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The L.A. Show Low Down (Or: "How Can We Not Extend A Hand Into The Perilous Waters Of Hell...")

by Brad Roberts

Week of November 20- 26

Maximo Park at Teragram Ballroom on Monday Nov 20.

 

Silversun Pickups at The Theatre at Ace Hotel on Saturday Nov 25.

Monday, November 20

Recommended:

Maximo Park, Gothic Tropic @ Teragram Ballroom

Dead Meadow, Pink Mountaintops, Dallas Acid @ Echoplex

playing tonight:

• Keli Price, Paradise Vultures, Ever So Android, PHEVR @  The Satellite
• Superet, Clara-Nova, Green Gerry @ The Echo
• Dead Meadow, Pink Mountaintops, Dallas Acid @ Echoplex
• "School Night!" w/ Wayfarer, Boy Epic, Stalgia @ Bardot
• Teen Models, Girl Friday, Crooked Squares, Boa Constrictors @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Maximo Park, Gothic Tropic @ Teragram Ballroom
• LCD Soundsystem @ Hollywood Palladium
• Los Angeles Police Department, No Win, Wished Bone, Will Fox @ Bootleg Bar
• Monday Monday, Belle Mt @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Barns Courtney, Craig Strickland @ The Troubadour
• The Myrrors, Vinyl Williams, Drinking Flowers @ Moroccan Lounge
• GospelbeacH, Raderson, Dream Phases @ Zebulon Cafe
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Headwinds, Candace, Imaad Wasif @ Harvard & Stone
  

Tuesday, November 21

Recommended:

Korey Dane, Zella Day, Calvin Love @ Moroccan Lounge

playing tonight:

• Francine Thirteen, Glitter Trails, Plasmic @ The Satellite
• Julia Jacklin, Faye Webster @ The Echo
• Cosmonauts, Adult Books, Rips, The Mad Walls @ Echoplex
• Andy Lawrence, Mike Barone @ Hotel Café
• Aloe Blacc @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Sur, Lonely Beast, The Thens @ The Hi Hat
• LCD Soundsystem @ Hollywood Palladium
• Lostboycrow, Prelow, DYSN @ The Troubadour
• J. Views, Bay Ledges @ Bootleg Bar
• Mogwai @ The Belasco Theatre
• Korey Dane, Zella Day, Calvin Love @ Moroccan Lounge
• The Memories @ Zebulon Cafe
• Brenda Carsey and the Awe, Kismet, Slim Jeff @ Harvard & Stone
• Hidden Charms @ Resident
• Our Lady Peace, SMSHING HRTS @ El Rey

Wednesday, Novembers 22

Recommended:

Vaud and the Villains, Sister Speak @ Moroccan Lounge

playing tonight:

• Kat Myers & The Buzzards w/ Special Guests @ The Satellite
• Heavy Door @ Harvard & Stone
• X 40 Year Anniversary w/ Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones @ The Novo by Microsoft
• Part Time Punks : Smith’s/Morrissey Nite @ The Regent Theatre
• dimber, Neza Alexander, The Primals, Remorseless @ The Hi Hat
• Vaud and the Villains, Sister Speak @ Moroccan Lounge
• Torii Wolf @ Resident
• China, Herman Düne, Zeb Zaitz, St. Paint @ Bootleg Bar
• The Night Owl Collective @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, November 23    Thanksgiving

Recommended:

EAT!

 

Friday, November 24

Recommended:

Animals As Leaders, Periphery @ The Wiltern

playing tonight:

• The Aftershow, Porcelain Hill, Three Sides, Man Over Matter @ The Satellite
• Jesse Rutherford and Friends @ The Echo
• Animals As Leaders, Periphery @ The Wiltern
• Monophonics, Con Brio @ The Troubadour
• The Expanders, Dubbest, Iya Terra @ Teragram Ballroom
• "Autumn" featuring Azul, Mereba, Linafornia @ Resident
• Selena For Sanctuary, August Eve, Welfair @ The Hi Hat
• Elise Trouw, Blake Lewis @ Moroccan Lounge
• Baths, D33J @ Zebulon Cafe
• Dusty Santamaria, Moira Ichiban, Chainsaw Rainbow, The Peckinpaws, Cosmic Jetties @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Princess Nokia, Suzi Analogue @ El Rey

Saturday, November 25

Recommended:

Silversun Pickups @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel

playing tonight:

• The Aquadolls, Clit Kat, New Evil, Sabrina Is Not In This Chat @ The Echo
• Silversun Pickups @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• Kishi Bashi, Tall Tall Trees @ The Troubadour
• Young Creatures Record Release, Dream Phases, Livingmore @ The Hi Hat
• Church @ Resident
• Justin Jay’s Fantastic Voyage @ Teragram Ballroom
• Luke Davis, Michael Fordsys, Cooper Walker, Aidan Boardman @ Silver Lake Lounge
• BNTLY, Annie Bosko, George Krikes @ Hotel Café
• Rosalie, Lauren Hulbert, Ashley Heath @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Slenderbodies, Abby Diamond, Arielle Deem @ Bootleg Bar
• H.E.R. @ El Rey
• Linda Perhacs, Chris Price @ McCabe's

Sunday, November 26

Recommended:

Jack Tempchin, Chelsea Williams @ McCabe's

playing tonight:

• Prettiest Eyes Record Release Party, Sister Mantos, Hooveriii @ The Echo
• Alluxe, Ryat, Hydrah @ Bootleg Bar
• Perra Galga, The Altons, The Strange Phases, The Asteroid Shop @ Resident
• Weyes Blood, Mary Lattimore @ Zebulon Cafe
• Jack Tempchin, Chelsea Williams @ McCabe's

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Week of November 27 - December 3

Blitzen Trapper at Bootleg Bar on Friday Dec 1

Monday, November 27

Recommended:

Say Anything, Dan Andriano + Mike Park, Backward Dancer @ The Troubadour

GospelbeacH, Jenny O, Salar Rajabnik @ Zebulon Cafe

playing tonight:

• We Govern Me, Skeeplust, NEONHEART, Danni Ammon @ The Satellite
• Trophy Eyes, Free Throw, Head North @ The Echo
• Superet, Dream Machines, Fell Runner @ Echoplex
• "School Night!" w/ Knox White, Jesse Jo Stark, Evalyn  @ Bardot
• Minor Birds, Gayle Skidmore, Wires, Filmspeed @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Steel Panther, Neptune Blue @ The Roxy
• Los Angeles Police Department, Cyrus Gengras, Lens Mozer, Jackie Cohen @ Bootleg Bar
• Say Anything, Dan Andriano + Mike Park, Backward Dancer @ The Troubadour
• Justin Nozuka @ Moroccan Lounge
• GospelbeacH, Jenny O, Salar Rajabnik @ Zebulon Cafe
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Hawaiian T-Shirt, Autosex, The Electric West @ Harvard & Stone
  

Tuesday, November 28

Recommended:

Stars @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

playing tonight:

• Maddie Ross, Ren Farren, Matt Koelsch @ The Satellite
• Stars @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Sur, ADLT VDEO, Liz Huett @ The Hi Hat
• The Wind Chasers Club @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Say Anything, Dan Andriano + Mike Park, Backward Dancer @ The Troubadour
• Lean, Motor Sales, Somme @ Bootleg Bar
• Niia, Mess Kid @ Moroccan Lounge
• Brenda Carsey and the Awe, Cassini, Mothdrops @ Harvard & Stone
• The Jacks, Trubdr, Adam Road @ Resident
  

Wednesday, Novembers 29

Recommended:

Pink Martini @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel

playing tonight:

• Bright Light Bright Light, The Fontaines, capital @ The Satellite
• Luna Shadows, Bloodboy, Chelsea Jade @ The Echo
• Stars @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• XXYYXX @ The Regent Theatre
• Pink Martini @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• Morgan Saint @ Moroccan Lounge
• Julius Smack Ensemble, Kyrie, Ana Roxanne @ Zebulon Cafe
• "Glorified Raod Trip Tour w/ Cameron Neal, Matthew Logan Vanquez, Helsey Wilson + friends @ Bootleg Bar
• Fime, Tiger Tank, North By North @ Harvard & Stone
• Porcelain Hill, Pacific Range @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, November 30

Recommended:

Wildling, FYOHNA, Foxtrails @ Resident

playing tonight:

• The Pack a.d., La Louma, Object As Subject @ The Satellite
• NoMBE, Neil Francis @ The Echo
• Downtown Boys, Ex-Stains, Generacion Suicida, Little Red Pears @ Echoplex
• Leif Vollebekk, Isaac Taylor @ Bootleg Bar
• Stars @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Sports, Yeek, Soft Glas @ Teragram Ballroom
• Wildling, FYOHNA, Foxtrails @ Resident
• Tai Wilkenfield @ The Troubadour
• Kid Bloom, Bedbugs, Talk In Tongues @ Moroccan Lounge
• Chasms, Odonis Odonis, Houses Of Heaven @ Zebulon Cafe
• Dommengang, Erik Blood, Prism Tats @ The Hi Hat
• Loko Ono, Plumber @ The Smell
• Till I Fall, Hannah Bowers, Crash Overcast, Gravler, Farewell Familiar @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Dhani Harrison, Summer Moon, Mereki @ El Rey

Friday, December 1

Recommended:

Blitzen Trapper, Lilly Hyatt @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• Hilltop Hoods @ The Satellite
• Slothrust, And The Kids, SLUGS @ The Echo
• L.A.M.F. 40th Anniversary of Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers @ Echoplex
• The Dandy Warhols, POW! @ Teragram Ballroom
• True Widow, SRSQ @ Resident
• GROVES, tiLLie, Main Man, Undercover @ The Hi Hat
• Curls, Gabrielle Cohen, Doncat @ Moroccan Lounge
• Blitzen Trapper, Lilly Hyatt @ Bootleg Bar
• Surge Event presents... @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Have Yourself A Very Shitty Xmas: THE JACKSHIT YULETIDE EXTRAVAGANZA! @ McCabe's

