Dust off those fedoras: it's the 75th anniversary of Prohibition's repeal, and LA is wetter than ever. The folks at Dewar's never tire of promoting social drinking, and at over a dozen venues from the Mandrake in Culver City to 3 Clubs in Hollywood, they're serving up 75-cent drinks until 11pm. Expect flapper-style fun on the Ramble 'Round Downtown, a self-styled pub crawl connecting a slate of the city's most whisky-friendly joints. Venues include Golden Gopher, Broadway Bar, and Casey's Irish Pub, but the big attraction is the grand-reopening of Cole's, the latest of LA's Art Deco landmarks to get a makeover.
Note:
Cole's (118 E 6th St) has its own grand opening fete planned for Saturday, December 6, 12-4pm.
DAYTIME
Local World’s Fair, 12pm-5pm
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
GOOD presents an alternative to the fast and anonymous shopping we've come to expect in the holiday season. Shop, eat and make local! Ongoing DIY workshops throughout the weekend. Plus special guest Evan Kleiman of KCRW’s Good Food.
Participants include Silver Lake Farms, Taylor Arneson, Crops & Rawbers, Whole World Baby, Mama’s Hot Tamales, Bonghwa Kim, Creative Thursday, Leaf People, Flora and Fauna, Alina Hayes, Chocolate and Steel, Miss Brigette, Elsita, Lori Marsha, Lave Me Soap Co., Modern Pop, Sharon Montrose, Crows Cloth, Brokesy, Krank Press, Full Circle Gardening, Regeneration, Sasha Bell Jewelry and more.
With support from Etsy, HOMEGROWN.org, LA Commons and Tom’s Shoes
Saturday 1pm-3pm
LA Commons presents tamale-making workshop with Mama’s Hot Tamales.
Space is limited: More info + RSVP here
Saturday 4pm
Music performance by Lucky Dragons
Sunday 2pm-4pm
LA Commons presents Korean tea tasting with Bonghwa Kim.
Space is limited: More info + RSVP here
Sunday 4pm
Music performance by BLACKBLACK
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2008
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
The Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles
Come get jiggy with jingle bells and party with BUST as you browse through the best in handmade gifts, from handbags and accessories to jewelry and cards, make your own giftwrap at an all-day "Craftnight," and get loose with Djs C. Brown (Small Town Talk) and Audrey Napoleon. Goodie bags for the first 100 attendees, giant raffle giveaway, open bar from 4 - 5 pm, and more! Door: $2
The Echoplex is preparing to get craftacular this Saturday. All day long, from 11am-6pm, Bust magazine hosts their Holiday Craftacular 2008, an all-day “craftnight” where you can browse handmade gifts like handbags, accessories, jewelry, and cards. You can also make your own giftwrap! Some Djs will be spinning, it’s open bar from 4-5pm, there’s a raffle giveaway, and the first 100 people get a goodie bag- all for only $2 at the door! This sounds really fun- I’m excited. - BoredLA
This Saturday night we celebrate the holidays with downtown businesses by shutting down Main St (between 4th & 5th) and Spring St (between main & spring). Little Radio is hosting the Main Stage at the intersection of 4th and Main with live performances from The Like, Whispertown 2000, Rumspringa, Dawes, Restavrant, and others.
The event is free to all and all ages. There will be food, a beer garden, a Jazz stage and cocktain bar in an adjacent alley and plenty more.
Repost please!
CLICK FLIER for links, videos and free mp3 downloads for all bands performing.
The Western States Motel's Top Ten of 2008
Picture via the Western States Motel's Myspace
December is list-making season. And for us music journalists, it is a time to look back on scores of albums, reflect upon the music and recapitulate our favorites. But this year, just like the last, we took this opportunity to flip that tradition upside down, asking the artists that influenced us what influenced them. The prompt was not limited to albums that came out in 2008.
Black Keys - Attack And Release
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
Ratatat - LP3
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Self Titled Reissue
Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin
Happy Hollows - Imaginary EP
Dr. Dog - Fate
Tobacco - Fucked Up Friends
The Western States Motel - "Oh World"
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This last year LAist's Molly Bergen not only saw the band perform, but interviewed them as well.
Robert Francis might write the songs of an old soul, but he is still just 21 — and maybe feeling it, when it comes to his next step musically. “Thing are kinda moving slower than I want them to,” he says.
It was back in August 2007 when his critically lauded debut, “One by One,” was released on local imprint Aeronaut Records, earning comparisons to the likes of Jeff Buckley, M. Ward and Conor Oberst. After assembling a live band and touring behind the album, he got to work on another. “I started a second record with the idea it would come out on Aeronaut too,” he says. “Then all these [bigger] labels got interested.”
It’s premature to talk about a signing, his management says, but while the business [click to continue...
Maeghan Reid
Chung King Project
Maeghan Reid’s solo debut at Chung King Project — one of the strongest in recent memory — revolves around the figure of the drifter, the gypsy, the nomad or the outsider. Solitary silhouettes roam her collages with walking sticks in hand and bags slung over their shoulders. Small groups gather in makeshift camps; buildings loom in vast isolation, on the peaks of hills or surrounded by plains. There is a prevailing sense of both alienation and freedom, exclusion and liberation.
