12/30/2022

SHOWS 2022


SHOWS 2022


Feb 1st: Bjork @ Shrine Auditorium

Feb 3rd: Deep Sea Diver @ Constellation Room

Feb 19th: Dinosaur JR @ Fonda

Feb 22nd: Arooj Aftab @ Grey Area

Feb 23rd: The Drums @ August Hall

Feb 24th: Gary Numan @ Fillmore

Feb 27th: Gary Numan @ Observatory

Mar 11th: New Candys @ Alex’s Bar

Mar 13th: The Darkness @ Observatory

Mar 14th: Self Esteem @ Moroccan Lounge

Mar 15th: The Darkness @ El Rey

Mar 16th: The Pixies @ HOB anaheim

Mar 20th: Nation Of Language + Glove @ Lodge Room

Mar 30th: Wet Leg @ Fonda

Apr 4th: Clairo @ HOB anaheim

Apr 8th: White Denim @ Teragram

Apr 8th: Valerie June @ Fonda

Apr 14th: Idles + Automatic @ Soma SD

Apr 19th: L’imperatrice + Inner Wave @ Fonda

Apr 20th: Spiritualized @ Fonda

Apr 21st: Nilufer Yanya + Altin Gun @ Roxy

Apr 22nd: BJM + Mercury Rev @ Wiltern

Apr 25th: Beebadoobee + Luna Li @ Glasshouse

Apr 29th: Parquet Courts @ Glass House

May 3rd: Amyl and the Sniffers @ Teragram

May 11th: Circle Jerks @ Glasshouse

May 12th: Kurt Vile and the Violators @ ACE

May 14th: Cruel World @ Rose Bowl

May 16th: Anika @ Lodge Room

May 17th: APTBS + Glove @ Teragram

May 19th: Sigur Ros @ Shrine

May 21st: Just Like Heaven @ Rose Bowl

May 24th: Cigarettes After Sex @ Masonic Lodge

May 25th: Jenny Hval @ Lodge Room

May 26th: OMD @ Greek

May 30th: Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Teragram

June 2nd: Spoon @ Hollywood Palladium

June 7th: The Kills @ Mayan

June 15th: Tori Amos @ Orpheum

June 23rd: Bright Eyes + Cate Le Bon @ Greek

June 24th: Primus + Black Angels @ Long Beach Terrace

July 5th: Kraftwerk @ Shrine (photo)

July 15th: Kool and the Gang @ Pac Amp

July 16th: Show Me The Body @ Belasco

July 21st: Thundercat @ The Broad

July 23rd: Purity Ring @ Wiltern

July 27th: The CURED @ The Hanger OC

July 29th: Angel Olsen + Sharon Van Etten @ The Greek

July 30th: The Paranoyds @ Wayfarer

Aug 3rd: Father John Misty + Suki Waterhouse @ Humphreys

Aug 5th: Rebelution + Steel Pulse @ Pac Amp

Aug 9th: Glume + Mothermary @ Resident LA

Aug 10th Pussy Riot @ El Rey

Aug 14th: Psych Furs + X @ Pac Amp

Aug 23rd: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever @ Teragram

Aug 24th: Soft Cell @ Youtube

Sept 1st: Franz Ferdinand @ Novo

Sept 7th: Patti Smith @ Wiltern

Sept 8th: Peter Hook @ ACE

Sept 15th: Stereolab @ Wiltern

Sept 16th-18th: Primavera Sound LA

Sept 22nd: Black Midi + BCNR @ Glass House

Sept 24th: Black Midi + BCNR @ Wiltern

Sept 27th: Roger Waters @ Crypto

Sept 28th: Roxy Music + St Vincent @ Forum

Oct 2nd: Arlo Parks @ Fonda

Oct 5th: Metric + Secret Machines @ HOB Anaheim

Oct 11th: Yard Act @ Teragram

Oct 21st: Substance LA @ Los Angeles Theater

Oct 21st Superorganism @ Regent

Oct 22nd: The Mars Volta @ Hollywood Palladium

Oct 27th: Metronomy @ Wiltern

Nov 9th: Suede + Manics @ HOB Anaheim

Nov 10th: Suede + Manics @ Hollywood Palladium

Nov 16th: Foals @ Hollywood Palladium

Dec 5th: Beach House @ HOB Anaheim

Dec 9th: Weyes Blood @ ACE

Dec 22th: The Smile @ Shrine




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NEW NOISE show 123 on Friday Dec 30th 2022 (The Best of 2022)


NEW NOISE w/ Alexander Laurence (The Portable Infinite) 
returns this friday 3pm

THIS IS THE THIRD AND LAST OF THREE SHOWS
DEDICATED TO THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2022

This coming Friday at 3pm Pacific Time, Alexander Laurence’s 
unique cutting edge 1-hour radio show, 
New Noise will broadcast live on RadioKAJW on Live365.

