Incoming: The Interrupters, the Futures League, Mauldin Strangers, Smoke Season, Tete, Liam Bailey, Mother, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Beardyman, Figs Cision, Wild Cub, Herbie Hancock, Christopher Owens, Spoon, Deer Tick, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Coathangers, Deep Purple, Haim, Arctic Monkeys, the Haden Triplets, Eminem, Michael McDonald, Jagwar Ma, the Temper Trap, the Good […]
Selections for your sunny Saturday: ‣ Making it their second show of the weekend, Dum Dum Girls kick off this summer’s free Saturdays Off the 405 series at the Getty Museum. Neil Schield of Origami Vinyl will be spinning tunes beforehand. More info here. ‣ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah headline the El Rey Theatre […]
[Here’s our long-delayed wrap-up on October’s Culture Collide fest:] Last month’s second annual Culture Collide festival staged by Filter found the chewy center for two groups of music fans – sonic explorers bent on discovering new bands, and expatriates of the 24 nations represented by the bands playing the neighborhoody, eight-venue event in Echo Park. […]
‣ Filter’s Culture Collide festival winds up today with the Toyota Antics Block Party, an free afternoon/evening affair that features music on two outdoors stages (on Reservoir Street in Echo Park, between Sunset and Alvarado) and one indoor (at Taix). Brazil’s CSS and NYC’s Gang Gang Dance headline the two outdoor stages, which also feature […]
Echo Park goes global for four days beginning Thursday, Oct. 6, when the Culture Collide festival returns for a second year, bringing artists from 24 countries to eight venues – and, on Sunday, to a three-stage street fair. The festival, the brainchild of the magazine/marketing firm Filter, will be highlighted by two performances by Brazil’s […]
Bands who were all dressed up for Sunset Junction and now have nowhere to go scrambled to find other gigs this week in the wake of the festival’s cancellation. Talent buyers with holes in their weekend schedules suddenly have myriad options. Here’s what’s on our radar (Thursday morning updates in red, Thursday afternoon updates in […]
Sunset Junction is off. The L.A. Board of Public Works on Wednesday unanimously rejected the Sunset Junction Street Fair’s permit for this weekend’s festival, ending a week’s worth of drama that included impassioned arguments for and against the two-day event, initial rejection of the festival’s application and a frantic 36-hour fund-raising effort by organizers to […]
UPDATED, 5:30 p.m.: Sunset Junction organizers have raised the $141,000 in city fees to resubmit their case to the L.A. Board of Public Works on Wednesday morning. The morning post: Organizers of the beleaguered Sunset Junction Street Fair are scrambling to collect donations in an effort to reach the $141,000 they need to induce the […]
The Los Angeles Board of Public Works voted this morning 3-1 to deny a permit for this weekend’s Sunset Junction Street Fair – but the matter may be reconsidered at the commissioners’ next meeting on Wednesday morning. With only Commissioner Valerie Lynn Shaw – who admitted she’d never heard of Sunset Junction until this year’s […]
The fate of next weekend’s Sunset Junction Street Fair will be decided on Monday morning at a meeting of the Los Angeles City Board of Public Works. The meeting, which is open to the public (live audio is available here), is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in Room 350 at City Hall. At issue are fees […]
