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| Deerhunter Play the Wiltern on Tuesday A few good shows this week. Monday 8/8/11 Phish @ Hollywood Bowl Tuesday 8/9/11 [Pick of the Week] Deerhunter / Dunes / David Scott Stone @ The Wiltern ($27) – I still love that last album. [Recommended] Allah-Las / Farmer Dave Scher / The Tyde / Tomorrow’s Tulips @ The Echo (Free) – Good lineup and the price is definitely right. Wet and Reckless / Various Cruelties @ The Satellite ($8) The Wallburds / Loch & Key / Canoneers / Belize / Ansel / Black Kettle @ Echoplex ($8) Dancing Heals / Saint John and the Revelations / NOW @ Silverlake Lounge ($8) Matisyahu @ Grove of Anaheim Wednesday 8/10/11 [Recommended] Blues Night: Robert Cray / Keb’ Mo’ / Mavis Staples @ Hollywood Bowl ($2 - $141) – Mavis Staples at the Satellite was one of the best shows of the year. Sia @ The Wiltern ($34 - $47) The Street and Babe Shadow / The Bixby Knolls @ The Satellite ($8) Big Audio Dynamite / The Chain Gang of 1974 @ Club Nokia ($35 - $49) Low End Theory: Daedelus @ Airliner ($10) Jill Scott / Anthony Hamilton / Mint Condition / DJ Jazzy Jeff @ Gibson Amphitheatre ($80 - $201) Vans Warped Tour: Sum 41 / Against Me! / Less Than Jake / Relient K @ Cal State Dominguez Hills Marcia Griffiths @ Echoplex ($10) Forever Goldrush / Welldigger’s Banquet / Sons of August @ Silverlake Lounge ($8) Thursday 8/11/11 Christina Perri / honeyhoney / Sarah Ault @ Troubadour (Sold Out) Ellie Goulding / Bag Raiders @ The Wiltern ($34) STRFKR / Melted Toys @ El Rey ($18) LA Font / The Dead Ships / Terraplane Sun @ The Echo ($5) Noah Lit & Megafauna / Marcus Very Ordinary @ Pershing Square (Free) Beatnik Jr. / Tapioca and the Flea / Basement Babies / Naked Kids @ Silverlake Lounge ($8) Halloween Swim Team / Sisu / Morose @ 267 S. Main ($5) Avi Isenberg / Naïve Thieves / Saint Sea Hat / Not An Airplane @ The Prospector In Long Beach ($5) Big Audio Dynamite / The Chain Gang of 1974 @ Grove of Anaheim STS9 @ House of Blues Sunset Sole and the Skyrider Band / Busdriver @ The Roxy ($12) Royal Crown Revue / Orgone / Ameera @ Santa Monica Pier (Free) Friday 8/12/11 [Pick of the Night] The Decemberists / Wye Oak @ Greek Theatre ($33 - $43) – Make sure you get there early for Wye Oak. Eels / The Submarines @ El Rey ($30) Rodrigo y Gabriela / Los Amigos Invisibles @ Hollywood Bowl ($16 - $168) Natural Child / Liquor Store / The Double Negatives / Johnny O’Donnell @ Blue Star ($10) Bob Schneider @ Troubadour ($20) - Nekromantix @ House of Blues Sunset Saturday 8/13/11 Power of the Riff: Pentagram / Eyehategod / Winter / Pelican and many more @ The Echo & Echoplex ($35) Pacific Festival: Snoop Dogg / Cut Copy / Steve Aoki / Calvin Harris / Ghostland Observatory / !!! / Black Lips / Phantogram / Toro Y Moi / Bag Raiders and many more @ Oak Canyon Ranch ($75 - $175) – A couple of people I’d like to see in the lineup. I’ve heard Snoop’s pretty horrible about phoning it in these days. Gipsy Kings @ Greek Theatre ($35 - $121) Rodrigo y Gabriela / Los Amigos Invisibles @ Hollywood Bowl ($16 - $168) The Cause / Atomic & the Shallow / Mothership / Shades of Truth @ Troubadour Gold Soil / Rarebit / Anenon / Rom-Dos @ Bootleg ($10) The Milk Carton Kids @ McCabe’s ($15) Sunday 8/14/11 [Recommended] Roots Roadhouse: The Sadies / Old Man Markley / Mike Stinson / Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys / Eilen Jewell / Jesse Sykes & Phil Wandscher / Dawn Landes / Jackshit / Resavrant and many more @ The Echo and Echoplex ($18) Snoop Dogg / Tank / New Boyz @ Club Nokia ($40 - $60) Linda Perhacs @ Cinefamily Gipsy Kings @ Greek Theatre ($35 - $121) Dav Koz / Bobby Caldwell / Sheila E @ Hollywood Bowl ($16 - $144) Chris Blackwell @ Grammy Museum ($25) |
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Monday, August 08, 2011
