This Friday is The Killers vs. Arctic Monkeys Night at Club Underground. Both floors of Grand Star Jazz Club will be open with Larry G. and I in the DJ booths all night. Party starts at 9:30 p.m. and it’s 21+. Get your tickets now on Eventbrite or Dice. 

Been bogged down with work for the past few weeks and am exciting to get out into the real world and away from my laptop (maybe) this weekend. Fortunately, there are a lot of really cool concerts, DJ nights and movie screenings happening in Los Angeles this weekend and early next week. For this weekend’s recommendations, head over to Beatique.

The show I’m most looking forward to seeing, though, is happening on Wednesday, July 22. Moviola released a fantastic album last year, Earthbound, and their song “Slage Wave” became one of my favorite political songs of 2025.The band has been around since the 1990s, but they’re only going on their first West Coast tour now and on Wednesday, they’ll be playing at The Escondite. It’s a free show. I have no idea what the set times are, but you shouldn’t miss this one. Stay out late. You can do it. 

Interview: Parts & Labor

Parts & Labor went all out for their first album in 15 years. Set of All Sets, released on July 10, is a one hour and 21 minute ride through 17 tracks that begins with a proggy overture and builds into rollicking noise rock augmented by two drummers and tempered with synth flourishes and interludes. That the band, who emerged from early 2000s Brooklyn, reconvened at all is no small feat considering that the members are now spread from coast to coast. That they managed to make such an ambitious album is all the more rare. 

“The kind of maximalist approach really makes this stand out to us,” says Christopher Weingarten, drummer for Parts & Labor. “The hooks are so giant. The noise is so noisy. There are two drummers on it. It feels bigger. There are two discs. It’s huge.”

Active between 2002 and 2012, the band formed around the songwriting core of Dan Friel and BJ Warshaw. Weingarten joined the fold in 2004. After his departure a few years later, Joe Wong stepped in on the drums. The four make up this current incarnation of Parts & Labor. 

Read: Parts & Labor Turn Up the Noise Rock on First New Album in 15 Years

July 2026 Beatique Mix

Need some tunes for the weekend? Check out this month’s edition of Beatique, now up on Mixcloud. It includes new music from Tomora, Olaf Dreijer (of the Knife), Matias Aguayo and Automatic, throwbacks from De la Soul, The Prodigy and Fatboy Slim, plus lots more. 

That’s it for this week. Hopefully, there will be a lot more up on Beatique next week, so maybe bookmark it and check it out. Thanks for reading. 

Liz O.