December 30th 2022, Friday at 3pm PST. All new music and some old favorites 
that make for a great electronic disco party.

NEW NOISE show 123 playlist
Friday December 30th 2022 3pm

RADIO KAJW + PORTABLE INFINITE

THE BEST RECORDS OF 2022 part three


part one
1. DRY CLEANING "Hot Penny Day"
2. JOCKSTRAP "Greatest Hits"

3. SUEDE "That Boy On The Stage"
4. ALVVAYS "Many Mirrors"
5. NOVA TWINS "Antagonist"

6. THE WEATHER STATION "Loving You"

7. SPECIAL INTEREST "Cherry Blue Intention"


part two

8. HORACE ANDY "Easy Money"

9. CATE LE BON "Typical Love"

10. CHARLI XCX "Good Ones"

11. JENNY HVAL "Year of Love"

12. LET'S EAT GRANDMA "Watching You Go"
13. JULIA JACKLIN "Ignore Tenderness"
14. WEYES BLOOD "Twin Flame"



Listen to previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infinitealexander/


Featuring the best of 2022

PORTABLE INFINITE LINKS:


RADIO KAJW Twitter: https://twitter.com/ radiokajw


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12/26/2022

THE BEST ALBUMS of 2022 / Portable Infinite 50

BEST ALBUMS of 2022 / Portable Infinite 50



NOVA TWINS “Supernova”

JOCKSTRAP “I Love You Jennifer B”

ALVVAYS “Blue Rev”

BETH ORTON “Weather Alive”

SUEDE “Autofiction”

ALVVAYS (photo by Bradley Dupray)

SUEDE (photo by ALAN CRUZ)

DRY CLEANING (photo by Bradley Dupray)

JULIA JACKLIN (photo by Bradley Dupray)

FATHER JOHN MISTY (photo by Bradley Dupray)




DRY CLEANING “Stumpwork”

THE WEATHER STATION “How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars”

JULIA JACKLIN “Pre Pleasure”

SPECIAL INTEREST “Endure”

FATHER JOHN MISTY “Chloe and the Next 20th Century”




HORACE ANDY “Midnight Rocker”

CATE LE BON “Pompeii”

CHARLI XCX “Crash”

JENNY HVAL “Classic Objects”

LET’S EAT GRANDMA “Two Ribbons”




MOLLY NILSSON “Extreme”

WET LEG “Wet Leg”

NILUFER YANYA “Painless”

YARD ACT “The Overload”

BLACK COUNTY NEW ROAD “Ants From Up There”




CATE LE BON (photo by Bradley Dupray)

CHARLI XCX (photo by Bradley Dupray)

WET LEG (photo by Bradley Dupray)

YARD ACT (photo by Bradley Dupray)

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD (photo by Bradley Dupray)



ETHEL CAIN “Preacher’s Daughter”

FONTAINES DC “Skinty Fia”

BOB VYLAN “Bob Vylan presents The Price of Life”

JUST MUSTARD “Heart Under”

KEVIN MORBY “This Is A Photograph”




SPIRITUALIZED “Everything Was Beautiful”

YEULE “Glitch Princess”

BLOSSOMS “Ribbon Around The Bomb”

BEACH HOUSE “Once Twice Melody”

HORSEGIRL “Version of Modern Performance”




AURORA “The Gods We Can Touch”

SAULT “Air”

ALDOUS HARDING “Warm Chris”

ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER “Endless Rooms”

YUMI ZOUMA “Present Tense”




ARCTIC MONKEYS (photo by Bradley Dupray)

JOHNNY MARR (photo by Bradley Dupray)

THE MARS VOLTA (photo by Bradley Dupray)

