RSVP here for Mad Decent’s free summer block party and do it now. that’s Diplo’s label, so though the lineup for LA isn’t announced yet, i can promise you it will be star studded, just check out the names below. Kid Sister? Ninjasonik? DJ Sega? fuck it, let’s hit all four cities! roooooaadddd trrrriiippppppP!!!! (you’re driving, though…)

]]> http://www.wreckthetapedeck.com/2010/diplo-is-bringing-some-summer-block-rockin-beats-to-the-party-thats-mad-decent-of-him/feed/ 0 http://www.wreckthetapedeck.com/2010/dj-dan-tonight-monday-socials-playhouse/ http://www.wreckthetapedeck.com/2010/dj-dan-tonight-monday-socials-playhouse/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:06:04 +0000 jesus satan http://www.wreckthetapedeck.com/?p=8665 hey! something to do on a Monday night! how novel! house maestro DJ Dan hits the Playhouse tonight for Monday Socials. moving this week children so posting will be light, not that anyone cares : o (

sneak preview of Life During Wartime, a new film by Todd Solondz @ Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theatre for FREE!!!! (RSVP here) Solondz and Paul Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman will be there after for a Q+A

The New Pornographers, The Dodos, Imaad Wasif @ Henry Fonda Theater

Tool @ NOKIA Theatre L.A.

The Pity Party is playing two free shows this month, the band’s only local shows of the summer, this Sunday, July 18 & Monday, July 26
This Sunday’s show should be interesting, with planes whizzing overhead at LAX. “LA APPROVED, July 18 The Pity Party, Signals, Dunes, Foot Village, Future Ghost, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Kissing Cousins, and Monstro all play at this incredible location with airplanes literally flying just over head. Hearing loss is your own responsibility! A part of LA Record 100 Festival, this event is brought to you by Origami Vinyl, Vacation Vinyl, KXLU, Hello My Name is Records, Ovrcast Collective, Yab Yum, Death & Taxes, Synchronicity Space, Hang the DJs, and Vlad the Retailer. All Ages, FREE, and full bar for those 21+ Please note the 2pm start time! Bar Melody, 9132 South Sepulveda Boulevard, Los Angeles,CA 90045, (310) 670-1994″

somebody in Los Angeles gonna get pregnant with Ninjasonik and Mickey Avalon celebrating Cobrasnake’s birthday week (more info in the flyer below) @ Drai’s in Hollywood (my favorite comment about this video: “when i grow up i wanna live in a uhaul truck jus like ninjasonik)

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AMV – Lords Of Acid – ‘I Must Increase My Bust’

tonight we murder, who? why? murdered!!! with Lords of Acid and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult @ Club Nokia

MGMT would like to see you now @ The Greek Theatre

let’s get ‘Drawn’ together with John Hill, Jr @ THIS Gallery Los Angeles (5906 North Figueroa Street)

drop some acid with Ryan Trecartin’s ‘Any Ever’ opening @ the MOCA Pacific Design Center

Nathan Smith & Asia Eng @ Ronin Gallery in Echo Park

what’s up doc with Bugs Bunny at the Symphony (with fireworks!) @ Hollywood Bowl

Antibalas at Echoplex with the Sway Machinery opening (three thumbs up show from j.s.)

La Roux has really nice hair @ Club Nokia with Ana Calderon

Threadless West Coast Social @ The Echo Greg Dulli (DJ set)

(fukkin’ love love love this movie, and it has one of the best death scenes of all time in it.) Dogs In Space and We’re Livin’ on Dog Food @ Cinefamily “Unscreened in Los Angeles for ages, Richard Lowenstein’s seminal Australian post-punk masterpiece Dogs In Spacecomes to the Cinefamily in a brand-new HD restoration! Based on Lowenstein’s own whirlwind experiences as a young man in the heart of the late ’70s Melbourne scene, the film is a dense, chaotic stew of vignettes charting the endless 24/7 partying that takes place in a trashy communal house — a magical realm in which its wild, impoverished inhabitants do dope, go to shows, play shows, smash TVs, occasionally go to school, and generally live out a gloriously hedonistic life path. In the center of this storm is Sam (played by INXS frontman Michael Hutchence), the charismatic heroin addict whose Zen-like calm fares him well amongst a kingdom’s worth of other jokers, junkies and misfits. Part Time Punks main man DJ Michael Stock will be spinning records before and after the films!”

