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Cultural Stimuli in LA
Issue 182: extrasensory flavor
With the summer winding down and a new season of art and culture ramping up, you'll need more than five senses to take all of it in. Flitting on the clubland breezes this week are the celestial folk-pop strains of Lavender Diamond and the transcendent chamber rock of A Silver Mt. Zion. Meanwhile, at the Hollywood Bowl, Vivaldi's Four Seasons gets spiced up with a dose of salsa dancing. On screen, a sneak preview of new documentary Trantasia examines the glamorous world of transsexual beauty pageants, while Scorsese's Bob Dylan rock doc No Direction Home explores the decidedly unglamorous world of the 20th century's most influential songwriter. Elsewhere, the MAK Center gets galactic with a tribute to the music of Forbidden Planet. Other turntables break their earthly bonds as well, with indie-electro faves the Crystal Method getting all left field at MoCA and the Soul Children and Soundlessons crews waging an interstellar battle royale at the Echo. Cue up your sixth sense, and spread it.
- Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor
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flavorpill LA is an email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of music, art, and cultural events — delivered each Tuesday afternoon.
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Junction Function
While Ashford & Simpson, Eels, the Cramps, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club might not have much in common musically, they're each among the highlights at this year's ever-eclectic Sunset Junction, a two-day music and culture festival setting up shop on the streets of Silver Lake.
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| MUSIC: Avant Rock |
A Silver Mt. Zion w/ Carla Bozulich
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Arising from the recent musical fertility of Montreal, A Silver Mt. Zion absorbed its members from the equally avant-garde and largely instrumental groups Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Exhaust, producing a uniquely epic yet precise sound that seamlessly meshes elements of rock and chamber music. Searing string sections, broken melodies, and rhythmic experimentations have also become part of Carla Bozulich's repertoire. The musical chameleon's most recent album on ASMZ's Constellation Records is a dramatic but intriguing departure from her previous work. (KH)
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| MUSIC: Seasonal Salsa |
The Four Seasons con salsa
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Tue 8.22 & Thur 8.24 (8pm) |
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Hollywood Bowl (2301 N Highland Ave, 323.850.2000) map |
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Though Vivaldi's best-known composition, The Four Seasons, was penned in 1723, it remains one of the world's most popular classical works. Its four violin concertos, each paying homage to one of the seasons, continue to shape modern art (a recent example is the soundtrack to the critically acclaimed Korean thriller Old Boy). The Hollywood Bowl reinvigorates the already energetic piece this week, adding a sexy salsa twist. Free salsa dancing lessons by 2004 World Mayan Salsa Dancing Competition winner (and former Power Ranger!) Walter Jones precede each performance, so come dressed to dance. (JH)
 If you could choose a song to represent each of the seasons, which four would you pick and why? Our five favorite responses in 50 words or less each win a pair of tickets to this performance.
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David Cronenberg Double Feature: Crash (1996) & Videodrome (1983)
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Wed 8.23 & Thur 8.24 (7:30pm) |
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New Beverly Cinema (7165 W Beverly Blvd, 323.938.4038) map |
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Max Renn's infamous abdominal vagina isn't Videodrome's only stroke of Burroughsian grandeur. Throughout the film, director David Cronenberg couples his flair for transgressive horror with postmodern media theory, creating a hallucinatory sex, torture, and television romp that disturbs almost everyone who dares to see it. Crash — Cronenberg's adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel about a group of kinky car-crash victims — takes things even further into the uncomfortable, testing audiences' appetite for graphic injuries and handicap-fetish sex. It often verges on self-parody, making it a delightfully perverse doppelganger to Paul Haggis' recent, acclaimed film of the same name. (DRC)
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| MUSIC: Alien Antics |
Zolar X w/ Thor and Boyjazz
