Janette Beckman’s photography exhibition entitled “Archive of Attitude” will be the third artist installment Project Space. Beckman draws her inspiration from her days in London during the punk era through New York and Los Angeles’ hip-hop decade. This was all accessible to Beckman right in her backyard when she lived in New York City and embraced hip hop culture with open arms which gave her the opportunity to photograph the originators, including Afrika Bambaata, Run DMC, Salt-N-Pepa, Grandmaster Flash and →

Toyota’s Free Yr Radio

Toyota’s Free Yr Radio continues four years strong, with their support to independent, non-commercial radio on the roads across the U.S. at the best music festivals around the nation. By independent stations, I mean KEXP, The Current and KUSF with artists including Yeasayer, Calexico and Sonic Youth. Toyota’s Free Yr Radio makes their presence clear at events including Siren Fest, Lollapalooza, Mile High, Outside Lands, Bumbershoot, the Voodoo Experience, and CMJ. Toyota’s Free Yr Radio reminds us that in a digital age when online services gradually makes music more and more inhumane, independent radio offers human-curated artist →

Converse releases their latest short film, featuring Kid Cudi - their second of three films.

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Hezekiah and Soul Spazm will be announcing the release date to Hezekiah’s long awaited follow up album, “Conscious Porn.”  The album is Hezekiah’s strongest album to-date and features guest appearances from: Talib Kweli, Bahamadia, Peedi Crakk, Bilal, Cody Chesnutt, Rahem DeVaughn, and others.

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This August, Smithsonian Channel gets in tune with Inside the Music, a series of specials that tell stories about the music and musicians that have had an enormous impact on some of the most listened to sounds of our time.

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Richard E. Grant gives not only one of the greatest comedic performances on film of the last few decades, but also one of the best on-screen drunks ever in Bruce Robinson’s criminally underseenWithnail & I, which comes to the Cinefamily in a rare 35mm screening, hosted by one of our favorite funny people, Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover)!

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Kid Infinity^3—An Audio-Visual Orgasm in 3-D
The Smell – Los Angeles, CA
7/24/10

Saturday night at the Smell, high-tech animation engineers PLLX3 and dublab are teaming up with Kid Infinity to do live THREE-DIMENSIONAL visuals! It’s the kind of thing that was SUPPOSED to be happening in 2010 and now it finally is. Only a select group of test subjects have seen this never-before-seen technique and it affected them so profoundly they transformed into 4-D beings and can communicate with us only through various pleasant smells. 3-D glasses will be available at the door.

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Wild Records All Dayer
Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA
7/24/10

L.A. RECORD is teaming up with L.A.‘s Wild Records—“the most important L.A. indie label you never heard of,” according to the Los Angeles Times—for an all-day all-ages all-Wild event at the Echoplex.

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Summer Concert with Atwood-Ferguson + Musical Guests
Grand Performances – LA, CA
7/23/10

Exile – “It’s Coming Down”

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Summer is officially here in LA and ArtDontSleep wants to drop a few treats on you.  On Friday July 23rd, 2010, they proudly present music show from Bilal, Exile, Quadron, and a special FREE concert that everyone in Los Angeles should attend. →

New video and retinal candy from Flying Lotus’ Cosmogramma, for the track “MmmHmm.”

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