Live Music Options: 8/8/11 - 8/14/11
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Live Music Announcements
Panda Bear Plays the FYF FestFYF Fest at Los Angeles State Historic Park
9/4/10: The Rapture / Panda Bear / Sleep / Dead Man’s Bones / Unbroken / !!! / Man Man / 7 Seconds / Thee Oh Sees / The Mountain Goats / Ted Leo / Delorean / Cold Cave / Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti / Washed Out / Davila 666 / School of Seven Bells / AA Bondy / The Blow / Best Coast / Wavves / Titus Andronicas / The Soft Pack / Abe Vigoda / Warpaint / Off! / Vetiver and others (now at Ticketweb)
Echoplex
9/25/10: Waved Out 2 – Dungen and others (now at Ticketweb)
9/30/10: Jamie Lidell (now)
Echo
11/16/10 – 11/17/10: Idlewild (now)
Club Nokia
8/12/10: Queens of the Stone Age / Eagles of Death Metal (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = BIGHANDS; Friday at 10 AM)
9/10/10: Trey Songz / Monica (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = SAYAAH; Friday at 10 AM)
10/9/10: The Fab Four (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = BEATLES; Friday at 10 AM)
10/15/10: Kruder & Dorfmeister (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = HIGHNOON; Friday at 10 AM)
El Rey Theatre
9/9/10: Justin Nozuka / Alex Cuba (Saturday at 10 AM)
9/17/10: Marina and the Diamonds (Saturday at 10 AM)
9/22/10: The Charlatans UK (presale Friday at 10 AM, password = TOUCH; Saturday at 10 AM)
Nokia Theater LA Live
10/1/10: The Avett Brothers / Brandi Carlile (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = BROS; Saturday at 10 AM)
The Music Box
10/13/10: James / Ed Harcourt (presale Friday at 10 AM, password = LAID; Saturday at 10 AM)
10/19/10: The Vaselines added to Superchunk / Telekinesis show (now)
10/28/10: fun. (Saturday at 10 AM)
The Mayan
10/13/10: Frightened Rabbit / Plants & Animals (Saturday at 10 AM)
John Anson Ford
9/22/10: The Airborne Toxic Event “an acoustic evening” (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = MIDNIGHT; Friday at 10 AM)
Angel Stadium
6/17/11 – 6/18/11: U2 (rescheduled dates)
Verizon Wireless
9/17/10: Disturbed / Avenged Sevenfold (Saturday at 10 AM)
Staples Center
9/26/10: Muse / Passion Pit (presale Friday at 10 AM, password = venue; Saturday at 10 AM)
Honda Center in Anaheim
10/22/10: Nickelback (Saturday at 10 AM)
The Wiltern
8/6/10: Ludacris (Friday at 10 AM)
10/4/10: Guided By Voices / Times New Viking (TBA)
11/3/10: Paul Weller (Friday at 10 AM)
11/5/10: Dr. Dog / Here We Go Magic / Good Old War (Friday at 10 AM)
11/6/10: Florence & the Machine (Friday at 10 AM)
Hollywood Palladium
7/23/10: The Sound Strike Benefit - Rage Against the Machine / Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band (TBA)
12/11/10: The Black Crowes / Truth & Salvage Company (Friday at 10 AM)
Gibson Amphitheatre
12/2/10: Louis C.K. (Friday at 10 AM)
Avalon
8/20/10: Scars on Broadway (now)
Troubadour
10/18/10: Griffen House (Friday at 1 PM)
10/22/10: Azure Ray / Tim Fite (Friday at 1 PM)
Largo
8/17/10: Ida and Michael Hurley (now)
Hotel Café
8/4/10: Meiko (now)
10/20/10: Bell X1 acoustic (now)
Greek Theatre
8/13/10: Carlos Santana / Lila Downs / Pete Escovedo / Zach De La Rocha (presale now, password = HUERTA)
9/18/10: Serj Tankian (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = SERJICAL; Saturday at 10 AM)
10/8/10: Maroon 5 / OneRepublic / Bruno Mars (presale Thursday at 10 AM, password = HANDS; Saturday at 10 AM)
McCabe’s
8/28/10: Matthew Sweet (now)
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Live Music Options: 5/31/10 - 6/6/10
Vetiver Play Spaceland on Sunday 6/6/10Last week's Eagles of Death Metal/Them Crooked Vultures rumors did not pan out at Spaceland. Fans instead got to see Dean Fertita's solo project (Hello = Fire) which also featured Brendan Benson on guitar.