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Rock 'n roll's most flamboyant icons have always dedicated every last thread of their jewel-encrusted bodysuits to attention-grabbing theatrics, but few have stretched their performance concepts to such supernatural extremes. In this one-of-a-kind tour, the futuristic antics of infamous '70s glam aliens Zolar X join divine forces with the ancient bodybuilding powers of Canadian-rock god Thor. Expect cheesy silver props, neon lights, and otherworldly rock of the Eno/Devo variety from the former and bombastic schlock metal from the latter. Also onboard the mothership tonight are Oakland butt-rockers Boyjazz. (JG)
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| MUSIC: Noise Punk |
The Punks w/ the Sharp Ease and Amps for Christ
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A soundtrack to drunken days in dingy punk clubs and evenings spent smoking cigarettes in dark alleys, the Sharp Ease's sound is down, and very, very dirty. Lead singer Paloma Parfrey says the songs are mostly culled from her strange days spent hawking coffee at LA's underground-music epicenter the Smell (the home of tonight's record release show). The ambience is dead-on: the band's new EP, Remain Instant, is packed with the same irresistible power punk, desperate vocal energy, shiver-sharp guitars, and stop-on-a-dime rhythms that made bands X and Blondie punk-rock pioneers. The band plays tonight with avant-noisenik headliner the Punks and longtime lo-fi luminaries Amps for Christ. (DRC)
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READING
Aimee Bender: Willful Creatures
Wed 8.23 (7pm) Book Soup (8818 Sunset Blvd, W Hollywood, 310.659.3110) map 
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In her newest collection of fantastical stories, Willful Creatures, Aimee Bender once again charms readers with outlandish premises, odd characters, and off-beat dialogue — all tied together with her delicate yet cutting prose. (BMS)
Around what time of day does Aimee Bender find herself ready to write? The first, third, fifth, sixth, and ninth correct responses each win a copy of Willful Creatures.
 
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PARTY
The Onion AV Club Definitive Mixlist Party
Wed 8.23 (8-10pm) Beauty Bar (1638 N Cahuenga Blvd, 323.464.7676) map
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The Onion's increasingly infamous satirists make their way to LA this week by way of the rag's AV Club off-shoot. Tonight's party features free tequila and music curated by the section's humorist culture vultures with a "Jesus' adventures in modernity" theme. (SND)
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Trantasia
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Thur 8.24 (8pm) |
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Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 323.466.FILM) map |
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Low ratings and an increasing concern over its meat-market politics have made Miss America (and other beauty pageants) a lot less congenial of late. World peace aside, the traditional pageant is in dire need of a face-lift. Trantasia, a compelling look at the first beauty contest for transsexuals, offers an exciting update. Hosted by showgirl Jahna Steele, the Vegas pageant offers post-op transsexuals their dream: a star-is-born opportunity to win a headlining spot in a glamorous Vegas revue. Fascinating and ultimately touching, this sneak preview of director Jeremy Stanford's critically acclaimed documentary digs deep into the lives of the former men now living (and competing) in women's shoes. (JH)
Which Chinese transsexual was shut out of the running for Miss Universe 2004 because she was an "artificial woman"? The first correct response wins a pair of tickets to this screening.
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MUSIC: More Cheeba
Skye
Thur 8.24 (8pm) The Troubadour (9081 Santa Monica Blvd, W Hollywood, 310.276.6168) map $15
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Morcheeba devotees swoon as the band's satin-voiced heroine, Skye Edwards, fine-tunes her sweet, soulful sound in support of her solo debut, Mind How You Go. Jack Johnson-like folkateer Joe Purdy kicks off the evening with a set of earthy acoustic ballads. (MP)
How did Morcheeba mate Paul Godfrey spend his time when Skye Edwards split? Correct responses three and six each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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SPOKEN WORD
Flypoet
Thur 8.24 (8:03pm) Henry Fonda Theater (6126 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 323.464.0808) map $15
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Set loose from the now-closed Conga Room, LA's best spoken-word monthly embraces the Music Box with open arms. Tonight's edition features a host of talented slammers, including Sekou Tha Misfit and Javon Johnson, alongside music, live painting, and plenty of comfy chairs. (SND)
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Sia
Thur 8.24 (10pm-2am) The Standard, Hollywood (8300 Sunset Blvd, 323.650.9090) map (RSVP required)
