Tonight in L.A. (October 31, 2012) - Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween.  The LA concert calendar gets some real treats on this night - like the LACMA Halloween Ball featuring a Stanley Kubrick Exhibition and the soundscapes of Daedelus and his Archimedes exhibition.  Wickedly ill is one apt way to describe that event.  



The same could be said for another location that Daedelus is familiar with - The Airliner and Low End Theory.  Karreim Riggins, Nastynasty, Daddy Kev, Nobody, Gaslamp Killer and Nocando all get down plus an very very special guest.  If you want to figure out who that is - you better be wearing a costume or be prepared to cough up a nice benjamin - because its a $100 cover for the costume-less.

Another Halloween party is taking place at The CenTRILL SAPC.  Its not really spelled like that - but with Trill Murray, Inspired Flight and Minnesota all performing at a special Halloween jam, it should be for this night.



As far as dance parties go though - I may be most excited for the sexy new disco of Disclosure at El Rey Theatre.  If you want hot sexy dance tunes - look no further than these boys from across the pond.





Elsewhere - I really like Dustbowl Revival at Virgil.  They will be having fun - no matter whether they're rocking a 5 piece or 10 piece or something in between (rumor has it there will be a healthy lot of them for Halloween).  The Mint hosts the well traveled Donna The Buffalo with support from The Makepeace Brothers, All Time Low rocks The House of Blues on Sunset, and local soulful funk crew House of Vibe All Stars hold things down for westsiders at Harvelles.

For a list of other shows - see below:

• Lamb of God, In Flames, Hatebreed, Sylosis @ Hollywood Palladium

• Halloween Extravaganza feat. Hollywood Roses, LA Velvet @ The Viper Room ($500 Cash Prize for Sexiest Costume)

• House of Vibe All Stars @ Harvelles

• Disclosure, Samo Sound Boy, Tres Dubois, Behr (La Nuit) @ El Rey Theatre

• Battalion of Saints, Witchaven, Rough Kids, Internal Corrosion, Cholos on Acid, Marauding Ghouls @ Key Club

• Low End Theory w/ Karreim Riggins, Nastynasty, Daddy Kev, Nobody, Gaslamp Killer, Nocando, VerY VERY SPECIAL GUESTS @ The Airliner ($100 Cover w/out Costume; $10 Cover w/ Costume)

• Halloween Party w/ Cover Bands TBD @ Silverlake Lounge (FREE)

• So Many Wizards, Palm Reader, Traps Ps, Sleeping Bags, DJ Lilly (KChung) and DK Cristina (KXLU) @ The Smell

• Hollywood Hex @ Belasco Theater

• Halloween Babylon w/ Bleached (Covering Misfits & Ramones), Hunx as Gayracula, Heaven @ The Echo

• Dub Club w/ Jah Faith & The Royal Lineage, Skull @ Echoplex (FREE before 10)

• Lost Marauders, Dead Day Revolution, Brainspoon, Rockett Queens @ The Satellite (FREE)

• Donna The Buffalo, Makepeace Brothers @ The Mint

• All Time Low, Special Guests @ House of Blues – Sunset

• Minnesota, Inspired Flight, Trill Murray @ The Central SAPC

• DJ Fang Face, DJ Lew Siffer @ Amoeba Records

• Halloween 2012: 4 DJ’s, Costume Contest @ King King Hollywood

• Halloween 2012: Marcus Schossow, A-Baum, Grizzly Adams @ Yost Theater

• 4^th Annual Zombie Prom w/ Nikko Six @ Detroit Bar

• Kiss My Ass, Nawgahyde @ Brixton South Bay

• Naughty School Girl Night w/ Peg Leg Love, Ingenue, Revolutions Pride, Deathsquad Demongods @ Redwood Bar 

• The Resurex!, La Cholita & The Creeps @ Sliderbar

• AJ, Tay from Allura @ Saint Rocke 

• Omar Rodriguez-Lopz Group @ UC Riverside

• Colt Ford, Boarding House, JJ Lawhorn, Hollywood Yates @ Coach House

• Helicopter Showdown @ Constellation Room

• 45 Grave @ Malibu Inn

• Downtown Attraction, Black Magic Driver, Mal and Mad Temple @ Down and Out Bar

• Faster Pussycat @ Whisky A Go Go

• The Dustbowl Revival, Moonsville Collective, Bastards of Belleville @ Virgil

• LACMA Halloween Ball feat. Stanley Kubrick Exhibition and Music by Daedelus w/ Archimedes Installation @ LACMA

• Ballerina Black @ Club Moscow

Wednesday is For Beats - Blockhead @ King King Club/Eprom @ Low End Theory

Need to put some New Years bounce into your step a couple days early? Look no further than Blockhead and Govinda at King King Club tonight or the final 2011 installment of Low End Theory.

The former is hosted by Codega - a promotion company that previously existed in the world of pay to play events and putting relative L.A. no names....but Blockhead at King King Club? This is new territory for them. Thankfully they recruited an awesome chef from the beat kitchen in Blockhead. For the unfamiliar, Blockhead is a hip-hop producer based out of NYC, whose most famous accolades come from Ninja Tune releases and work with Def Jux artists, including Aesop Rock. He hasn't put out a record since 2009's "The Music Scene" which featured this title track:

The music video for "The Music Scene" is like a Dr. Seuss book turned into an acid trip - which may be a fitting description of the sonic landscape you can expect Blockhead to cook up tonight. Govinda supports, as well as Geno Cochino and DJ Audioptic.

If you want grimier, more electronicized beats - than head to the last Low End Theory of 2011. Eprom, Mux Mool, Jonwayne and residents Gaslamp Killer, Daddy Kev, Nocando D-Styles and Nobody make sure Wednesday doesn't feel like the middle week. FYI - its the Eprom that created "Humanoid," not the European hip-hop scratch DJ. Here's a taste....