BEYOND MUSIC: VOICING THROUGH SAUSSURE – JACQUES DEMIERRE & VINCENT BARRAS (4/28@7:30PM, LA)
Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Bl. Venice, CA 90291
Barras and Demierre present their intense and eccentric performance deconstructing Saussure’s linguistic structures in a mad tour de force of synchronic poésie sonore. $10/ $5 for seniors, students and UCLA faculty, Free for BB members.

BRENT CUNNINGHAM, BRANDY NALANI MCDOUGALL & CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ (4/30 Doors@7PM, LA)
The PRB @ The Public School, 951 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA, 90012
Brent Cunningham is a writer, publisher and visual artist, Brandy Nālani McDougall and Craig Santos Perez: authors and scholars. Free with $5 suggested donation.

LOS ANGELES TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS (4/30-5/1@10AM-6PM and 5PM on Sunday, LA)
University of Southern California, Exposition Blvd and S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90089.
Panel Discussions, Booksellers, All Things Literary, Food, and of Course, Black Clock! Free. Parking at the USC campus will be $10.

THE DEAD MILKMEN (4/30@7:30PM, CHICAGO)
Congress Theater, 2135 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, 60647
“What Spinal Tap is to hair metal, Philly’s The Dead Milkmen was to punk music.” Their latest album, The King In Yellow, was released in March. $18-70.