Pretty ridiculous week for live music this week. A lot of the shows are already sold out, but get out there and see something....
Monday 5/31/10
[Pick of the Night] The Physics of Meaning / Flesh the Racist Crayon / Hi Ho Silver Oh / Paul Larson @ Spaceland (Free) – People who stumble in expecting to see Sweethead will be shocked (Sweethead’s residency ended last week). The Physics of Meaning is Daniel Hart who also plays with St. Vincent and John Vanderslice. Also, Paul Larson (The Minor Canon) is playing a solo show to celebrate his birthday.
[Recommended] The Like / The Young Veins / The Living Sickness @ The Echo (Free) – The Like’s residency ends. The Young Veins are about to hit the road with Rooney.
War Tapes / Younger Youth / Sing Orpheus / Wires in the Walls @ Silverlake Lounge (Free) – War Tapes is wrapping up its May residency at the SLounge.
Miike Snow / Canon Blue @ The Music Box (Sold Out)
Foot Village / Bitches / Nicole Kidman / Forts @ Pehrspace
Svarte Grenier / Crystal Hell Pool @ Synchronicity
Tuesday 6/1/10
[Pick of the Night] Le Switch / Great Big Things / Smile Radio @ the Prospector in Long Beach – I probably recommend Le Switch shows too often, but you’ll just have to deal with it.
[Pick of the Night] The Californian / Chloroform Days / HoneyHoney / Big Whup @ Spaceland ($7) – This is the record release show for The Californian which features Jonathan (The Henry Clay People) and Wendy Wang (The Sweet Hurt) amongst others.
[Recommended] Ruby Friedman / Bob Forrest & Zander Schloss / Wheelhouse @ Hotel Café – Wheelhouse features Brian Whelan from the Broken West. Bob Forrest is from Thelonious Monster and Zander Schloss was in the Circle Jerks and Weirdos.
Rocket / The Damn Sons / Tommy & the High Pilots / Gossip Tree @ Viper Room (Free)
The Bullets / The Bohunks / Ollin @ Troubadour ($10)
3OH!3 / Cobra Starship @ Club Nokia ($30)
Jeremy Dawson DJ Set / White Apple Tree / Buddy Akai @ The Echo ($10)
Tig Has Friends Featuring the Cast fo “Party Down” @ Largo
First Aid Kit / Samantha Crain / Whispertown @ Bootleg ($15)
Pacific Hurt / My Pet Saddle / Sequins and Skeletons @ Silverlake Lounge ($8)
Jonny Lang @ Grammy Museum ($20)
Luna is Honey / Karma Vision @ Synchronicity
Wednesday 6/2/10
[Pick of the Night] School of Seven Bells / Sister Crayon / VoicesVoices @ the Echo ($16) – Good record. Ben Curtis was in The Secret Machines.
[Recommended] Friendo / Gamble House @ Spaceland ($10) – Friendo features Mike Wallace of Women. Listen to a track over at Pitchfork.
[Recommended] John Wicks & the Records @ The Mint ($10) – “Starry Eyes” is a fantastic pop song. “Teenarama” still gets stuck in my head too.
[Recommended] Low End Theory: Daedelus / Nosaj Thing / Jneiro Jarel / Thavius Beck / Asura ($10 – members only)
The Living Sisters / John Gold @ Hotel Café
Cute Is What We Aim For / Friday Night Boys / Bigger Lights / Down with Webster @ Troubadour ($15)
Miike Snow / Canon Blue @ The Music Box (Sold Out)
Crooked Still @ Largo ($25)
Hot Hot Heat / Stone Darling / Chasing Kings @ Bootleg ($12)
El Ten Eleven / Open Hand / Roman Numerals @ Silverlake Lounge ($8)
Socorro / Sisu / Monster @ Echo Curio
Dan Black @ Detroit Bar ($10)
Junior Cat / Izzy @ Echoplex ($15)
Thursday 6/3/10
[Pick of the Night] Why? / The Donkeys / Josiah Wolf @ The Glass House ($14) – Gotta drive out to Pomona to see Why? This time around.