60 Watt Kid – Virtual Plastic Surgery from JOSH on Vimeo.

let 60 Watt Kid brighten your evening with an all ages free show @ The Bandshell (11338 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025 – The West LA Civic Center Bandshell is an amphitheater located behind the West Los Angeles Library at 11338 Santa Monica Blvd in West LA). Yellow Alex and Cinq Finatra also play, and i can’t verify the start time, but according to 60 Watt Kid’s Myspace, it begins at 5.30pm

second and last chance to see Kings of Leon @ the Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre with Built to Spill (wow, didn’t even know he was still around) and Features opening

Smokey Robinson classes up smell-A @ the Hollywood Hollywood Bowl with Lizz Wright

Smokey Robinson by Shepard Fairey

“To commemorate Smokey Robinson’s 50 years of music, Smokey and Shepard Fairey have just put their signatures on two limited edition prints created by Fairey. The limited edition prints will be released to coincide with Smokey’s Keynote Address in Austin at SXSW Festival on March 18th. There will be two print editions available in two different colorways and will be made available in person March 18th at the SXSW Festival’s Flatstock Poster Show and the Obey Giant website (www.obeygiant.com). Our limited edition prints are available in a small quantity on eBay, get yours now! -Gold- and -Red-”

Admiral Radley (featuring Jason Lytle of Grandaddy and members of Earlimart) @ Amoeba Music in Hollywood. last chance to see them for a while, they’re off in search of the real Admiral Radley on a big national tour. (i don’t know, it’s the joke premise of the group or something… regardless, Grandaddy is one of the best bands ever made) show is at 7pm, it’s all ages and it’s free! well you like free, dontchya’?

smoke some dub with Zion I in West Hollywood @ Roxy Theatre. Strong Arm Steady, Chris Clarke and Icon open

i don’t know who Leon is but i’m pretty sure he doesn’t need Kings of Leon @ Hollywood Bowl with Built to Spill (wow, didn’t even know he was still around) and Features opening (tix here)

it’s a CALENDAR FOLDING PARTY!!!! @ Cinefamily – more info from them “The latest round of our print calendars is here! We’ll start the folding this Monday at 7:30PM — come on by the theater, for there will be pizza, snacks, and afterwards, a 35mm screening of Satan’s Cheerleaders, exploitation master Greydon Clark’s ‘77 ode to teenage abandon and devil worship!”

what a coupla' cards...

SATURDAY, JULY 10th

WTTD pal Courtney Cruz is reprising her Star Wars burlesque with the Fempire Strikes Back @ the Music Box Hollywood. last one sold out, so get tickets before you go. (check out pics from Courtney Cruz’s Fetish Girls and Video Game Girls here)

*UPDATE: OOPS. THIS IS CLEARLY NEXT SATURDAY. get your angry at your parents on with fetish-tastic Club Hell @ it’s new location, Circus (print the flyer above for a discount – and go here for plenty o’ nipple tape from a previous night @ the Ivar)

the legendary Babyland continues on as Continues with their very first show ever @ The Smell, Former Ghosts opens

Natalia Fabia reprises her awesomeness @ Corey Helford Gallery

Carlos Ramos, Becca and  Mark Covell have a threesome @ Copro Gallery from 8:00 – 11:30 p.m

everything looks good ‘On Paper’ (yes, it’s a lame joke, but i’m hungover and it’s all i got right now) with a group show at George Billis Gallery LA from 6.30 to 10pm

a whole buncha peeps do custom-painted Buff Monster toys at Giant Robot 2 from 6.30 to 10pm

it’s an Alternative Press Magazine 25th anniversary party group swinger show kind of thing with a grip of artists @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery from 8-11pm

El Guincho and The Holloys @ Spaceland

Jim Houser is a the homebody @ Subliminal Projects from 8-11pm

André Ethier and Shiri Mordechay Opening at Honor Fraser, Saturday, July 10, 6 to 8pm

