Cafe Kino

Top-shelf first-wave anarcho legends in the flesh! The crust’s crust will tell you Virus were the absolute bollocks; still running on fresh vitriol, they’ve saved their most vital polemics for the cursed 21st century. Disciples of The Mob, Flux and even Subdued should unpick some room on their patch jacket, and stick around for the Hermeticus projection archive + after-hours lessons from DJ Dub Punk. Virus, Hermeticus, DJ Dub Punk, DJ Inigo at Cafe Kino.

A triple threat of gothic ferocity! Black Dahlia conjure bubbling, obsidian mascara-pop full of windswept vocals. Kelan pounds martial rhythms beneath sardonic, lupine growls + Shoun Shoun’s whip up a hardcore frenzy with their live wire intensity and slash-and-burn guitar work. Delirious nocturnal glamour FFO: Nine Inch Nails, Savages, Lykke Li, Chromatics. Black Dahlia + Kelan + Shoun Shoun 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! GOOD COP // 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. Avant-rock deconstructionists