[Recommended] Free Kutmah: Dam-Funk / Daedelus / Gaslamp Killer / Samiyam / Teebs @ Echoplex ($40) – Kinda spendy, but it helps Kutmah’s legal expenses.
[Recommended] Fitz and the Tantrums / Oh Darling / The Spires @ Spaceland ($10) – Fitz and the Tantrums are doing a Thursday night residency this month at Spaceland. They’re a neo-soul band that’s opened shows for Maroon 5, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, The Specials and Jay Sean.
Mumford & Sons / The Middle East @ The Music Box ($17.50) – Paste loves them, Pitchfork hates them and most everybody else falls in between (but closer to Paste). Neo-folk from London. Swelling songs with big choruses (and a singer who the New York Times compares to Dave Matthews).
Born Ruffians / Young Rival / Random Patterns @ The Echo ($12) – Toronto indie rockers who are pretty well liked by Pitchfork.
Neon Indian / Class Actress@ Detroit Bar ($18) – Beloved by bloggers all over. Also at the Natural History Museum on Friday.
Death By Stereo / Left Alone / Living Dead Lights / Sederra / White Flag Down @ Troubadour ($15)
Dan Black@ The Roxy ($15)
The Watkins Family Hour @ Largo ($25)
A Frames / Wounded Lion / Dunes @ The Smell ($8)
Terraplane Sun / Bear Face @ Silverlake Lounge ($8)
Spotlight, Floodlight / Lex Land @ Bootleg ($10)
TD Lind @ Hotel Café
Hand / Henry Wolfe / Black Jesus / Matthew O’Neill @ Echo Curio
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony @ Grove of Anaheim
The Delta Mirror / Franco Near Death @ Origami (Free) – 7:00 PM
Friday 6/4/10
[Pick of the Night] Peanut Butter Wolf / Neon Indian @ Natural History Museum ($15 tix are sold out) – The First Fridays curators do it again.
[Recommended] Local Natives / Suckers @ Troubadour (Sold Out) – The LA band is doing quite well for themselves.
[Recommended] Ole Californio / I See Hawks in LA @ Redwood Bar – Some good low key local country.
Mumford & Sons / The Middle East @ The Music Box (Sold Out) – Night two is sold out.
LCD Soundsystem / Holy Ghost! @ Hollywood Palladium (Sold Out) – Every song I hear from the new album is more ridiculous than the last. This shit seriously makes me want to drive my car off a bridge. But Pitchfork (and probably a lot of you) love it.
Class Actress / Neon Indian DJ Set / CFCF / LexiconDon @ The Echoplex ($15)
Mia Doi Todd / Simone White @ McCabe’s ($15)
Infinity / Dynamite Walls @ Bootleg ($12) – Female fronted Journey cover band.
The Golden Filter / Robotanists / The Hundred in the Hands / Dazzle Ships @ Spaceland ($10)
Miike Snow / Canon Blue @ Fox Theatre Pomona ($20)
50 Cent / DJ Ivy @ Club Nokia ($20 - $85) – Dude’s gonna freak out his fans if he still looks like his recent weight loss photos.
Quadron @ The Echo ($10)
Jay Buchanan / Brother Sal @ Hotel Café
8mm @ Viper Room ($15)
Suffering Luna / Demoralize / Necrobitchuery @ The Smell ($5)
Moses Campbell / Manhattan Murder Mystery / Big Whup / Spirit Vine @ Echo Curio
Hello My Name Is Red / Tomorrows Tulips / Meho Plaza / Cobalt Cranes @ Pehrspace
Trashcan Sinatras @
Nettie Rose / Garland / John Carpenter @ Synchronicity
Sweaters @ Vacation Vinyl (Free) – 7:30 PM
Death Kit / La Font @ Origami (Free) – 7:00 PM
Saturday 6/5/10
[Pick of the Week] The xx / Phantogram / Blake Miller @ The Music Box (Sold Out) – If you didn’t get tickets you can see them the next night at the (less intimate) Wiltern.
[Recommended] Buzzcocks / The Dollyrots / Images @ Club Nokia ($28.50) – Saw them a while back at Spaceland – good fun.
[Recommended] Painted Hills @ Origami (Free) – 7:00 PM – Painted Hills is Josh Schwartz’s band (Beachwood Sparks, The Tyde, Fairchilde). They’ve got a new record out on Ric Menck’s label.
