Earnest Endeavours Presents An Exciting 2 Part Event
Protein Gallery – London, U.K.
1/19/11

Having debuted Nosaj Thing’s Live show alongside Free The Robots,  Fair Enough and Deadly Rhythm back in October, the Earnest Endeavours team up with the legendary screenprinting crew and label, Hit+Run, along with the incredibly talented artist/DJ/producer Justin McNulty aka Kutmah. The event represents the merging of future music & art in London’s most interesting underground spaces. →

Space Disco and Cosmic Beats at a New Location
Show Cave – LA, CA
1/14/11 (and subsequent Fridays)

Every Friday, the futuristic sound system, Let Him In, has moved space and it’s their debut night at Show Cave.  DJ’s: SFV Acid, Green Bean, Soft Soil, Suzanne Kraft and Alejandro Cohen (a.k.a. Ale) will be spinning their unique blend of Space Disco, Cosmic Beat, Acid House, Balearic Jams and everything in between.  In conjunction with the event; the talented, local artist Hugh Zeigler will have his art opening entitled, Mannerist →

One thing that the EM Staff has observed about Downtown Los Angeles is the feeling of complete isolation. Despite the wave of new residents, it is a rare thing to witness the streets of downtown being inhabited at night. This singular observation makes Downtown LA a uniquely beautiful place to be.

Presenting the Celebrated Revolutionary of the Avante-Garde
REDCAT Theatre – Downtown L.A., CA
1/28 thru 1/30/11

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary at MOCA Pacific Design Center, the CEAIT (Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology) Festival returns to REDCAT with three scintillating concerts mixing electronic and high-tech sound events with extraordinary instrumental pieces by legendary pioneer of music and architecture Iannis Xenakis. Iannis Xenakis: Now and Tomorrow will take place January 28, 2011 through January 30, 2011 at REDCAT. →

Over 20 Years of “Fake News” and Biting Social Criticism
Royce Hall – West Los Angeles, CA
2/1/11

UCLA Live presents a biting discussion on the state of media, politics and pop culture from the purveyors of America’s leading source of news satire, The Onion, live at Royce Hall Thursday February 10.

Current Onion editor Joe Randazzo and fellow staffers offer insight behind the creation of the influential media entity’s culture-skewering stories and hilarious headlines in an interactive (and irreverent) multimedia presentation. →

Margo Victor: Black Flower
LACE – Hollywood, CA
1/13 thru 2/13/11

In addition to recognizing Hollywood as a site for the adoration of film celebrities, Margo Victor’s sound and image instillation, Black Flower, identifies Hollywood Boulevard as regional headquarters for rock n’ roll music schools, rehearsal space and overall dreams of rock stardom.
The exhibition portrays the artists’ conceptual band Black Flower including staged album cover photography featuring images by JWPictures →

Downtown Los Angeles is a place of desolation and beauty. This short film from Mr. Kim is a scene depicting an interaction with a ‘street prophet’ and a provoking bystander.

Music by Ethan Holtzman of Dengue Fever.

NYC’S ECSTATIC MUSIC FESTIVAL
Multiple Venues – NYC, NY
1/17 thru 3/28/11

New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall, in association with New Amsterdam Records, presents the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, a showcase of collaborative evenings between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the crossover of classical and pop music. All concerts will include premieres. The festival opens with a free seven-hour marathon on January 17th, 2011, featuring headliners Buke & Gass, and continues with 13 additional concerts until March 28, 2011. →

Honor Fraser presents Gardar Einarsson’s 2nd Exhibition
Honor Fraser – Los Angeles, CA
1/8 thru 2/19/11

Power Under Construction will mark Garder Eid Einarsson’s second with Honor Fraser Gallery. Opening reception begins today, January 8th from 6 to 8pm.  His approach to art making continues with his inherent conceptual complexities while applying direct appropriation and minimalism that in the end often leave the viewer disarmed. Einarsson typically uses a restrained palette of black and white, which offers a more serial or even deadpan reaction to his oftentimes overtly political, anti-establishment and general sub-contexts of opposition. →

The Lei-Over
Thirty Nine Hotel, Honolulu, HI
1/16/10

The Do-Over is excited to announce The Lei-Over, our first-ever pacific island adventure. We will be DO-ing it big in typical fashion with a bunch of surprise guest DJ’s from the mainland and some of your favorite locals joining Haycock, Strong and Blacc. Also, its a 3 day weekend if that tempts you to pull the trigger. →