Cafe Kino

Sell out warning! Harmonium-driven fantasy drone folk of the highest order, loaded with the longing and whimsy and underlying bloody horrorshow of good ol’ Blighty. Greet’s uncanny wheezing and ecstatic crescondos pair with Ancient Hostility’s rousing anarcho ballads in a pitch perfect eve FFO: Lankum, Daisy Rickman, Hawthonn, Shovel Dance. Greet, Ancient Hostility, Molly Samson, and Say, God at Cafe Kino.

The queercore scene continues its ascent with a Kino basement battering from swampy, sense-obliterating Welsh rubber punks Proprioception, Brick’s rough n’ snotty transfeminist hardcore and local sludge-noise favs Get Fucked. Feral! PROPRIOCEPTION // // GET FUCKED at Cafe Kino.

The final film in Heavy Pictures’ LA grime triptych: nearly buried 70s sleaze-noir Hollywood 90028 follows an aspiring cinematographer’s rampage through nihilism, misogyny and masculine inadequacy in a feverish, self-reflexive portrait of Tinseltown psychosis. Don’t underestimate it because of its exploitation trappings – it’s a microbudget masterpiece. Heavy Pictures Presents: Hollywood 90028 at Cafe Kino.

Free entry! Imploding destructo-rock double billing from two treasured local underground units. Riley/Radley take a desert-frazzled Sun City Girls-style detour into primitive guitar twang and impressionistic drums, while Carnivorous Plants marry found radio sound smudges with melodic dronegaze delight. A basement treasure FFO: Bill Orcutt, Dirty Three, Flying Saucer Attack, Manuel Mota. RILEY/RADLEY + CARNIVOROUS PLANTS at Cafe Kino.

Eggy Tapes assaults your ears once again with the friendliest pain electronics crew this side of the dark web. Scene staple Distraxi returns with her devotional pedal abuse cranked to 11, Pale World haunts you with harsh ferric hymnals, there’s atmospheric purgatory from Playworker (aka Knifedoutofexistence) + nightmare fodder galore FFO: Aaron Dilloway, Cremation Lilly, Lustmord, Puce Mary, Ramleh etc. DISTRAXI / PALE WORLD / PLAYWORKER + MORE at Cafe Kino.