Top LA Happenings This Weekend Jan 27-29

Indie shoegaze stalwarts Film School return with their sixth full-length release and first for Sonic Ritual, We Weren’t Here, the follow-up to 2018’s Bright to Death. Whereas the band recorded the previous album while holed up together in the isolated Southern California desert enclave of Joshua Tree, the Covid pandemic forced a different kind of isolation this time around. Already divided between the SF Bay Area and Los Angeles, bassist Justin LaBo, guitarist Nyles Lannon, frontman Greg Bertens, and keyboardist Jason Ruck—each from his own quarantine home studio—had to collaborate on the songs remotely. Except for when newest member Adam Wade met up with Greg to record drums at LA’s Headwest Studio with mixer Dan Long (all wearing masks, of course), the bandmates never saw each other in person during the entire making of the album.

Exploring dark memories and nostalgia, MØAA’s dream-drenched debut album “Euphoric Recall" pulls listeners through a brooding atmosphere with a thick driving rhythm. The solo project was first conceived by Seattle born musician Jancy Rae when she began writing and recording demos as an outlet to process a troubled past. More than halfway through writing the album she went across the world to Venice, Italy where the album was recorded, mixed, and produced by Andrea Volpato (New Candys) at Fox Studio Venice. Euphoric Recall was released in 2021 via the American Italian label WWNBB and it's success brought the project on tour in multiple continents.

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Gold Diggers

Film School, MØAA 

Film School - Crushin

Film School

MØAA

Gigs

Los Angeles

Gold-Diggers

Come Red Carpet READY to laugh and play with some of LA's finest comics! Gowns and formal attire are encouraged, but not required.

Awards shall be given! Hopes and Dreams Shall be Crushed. Stars will BE BORN!

Come and see why Dani and Povs should host the Oscars (or ANY awards show! They'll take it!)

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El Cid

Can You Help Us Get Famous?! Comedy Showcase

comedy

Comedy

Inara George

With: Mike Andrews, Joe Kennedy, Lauren Meares, Gabe Noel, Joachim Cooder and Wendy Wang

“Inara George is the kind of artist who'll never get called experimental, because her music sounds so sweet. Yet she is a risk-taker -- just one whose voice is clear and accessible.”

(Los Angeles Times)

Inara is an L.A. native who has worked her way through many musical incarnations starting from the early 1990’s to the present. She has released four solo albums with her long time producer, Michael Andrews. One of those solo albums was an orchestral collaboration with the inimitable Van Dyke Parks. She is also a member of the band The Bird and The Bee with producer Greg Kurstin. Their eponymous debut album was released in 2007, to much critical acclaim, and since then the band has released multiple albums. And Inara continues write and produce music while she raises her 3 children with her husband in Los Angeles.

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Zebulon

Inara George

This is a 21+ event. Zig Zags playing a long set of new, old and RARESHIT. Spring Training Fundraiser with proceeds going to Blair High School Baseball.

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Zig Zags, UGHH

Killer Of Killers

Zig Zags

Permanent Records Roadhouse

**Sid The Cat Presents**

**Homeshake (Solo)**

**W/ Green-House**

**1/28/2023 at Pico Union Project**

Unlike most of us, Peter Sagar — also known as HOMESHAKE — was staying at home a lot, long before the pandemic. Sagar wrote the majority of his fifth studio album, Under the Weather, in 2019, when he was going through a long, unrelenting period of sadness. “I was in a deep, deep depression,” he recalls of that time period now. “Tours were breaking me. It was awful.” Sagar and his partner were living in Montreal and while everyone was out being social, he was inside listening to ambient music, binging Star Trek, and writing songs. (Sound familiar?) “It was a bit of a dark pit,” he says. “That’s kind of what the whole album is about.”

Under the Weather follows Sagar’s life and the depression that consumed him in 2019 — after a brief album intro, it jumps right into “Feel Better,” a reflection on attempting to buck up when the weather outside is grim. The album is hazy and moody, the pace slow as syrup, and from beginning to end, a fog falls over every synth and guitar line. In “Inaminit,” Sagar cancels plans when he’s feeling low; the closing track, “Tenterhooks,” sees Sagar’s deliverance into the depths of despair: “Feel myself drying up / feel myself turn into dust,” he sings over a funhouse mirror synth. “Oftentimes when you’re in a dark place, you’re supposed to journal and that helps release the pressure,” Sagar says. “For me, it always found its way into the music.”

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SID THE CAT

Homeshake (Solo)

Every Single Thing

Green-House

Homeshake

Pico Union Project

- Bio

We are Carly and The Universe, nice to meet ya. Thanks for hanging. We are a group of awkward weirdos looking to be creative all day errr day.

All of us come from all over the globe, but are based in Los Angeles. We all have a love for creating music together, eating snacks, and picking on each other.

Carly is the Cat, Mike is the Moose, Freddy is the Fish, Cameron is the Camarones, and Marshall is the Golden Retriever.

Together we make up the animal kingdom that sonically in-turn makes up the Universe.

Is your mind blown? Well, either way, you’re welcome.