Carmichael Gallery (now in Culver City) shows new photography by Boogie with The Uncovering and M-City showcases new works as well from 7-9pm

Hyaena Gallery has the official reception fro Spinestealer’s, um, scary ass “Cannibolic” show from 8pm to midnight (of course) in the valley

Saturdays off the 405 with Dawes @ The Getty

be sure to dress all in black (seriously, they won’t let you in otherwise) for Christ Vs Warhol at Bar Sinister – i’ve been digging this band, they sound a lot like early Siouxsie

SUNDAY, JULY 11th

Spain vs Netherlands in the World Cup Final Match! yeah, i could care less too. but i do love a party! Crewest is having a World Cup party. sponsored by Asahi, Jarritos, Roaring Lion energy drink and Fox Sports Español, doors open at 11am with kickoff at 11.30, and check out the Sweet Things opening while you’re there. (About the Exhibit: Sweet Things is a female urban art group show focusing on canvases, prints, photography, illustration and merchandise of 8-10 mid-career female urban artists, as well as legendary, internationally-recognized female artists. Explorations of graffiti, urban illustration, tattoo art, portraiture and fashion will be emphasized. Curated by: Indie184 and Queen Andrea. Exhibiting Artists: Aiko, Martha Cooper, Gillian Goldstein, Motel7, Koralie, Mickey, Jules Muck, Klor, Queen Andrea and Indie184. Featured Artist: Sherm.)

revenge of the nerds with Spazmatics at Key Club

Early show and a late show – Special Cinefamily Fundraiser: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea w/live score by Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields @ Cinefamily (this looks fucking rad)

Part Time Punks with Full Frontal, Manicorn @ The Echo

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Harlem are globe trotters tonight @ The Echo with the Black Apples and Audacity

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Puro Instinct (formerly Pearl Harbor, name was already taken and they knew it, actually – pretty skeevy), and The Magic Kids @ The Echoplex (three thumbs DOWN but i know he’s popular with the hipster swine kids. i’m sure it will sell out anyway so go upstairs to Harlem.)

it’s a full on indie aural assault with VOICEsVOICEs, War Tapes, Jesus Makes The Shotgun Sound and One F @ Synchronicity Space

Jonathan Yeo’s ‘Porn In The USA’ opens to the public at Lazarides‘ Beverly Hills pop-up location. he does portraits of famous types by using collages from cut-up porno mags. ’nuff said. it’s a day thing, from 12-8.

Kelsey Brookes, Kime Buzzelli and Albert Reyes have a Total Eclipse of the art at New Image Art in WeHo from 7-10pm – stuff from them after the jump

Chicago house hits smell-A with legends Derrick Carter, DJ Heather, Mark Grant and Hawt @ Vanguard Hollywood (three thumbs up from j.s. - tickets here)

attack of the Asians @ Thinkspace with Yosuke Ueno’s “Negative Never Again” and Dan-ah Kim’s “Waking In The Dark” in Culver City

holy fuck i can’t wait for this. they’re backkkkkkkk…. Crazy 4 Cult returns to Gallery 1988 on Melrose for the fourth installment with more than 100 artists doing spit-takes on cult classics. Kevin to the Smith is hosting with Scott Mosier (check out our pics from their Smodcast show at Gallery 1988 here, as well as plenty of other Gallery 1988 madness openings here.) – check out a few samples from the show after the jump

Albert Reyes @ New Image Art in West Hollywood

Kime Buzzelli @ New Image Art in West Hollywood

Kime Buzzelli @ New Image Art in West Hollywood

Kelsey Brookes @ New Image Art in West Hollywood

Gene Guynn @ Gallery 1988's Crazy For Cult 4

Todd Slater @ Gallery 1988's Crazy For Cult 4

APAK @ Gallery 1988's Crazy For Cult 4

Scott Campbell @ Gallery 1988's Crazy For Cult 4

not from us, we think you should work for a living, ya fucking hippies. go here to enter the contest from Amoeba records, and then go here to check out Anthony Ausgang’s art. it’s the only good thing about that album anyway. or you can get your tickets the American way, by spending your hard earned minimum wages here. Francis and the Lights and Helios Creed open.

happy fireworks everyone!!!

