Pollyn – “Dark Thoughtz”

Previously unreleased song “Dark Thoughtz” is featured on Pollyn’s re-release of their debut record This Little Night, now available on iTunes. The Los Angeles-based band put out the record after a slew of successful remix EPs, which are also currently available on digital media outlets. →

VICE Magazine and Intel present The Creators Project, a new digital media channel dedicated to presenting creative talent from emerging artistic centers of the 21st century. American, French and German artists are represented in this network, including Fool’s Gold, Phoenix and Peaches, but several other nationals–Brazilian, South Korean and Chinese–also share their works on The Creators Project. →

Narrative Competition: The Wolf Knife
Regal 13 – Los Angeles, CA
6/23/10

Fleeing her mom’s creepy fiancé and the suffocating boredom of Florida in the summer, teenaged Chrissy enlists best friend June to help find her estranged father. The Wolf Knife follows the girls on a digressive road trip to Nashville, encountering dirty old men and kitschy tourist attractions along the way. →

International Showcase: Café Noir
Regal 12 – Los Angeles, CA
6/23/10

Writer-director Jung Sung-il may prove to be contemporary Korean cinema’s answer to Jean-Luc Godard, an adventurous film critic turned auteur with an audacious vision. Witness Café Noir, his ambitious, subversively funny film debut that references literature, leftist politics, Bollywood, and Christianity while paying loving homage to the last decade of Korean cinema. →

John Waters: Rush
Rena Bransten Gallery – San Francisco, CA
5/27/10 to 7/10/10

Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to announce Rush, John Waters’ fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. “Rush” is a brand name for a popular nightclub liquid incense whose effects have been described as being “hit by a percussive thunderbolt.” The same can be said for the subjects of Waters’ photographs and sculptures that are embraced, attacked, and pushed to extremes under his transgressive gaze. →

Quantic is due for a new album, Dog With A Rope, on July 13. The album was recorded in Cali, Colombia, and this video provides an exclusive peek into one of his recording sessions. His second record under Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno, Dog With A Rope takes on Quantic’s more tropical, dub and reggae influences from Latin America and Africa. →

Andrew Pogany and Lee Corban recently launched Echo Park Books, a publishing company dedicated to the “arts, literature and music community.” For now, the partners specialize in limited edition books, chapbooks, monographs and fanzines.

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06/26/-07/31

After five years and 99 issues, independent Los Angeles music magazine L.A. Record is celebrating its up-coming 100th issue with the “L.A. RECORD 100 Festival,” a month-long event connecting local music to local people with 100% of proceeds going to charity.

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It is a good thing when music is able to bring joy by narrative sustenance, equally matched by crafty instrumentation. For Fol Chen, that is exactly what they did. They solicited director Chris Wilcha to Iceland to film “In Ruins.” →

K. Brooke

An Artist Forum
Goethe-Institut- Los Angeles, CA
06/24/10

Big City Forum presents an intimate dialogue and conversation with artists whose work explores issues related to identity, power structures, censorship, and how these relate to larger narratives about social space.

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