Angelinos are widely accepted as the American champions of summer feel, and this month it's reminding Manhattan why: Sammy Harkman and David Jacob Kramer of LA's Family Bookstore christened their pop-up gallery/bookstore/music venue, Thirty Days NY, with an open-to-the-public party that found hoards of hardly-clad, sweating bodies spilling onto the Tribeca street, creating an impromptu block party that imbued the hot night with sentiments of Spring's sister season. (The ice cream outsie truck didn't hurt.)

The opening was presented by Spike Jonze and featured performances by Black Dice's Eric Copeland, Gang Gang Dance's Brian Degraw, and Aska Matsumiya, who recently collaborated with Jonze on his short robot love story, I'm Here: Love In An Absolute World. The party was sponsored by Absolute Vodka-improbably enough, as we thought that Svedka was the brand of robot choice. The bookstore offers obscure newsprint journals, vinyl-sized monographs, and works by pop-indie fictionists such as Lydia Davis, Aimee Bender, and Wells Tower. Accented with a psychedelic light show, everything felt very analogue and sort of like a Kool-Aid Acid test; technology was happily absent.

The gallery, will remain open—no surprises here—30 days, and host readings by A.M. Homes, and symposiums with Albert Maysles and Art Spiegelman. Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore have already performed this weekend, as did Fred Armisen, who did stand-up. Also installed in the 4200 square foot space throughout the month is a Harkman and Kramer-curated exhibition of West Coast artists, featuring work by Autumn De Wilde, the designers Rodarte, and the collective Hamburger Eyes.

THIRTY DAYS NY IS LOCATED AT 70 FRANKLIN ST (BETWEEN CHURCH AND BROADWAY), AND IS OPEN DAILY FROM 12-9PM, 12-10PM ON EVENT NIGHTS—THROUGH MAY 7. FOR SCHEDULE OF EVENTS GO TO THIRTYDAYSNY.COM