So much going on in LA this weekend! Zine enthusiasts check out this festival at the Last Bookstore downtown this Sunday—FREE! V Vale of our favorite independent publication possibly ever, RE/SEARCH, will be there! 

TONIGHT in LA: Brooklyn’s synth pop lovely Class Actress plays the Echoplex. We can’t stop listening to her record!

This performance piece by LA-based trio WIFE blew our minds! Watch it…then watch it again. 

Our Kickstarter campaign was successfully funded yesterday. Big thanks to everyone who contributed to our success!!! The issue is in the final stages of layout as we speak. Stay tuned for news of our release parties in NY and LA in mid-March! 

How often do you get to witness or participate in the creation of large-scale land art? This Sunday offers a rare opportunity with Lita Albuquerque’s Spine of the Earth

TOMORROW 1/15 IN LA at PART TIME PUNKS: 

THE SLITS NITE with a live set of covers by members of VIVIAN GIRLS, BRATMOBILE, RAINBOW ARABIA, TAMARYN & RAW GERONIMO] + PUNKY REGGAE DJs

Once again, Part Time Punks pays tribute to Ari Up, who remains one of the most important and influential musicians…ever.  To commemorate Ari’s passing, Part Time Punks pays tribute to THE SLITS on this, the two-year anniversary of their appearance at PTP.  We miss you Ari!  Love forever…

TONIGHT IN LA: Actually’s residency at Cheetah’s continues! 

TONIGHT IN LA: Ryan Heffington’s Xmas Pageant Dance Extravaganza—THE LAST NIGHT! Get tickets now! We saw it last night—such delight! 

TONIGHT IN LA: MADLIB at the Echoplex! The incredibly prolific and multifaceted Beat Konducta almost NEVER plays shows so this is quite the rare opportunity—this man is a genuis! For real. Swoon doesn’t tend to love a lot of hip hop but Madlib is that and so much more. Really in a league of his own…not to be missed! Tickets might sell out so pre-order or show up early! 

LA: Tonight at Synchronicity Space

digging fills events – Sunday, November 20 – Show Cave and Cartune Xprez

TONIGHT IN LA IF YOU FEEL LIKE DANCING—CLAUDE YOUNG (DETROIT) AT MEDUSA

One of the leading DJs and producers from Detroit’s Third Wave, Claude Young combed the Motor City’s softer, melodic side with the minimalist filter of Robert Hood and Jeff Mills to create functional dance music with emotion. After joining Jeff Mills on his radio show during the early ’90s, Young debuted with the One Complete Revolution EP on his own Utensil label. He also recorded as Project 625 for another of his own labels (DOW) and with Anthony “Shake” Shakir on his third label, Frictional. Besides other tracks for Acacia (as Rhythm Formation) and 7th City (with Dan Bell as Brother From Another Planet), Young began making the transition to the global techno scene with a single for Andrew Weatherhall’s Emissions Audio Output Recordings (as Being) and DJAX-Up-Beats (as Claude Young). He followed with several high-profile remixes during 1995, including tracks by Inner City, Astral Pilot, Innerzone Orchestra, Joey Beltram and Slam (with the help of Ian O’Brien). Young’s first full-length, the 1996 DJ Kicks compilation, showed him in fine form, perhaps the best DJ to come out of Detroit since Jeff Mills. One year later, his debut album, Soft Thru for Dutch Elypsia Records, earned him much praise for its sensibilities, uniting the minimalist with the melodic to great effect. Claude Young has continued to release music with a focus on quality and innovation. Touring both solo and with Takasi Nakajima as “Different World,” Young stole the show at this year’s DEMF with a hard-mixed set that left attendees buzzing. After all the fanfare and years of appreciation we decided to bring him to LA for PRIME.

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Happy 111111 everyone! LA art lovers stop by this opening tonight of Nadina Embrey’s new painting series: Beautiful Flowers; the Softer Side: “A small departure to a place of beauty and peace (like an oasis). Just to keep the balance I will also show the series Hardware and Doctor’s Quarterly. The usual blood and gore.”

Swoon contributor Jason Louv’s new occult novel Queen Valentine out now!

Jason Louv: “It’s a novel exposing the supernatural underworld beneath New York, as seen through the eyes of a young woman who’s lost her soul working in advertising, and ends up stumbling into the world beneath. It’s a bit like Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race mashed up with Mad Men.” Read the rest of the interview by Accelera8or Magazine

And from the back cover…”New York has some strange neighborhoods. There’s the Upper West Side, the Lower East Side and… the Other Side. That’s where the Sidhe live-a race of mythological creatures that have dwelled just under mankind’s nose for millennia, created and kept alive by the dream energy of humans. There’s good ones (Seelie) and bad ones (Unseelie), and they get along fine just as long as they stay hidden from mankind. It’s a peaceful situation that has lasted since the days of the foundation of America. That peaceful situation is about to be broken.”

Tantalizing! A must read. And don’t forget to check out Jason’s excellent previous titles. 
Jason Louv is the editor of the books Generation Hex (“Your invitation to the party that might just bring the house down” – Grant Morrison), Ultraculture (“The most important book on magic in 100 years.” – Genesis Breyer P-Orridge) and Thee Psychick Bible. Publisher’s Weekly once called him a “publishing guru.” This is his first novel.

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Check out Light Asylum from their recent performance at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC. So good.