Saturday, December 2

Recommended:

The Dandy Warhols, POW! @ Teragram Ballroom

playing tonight:

 

• Hunny’s Winter Talent Show w/ Potty Mouth, King Shelter, French Vanilla, Ramonda Hammer, Field Medic @ Echoplex
• An Acoustic Evening w/ Dispatch @ The Troubadour
• Naomi Punk, Gun Outfit, Kaz Mirblouk @ Resident
• The Dandy Warhols, POW! @ Teragram Ballroom
• Kacey Johansing, The Domestics, Meernaa @ Bootleg Bar
• Michael Fordays, Eli Boim @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Hundred Waters, Julianna Barwick, Banoffee @ El Rey
• Pale Waves, The Candescents @ Moroccan Lounge (7 PM)
• Cassandra Violet, Naomi Greene @ Moroccan Lounge (10:00 PM)
• Radian @ Zebulon Csfe
• Have Yourself A Very Shitty Xmas: THE JACKSHIT YULETIDE EXTRAVAGANZA! @ McCabe's

Sunday, December 3

Recommended:

Strawberry Girls, The Unending Thread, Sea Monkey See, Gypsum @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

 

• Strawberry Girls, The Unending Thread, Sea Monkey See, Gypsum @ The Hi Hat
• An Acoustic Evening w/ Dispatch @ The Troubadour
• Hockey Dad, Jurassic Shark, The High Curbs @ Bootleg Bar
• Mating Ritual, SWIMM, Goldensuns @ Moroccan Lounge
• Steve Weisberg & His Orchestra w/ Petra Haden, Jill Sobule, Mia Doi Todd, Suzy Williams, The Cages @ Zebulon Cafe
• Trace Bundy @ McCabe's

The L.A. Show Low Down (November 6 - 19, 2017)

by Brad Roberts

Week of November 6 - 12

Elbow is coming - November 16th - The Wiltern

Monday, November 6

Recommended:

Los Angeles Police Department, Shannon Lay, Dante Elephante, 93 Bulls @ Bootleg Bar

Kasey Johansing, Henry Wolfe, Night Click @ Moroccan Lounge

GospelbeacH, Leslie Stevens, Joe Bourdet Band @ Zebulon Cafe

playing tonight:

• DALES, The Modern Age, The Modern Mad, The  Flowers @ The Satellite
• Superet, BOYO, Cillie Barnes @ The Echo
• "School Night!" w/ VIAA, Special Guest, The Brummies, Mougli @ Bardot
• Surge Event presents... @ Silver Lake Lounge
• The Story So Far, Turnstile, Drug Church, Spiritual Cramp @ Teragram Ballroom
• The Shacks, Brainstory @ The Hi Hat
• Los Angeles Police Department, Shannon Lay, Dante Elephante, 93 Bulls @ Bootleg Bar
• Cesar Saez, August Eve + Jasper Bones, The Altons @ Resident
• Monday Monday, Ashton York @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Bernhoft, Raelee Nikole @ The Troubadour
• Kasey Johansing, Henry Wolfe, Night Click @ Moroccan Lounge
• GospelbeacH, Leslie Stevens, Joe Bourdet Band @ Zebulon Cafe
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series Psychic Jui Jitsu, SOS, The Gens @ Harvard & Stone

Tuesday, Noveember 7

Recommended:

Midnight Opera, Diamonds, Fellow Bohemian, Secret Garden @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Brandon Wardell w/ Ramy Youseff, Natasha Leggero, Moses Storm, Esther Povitsky, Devin Field @ The Satellite
• TOTEM w/ Cosmos & Creature, Jesse Clegg @ Hotel Café
• Midnight Opera, Diamonds, Fellow Bohemian, Secret Garden @ The Hi Hat
• Cults, Curls, The Willowz @ Teragram Ballroom
• Son Little, Jade Bird @ The Troubadour
• L.A. Salami, Nico Yaryan @ Bootleg Bar
• Rhye @ Moroccan Lounge 
• The Entire Universe, Guests @ Zebulon Cafe
• The Front Bottoms @ The Wiltern
• Brenda Carsey & The Awe, Kat Meoz, Liv Slingerland @ Harvard & Stone

Wednesday, November 8

Recommended:

A Conversation with Stephen Stills & Judy Collins @ the Grammy Museum

Sur, Hawai, MRY @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Christina LaRocca, Justin Paul Sanders EP Release Show, Fine Pines @ The Satellite
• Max Frost, NAWAS @ The Echo
• A Conversation with Stephen Stills & Judy Collins @ the Grammy Museum
• "Desert Nights" w/ Luci and Andrew Tufano, Brooke Tomlinson @ The Standard
• An Evening with Hiss Golden Messenger @ The Troubadour
• King Krule, Standing On The Corner @ Teragram Ballroom
• Sur, Hawai, MRY @ The Hi Hat
• Cloakroom @ Moroccan Lounge
• Hawkwind’s Nik Turner, Hedersleben @ Harvard & Stone
• Janelle Kroll, K.I.D., Denny White, @ Resident
• Doe Paoro w/ Andrew Keoghan, Lydia Luce, Mara Conn0r, Hilary Reynolds @ Hotel Café
• Megan Slankard and Alex Wong, May Cheung, RHEA @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Noah Gundersen, Phoebe Bridgers @ El Rey
• Angus Crowne, Joey Genetti @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, November 9

Recommended: 

Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather w/ special guests, Badass Bands presents LA River Bend and friends @ Hotel Café

playing tonight:

• William Patrick Corgan @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Curtis Harding, The Entire Universe @ The Echo
• The Bad Plus, Feather Wolf @ Echoplex
• Brian Fallon & The Howling Weather w/ special guests, Badass Bands presents LA River Bend and friends @ Hotel Café
• Vita and the Woolf; Maggie Malyn, Bob Oxblood and Zac Clark; SEARLS @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Blanck Mass, Egyptians @ Resident
• Hot Snakes, Feels, Matt Lamkin and the Fast Foods @ The Troubadour
• HUMANS, Mougli @ Moroccan Lounge
• Facial, Low Hum, Chief White Lightning @ Zebulon Cafe
• Fartbarf, Moon Ensemble Simgle Release, Butter, Furcast @ The Hi Hat
• Hovvdy, Jurassic Shark, Young Jesus @ Bootleg Bar
• Johnny Vitulli, Jealousy, Cordurouy Dream, Guppy, Walk Forever, Anthony Spirito, Marry The Psycho @ Silver Lake Lounge
• King Krule, Standing On The Corner @ El Rey
• Wild Wing, Dumb Fuck, Kuromi @ The Smell

Friday, November 10

Recommended:

Matt Hollywood, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Old Testament @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Eleven Dollar Bills, Edges, He-Monster, Graves & the Bad Weather @ The Satellite
• Thee Commons @ The Echo
• Morrisasey, Billy Idol @ Hollywood Bowl
• Dream Machines, Con Bro Chill, Disco Shrine @ The Troubadour
• Love, Love & Nico Franc, Sweet Talk Radio, Whitney Fenimore @ Hotel Café
• Johnny Gates & Troy Ramey, Jake Fields, Kenton Chen, Raynes @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• William Patrick Corgan @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Cut Copy @ The Shrine
• “Autumn” w/ Azul, Mereba, Linafornia w/ Ill Camille + Jimetta Rose @ Resident
• Matt Hollywood, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Old Testament @ The Hi Hat
• Caught A Ghost, Magic Bronson, OYLS @ Moroccan Lounge
• Buyepongo, Subsuelo @ Zebulon Cafe 
• Lawrence Rothman, Fatal  Jamz @ Bootleg Bar
• Death Lens, Kicked Off The Streets, The Chonks, Whaja Dew  @ The Smell
• Surge Event presents... @ Silver Lake Lounge
• The Floozies, @ El Rey
• Hawktail @ McCabe's

Saturday, November 11

Recommended:

Nightmare Air, The Big Pink, Pair Of Arrows @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Microwave, Big Jesus, Blis @ The Ech
• Morrisasey, Billy Idol @ Hollywood Bowl
• Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, Kitchen Dwellers, Dusty Green Bones Band @ The Troubadour
• Nightmare Air, The Big Pink, Pair Of Arrows @ The Hi Hat
• Battalion Of Saints, Opposition Rising, The Cryptics @ Resident
• Deer Tick, Solomon @ Teragram Ballroom
• Tom Petty Tribute & Justin Kawika Young, Melissa Polinar, No Suits @ Silver Lake Lounge
• David Ryan Harris @ Hotel Café
• Jill Hoffmann, The Blackbird Revue, Smokey Brights, MetronOhm & Hydro Kitten, Matt Hammon @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Torso Twin, Everyone Is Dirty @ The Smell
• The Dead Ships, SPELLES, Velvet @ Moroccan Lounge
• Kris Delmhorst & Jeffrey Foucault @ McCabe's

Sunday, November 12

Recommended:

Dead Leaf Echo, Haunted Summer, Sun Colony, Orchin @ Echoplex

playing tonight:

• Clem Darling and the Astronauts with Clyde McFly @ The Satellite
• Fazerdaze, Common Holly @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ @ The Echo
• Dead Leaf Echo, Haunted Summer, Sun Colony, Orchin @ Echoplex
• Rebirth Brass Band @ Teragram Ballroom (6:30 & 10:30 PM)
• Yvette Young, So Much Light, Cory Wells @ Bootleg Bar
• David Ryan Harris & Justin Kawika Young @ Hotel Cafe
• Sound Collective presents Katherine Terrian, Kapali Long, V Torres, Davy & the Mid Nights, Christine Rosander Record Release Show @ Hotel Cafe Second Stage
• Guantanamo Baywatch, Cigarette Bums @ The Hi Hat
• The Sounds @ The Fonda Theatre

