Paw Tracks x Origami Vinyl Presents Panda Bear
Malo Upstairs Lounge – Silverlake, CA
2/28/11

Panda Bear is the project of Animal Collective member Noah Lennox.  Tomboy, his long-awaited fourth album as Panda Bear, and follow-up to Person Pitch, is now complete and will be released on his own label, Paw Tracks on April 12, 2011.

Paw Tracks is pleased to present a listening party for Tomboy on Feb. 28th in LA at Malo Upstairs Lounge (4326 W. Sunset Blvd.) – there will be two separate listening sessions, one at 6pm that is open to all ages (rsvp to: tomboyallageslisteningparty@gmail.com) and one at 7:30pm that is 21+ (rsvp to: tomboy21overlisteningparty@gmail.com) Drinks and food will be available for purchase at both sessions, proper ID required. →

The Last Day of MOCA exhibition featuring Latin American
The Geffen Contemporary – Little Tokyo, CA
2/27/11

Looking for somewhere to go during a crisp and beautiful afternoon post-torrential winter storms?  Feast your eyes on some electrifying works of art that require no paint or canvases.  All you need is your olfactory senses and an overactive imagination.  MOCA’s Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space is the first museum exhibition to situate pioneering Latin American artists among the international canon of those working with light and space. →

He’s my Brother She’s my Sister to play LA Folk Fest Desert Weekend

THE NEW L.A. FOLK FEST DESERT WEEKEND
Multiple venues – Joshua Tree, CA and its vicinity
2/26 thru 2/27/11

Febrary 26 is the lovely start of a folk-inspired getaway in the High Desert by the good folks at Los Angeles Folk Festival.  The 2-day weekend is co-presented by The Deli L.A. + L.A. RECORD + O.N.E. Natural Experience.  You can see He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, Amanda Jo Williams, and Tommy Santee Klaws play at infamous desert honky tonk Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace. Then wake up for desert soccer before doing brunch at Joshua Tree Saloon, with Mia Doi Todd, The Driftwood Singers, and Emily Lacy. →

Banksy, “Second Helping” Silkscreen on paper

A One-Week Contemporary Art Exhibition
LeBasse Projects – LA, CA
2/26/11 thru 3/5/11

LeBasse Projects presents a one week opportunity to view artwork from some of the most intriguing names in contemporary art. ‘Second Helping’ will include work from Banksy, KAWS, Shepard Fairey, Faile, BAST, Aiko, Miss Bugs, Camille Rose Garcia, Laura Keeble and more. →

A Digestible Video Retrospective from the Show Cave Archives
YAUTEPEC Gallery – MÉXICO
2/26/11 & 3/4/11

SLIDERS is a scintillating, 1-hour program of selections from Show Cave’s ongoing original video series. The selections come from past video shows which were curated by Hazel Hill McCarthy III for Show Cave including Permanent Vacation, Spread Eagle, Quartz Qube, Moon Illusion, Future Heat and Summer Sizzlers. →

Grammy-Nominated Artist Throws a Raffle to Benefit National Literacy
Neko Case is giving away her beloved 1967 Mercury Cougar, featured on the cover of her Grammy-nominated album Middle Cyclone and filled with prizes from Poketo, Adidas, Chipotle, Rand McNally, Tazo, and Anti- Records, in a raffle to benefit 826 National, which provides free tutoring and literacy programs to more than 24,000 students in eight cities nationwide.

With less than three weeks to enter, tickets can be purchased now at www.nekocase.com/auction. The Grand Prize winner will be selected on March 18, 2011. →

Clare Rojas’ Lovely New Solo Exhibition
PRISM Gallery – West Hollywood, CA
2/26/11 thru 4/2/11

PRISM is pleased to present Inside Bleak, a new solo exhibition of San Francisco-based artist Clare Rojas. Transforming the PRISM space, the exhibition features what Rojas calls domestic abstract interiors, the newest installment of her ongoing investigation of domesticity through a wide  range of media, including painting, installation, and video. Her works – which share the guileless, homespun aesthetic that reveals Rojas’ origins in print-making and folklore →

Questlove Brings Fela to the Masses
“It’s the story of Hip Hop.  It’s the story of taking nothing and turning it into something,” explains ?uestlove (of the Roots) who is now the celebrated associate producer on the hit musical Fela! on Broadway.  Knitting Factory Records is proud to release the first of the long-awaited vinyl reissues from the Fela Kuti catalog.  This is the first in a series of curated vinyl box sets.  The box includes six Fela Kuti albums that were handpicked by ?uestlove of The ROOTS.  The artwork for each album is painstakingly recreated original album artwork along with vintage vinyl label artwork.  What’s more is that this release marks the first time that some of these Fela Kuti albums have been released on vinyl domestically. →

The Sounds of VTech / Mochilla 10 Part 2

Mochilla celebrates 10 productive years in innovative, independent music with it’s 10-year Anniversary Mix.  Available here on EM for download.  They are stepping the game up for 2011 and to quote Coleman “I wanted this mix to slap everyone in the face and get them to pay attention.”  It is purely rhetorical of course, Mochilla’s version of a slap in the face is the caress of boss nova, the thump of cubia or the heat stopping wind sucking gaps of great syncopation.  This mix has all of that. →

Fujiya & Miyagi brings you “Yo Yo,” another theatrical number directed by Ewan Jones Morris & Casey Raymond.  A pugnacious yoyoist fights desperately for the spotlight in a macabre number that recalls the lush era of baroque stage sets, crushed velvet curtains and even a ventriloquist with his existential dummy. Its theme and visual cues fits nicely alongside F&M’s prior video on their Gainsbourg-esque single “Sixteen Shades of Black and Blue,” of the same album. Should these scintillating videos whet your appetite, their recent release, Ventriloquizzing is now available on CD or vinyl →