Aural devastation TONIGHT! AUTHOR & PUNISHER in Los Angeles with BEHOLD! THE MONOLITH, FETUS EATERS, ACTUARY, AGOWILT, INTERNAL & TORN BY TEETH. Doors at 730pm $5 21+ The 5 Star Bar, 267 S. Main St. DTLA
Thee only LA apppearance of DECEASED! With Gravehill / Skeletal Remains / Ghoulgotha / Deception! Brought to you by Church of the 8th Day and Thee Static Age. 8pm doors / 18+ / $10 via 8thDayTix.com and $13 cash at the door. 8771 W. Pico Blvd.
Tonight! Another fucking great show at The Down & Out! In Defense / Dogteeth / Out of Tune / Cholos on Acid / Cerote 9pm 21+ $5 Happy Hour all night! More info here.
Opening the 2012 Summer Season at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, Dublab and Goethe-Institut present a night of Krautrock Classics, with performances from Nite Jewel & Peanut Butter Wolf covering Kraftwerk’s ‘Computer World’ in its entirety, along with Carlos Nino, Daedelus, Dntel, Sun Araw, Pharaohs and many more covering their favorite Krautrock classics.
It all happens June 1 at 8pm. (ticket contest is now over)
LINEUP:
Nite Jewel & Friends (featuring Peanut Butter Wolf, Secret Circuit, Nedelle Torrisi from Cryptacize, and Cole MGN) performing Kraftwerk’s “Computer World” in its entirety.
Carlos Niño & Friends (featuring, Dexter Story, Diana Booker, Gaby Hernandez, GB, and Surya Botofasina) covering Popol Vuh. (Continued)
LA’s Flying Lotus in a 28 minute video from last week’s Sonar Festival in Sao Paolo. Flying Lotus is due to release an album this fall as well as open for Animal Collective at the Hollywood Bowl on September 23rd. Hat tip to the excellent LA based music site The Astral Plane, which itself is named after a FlyLo track.
For too long, Los Angeles hip hop has been seen as one dimensional ‘gangsta rap.’ With this new series, we’re giving our city’s hip hop artists an amazing platform to show not only our community, but the world, that we have so much more to offer.
– Murs
Through the Mic is a new concert series at LACMA that explores contemporary Los Angeles hip hop, with an emphasis on the diversity of L.A.-based artists. Co-curated by LACMA and hip hop artist Murs, concerts will take place in front of artist Chris Burden’s iconic Urban Light sculpture on the third Thursday of every month, May through October 2012. The event is presented in collaboration with Guerilla Union and Cashmere Agency.