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  • Halloween Parties, Chelsea Wolfe + More Happening in L.A. This Weekend

    Albert Reyes Haunted House at Eastern Projects (Photo: Liz Ohanesian)
    Albert Reyes’ Macabre haunted house at Eastern Projects in Chinatown. (Pic: Liz O.)

    Update (10/22): Turns out that I will be DJing at Club Underground this week. Catch me playing indie, post-punk, Britpop, electro, synthpop and more all night at Grand Star Jazz Club from 9:30 p.m. until last call. Advance tickets are available now.

    If you’re in Chinatown this weekend, definitely stop by Eastern Projects to check out Albert Reyes’ current exhibition, Macabre. The centerpiece is the super creepy haunted house that he used to build in his backyard every year. Plus, you’ll see art from 80 artists in the show. It’s a lot. I walked through the gallery last week, but definitely plan to drop by again for another look. Eastern Projects is open from Tuesdays through Saturdays from 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. and it’s located on the bottom level of the Blossom apartment building on Broadway and College. 

    Also, if you haven’t seen The Devils on the big screen yet, you still have a few more days to catch it in theaters, as it looks like some spots, including the Regal LA Live and Laemmle’s NoHo 7, will continue screenings into next week. I had seen the movie before the re-release, but watching the director’s cut (finally!) In a movie theater is a completely different experience. I had the movie so stuck in my head afterwards that I had to write about it. And, if Digger is playing anywhere near you, go see that too. It looks like it will be at Landmark Sunset and Laemmle Glendale into next week. The reviews are wrong and the whole “this movie is a bomb,” angle is stupid, but I’ll write more about that later. Go see it for yourself. 

    As for DJ gigs, I’m off this week, but will be back at Club Underground on Friday, October 30, for this year’s Halloween Party. Tickets are on sale now. 

    Here are my recommendations for this weekend and early next week. 

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  • Beatique Mix June 2026

    For the June Beatique mix, I decided that I would just play music for an hour or so and post the results whether or not I flubbed any airbreaks or mixes. The whole point of that is that I think it’s really important to keep the imperfections as a sign that there’s a real person making stuff for no real reason other than to just do it. We’ve been in this creepy, brand-centric cycle of culture for so long, where everything we share is supposed to function as a commercial for the next hustle, and it’s really easy to forget that we should do things just for the hell of it. DJing is my job- or, one of my jobs- but I also listen to a lot music because I like it. And sometimes I work out sets at home because I want to know how to songs fit together. It’s kind of practice, but it’s also just kind of how my brain has worked since before I realized that DJing was a job that I could do. 

    Even though this was made on the fly, there’s a flow to it. A lot of the songs relate to each other in ways that won’t make much sense to anyone who isn’t me. The first part is mostly related to stories I recently wrote or am in the middle of writing. The second half is club stuff, although not all of the songs have made it into my club sets yet. None of them are transitions that I’ve practiced prior to recording this. I’m just kind of figuring them out here. (The Angelé/Justice song and the Slayyyter one I played in reverse order the previous night and, tbh, I prefer that flow.) This is all background stuff that nobody really cares about, but, whatever. We’re living in the dead internet era and I have no illusions that anyone is actually reading or listening. But, because it helps me think things through, I made an annotated set list with links back to references. 

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  • Holy Sun Opera House Turned Recurrent Dreams Into a Gothic Tale

    The Holy Sun Opera House press photo by Andres Herrera
    The Holy Sun Opera House (Photo: Andres Herrera)

    For years, Krissy Barker has been dreaming about houses. Some of the dreams are frightening. Others are not. All feature very specific dwellings that only exist in her dreams. “I’ll visit the same ones over and over and over again, sometimes multiple times in the same night,” the L.A.-based singer and drummer says on a video call. After so many somnial visits, Barker started turning those mysterious spaces into songs and, after forming Holy Sun Opera House with composer dl Salo, they became the basis for the project’s self-titled debut album, out now via Hologram Opera. 

    Holy Sun Opera House is gothic music in a way you wouldn’t expect for 2026. Barker and Salo- both classically trained musicians who met playing pinball and share a wide variety of non-classical influences- have made the kind of music you want to hear while you’re reading Rebecca or marathoning episodes of Dark Shadows. The album The Holy Sun Opera House is gothic in the sense that it gives you the impression of wandering through an old mansion on a stormy night, guided only by candlelight and unsure of what lies behind the doors you find. 

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