Brian Allen Simon, also known by the moniker Anenon, continues his soundscape journey with the release of his sophomore album, SAGRADA. Entangled between the intangible lucid dream and sound-based travelogue, SAGRADA is an eleven track poetic soundscape– a reflective and intimate meditation on honed-in spiritual experience. Over the last few years,...
The remainder of July is popping off with groovy, boogie-down shows all over LA. The sweet and funky afro-dance collective, Afrolicious will be playing with Zongo Junction, Brooklyn-based afrobeat band at the Bootleg. People Under the Stairs will be dropping "Acid Raindrops" at the Troubadour this Friday. Of course, Dub Club is every Wednesday...
It's early summer. It's June gloom–you know, when there's a slight overcast and chill in the air that spooks all of LA. Made In L.A. and the CalArts MFA exhibition have both opened. And we've arrived at the end of June, where there is a certain calmness before the mid-summer...
Rebecca Bruno got the idea in her head that we might experience dance differently if we watched a performance inside a house, rather than in a traditional public performance space. She began to explore this question with homeLA, a project that moves a rotating group of dancers / body artists...
This June our East Side residency venues are kicking off with a few LA wild card bands. The Bootleg has invited Until The Ribbon Breaks, the popular UK trio, to take over Monday nights for the month. French Style Furs (Cold War Kids side project) will be making a weekly appearance at The...
VIA took in a whole lot of eye candy this past week in New York. We saw Bushwick Open Studio's eighth year come and go, but not without plenty of meandering sidewalks full of performance artists, delicious $3 dollar falafal, and even a wedding proposal. Our highlights from Manhattan & Brooklyn,...
Outside the sliding doors and concrete walls of West Hollywood’s MAK Center at the interior of the Chace Studio at MAK Center, 2014. Image courtesy of MAK Center Schindler House, the rumbling drone of an 8-channel audio installation, mounted and hostilely invitational, spills onto the otherwise serene Chace Courtyard. The interior,...
Brilliance in design reveals itself in massive abundance in LA. Objects that color our homes, bodies, and public spaces throw fresh perspective into our lives and leave us feeling inspired. Claire Boutelle, lead designer of VIA Publication, keeps a keen eye on LA's constantly evolving aesthetic. These are just a...
The Mike Kelley retrospective up at the Geffen Contemporary is a wonderful show, dense and varied, thorough and expansive. I’d always had trouble appreciating works by Kelley when seen on their own, the context of his entire body of work reveals so much that I had previously overlooked. This isn’t...