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Week of November 13 - 19

Monday, November 13

Recommended:

Dream Wife, Pompeya, Dr. Doctor @ Echoplex

playing tonight:

• The Sounds @ The Fonda Theatre
• Snowball ii, Heptagon, The Neurosis, Outside Animals,  @ The Satellite
• Superet, Collapsing Scenery, Ruby Trademark @ The Echo
• Dream Wife, Pompeya, Dr. Doctor @ Echoplex
• "School Night!" w/ Black Paw, Yellow Days, Absofacto, Chappell Roan @ Bardot
• Great Shapes @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Doll Parts w/ Vanessa Silberman, Tarah Carpenter of Tarah Who?, Sarah Green of Spare Parts For Broken Hearts, Annie Hardy of Giant Drag, Wasi, Devin Davis of Ramonda Hammer, Monica Mendoza of Le Ra & Strange Phases, Carissa Johnson & more @ Hotel Cafe
• Monday Monday, Freya Ridings & JP Saxe @ Hotel Cafe Second Stage
• Birdluck, Hydro Kitten, Cartalk @ The Hi Hat
• Los Angeles Police Department, Justus Proffit, Raener @ Bootleg Bar
• The Jerry Douglas Band @ The Troubadour
• Roadkill Ghost Choir, The Artisanals, Paige Calico @ Moroccan Lounge
• GospelbeacH, The Mastersons, Charlie Overbey and the Broken Arrows, Paul Chesne @ Zebulon Cafe
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ The Deltaz, Danny McGaw, Brother Sister @ Harvard & Stone
• The Breeders, Melkbelly @ El Rey

Tuesday, November 14

Recommended:

Van Williams, Christian Lee Hutson, Allie Crow Buckley @ Bootleg Bar 

playing tonight:

• John Early w/ Jimmy Fowlie, Brittani Nichols, Ruby McCollister, and house band BUCK @ The Satellite
• Slaughter Beach, Dog, Shannen Moser @ The Echo
• Phoebe Ryan, Morgxn, Molly Kate Kestner @ Echoplex
• Nikki Edgar Record Release Show w/ Crystal Lewis, Joe Leone, Mona Pffirman, Melissa Polinar, Ryan Edgar & Edgar Family Band @ Hotel Café
• Caroline Pennell, Edison & Friends, Scott Mulvahill @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Sur, Davis @ The Hi Hat
• The Clientele EZTV @ Teragram Ballroom
• Van Williams, Christian Lee Hutson, Allie Crow Buckley @ Bootleg Bar
• Surge Event presents... @ Silver Lake LoungE
• Brenda Carsey & The Awe,  Georgi Kay, Miss Jupiter @ Harvard & Stone 
• Yasmine Hamdan @ El Rey

Wednesday, Novembers 15

Recommended:

Chad VanGaalen, NE-HI, I Hate You Just Kidding @ The Satellite

Jeff Buckley Tribute Night w/ Eric Krop, yOya, Nick Valentini, Kate Sland, Shelby Gogreve, Diana Inez, Stephen Harris, We The Folk, John Schroeder, Alex Nester, & more; Doe Paoro & Best @ Hotel Café

playing tonight:

• Chad VanGaalen, NE-HI, I Hate You Just Kidding @ The Satellite
• Cold Specks, La Timpa @ The Echo
• "Desert Nights" w/ Pomona Dream, Crow @ The Standard
• Nick Mulvey, William Wild @ The Troubadour
• Mandolin Orange, Rachel Baiman @ Teragram Ballroom
• EZTV, Nic Hessler, Lens Mozer @ The Hi Hat
• Michael Rault, DeGreaser @ Moroccan Lounge
• Burning Palms, Kat Cunning @ Harvard & Stone
• Vintage Trouble @ The Wiltern
• Jeff Buckley Tribute Night w/ Eric Krop, yOya, Nick Valentini, Kate Sland, Shelby Gogreve, Diana Inez, Stephen Harris, We The Folk, John Schroeder, Alex Nester, & more; Doe Paoro & Best @ Hotel Café
• Malcolm London, Chris Ayer & Nathan Angelo, Kathleen Grace, Edwin & Morning Yells @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Radiator Hospital, Upset, NO WIN @ Bootleg Bar
• Jacob Collier @ El Rey
• Busman’s Holiday, T.V. Mike and The Scarecrowes, Marjorie Fair, Red Pony Clock @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, November 16

Recommended:

Elbow @ The Wiltern

playing tonight:

• Greyhounds, Miles Tackett & the 3 Times, Ryan Hahn & The Believers @ The Satellite
• Diarrhea Planet, Easy @ The Echo
• Beach Slang, Dave Hause and The Mermaid, See Through Dresses @ Echoplex
• Madison Taylor, TiLLie, Arian Saleh, Honey County @ Hotel Café
• Hablot Brown, Agnes Azria, The Junebugs, Amy Guess, Grant Terry @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Gary Numan, Me Not You @ Teragram Ballroo
• Lo Moon, Psychic Twin @ The Troubadour
• Daley, Tiffany Gouche @ El Rey
• Tennis, Wild Ones @ The Fonda Theatre
• The Dip, KaiL, Baxley @ Bootleg Bar
• Hungry Skinny, Ned and the Dirt, Modern Figure @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Elbow @ The Wiltern

Friday, November 17

Recommended:

The Coronas, yOya, Oliver Riot @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• Ariel Pink @ The Regent Theatre
• The Coronas, yOya, Oliver Riot @ The Echo
• Blank Banshee @ Echoplex
• The Rural Alberta Advantage, Yukon Blonde @ The Troubadour
• Clark Beckham, Tripp Rezac Record Release Show w/ George Stanford, Foster Timms & Johnny Moezzi, Space Cadets, The Cabin Project @ Hotel Café
• The Holy Dark, Brad Byrd, Race The Tide Record Release Show, Carlos Naranjo, Benny Bassett @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Stafford, Shaky Feelin' @ Teragram Ballroom
• LCD Soundsystem @ Hollywood Palladium
• Trapped Within Burning Machinery, Aerial Ruin, Deathkings, Skyeater @ The Hi Hat
• Gryffin @ The Wiltern
• QTY, Umm, Sloucher @ Bootleg Bar
• Shout Out Louds, Surf Rock Is Dead, Sarah Chernoff @ The Fonda Theatre
• Surge Event presents... @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Joel Rafael w/ John Trudell’s Bad Dog @ McCabe's

Saturday, November 18

Recommended:

LA LOVES MX: A Benefit for the Earthquake in Mexico w/ La Santa Cecilia, Cesi Bastida, Amandititita, Tomasa del Real @ Zebulon Csfe

playing tonight:

• Forest Swords @ The Echo
• Boris, Torche, Endon @ Echoplex
• Black Pistol Fire, Cobi @ The Troubadour
• Yeghikian, War Cloud @ The Hi Hat
• LCD Soundsystem @ Hollywood Palladium
• Gary Numan, Me Not You @ Teragram Ballroom
• Heather Robb, The Bergamot, Bannack, Wendy Sweetlove EP Release Show w/ Alana Sweetwater @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Alejandro Escobedo, The Minus 5 @ Bootleg Bar
• Burn River Burn @ Silver Lake Lounge
• I The Mighty, Hail The Sun, Good Tiger @ Moroccan Lounge
• LA LOVES MX: A Benefit for the Earthquake in Mexico w/ La Santa Cecilia, Cesi Bastida, Amandititita, Tomasa del Real @ Zebulon Csfe
• Kinky Friedman @ McCabe's

Sunday, November 19

Recommended:

Part Time Punks w/ 4ad Nite @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• Part Time Punks w/ 4ad Nite @ The Echo
• LCD Soundsystem @ Hollywood Palladium
• Jazz Night w/ Michael Mull, Octet, Dylan Ryan Trio, Creature @ Bootleg Bar
• Molly Jane and Friends @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Faith Healer, Cecil Frena @ The Smell

The L.A. Show Low Down (Or: “Instead Of Moving Stared Into The Wall Tangled Up In A Pile...”)

by Brad Roberts

What a year for great music from some of my favorite bands. First The New Pornographers release what is as good as the best of their discography and then The Shins follow suit and release their second best album ever. Fleet Foxes surprised with a solidly challenging work that played well live at Hollywood Bowl last month. It’s nicely introspective.

Broken Social Scene (above), after a few year’s hibernation, re-emerge with, what I think is, the very best album of their career, which includes many great albums, and it may be my favorite album of the year. And they land in town on Saturday at The Wiltern to play it for us.

Now onto Grizzly Bear and this new work which is lovely and melodic with superb production values. Just got it so I’m still falling in love. A reminder of why I have loved every iteration of this band, starting with that little show at Spaceland in 2008.

Haven’t gotten the latest Maximo Park yet, quietly released last April, and I'm shocked this band isn’t bigger. They’re one of my favorite live bands and coming soon to Teragram Ballroom. The National also have a new release which has some fine moments and many songs that came across beautifully at the Bowl last week, though it's not my favorite of their albums. But seeing them live you realize just how beautiful their music is, and I'm a sucker for a band with so many piano-driven songs. I'll be seeing Elbow next month at The Wiltern and hope that hearing their latest album live will ramp up my enthusiasm for it, but it is growing on me the more I play it.

