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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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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.

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Saturday, June 26th

Brandi Milne’s My heart Shall Not Fear at Corey Helford with Natalie Shau in the loft

100 Artists See Satan group orgy fund raiser at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana (three thumbs up from j.s. – yeah it’s far away but this will be insane with work from pretty much everyone ever. one hundred piecez of art iz for sale so bring your evil checkbooks, people.)

Todd Schorr’s Designed For Extinction retrospective at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design (three thumbs up from j.s. – super early, from 4-7pm. Schorr will be signing books.)

Lou Barlow (of Sebadoh/Dino Jr fame) at the Bootleg Theater

get off Danzig’s mother cause he just got off yours at Club Nokia with Gorgeous Frankenstein, Toxic Holocaust

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings bring The Heavy to the Wiltern (tix here)

Spaceland seems like A Place To Bury Strangers with Light Pollution and Useless Keys in Silver Lake

L.A. RECORD is having a kickoff party with Abe Vigoda and Dublab Soundsystem DJs with FRRREEE FUCCCKIINNGGG ALLCCOHOLLLL at Nomad Gallery (1993 Blake Ave, 90039) to celebrate their hundredth issue. there’s a whole month of discounted and free shows and djs when you buy the L.A. Record Card, check out the calendar here. (Antibalas, Nite Jewel, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffitti, The Growlers, Au Revoir Simone, Blitzen Trapper are some of the highlights. more than 120 events total. congratulations, guys!)

annndddd continuing their weekend of gayness, there’s an ABBA Fest at the Hollywood Bowl with, ehem, Men Alive, the Orange County Gay Men’s Chorus, opening the festivities

Sunday, June 27th

Self Help Graphics and Art’s 2010 Annual Print Fair (what bad economy? spoil yourself a little, you deserve it!) from 12-5pm downtown with limited edition prints from Shepard Fairey and many others

The Blank Tapes, Bill Cutts and the Uptown Two at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach

The Growlers, The Entrance Band at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa

Goldfrapp, Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, tUnE-YaRds at Hollywood Bowl

revenge of the nerds with Spazmatics at Key Club

The Adicts at Brixton South Bay in Redondo Beach

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SATURDAY:

WTTD pal Courtney Cruz and her Devil’s Playground gets all kinky AGAIN with the sequel to her Fetish Girls Burlesque downtown at Bordello Bar – check out some naughty pics from the first Fetish Girls Burlesque show in our galleries here (three thumbs WAY up if you know what i mean from j. satan)

Meltdown’s gallery is having s fund raiser for Downtown Dog Rescue with a group show of more than fifty artists doing portraits of cute widdle doggies, including works from Chet Zar, Nicole Bruckman, Christopher Umana and about fifty more

this actually went public last night, but regardless the Vader Project in Hollywood on Melrose looks fantastic with more than a hundred art-ed up Darth Vader helmets from pretty much every relevant underground artist ever. there’s a catalog signing at two pm.

LeBasse opens for Yoskay Yamamoto’s ‘Familiar Strangers’ show in Culver City

Gary Baseman’s ‘Giggle and Pop’ show from noon until four at the La Brea tar pits with his “Tar Pit Girls” – i like him but he’s a little skeevy, too…

Tortoise shells the Troubadour with Das Boton

Murs brings underground hip-hop above ground at HOB Sunset

i always say Mewithoutyou wrong at Henry Fonda/Music Box

SUNDAY:

revenge of the nerds with Spazmatics at Key Club

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Electric Six “Body Shot” (2009) – NSFW 18+

jesus satan sure loves me some Electric Six. singer Dick Valentine’s tongue in someone else’s cheek brand of rock n’ roll humor just never gets old… at least not to an infant like me. case in point, here, also, is their classic Gay Bar, featuring animation from Joel Veitch at Rather Good, the flash animation that started it all. (tickets are still available for the show tonight at the Key Club here.)

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The Sounds – Hit Me

The Sounds are sneaking out after dark from opening gigs for No Doubt’s big fancy tour a few days ago at the Gibson Theater in Univeral City to have a secret little rendezvous with their Los Angeles fans. they’re playing a close up and personal show at the Key Club tonight, though it’s likely you ain’t getting in unless you already have tickets.

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