Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Nice Nice splices it up with their protean musical sense.Their video for “Everything Falling Apart,” off their latest LP Extra Wow, is full of  charging cymbals and guitars. →

The Local Boy
Film Opinion

There’s a lot of trash flooding the box office these days.  I swear it wasn’t long ago where you could randomly drop by the movies once a week and catch something half-decent, but those days are gone like gas under $2 a gallon.  Luckily, if you’re spoiled like I am and have a theater like LA’s Landmark providing screentime for more deserving features that lack mainstream clout, there’s still hope.  There are two particular films that recently released are worth taking the time to hunt down or request at your local box office: Un Prophete and Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother.  And trust me–they’re worth the effort. →

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Guggenheim Museum – New York, NY
3/25/10

Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by the history of art, by apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive mediums, live performance, and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, such art embodies a longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past. →

Big City Forum #13
Honor Fraser Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
3/20/10

Big City Forum invites you to a conversation with poets, writers, and seers about literal vs. metaphoric space, inscape/landscape, the visible/invisible world, liminality — “betwixt and between” — & proximity in motion… →

The “Socalled” Movie Premiere
Maggie Mae’s – Austin, TX
3/16/10

Meet Socalled (Josh Dolgin). He’s unstoppable. A pianist, singer, arranger, rapper, producer and composer (and also a magician, filmmaker, and visual artist), he’s blasting through the boundaries that separate music from different cultures, eras, and generations. →

Photo by Jennie Warren

Big Freak + Special Guests Crystal Antlers
Black Boar – Eagle Rock, CA
3/15/10

Every Monday at the Black Boar, L.A. Record‘s Chris Ziegler will be hosting a night of eclectic music featuring local bands and DJs. Tonight, Crystal Antlers (Long Beach) will DJ along with resident hosts Ziegler and Short Shorts. →

So Cow
Tic Tac Totally! Records
(2010)

When you hear that an album was recorded in a shed in Tuam, Ireland, and that the lead singer spent his early adulthood as a tourist and college lecturer in Seoul, South Korea, you don’t really know what to expect. So was the case with So Cow, a band headed by Brian Kelly and his recently established musical cohorts. →

Flux’s Cinema Tuesdays – Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
Live Review: 3/9/10

It has been more than a decade since the music world fell in love with The White Stripes. In 1997, the former husband-wife duo were head-of-the-class in Detroit’s lo-fi rock scene. Six studio albums, 12 million album sales, three Grammys and a divorce later, Jack and Meg White are now rock ‘n’ roll royalty with a worldwide legion of fans wearing their trademark white, red and black. →

Aperture and the Photography Program in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design are proud to present Barbara Probst, internationally recognized visual artist as a speaker to stimulate and encourage us to take a closer look at the possibilities of variations when it comes to photography and the involvement of technological techniques. She uses a radio-controlled release system which simultaneously triggers the shutters of several cameras pointed at the same scene from various angles and perspectives, pretty spiffy, no? The sequence of images allow the camera to capture that specific moment in time and →

The final line-up and times for MtyMx: All Ages Festival of Art and Music are set and ready to go. The festival is going down in Monterrey, Mexico from March 20-22 and is organized by Todd P & Yo Garage with Ric Leichtung, Fiona Campbell, and Jesse Hlebo. The festival will feature up to 25 bands a day (over a third of which are from Mexico) for three consecutive days on two outdoor stages in a drive-in theater set alongside the mountains of the Sierra Madre Oriental. For those art enthusiasts out there, we’ve got →