Live Music Pick: Tuesday 11/8/11

Band: Peter Wolf Crier
Who Should Go: Indie rock fans
Where: Bootleg Bar
When: Tuesday November 8, 2011
Cost: $12 (buy HERE)

Other Noteworthy Shows:
Nico Stai / Brian Cleary / Michael Feerick @ Lot 1 ($5) 
First Aid Kit @ Troubadour (Sold Out)
Mates of State @ El Rey ($20)
Beyond This Place screening with live accompaniment by Sufjan Stevens & Raymonda Raposa ($28)

Live Music Options: 10/18/10 - 10/24/10

Superchunk Play El Rey on Tuesday

Great lineup of shows this week..

Monday 10/18/10

[Pick of the Night] Evan Voytas / Pizza! / Halloween Swim Team / The Sweet Hurt @ The Echo (Free) – Eclectic lineup.

[Recommended] Wet & Reckless / Twilight Sleep / Manhattan Murder Mystery / Diamonds Under Fire @ Silverlake Lounge (Free) – Good lineup.

[Recommended] Radars to the Sky / Wait.Think.Fast / One Trick Pony / The Here Nows @ Spaceland (Free) – Another good free lineup.

[Recommended] Jonsi / Mountain Man @ Fox Theater Pomona ($35) – Sigur Ros fans take note.

Mumford & Sons @ The Palladium ($37) – Surprised these guys have already worked their way up to the Palladium

Foals / Esben and the Witch @ El Rey ($18)

French Horn Rebellion / Mia Doi Todd / Secret Headliner @ Bardot (Free w/ RSVP)

Griffin House / Tyler James @ Troubadour ($15)

Blood Red Shoes / Sky Larkin / Younger Youth @ Bootleg ($120

Clark 8 / Whitman / Nicole Kidman / Ezra Buchla / Stellaluna @ Pehrspace

Phil Alvin @ Redwood

John Legend and the Roots @ Grammy Museum (Sold Out)

Tuesday 10/19/10

[Pick of the Week] Superchunk / The Vaselines / Telekinesis @ The Music Box ($26) – I like all three of these bands and was really impressed with Superchunk the last time I saw them.

[Recommended] Broken Social Scene / The Sea and Cake @ The Wiltern ($40)

[Recommended] Sleigh Bells @ Detroit Bar (Sold Out)

[Recommended] Deer Tick / J Roddy Walston and the Business @ El Rey ($20)

Interpol / White Rabbits @ Fox Theater Pomona (Sold Out)

Butterfly Bones / Jump Jump Dance Dance @ Spaceland ($8)

Scout Niblett / Fort King / Tommy Santee Klaws @ The Echo ($10)

Jason Diaz / The Diamond Light / The Muddy Reds @ Bootleg ($8)

Milktooth / Brent Nettles / Thurlow / Trevor Menear @ Silverlake Lounge ($8)

Ra Ra Riot / Givers @ The Glass House ($17)

Brunch with Superchunk @ Origami (Info here)

Macy Gray @ House of Blues Anaheim

Wednesday 10/20/10

[Pick of the Night] Sleigh Bells / Pictureplane / The Sundelles @ El Rey (Sold Out)

[Recommended] Women / Manchild @ The Echo ($12) – The new record is getting a lot of attention.

[Recommended] Ravi Shankar: 90^th Birthday Celebration @ Walt Disney Concert Hall (Sold Out)

Blake Shelton / Joanna Smith @ Club Nokia ($20 - $50)

Ra Ra Riot / Villagers and Givers @ The Music Box ($23)

Envy / La Dispute / Touche Amore / And So I Watch You From Afar @ Troubadour ($15)

Sing Orpheus / Lifter / Ravens Moreland @ Spaceland ($8)

Brooke Fraser @ Largo ($30)

Paulie Pesh / Olin & the Moon / The Steelwells / The Monthlies @ Silverlake Lounge ($8)

Bell X1 @ Hotel Café

Low End Theory: Odd Future / Bigg Jus @ Airliner ($10)

Mary J. Blige @ Gibson Amphitheatre

Thursday 10/21/10

[Pick of the Night] Film School / Lovelikefire / Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits @ The Echo ($12) – Bring your earplugs.

