Los Angeles has always been a hub for new music and emerging talent. Now, there's a new rising breed of young female musicians who are creating their own sonic path while still paying homage to this city's rich musical history. The L.A. Times recently acknowledged this in their "Queens of L.A.'s lo-fi scene" story, a nice account on the femme fatales ruling this new DIY scene.
And the brightest of these rising stars (see Pitchfork) are sisters Piper and Skylar who make up the dreamy, peace-loving fuzz-pop band Pearl Harbor. Space 15 Twenty is excited to have them perform at our Valentine's Pop-Up Shop this Friday evening, the 12th of February.
Free and open to the public, check them out in a more intimate setting while you still have the chance. Rough gems... if you haven't already, make them your latest discovery.
with DJs Mario Cotto (KCRW), Alfred Hawkins (Firecracker), Heather Thompson (OTW, NYC) +Special guests and visuals and photo exhibit from Cine Institute
Andrew Sutherland Untitled (2008) Newspaper (The New York Times), glue 8.5 x 9 x 24.5"
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Andrew Sutherland is a mixed media artist whose work explores, examines and draws upon natural and industrial processes, bricolage, DIY, found objects, natural and supernatural forces, and everyday life. Vortexes, conical mud-like huts, decaying mask faces, newspaper sleeping bags, and paper planks are few of the various forms that result.
Andrew's newspaper piece, Untitled (2008), currently on view at The Company of People Group Exhibition is something to behold; we just can't stop looking at it. Completely mesmerizing...
We had to ask Andrew how this came about...
"The newspaper piece is the most recent in a series where I use paper to visually and structurally recreate wood. For the first pieces of this type I used black and white paper to represent the dark and light values in wood. For this piece, however, I was less interested in literal representation, and more interested in combining it with something like newspaper, that relates more to people and culture."
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Andrew also sent along some images from this newspaper series. How amazing are these?
Sleeping Bag
Trippy Paper
Mask
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For more info, please email us at gallery@space15twenty.com.
Art Los Angeles Contemporary in association with Gavin Brown's Enterprise, presents the Los Angeles premiere of The Posters Came From The Walls at Cinefamily tonight. A film by 2004 Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller & Nick Abrahams, The Posters Came From the Walls (Depeche Mode fans from around the world), tells stories of faith and devotion from around the world in this fascinating and inspired documentary about fandom.
Depeche Mode -- like The Smiths, Michael Jackson or Insane Clown Posse -- is a musical act that inspires such above-and-beyond devotion from its fans that to the uninitiated, the followers' behavior seems otherworldly, like something out of a movie. But unlike the pompadoured Morrissey clones, the tearful MJ flock or the face-painted slaphappy "Juggalos" -- Depeche Mode fans encompass all these qualities and more. Deller and Abrahams' new doc not only dives into the juicy details of just how thoroughly the band's fans can out-fan each other, but also how the band's rise to popularity and the late '80s anti-Communist revolutions behind the Iron Curtain dovetailed, producing a generation of swooning Eastern European life-long devotees. Part Time Punks DJ Michael Stock will moderate a Q&A with the filmmakers after the Jan. 29th, 7:30pm screening!
"From a crowd of beautiful Russian teenage girls celebrating "Dave Day" (birthday of singer Dave Gahan, which also falls on a Russian military holiday) by going apeshit to a Depeche Mode concert movie being projected in a St. Petersburg nightclub, to a Californian high school marching band playing 'Personal Jesus'; from one Iranian man who braved police beatings to dress like his heroes, to 16,000 people who turned up for a Los Angeles autograph signing that became a near-riot; from Mexicans imagining the band's hometown of Basildon as an olde English Arcadia, to goths in Cambridge taking communion in church to Depeche Mode's music -- every story [is] exceptional, but entirely believable in its demonstration of how much pop music can affect people." (TheArtsDesk.com)
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If you can't make it tonight, check out the film's website for future screenings.
Please join us for an afternoon of good food, music, and friends. Food and drink provided by Umami Burger and Izze. DJ DEZ will be spinning vintage vinyl!
Feb 14 2010 12:00PM Lovers Rock Sunday at the courtyard...
In celebration of the LOVE day, we will be spinning Lover rock tunes (and more) in the courtyard from 12pm-3pm. We will have open turntables, so feel free to bring your own tunes to share!
xo
Feb 17 2010 07:00PM Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music - Book Signing/Reading
Feb 21 2010 11:00AM Monthly Flea Market
Monthly Flea Market Sunday, February 21st 11am-4pm
Featuring vintage clothes, accessories, local designers, music, arts and crafts and more!
Every third Sunday of each month. Free and Open to the public! Email fleamarket@space15twenty.com for more info.
Feb 22 2010 07:00PM LA Film School: Shorts Night Series
Feb 26 2010 08:00PM Grand Fresh Presents... A Sneaker Documentary: Season 1 Episode 2 "The Line UPs"
Feb 28 2010 12:00PM Sunday Funday with Space 15 Twenty and Yelp Join Us for a Community Potluck
