ODDSAC is a film collaboration between Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez. Starring the band members, the film layers audio and visual elements without a narrative, creating what looks to be a tripped-out and immersive form of spectacle. →

New York’s New Fashion Bible
Back in 1994, before anybody was doing satirical street fashion critiques, Gavin McInnes created the DOs & DON’Ts.  Today this “Hipster of the decade” (Gawker.com) continues the same barbs under the name Street Boners.  Despite now being in a sea of imitators, it’s very clear who started this whole thing and why he is considered “The primary architect of hipsterdom” (Adbusters Magazine). →

Chuck Palahniuk’s Book Release
Largo – Los Angeles, CA
05/18/10

The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard-inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; →

Lola
Corey Helford Gallery-Culver City, CA
03/27-04/14

This March Los Angeles artist Lola unveils her magic at Corey Helford Gallery with a new collection of works entitled ” Ipsum Factum.” Lola’s second solo exhibition at the gallery is her most highly anticipated to date. →

A new film from Melissa Auf Der Maur!
Cinefamily Theater- Los Angeles, CA
04/01/10

Out Of Our Mindsis the bloody, brash and berserk new brainchild of Melissa Auf der Maur, member of both Hole and Smashing Pumpkins! This half-hour short film, a companion piece to her second solo album of the same name, covers three time periods, all connected by a single mythological quest: the Hunt for the Heart.

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Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance
Guggenheim Museum – New York, NY
3/25/10

Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by the history of art, by apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive mediums, live performance, and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, such art embodies a longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past. →

Big City Forum #13
Honor Fraser Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
3/20/10

Big City Forum invites you to a conversation with poets, writers, and seers about literal vs. metaphoric space, inscape/landscape, the visible/invisible world, liminality — “betwixt and between” — & proximity in motion… →

The “Socalled” Movie Premiere
Maggie Mae’s – Austin, TX
3/16/10

Meet Socalled (Josh Dolgin). He’s unstoppable. A pianist, singer, arranger, rapper, producer and composer (and also a magician, filmmaker, and visual artist), he’s blasting through the boundaries that separate music from different cultures, eras, and generations. →

Photo by Jennie Warren

Big Freak + Special Guests Crystal Antlers
Black Boar – Eagle Rock, CA
3/15/10

Every Monday at the Black Boar, L.A. Record’s Chris Ziegler will be hosting a night of eclectic music featuring local bands and DJs. Tonight, Crystal Antlers (Long Beach) will DJ along with resident hosts Ziegler and Short Shorts. →

Two weeks before the election of Barack Obama, filmmaker Jeff Deutchman asked his friends around the world to record their experiences of 11/4/08, a day that had become “historic” before it had even taken place. He collected footage from a combination of passionate amateurs and acclaimed independent filmmakers, including Henry Joost (Catfish), Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths), Joe Swanberg (Alexander the Last) and Benh Zeitlin (Glory At Sea). →