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Aussie songbird Sia, the voice behind the haunting credits of the Six Feet Under series finale, puts her voice aside to spin a different kind of wake tonight: an exclusive party at the Standard, Hollywood. Dream Team DJs Daisy O and Tina T join her on the decks. (JH)
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| MUSIC: Electro Oddities |
Landau w/ Deru and Tycho
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Fri 8.25 (7:30pm) |
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Knitting Factory (7021 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 323.463.0204) map |
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Event Info | Landau | Deru | Tycho |
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In a warm-up party for the Knit's fast-approaching 808 series — a weekly Alterknit Lounge shindig showcasing rising electronic acts and out-there experimenters — the club hosts acoustic-electric innovators Landau in an intimate, early evening performance. The group's recent Merck Records release ties acoustic instrumentation to delicious blips and bleeps, creating varied electronic atmospheres often compared to Björk's Matmos collaborations and Double Figure-era Plaid. Live, Landau plays as a quartet, its members hopping between acoustic bass, guitar, accordion, melodica, drums, laptop, turntable, and synth. Offbeat IDM star and Landau labelmate Deru opens the evening, dropping hip-hop beats in and out of dense, glitchy electronic frames. (AP)
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Roger Corman: The Early Years
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Fri 8.25 - Sun 8.27 (schedule) |
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Egyptian Theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 323.466.FILM) map |
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Roger Corman captured his "King of the B Movies" crown by producing films with very little money, and even less time. This weekend-long series of triple features explores the ways his garish brand of pulp cinema revolutionized both low-budget and high-end Hollywood. From the black humor in Bucket of Blood (1959), to the unique location shots on the The Intruder (1962) — starring William Shatner as an itinerant racist — each film makes it more and more clear why he's been canonized. The man himself appears after a screening of Little Shop of Horrors (1960) to answer questions and, perhaps, even green-light your awful ideas. (DRC)
Which Corman protégé gave the B-movie master a small role in his own bloody opus? The third correct response wins a pair of tickets to this series.
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| MUSIC: Rabble-rousing Rock |
Wolf Parade w/ Frog Eyes
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The essence of indie rock is to brave beyond the ever-encroaching influence of simian song-makers and one-size-fits-all record companies. The embodiment of this ideal, Wolf Parade's 2005 debut, Apologies to the Queen Mary (produced by indie icon Isaac Brock), both pleased and perplexed audiences in its crunching rock weirdness. Equally engaging, the band's high-energy live shows are a welcome spectacle: Dan Boeckner sings and jitters at his guitar, Spencer Krug (also of Sunset Rubdown) croons desperately at his piano, Hadji Bakara whistles and beeps at the keyboard, and Arlen Thompson pounds at the drums like a young John Bonham. The band plays tonight with similarly crazy Canadian freak-out act Frog Eyes. (DR)
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Tenants
Fri 8.25 (7-10pm) Loft and Studio Spaces (1904 E 7th Place, Downtown) map
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A handful of the many painters, photographers, sculptors, and genre-bending artists who call this warehouse complex home mount a group show in the public spaces, throwing their studio doors open and welcoming you, the public, into their lairs. (SND)
Note: These spaces are also open to the public on Sat 8.26 (12-5pm).
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MUSIC: Avant-Garde
A Tribute to the Sounds of Forbidden Planet
Fri 8.25 (7:30pm) MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House (835 N Kings Rd, W Hollywood, 323.651.1510) map $25 / $18 advance
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In the mid '50s, husband-and-wife duo Louis and Bebe Barron set the MGM feature Forbidden Planet to a stunningly experimental score. Tonight, composers Thomas Dimuzio, Tom Grimley, Sukho Lee, and David Rothbaum honor the legendary piece's 50th anniversary. (AP)
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ART: Opening
Bay2LA
Fri 8.25 (8pm-1am) project: gallery (5016 Venice Blvd) map $10
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Up there with the East vs West Coast duel, the NorCal/SoCal rivalry has inspired artists on both ends of the state. In the interest of exposing our northern neighbors, project: gallery hosts Bay Area artists alongside Angelenos, exploring each area's idiosyncratic scene. (MSS)
Note: This exhibition remains on display through Wed 9.13 (Thur-Sat: 12-5pm).
