Recent Concert Announcements

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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)

Best of the Decade: #10 - #1

It's February, which means it's finally time to say goodbye to the last decade. For the rest of the top 50, click HERE.



10) Spoon: Kill the Moonlight (2002 on Merge) – The second Spoon album on my list. Probably the most consistent band of the decade - Girls Can Tell, Kill the Moonlight and [editor: fixed this]Gimme Fiction all get mixed up in my head.

The Way We Get By - Spoon

9) The New Pornographers: Electric Version (2003 on Matador) – Still a go-to record when I want to hear something upbeat and fun. The New Pornographers are another contender for band of the decade.

The Electric Version - The New...

8) Beck: Sea Change (released in 2002 on Geffen) – This was Beck’s last really consistent album. Hopefully the record club thing and the production work with Charlotte Gainsbourg will re-invigorate him. You know there’s another mind-blowing album in there.

Lost Cause - Beck

7) The White Stripes: White Blood Cells (2001 on Sympathy for the Record Industry) – I can count my friends who like Jack White on one hand, but he was a big part of six really strong records this decade (De Stijl, White Blood Cells, Elephant, Van Lear Rose, Broken Boy Soldiers and Consolers of the Lonely). Impressive.

We're Going To Be Friends - Th...

6) Pernice Brothers: The World Won’t End (2001 on Ashmont) – I enjoy pretty much everything Joe Pernice does, but this one’s his masterpiece.

Bryte Side - Pernice Brothers

5) Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise (2005 on Asthmatic Kitty) – This record holds up surprisingly well. I like an indie artist with some ambition.

John Wayne Gacy, Jr. - Sufjan ...

4) Brian Wilson: Smile (2004 on Nonesuch) – Darian Sahanaja did an amazing job getting this out to the public. After listening to bootlegs for years, it’s great to hear a final product that stays true to the era. Some of the versions don't quite live up the originals, but seeing this performed live was one of the live music highlights of the decade.

Heroes and Villains - Brian Wi...

3) The Shins: Oh, Inverted World (2001 on Sub Pop) – Chutes Too Narrow might be a little bit catchier, but it didn’t “change my life” the way this one did. This digs way deeper than the rest of the music labeled indie pop.

Caring Is Creepy - The Shins

2) Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002 on Nonesuch) – I’m still more of a Summerteeth guy, but this one’s fantastic too.

Kamera - Wilco

1) Arcade Fire: Funeral (released in 2004 on Merge Records) – This one was a game changer. Unfortunately, we’ve all had to endure five years of overwrought indie bands with similar ambition, but far less talent.

Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - ...

Arcade Fire / LCD Soundsystem Tix on Sale Now

Tickets quietly went on sale for the Arcade Fire / LCD Soundsystem show at the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday September 20th. Get them here and avoid a lot of the Ticketmaster service charges. The tickets they have cost $41.