Treasure Island Music Festival – San Francisco, Ca
Live Review: October 15 & 16, 2011

Ahoy ahoy, the Treasure Island Music Festival this past weekend has upped the magic once again going into their fifth year with their two-day celebration. Bless their little hearts, they’ve continued with their tradition of putting all their electronica and hip-hop acts on the first day, I was thoroughly tuckered out from all the dancing as I’m sure everyone else was. →

The Mill & the Cross Review
Nuart Theatre – Santa Monica, Ca

Lech Majewski’s The Mill & the Cross brings Pieter Bruegel’s masterpiece The Way To Calvary to the screen through the lens of the Flemish renaissance painter. The Way To Calvary depicts the story of Christ’s Passion but under the backdrop of the Spanish occupation in the year 1564, when Bruegel created this painting. →

PB&J Host Their Gimme Some Exhibition And Talk About Their All You Can Eat Tour
THIS Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
9/29/11

Swedish indie-rockers Peter, Bjorn & John take over Los Angeles with their All You Can Eat Tour with four dates this week but not before they host a gallery opening featuring the work of artist Jonas Torvestig at THIS Gallery. The Gimme Some Exhibition culls together artwork by Torvestig during his time illustrating PB&J’s album cover for their recent release Gimme Some. →

Bringing the Music of Tarantino’s Films to a Live Experience
Barre – Los Angeles, CA
9/29/11 – 11/12/11

For the past 25 years, celebrated and visionary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has brought us memorable, genre-blending cinema employing great talents, compelling dialogue and stylish direction. And we mustn’t forget of course, all the great songs and the amazing accompanying soundtracks to each of his films. →

The Stepkids
El Rey Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
9/15/11

Emerging Connecticut three-piece, The Stepkids, is an act that all of you absolutely must-see. They brought the El Rey down with so much intensity but remained subdued and dream-like in their rhythms. I, being one so far removed from the era of when funk and psychedelia were king, managed to be catapulted into the furthest reaches of the ether and onto a different planet. →

The Stepkids Preview w/ The Horrors
El Rey Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
9/15/11

A Connecticut three-piece, The Stepkids, are bringing their own brand of futuristic soul and funk to Los Angeles this next week as they play with the Horrors in their extensive North American tour. →

Cinefamily and Cinespia continue their France Goes POP! series with Serge Gainsbourg
Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre – Los Angeles, Ca
9/2/11

Coinciding the release of Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life and the Serge Gainsbourg Tribute concert last Sunday (curated by none other than Beck), it seems that this past week had to do with all things Serge with the addition of the Stateside release of Gainsbourg And His Girls brought to us by the good folks at Cinefamily. →

Photo by Abe Ahn

I can’t believe this amazing act flew under my radar until I caught them at FYF Fest. They were happy to oblige Evil Monito with an on-site Q&A, which you can check out below. It was definitely an electrifying show. The extent of frontman Samuel T. Herring’s charisma did not occur to me until the set began and he demonstrated a physically demanding repartee of movements and gyrations that drew in any cursory glance. In conjunction with Gerrit Welmer’s synth beats and samples and Will Cashion’s bass lines, they laid it down with amazing force. →

Flux Screening Series featuring  Syd Garon, Sam Spiegel & Flourescent Hill
Hammer Museum – Westwood, Ca
8/2/11

The Flux Screenings Series returns to Hammer Museum with the World Premiere of N.A.S.A.’s ” the Spirit of Apollo”, which serves as the ‘making-of’ companion film to N.A.S.A.’s debut album of the same name. The core of N.A.S.A.’s monumental assembly of collaborators consists of LA-based DJ and producer Squeak E. Clean (aka Sam Spiegel) and São Paulo DJ Zegon; either of the two being representative of North America/South America which is the heart of N.A.S.A.’s worldly collaboration. →