Dirty Projectors

The Dirty Projectors are playing at the Troubadour in Los Angeles on July 8 2009...

http://www.myspace.com/dirtyprojectors

Kenny Scharf @ Celebrity Vault

Old-school New York scene chronicler Kenny Scharf, art historian Richard Marshall and writer Ann Magnuson present and sign copies of Scharf's new monograph book, "Kenny Scharf."

When:
05:00 PM to 08:00 PM Thursday Jun 11
Price: Free
Celebrity Vault
345 N. Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Radiohead's Pay-What-You-Like Model

According to Time Magazine...

Sure, Radiohead is on a sustained run as the most interesting and innovative band in rock, but what makes In Rainbows important — easily the most important release in the recent history of the music business — are its record label and its retail price: there is none, and there is none.

In Rainbows will be released as a digital download available only via the band's web site, Radiohead.com. There's no label or distribution partner to cut into the band's profits — but then there may not be any profits. Drop In Rainbows' 15 songs into the online checkout basket and a question mark pops up where the price would normally be. Click it, and the prompt "It's Up To You" appears. Click again and it refreshes with the words "It's Really Up To You" — and really, it is. It's the first major album whose price is determined by what individual consumers want to pay for it. And it's perfectly acceptable to pay nothing at all.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1666973,00.html

Sex Galaxy - The First 'Green' Film?

According to Wired Magazine...

Sex Galaxy, which its makers call the world’s first “green” film, is also a blue movie. A feature-length mashup of copyright-free stock footage, the campy sci-fi comedy splices together strippers, Martians, rocket ships and robots into a semi-coherent romp.

Sex Galaxy director/producer Mike Davis, who collects old movies, said his film is 100 percent recycled. “The cheesy B-movies I love to cannibalize were never properly copyrighted,” he told Wired.com in an e-mail interview.

The burlesque queens and ’50s sci-fi straight-arrows in the semi-NSFW Sex Galaxy trailer (embedded above) are a hoot, though watching the entire 78-minute opus — a crazy-quilt mashup of bouncing boobs, herky-jerky robots and hygiene films culled from the public domain, overlaid with a nonstop string of dirty jokes — would probably be more entertaining if you sneaked a flask of Saurian brandy into the theater. (Not that Wired.com advocates that type of misbehavior.)

As sloppily dubbed as any Japanese sci-fi import from the ’50s, Sex Galaxy’s pinball dialogue comes off like a cross between Mystery Science Theater 3000 and an R-rated Futurama. It’s an amusing trip down memory lane, complete with a robotic pimp and cheesy kaleidoscopic freak-out scenes.

Davis’ movie screens Sunday during Another Hole in the Head, a sci-fi/horror film fest that runs June 5 through 18 at the indie Roxie Theater in San Francisco. The festival’s slate of blood-gushing zombie flicks, sexed-up sci-fi, Japanese imports and grindhouse treasures includes shorts and a couple of live performances (Brain Dead Alive! and Conanator) as well as feature films.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/06/sex-galaxy/

Space is the Place 8th Annual Roller Disco Party @ World on Wheels

Various prices
Saturday May 30 (10:15pm–2am)
World on Wheels (4645 1/2 Venice Blvd)
323.933.5170

Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, David Lynch Present Dark Night of the Soul

Saturday May 30 More times»
Michael Kohn Gallery (8071 Beverly Blvd, 323.658.8088) map
FREE
http://www.kohngallery.com/upcoming.html

Memphis & the Delta Blues Trail: A Complete Guide Signing, Reading, and Party

reading/ signing / release party for justin gage and melissa gage’s guide book - “Memphis & the Delta Blues Trail” plus LE SWITCH playing the blues. Free lemonade! Ice cream sandwiches from Cool Haus

“MEMPHIS & the MISSISSIPPI DELTA: A COMPLETE GUIDE” party, signing, reading with authors Justin Gage and Melissa Gage. Plus 12-bar blues deconstructed by LE SWITCH* From Beale Street’s barbecue, blues, and rock ’n’ roll to the city’s five-star dining and lodging, Memphis is a monster mecca of American music and more. The A-side is world-famous attractions and the flip side has funky shops, historic sites, and gold record legacies. Step back in time to the Mississippi Delta with endless cotton fields and rural shacks. There is no better place to experience hopping juke joints and the stomping grounds of blues greats like Muddy Waters.As Citysearch’s travel editor, Melissa Gage wrote about destinations from Sun Valley to San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is currently a freelance writer and screenwriter. Justin Gage is the founder of Autumn Tone Records and the blog creator of Aquarium Drunkard. He is also a music writer, concert promoter, and radio DJ. They live in Los Angeles, CA.

FREE
Thursday May 28 (7:30pm)
Stories Books (1716 Sunset Blvd)
213.413.3733