SHOWS ATTENDED 2025 / The Portable Infinite

SHOWS 2025

Jan 17^th: Mary Ocher @ Vine Long Beach

Jan 19th: CSS @ Regent

Jan 26th: Arooj Aftab @ El Rey

Feb 4^th: Magic Wands @ HB Cruisers

Feb 6th: The Vaccines @ Belasco

Feb 12th: Escapism + John Tottenham @ Gold Diggers

Feb 14th: Trentemoller + Body Negative @ Echo

Feb 21st: LA Frieze 3pm

Feb 22^nd: Four Tet @ Kia Forum

Feb 27^th: Lankum @ GAMH (Noise Pop)

Feb 28^th: Mercury Rev @ Popscene SF* 

Mar 2^nd: Lauren Mayberry + Cult of Venus @ Belasco*

Mar 7^th: Molchat Doma + Sextile @ Hollywood Palladium*

Mar 15^th: Anoushka Shankar @ Fonda*

Mar 18^th: KOKOKO! Lodge Room*

Mar 21^st: Osees + Alva Noto (Art Intuition) @ Broad

Mar 23^rd: Todd Rundgren @ Wiltern

Mar 25^th: Alabaster Deplume @ Regent*

Mar ^27th: AWP Bookfair***

Mar 28^th: Tamino @ Belasco*

Mar 29^th: Franz Ferdinand @ Wiltern*

April 1^st: Corinne Bailey Rae @ HOB anaheim*

April 6^th: Tindersticks @ Belasco* 

April 8^th: Stereophonics @ Wiltern*

April 10^th: Ducks LTD + Bug Club @ Lodge Room*

April 12^th: 20/20 @ Zebulon*

April 14^th: Goldie @ Fonda*

April 16^th: Julie + Fcukers @ Glass House*

April 17^th: Beth Gibbons @ Orpheum*

April 19^th: Nubya Garcia @ Echo*

April 24^th: Spelling @ Teragram

April 26th: Circuit De Yeux @ Zebulon

April 28^th: Party Dozen @ Zebulon 

April 30^th: Parliment/Funkadelic @ HOB Anaheim

May 2^nd: Automatic @ Natural History Museum

May 6^th: Squid @ Teragram

May 10^th: JUST LIKE HEAVEN

May 14^th: Dean Wareham @ Lodge Room

May 17^th: CRUEL WORLD

May 27^th: The Damned @ Wiltern

May 28^th: Gang of Four @ Fonda

June 6^th: Sunflower Bean @ Lodge Room

June 7^th: CALI VIBES 

June 14^th: Mabe Fratti @ Getty Center

June 20^th: OMD @ Greek

June 27^th: EMF and Spacehog @ Regent

July 13th: Katy Perry @ Honda Center

July 19th: Of Montreal @ Belasco

July 20th: P Furs @ PAC AMP

July 23rd: Nova Twins @ Zebulon

July 30th: Beck @ PAC AMP

Aug 3^rd: X and Los Lobos @ PAC AMP

Aug 15^th: PIGS x7 @ Lodge Room 

Aug 20^th: Tennis @ Greek

Sept 12^th: Grandaddy @ Fonda

Sept 13^th: English Teacher @ Roxy

Sept 15^th: Swans @ Lodge Room

Sept 17^th: Swans @ Lodge Room

Sept 20^th: Tops @ Bellwether

Sept 25^th: Pulp + LCD Soundsystem @ Hollywood Bowl

Sept 26^th: Tei Shi @ Lodge Room

Oct 2^nd: Chameleons @ Belasco

Oct 7^th: Patrick Wolf @ Lodge Room 

Oct 16^th: Elbow @ Wiltern

Oct 18^th: Devo + B52s @ Hollywood Bowl

Oct 28^th: Miki Berenyi Trio @ Roxy

Nov 2^nd: BJM @ Observatory

Nov 6^th: Bar Italia @ Bellwether

Nov 12^th: Purity Ring @ Novo

Nov 22^nd: Todd Rundgren @ Cerritos Arts

Nov 23rd: Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Teragram 

AGAPE LODGE POETRY SOCIETY @ FABLA Fine Arts Building DTLA Sunday DEC 28th 2025

All photos taken by Alexander Laurence

BEST MUSIC OF 2025 / The Portable Infinite 40

BEST MUSIC OF 2025 / The Portable Infinite 40

ETHEL CAIN “Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You”

BAR ITALIA “Some Like It Hot”

PERFUME GENIUS “Glory”

TOPS “Bury The Key”

ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF “Iconoclasts”

GEESE “Getting Killed”

CATE LE BON “Michelangelo Dying”

SUEDE “Antidepressants”

STEREOLAB “Instant Holograms On Metal Film”

BLOOD ORANGE “Essex Honey”

SWANS “Birthing”

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD “Forever Howlong”

FKA TWIGS “Eusexua”

SPELLLING “Portrait Of My Heart”

GREENTEA PENG “Tell Dem It’s Sunday”

MELODY’S ECHO CHAMBER “Unclouded”

SQUID “Cowards”

JENNY HVAL “Iris Silver Mist”

MIKI BERENYI TRIO “Tripla”

DESTROYER “Dan’s Boogie”

PULP “More”

THE LAST DINNER PARTY “From The Pyre”

SPARKS “Mad!”

