We found this video on the Huffington Post, called the “Edible Landscape of Los Angeles.” Click here for the article or check out the video below to watch:
While the video above might take place in nearby Silver Lake, there is a LOT of fallen fruit in Echo Park to explore.
Tuesday, June 15th
Echoplex
6pm
$10 advance, $12 day of show
18+
Real Estate
Woods
Kurt Vile
Abe Vigoda
Art Museums
The Mantles
Nodzzz
Sun Araw
All Saints Day (Katy from Vivian Girls + Greg from Cat Power)
The Baths
Buy tickets here.
He’s not actually gonna be there (he died 117 years ago), but starting tonight and continuing through this month Machine Project is going to be hosting some “Wagneriffic” events and installations. They are collectively entitled Basement Wagner: A Brief History of the Bayreuther Festspiele and include an installation by Liz Glynn and performances and workshops organized by her and Juliana Snapper. The opening reception is tonight (Saturday, June 5) from 6:00 to 10:00 pm. Here’s the full list of all the events:
Saturday June 5th, 6pm – 10pm:
Walking through Wagner
A step-by-step participatory walk-through of Wagner’s complete stage directions for all four operas. Opening night of installation.
Friday June 11th, 8pm:
We Sing the Ring
A Richard Wagner singalong lead by Juliana Snapper. Tone-deaf amateurs and aspiring professionals are welcome to come and learn the major leitmotifs in Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
Saturday June 12th, 8pm:
On the Operatic Origins of the American Space Program
Lecture by Jason Brown
Friday June 18th, 10am – 10pm:
Hojotoho!
Wagner’s song staged by a series of different artists acting as opera director, with Juliana Snapper as Brunhilde.
Saturday June 19th, 8pm:
the ing Cycle
A musical performance by ing. Closing night of installation.
Machine Project is located at 1200 N. Alvarado St.
From Orrin's Flickr
If you’ve lived in Echo Park for a couple of years, you probably remember seeing the above Skullphone poster perched atop a billboard overlooking Casablanca Furniture.
Skullphone has a new show at Subliminal Projects and the opening reception is tonight (Saturday, June 5) from 8:00 to 11:00 pm. The show is entitled Digital Media and it “examines the contradictions inherent in outdoor digital signage, demonstrating cause for both wonder and concern over the increasingly ubiquitous medium. The artist explores advertising, government and private enterprise signage, and the California landscape on which outdoor media proliferate, making permanent on panels what is removable and reprogrammable in outdoor space.”
The show will run through July 2. Subliminal Projects is located at 1331 W. Sunset Blvd.
Feeling in shape (or out of shape) these days? Maybe it’s your time to join your neighbors for a free two-day, 35 mile walk throughout Los Angeles from Saturday, June 12 through Sunday, June 13.
The Big Parade is a two-day walk through Los Angeles. It starts at the famous Angel’s Flight Stairs, downtown, and works its way west, through multiple neighborhoods, stopping at the famous Music Box Stairs in Silver Lake – named after Laurel & Hardy’s Oscar-winning 1932 short film – for an overnight campout. Then, we continue through the stairways of Silver Lake, on to the Franklin Hills and Los Feliz. We traverse Griffith Park, and then walk through the Beachwood Canyon/Hollywoodland neighborhood, all the way to the Hollywood Sign.
Anyone can come along – for an hour, a day, or the whole hike. The group had a couple of practice hikes at the end of May to get everyone geared up and in shape, but there may just be another one this weekend (June 5 or 6) before the big day. Visit The Big Parade website for more information on those practice hikes and the event.
We will post the route map as soon as the event organizers do (camping sites are also being finalized). For now, feel free to get yourself geared up on your own by taking a tour of some Echo Park stairways.
Click here to download the PDF flyer for the event.
Tuesday, June 8th
8:00 pm
The Echoplex
$12 advance, $14 day of show, all ages
HEALTH presumably have a saying: if you do something right once, remix, remix again. They did it two years ago with HEALTH/DISCO, which included remixes of HEALTH tracks by Pictureplane, CFCF, Nosajthing, and of course Crystal Castles, whose version of “Crimewave” threatened to be more popular than HEALTH’s original for a short while. In keeping with this tradition, HEALTH have announced DISCO2, to be released June 22 on Lovepump United.
Like the previous remix album, DISCO2 collects reworkings of tracks from the studio album that preceded it (a little gem called GET COLOR [TMT Review]). Crystal Castles and a few of the same guys from HEALTH/DISCO are back for more, but there are also remixes by Javelin, Small Black, Gold Panda, Tobacco, and Salem. The album’s single and opening track, “USA BOYS,” was mixed by producer Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode). And the excitement just keeps coming: HEALTH are topping it off with a US tour, ending with Lollapalooza in Chicago. – Tiny Mix Tapes
with:
Best Coast
Indian Jewelry
Gold Panda
Buy tickets here.