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| FESTIVAL |
Sunset Junction Street Festival
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Sat 8.26 & Sun 8.27 (schedule) |
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Downtown (Sunset Blvd & Santa Monica Blvd, 323.661.7771) map |
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$15 per day |
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The 26th annual Sunset Junction Street Festival sends summer out with a bang, packing Downtown with 50-plus performers over the course of two explosive days. Saturday features a performance by oddball rockers Eels, reunion punkateering from LA legends Redd Kross, and plenty of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's noise-turned-Americana jams. Sunday promises the biggest rockabilly brouhaha this side of the Hootenanny with performances by Candye Kane, Hank Williams III, and legendary rockabilly punks the Cramps. Soul aficionados are also well represented, with performances throughout the weekend by Millie Jackson, Ashford & Simpson, Nona Hendryx, and Richard Street. (LLT)
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MoCA Night Vision feat. the Crystal Method
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Sat 8.26 (6pm-midnight) |
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Museum of Contemporary Art (250 S Grand Ave, California Plaza, 213.626.6222) map |
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Event Info | The Crystal Method |
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Beat-pumping techno fiends the Crystal Method step out from their Indie 103.1 radio show, Community Service, putting their money back where their mouths are with a live DJ set at MoCA's Saturday night music and art series. The galleries, meanwhile, hold their own delights: the dark, mysterious pieces in Eva Hesse Drawing illuminate the renowned 20th-century American artist's battles between abstraction and representation. MoCA Focus: Lecia Dole-Recio, on the other hand, offers a series of large-scale mixed media collages. Its architectural structures find harmony in organic spaces — kind of like what's happening in the plaza below. (LLT/SND)
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Soul Children vs Soundlessons Collective
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In a bid for bragging rights, LA's Soul Children crew takes on the city's Soundlessons Collective in a DJ battle to the death (or, at least, to the end of the evening). There's no West Side Story-style snapping and clapping here, just two big boys staring each other down in the ring. In one corner stand Soul-ers Al Jackson, DJ Rome, and MCdjOne; in the other, Sounders J-Logic, DJ Jun, Alfred Hawkins, and Big Brutha Zeke. In the middle, you, the crowd, dance and ultimately decide the winner. (AP/MT)
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Pullip-Palooza
Sat 8.26 (4-10pm) Ghetto Gloss (2380 Glendale Blvd, Silverlake, 323.912.0008) map
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A collector's cult has sprung up around the wide-eyed, flashy-costumed Pullip Dolls — big headed, counter-cultural creations that can be as cute as they are creepy. Ghetto Gloss' Pullip-Palooza celebrates these plastic wonders, hosting a gathering for both fans and newcomers to the cult. (SND)
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
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Sun 8.27 (7:30pm) |
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Aero Theatre (1328 Montana Ave, Santa Monica, 310.395.4990) map |
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The jokers and the thieves may have "no reason to get excited," but Martin Scorsese's Dylan documentary has the rest of the world in heat. Whether you missed the PBS airing or just want to see Bob on the big screen, the Mods & Rockers Festival saves the day with this brilliant meeting of artistic minds. Culling previously collected documentary footage from past features and recently unearthed reels, the film follows young Dylan as his archetypal rock 'n roll story unfolds. Through archival tapes and interviews we watch as the wild-haired wonder strives for success, struggles with over-saturation, and fights frantically for creative freedom. (MSS)
If you could hire Martin Scorsese to direct a documentary on any musician, who would you choose and what would be the focus? Our favorite response in 50 words or less wins a pair of tickets to this screening.
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| MUSIC: Cut-up Punk |
XBXRX w/ 7 Year Rabbit Cycle and Dos
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A noise-folk collective engineered by former Deerhoof-ers Rob Fisk and Kelly Goode, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle twists free-form sounds into art-damaged attacks on everything around it. The resulting tangle of droning strings, fits of percussion, and sing-shout-sing lyrics about magic yams and puppies is thoroughly disorienting, and the new record's occasional inclusion of Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart makes things all the more discordant. The band is joined tonight by the speedy hardcore of ecstatically angry punk rockers XBXRX. Mike Watt and Kira Roessler's double-bass jam-punk project, Dos, rounds out the good-time, freak-out bill. (DRC)
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MUSIC: Friendly Folk
Lavender Diamond
Sun 8.27 (4pm) UCLA Fowler Museum (W Sunset Blvd & Westwood Plaza, UCLA, 310.825.4361) map
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The bins at Amoeba aren't the only place to find free-lovin' hippie folk; local indie act Lavender Diamond scratch the itch as well, bringing their melodious, otherworldly folk-pop to the Fowler this week as part of the museum's peace-themed Summer Sunset Series. (EJ)
