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Onion Events Newsletter - Los Angeles(April1-April7)
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| LOS ANGELES | Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - Monday, April 7, 2008 | |
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| April 6th through September 1st 2008 | Phantom Sightings: Art After The Chicano Movement | |
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Onion wish to invite you and a guest to view the upcoming exhibit Phantom Sightings:
Art After The Chicano Movement This exhibit is the first major consideration of the legacy of Chicano art in almost two decades, and explores the understanding of Chicano art history and notions of ethnic identity, cultural politics, and artistic practice. This will feature thirty-one artists and 120 works including paintings, sculpture, performance, video, and much more. To enter click here or send an email to lapromo@theonion.com with "Phantom" in the subject line. LACMA | |
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A.V. Club Picks |
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| Tuesday, April 1, 8pm | The Black Keys + Jay Reatard | |
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Sometimes an album cover depicting a dude mostly naked and covered in fake blood proves quite revealing. Such is the case with Jay Reatard?s 2006 Blood Visions, a disc of songs embracing morbid imagery and bright,
hyper punk like a new-wave update on The Cramps. The Memphis-based Reatard frantically crams some sharp guitar melodies into his short songs, which are never quite as crude as they first sound. Last year, he followed up the album with an EP titled (groan) The Night Of Broken Glass.
Headliners The Black Keys aren?t all that they seem: Grizzled old bluesman singer Dan Auerbach is neither grizzled nor old; their spirited blues-rock isn?t made in Detroit (actually Akron, Ohio); and their name has nothing to do with Jack and Meg?s band. What is apparent about The Black Keys
is that they?re solid in the studio and even better onstage. They play here in support of their brand-new Attack & Release.
The Wiltern |
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| Wednesday, April 2, 8pm | The Gutter Twins | |
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The Gutter Twins are an unlikely pairing that makes more sense once both participants are distanced from their respective histories. Mark ***gan of Screaming Trees and Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs both had loose (and
different) ties to grunge in the ?90s, but both also seized upon moody, downtrodden themes from their early days. ***gan has a gruff, charred-out voice that sounds better the slower it goes, while Dulli?s has grown deeper and more soulful the more he?s immersed himself in atmospherics (see also
his work with Twilight Singers). Here, The Gutter Twins play behind their new Sub Pop album Saturnalia. Opening: Great Northern.
Avalon |
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| Thursday, April 3, 7pm | Face To Face | |
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After roughly 15 years in the trenches of the punk-rock scene, Victorville-born Face To Face called it a career in 2004. The band?s 1992 debut, Don?t Turn Away, is a classic of ?90s punk, an album that helped define
the melodic sensibilities that would follow (for better or worse). But lightning never struck again, despite the band?s occasionally cringe-inducing attempts to cross over. By 2002?s How To Ruin Everything, Face To Face had returned to a stripped-down sound, finally at peace with its place
in the world--but not enough to stay away. In January, the band announced a reunion, though it doesn?t plan to record new material. It plays a pair of warm-up shows here to for the Bamboozle Left Festival in Irvine this weekend. Opening: Slick Shoes, Chaser. (Also April 4) Glass House |
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| Friday, April 4, 9pm | Ra Ra Riot | |
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Probably the last band that?d torch your car in a politics- or sports-induced frenzy, New York?s Ra Ra Riot instead pours its restless energy into grooming its coy pop songs with cello, violin, and lyrics that
self-consciously quirky listeners should enjoy chirping along to. The band finds plenty of pathos, conviction, and insular comforts on a self-titled EP released last year, but it does seem a little wrapped up in its own relatively mild weirdness. That said, standout songs like ?A Manner To Act?
hint at a feisty live set, and maybe better material to come. Despite the death of drummer John Pike last year, the band kept on touring, and recently finished recording a full-length slated for release this summer. Also performing: The Cribs, Jeffrey Lewis And The Jitters.
El Rey |
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| Saturday, April 5, 8:30pm | Le Loup | |
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While the online release of Radiohead?s In Rainbows was hailed as a major paradigm shift for music consumers, Washington D.C.?s Le Loup may best exemplify the ever-increasing impact the Internet has had on musicians. After
writing, on his laptop, the songs that later became Le Loup?s debut?last year?s The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations? Millennium General Assembly?bandleader Sam Simkoff posted them on MySpace, immediately attracting effusive blog coverage and record-label interest. With the help of two
Craigslist ads, he promptly assembled a band, and Le Loup signed with Sub Pop offshoot Hardly Art following its second-ever live performance. Of course, for any of this to have happened, Simkoff?s experimental post-rock compositions would have to be instantly memorable, and they are. Opening: The
Ruby Suns, Princeton.
Echo |
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| Saturday, April 5, 8pm | RZA | |
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When Raekwon laid into The RZA for acting like a ?hip-hop hippie? during the making of the latest Wu-Tang Clan album, some people couldn?t help but get excited. Certainly Raekwon was talking trash, but does the idea of RZA
growing more mystical and weird strike anyone else as unappealing? In the end, Raekwon was right and wrong: Wu?s 8 Diagrams is a little strange and comparatively wispy in terms of production, but the beats manage to linger and haunt intriguingly in the end. Here, The RZA will play a ?live
set? by himself. What will that mean? There?s really no telling.
Knitting Factory (Main Stage) |
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| Monday, April 7, 9pm | Johnathan Rice | |
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Hard as it may be for her many admirers to believe, there is a drawback to dating Jenny Lewis: being known as ?Jenny Lewis? boyfriend,? especially when you?re also a (less-famous) singer-songwriter. Such is the cross
Scotland-raised L.A. transplant Johnathan Rice bears (not that Lewis hasn?t tried to help--Rice opened tours for her and Rilo Kiley). His personal life aside, Rice?s 2007 album, Further North, should help his cause. The album features plenty of charming roots-rock that ought to turn on Ryan
Adams fans. This performance begins a monthlong residency for Rice at Spaceland, where he?ll play every Monday in April. Opening: Nik Freitas, Pierre De Reeder.
Spaceland |
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Win A Fine DVD |
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| Enter To Win Charlie Wilson's War On DVD | ||
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Enter for your chance to win a copy of the critically acclaimed movie Charlie Wilson's War, coming to DVD April 22. Academy Award winners Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in this compelling and witty film from Oscar-winning director Mike Nichols and Emmy-winning writer Aaron Sorkin. Based on the outrageous true story, Charlie Wilson's War shows how one congressman who loved a good time, one Houston socialite who loved a good cause and one renegade CIA agent who loved a good fight conspired to bring about the largest covert operation in history. Enter to win | |
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