[Recommended] Frank Fairfield / Amanda Shires / Shakey Graves @ Redwood

Amusement Parks on Fire / Twilight Sleep / Nightmare Air @ Bootleg ($8)

Eugene Chadbourne / Kevin Blechdom / Corey Marc Fogel @ The Smell ($5)

Wiz Khalifa / Yelawolf / DJ Bonics @ The Music Box (Sold Out)

Born Ruffians / Meligrove Band / Walking Sleep @ Troubadour ($15)

Big Dick / The Pukes @ Spaceland ($8) – Little Richard tribute band

Dead Country / Death On Wednesday @ Silverlake Lounge ($8)

Hawksley Workman @ Hotel Café

Four Year Strong @ The Glass House ($17)

Electric Six @ Detroit Bar ($15)

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band @ Verizon Wireless ($50 - $150)

Laurie Anderson @ Royce Hall ($40 - $65)

Megadeath / Slayer / Anthrax @ Gibson Amphitheatre ($50 - $100)

Friday 10/22/10

[Pick of the Night] Mark Sultan / Kelley Stoltz / My Pet Saddle @ Spaceland ($12) – I’m a huge Kelley Stoltz fan. I ordered the new album direct from Sub Pop last week and I still haven’t gotten  it.

[Recommended] Taj Mahal / Vieux Farka Toure @ Royce Hall ($40 - $65)

Azure Ray / Tim Fite / Whispertown @ Troubadour ($15)

Owen Pallett / Little Scream / Woom @ Echoplex ($14)

Jail Weddings / Sweaters / Amanda Jo Williams @ Bootleg ($10)

Vince Gill / Gary Mule Deer @ Club Nokia ($45 - $65)

Captain Ahab / The Slaves / Kevin Shields / tik tik @ The Smell ($5)

The Temper Trap / Delphic / The Hundred In the Hands @ Fox Theater Pomona ($23)

Recoil @ El Rey ($25) – Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode

Wiz Khalifa / Yelawolf / DJ Bonics @ The Music Box (Sold Out)

Widespread Panic @ Greek Theatre

Minus the Bear / Tim Kasher / The Globes @ The Wiltern ($30 - $35)

Nostalghia / Aaron Beaumont @ Hotel Café

Bizzy Bone @ The Glass House ($15)

Black Elephant / Dirt Dress @ Pehrspace

Electric Six @ Key Club

Saturday 10/23/10

[Pick of the Night] Sufjan Stevens / DM Stith @ The Wiltern (Sold Out) – Bummed I never got around to buying tickets for this.

[Recommended] Elf Power / Astra Heights @ Bootleg ($12)

The Octopus Project / Starf*cker / Physical Forms / Strength @ Echoplex ($14)

Interpol / White Rabbits @ The Greek Theatre ($40)

The Temper Trap / Delphic / The Hundred In the Hands @ Club Nokia (Sold Out)

The Rudy Coby Experiment @ El Rey ($22)

Spencer Day / Lucy Woodward @ Troubadour ($20)

Rocket @ 3 Clubs

Russian Circles / Keelhaul / Call Me Lightning @ Spaceland ($14)

Janeane Garofalo @ Largo ($25)

The Fab Faux @ Orpheum ($42 - $123) – Performing Sgt. Peppers and Revolver in their entirety

Weather / Eliza Rickman / Neema @ Hotel Café

White Shit / Demoralize / Dude Mirror @ The Smell ($5)

Azure Ray / Tim Fite / Whispertown @ The Glass House ($15)

Jackshit @ McCabe’s ($15)

Shakira @ Staples Center ($10 - $150)

Sunday 10/24/10

[Pick of the Night] Sufjan Stevens / DM Stith @ The Wiltern (Sold Out)

[Recommended] Johnny O’Donnell / John Carpenter / Yellow Alex and the Feeling @ Spaceland (Free) – John Carpenter really impressed me the last time I saw him.

Glen Campbell @ The Grove of Anaheim ($44 - $87)

Bobby Brown / Johnny Gill / Ralph Tresvant @ Gibson Amphitheatre

Triptykon / 1349 / Yakuza @ El Rey ($20 - $52)

Shanbehzadeh Ensemble! @ Troubadour ($45) - Traditional Persian music

Two Years Before the Mast / Builder / Then There Were Two @ Bootleg Theater

Gold Motel / Michael Runion / Family of the Year @ The Echo ($10) – Early show at 6:00 PM

Part Time Punks: Boy Division @ The Echo ($5) – Joy Division cover band

Trashcan Sinatras @ McCabe’s (Sold Out)

Joan Osborne @ The Roxy ($25)



Recent Concert Announcements

Are you following me on Twitter? I already plugged the Arcade Fire shows there late last week...