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| MUSIC: Pablo Piano |
George Sarah and His String Trio w/ Loop!Station and Peter Daily
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Never one to color inside the lines, LA-based musician George Sarah has spent two decades blurring the boundaries between electronica, rock 'n roll, and modern orchestral music. The sense of post-industrial romance that pervades his performances is unexpected but immediately familiar, which is why his understated anthems have found homes everywhere from CSI to the Discovery Channel. Tonight's concert marks his first live appearance of 2006, and the faithful are sure to be rewarded with a slew of surprises. Moody atmospheric emo from Loop!Station and edgy pop songs from Peter Daily fill out the eclectic evening. (SND)
What is the creative advantage to making chamber music instead of an orchestral arrangement? Correct answers four, six, and eight each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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| THEATRE |
Culture Clash: Water & Power
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Now through Sun 9.17 (schedule) |
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Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum (135 N Grand Ave, 213.628.2772) map |
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$20-55 |
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For nearly two decades Richard Montoya's Culture Clash has staged provocative interdisciplinary stage shows, each examining the evolution of SoCal's Latino community. Evaluating politics, culture, and socioeconomic issues through the prism of personal history, its pieces always promise biting humor, dynamic staging, explosive writing, and powerful acting. The group's newest masterpiece is a thinly disguised portrayal of the crises of conscience that plague LA's Latino politicians as they struggle to reconcile their personal demons and ambitions with the realpolitik of local government. (SND)
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Lopsided Soup
Now through Sat 9.2 (Thur-Sun: 1-6pm) Thinkspace Gallery (4210 Santa Monica Blvd, 323.913.3375) map
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Featuring a stunning site-specific installation that merges Reppeteaux's fondness of the bizarre with Sonou's surreal sense of reality, Thinkspace's Lopsided Soup is a delightfully Dalí-esque exhibit, one that exposes the many abstract visions of two remarkably unique ladies. (MSS)
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WORD TO THE WISE: Kotori magazine |
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A manual for the stylishly disenfranchised, LA's own Kotori magazine blends the best in alternative-music culture, progressive politics, grassroots activism, and subversive art. Available in print and online, Issue 007 features stories on pint-size, multilingual hip-hop diva Tigarah, 70-piece hip-hop orchestra daKAH, Japanese turntable sensation DJ Krush, and alt-culture political author Greg Palast. A piece on the Fiery Furnaces' Eleanor Friedberger makes an appearance as well, alongside profiles of philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, goth rocker Rob Zombie, and spoken-word impresario Rachel Kann. The mag rounds things out with tips on how to convert your van to bio-diesel and tons of album reviews. Knowledge is power, and there's no reason not to study in style. (SND)
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CD REVIEW: Slayer, Christ Illusion |
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Warner Brothers
Released August 2006
$13.99 (Amazon)
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Despite their anti-religion vitriol and Satanic hyperbole, Slayer spend very little
time celebrating sin and depravity. Instead, like fellow Rick Rubin ward Johnny
Cash, they voice the perspective of criminals, murderers, and outcasts while
indicting society at large. "Jihad," which is written from the point of view of a 9/11
hijacker, is Christ Illusion's "Angel of Death," inviting controversy without
being merely inflammatory. The central riff of "Cult" is as iconic as any we expect
from Kerry King, and the unbridled wrath in "Supremist" resonates frightfully with
the current state of the world. The band's return to pared-down thrash accentuates
the urgency of its rage; with Dave Lombardo back on drums and Tom Araya's
vocal chords miraculously intact, Slayer's first album since 2001, if not their
best, is still more devastating and inspired than other shock and awe out there.
(GM)
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DOWNLOADS: Modular Records |
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Formed in 1998, Modular has grown into one of the most influential indie labels in its native Australia, and has added to its global reach with London and New York outposts in recent years. The label has been on quite an A&R tear lately, with a string of new signings including the licensing of Soulwax's Nite Versions and debut LPs from Van She and Klaxons. The new blood augments a talent pool that already reaches deep, comprising the likes of the Avalanches and Cut Copy; as a taster for Modular's future trajectory, check these MP3s of the imprint's newest additions. Also, be sure to tune in to the label's ongoing Modcast — a hotwire directly into what Modular's artists are listening to. (CJN)
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Klaxons: "Gravity's Rainbow" (New rave)
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Soulwax: "Krack" (Electro rock)
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Van She: "Kelly" (Post-punk)
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