Andy Carey wonders what music  looks like

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If you like color and dots, or if Colorforms influenced your early work, then you’ll love Andy Carey’s current show at {open}. “Sound!” has color and dots (and sound, naturally); it’s a new notion about what art is—and a new language with which to talk [...]

{open} (also noted a bit back by our old pal Andrew Asch in L.A. Times) lights up Third Thursday on 4th St. with a transmaniacal phantasmagorium of light and sound courtesy Huntington Beach’s Celer, who inflate ambient sound to gas-giant volumes, and hop-frog kollectiv’s Phaul, presenting “psychedelic psights and sonics,” plus a short film called [...]

Long Beach delivers again with the first in {open}’s third-Thursday multimedia series that’s starts with this Amps for Christ show. AFC is a bedrock Inland Empire zoned/droned institution and this spiel is more elegant than I could muster:

Jonathan Richman fly into the mystery

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY

This week in the music section we are meditating on purity—of intent and personality and transmission, which align themselves only as mathematically frequently as a three-wheel slot comes up only cherries, and possibly that is where Jonathan Richman’s unstoppable persistence is rooted; as the song warned me [...]

if{open}: Continuing on with Retro Row’s so-called rebirth, {open} hosts its fourth-anniversary party with Dublab and cupcakes. The event will also kick off the bookstore’s “if{open}” exhibit, in which 25 artists from around the world imagine and re-imagine the word “open.” 7pm. Free.
{OPEN} 2226 E Fourth St, Long Beach 90814. 562.499.6736; thestoryofopen.com.
Tree Planting: Wrigley residents [...]

Novelist Dan Fante is still inspired by his famous dad
There’s a fine line between a good poetry reading and a bad one. Fortunately, the rare appearance of LA-native/Arizona-based writer Dan Fante at {open}’s “Readings From a Burning Shore” last week falls into the former category. Fante’s real-life persona stands in stark contrast to the characters [...]

From a Burning Shore: Rob Woodard and Dan Fante, son of John Fante, head up {OPEN}’s “Readings From a Burning Shore” with select cuts from current and past prose and poetry. 8:30pm.
{OPEN} 2226 E Fourth St, Long Beach 90814. 562.499.6736; thestoryofopen.com.

The Warlocks: Spacemen 3 drones and Velvet Underground fuzz from the Warlocks. Plus, more psychedelic [...]

Long Beach NAACP: The monthly meeting of the Long Beach chapter of the NAACP featuring guest speaker Congresswoman Laura Richardson. She’ll probably be in her seat for life, but see her now before she gets too entrenched in Washington. 3pm.
CALIFORNIA RECREATION CENTER 1550 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Long Beach 90813.

Long Beach Antique Market: Like [...]

TREE OF LIFE: BEACH HEALTH TREE NATURAL FOODS The necessary center step between the prescription conglomerates and drinking hot lemon water in your darkened sick hole: Beach Tree has a sympathetic and knowledgeable staff able to deploy their selection with precision, compassion and efficiency. Simple things they have totally covered and esoteric things they have [...]

Derrick Brown’s deathbed comedy hour

Derrick Brown is alive and well and already picking out the best bar for the upcoming Best Of Long Beach issue: Joe Jost’s, he says, and the best place to live is on a boat in the Long Beach marina, and after drinking all day, you can piss off the side [...]