Then there was the show by Arcade Fire at The Forum last Friday night. As it was my first concert st The Forum it was hard not to get overwhelmed by the size of the venue itself, it felt more like being in Times Square on New Year’s Eve than actually being st a concert. Try as they may, there was no way for the event to seem more than slightly impersonal. Surrounded by walls filled to the top with people, it’s not the best way to see a band. Not surprising that Arcade Fire overcame and, in retrospect, it was a spectacular show.

week of October 23 - 29

Monday, October 23

Recommended:

Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen, John Jorgenson @ The Troubadour

playing tonight:

• The Americans, Bird Concerns, MetronOhm, Vattica @ The Satellite
• Goon, Alyeska, Liv Slingerland, Raspberry Blonde @ The Echo
• Beartooth, Avatar, Ded, Royal Thunder, King Woman, My Ticket Home @ Echoplex
• "School Night!" w/ Braeves, Bonnie McKee, The Amazons, Scarlett Pleasure @ Bardot
• Space Diaries, Shine A Light, The Patients, Maxwell Cary @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Generationals @ Teragram Ballroom
• Ohmme, Fell Runner, Pinky Pinky @ The Hi Hat
• Summer Heart, Drum & Lace, TwinKids @ Bootleg Bar
• Sam Marine, Ben Raddell, Joe Fletcher @ Resident
• Tegan and Sara @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• Monday Monday hosted by Josiah Leming, Still A Great Night @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen, John Jorgenson @ The Troubadour
• Molly Lewis and Her Band, Elroy @ Zebulon Cafe
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series: Club Foxes presents Give Peace A Chance  @ Harvard & Stone

Tuesday, October 24

Recommended:

LSD And The Search For God, LEAF, Clear @ Resident

playing tonight:

• Quiet Domino, Nina Rohse, Malea @ The Satellite
• Have Mercy, Boston Manor, Can't Swim, A Will Away @ The Echo
• Tegan and Sara @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• The Maine, Dreamers, Night Riots @ The Regent Theatre
• Larkin Poe & Mawd, CAAMP w/ The Wonderfool @ Hotel Café
• Caroline Pennell, Wendy Bevan, Agnes Azria, Anthony Fedorov & Shelley Segal @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Marty O'Reilly & The Old Soul Orchestra @ The Hi Hat
• Mystery Skulls, Phone Call, hey!dw @ The Troubadour
• Welshly Arms, Cannons @ Bootleg Bar
• Spectacle, Borderline Delusion, Something with Soul @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Lee Ranaldo, Itasca @ Zebulon Cafe
• Santa Barbara, Triangle Fire, The Absurd @ Harvard & Stone
• LSD And The Search For God, LEAF, Clear @ Resident
• HIM @ The Wiltern

Wednesday, October 25

Recommended:

Roky Erickson, Death Valley Girls @ The Roxy

Bloody Death Skull, Drinking Flowers, Sloppy Jane, Billy Uomo @ Zebulon Cafe

playing tonight:

• Decorator, Rooms, Zach Alwin @ The Satellite
• Yeah Yeah Yeah's @ The Fonda Theatre
• Misty Boyce, Billie, We Are J Blynn @ Harvard & Stone
• "Desert Nights" w/ Vera, Naomi Greene @ The Standard
• Turnover, Elvis Depressedly, Emma Ruth Rundle @ The Troubadour
• M. Ward, Rhiannon Gibbons @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
• PLEXXAGLASS, Yume, Spencer Robinson & The Wolf Spiders @ The Hi Hat
• Roky Erickson, Death Valley Girls @ The Roxy
• Bloody Death Skull, Drinking Flowers, Sloppy Jane, Billy Uomo @ Zebulon Cafe
• Escape-ism, POW, Urgent Care @ Resident
• Raya Yarbrough, Young Mister, Aloud @ Hotel Café
• Cindy Alexander, Rocko Wheeler & Drover Shy, Chelsea Williams @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• The Bones of J.R. Jones, Melaena Cadiz, Leroy from the North @ Bootleg Bar
• Coat Check Girl, Tiger March @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, October 26

Recommended:

Iron & Wine @ The Cathedral Sanctuary at Immanuel Presbyterian Church

playing tonight:

• Convey, KIDDO, Dead Posey, The New Electric Sound @ The Satellite
• Atlas Genius, Magic Giant, Half the Animal @ The Regent Theatre
• Witt Lowry, Ro Ransom @ The Echo
• Iron & Wine @ The Cathedral Sanctuary at Immanuel Presbyterian Church
• Atlas Genius, Magic Giant, Half the Animal @ The Regent Theatre
• John Moreland, John Calvin Abney, Michigan Rattlers  @ Hotel Café
•  Savoir Adore, LO/HI, James Carrington, Marcus Eaton, Juke Ross @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Vava, Tillie, Irene Green @ Harvard & Stone
• Turnover, Elvis Depressedly, Emma Ruth Rundle @ The Troubadour
•  Busdriver, The Underground Railroad, Kenny Segal, Jerry Quickly @ Zebulon Cafe
• Twin Temple, The Schizophonics, Yacht Punks @ The Hi Hat
• Chase Atlantic, Armors @ Bootleg Bar
• Filibuster, Rocky Shores, Jet Jaguar, Lovejoy, The Revies @ Silver Lake Lounge

Friday, October 27

Recommended:

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Boswell Kid, Mylets @ The Echo

playing tonight: 

• Jack Symes, Greg Ackerman @ The Satellite (8 PM)
• The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Boswell Kid, Mylets @ The Echo
• Rocky Shores, Jet Jaguar, Lovejoy, The Revies,  Elettrodomestico, No Small Children @ The Satellite (10 PM)
• Save Ferris, Stacked Like Pancakes, PapaFish @ The Regent Theatre
• BØRNS @ The Viaduct
• Alexz Johnson, Grand Canyon,  yellowbirddd @ Hotel Café
• Canyon City, Taylor John Williams & The Crooked Hand, Merit Badge, New MaximumDonkey, Fenton, Lola Rhodes @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• No Chaperone @ Resident
• Sad Girl Halloween/Tour kickoff, Wild Wing, BOYO, Red Channel @ The Hi Hat
• The Devil Wears Prada, Veil of Maya, Thousand Below  @ Moroccan Lounge
• Odessa @ Bootleg Bar
• Paul Weller @ The Wiltern
• The Aquadolls, Precious Kid, Lily Waters, Gypsum @ The Smell
• The Sutra, Electric Ferrets, Tiffinny, Saint Ranae, Dee Roq, ModPods, Myke Anthony @ Silver Lake Lounge

Saturday, October 28

Recommended:

Broken Social Scene @ The Wiltern

playing tonight:

• Dia De Los Muertos w/ Aterciopelados @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• The Pink Slips, Hellp, Harmony Tividad @ The Echo
• Trevor Hall, Easr Forest @ The Regent Theatre
• Red Fang, Fireball Ministry, All Souls @ The Troubadour
• Haunted High featuring Raymonda Hammer, Spare Parts For Broken Hearts, Velvet, New Evil @ The Hi Hat
• Broken Social Scene @ The Wiltern
• 4th Annual New Moose Masquerade Ball w/ Greg Holden, Andrew Herringer, Garrison Starr, Caroline Pennell, PJ Pacifico, Valerie Broussard, Sleeping Wolf ; Trevor Green, Keaton Simons, Carly Van Skaik & Kara Connolly @ Hotel Café
• Mike Viola, Eric Kufs, The Grand Southern, Will Jay, Odell Fox, Evan Roth @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Panoramic, Yume, Afro Patchouli, Little Timmy McFarland Of Flight 19 @ The Smell
• BØRNS @ Moroccan Lounge
• The Reluctant Apostles @ McCabe's

Sunday, October 29

Recommended:

Slowdive @ The Wiltern

playing tonight:

• Livingmore, Nightgown, Royal Cavves, Ever So Android @ The Echo (5 PM)
• Part Time Punks w/ Skeletal Family, Black Mare, Second Still @ The Echo
• Greta Van Fleet, courtship @ The Troubadour
• Slowdive @ The Wiltern
• Deiter Von Cynthia & The Throat Rippers w/ special guests @ Hotel Café
• Bluegrass Situation presents Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards w/ special guests @ Hotel Café Second Stage 

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week of October 30 - November 5

Monday, October 30

Recommended:

The Night Before Halloween Covers Party w/ Ugly Sweaters, POLARTROPICA, Madame Headdress, Los Kinkos, The Breakups @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Foxtrails, Zookeeper's Palace, Old Blood, Westerner @  The Satellite
• Goon, Alyeska, Gypsum, HOTT MT, Lily Waters @ The Echo
• Sinead Harnett @ Echoplex
• Har Mar Superstar, Fartbarf, Soft Kill, Honus Honus, Jonah Ray @ The Regent Theatre
• "School Night!" w/ BØRNS, Cyn, Snny, Exes @ Bardo
• Space Diaries, Lucky+Love, Mason Summit, The Do Overs @ Silver Lake Lounge
• The Night Before Halloween Covers Party w/ Ugly Sweaters, POLARTROPICA, Madame Headdress, Los Kinkos, The Breakups @ The Hi Hat
• Boytoy, The Entire Universe, Cat Scan @ Resident
• Monday Monday Hootenanny, Worth @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Greta Van Fleet, courtship @ The Troubadour
• Molly Lewis and Her Band, John Carroll Kirby @ Zebulon Cafe

Tuesday, October 31

Recommended:

A Tom Petty Tribute Show w/ Joe Purdy, Joshua Radom, Cary Brothers, Liz Phair, Milo Greene, Greg Holden, Manda Mosher, Jenny O, Shane Alexander, The Mastersons, Garrison Starr, Paul Doucette, Brother Sal, Tom Freund, Paul Zollo, Clay Blair, The Morning Yells @  Hotel Café

playing tonight:

• The Controversy, Teleskopes, The Vitals, Pom Poms @ The Satellite
• EMA, The Blow, Dynasty Handbag @ The Echo
• Yellawolf, Mikey Mike, Big Henri, Cookup Boss @ Echoplex
• A Tom Petty Tribute Show w/ Joe Purdy, Joshua Radom, Cary Brothers, Liz Phair, Milo Greene, Greg Holden, Manda Mosher, Jenny O, Shane Alexander, The Mastersons, Garrison Starr, Paul Doucette, Brother Sal, Tom Freund, Paul Zollo, Clay Blair, The Morning Yells @  Hotel Café
• Trey Anastasio Band @ The Wiltern
• Wolf Eyes, Hieroglyphic Being, Fluct, Twig Harper @ Zebulon Cafe
• Bushwick Bill, Stupid Life @ Resident