Shrine Auditorium
10/7/10 – 10/8/10: Arcade Fire (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = KROQSUBURBS; Friday at 10 AM)

Culture Collide Festival (Spaceland, The Echo, Echoplex, 826LA, The Standard, Taix)
10/7/10 - 10/10-10: Black Lips / Klaxons / Tokyo Police Club / Phantogram / The Bronx / Montonix / Casiokids / Land of Talk / The Boxer Rebellion / The Besnard Lakes / Sea Wolf / Voxhaul Broadcast and others (Now at Ticketweb)


Hollywood Palladium
11/19/10: Black Label Society / Children of Bodom / Clutch (Friday at 10 AM)

The Wiltern
9/25/10: X Japan (Now)
10/22/10: Minus the Bear / Tim Kasher / AM (Friday at 10 AM)
10/24/10: Sufjan Stevens (Now)
10/26/10: Never Shout Never / The Maine (Saturday at 10 AM)
11/26/10: Pretty Lights (Friday at 10 AM)

Nokia Theatre
9/24/10: Gladys Night / The O’Jays (now)
10/2/10: The Australian Pink Floyd Show (now)

The Music Box
10/29/10: Kate Nash (Saturday at 10 AM)
11/26/10: Bonobo / Tokimonsta (now)
11/30/10: Grinderman (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = HEATHEN; Friday at 10 AM)

El Rey Theatre
10/4/10: Tired Pony (presale Friday at 10 AM, password = HORSE; Saturday at 10 AM)
10/12/10: Punch Brothers / Chris Thile (Saturday at 10 AM)
10/25/10: UNKLE (Friday at 10 AM)
11/14/10: Marc Cohn (Saturday at 10 AM)
11/26/10: Dawes / The Moondoggies / The Romany Rye (now)

Fox Theater Pomona
9/28/10: Jimmy Eat World / We Were Promised Jetpacks (Friday at 10 AM)

Troubadour
9/28/10: Guster (Saturday at 1:00 PM)
10/6/10: Futureheads (Thursday at 1:00 PM)
10/7/10: Lissie (Friday at 1:00 PM)
11/26/10: The Queers / The Riptides (Saturday at 1:00 PM)

Spaceland
9/16/10: Radio Moscow / Night Horse (now at Ticketweb)
9/17/10: The Parson Red Heads / Le Switch (now)
9/25/10: Speed Buggy (now)
10/15/10: David Bazan / Wye Oak (now)

The Echo
8/27/10: The Little Ones (now at Ticketweb)
9/2/10: Marijuana Death Squad / Har Mar Superstar / The Holloys / Woah Hunx (now)
9/17/10: Men (now)
10/19/10: Scout Niblett (now)

Silverlake Lounge
Mondays in October: Wet & Reckless

Walt Disney Concert Hall
10/20/10: Ravi Shankar (create series now, or box office opens on Sunday)
10/27/10: Neil Sedaka (see above)
11/10/10: Buika / Lila Downs (see above)
12/8/10: Natalie Cole (see above)
2/15/11: Wynton Marsalis (see above)
3/5/11: Herbie Hancock (see above)

Echoplex
9/25/10: Waved Out – Dungen / The Entrance Band / John Grant / The Fresh & Onlys / Shannon and the Clams / John Carpenter / Christmas Island / So Many Wizards / Summer Darling / Young Prisms (now at Ticketweb)
10/5/10: Talvin Singh (now)
10/22/10: Owen Pallett / Little Scream (now)
11/2/10: Stew & the Negro Problem (now)
11/11/10: The Soft Pack / Kurt Vile (now)
11/12/10: Pains of Being Pure at Heart / Weekend (now)

Detroit Bar
10/3/10: The Soft Pack (now)
10/7/10: The Like (now)
10/9/10: Land of Talk / The Besnard Lakes (now)

