This Saturday night in LA, get your robobooty to Downtown and come to Roam Music for a night of electronic music including one of my favorite UK DJs, Damian Lazarus from Crosstown Rebels! It's going to be a rager! 9pm-6am @ Soul Folks Art Warehouse - 613 Imperial St., Downtown LA.

This is why I love the Internet. When else in history could you watch dozens of people crying while eating with just a simple click? For example, Will (pictured above) is crying because he's not convinced by Anakin's turn to the dark side. He's eating exotic berry wine coolers & chips.

A minor update about our favorite boys from Basildon. In addition to a new album this fall, Depeche Mode will be playing the following North American cities during October, November and December of 2005:

Fort Lauderdale
Tampa / St Pete
Atlanta
Houston
Dallas
San Antonio
Denver
Salt Lake City
Vancouver
Seattle
San Francisco
San Diego
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Phoenix
Chicago
Detroit
Toronto
Montreal
Washington, D.C.
New York
Boston

Check depechemode.com/tour for updates.

We Are the Superlative Conspiracy
Sweden's newish WE clothing store on 144 S. Robertson Blvd in Beverly Hills is one of my new favorites. They've taken creation through collaboration to a new level, and it's resulted in a Scandinavian-directed synthesis with some of the most interesting designers, artists, skateboarders and brands today. Of specific interest is their collaboration with Adidas to create a unique, limited editon line of We/Adidas. I particularly like the Dakota slip on and may need to make it my kick of choice for the warm LA summer days ahead. Additionally, they've launched their second round of summer tees, designed by a variety of conspirators from Japan's Bathing Ape, Germany's Lodown magazine, and German/Mexican designer Nathan Jobe from adidas original. Regardless, you've got to love a company that proudly sells a leather eyepatch available in two colors as part of it's accessory line.

I won't be in town, but for your roboelectropleasure this weekend and next week:

Dataage and Infinite Complexity merge this month to bring you 2 separate, simultaneous areas of sound.
DATAAGE @ the Grand Star
Saturday June 11
943 Sun Mun Way
Chinatown 90012
right behind 943 N. Broadway
FREE
21+
9PM

And don't forget Ghostly artist Kill Memory Crash at the Knitting Factory on June 15th.

Last night's Kraftwerk show a the Greek Theater was amazing, as expected. Unfortunately I was too caught up in the moment to capture the robots onstage, blanketed under a clear, warm Los Angeles evening sky. But trust me, it was gooood.

What I do have for you is a link to Pitchfork media's interview with Casey Spooner as he muses about Odyssey, uptight indie rockers, DFA, The Soft Pink truth and other miscellany. Enjoy!

And you thought you had a night off? Muahahaha. Hot off the heels of last night's Fishscherspooner show, LA Robots are in for another treat...in an unannounced surprise appearance, Electro Punk Superstar, PEACHES is going to DJ TONIGHT at the Blue Bongo in downtown LA. 11 PMish.

Little Pedro's/Blue Bongo
901 E 1st St, LA 90012

Also, don't forget Kraftwerk on Monday night, and a whole slew of weekend events I'll post on when I have time. Bleep, bleep!

Oh, and in this month's Paper magazine, look for our favorite art-diva-frontwoman and all around bad mutha Yvonne Force-Villareal and yet another piece about her, her band and the fabulous pad she shares with Leo and their son Cuatro.

For the past five years, Invader has conducted worldwide "invasions" with custom site-specific mosaic pieces based on the 1978 video game Space Invaders created by Toshiro Nishikado; the streets of Paris, Tokyo, New York, London, and Los Angeles (among many others) have become components in his public art planetary invasion. On June 14, sixspace will experience an invasion with RUBIKCUBISM - a logical exhibition by French artist Invader featuring mosaics, video installation, and both small and large-scale sculptures.

The Washington Post reports that "Revenge of the Sith," is a cautionary tale for our time - a blistering critique of the war in Iraq, a reminder of how democracies can give up their freedoms too easily, and an admonition about the seduction of good people by absolute power. Some film critics suggest it could be the biggest anti-Bush blockbuster since "Fahrenheit 9/11."

If you're in SF, make time to check out the Graduate Exhibition at California College of the Arts. You'll see fantastic presenations by Fine Arts, Writing, and Design and MA students in Curatorial Practice and Visual Criticism.
Graduate Exhibition, May 13-21
Various locations, San Francisco campus
Opening reception: May 12, 6–9 PM
Gallery hours: Daily, 10 AM–8 PM
Info: 415.551.9213

The Royal, Issue 5, featuring The Strategic Group, Attik, Kidrobot, NoPattern, L-R-G and more.

Meow!

If you don't stop doing it, you'll go blind.

Tons of great photos from Milan Design Week.

This and others available at PostSecret.

On the matter of unexploited advertising opportunities.

Oh yes. BitBoy likes 2VM's Platica...a lot. Listen to samples after the jump. Thanks, Doyle.

Yet another reason to love Barcelona, snapped last week. [Thanks, ES]
With that in mind, check this out.

Heck yes! Uncle Rico's sweet time machine modulus + crystal on eBay now. [Thanks, Damon]

Lynnel's extraordinary scan of the pope feeling a bit...well, "horny". Courtesy of our friends at Burnlab.

Today, Monday April 18th at 10am PST pre-sale tickets go on sale for the following Fischerspooner shows:
6/1 Henry Fonda Theater, LA
6/2 HOB - San Diego
6/3 HOB - Anaheim
6/4 The Fillmore, SF

Go to http://www.fischerspoonertickets.musictoday.com

The loveable, wacky Euro-duo better known as Stereo Total will be on tour this May. Mark your calendars now:
26.05.2005 USA-San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's 365 Club
28.05.2005 USA-Los Angeles, CA - Knitting Factory Hollywood

SF Robots, don't just sit there tonight. Get Activ.
LA Robots, head to create:fixate downtown.

This is your brain.
This is your brain on Sony.

If you missed out on the Fischerspooner record release party at Cinespace, you missed out on free Absolut vodka, and euphoric electro escapism. Both Casey and Warren were in LA to celebrate the release of Odyssey, and the crowd was enthusiastically down for the cause (read: free liquor) grooving to massive electronic beats being dropped by an array of guest DJs.

Julia, we don't know you, but we like your style.

LAVoice has a good writeup on Saturday night's SRL performance, and there's a nice, big, clear QuickTime movie of the event here.

Last night Los Angeles was host to a beautiful symphony of destruction courtesy of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories (SRL). SRL was started nearly 30 years ago, and consists of artists and creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare. The show was pure carnage - all robots and fire billowing from the downtown arts district near the 4th street bridge, just south of SciArc. The sleeping giants began to thrash about, spew fire, shoot cannons and systematically destroy one another until there was nothing left but smoldering piles of ashes, twisted metal and mutilated faux goats. It was beyond amazing (and unbelievable they did it in the middle of a public street). I managed to snap lots of pictures from my vantage point, but you really get a good sense of the experience from the movies on the SRL web site. Thank you organizer Susan Joyce, Dangerous Curve, Mark Pauline and SRL!

Felix da Housecat dates: San Francisco, Saturday April 2nd @ Mezzanine. Los Angeles, Saturday April 9th @ Avalon.