Jackie and Dolce by Sonia Paulino
Portrait photographer Sonia Paulino recently created a series of photos documenting both the quadru- and the bipedal citizens of Echo Park. The series is entitled “We Come Here All the Time”: Dog Walkers of Echo Park. The series “documents the diversity of a rapidly gentrifying Los Angeles neighborhood by photographing people with their dogs around the local park. The work evolves from recurring themes about companionship, care, and mutual identity.” It’s also fun to see how much owners resemble their dogs.
Cali, Jenny and Bobby
Vanessa and Ewok
Monday, May 31st – Sunday, June 6th
Monday
The Like, The Young Veins, The Living Sickness at The Echo
Foot Village, Bitches, Nicole Kidman, Forts at Pehrspace
David Scott Stone, Tom Carter, Cooling System at Echo Curio
Tuesday
When You Awake presents First Aid Kit, Samantha Crain, Whispertown at Bootleg Theater
Jeremy Dawson (DJ set), White Apple Tree, Buddy Akai at The Echo
Wednesday
Hot Hot Heat, Stone Darling, Chasing Kings at Bootleg Theater
School of Seven Bells, VOICEsVOICEs, Sister Crayon at The Echo
Socorro, Sisu, Monster at Echo Curio
Thursday
Free Kutmah Benefit Concert feat. Dam-Funk, Daedelus, Gaslamp Killer, Samiyam, Teebs, ABCNT and special guests at Echoplex
Born Ruffians, Young Rival, Random Patterns at The Echo
Spotlight, Floodlight, Lex Land at Bootleg Theater
Hand, Henry Wolfe, Black Jesus, Matthew O’Neill at Echo Curio
Friday
Club Underground feat. Quadron at The Echo
Tilt, Class Actress, Neon Indian (DJ Set), CFCF, Lexicondon, Short Circuit, B.R. at Echoplex
Infinity, Oh Darling at Bootleg Theater
The Delta Mirror, Memory at Origami Vinyl (FREE! Early Show; 7 PM)
Moses Campbell, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Big Whup, Spirit Vine at Echo Curio
Hello My Name Is Red, tomorrows tulips, Meho Plaza, Cobalt Cranes at Pehrspace
Saturday
Local Natives, Voxhaul Broadcast, Marvelous Toy at Bootleg Theater
Painted Hills at Origami Vinyl (FREE! Early Show; 7 PM)
Jack Wilson Jr., Jo and Jillinda, Sister Grizzly, Honey Loving Cells at Pehrspace
The Body Parts, The Preservation, Oh, The Future at Echo Curio
Sunday
Subhumans, Cross Stitched Eyes, A-Heads, Rayos X at The Echo
Thanks to LAist
Wed, June 2nd – SOCORRO + SISU + MONSTER
Thurs, June 3rd – HAND + HENRY WOLFE + BLACK JESUS + MATTHEW O’NEILL
Fri, June 4th – CLOSING EVENT for HEARD OF ELEPHANT’S BLUEPRINTS with MOSES CAMPBELL + MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY + BIG WHUP + SPIRIT VINE
Sat, June 5th – THE BODY PARTS + THE PRESERVATION + OH YEAH, THE FUTURE
Mon, June 7th – PU$$Y COW + PRIZZY PRIZZY PLEASE + OH BARRACUDA + THE EX-GENTLEMEN
Tues, June 8th – ART DROP for the TRUE CRIME? SHOW 7p to 10p
Fri, June 11th – TRUE CRIME? EXHIBITION opens 8p to midnight plus special dance party!!!!
Sat, June 12th – THE KRIS SPECIAL + MY FLAG IS ON FIRE + OBLIO’S ARROW + WALK
Sun, June 13th – TELEPHONE HAT + FILBERT + NICOLE KIDMAN + CARLEE HENDRIX & THE WHOLE EARTH CATALOG
Mon, June 14th – NEW MUSIC MONDAY
Tues, June 15th – THE ROOFTOP VIGILANTES + FRENCH EXIT + HORSE MARRIAGE
Thurs, June 17th – FALCON EDDY + ABE MARBER + NIGHT CONTROL
Fri, June 18th – HI HO SILVER OH + TENLON’S FORT + OLENTANGY JOHN + JUDSON & MARY
Sat, June 19th – GYPSYHAWK + LUNGBUTTER + PROFESSOR + TAP THIS (all girl tribute to SPINAL TAP!!!!)
