Lana Kim is an executive at the elite force of filmmaking masterminds known as The Directors Bureau, an agency that represents music video/commercial directors like Geoff McFetridge and Patrick Daughters. As if that weren’t cool enough, Kim moonlights as the host of The Lana Show, a web series in which she “interviews” (read: ensnares in a trap of entertainingly awkward, stunted banter) rad musicians like Blonde Redhead, No Age, and Sebastian Tellier in cramped storage closets and hotel room beds. In between the awesomely uncomfortable bits of unplanned conversation, each artist provides a personal playlist of their favorite music videos. You never know what to expect on The Lana Show — she even shot a recent episode with Saint Vincent in puppet form. And don’t miss her picnic table chitchat with Will Oldham, which includes an extensive discussion of Lana’s high school pooping habits.
If you happen to be in the L.A. area this week, check this out: Lana and her band will be putting on some sort of crazy avant-garde performance (which also involves my friend Michelle!) at the Redcat Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights as a part of the annual NOW Festival. According to REDCAT:
The performance art inspired punk collective of Lauren Fisher, Stephanie Hutin, Lana Kim and Marissa Mayer portrays unpredictable artmaker-songwriters whose band, Jennifer The Leopard, aims to fuse feminism and cock-rock into a new genre of post-punk under the guise of an “all-girl band.” The band, popularly known as J-Lep, stages a multimedia event featuring songs about celebrity sightings and knife fights while it pits an on-stage “audience” against the real one in a show that is part bitchin’ rock concert and part post-studio pep rally.
