
Before the movie you could check out the Armory’s 2015 Monster Drawing Rally benefit where artwork is first created live by over 100 artists and then can be purchased for $75. Or you can just watch for $10 and there will be beer
Peach Kelli Pop are playing as part of the Razorcake Residency lineup at Pehrspace ($5)
Gap Dream are headlining a show at The Smell ($5)
Sunday
Architect Frank Gehry will be speaking at LACMA with architecture critic Paul Goldberger about his career (free but standby only, line starts at 1pm)
It’s the second and last day of Long Beach Comic Con
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