All Tomorrow’s Festival Presents the Flaming Lips
London Alexandra Palace – U.K.
7/1/11

ATP Fest is proud to present one of the greatest albums of the last 20 years live in it’s entirety next July at London’s stunning Alexandra Palace. On the 1st July 2011 The Flaming Lips will perform their seminal classic The Soft Bulletin as part of ATP Concerts Don’t Look Back season. On the album’s release in 1999 it was hailed by critics as ‘The Pet Sounds of the 90s’, receiving adulation from fans and writers alike, topping many year end charts and spawning two classic singles (‘Waiting For A Superman’, ‘Race For The Prize’) and going on to influence countless bands. In 2003 Pitchfork placed the album as the third best album of the 1990s alongside Radiohead’s OK Computer and My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless. →

Very Be Careful + Mas Exitos
Hecho en Mexico – LA, CA
9/17/10

The upcoming event will feature Echo Park’s beloved cumbia/vallenato band, Very Be Careful.  The felicitous bellows of the button accordion and rattling cowbells invokes the spirit of Colombia in all the best ways possible.  In-between the live set, Mas Exitos DJ’s: Enorbito, Ganas and Lengua will be handling the decks with the brown sound by the pound!  →

Cinespia Screens Night of The Living Dead
Hollywood Forever Cemetery – LA, CA
9/18/10

Probably the smartest and most frightening horror movie ever made, this is the original that started it all. With a limited budget, a simple idea and some great acting, this film was so compelling it terrified audiences around the country, and changed the genre forever. Seven strangers hide in a farmhouse when the dead begin to rise and eat the living. Not only must these people protect themselves from the horror outside, they must work together to survive. →

Can you believe that Ninja Tune is turning 20? That’s crazy. The independent label that broke barriers and supports a prolific artist roster (Daedelus, The Death Set, Ghislain Poirier, Kid Koala, Mr. Scruff, Roots Manuva, Shuttle, Spank Rock, Toddla T, and on and on and on) is throwing a massive anniversary party at Santos Party House. Join us as we lose our shit to Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, DJ Food & DK, Poirier, Toddla T & Serocee, DJ Kentaro, & Eskmo. Doors open at 11 PM, see you guys there. Tickets are $20 presale so get em now while you can. Sorry kiddies, this is a 21+ event.

Cinefamily fans are in for a treat this week with the screening of Valhalla Rising, directed Nicolas Winding Refn (Director of Bronson and the Pusher trilogy). Nicolas himself will appear in person at the Cinefamily to present his latest film which is one of this year’s psychedelically charged original features. A metaphysical Middle Ages science fiction film shot in the remote highlands of Scotland, this film will be none like you’ve seen before. Nicolas draws from a variety of influences →

Tianguis is the Nahuatl word for open air markets dating from the Mesoamerican period and still in existence today. It also is the name of the project by Ana Guajardo, which examines a contemporary community of vendor-artists in Los Angeles that participate in the urban market culture. This project explores three different →

Obay Creative in association with Jog9 Productions are proud to release a director’s cut from filmmaker Joslyn Rose Lyons of the award winning 2006 Hip Hop Documentary Soundz of Spirit. OBay Creative is a boutique production and marketing firm that has worked with Warner Brothers, VH1, and Discovery just to name a few. Soundz of Spirit is a documentary film that explores the relationship between the creative process and spirituality in hip hop culture. The →

South African DJ Spoek Mathambo’s video for “War on Words” is the perfect analog to his music’s gothic-futurist despair. The 24-year-old dubstep artist is touring stateside throughout September.

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For more info and tour dates, visit http://www.myspace.com/spoek

Director Patrick O’Dell directs this Encino Man-inspired video for stoner punk Nathan Williams’ “Post-Acid,” off of his latest record King of the Beach. The video was filmed in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, and features pro skater Kevin Long as an alien who loves to party hard.

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Near where I live in Orange County, the city of Irvine features a massive orange helium balloon at the site of the Great Park, the 1,347-acre regional park to be built on the former El Toro Marine base. From hillside roads and on clear days, you can see the balloon, clearly visible and afloat as an orange speck. Taxpayer money goes toward the operation of this balloon, which is supposed to provide visitors with a panoramic view of the project site. According to Popular Science, the world is running out of helium, and the U.S. is one of the biggest contributors to the depletion of this natural resource. The orange balloon has been operating since 2007, free of charge to park visitors. With helium becoming scarce, I wonder how long it’ll be before taxpayers balk at the prospect of spending thousands of dollars per day on the attraction.

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