SATURDAY, JULY 3rd

a month long tribute to Dennis Hopper’s unmatched contribution to film, art and the world begins appropriately at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery with Cinespia’s showing of the seminal Easy Rider. there’s a film series throughout the month, mostly at Cinefamily (Silent Movie Theatre), as well as an exhibition at MOCA next Saturday, July 10th. more info with specific screenings after the jump - pour one out 4 tha homiez : o (

electroclash ex-patriot Miss Kittin scratches the decks with Paolo Mojo @ Avalon Hollywood (three thumbs up from j. s. – tix here)

the Hive Gallery is having its July group orgy show with Van Soro, Leyla Akdogan, L. Croskey, Charles Swenson, Gaia Bracco and Juan Alvarado, $8 at the door, $5 for peeps in black and yellow (cause it looks like a bee, get it? Hive Gallery? bees? eh? eh?) yeah, it costs money, but there are music performances, djs and burlesque

just duo it with Mates of State @ the Echo with Free Energy and Nick Thune opening

Fetish Nation celebrates its one year anniversary @ Circus – print the STUPID flyer above for discounted tickets. (i love this club, lots of fun i.e. lots of decadence, but they totally need a new graphic designer – p.s. see our NSFW pics from previous Fetish Nation nights here)

go take a Baths, you stink, with Dublab pal Daedelus, El Ten Eleven and Matthew David @ Troubadour (tix here)

the Dum Dum Girls are suckers with the awesome Crocodiles at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa

annndddd there’s a helluva Hootennany goin’ on with rockabilly legends Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis  battling it off with each other @ Oak Canyon Ranch in Irvine (5305 E Santiago Canyon, 92676). the all day show also features Nick 13 from Tiger Army, Old 97’s, Shooter Jennings, 3 Bad Jacks, Throw Rag and a lot more, plus more than 300 classic cars and the Miss Hootenanny contest. ain’t nothin’ more American than a rockabilly festival. (tix here)

SUNDAY, JULY 4th

Part Time Punks @ the Echo with a record release party for Magic Bullets – (holy shit! Zola Jesus is doing PTP on August 1st! – i’ve talked about her plenty before and now she’s getting all huge and shit. catch her now while she’s still doing intimate venues.)

everyone loves a 3rd annual Riot Grrrl Carnival benefitting the Downtown Women’s Center with Las Sangromas Y El Cabrón, Stella Pace, Sin Remedio, Desmadre En Krisis, Social Concern, Augustia @ The Smell