Wednesday, November 1

Recommended:

Hauschka @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

playing tonight:

• Hauschka @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Billy Strings + The Whiskey Shivers - The Whiskey Strings Tour @ The Echo
• Lee Ann Womack, The Mastersons @ The Troubadour
• Vundabar @ The Hi Hat
• The New Mastersounds, Kung-Fu @ Moroccan Lounge
• Colleen, Mary Lattimore @ Zebulon Cafe
• Kilo, GXNXVS @ Resident
• Doe Paoro w/ Maiah Manser @ Hotel Café
• NHD, Bluegrass Situation presents Dead Horses, The Sweet Lillies, Sammy Striffmatter @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Overlake @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, November 2

Recommended:

The Black Heart Procession, Sam Coomes @ The Echo

The Drums, Methyl Ethel @ The Fonda Theatre

playing tonight:

• Chris Bathgate, The Go Rounds, Anna Ash @ The Satellite
• The Black Heart Procession, Sam Coomes @ The Echo
• DakhaBrakha, JJUUJJUU @ Echoplex
• Goblin, Mondo Drag @ The Regent Theatre
• Matt Wertz w/ Dustin Ransom, JT Roach, Maggie Koerner @ Hotel Café
• Boots On Stage presents Katie Dix, Joshua Aigner, Alexandri Corn, Cris Marshall @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• The Drums, Methyl Ethel @ The Fonda Theatre
• Yelle, Lewis OfMan @ Resident
• Jessie Ware @ The Troubadour
• NEEDTOBREATHE @ The Wiltern
• Wolf Eyes, Joe & Joe, Elow Omoe, Martin Escalante, Wood & Metal, Phill Musra, Ace Farren Ford @ Zebulon Cafe
• Brian Marquis, Divided Heaven @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Machine Girl, Gianna Gianna, David Scott Stone @ The Smell

Friday, November 3

Recommended:

The Drums, Methyl Ethel @ The Fonda Theatre

playing tonight:

• Lone Kodiak EP Release Show, STAL, Oddnesse, Cuesta Loeb @ The Satellite
• Bruno Major, Raelee Nikole, Emily Elbert @ The Echo
• Ghostemane, Wavy Jone$, Nedarb, Chxpo @ Echoplex
• Manatee Commune, Dave B, Roses & Revolutions @ The Troubadour
• Jennifer Chung Record Release Show, w/ Nessa Rica & Priska, Josiah Bell, Ollie Gabriel, Space Cadets @ Hotel Café
• Patrick McGrath, Bluegrass Situation presents The Steel Wheels, The Alice Austin @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• The Drums, Methyl Ethel @ The Fonda Theatre
• Yelle, Lewis OfMan @ Resident
• Caleb Hawley @ The Hi Hat
• Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Ian Sweet @ Moroccan Lounge
• Wolf Eyes, Fluct, Flaccid Mojo, Odwalla 1221, Lexie Mountain @ Zebulon Cafe
• Lany @ The Wiltern
• Negro Galacticus, Espresso, Chud, King Gypsy @ The Smell
• Surge Event presents... @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Jolie Holland & Samantha Parton @ McCabe's

Saturday, November 4

Recommended:

Yelle, Lewis OfMan @ Resident 

playing tonight:

• The Drums, Slow Hollows @ The Fonda Theatre
• Emily Saliera, Lucy Wainwright Roche @ The Troubadour
• Wand @ The Hi Hat
• Yelle, Lewis OfMan @ Resident
• GrooveSessions, Ryan Nealon Birthday Show, Eva B Ross, Melissa Gottlieb Record Release Show @ Hotel Café
• Alexia Bomtempo, Eleanor Tallie, Brandon McCulloch presents, Mollie Jane @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Lizzie No, Caroline Reese, Kwesi, Sarah Summer @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Lany @ The Wiltern
• Patrick Shiroishi/Paco, Casanova/Dylan Fugioka, Man Forever, Jerkagram, FeatherWolf @ The Smell
• Bobbie Long @ McCabe's

Sunday, November 5

Recommended:

Acid Tongue, Naked Giants, Party Nails @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Prettiest Eyes Record Release Show, Sister Mantos, Hooveriii @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ @ The Echo
• Grace VanderWaal @ The Troubadour
• Yelle, Lewis OfMan @ Resident
• Acid Tongue, Naked Giants, Party Nails @ The Hi Hat
• Jeff Bernat, Mac Ayers @ Moroccan Lounge
• Israel Horowitz @ McCabe's

The L.A. Show Low Down

by Brad Roberts

Arcade Fire and The National.

Week of October 9 - 15

The National at Hollywood Bowl

Monday, October 9

Recommended:

Goon, Alyeska, Wolf Woodcock, Bones Muhroni @ Echoplex

playing tonight:

• The Revies, Lucy Arnell, Strange Phases, Singer & the Scientist @ The Satellite
• Coast Modern, Salt Cathedral @ The Echo
• Goon, Alyeska, Wolf Woodcock, Bones Muhroni @ Echoplex
• "School Night!" w/ The Flavr Blue, Overjoy, Benji Lewis, Zibbz @ Bardot
• Space Diaries, Molino, The Tom Foolery Band @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Billy Bragg @ The Grammy Museum
• Battle Tapes, Lean @ Moroccan Lounge
• Comeback Kid, Burn, Jesus Piece, Momentum @ The Hi Hat
• Walter TV @ Bootleg Bar- Molly Lewis and her band, Naomi Greene, John Schneider @ Zebulon Cafe
• Slow Dancer, Petal @ Resident
• Ian Kieffer, Abby Diamond, Catherine Rose Smith @ Hotel Café
• Monday Monday, Harrison Storm @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Aaron Lee Tasjan, Ladies Gun Club, Rich Hinman @ The Troubadour
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ The Coax, High Waisted, Ecstatic Union @ Harvard & Stone
• Léon, Wrabel @ El Rey

Tuesday, October 10

Recommended:

Kauf Record Release Party, Pompeya, Maiah Mancer @ The Echo

Lampedusa: Concert For Refugees w/ Joan Baez, Brandi Carlile, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Alynda Segarra, The Mastersons @ The Wiltern

playing tonight:

• John Early w/ Champagne Jerry (Neal Medlyn), Casey Jane Ellison, Danielle Perez @ The Satellite
• Kauf Record Release Party, Pompeya, Maiah Mancer @ The Echo
• Lampedusa: Concert For Refugees w/ Joan Baez, Brandi Carlile, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Alynda Segarra, The Mastersons @ The Wiltern
• Cattle Decapitation, Revocation, Artificial Brain, Thanatology @ The Regent Theatre
• Ivory Layne, Royse, Agnes Azria @ Hotel Café
• Slow Dancer, Cooper & Gatlin, Zac Taylor, Javier Dunn @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Billy Bragg @ The Troubadour
• Low Roar, Charlie Cunningham, Alyeska is @ Bootleg Bar
• Surge Events presents... @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Santa Barbara, Anna Schulze, Illuminati Hotties @ Harvard & Stone
• Dylan Earl, Albert & His Dreamboats, Professor Colombo @ Resident
  

Wednesday, October 11

Recommended:

The National, Local Natives, Daughter @ Hollywood Bowl

playing tonight:

• The National, Local Natives, Daughter @ Hollywood Bowl
• Decorator, CYN, Dang Clets @ The Satellite
• The Make-Up, French Vanilla, The Echo Ohs @ The Echo
• Jimmy Sweet, Curse of Lono, Cuesta Loeb @ Harvard & Stone
• Landlady, Ian Chang, Chimney @ Zebulon Cafe
• Everything Everything, The Palms, Teische @ Teragram Ballroom
• A Conversation with Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie @ The Grammy Museum
• Carb On Carb, Post-Life, Iris Jupiter @ The Smell
• David Poe & Blake Morgan, Sarah Tiana, Richard Walters @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Trevor Sensor, Peter Oren @ Bootleg Bar
• Model Souls, Dales, Secret Show @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, October 12

Recommended:

Kan Wakan, Jesse Jo Stark, Avi Buffalo @ Moroccan Lounge

Andrew Bird, Simone White @ Zebulon Cafe

playing tonight:

• Sound of Ceres, Vinyl Williams, HOTT MT, Pavo Pavo @ The Satellite
• The Make-Up, Warm Drag, The Echo Ohs @ The Echo
• Lords Of Acid, Combichrist, Christian Death, En Esch, Night Club @ The Fonda Theatre
• La Femme, Naomi Greene @ The Regent Theatre
• Nick Fradiani, Bryan Greenberg & Friends, Maggie Rose @ Hotel Café
• A Night in Nashville w/ Jennifer Bostic, Sarah Darling, Michael Logen, Curtis Peoples, Madison Taylor EP Release, Eli Teplin @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Less Than Jake, Red City Radio, Protagonist, CodeName Rocky @ Teragram Ballroom
• Depeche Mode @ Hollywood Bowl
• Pumarosa, French Vanilla @ Resident
• Kan Wakan, Jesse Jo Stark, Avi Buffalo @ Moroccan Lounge
• Shawn Colvin: A Few Small Repairs 20th Anniversary Tour, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams @ The Troubadour\
• Holy Wave, Camera, Hooveiii @ The Hi Hat
• Andrew Bird, Simone White @ Zebulon Cafe
• Angelo De Augustine, Avi Buffalo, Madison Cunningham @ Bootleg Bar
• The Midnight Ghost Train, Caustic Casanova, All Souls, BigPig @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Nothing But Thieves, Misseo, Airways @ El Rey

Friday, October 13

Recommended:

Father John Misty @ The Greek

Gold Star, Nico Yaryan, Desure @ The Echo

Elvis Perkins @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

playing tonight:

• Father John Misty @ The Greek
• Gold Star, Nico Yaryan, Desure @ The Echo
• Blue Hawaii @ Moroccan Lounge
• Words & Music by Dan Wilson, Jenny Owen Youngs @ The Troubadour
• Eric Tessmore, Tropical Fuck Storm @ Hotel Café
• Max Embers, Alexz Johnson, Vincint, YONATAN, Fenton, Gil McKinney @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• X @ The Grammy Museum
• Elvis Perkins @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemeter
• Capital Wasteland, Storm Coast, Sweet Pill@ The Smell
• Surge Events presents Patches, Josh Gonzales, Ebb & Flow, Ben Carson, The Inverse Effect, Gary Salamanca Speech, Tina DeCara, The Swansons, Novala, Uniform Standard, Old Man's Money, Red Light Cameras, Tocaio @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Mutemath @ The Wiltern
• The Afghan Whigs, Har Har Superstar @ The Fonda Theatre
• Jill Sobule @ McCabe's

Saturday, October 14

Recommended:

Depeche Mode @ Hollywood Bowl

playing tonight:

• Depeche Mode @ Hollywood Bowl
• Rainer Maria, Olivia Neutron-John @ The Echo
• The Budos Band, Here Lies Man @ Echoplex
• The Script @ The Wiltern
• Nikki Lane, JD McPherson, Jade Jackson @ The Regent Theatre
• Lydia Noght's Birthday Party w/ No Parents, The Aquadolls, The Memories, Liily @ The Hi Hat
• Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions, Peaking Lights @ The Fonda Theatre
• TAUK, Cory Wong @ Teragram Ballroom
• Music Video Night w/ Little Galaxies, Palace Deptession, Craig Elkins, Earth Like Planets @ Silver Lake Lounge
• John West, Josh Jacobson, Bobby Saint @ Hotel Café
• Lolahiko, Kirk Ross, Brandon McCulloch presents, Swimming Bell @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Greg Loiacono, Steven John Taylor @ Bootleg Bar
• Sparks, The Sewing Sisters @ El Rey
• Beach Bums, Ohsea/Lil Cholo, Kunu/DM Daddy/Rando, ViceVersa @ The Smell
• Walter Egan @ McCabe's

Sunday, October 15

Recommended:

Balmorhea @ Moroccan Lounge

playing tonight:

• Depeche Mode @ Hollywood Bowl
• Cult Leader, Vermin Womb, Less Art @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ Choir Boy, Some Embers, SRSQ, Fotocrime @ The Echo
• Balmorhea @ Moroccan Lounge
• Sun Kill Moon @ The Regent Theatre
• Annie Hart & Friends w/ Madeline Kenney & Sophia Knapp, Jonah Smith @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Sparks, Mister Goodnite @ El Rey
• Sean Mullins @ McCabe's

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Week of October 16 - 22

Arcade Fire at The Forum

Monday, October 16

Recommended:

Mason Jennings @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• Babe Parade, Love and a .38, Lanterns @ The Satellite
• Goon, Alyeeska, Ramona Hammer, Sweater @ The Echo
• "School Night!" w/ All Tvvins, The Strypes, Lisa Hannagan, Elm @ Bardot
• Space Diaries, Chainsaw Rainbow @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Yorres, The Dove & The Wolf @ Teragram Ballroom
• Spaceface, Andy Clockwise, Green Gerry @ The Hi Hat
• Mason Jennings @ Bootleg Bar
• Reggie Watts, Louis Cole, Michael Stegner @ Zebulon Cafe
• Protomartyr, Lars Finberg @ Moroccan Lounge
  
• Monday Monday, Julian Roy @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen, John Jorgenson @ The Troubadour
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Sikemore, Moonfield, Young Creature @ Harvard & Stone

Tuesday, October 17

Recommended:

Santa Barbara, Pipe Dreams, The Black Heartthrobs @ Harvard & Stone

playing tonight:

• Benyaro Album Release Party, The Flusters, Bradford Hunter Wray @ The Satellite
• This Is The Kit, Herman Dune, Sofia Bolt @ The Echo
• The Babe Rainbow, Maybird, The Orange Kate, Hearty Har @ Echoplex
• Lenka w/ Caroline Pennell, Loren North @ Hotel Café
• Agnes Azria, Teskey Brothers, Western Scene, Ed Vallance @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Royaljag, Dr. Doctor Single Release Show, Sleeplust, Young Creatures @ The Hi Hat
• Touché Amoré, Single Mothers, Gouge Away @ Teragram Ballroom
• Sarah Jarosz, Brother Roy @ The Troubadour
• Said The Whale @ Bootleg Bar
• Michael Nau, Skyway Man @ Moroccan Lounge
• Benjamin Jaffe, Hootenanny Allstars @ Zebulon Cafe
• Santa Barbara, Pipe Dreams, The Black Heartthrobs @ Harvard & Stone
• Muna, Grace Mitchell, Huxlee @ The Fonda Theatre
• Sparks, The Sewing Sisters @ El Rey

Wednesday, October 18

Recommended:

Worriers, Thin Lips, The Pretty Flowers, Phag @ Silver Lake Lounge

playing tonight:

• Decorator, VOKES, Lukas Frank @ The Satellite
• Earthless, Petyr, Flying Hair @ The Echo
• Joe Marson, Ben Matin, Madison Douglas @ Harvard & Stone
• Depeche Mode @ Hollywood Bowl
• In This Moment @ The Wiltern
• Touché Amoré, City Of Catterpillar, Thou @ Teragram Ballroom
• TEST, Facial, True Ghouls @ The Hi Hat
• The Cooties, Reggie Watts @ Resident
• Njomza, King Leg Record Release Show @ Hotel Café
• Dylan Gardner, Samantha Aurelio & Andres Coles, Jillette Johnson @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• James Vincent McMorrow @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Remo Drive, Diners, Field Medic @ Moroccan Lounge
• Worriers, Thin Lips, The Pretty Flowers, Phag @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, October 19

Recommended:

 Warbly Jets Album Release Show, The Entire Universe @ Moroccan Lounge

playing tonight:

• Zealyn, Skeeping Lion @ The Satellite
• Tegan & Sara @ Amoeba Music
• Sego, Goldensuns, Oddnesse @ The Echo
• Nick Hakim, Sam Evian, Jimmy Whispers @ Echoplex
• Leslie Powell w/ Stefan, Bones Owens @ Hotel Café
• Flagship Romance w/ Lee Miles, Wish and the Well, Hot October, @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Songhoy Blues, Psychic Jiu-Jitsu @ Teragram Ballroom
• Haim @ The Greek
• Greta Van Fleet, Welles @ The Troubadou
• Warbly Jets Album Release Show, The Entire Universe @ Moroccan Lounge
• Weep Wave, Brookelyn Rose, Nobody's Home, Blade of Grass, Sleeping Bear @ Silver Lake Lounge
• JR JR, Hembree @ El Rey

Friday, October 20

Recommended:

Arcade Fire @ The Forum

mewithoutYou - [A->B] Life 15 Year Tour, Pianos Become the Teeth, Strawberry Girl @ The Regent Theatre

playing tonight:

• Arcade Fire @ The Forum
• mewithoutYou - [A->B] Life 15 Year Tour, Pianos Become the Teeth, Strawberry Girl @ The Regent Theatre
• Jesus Sons, Levitation Room, Wild Wing @ The Echo
• Moose Blood, Teenage Wrist, Lowlives @ The Troubadour
• Gabe Dixon w/ Special Guests, Sara Niemietz, Fire Chief Charlie @ Hotel Café
• Dan Mills, Alexz Johnson, Jessica Louise, The Copper Children, Ryan Tharp & Jacob Furr @  Hotel Café Second Stage
• The Lemon Twigs, Cut Worms, Fatal Jamz @ Teragram Ballroom
• Greta Van Fleet, SIMO @ Moroccan Lounge
• Van Goat, Adventurist, Stan Nirenberg Band, Dingo Down @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Tash Sultana, The Pierce Brothers @ The Fonda Theatre
• Jake Xerxes Fussell @ McCabe's

Saturday, October 21

Recommended:

Allah-Las, Entrance, Mapache @ The Regent Theatre

playing tonight:

• The Skiffle Players, Mia Doi Todd @ Zebulon Cafe
• The Cactus Blossoms @ The Echo
• Wolves In The Throne Room, Pillorian @ Echoplex
• Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Flamingosis @ The Troubadour
• Monte Pittman, Furiosa, Alien Satan, Thunder Gut @ The Hi Hat
• Miser Heavenly, FAN @ Resident
• The Lemon Twigs, Cut Worms, Fatal Jamz @ Teragram Ballroom
•  Allah-Las, Entrance, Mapache @ The Regent Theatre
• Penny & Sparrow (7 & 10) @ Hotel Café
• Luke Sitai-Singh w/ Claran Lavery, Sheila Nichols, Brave Native, Francesca Brown @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Crystal Castles @ The Wiltern- Curls @ Moroccan Lounge
• Moses Sumney, Sudan Arhives @ El Rey
• Dinosaur Jr., Easy Action @ The Fonda Theatre
• Sarah Jarosz @ McCabe's

Sunday, October 22

Recommended:

Al1ce, Seasons, Lolita Dark, Bad Wolf @ The Satellite

Eyelids, Two Sheds, The Broken Hearts @ The Echo

playing tonight: 

•  Al1ce, Seasons, Lolita Dark, Bad Wolf @ The Satellite
• Eyelids, Two Sheds, The Broken Hearts @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ Siouxie and The Banshees Nite @ The Echo
• Geneva White EP Release Show @ Moroccan Lounge
• Princess @ The Troubadour
• Wolf Woodcock Record Release, Negro Galacticus, Cesar Hernandez, Sextet, Shiva Linga @ The Hi Ha
• Crud, Behold! The Monolith, Cloven @ Resident
• Mitski, Palehound @ The Fonda Theatre

The L.A. Show Low Down

by Brad Roberts

 Lots of good shows this session: The Shins, Haunted Summer, St. Vincent, The Happy Hollows, Grizzly Bear, The Stevenson Ranch Dravidians, The Flaming Lips, Robyn Hitchcock and more.

