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Sonic Youth 2009 Fall Tour

stellar magnet — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:45:09 +0000

On August 3rd, 2009 Sonic Youth played a last-minute set in San Francisco at the fabulous Independent (in my opinion, one of SF’s best venues for sound and vision). The show was announced on July 28th and sold out the same day. I was late on buying tickets, but with a little bit of persistence/waiting around the box office, they sold me and two other people ticket’s the day of the sold-out show. Sonic Youth will be embarking upon another tour beginning later this month in Pomona, view the dates below.

Sep 25 2009 – Pomona, CA – Fox Theatre Pomona, California
Sep 26 2009 – Santa Barbara, CA – Arlington Theatre Santa Barbara, California
Sep 28 2009 – San Diego, CA House of Blues San Diego, California
Sep 29 2009 – Los Angeles – Wiltern Theatre Los Angeles, California
Oct 1 2009 – Phoenix, AZ Marquee Theatre Phoenix, AZ, Arizona
Oct 2 2009 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre Tucson, Arizona
Oct 4 2009 – Austin City Limits Festival – Austin, TX Austin, Texas
Oct 21 2009 – Berlin – Columbiahalle Berlin, Germany
Oct 22 2009 – Ancienne Belgique – Brussels – Sold Out Brussels, Brussels-capital
Oct 23 2009 – London The Forum London, London and South East
Oct 25 2009 – Paris – Palais des Congrés Paris, Ile-de-France
Nov 21 2009 – New York, NY – Terminal 5 New York, New York
Nov 22 2009 – Boston, MA – Wilbur Theatre Boston, Massachusetts
Nov 23 2009 – Boston, MA – Wilbur Theatre Boston, Massachusetts
Dec 5 2009 – ATP Butlin’s Holiday Centre Minehead, UK
Dec 6 2009 – Dublin – Vicar Street Dublin, Ireland

Culprit Sessions @ Standard Rooftop

stellar magnet — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:12:13 +0000

Earlier this month I went to a party at the Standard Rooftop in Downtown L.A. for Shaun Reeves, Droog (who have recently launched their own record label, Culprit), Matías Aguayo (of Cómeme & Kompakt) and John Wander (of Roam Music). Music was great, met some new people as well. One of them is Yelva, and she does a fashion blog called Fashion Puttana. Another guy was James, or how I like to call him: T-bird James, and besides working at the Standard he is in the band Meho Plaza. Snapped some photos of these people with their tattoos or accessories.

Matías Aguayo spinning and singing as the sun begins to set

Matías’ whistle and awesome tattoo

The fabulous Yelva, showing off her Bowie cig-case

Close up shot of superhero Bowie

T-bird James with his T-bird Tattoo

Brian Eno Lecture, Long Beach, 09/20/09

stellar magnet — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:30:50 +0000

Brian Eno, one of my many heroes, will be giving a lecture on Sunday September 20th at CSU Long Beach’s Carpenter Performing Arts Center at 7pm. His 77 Million Paintings will be exhibited at CSU Long Beach from September 12th – December 13th.

Information from the Carpenter Performing Arts Center (see below)
LA Weekly Article

Brian Eno is one of the most prolific and diverse artistic innovators of our time. Creator of modern ambient music, producer for a wide range of artists—including David Bowie, Talking Heads, U2 and Coldplay—Brian Eno’s artistic influence continues to be a world-wide inspiration.

One of his latest innovations is 77 Million Paintings, a monitor-based exhibition that slowly evolves into endless combinations of colour and shape. It receives its exclusive Southern California installation at CSULB’s University Art Museum. See the exhibition then join us for a rare lecture by Brian himself.

Tickets

$100 Regular

$75 Students/Seniors/CSULB

Buy Tickets ›

$75 for groups of 12 or more

A limited number of $25 tickets will be available for CSULB students with ID, only at the Arts Ticket Office starting 9/1.

Experience 77 Million Paintings

by Brian Eno,

Sept 12 – Dec 13,

at the University Art Museum, CSULB

Spacemen 3 Art Opening, L.A., 10/10/09

stellar magnet — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:03:18 +0000

Natty Brooker, ex-Spacemen 3 drummer, and also the artist who has done a lot of album covers and packaging for Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized, is having an art opening in Los Angeles. William Carruthers (another ex-Spaceman) is helping promote the art opening. The question is, will Sonic Boom show up since he is in L.A. producing MGMT, and will there be a Spacemen 3 jam session?

Facebook Invite:

Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 11:00pm
Location: Substrate Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Street: 709 North Ridgewood Place
City/Town: Los Angeles, CA

Artist Natty Brooker, who is most known for the enduring imagery related to the music of Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized is debuting his body of work in the United States in October 2009 at Substrate Contemporary Fine Art Gallery in Los Angeles.

Brooker’s body of work will be exhibited here first in a series of exhibitions to be shown nationally and internationally. Other cities include New York, London, Berlin and Amsterdam.

Prints of his body of work are available in a signed and numbered set of 14. They are also available individually, signed and numbered.

Due to the artists’ poor health Natty will be represented at the opening by his friend and former bandmate Will Carruthers.

DJ Set: THE MEEK.

Please join us for an evening of fine art. Complimentary beer and wine.

From Mickie’s Zoo:

Prints of all the works are available as a signed and numbered set of 14 for $1600. Individual signed and numbered prints are available starting at $200.