\-CATU

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Carly and the Universe 'Release Show' + Mike G + Wild Heart Club

Carly and the Universe - Rope

Carly and the Universe

Wild Heart club

The Paramount

ZURG is a black improv-based musical ensemble from the Los Angeles area, and we invite you to their take on the movies. They adapt and score vintage sci-fi movies live, translating them through a truth-seeking lens. Each month it's a new secret film, unveiled only in the moment, fully reimagined. Come join us as we explore the questions and meanings of truth through film on Saturday Jan 28!

This month's personnel includes: Lou Bleu, Devin Daniels, Qur'an Shaheed, Sharada Shashidhar, Bakudi Scream, Randal Fisher, Brian Hargrove, Camellia Sinensis and Grump.

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2220 Arts + Archives

ZURG: Improvisers Film Orchestra, 1st Visitation

Join us as we bring The Worlds Best Dance Music to Los Angeles CA. A stylized Cumbia rave with psychedelic art, visuals, live percussionists, costumed characters, and LOTS of Cumbia.

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Don Quixote

Cumbiatron

1720

Midnight Memories: 1D Night

For any questions or concerns regarding our COVID policy, please email info@soundnightclub.com

For table reservations please contact: reservations@soundnightclub.com

Ticket Transfers are not available for this event. For any questions please email help@dice.fm


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Sound Nightclub

Cloonee (Open To Close)

Cloonee - Gospel

Cloonee - The Ciggie

Cloonee

LA's premiere 60s to now funk sounds from all around dance party!
$5 before 10:30
$10 after

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Funky Sole

Miles Tackett

party

Party

Spanky's Saturdays is a revolving cast of selectors from LA and beyond

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Curated by Spanky's // Saturdays 

Hollywood, CA

The Lullaby Loft is proud to welcome Short Jake and Abby Feldman to their stage for comedy, music, smiles and spontaneity!

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Short Jake & Abby Feldman

Abby Feldman - Call Me by My Hebrew Name

The Lullaby Loft

Hot Dog Sundays 4pm-close at Hollywood’s Iconic El Cid.

Mario Diaz & Adam Ramzi present your new Sunday afternoon Queer Bang.

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Hot Dog Sunday

Save the date! January 29th 🔗

We’re happy to announce the next daytime sessions in our favorite place Apotheke.

Let's celebrate this Sunday with friends by listening to the best vinyl records.

Dust off your dancing shoes and be ready for one more unique sessions this Sunday.

January 29th at 6pm✌🏼

Please note that tickets for this event are non-refundable.

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Sunday Sessions (Vinyl only)

Dana Ruh - Beetle - Original Mix

Arthur Onni

Dana Ruh

Krane

Miles Mercer

Apotheke

Noizee Records x

The Pit Promotions x

Divine Minds

Present :

Bulma 

Gutsfuck 

Casket mush 

Yungxrezist 

Vomer 

Dauhnted 

Deadw888

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BULMA/GUTSFUCK 

Bulma

Deadw888

Gutsfuck

Vomer

Long Time No See joins Gold Diggers for an evening of live stand-up comedy and live music with Pink Foxx, Morgan Jay, Craig Robinson, Run the Fools, and T. Nava (Free Nationals)! Don't miss a night full of laughter, dancing and stiff drinks in one of LA's most iconic rock and roll palaces.

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 Long Time No See w/ Morgan Jay, Pink Foxx, T. Nava

I Can't I Won't (Break Up Song)

Morgan Jay

Mezzanine presents YEAST, directed by Mary Bronstein. 2008, 78m, U.S., DCP

With writer/director Mary Bronstein and actress Amy Judd in person!

The blackly comic debut feature of filmmaker-actress Mary Bronstein is a raw portrait of toxic female friendships at their breaking point, and remains among the most confrontational American independent films of the 2000s. Shot on MiniDV and produced during the wave of micro-budget, character-driven films of the era—often referred to as “mumblecore”—the Brooklyn-set Yeast follows a passive-aggressive schoolteacher (Bronstein) whose patience is tested when dealing with her anguished unemployed roommate (Amy Judd) while preparing to go on a camping trip with their eccentric, impulsive friend Jen (Greta Gerwig in a standout performance). Shot by cinematographer Sean Price Williams with camera assistance (and cameos) from Josh and Benny Safdie, Yeast is both a sobering foil to husband Ronald Bronstein’s expressionistic nightmare Frownland, and a hilarious chamber drama full of arsenic.

“Gerwig’s actorly inventiveness, in all its wild spontaneity, has rarely had such a showcase…The handheld cinematography, by Sean Price Williams and a quartet of others (including the director Josh Safdie), powerfully evokes the women’s furious reckoning with their outer constraints and inner chaos. Bronstein’s exhilarating meditation on performance and identity advances to a resolution that is as surprising as it is transcendent.” -Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“The definitive micro-masterpiece of the SXSW/Slamdance years. Like its spiritual predecessor Frownland, Yeast does away with the sentimentalities of its mumblecore brethren: this one’s straight up mean Mike Leigh… One of the most vicious send-ups of combustive female friendships, arrested development, and passive aggression ever committed to screen. It’s only gotten more incisive with age…” -Screen Slate

“Resolutely indelicate, often absurd, and really, really funny.” -Karina Longworth

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SCREENING: Mary Bronstein's YEAST

film

Film

Kim Gordon + Mary Lattimore Duo, Colloboh

w/ Joe Wong

DJs Brian Foote

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