WATER FROM YOUR EYES “It’s A Beautiful Place”

LAMBRINI GIRLS “Who Let The Dogs Out”

PATRICK WOLF “Crying The Neck”

CIRCUIT DES YEUX “Halo On The Inside”

SUDAN ARCHIVES “The BPM”

FACS “Wish Defense”

NOVA TWINS “Parasites And Butterflies”

YEULE “Evangelic Girl Is A Gun”

SOULWAX “All Systems Are Lying”

WISP “If Not Winter”

JUST MUSTARD “We Were Just Here”

SMERZ “Big City Life”

HEARTWORMS “Glutton For Punishment”

THE BUG CLUB “Very Human Features”

TAMINO “Every Dawn’s A Mountain”

20/20 “Back To California”

PURITY RING “Purity Ring”

THE PORTABLE INFINITE 25 BEST BOOKS of 2025

THE PORTABLE INFINITE 25

BEST BOOKS of 2025

Shadow Ticket 

by Thomas Pynchon

The Absence 

by Budgie

Into the Groove: The 1980s: The Ultimate Decade in Music History - The perfect stocking filler for the pop aficionado in your life

by Justin Lewis

Hollywood Vampires: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and the Celebrity Exploitation Machine

by Kelly Loudenberg, Makiko Wholey

Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion

by Chris DeVille

Fever: The Complete History of Saturday Night Fever

by Margo Donohue

Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard

by Robert M. Dowling

The Mystery of Perception: A Conversation with Lynne Tillman

by Taylor Lewandowski

Alibi Lullaby

by Norma Cole

Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock – The Definitive Band Biography of the 1970s Avant-Garde

by Jonathan Gould

Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats

by Audrey Golden

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

by Francesca Wade

Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

by Jane Kamensky

Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of The Bangles

by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler

by Nathan Kernan

Service

by John Tottenham

The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists of New York

by Peter Trachtenberg

The Adjudicator

by Susan Daitch

To Hell with Poverty!: A Class Act: Inside the Gang of Four

by Jon King

Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dalí

by Michele Gerber Klein

Honorable mentions:

Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy: 

City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room

by Paul Karasik (Editor), Paul Auster, David Mazzucchelli (illustrator)

The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood

by Matthew Specktor

Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger

by Rob King

American Dreams in Havoc Heaven

by Vanessa Matic

Bread of Angels: A Memoir

by Patti Smith

FIONA APPLE RELEASES HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE VINYL FOR “PRETRIAL (LET HER GO HOME)” BENEFITTING MOTHERS AFFECTED BY THE BROKEN CASH-BAIL SYSTEM

FIONA APPLE RELEASES HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE VINYL FOR “PRETRIAL (LET HER GO HOME)” BENEFITTING MOTHERS AFFECTED BY THE BROKEN CASH-BAIL SYSTEM

 

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12-INCH INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE AUDIO, ETCHED AND ENGRAVED DETAILS, RANDOMLY INSERTED SIGNED PHOTO CARDS

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(Los Angeles, CA — December 19, 2025) Today, Fiona Apple releases the limited edition 12-inch vinyl version of her intensely moving protest anthem “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home),” which plainly and powerfully illustrates the horrifying effects of our broken cash-bail system on women, girls, and — especially — Black mothers. More than a record, the release is a call to action, fleshing out the world of the original song and pledging to donate at least $7 from each unit sold to Let Her Go initiatives. Visit LetHerGoHome.org and purchase the vinyl HERE.

 

The 12-inch release features “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)” and companion works created for the movement — including an instrumental version of the single, an intimate “practice” version, and, on Side B, “Court Watchers (Narration & Original Score by Fiona Apple).” The latter hails from a documentary short Apple worked on with the National Courtwatch Network to encourage regular civilians to volunteer to “court watch” — observing and assessing court proceedings for fairness and efficacy. She previously spoke to The Washington Post about it.

 

Apple also added other details that bring the music to life: special etched vinyl, an engraved sleeve, cover art drawn by Apple herself, and — randomly inserted into the pressings — a limited quantity of photo cards signed by her. The physical release also follows the May debut of the gut-wrenchingly powerful “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)” music video. Watch that HERE.

 

“Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)” grew out of Apple’s recent years court-watching for CourtWatch PG. Through that work, she witnessed the all-too-common practice of mothers being separated from those who need them — thrown in jail despite a presumption of innocence simply because they couldn’t afford bail. Verse by verse, the song lays out a deepening devastation summed up by the heartbreaking lyric, “They wouldn’t let her go home and now there’s no more home.”

 

Produced by Zealous and Special Operations Studios, the video underscores the cold realities of the song, while showing thousands of images of everyday hope and freedom: warm photos and videos provided by women who’ve lived through pretrial detention, which capture family moments, personal accomplishments, and community bonding. But as Apple sings on — detailing a downward spiral of lost wages, unpaid rent, custody loss, and crushing shame — people and places begin glitching out and disappearing from the frame. The loss is visceral.

 

Created in support of the Free Black Mamas DMV initiative, “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)” first arrived in May alongside the launch of Apple’s LetHerGoHome.org, which provides information on the anti-bail movement, additional stories and images from survivors, a direct video message from Apple, and various avenues for ordinary people to help. You can also donate directly HERE, volunteer to court watch HERE, and purchase “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)” HERE.

 

Fiona Apple, “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)” 12” Vinyl

 

Side A

1. “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)”

2. “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home) (Instrumental)”

3. “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home) (Practice)”

 

Side B

1. “Court Watchers (Narration & Original Score by Fiona Apple)”