WARPAINT (photo by Bradley Dupray)

BEABADOOBEE (photo by Bradley Dupray)



ARCTIC MONKEYS “The Car”

YEAH YEAH YEAHS “Cool It Down”

JOHNNY MARR “Fever Dream Pts. 1-4”

SORRY “Anywhere But Here”

WORKING MEN’S CLUB “Fear Fear”




NIKKI LANE “Demin & Diamonds”

PORRIDGE RADIO “Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky”

THE MARS VOLTA “The Mars Volta”

TY SEGALL “Hello, Hi”

BRIAN ENO “ForeverandEverNoMore”




BLACK MIDI “Hellfire”

WARPAINT “Radiate Like This”

BEABADOOBEE “Beatopia”

SOFT CELL “Happiness Not Included”

MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER “Emotional Eternal”



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Best Books of 2022: The Portable Infinite 30


This is the sixth annual list!

Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker

Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles

All the Lovers in the Night

Bowie at 75

Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir

Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

Interstellar Theme Park: New and Selected Writing

Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris

Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision

Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York

The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop

Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

Belle and Sebastian: Illustrated Lyrics

Transformer: How Lou Reed's LGBTQ+ Love Songs Changed Us

Living and Dying with Marcel Proust

Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir

The Bob Dylan Albums

Be My Baby

Out There: Stories

Through the Prism: Untold Rock Stories from the Hipgnosis Archive

Bloodbath Nation

The Candy House (Goon Squad #2)

Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges

Ghost Music
by An Yu

Frank & Co: Conversations with Frank Zappa 1977–1993

David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor

The Nineties: A Book

Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics

Sex Pistols: I Wanna Be Me

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You










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NEW NOISE show 123 on Friday Dec 30th 2022 (The Best of 2022)


NEW NOISE w/ Alexander Laurence (The Portable Infinite) 
returns this friday 3pm

THIS IS THE THIRD AND LAST OF THREE SHOWS
DEDICATED TO THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2022

This coming Friday at 3pm Pacific Time, Alexander Laurence’s 
unique cutting edge 1-hour radio show, 
New Noise will broadcast live on RadioKAJW on Live365.

December 30th 2022, Friday at 3pm PST. All new music and some old favorites 
that make for a great electronic disco party.



Listen to previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infinitealexander/


Featuring the best of 2022

PORTABLE INFINITE LINKS:


RADIO KAJW Twitter: https://twitter.com/ radiokajw


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12/24/2022

The Smile @ Shrine Auditorium THURS, 22 DEC 2022












All photos taken by Martin Worster


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12/23/2022

NEW NOISE show 122 on Friday Dec 23rd 2022 (The Best Albums of 2022)


NEW NOISE w/ Alexander Laurence (The Portable Infinite) 
returns this friday 3pm

THIS IS THE SECOND OF THREE SHOWS
DEDICATED TO THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2022

This coming Friday at 3pm Pacific Time, Alexander Laurence’s 
unique cutting edge 1-hour radio show, 
New Noise will broadcast live on RadioKAJW on Live365.

December 23rd 2022, Friday at 3pm PST. All new music and some old favorites 
that make for a great electronic disco party.

NEW NOISE show 122 playlist
Friday December 23rd 2022 3pm

RADIO KAJW + PORTABLE INFINITE

THE BEST RECORDS OF 2022 part two


part one
1. WET LEG "Wet Dream"
2. YARD ACT "The Overload"

3. NILUFER YANYA "Stabilise"
4. MOLLY NILSSON "Earth Girls"
5. ETHEL CAIN "American Teenager"

6. FONTAINES DC "Jackie Down The Line"

7. BOB VYLAN "Wicked and Bad"


part two

8. BEACH HOUSE "Masquerade"

9. JUST MUSTARD "23"

10. SPIRITUALIZED "Crazy"

11. YEULE "Don't Be So Hard On Your Own Beauty"

12. BLOSSOMS "Ribbon Around The Bomb"
13. KEVIN MORBY "This Is A Photograph"
14. HORSEGIRL "Option 8"



Listen to previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infinitealexander/


Featuring the best of 2022

PORTABLE INFINITE LINKS:


RADIO KAJW Twitter: https://twitter.com/ radiokajw

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