My neighbor Seamus and I couldn’t go home last night because of this crazy arson suspect stand off. So what do we do? Buy some beer, have a few to get tipsy, and talk to the news. Ohh how I love crazy ass Hollywood.
1 comment | August 7th, 2009
TRAUERMUSIK is a three-part concert series curated by Los Angeles neo-nonprofits eighteen-thirty and HumanEar. It is an extended meditation on the purpose, function and power of sorrow in music. The curators selected three historical texts to convey three profound notions of melancholy, attempting to createa kaleidoscopic experience of sadness that is far from the dreary monochrome that might come to mind.
The project sets aim for an understanding of sadness as colorful and paradoxically complex as rain on a sunny day. By challenging their artists to create original works outside their comfort range and by pairing artists from genres as diverse as experimental classical, ambient electronica and avant-pop, it would seem
they are attempting to break the uniform gray into a dizzying spectrum of subtleties. Its title – borrowed from German romantic composers’ favorite term for “Mourning Music” – is a clue to the overarching plan. Three concerts, devoted to the melancholy of longing, the melancholy of excess and the melancholy of contentment, respectively, are titled only by the historical quotations used as “instruction sheets” to the artists involved. Ultimately, it may be Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille and Claude Baudelaire, who with their inscrutable notions of pain and suffering guide the course of these starry nights.
DATES
1 August 2009
Soft-Boiled Eggies I Geneva Jacuzzi I Oscar “Sister Mantos” Santos
15 August 2009
Indian Jewelry I John Webster Johns I Julia Holter I Im Kino
29 August 2009
William Basinski I Jason Grier I Mark So I Sound Installation by Lucky Dragons
ADMISSION
$7 per night I $15 full pass
Doors open 8pm
www.trauermusikfestival.org
www.eighteen-thirty.com
Add comment | July 29th, 2009
Payday’s Randall X is back with a new summer Re Edit Jam. This track is an Italo Disco cover of Los Joao’s “Vamos Ala Playa” cut up to make the dancefloor bang. Enjoy!
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Add comment | July 9th, 2009
Next Tuesday it all goes down at Breaking Atoms the Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown. Featuring Onra directly from France. Joining him is Payday’s own Jas1000 and Computer Jay who are originally deeply rooted in the Break Beat scene. Along with them is the HVW8 sound system featuring Ty-G and members of the Hawthorne Headhunters.
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Add comment | June 23rd, 2009
