Traps PS- Peer Review
This song is from LA band Traps PS‘s 2025 album, Abstractor.
They will be playing at The Smell in Los Angeles on Friday 6/20/25, with The Two Seasons and Practice. The show is a benefit for Immigrant Defenders Law Center.
Twin Oaks- Sleep Deprived
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/9-1/12/20)-
Thursday
Artist Christina Quarles is giving a free lecture at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA as part of their Artist on Artists series
Independent scholar and author Dr. Houman Sarshar will be speaking at The Broad as part of their series The Logic of Poetry and Dreams (free but reserve ticket)
Wand are playing at The Echo (also Friday)
Oddnesse is playing a free show at Gold Diggers with Dev Ray, Lellopepper x Popularity Contest and DJ Colleen Green
The Tissues are having a free record release party at Zebulon with additional performances by Chernobyl, R Clown and Fucked Forever
Downtown LA Artwalk returns for its monthly event
Friday
Twin Oaks are playing at The Satellite as part of a free night of bands that includes Magic Bronson, Bandie and Wax Charmer
The Egyptian Theatre is showing a double feature of Airplane! and Stripes with a discussion between screenings with directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker.
The Aero Theatre has a Pedro Almodóvar double feature of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and All About My Mother with a discussion with director Almodóvar between films (sold out but there will be a stand-by line)
Jimmy Whispers is playing at The Hi Hat with Dark Tea, Cyrus Gengras, and The Lentils
Photo Ops is playing a free show at Gold Diggers
Saturday
Celebrate free admission at both MOCA locations with a day of performances, music, art-making activities, free ice cream, and more with a free shuttle between locations
Artist Liz Glynn will be in conversation with writer and critic Travis Diehl at Vielmetter Los Angeles
Kicked Off The Streets are playing with Sustivity, Cardboard Boxer and Law at The Smell
Saturday and Sunday
Celebrate the Lunar New Year Festival in downtown Monterey Park with live entertainment, food, traditional lion and dragon dancers and more
Sunday
Gold-Diggers is hosting a benefit for WIRES Wildlife Rescue Organization who are working to provide aid to the animals affected by the wildfires in Australia. Performers includes Ben Lee, William Tyler, Meatbodies and more. ($15.45)
The Rose Bowl Flea Market is back for its monthly event
D.A. Stern is playing a free show with Traps PS and Bart & The Bedazzled at Zebulon
Foie Gras, Glaare, Portrayal of Guilt, and Street Sects are playing The Smell
There’s a screening of Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of Brian Jones at The Regent Theater
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