Week of September 25 - October 1

Monday, September 25

Recommended:

Moons Of Mars, Avant Rivers, Yacht Punk @ Bootleg Bar

Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Sash The Bash, Cuesta Loeb, Low Volts @ Harvard & Stone

playing tonight:

• New Language, Madus, Rosechild,  Spare Parts For Broken Hearts @ The Satellite
• Jesse Jo Stark @ The Echo
• The Entire Universe, CG Roxanne & The Nightmares, Crush, Shannon Lay @ Zebulon
• "School Night!" w/ Sheare Single Release, The New Electric Sound, Flaural @ Bardot
• Transit Method, Magnuson, Old Blood, MAL @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers @ Hollywood Bowl
• Suicide Prevention Benefit w/ Welfair, Twin Seas, Amindi K. Fro$t, Zuli, Katzu Oso @ The Hi Hat
• Moons Of Mars, Avant Rivers, Yacht Punk @ Bootleg Bar
• Briana Marela, Maiah Manser @ Resident
• Elizabeth Cook, Boot On Stage presents Stephanie Quayle @ Hotel Café
• Monday Monday Hootenanny, Evan Diamond @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Judith Hill, Syncopated Ladies @ The Troubadour
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Sash The Bash, Cuesta Loeb, Low Volts @ Harvard & Stone
• Grouplove @ Moroccan Lounge
  

Tuesday, September 26

Recommended:

Planned Parenthood Benefit w/ POLARTROPICA, Throwaway, Cousin Liar @ The Hi Hat

The Bright Light Social Hour, SWIMM, Creature Canyon  @ The Satellite

Robyn Hitchcock @ The Grammy Museum

playing tonight:

• The Bright Light Social Hour, SWIMM, Creature Canyon  @ The Satellite
• Jail Weddings, Fake News, Scott Yoder @ The Echo
• Paramore, Best Coast @ The Greek
• Tuomo & Markus @ Hotel Café
• Jonah M "Alone Rewinding" Book & Album Release Show, Zak Schaffer, Otonana Trio @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Planned Parenthood Benefit w/ POLARTROPICA, Throwaway, Cousin Liar @ The Hi Hat
• Hooveriii, Rearranged Face, Healing Gems @ Zebulon
• Neon Trees, I Don't Know How But They Found Me @ The Troubadour
• Jaye Bartell, Magic Shop @ Bootleg Bar
• Gov't Mule @ The Wiltern
• City Of Union, Jr Sun, Chu Victoria, Witch Love @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Name The Band, Lily Waters, Cigarette Bums @ Harvard & Stone
• Tes Parks, Drinking Flowers, Lucas Fitzsimons @ Resident
• Bleachers, Tangerine @ The Fonda Theatre
• Robyn Hitchcock @ The Grammy Museum
• Josie and the Pussycts Record Release Party @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
  

Wednesday, September 27

Recommended:

Grizzly Bear @ Moroccan Lounge

Spindrift, Bone Acre, Highlands, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians @ Resident

playing tonight:

• Ice Balloons, Sun Foot, POW! @ Zebulon
• Facial Record Release Party, Fever Creep, The Bomb, Flaural @ The Echo
• Grizzly Bear @ Moroccan Lounge
• Front 242, Severed Heads, Romy, Das Bunker The Regent Theatre
• "Desert Nights" w/ Chris Stills, O'Neill Hudson @ The Standard
• Midland, Desure @ The Troubadour
• The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The Courtneys, The Prids @ Teragram Ballroom
• Minnow, Sisu @ The Hi Hat
• J Roddy Walston & The Business, Sleepwalkers @ The Roxy
• Hawai, Bel Heir @ The Peppermint Club
• Spindrift, Bone Acre, Highlands, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians @ Resident
• Joseph Arthur, Ray Goren @ Hotel Café
• SZLACHETKA w/ Dan Rodriquez & more, Kerri Watt @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Sam Amidon, Henry Wolfe @ Bootleg Bar
• Alison Moyet @ The Fonda Theatre
• Intisaar, Nuclear Child, The Perfect Pear, City Rabbits @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Chief White Lighning, Melted, Dirty Few @ Harvard & Stone

Thursday, September 28

Recommended:

 Pearl Charles, Cones, Raderson @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• Shilpa Ray Record Release Show, Honus Honus, Mask Off @ The Satellite
• Sad Girl, French Vanilla, Brutus VIII @ The Echo
• HEARTSREVOLUTION, Juiceboxx, Prissy Whip @ The Smell
• Picture Atlantic w/ The Planters Paisley, Creamer @ Hotel Café
• Brendan Hines, Trouble in the Wind, Sam Marine, Mike Mangione @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Middle Kids, King Shelter @ Teragram Ballroom
• J. Roddy Walston and the Business, Sleepwalkers @ Residen
• Public Service Broadcasting, Street Joy @ The Troubadour
• Interpol @ El Rey
• #RADDNightLive w/ Chris Pierce, Daisy, Freancisco Fernandez and The Ferocious Few @ The Hi Hat
• Pearl Charles, Cones, Raderson @ Bootleg Bar
• Jason Achilles Mezilis, To The Wolves, The Infinite Seas @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Kali Uchis, Phony Ppl @ The Fonda Theatre

Friday, September 29

Recommended:

Happy Hollows Record Release Show, Post Life, The Pretty Flowers, TraPs Ps @ The Satellite

The Shins, Foxygen @ The Greek

Lauren Ruth Ward Album Release Show, Laura Jean Anderson, Vava @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• Happy Hollows Record Release Show, Post Life, The Pretty Flowers, TraPs Ps @ The Satellite
• Christopher Owens @ The Echo
• Trapped Under Ice, GAG, Forced Order. Ingrown, Primitive Blast @ Echoplex
• Chelsea Wolfe @ Amoeba Music
• The Shins, Foxygen @ The Greek
• Ride @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Andrew W.K., Prima Donna, Easy @ The Regent Theatre
• Daniel Norgren, William Tyler @ The Troubadour
• Jimmy Gnecco, Lemolo, Tree Machines Record Release Show @ Hotel Café
• Vincint, Bryan Sandlin EP Release Show, Austin Brown, Gabe Reali @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Television, Chris Stamey @ Teragram Ballroom
• Sextile, POW, Simon Doom @ Resident
• The Donkeys, Sonny And The Sunsets, Earth Girl Helen Brown @ The Hi Hat
• Lauren Ruth Ward Album Release Show, Laura Jean Anderson, Vava @ Bootleg Bar
• The Homobiles, Period Bomb, Trap Girl, The Tissues @ The Smell
• Surge Events presents... @ Silver Lake Lounge
• The Double, LA Takedown, Sun Araw @ Zebulon
• Moon Taxi, Too Many Zooz @ El Rey
• Kali Uchis, Phony Ppl @ The Fonda Theatre
• John Hammond @ McCabe's

Saturday, September 30

Recommended:

Haunted Summer Record Release Show, Bodies of Water, Livingmore, Avi Buffalo, w/ projections by Mad Alchemy Analog Liquid Light Show @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Dimber, Snatch Attack, Object As Subject @ The Echo
• Hot Water Music, Dead To Me, Racquet Club @ Echoplex
• Company of Thieves, DRÆMINGS, Psychic Love @ The Troubadour
• Interpol, Deerhunter, Battles @ Los Angeles State Historic Park
• Amos Lee @ Cathedral Sanctuary at Immanuel Presbyterian ChurchChelsea Wolfe, Youth Code @ The Regent Theatre
• Haunted Summer Record Release Show, Bodies of Water, Livingmore, Avi Buffalo, w/ projections by Mad Alchemy Analog Liquid Light Show @ The Hi Hat
• Black Joe Lewis, Lighnin' Malcolm, Vug Arakas @ Resident
• Television, Chris Stamey @ Teragram Ballroom
• Joey Harkum, Ian Abel, Jakob Berger & his hat @ Hotel Café
• Keith Harkin, Nick Shattuck, Brandon McCulloch presents JOe Con, East Of Angels @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Big Business, Andy The Doorbum, Tweak Bird @ Bootleg Bar
• Hellogoodbye, Chris Farren, Family of Geniuses @ El Rey

Sunday, October 1

Recommended:

Robyn Hitchcock & Yo La Tengo perform Black Snake Diamond Role @ The Regent Theatre

playing tonight:

• Robyn Hitchcock & Yo La Tengo perform Black Snake Diamond Role @ The Regent Theatre
• Imagine Dragons @ Hollywood Bowl
• Part Time Punks w/ @ The Echo
• Nosaj Thing, Jacques Greene @ Echoplex
• Four Year Strong, Seaway, Like Pacific, Grey Scale, Life Lessons @ Teragram Ballroom
• Sean Nicholas Savage, Dinner, Ablebody @ Bootleg Bar
• "Secret" Special Guest, Billy Changer, BOYO, Lily Waters @ The Hi HaT
• Keith Harkin @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Jon Langford's Four Lost Souls @ McCabe's

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Week of October 2 - 9

Monday, October 2

Recommended:

"School Night!" w/ Hamish Anderson, Torii Wolf Album Release Party, SWSH, Glover the Girl, Maillot, Best Ghost @ Bardot

playing tonight:

• NEONHEART, Hawk Percival Andy friends, Charly & Faust @ The Satellite
• "School Night!" w/ Hamish Anderson, Torii Wolf Album Release Party, SWSH, Glover the Girl, Maillot, Best Ghost @ Bardot
• Space Diaries, Nebulamigo @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Dark Rooms, PLEXXIGLASS, Esbie Fonte @ The Hi Hat
• Madeline Kennedy, NONA, Camila Webb @ Resident
• Monday Monday, Tenderfoot @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Judith Owen @ The Troubadour
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series @ Harvard & Stone

