If you haven’t yet purchased or seen clips of the new Timeless concert series DVD, check out Mulatu Astatke‘s performance of “Yekermo Sew” above. Filmed last February, the concert took place at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles, where musicians Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Azar Lawrence joined the founder of Ethiopian jazz →

MAS EXiTOS
Verdugo Bar – Glassell Park, CA
3/23/10

Special Guest DJs are GOMEZ COMES ALIVE and RANi D with resident selectors: ENORBiTO, LENGUA and GANAS.  The night begins from 10PM to 2AM and as always, it’s free.  With a wide selection of brews and an even wider selection of Central and South American psych and grooves. →

The Name of the Game Is Kill + The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
The Cinefamily – Los Angeles, CA
3/30/10

The Cinefamily simply can’t get enough of insane backwoods psycho-thrillers; they always deliver heaps of tension, whacked senses of humor, uncomfortably maniacal sexuality and a good ol’ bloodletting or two. →

OK Go, Massive Attack and the Liars Screened at Flux
The Hammer Museum – Santa Monica, CA
3/23/10

Flux kicks off spring and the third annual season of the Flux Screening Series with a magical night of short film, videos and live performance. Among the highlights are new videos from Massive Attack, Air, OK Go and the Liars introduced by the directors who made them, as well as rarely seen work from Denmark, Japan, France and the UK. →

The Golem is an unfinished film by the Czech director Jiří Barta, best known for his stop-motion animations during the communist era. After the fall of soviet rule, Barta was unable to find funding for his work during the nineties. The film as it exists today is a short pilot completed in 1996. Beautifully animated and darkly foreboding, it follows the terrifying visions of a rabbi as he walks through the alleys of Old World Prague, which morph and turn to stone like the mythical golem. →

These New Puritans
Domino Records
(2010)

Sometimes a band will set the goal of creating music that incorporates multiple genres hoping to produce a cohesive piece of work the masses are eager to listen to. Most of those bands end up looking like Tracey Jordan trying for the “G” of the elusive EGOT. British art rock outfit, These New Puritans prove otherwise. →

Three Times a Trend
Fashion Opinion

So here I find myself at the end of March, in the middle of Missouri (long story, don’t ask) and it’s snowing. Mind you when I packed for this trip the lovely folks at the weather channel assured me it would be nothing but sunny (ok, probably more like slightly overcast) skies and temps in the 50′s. Here it is, less than a week in, and the white stuff is coming down like it’s the tundra in December. →

Give Up’s Latest Sad Fest
Hyperion Tavern – Los Angeles, CA
3/21/10

Empty your plump tear ducts to eyelash soaking sounds from: Dntel, Frosty, Sodapop and Suzanne Kraft.  The Masses will project bummer films to fill hearts with darkness. →

2010 LA Marathon
Elysian Park – Los Angeles, CA
3/21/10

The LA MARATHON is just around the corner. Thousands of people have mentally and physically trained for months to make this monumental journey across our fair city. This being my first Marathon I’m excited to share this experience with anyone who’s running the race or simply wanting to support those who are.

Besides, who wouldn’t want to run across the beautiful streets of LA without traffic or red lights. Seems running might seem faster than driving on most days here in the city. →

Aperture Gallery is proud to present independent writer, lecturer and curator, Susan Bright and photographer, Sarah Pickering to discuss the publication of Pickering’s first monograph: Explosions, Fires and Public Order. The combination of these four series brings together a variety of elements that make for quite a visually stimulating journey. →