Los Angeles, live music, lively commentary
A photo posted by Mick Jacobs (@flickjacobs) on Oct 26, 2016 at 7:06am PDT At a time where few people are happy with America (for justifiable reasons), it felt refreshing watching French cold wave band, La Femme, take the stage of the Regent Theater, and joyously announce their excitement at being in California.
A photo posted by Mick Jacobs (@flickjacobs) on Oct 21, 2016 at 9:42am PDT Seeing her in what seemed to be an orange pullover with matching wrestling shorts, one could infer Tkay Maidza was gonna try something different last night at LA’s Bootleg Theater.
Last night, I partook in a favorite LA past-time: comedy shows. To the city of Angels, stand-up shows are as commonplace as palm trees or donut shops, and like them, offer a lovely reflection of the city’s vibrancy and diversity.
And so the Broad Museum’s Summer Happenings came to their eventual end this past weekend, but I must say this last one ended on a much harder note than any previous. An evening squarely focused on electronic music, the show pulsed and popped with energy and post-summer bliss.
Coming off the fresh excitement for their latest album, How to be a Human, Oxford-bred Glass Animals held a small concert at the Village studios in West LA (with sponsorship from Spotify and Icebreakers). Waiting in line for this event felt like an eternity, but now I also have enough ice-breakers to last me until …
The third event in the Broad Museum’s Summer Happenings series demonstrated that this fresh space lends itself not just to visual art but to immersive experiences altogether.