Monthly Archives: August 2011

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Featured Gallery Music Sex and Celebrity: The Naked and Famous

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon
August 17, 2011 - 10:13 am

If I was challenged with the task of naming a band, I don’t know that I could do any better than The Naked and Famous Band. Sex and celebrity combined into one epic band title – does it get any better than that?

The band, worthy of such an impactful identity, topped the charts in New Zealand, – marking the first time a native “Kiwi” band has done so in 16 years – after single “Young Blood” took off on BBC Radio. They’ve since made their way across the shores and after several talked about South by Southwest performances, have been selling out shows left and right, leaving fans in awe of the quintet’s electro pop infused rock.

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Music Tuesday Newsday: New Releases from Nero, Breaking Benjamin, The Cool Kids, and Jeff Bridges

by Shop Keeper
August 16, 2011 - 6:47 pm

Big release week, and too many names to mention — but fresh off his recent appearance at The Troubadour, Jeff Bridges releases his self-titled debut…dubstep young god Nero has Welcome Reality and Dead Can Dance bring you Towards the End (the best I could come up with) — and Matthew Friedberger wants you to Cut it Out. Haha. I’ll try to be more clever next week…see ya…

Jeff Bridges - Jeff Bridges

Breaking Benjamin - Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamins

Nero - Welcome Reality

Speed the Plough – Shine

New Villager – New Villager

Maria Taylor - Overlook

Ana Popovic – Unconditional

The Cool Kids - When Fish Ride Bicycles

Guy Clark – Songs and Stories

Matthew Friedberger – Cut it Out

Dead Can Dance - Towards the End (DVD)

Braid – Closer to Closed

Bottle Rockets - Not So Loud

Patrick Doyle - Rise of the Planet of the Apes (OST)

Case Studies - The World is Just a Ship to Fill the World

Fool’s Gold - Leave No Trace

Canon Blue - Rumspringa

Blue October - Any Man in America

Gallery Los Angeles In Line For A “Do Over”

by Dustin Downing
August 16, 2011 - 8:46 am

The line snaking outside the Cabana Club stretches nearly a full block from its starting point of a tatted Asian rocker chic with blue hair at the gate, down past a Harry Potter looking dude in jhorts, and finishes with what looks from here, a Pakistani Jesus complete with robe. This multi-cultural serpent has become a spectacle of its own in a town all too familiar with lines of lost souls outside a club, for this one is bathed in daylight on a Sunday afternoon! It even has a Twitter hashtag (#do-over-line). But don’t fret, for in exchange for your patience, your body will soon be baptized in the spirit-s: Sangria, Soul music, and most likely Somebody else. (RT @waldorules: @do_over EVEN THE SOCIALLY AWKWARD SOUND GUY IN STAR TREK T-SHIRT IS GETTING LAID AFTER THIS ONE!)

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Art Gallery The Art of Sketch Theatre Signing: a Multi-artist Jubilee at La Luz De Jesus

by Zoetica Ebb
August 15, 2011 - 4:18 pm

Sketch Theatre‘s mission is simple: to inspire artists through videos of established professionals doing what they do best, sped up and set to music. There is something incredibly inspiring and reassuring in watching the creative process, watching blank paper and graphite become jagged lines that grow into something else entirely. It lets us watch and learn, step by step, realizing that, yes, it is all possible with enough practice and dedication.

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Film Another Earth, Another You

by Ariel Maccarone
August 15, 2011 - 11:23 am

Another Earth

Set in the near future, indie film “Another Earth” posits the discovery of another planet, a replica of Earth with ALMOST identical lives. What if there was another You that didn’t make the same choices? What if you could have been happier? The kicker of the film is when people from Earth one are given the opportunity to visit Earth two. What if those opportunities you passed on were still available to you?

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Event Oddity Urban Exploration Film Fridays: Run From Real Life Zombies — in THE 5 K ZOMBIE MARATHON

by Jeff Nau
August 12, 2011 - 6:42 pm

Ever watch movies like Night of the Living Dead and chastise the zombies for their lack of enthusiasm? Discover redemption in flicks like 28 Days Later – where the zombies have verve, pep, and really want those brains? Now you can run away from those brain-hungry bastards in the Zombie 5 K Marathon !

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Art Meat Paul Thek

by Ariel Maccarone
August 12, 2011 - 11:06 am

After seeing the California Science Museum’s “Bodies” exhibit, I thought, “If only we knew that this is who we are all the time perhaps we would come to see ourselves in everything, and how much more deeply we would live.” The Hammer Museum’s exhibit, “Paul Thek: Diver, a Retrospective” echoes this perspective in its “meat pieces” collection.

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Featured Gallery Music Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Pierre Survives Dustin Downing

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing
August 12, 2011 - 11:02 am

Prior to interviewing Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Pierre, we decided to put him through the Dustin Downing “School of Candid Photography. “Pierre was open minded enough to play along as we hoisted him onto the balcony of a 2-story abandoned building and had him borrow various reading material from the stash of a Sunset Strip homeless man. Although the dismount from the disheveled building was not pretty – picture Downing with Pierre on his shoulders in a manic frenzy of trying to avoid rusty nails and a wrong step on a cement staircase – the photos turned out rather stellar. We’re happy to say that Pierre survived, was able to grab some much needed hand sanitizer and arrive safely back at his hotel.

Kicking it by the pool at The Grafton hotel, Pierre told us about the band’s upcoming 4 Albums, 2 Nights, 7 Cities tour that they will officially kick off in Los Angeles on August 19th and 20th at the House of Blues. He also discussed doing the voice of a 12- year old boy in the animated series “Godkiller” and being called a “good weirdo” by Margot Kidder at Comic Con.

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