The World Has Ended. Let's Party.

I'm not one to resort to hyperbole, but the party I'm throwing on Saturday night is going to be the greatest thing ever to happen to anyone in America. 

Let me break it down for you.

It's called ATOMIKA. It's a all-night post-apocalyptic  dance rager. Everyone is going to get dressed up like sexy Mad Max motherfuckers. It'll be held at a secret location in west LA, that we're decking out with 3-D mushroom clouds, lasers, and insane lighting. We're brewing our own beer for it -- Blitzkrieg Hop IPA and Lord Humungous Hefeweizen. We'll be having adorable ladies (some of whom will be on rollerskates, because safety third) roaming around, offering test-tube shots of declious nuclear waste. There will be a room-sized art installation featuring massive prints of nuclear blasts, courtesy of artist Tiger Phino. We'll have aerial performers (behold, the mighty Emily Pennington!!!), fire spinners, cage dancers, and eye-frying visuals from HaiJak. It's going until 6 AM, so tell your mom you're sleeping over at a friend's house.

I haven't even talked about the music yet, have I?

You know how in Bollywood movies, they have the whole cast come out and do a big musical number at the very end, so you get to hang out with all your favorite characters one last time? To me, our lineup is kind of like that -- an absolute who's-who of every DJ I've loved over the past few years, all together at once.

We've got Solovox, a Portland-based producer whom this blog has a well-documented boner for, bringing his turbo-charged funk to bear. (Seriously, check out the height-of-subtlety that is "Kill You With My Sex"; just don't do it at work.) We've got divaDanielle, aka intrepidLA's fairy godmother, who's new track "Funky Sheriff" sounds like a gang of Burners kicking open the door to Eric Clapton's studio in 1974; Wolfie, the Steampunk Saloon badass responsible for blowing the roof of the Mystikal Misfits party last year, as well as the upcoming Boomtown; breakbeat maestro Loomer, who'll be tearing it up at Lightning In A Bottle later this summer; and Nick The Neck, the mesmerizing tech-house alter-ego of Pumpkin (whom we've written one or two things about.) Also coming to bring joy to the wasteland are Fleetwood Smack (supremely ass-shakey); Squachek (oh-my-god-my-face-what-is-happening); Hippiechick (try not bopping your head, I dare you); and The Fuzz ("sir, please come down off that table and stop rocking so hard.") 

Forget feeling "fine" -- it's the end of the world as we know it, and you're gonna feel awwwesome.

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• WHAT: Atomika
  
• WHERE: West LA -- RSVP to receive address
• WHEN: Saturday, May 18th, 9 PM - 6 AM
  
• $$$: $20 in advance, $25 day of -- get tickets here
  

Charlie The Unicorn: Back In Action

Last year, we made a big brouhaha about Charlie The Unicorn -- a Burning Man art-car spearheaded (so to speak) by intrepidLA fairy godmother DivaDanielle, designed as a big pink double-decker dance floor replete with DJ booth, candy-cane stripper poles, and a horn that shoots fire. Suffice to say, many, many good times were had on that fucking unicorn.

Now the question is -- how do the good people of Camp Charlie keep those good times going for the rest of us?

Answer: Invaded By Unicorns, a fundraiser party at the Red Loft this Saturday night. Hold onto your kidneys, because if Charlie's gonna keep bringing joy to the playa, he's gotta keep himself in good repair.

Reason #1 to get out there: The Red Loft is the sexiest venue in downtown LA -- a crimson tinged den of mischievous iniquity, tucked away several stories above the fashion district. Reason #2: tag-team sets by Joplin & Erik Nelson and DivaDanielle & Nick the Neck (the tech-house alter ego of indie-remix king Pumpkin.) Reason #3: Saynt, who is rapidly becoming one of our favorite house DJs on the planet.

Reason #4: anyone who says they don't want to ride around the desert on a bass-bumping unicorn that shoots flames into the night is... deeply misguided. Get to the Red Loft and help keep the dream rolling.

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• WHAT: Fundraiser dance party
  
• WHERE: The Red Loft (RSVP for location)
  
• WHEN: Saturday 14th of January, 10 PM-4 AM
  
• $$$: $10
  

Painting With Laser Light

When I initially heard that some guys out in Venice were building a structure that allowed you to "paint with light", the first thing I thought of was Thomas Kinkade, the "painter of light"/pig-faced grifter whose unnaturally glowing Christian-bait art is something that I'm convinced was originally developed to enrage rodeo bulls. Anyway, after smashing some furniture and trying to trample a matador, I calmed down, and realized "Wait, no, this is actually awesome..."

Check this out: tonight, the Future Bright Collective is throwing A Light Hazing, fundraiser dance-party for what might be the coolest art project I've heard about in ages. The titular project is a "collapsible, pavilion-esque structure" that gets filled from inside with glowing blacklight, and everyone who walks through it is given a UV "pen" to paint with on the walls. Which demands the question, how often do you get to create glow-in-the-dark laser graffiti? Everything about my 12-year-old self loves this. 

The project will be making it's debut at Burning Man in August, and you can look for it at the Venice Art Crawl in the future -- but first they gotta get their funds completed, so get out to Vanguard Hollywood tonight and enjoy yourself some boogie time. IntrepidLA favorite DJ Wolfie, as well as the Cruz Coalition's DJ Eva and Bird Of Prey will be tickling your eardrums. It's gonna be grand.

Thomas Kinkade is not invited. Because seriously, fuck that guy.

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•WHAT: A dance-party for the laser-painting art project A Light Hazing

•WHERE: The Vanguard Hollywood -- 6021 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA

•WHEN: Tonight, July 14th, 10 PM - 2:30 AM

•$$$: $15 presale, $25 at door, $30 after 11:30 PM -- tickets here

Gettin' Slinky With It

For anyone not thoroughly partied-out after last week's mind-blowing good-timery at Lightning In A Bottle, pack some overnight camping gear and prepare to have your mind blown... again. (It's gonna be like Scanners up in here!) This weekend, the nocturnal adventurers at JAM On It productions are throwing their annual Slinky party -- an all-night clandestine dance rager going on in the woods outside LA. This thing has been going on 12 years strong, (meaning it's about as old as the average Electric Daisy Carnival attendee), and there ain't no better place to strap on your dancing boots and release your inner woodland sprite.

San Francisco house maestro Adnan Sharif is going to be banging on the decks, along with globe-trotting beat evangelist Ben Annand, and (my personal favorite, partially because she moonlights -- or should I say daylights? -- as a chef and I want her to cook for me), Joplin, straight from rocking the bejeesus out of the Woogie Stage at LIB. Be at the map-point before midnight for directions, take a regular/high clearance car as the road there is mountainous and Scion-unfriendly, and be sure to bring warm stuff to wear unless you plan on simply dancing nonstop until the sun rises (which is, of course, a tantalizingly plausible scenario...)

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• WHAT: The 12th year anniversary of everyone's favorite woodland dance party
  
• WHERE: The woods outside LA -- RSVP on the FB page for directions
• WHEN: Saturday June 4th, 9 PM -- 7:00 AM
  
• $$$: $10