Sun, June 20th – CHROME WINGS + ITALIC INDIANS + BARR + PROTECT ME
Mon, June 21st – TOTALLY SERIOUS + WITT + RATS + SNUFFALUFFAGUS
Tues, June 22nd – NUDE BEACH + guests
Wed, June 23rd – NO BABIES + HAWNEY TROOF + TEARIST + SIGNALS
Thurs, June 24th – LEARNING MUSIC residency
Fri, June 25th – LEMURIA + THE MONTHLIES + ROMAN CANDLES
Sat. June 26th – GABRIEL SULLIVAN + MAQUILADORA + ALINA CUTRONO + THE FRAGILE GANG (featuring ARLO AND AISLING)
Sun, June 27th – HOLY ROLLING EMPIRE + THE SEA OF CORTEZ + THE ATLANTIC LINE
Mon, June 28th – NEW MUSIC MONDAY with BUZZ OR HOWL + DARYL SHAUN + guests
Wed, June 30th – 5-TRACK ALL STAR JAM-a-THON
Bootleg Theater
The Good Listeners at 9:30, Pearly Gate Music at 10:30, Walking Sleep release party at 11:30
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Echo Curio
Tom Carter, Barn Owl, Slasher Risk, Magick Orchids, Dreamcolour, The Faraday Trippers
Wooly Blvd (1840 Glendale Blvd)
NASA Space Universe, Okie Dokie, Green Screen Door, Ecoli, Soloing Over Alanis Morissette (thanks LAist for this one! Looks like this a fairly new space, never been before.)
Echoplex
Bearracuda: “San Francisco’s dance night for beards, furballs, bears, cubs, pups and beefcakes comes to Los Angeles.” DJ/Product Matt Consola, Sam Storicks.
The Echo
Funky Sole (every Saturday) with DJs Music Man Mills, and Clifton AKA Soft Touch.
Origami Vinyl
Cannoneers Of The New Command 7th release party at 7:00 pm.
Pehrspace
Easter Everywhere presents Princeton, Mystery Claws record release, Gamble House, Sleeping Bags, and a special guest.
Have fun and be safe! And as always, let us know if we’ve missed anything.
Photo via birttanmoore from Tweed
This photo, taken a couple of hours ago in Echo Park, reads “No Phone Zone.” Possibly part of Oprah’s campaign to encourage people to put down their cell phones while driving.
On Sunday, June 6 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm (just five days before the start of the World Cup!!), the Outpost for Contemporary Art will be hosting Futbol Day in Vista Hermosa Park.
“The Beautiful Game, beautiful art and beautiful music will combine at the first Outpost Cup, a June 6 fundraiser to support Outpost’s next cycle of residencies that will bring six South American artists and collectives to Los Angeles over the next two years. Teams of artists, neighborhood and work groups, competitive players, parents vs. kids, and other categories will compete on the pitch for soccer/futbol/futebol/football glory, along with live music, a variety of performance artists and other performers, food and drink from local restaurants and food trucks and more.”
If you’re interested in registering teams, performing or selling food at the event or sponsoring the festivities may contact Julie Deamer at julie(at)outpost-art.org. Or if you want to sign up to play go here.
Outpost for Contemporary Art is a non-profit, Highland Park-based collective that supports “socially-engaged artists” and that “seeks to engage and enrich Los Angeles communities through cross-cultural exchanges and interdisciplinary projects.”
The Silver Echo Gallery recently released a gorgeous teaser trailer for a slasher film entitled “Patty at the Party.” The gallery put out the call for artists and held several events in order to raise money for the project at the end of last year. They are working with the “progressive guerrilla movie company” Mongrel Collective and are still trying to raise money to cover post-production and marketing costs.
“In Patty at the Party, slackers & scene kids search for romance & then they get cut up by cute serial ballet dancers.”
The full-length feature will (hopefully) go into production of the middle of June. If you are an artist interested in bringing your skills to the project or are interested in becoming a producer or executive producer contact Taylor or Amber at (323) 702-2131. Or if you want to give them some money, go here.
Echo Park Ave and Scott Ave
Hot Hot Heat releases it’s new album, Future Breeds, via Dangerbird Records on June 8th. Los Angeles fans can hear the new sounds early, as the band will be doing a June residency every Wednesday night at Bootleg Theater.
Hailing from British Columbia, Hot Hot Heat first came to prominence in 2002 with their breakthrough debut LP, Make Up The Breakdown, an electrifying dose of urgent, dancey rock anchored by frontman Steve Bays’ characteristic yelp and highly infectious melodies. Over the years, the Canadian band has delivered their kinetic brand of rock and roll live to thousands, toured the world with bands such as Modest Mouse, Kings Of Leon, The Walkmen and Queens of the Stone Age, and released several albums, garnering praise from everyone from Pitchfork to Rolling Stone and Spin who described their sound as “aggressively exuberant funk-punk.” Listen to Hot Hot Heat on myspace.
The shows are $12. Tickets can be bought here for an additional fee of $2.88 per ticket.
18+
The dates and line ups are as follows:
June 2nd
Hot Hot Heat 10:30p
Stone Darling 9:30p
Chasing Kings 8:30p
Doors open at 8pm.
June 9th, KCRW presents…
Hot Hot Heat 11:15p
Eulogies 10:15p
Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits 9:15p
Doors open at 9pm.
June 16th
Hot Hot Heat 10:30p
Eastern Conference Champions 9:30p
The Janks 8:30p
Doors open at 8pm.
June 23rd
Hot Hot Heat 10:30p
Eulogies 9:30p
Links 8:30p
Doors open at 8pm.
June 30th
Hot Hot Heat 10:30p
Voxhaul Broadcast 9:30p
1,2,3 8:30p
Doors open at 8pm.