This spirit is less palpable in the imagery, however, than in the materials themselves, which look as though they could have been gathered by the very characters Reid is assembling. Old photographs, discarded bits of linoleum and cardboard, toothpicks, strips of satin, velvet, corduroy and upholstery — all are fragments drawn from the world at large, once the fabric of another picture, another story. Every surface exudes a sense of history.
Collage is a widely practiced and seldom dazzling genre, but Reid approaches it with a rare degree of concentration and sensitivity, assembling and manipulating her materials with the same care that she shows in choosing them. The works range from letter-size to poster-size, and Reid is equally adept at either end of the scale.
The smaller compositions are tight, intimate and jewel-like; the larger, assuredly expansive and monumental. No inch of surface area is squandered or overlooked. The fastidiousness with which Reid treats these once discarded materials invests them with a kind of opulence that seems an extension of her reverence for her subjects. Whether by choice or necessity, her vagabonds have set about living life by their own systems of value.
In Friday's paper, look for reviews of David McDonald, Annie Wharton and Jason David at Jail Gallery; Lillian Bassman at Peter Fetterman; and Peter Sudar at Mihai Nicodim.
-- Holly Myers
Remix Hotel Los Angeles
Dec. 4-6, 2008
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new SMASHING PUMPKINS video
Produced by our good friend Miss Megan Duffy!
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KCRW Music Director Jason Bentley's Top 10 Albums of '08
1. M83 - Saturday's = Youth (Mute)
2. Santogold - Santogold (Downtown)
3. Jamie Lidell - Jim (Warp Records)
4. Adele - 19 (XL Recordings/Colombia)
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (XL Recordings)
6. Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)
7. Little Dragon - Little Dragon (Peacefrog)
8. The Black Ghosts - The Black Ghosts (IAMSOUND Records)
9. Portishead - Third (Mercury Records)
10. Jazzanova - Of All the Things (Verve)
NEW CHAPTER FROM MORGAN KIBBY!
M83: Back in the USA, big in the Big Apple
[Keyboardist-singer Morgan Kibby resumes her tour diary as M83 embarks on the U.S. leg of its tour. Previous diaries here.]
Dear Friends and Family,
Just a small note to let you know that I am writing a tour blog for the next three months while I am traveling and playing with M83 throughout Europe and the US. The blog will be hosted by Kevin Bronson who was a senior music writer and editor for the LA Times. I am thrilled and honored that he asked me to do this. Should you have the time and the inclination to check it out, the link is as follows:
BUZZ BANDS
I hope this email finds you all healthy and happy, and hopefully i will see you while I'm on the road.
Lots of love,
Morgan
Barragan's mixes it up for Echo Park hipsters
It's Wednesday night at Barragan's and, as usual, packs of twentysomethings jam into the shoebox-sized bar, the dark-paneled restaurant booths, the upstairs banquet room and rooftop patio. They shout to be heard over the throbbing sounds coming from a D.J. spinning records as weary waitresses and bus boys bring free nachos. But the big draw at this Echo Park Mexican restaurant on Wednesday is not the music or the food. It's the $2.50 margaritas. On a good "Margarita Wednesday" the restaurant pours about 1,500 drinks... (read more after the jump).
MOCA Possibly Seeking Bailout from LACMA
After news of MOCA's extreme financial situation, Culture Monster at the LA Times is hearing that MOCA will possibly "approach the Los Angeles County Museum of Art about a merger, which will effectively mean a transfer of MOCA's extraordinary collection to the Mid-Wilshire complex." Another art blogger believes LACMA would be more than willing to say "yes" to the offer. - LAist
Help the Fire Victims
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is encouraging residents and businesses to help support the hundreds of displaced families due to the Sayre Fire by donating to the Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles, the organizations that is acting as the lead agency on shelter management and the current relief effort.
"Overnight, hundreds of families have found themselves homeless and relying on the care of their community," Villaraigosa said. "Just ten days before Thanksgiving, I encourage all Angelenos and businesses to come to their neighbor's aid and pitch in what they can." They are accepting cash donations and in-kind gifts.
Looking to do more? Help the community-at-large in other ways: check out the latest PhiLAnthropist column.
Here's some video I shot of Soko the other night
Industry Insiders: Alexis Rivera, Pied Piper
How did you got your start in Los Angeles, and how did you became such a heavy in Echo Park?
Read the BlackBook article
Echo Park Named One of Top 10 Great Neighborhoods
And when you hear that, you might find yourself asking which Realtor came up with that ranking. Luckily, this time there is some creditability behind the designation: the American Planning Association. They "singled out Echo Park because of its breathtaking topography set in the hills above downtown, historic architecture, pedestrian-oriented streets and stairways, and engaged residents who, over the years, have gone to great lengths to protect and preserve their community," according to an APA release (add: their website has more info and history on why EP was chosen) .... more after you click on the image!
SUBMIT YOUR PICTURES!!!
THE MAE-SHI @ Spaceland
THE MOVIES @ Spaceland
DENGUE FEVER @ Viper Room
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