Tuesday, October 3

Recommended:

Geographer @ Moroccan Lounge

playing tonight:

• Brandon Wardell and friends @ The Satellite
• Krystle Warren, Jacob Snider @ Zebulon
• Bruno Romano & Friends @ Hotel Café
• Cosmos and Creatures, Upsahl, YVR @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Sheer Mag, Tenement, Futura @ The Hi Hat
• Geographer @ Moroccan Lounge
• Escondito, Yay Blynn, Clara-Nova @ The Troubadour
• Big Thief, Little Wings, Mega Bog @ Bootleg Bar
• Takenobu @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Chela @ Resident
• Misterwives, Smallpools., Vinyl Theatre @ The Fonda Theatre
  

Wednesday, October 4

Recommended:

Decorator, The Unending Thread, The Mosaics @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• Decorator, The Unending Thread, The Mosaics @ The Satellite
• Sheer Mag, Tenement, Gun Outfit @ The Echo
• Jesse Harris, Johnathan Rice @ Zebulon
• "Desert Nights" w/ @ The Standard
• The Early November, The Movielife @ The Troubadour
• Tank and The Bangas, Sweet Crude @'Teragram Ballroom
• Knower featuring Rai Thistlethwayte, Jacob Mann & Sam Wilkes, Thumpasaurus @ The Hi Hat
• Kacy & Clayton, GospelbeacH @ Moroccan Lounge
• The Americans, George Adrian @ Hotel Café
• Dylan Gardner, Izzy Ray, Bianca Gissell, Lizzy Loeb @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Elliott Brood, Izaak Opatz @ Bootleg Bar
• Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Anders Osborne, Lola Lennox @ The Fonda Theatre
• Deep State @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Robert Earl Keen @ El Rey

Thursday, October 5

Recommended:

The War on Drugs, Phoebe Bridgers @ The Greek

playing tonight:

• Robert Earl Keen @ El Rey
• Sierra and the Radicals @ The Satellite
• Metal Jazz Night w/ Burning Ghosts, Dan Weiss Group @ Zebulon
• Pinegrove, Florist, Lomelda @ Echoplex
• Colter Wall @ Hotel Café
• Boots On Stage presents Chharlie Rogers, Broken Halleluyah, Taylor Hungerford, Liz Hill, David Lorango @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• The War on Drugs, Phoebe Bridgers @ The Greek
• Hollie Cook @ Moroccan Lounge
• Walter Etc. Record Release, Toys That Kill, Mom Jeans @ The Hi Hat
• Campfire Caravan featuring The Brothers Comatose, Mipso & The Lil Smokies @ Bootleg Bar
• Jamestown Pagans, Jerika Hayes, ArthurAutumn, Aboleth @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Vance Joy, Amy Sharkm Chappell Roan @ The Fonda Theatre

Friday, October 6

Recommended:

Eagle Rock Festival Kickoff Party w/ Jimetta Rose, Swarvy, Apollo Bebop @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• The Woggles @ The Echo
• The Mavericks @ The Regent Theatre
• Gabrielle Aplin @ The Troubadour
• Dylan Dunlap, Vincint, Rayvon Owen w/ special guests, Eleven Dollar Bills, Big Monsta @ Hotel Café
• The Cribs, PAWS @ Teragram Ballroom
• Arkells, Irontom @ The Roxy
• Robin Bacior, Kacey Johansing, Crdioid @ Resident
• Eagle Rock Festival Kickoff Party w/ Jimetta Rose, Swarvy, Apollo Bebop @ The Hi Hat
• Joon Moon @ Bootleg Bar
• French Vanilla, Janelane, Jody, LunchLady @ The Smell
• Surge Events presents... @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Saint Etienne, Shawn Lee @ The Fonda Theatre
• AJ Croce @ McCabe's

Saturday, October 7

Recommended:

Eagle Rock Festival 2017 @ Eagle Rock

The Flaming Lips, Mac DeMarco @ The Shrine

St. Vincent @ Paramount Pictures Studios

playing tonight:

• Eagle Rock Festival 2017 @ Eagle Rock
• Kings Of Leon @ Hollywood Bowl
• The Flaming Lips, Mac DeMarco @ The Shrine
• St. Vincent @ Paramount Pictures Studios
• Marc Broussard, Carsie Blanton, Peter Aristone @ The Troubadour
• Wax Children, Perfect Families, Crystales, Modern Time Machines @ The Hi Hat
• Dead Rider, Ether Feather, Qui @ Resident
• Obituary, Exodus, Power Trip, Dust Bolt @ Teragram Ballroom
• Robert Rothko, The Morning Yells, Garen w/ Carly Van Skaik @ Hotel Café
• Ratoys, BOYO, Justus Proffit @ Bootleg Bar
• Between The Buried and Me, The Contortionist, Polyphia & Toothgrinder @ El Rey
• Saccharine Trust, Terminal A, and more @ The Smell
• Griffin House @ McCabe's

Sunday, October 8

Recommended:

Pinegrove, Florist, Lomelda @ The Troubadour

playing tonight:

• Orange Mayfield, Black Adidas, Room 4 @ The Satellite
• Part Time Punks w/ @ The Echo
• Pinegrove, Florist, Lomelda @ The Troubadour
• Audra Isadora @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Patrick Sweany, Restavrant @ Bootleg Bar
• Presence ft, Hardcore Tina, Susan, Maricon, Object As Subject @ The Hi Hat
• Quiles and Cloud, Anna Tivel @ McCabe's

The L. A. Show Low Down (Or: "As I Went They're All Beside Us In Silence, As If Unaffected Amid The Violence...")

by Brad Roberts

A couple of big events for me this two week period with Hamilton this Tuesday, Sept. 12 at The Pantages, which should give me a large jolt of live theatre, and I'm anxious to hear the latest Fleet Foxes (at right) album performed live at Hollywood Bowl on Sept. 23.

Other than that my life is now consumed with trying to find a new place to live since I found out my building has been sold and I must be out by the end of the year. Music will have to take a temporary back seat for the time being. Onto the next adventure. 

Week of September 11 - 17

This week offers sets by Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf with  James McAlister of Planetarium at Bootleg Bar on Monday, Bebopalula at Hotel Cafe on Thursday, and Golden Animals at The Hi Hat on Friday.

Monday, September 11

Recommended:

Moons of Mars, Red Horror, Jimmy LaValle & James McAlister @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• New Language, Holy Wars, Dysplay, Ether Feather @ The Satellite
• Jesse Jo Stark @ The Echo
• Chameleons Vox, Theatre of Hate (acoustic set) @ Echoplex
• \"School Night!" w/ Rye, The Wrecks, Kingsbury, Sur @ Bardot
• The Bad Applez, NewMaximumDonkey, Fonteyn, Fuzz Francis, Astro Tan @ Silver Lake Lounge
• The Entire Universe, Billy Changers, Nunb.er, Mothdrops @ Zebulon Cafe
• The Lone Bellow @ The Grammy Museum
• Moons of Mars, Red Horror, Jimmy LaValle & James McAlister @ Bootleg Bar
• Royaljag, Rosa, Arms Akimbo @ Resident
• Parcels, Among Savages @ Hotel Café
• Monday Monday, Kasey Williams, Carrie Welling & Kate Mills @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Night Owl, Water District @ Harvard & Stone
  

Tuesday, September 12

Recommended:

Name The Band, Veronica Bianqui, The Vivids @ Harvard & Stone 

playing tonight:

• John Early, Gary Richardson, Alex Cameron, Freckle @ The Satellite
• Marshall Crenshaw y Los Straitjackets, RJ Bloke @  The Echo
• Young Jesus Record Release Party, Goon @ Echoplex
• The New Respects, Home @ Hotel Café
• Sizzy Rocket, Bambi & Felix, Feisty Heart, Ashley Peacock, Eli Parfumi @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Indigo Gails, Amythyst Kiah (solo) @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• MC Lars, Big O, Richie Branson @ The Hi Hat
• Ian Hunter & The Rant Band, Scott McCaughey @ Teragram Ballroom
• Ásgeir, Tusks @ The Troubadour
• The Strike, Flavia, CeCe @ Bootleg Bar
• Surge Event presents... @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Name The Band, Veronica Bianqui, The Vivids @ Harvard & Stone 

Wednesday, September 13

Recommended:

Steve Winwood, Mavis Staples @ Hollywood Bowl

Alpine Decline, Lonely Bones, Peg Leg @ Harvard & Stone

playing tonight:

• Spirit in the Room, Of the Dark I Dare, Drug, The Great Sadness @ The Satellite
• Mighty Oaks, Jamie Drake @ The Echo
• Steve Winwood, Mavis Staples @ Hollywood Bowl
• "Desert Nights" w/ Rayland Baxter, Brianna Falcone @ The Standard
• A R I Z O N A, Glades @ The Troubadour
• Cigarettes After Sex @ Teragram Ballroom
• Sleeping Lessons, Children, Dr. Fadeaway, Keith Sweaty & Lorna Dunn, The Lavender Scare @ The Hi Hat
• The Yawpers, Big Mother Gig @ Resident
• Alvin Lee Meldau, Southern Avenue, Los Hollywoods and Elis Paprika, Cody Lovass @ Hotel Café
• Joseph Arthur, Jesse MacLeod, Frances Luke Accord, Chuck Adams @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Jerry Paper, Dinner Record Release, CMON@ Zebulon Cafe
• Goo Goo Dolls, Phillip Phillips @ Greek Theatre
• Alpine Decline, Lonely Bones, Peg Leg @ Harvard & Stone
• Obey The Wolves, No Darling, Shattered Systems, