Owen Pallet’s latest video for “Lewis Takes Off His Shirt” follows what looks like bedroom occult practices captured on home video. Directed by M. Blash, the footage also stars theatre and film star Alison Pill, who played Anne Kronenberg in Gus Van Sant’s Milk. The song is off of Pallet’s latest record Heartland (Domino) and features beautifully layered violin and vocals in tandem with the Czech Symphonic Orchestra. →

New York’s New Fashion Bible
Back in 1994, before anybody was doing satirical street fashion critiques, Gavin McInnes created the DOs & DON’Ts.  Today this “Hipster of the decade” (Gawker.com) continues the same barbs under the name Street Boners.  Despite now being in a sea of imitators, it’s very clear who started this whole thing and why he is considered “The primary architect of hipsterdom” (Adbusters Magazine). →

Inspired by the Minutemen song, Evil Monito’s “Tour Spiel” highlights the musician’s life on the road. Each week, we’ll check in with some of our favorite artists touring stateside or abroad. We’ll provide an intimate look into what it’s like to be packed in a van or waiting for a flight with the same people for hours on end. It takes a certain state of mind to survive any lengthy tour. Yet it’s the memorable experiences that make life on the road ultimately rewarding, if not interesting. This week we highlight Matthew Woodley, drummer and singer for Montreal’s “post-classic rock” band Plants and Animals. →

“WATER: OUR THIRSTY WORLD” Photographic Exhibition
Annenberg Space for Photography – Los Angeles, CA
3/27 to 6/13/10

People accurately surmised that many of the modern-day conflicts would take place over oil.  However, few really speculate on the likelihood of future world wars being fought over fresh water.  A limited resource that Californians generally take for granted as the drought periods lengthen in the stolid face of global warming.  “WATER: OUR THIRSTY WORLD” is an exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography, organized in partnership with National Geographic Magazine. →

King Fantastic – “Lost Art of Killing”

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DJ Troublemaker and Killer Reese One present a “concise study in Westcoastsynthesizerbeachbumgangstermusic.” This is the new single from their upcoming collaboration due out on Troublemaker’s own Hollyrock label. For more music, show info and updates, visit the King Fantastic. →

Why I Love D.C.
Cultural Opinion

Last year, I read an interesting article written by William Norwich that referenced DC as the new social capital. Norwich wrote, “Sorry to break this news to any Manhattanites still in denial, but Washington, D.C., is the new New York. Even under the heavy blanket of recession, whether you are Democrat or Republican, there is energy in our nation’s capital that you used to feel only in New York, the blissful to the bumptious all in a D.C. minute now, a kind of youthquake, or “youthfulquake,” if you want to be generous about the ages”. →

Design in the Blood
Design Opinion

This past weekend I was home – at least at one of them. Not quite the 24-odd-hour trek to get me to Australia, the journey from Chicago to Detroit is by comparison a pretty easy one. Having studied at design school in Detroit meant that the most intense 4 years of my life were spent in one of the country’s most desolate cities. Like Los Angeles there is both a sense of emptiness and activity in the metro area that is in a constant state of flux. Like LA also at times it feels like a city anchored by its unique and marvelous architectural center, and at other times unsettlingly dispersed. →

Chuck Palahniuk’s Book Release
Largo – Los Angeles, CA
05/18/10

The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; →

Lola
Corey Helford Gallery-Culver City, CA
03/27-04/14

This March Los Angeles artist Lola unveils her magic at Corey Helford Gallery with a new collection of works entitled ” Ipsum Factum.” Lola’s second solo exhibition at the gallery is her most highly anticipated to date. →

A new film from Melissa Auf Der Maur!
Cinefamily Theater- Los Angeles, CA
04/01/10

Out Of Our Mindsis the bloody, brash and berserk new brainchild of Melissa Auf der Maur, member of both Hole and Smashing Pumpkins! This half-hour short film, a companion piece to her second solo album of the same name, covers three time periods, all connected by a single mythological quest: the Hunt for the Heart.

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