[Recommended] Crystal Antlers / Woah Hunx @ Thesex (Band Donations) – Haven’t been to Thesex yet, so I don’t know what to tell you about the venue.
[Recommended] Local Natives / Voxhaul Broadcast / Marvelous Toy @ Bootleg ($14) – One show on the west side and one show on the east side – I wish more bands would do that….
KROQ Weenie Roast: Sublime with Rome / Stone Temple Pilots / Deftones / Hole / Devo / Paramore / Silversun Pickups / Spoon / Cage the Elephant / Chevelle / The Temper Trap / Dirty Heads / Passion Pit / Against Me! @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Sold Out) – Do you think there was a time when Britt Daniel would have turned up his nose at playing a show with Sublime?
Isis / Tombs / Jakob @ Troubadour (Sold Out) – This is Isis last SoCal show ever.
Jack Wilson Jr. / Joe & Jillinda / Sister Grizzly / Honey Loving Cells @ Pehrspace – Joe from Le Switch and Jillinda from the Damselles.
Maxwell / Jill Scott @ Staples Center ($30 - $250)
Screaming Females / Suckers / Audacity @ Spaceland ($12)
LCD Soundsystem / Holy Ghost! @ Fox Theater Pomona ($27.50)
School of Rock Presents: A Tribute to Radiohead @ the Mint – Early show at 1:00 PM
Grass Widow / Mike Watt / Trainwreck Riders / Rare Grooves @ the Smell ($8)
The Thrilling Adventure Hour @ Largo ($25)
Gary Lucas @ McCabe’s ($15)
Elevaters @ Hotel Café
The Body Parts / The Preservation / Oh, the Future @ Echo Curio
Subhumans / Cross Stitched Eyes / A-Heads / Rayos X @ The Glass House ($12) – Early show at 6:00 PM
The Middle East @ Detroit Bar ($10)
Nullsleep / Trash80 / Mr. Spastic / George & Jonathan @ Synchronicity
Sunday 6/6/10
[Pick of the Night] Vetiver / Farmer Dave Scher @ Spaceland ($15) – Good, folky vibes.
[Recommended] The xx / Phantogram @ The Wiltern ($25) – Night two in town.
Subhumans / Cross Stitched Eyes / A-Heads / Rayos X @ The Echo ($12) – Early show at 5:00 PM
Buzzcocks / The Dollyrots / Images @ House of Blues Anaheim
Sweaters / Jared Dreams of Far Out Things @ The Echo ($5)
Sage Francis / Free Moral Agents @ The Music Box ($22.50)
Necro @ El Rey
Hatchet Wound / Dunes / Bipolar Bear / Neonates @ The Smell
Screaming Females / Stoned At Heart / Woah Hunx @ Echo Curio ($5)
Bamboozle Road Show: Third Eye Blind / Good Charlotte / All Time Low / Boys Like Girls / Hellogoodbye @ Hollywood Palladium ($33)
School of Rock Presents: A Tribute to Radiohead @ the Mint – Early show at 1:00 PM
Dan Bern / Common Rotation / Ezra Furman / Matty Goldberg @ McCabe’s ($10)
Quadron @ Amoeba (Free) – 5:00 PM
[Pick of the Night] The Physics of Meaning / Flesh the Racist Crayon / Hi Ho Silver Oh / Paul Larson @ Spaceland (Free) – People who stumble in expecting to see Sweethead will be shocked (Sweethead’s residency ended last week). The Physics of Meaning is Daniel Hart who also plays with St. Vincent and John Vanderslice. Also, Paul Larson (The Minor Canon) is playing a solo show to celebrate his birthday.
[Recommended] The Like / The Young Veins / The Living Sickness @ The Echo (Free) – The Like’s residency ends. The Young Veins are about to hit the road with Rooney.
War Tapes / Younger Youth / Sing Orpheus / Wires in the Walls @ Silverlake Lounge (Free) – War Tapes is wrapping up its May residency at the SLounge.
Miike Snow / Canon Blue @ The Music Box (Sold Out)
Foot Village / Bitches / Nicole Kidman / Forts @ Pehrspace
Svarte Grenier / Crystal Hell Pool @ Synchronicity
Tuesday 6/1/10
[Pick of the Night] Le Switch / Great Big Things / Smile Radio @ the Prospector in Long Beach – I probably recommend Le Switch shows too often, but you’ll just have to deal with it.