DENNIS HOPPER FILM SERIES The Cinefamily, in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and Los Angeles Filmforum on the occasion of the exhibition Dennis Hopper Double Standard, presents a month-long retrospective of Hopper’s most famous and infamous film works—along with lesser-known treasures—that celebrates his decades-spanning, wide-ranging career of searing performances and ambitiously idiosyncratic directorial efforts. SATURDAY, JULY 3, 7:30pm gates open; movie at 9pm Hollywood Forever Cemetery 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., L.A., CA 90038 Cinespia hosts a large outdoor screening of Easy Rider (1969, 35mm, Sony, 95 min.) to kick off the series. INFO cinespia.org TICKETS $10 FRIDAY, JULY 9, 7:30pm and 9:30pm The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., CA 90036 Easy Rider (1969, 35mm, Sony, 95 min.) and The American Dreamer (1971, 16mm, 90 min.), with director L.M. Kit Carson in person INFO 323/655-2510 or cinefamily.org TICKETS $12 general; $8 MOCA and Cinefamily members FRIDAY, JULY 16, 7:30pm and 10:30pm The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., CA 90036 Mad Dog Morgan (1976, 35mm, 102 min.), with director Philippe Mora in person, and Kid Blue (1973, 35mm, Fox, 100 min., archival print courtesy of Fox) INFO 323/655-2510 or cinefamily.org TICKETS $12 general; $8 MOCA and Cinefamily members FRIDAY, JULY 23, 7:30pm and 9:30pm The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., CA 90036 Night Tide (1961, 35mm, 84 min., archival print courtesy of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and Tracks (1977, 35mm, Rainbow Films, 92 min.), with director Henry Jaglom in person INFO 323/655-2510 or cinefamily.org TICKETS $12 general; $8 MOCA and Cinefamily members SUNDAY, JULY 25, 6pm, 8:30pm, and 11pm The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., CA 90036 Blue Velvet (1986, 35mm, MGM, 120 min.), Hoosiers (1986, 35mm, MGM, 114 min.), and River’s Edge (1986, 35mm, MGM, 99 min.) INFO 323/655-2510 or cinefamily.org TICKETS $12 general; $8 MOCA and Cinefamily members FRIDAY, JULY 30, 8pm and 10pm The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., CA 90036 Out of the Blue (1980, 35mm, Discovery Films, 94 min., new restored 35mm print) and White Star (1983, DigiBeta, 92 min.) INFO 323/655-2510 or cinefamily.org TICKETS $14 general/$10 MOCA and Cinefamily members SATURDAY, JULY 31, 7:30pm The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre 611 N. Fairfax Ave., L.A., CA 90036 The Last Movie (1971, 35mm, 108 min., archival print courtesy of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) INFO 323/655-2510 or cinefamily.org TICKETS $10 general; $6 MOCA and Cinefamily members SUNDAY, AUG 8, 7:30pm Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian 6712 Hollywood Blvd., L.A., CA 90028 In conjunction with the Dennis Hopper Film Series, Los Angeles Filmforum presents Warhol/Hopper: Films by Andy Warhol featuring Dennis Hopper, screening Warhol’s Screen Tests Reel #4 (1964–65, 16mm, approx. 40 min., silent, b&w, 18 fps) andTarzan and Jane Regained… Sort Of (1964, 16mm, 80 min., color, sound). Tarzan and Jane Regained… Sort Of is a playful avant-garde parody of the classic Tarzan films of the 1930s and ’40s featuring Taylor Mead as Tarzan, Naomi Levine as Jane, Dennis Hopper, Irving Blum, Claes Oldenburg, Brooke Hayward, and Andy Warhol. This rarely seen film was shot in Los Angeles in October 1963 while Warhol was in town for his second exhibition at Ferus Gallery. INFO/TICKETS lafilmforum.org

it’s an early summer’s night’s dream with CocoRosie, Cibelle and Busdriver @ Orpheum Theater

“The New Erotic” documentary premiere and party with a photo exhibit from Steve Diet Goedde, Ed Fox, Alejandre Guerrero, and Dave Naz, as well as sexiness all-female glampunk band Pajamaband and The Garbage Girls @ Department of Flying Vehicles (3303 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026) (three thumbs WAY up show from j.s., although it’s $10 admission)

Stanton Warriors with Nadastrom (amazing amazing amazing video below) for Control Fridays @ Avalon

an eight person art orgy with Damian Fulton, Robert Palaciso, Michael Brown, Frijol Boy, Lauren Gardiner, Cristina Paulos, Alyson Souza and Fiddle Tim @ La Luz De Jesus gallery (*UPDATE: turns out Fiddle Tim is Frances Bean Cobain’s alter ego – show sold out. who knew? well, actually, a lot of people, just not me.)

just duo it with Mates of State @ the Echo with Free Energy and Nick Thune opening

aaannnndddd this kind of underground band called Jane’s Addiction is playing the Roxy for free. good luck getting into that one.

Nadastrom – Save Us from Ben Solomon on Vimeo.

Devo goes horse racing at Hollywood Park with their first show in L.A. for quite some time (three thumbs up show from j.s. – tix at the door front lawn only as far as i know)

the Dum Dum Girls are suckers for suckers with the awesome Crocodiles, Dunes and Soft Healer at the Echo in Echo Park (might be sold out, can’t tell)

The Adicts have the shakes at Key Club in Hollywood (three thumbs up show from j.s. -these guys may be old, but god damn they bring the PUNK RAWK when they play live. tix here.)

Dum Dum Girls – Jail La La from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo.