OBD-X LA block party
Downtown LA, it’s time to party. OBD-X is a huge block party happening in the Old Bank District on 4th Street between Spring and Main Streets and Main between 3rd and 5th Streets this Saturday, August 21st from 4PM to 1AM. Admission is free! Think Art Walk. The street celebration will include food and drinks, art [...]
The Nonlife Zoo at Royal/T – Los Angeles
Had enough of the LA Zoo for one summer? With their live animals walking around on all 4’s? Come to Royal/T this Friday night, and experience an altogether different kind of zoo – The Nonlife Zoo. Not only is it a fun excuse to bring out your furry inclinations, it’ll also make you think about [...]
Jovanotti at the Santa Monica Pier – Los Angeles
For all you Italio-philes who love Jovanotti or even know who he is, rejoice! The advent of the international rappers has come! He will be making his Los Angeles debut on the Santa Monica Pier tomorrow – tonight he’s playing at the Viper Room, along with Chilean-French rapper Ana Tijoux.
There’s just something so refreshing about [...]
Go Folk Yourself Silly with James Apollo – Los Angeles
One of the coolest still-surviving music stores in LA, Origami Vinyl is hosting a folk rock double header on July 24, and your wallet will be happy to hear that both shows are free.
The first show is at 4pm, featuring folk rocker James Apollo, who tugs at Americana’s heartstrings with hobbled, broken-hearted blues and some [...]
Thomas Pridgen, Ex-Mars Volta at The Airliner
Thomas Pridgen at the Airliner on a Sunday night, hmm? After three years with the explosive talents in Mars Volta, Pridgen has decided to part ways and focus on a project of his envisioning, like everyone else in Mars Volta. He played on the albums Bedlam in Goliath and Octahedron, and was called out many [...]
Zombies are Prettier in Whittier – Los Angeles
Los Angeles has long been home to some of the strangest, most creative, and wildest bar crawls this side of the San Andreas Fault Line. From the legendary Bunny Hop of Aught-Five to the bleary-eyed Christmas cheer of Santa Con, Los Angeles bar crawls tend to go down in the annals of underground city legend. [...]
J’Adore Bastille Day – Los Angeles
Who doesn’t love Bastille Day? No one doesn’t love Bastille Day, that’s who. Not only is Bastille Day an excuse to wear your most questionable of fashions and get chocolate wasted on a vat of red wine, you, but you can enjoy a day of all that is wonderful about France.
Spend a languid summer’s day [...]
Micro Brew Cruise – Bring the Dramamine!
There is nothing like beer and boats to start the summer off right. If you like boats, and you like drinking, and can handle drinking on the boat, you’re going to love the Micro Brew Cruise hosted by Morry’s on June 12!
Via The Rubber Duck, a 49 passenger amphibious vehicle, you will get to explore [...]
Hear NoHo Fest – The June Edition
If you’re looking to find the best in underground and undiscovered bands, look no further than the Hear Noho Music Fest!
Held on the first Thursday of every month, Hear Noho presents eclectic bands that you’ve never heard of in three walkable venues in North Hollywood.
This month, they’ve got 3 venues chock full of emerging artists [...]
UCLA’s Jazz Reggae Fest
With so many things going on this weekend, it’s hard to choose just one!
This Memorial Day Weekend brings about one of the coolest festivals around. The 2010 Jazz Reggae Festival is May 30 – 31, from 12 – 7pm, at the UCLA Intramural Field.
With an annual attendance of over 30,000 and performances from legendary artists [...]
Museum of Jurassic Technology…Does Its Thing…
Ahh, the Museum of JurassicTechnology. Somewhere between the California Institute of Abnormal Arts and Victorian showcase, you occupy a space in which being comfortable with ambiguity is a requirement to ride the ride. News about how cool MTJ is has long spread from friend to friend, so I finally made a point to stop in [...]
Dance Camera West’s Weekend of Films
Dance Camera West (DCW), presents “Weekend at the Hammer” during the second weekend in June – Saturday, June 12 and Sunday, June 13, 2010 – during its month-long Dance Media Film Festival. The Hammer Museum will host Dance Camera West’s weekend presentation – three programs over two days; curated by Lynette [...]
Flight of the Conchords Take Off at the Hollywood Bowl
Indie darlings Flight of the Conchords will for sure pack the Hollywood Bowl on May 30, so be sure to get your tickets early. From their TV show of the same name, these guys will be performing all their deadpan songs and inspire many an ironic laugh. New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella [...]
Spirit Vine at Spaceland
SPIRIT VINE conjures a retro-future where folks still read The Doors of Perception, seek enlightenment in shaman directed spiritual sweat-lodges and go Bathing at Baxters.
Avi Buffalo This Saturday at the Troubadour
You like Avi Buffalo, right? Those plucky kids from the mean streets of Long Beach have recently soared to indie rock fame, quickly becoming everyone’s darling. The newest huge news is that they’re opening for Modest Mouse for five dates in July (yay!), and the freshest slice is their record release party at the Troubadour [...]
Get Inked and Ironed Up!
The Ink and Iron Festival is happening this June under the Gemini moon at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, and you know what that means – all kinds of rockabilly craziness! Ink N Iron is a 3 day rockabilly fest custom made for Los Angeles, featuring art, aerial showladies, tons of live bands, a [...]
Earthquakes Don’t Kill People…Crappy Buildings Do
Party with a cause on May 15 to help create earthquake awareness in Los Angeles at Royal-T in Culver City!
Shake the quake! Party at Royal-T and help the world. 100% proceeds to benefit Build Change. Help create earthquake awareness in Los Angeles and bring the community together to support an amazing cause. Proceeds also go [...]
Luxe Life Lives It Up
The Luxe Life Pink Carpet Beauty and Shopping Event took place last weekend at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City. It was billed as a luxury mini-spa day, designed to give you all the spa treats usually reserved for celebrities. With the pass, you could indulge in two free spa treatments, ranging [...]
Soup Kitchen Rocks Brings In the Chicks
Soup Kitchen Rocks 9 went off this past Sunday at the Talking Stick in Venice, and it was indeed chick-tastic! This time they featured an all-girl jam of music and film, with Mather Louth and Radio Noir, Diamonds Under Fire, Jessie Payo, and films by Masque Films. While there were a few hiccups, it was [...]
Chicha Libre Jams Out Brooklyn-Style
Chiche Libre, the psychedelic surf cumbia band straight out of Brooklyn descended upon Los Angeles to spread their laid-back grooves this past Friday at El Cid. If there was any doubt that these Brooklyn boys could throw down in this cumbia-heavy town, they quickly cast all doubts aside to make room for their booty-shaking show.
First [...]
Soup Kitchen Rocks 9 Stirs It Up at The Talking Stick
Soup Kitchen Rocks, the collective of misfits who put on some of the best underground shows in all of LA is doing it again this Sunday at the Talking Stick in Venice, and they’re throwing it down chick-style with a mainly girl line-up. This kitty’s got claws, though. Fierce ladies like Mather Louth, Jessie Payo, [...]
The Luxe Life is All About You!
For those Pamper Me Fabulous lovers, you’ve got a new shindig in town! Luxe Life is all about getting the best luxury beauty, fashion, and lifestyle brands together under one roof and throwing open the doors for you to experience all that a Luxe Life has to offer. Shop to your hearts’ content in designer [...]
LA Time Festival of Books
The LA Times 2010 Festival of Books is hosting their weekend book and book-lovers matchmaking fair this weekend at UCLA. Reconnect with that old media you forgot about ever since the dawn of your Facebook account! Your books miss you, and somewhere, deep down in your technologically-hardened heart, you miss them. Get down to the [...]
Create:Fixate: Vitalizes Your Eyes
“We awaken this spring Vitalized, by the knowledge that all possess the power to evolve and reinvent ourselves and the world around us. In a time when so much revolves around conflict or passivity, by tuning in, showing up, and making LIFE happen, we move everything forward. How will you Vitalize [...]