[Pick of the Night] The Californian / Chloroform Days / HoneyHoney / Big Whup @ Spaceland ($7) – This is the record release show for The Californian which features Jonathan (The Henry Clay People) and Wendy Wang (The Sweet Hurt) amongst others.
[Recommended] Ruby Friedman / Bob Forrest & Zander Schloss / Wheelhouse @ Hotel Café – Wheelhouse features Brian Whelan from the Broken West. Bob Forrest is from Thelonious Monster and Zander Schloss was in the Circle Jerks and Weirdos.
Rocket / The Damn Sons / Tommy & the High Pilots / Gossip Tree @ Viper Room (Free)
The Bullets / The Bohunks / Ollin @ Troubadour ($10)
3OH!3 / Cobra Starship @ Club Nokia ($30)
Jeremy Dawson DJ Set / White Apple Tree / Buddy Akai @ The Echo ($10)
Tig Has Friends Featuring the Cast fo “Party Down” @ Largo
First Aid Kit / Samantha Crain / Whispertown @ Bootleg ($15)
Pacific Hurt / My Pet Saddle / Sequins and Skeletons @ Silverlake Lounge ($8)
Jonny Lang @ Grammy Museum ($20)
Luna is Honey / Karma Vision @ Synchronicity
Wednesday 6/2/10
[Pick of the Night] School of Seven Bells / Sister Crayon / VoicesVoices @ the Echo ($16) – Good record. Ben Curtis was in The Secret Machines.
[Recommended] Friendo / Gamble House @ Spaceland ($10) – Friendo features Mike Wallace of Women. Listen to a track over at Pitchfork.
[Recommended] John Wicks & the Records @ The Mint ($10) – “Starry Eyes” is a fantastic pop song. “Teenarama” still gets stuck in my head too.
[Recommended] Low End Theory: Daedelus / Nosaj Thing / Jneiro Jarel / Thavius Beck / Asura ($10 – members only)
The Living Sisters / John Gold @ Hotel Café
Cute Is What We Aim For / Friday Night Boys / Bigger Lights / Down with Webster @ Troubadour ($15)
Miike Snow / Canon Blue @ The Music Box (Sold Out)
Crooked Still @ Largo ($25)
Hot Hot Heat / Stone Darling / Chasing Kings @ Bootleg ($12)
El Ten Eleven / Open Hand / Roman Numerals @ Silverlake Lounge ($8)
Socorro / Sisu / Monster @ Echo Curio
Dan Black @ Detroit Bar ($10)
Junior Cat / Izzy @ Echoplex ($15)
Thursday 6/3/10
[Pick of the Night] Why? / The Donkeys / Josiah Wolf @ The Glass House ($14) – Gotta drive out to Pomona to see Why? This time around.
[Recommended] Free Kutmah: Dam-Funk / Daedelus / Gaslamp Killer / Samiyam / Teebs @ Echoplex ($40) – Kinda spendy, but it helps Kutmah’s legal expenses.
[Recommended] Fitz and the Tantrums / Oh Darling / The Spires @ Spaceland ($10) – Fitz and the Tantrums are doing a Thursday night residency this month at Spaceland. They’re a neo-soul band that’s opened shows for Maroon 5, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, The Specials and Jay Sean.
Mumford & Sons / The Middle East @ The Music Box ($17.50) – Paste loves them, Pitchfork hates them and most everybody else falls in between (but closer to Paste). Neo-folk from London. Swelling songs with big choruses (and a singer who the New York Times compares to Dave Matthews).
Born Ruffians / Young Rival / Random Patterns @ The Echo ($12) – Toronto indie rockers who are pretty well liked by Pitchfork.
Neon Indian / Class Actress@ Detroit Bar ($18) – Beloved by bloggers all over. Also at the Natural History Museum on Friday.
Death By Stereo / Left Alone / Living Dead Lights / Sederra / White Flag Down @ Troubadour ($15)
Dan Black@ The Roxy ($15)
The Watkins Family Hour @ Largo ($25)
A Frames / Wounded Lion / Dunes @ The Smell ($8)
Terraplane Sun / Bear Face @ Silverlake Lounge ($8)
Spotlight, Floodlight / Lex Land @ Bootleg ($10)
TD Lind @ Hotel Café
Hand / Henry Wolfe / Black Jesus / Matthew O’Neill @ Echo Curio
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony @ Grove of Anaheim
The Delta Mirror / Franco Near Death @ Origami (Free) – 7:00 PM
Friday 6/4/10
[Pick of the Night] Peanut Butter Wolf / Neon Indian @ Natural History Museum ($15 tix are sold out) – The First Fridays curators do it again.
[Recommended] Local Natives / Suckers @ Troubadour (Sold Out) – The LA band is doing quite well for themselves.
[Recommended] Ole Californio / I See Hawks in LA @ Redwood Bar – Some good low key local country.
Mumford & Sons / The Middle East @ The Music Box (Sold Out) – Night two is sold out.
LCD Soundsystem / Holy Ghost! @ Hollywood Palladium (Sold Out) – Every song I hear from the new album is more ridiculous than the last. This shit seriously makes me want to drive my car off a bridge. But Pitchfork (and probably a lot of you) love it.
Class Actress / Neon Indian DJ Set / CFCF / LexiconDon @ The Echoplex ($15)
Mia Doi Todd / Simone White @ McCabe’s ($15)
Infinity / Dynamite Walls @ Bootleg ($12) – Female fronted Journey cover band.
The Golden Filter / Robotanists / The Hundred in the Hands / Dazzle Ships @ Spaceland ($10)
Miike Snow / Canon Blue @ Fox Theatre Pomona ($20)
50 Cent / DJ Ivy @ Club Nokia ($20 - $85) – Dude’s gonna freak out his fans if he still looks like his recent weight loss photos.
Quadron @ The Echo ($10)
Jay Buchanan / Brother Sal @ Hotel Café
8mm @ Viper Room ($15)
Suffering Luna / Demoralize / Necrobitchuery @ The Smell ($5)
Moses Campbell / Manhattan Murder Mystery / Big Whup / Spirit Vine @ Echo Curio
Hello My Name Is Red / Tomorrows Tulips / Meho Plaza / Cobalt Cranes @ Pehrspace
Trashcan Sinatras @
Nettie Rose / Garland / John Carpenter @ Synchronicity
Sweaters @ Vacation Vinyl (Free) – 7:30 PM
Death Kit / La Font @ Origami (Free) – 7:00 PM
Saturday 6/5/10
[Pick of the Week] The xx / Phantogram / Blake Miller @ The Music Box (Sold Out) – If you didn’t get tickets you can see them the next night at the (less intimate) Wiltern.
[Recommended] Buzzcocks / The Dollyrots / Images @ Club Nokia ($28.50) – Saw them a while back at Spaceland – good fun.
[Recommended] Painted Hills @ Origami (Free) – 7:00 PM – Painted Hills is Josh Schwartz’s band (Beachwood Sparks, The Tyde, Fairchilde). They’ve got a new record out on Ric Menck’s label.
[Recommended] Crystal Antlers / Woah Hunx @ Thesex (Band Donations) – Haven’t been to Thesex yet, so I don’t know what to tell you about the venue.
[Recommended] Local Natives / Voxhaul Broadcast / Marvelous Toy @ Bootleg ($14) – One show on the west side and one show on the east side – I wish more bands would do that….
KROQ Weenie Roast: Sublime with Rome / Stone Temple Pilots / Deftones / Hole / Devo / Paramore / Silversun Pickups / Spoon / Cage the Elephant / Chevelle / The Temper Trap / Dirty Heads / Passion Pit / Against Me! @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Sold Out) – Do you think there was a time when Britt Daniel would have turned up his nose at playing a show with Sublime?
Isis / Tombs / Jakob @ Troubadour (Sold Out) – This is Isis last SoCal show ever.
Jack Wilson Jr. / Joe & Jillinda / Sister Grizzly / Honey Loving Cells @ Pehrspace – Joe from Le Switch and Jillinda from the Damselles.
Maxwell / Jill Scott @ Staples Center ($30 - $250)
Screaming Females / Suckers / Audacity @ Spaceland ($12)
LCD Soundsystem / Holy Ghost! @ Fox Theater Pomona ($27.50)
School of Rock Presents: A Tribute to Radiohead @ the Mint – Early show at 1:00 PM
Grass Widow / Mike Watt / Trainwreck Riders / Rare Grooves @ the Smell ($8)
The Thrilling Adventure Hour @ Largo ($25)
Gary Lucas @ McCabe’s ($15)
Elevaters @ Hotel Café
The Body Parts / The Preservation / Oh, the Future @ Echo Curio
Subhumans / Cross Stitched Eyes / A-Heads / Rayos X @ The Glass House ($12) – Early show at 6:00 PM
The Middle East @ Detroit Bar ($10)
Nullsleep / Trash80 / Mr. Spastic / George & Jonathan @ Synchronicity
Sunday 6/6/10
[Pick of the Night] Vetiver / Farmer Dave Scher @ Spaceland ($15) – Good, folky vibes.
[Recommended] The xx / Phantogram @ The Wiltern ($25) – Night two in town.
Subhumans / Cross Stitched Eyes / A-Heads / Rayos X @ The Echo ($12) – Early show at 5:00 PM
Buzzcocks / The Dollyrots / Images @ House of Blues Anaheim
Sweaters / Jared Dreams of Far Out Things @ The Echo ($5)
Sage Francis / Free Moral Agents @ The Music Box ($22.50)
Necro @ El Rey
Hatchet Wound / Dunes / Bipolar Bear / Neonates @ The Smell
Screaming Females / Stoned At Heart / Woah Hunx @ Echo Curio ($5)
Bamboozle Road Show: Third Eye Blind / Good Charlotte / All Time Low / Boys Like Girls / Hellogoodbye @ Hollywood Palladium ($33)
School of Rock Presents: A Tribute to Radiohead @ the Mint – Early show at 1:00 PM
Dan Bern / Common Rotation / Ezra Furman / Matty Goldberg @ McCabe’s ($10)
Quadron @ Amoeba (Free) – 5:00 PM
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Tom Petty Comes to the Hollywood BowlClub Nokia
4/13/10: Public Image Limited (presale Friday at 10 AM, password = RISE; on sale Saturday at 10 AM)
Hollywood Bowl
5/22/10: Tom Petty / Joe Cocker (AmEx presale now; on sale 3/22 at 10 AM)
7/12/10: Kings of Leon (AmEx presale now; on sale Saturday at 10 AM)
The Mayan
5/20/10: Minus the Bear (AmEx presale now, on sale Saturday at 10 AM)
Spaceland
Monday Residency in April: Helen Stellar
4/2/10: Webb Bros (now at Ticketweb)
4/3/10: Kenan Bell / Dot Hacker / The Family Album (now)
4/14/10: Holly Golightly & the Broke-Offs (now)
4/15/10: Willowz (now)
4/16/10: Mark Sultan (now)
4/21/10: Bitch (now)
5/15/10 Most Serene Republic / Annuals (now)
5/16/10: Gil Mantera’s Party Dream (now)
6/6/10: Vetiver (now)
Echo
5/6/10: Spindrift / Nurses (now at Ticketweb)
5/28/10: Frog Eyes / Mt. St. Helen’s Vietnam Band (now)
Echoplex
4/8/10: Masta Killa (now at Ticketweb)
4/14/10: Mad Professor (now)
4/16/10: The Mau Maus (now)
4/20/10: Earth / Wolves in the Throne Room (now)
4/23/10: The French Resistance (now)
4/30/10: Heartless Bastards / Hacienda / Amy Cook (now)
Bootleg
4/16/10: Autolux / Franz Nicolay (now at in ticketing)
4/20/10: Everest (now at in ticketing)
4/29/10: His Name Is Alive (now)
5/24/10: Noodles / Mere Mortals (now)
6/1/10: First Aid Kit (now)
Silverlake Lounge
Mondays in April: So Many Wizards
Troubadour
6/2/10: Cute Is What We Aim For (Saturday at 1:00 PM)
6/6/10: Vetiver (now)
Echo
5/6/10: Spindrift / Nurses (now at Ticketweb)
5/28/10: Frog Eyes / Mt. St. Helen’s Vietnam Band (now)
Echoplex
4/8/10: Masta Killa (now at Ticketweb)
4/14/10: Mad Professor (now)
4/16/10: The Mau Maus (now)
4/20/10: Earth / Wolves in the Throne Room (now)
4/23/10: The French Resistance (now)
4/30/10: Heartless Bastards / Hacienda / Amy Cook (now)
Bootleg
4/16/10: Autolux / Franz Nicolay (now at in ticketing)
4/20/10: Everest (now at in ticketing)
4/29/10: His Name Is Alive (now)
5/24/10: Noodles / Mere Mortals (now)
6/1/10: First Aid Kit (now)
Silverlake Lounge
Mondays in April: So Many Wizards
Troubadour
6/2/10: Cute Is What We Aim For (Saturday at 1:00 PM)
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