Recent Concert Announcements

John Cale Brings Paris 1919 to Royce Hall

The Wiltern
10/23/10: Sufjan Stevens (Friday at 10 AM)

Grammy Museum
9/1/10: Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses (now)

Royce Hall
9/30/10: John Cale performing Paris 1919 live (now)
10/2/10: Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano (now)
10/21/10: Laurie Anderson (now)
10/22/10: Taj Mahal / Vieux Farka Toure (now)
11/3/10: Ornette Coleman (now)
11/4/10: Murray Perahia (now)
11/5/10: Mavis Staples and Billy Bragg (now)
11/11/10: Gamelan Cudamani (now)
11/12/10: Dengue Fever (now)
11/19/10: Richard Thompson / Harry Shearer / Judith Owen (now)
12/1/10: John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension (now)
12/5/10: Alice Coltrane Tribute featuring Pharoah Sanders, Kyp Malone, Nels Cline, Nah Bennink, Daniel Carter (now)
1/29/11: Karsh Kale & MIDIval Punditz (now)
2/11/1: Daniel Hope and Jeffrey Kahane (now)
2/23/11: John Waters / Elvis Perkins / Matthew Gray Gubler (now)
3/3/11: Scharoun Ensemble Berlin (now)
3/5/11: Chick Corea & Gary Burton (now)
3/26/11: Acoustic Africa – Habib Koite / Oliver Mtukudzi / Afel Bocoum (now)
4/2/11: Bill Frisell Trio (now)
4/8/11: Arlo Guthrie & Friends (now)
4/27/11: David Sedaris
5/12/11: Preservation Hall Jazz Band and The Del McCoury Band (now)

Verizon Wireless
9/18/10: Jack’s 5th Show – Steve Miller Band / The Cult / The Fixx / Night Ranger / Skid Row / Modern English / Sweet (Saturday at 10 AM)
10/9/10: Rascal Flatts / Kellie Pickler / Chris Young (Saturday at 10 AM)

Hollywood Palladium
10/18/10: Mumford & Sons / Mt. Desolation / King Charles (Friday at 10 AM)

The Music Box
11/14/10: Junip / Sharon Van Etten (now)

El Rey
10/5/10: Angus & Julia Stone (Saturday at 10 AM)
10/30/10: Portugal. The Man / White Denim / HoneyChild (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = GHETTO; Saturday at 10 AM)
11/5/10: Ryuchi Sakamoto (Saturday at 10 AM)

Club Nokia
10/13/10: Gogol Bordello (Saturday at 10 AM)
10/29/10: AP Tour – Bring Me the Horizon / August Burns Red / Emarosa / Polar Bear Club (Saturday at 10 AM)
11/5/10: Djavan (Saturday at 10 AM)

Greek Theatre
10/5/10: Van Morrison (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = TUPELO; Saturday at 10 AM)
10/23/10: Interpol / White Rabbits (Saturday at 10 AM)

Fox Theater
10/28/10: AP Tour – Bring Me the Horizon / August Burns Red / Emarosa / Polar Bear Club (Saturday at 10 AM)

Troubadour
8/20/10: John Legend & the Roots (Friday at 1:00 PM)
10/12/10: The 88 (Thursday at 1:00 PM)
11/5/10: Senses Fail / Bayside (Thursday at 1:00 PM)
11/7/10: Bear in Heaven (now)
11/20/10: Clinic (now)

Bootleg
9/10/10: Watson Twins (now at in ticketing)
9/27/10: Torche (now)

Spaceland
9/24/10: Earthless (now at ticketweb)
11/2/10: White Denim (now)
11/16/10: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin / The Lonely Forest (now)

Echo
Mondays in September: Vanaprasta / Pacific Hurt
9/30/10: Jukebox the Ghost / Hooray for Earth (now)
10/1/10: Foster the People (now)
10/21/10: Film School (now)

Echoplex
11/1/10: Apples in Stereo (now)

Silverlake Lounge
Mondays in September: Family of the Year

McCabe’s
9/24/10: Beausoleil with Michael Doucet (now)

NOS Events Center in San Bernardino
10/16/10: Cypress Hill Smokeout – Incubus / Slightly Stoopid / Cypress Hill / MGMT / Atmosphere / Nas & Damian Marley / Manu Chao (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = SMOKEKROQ; Saturday at 10 AM)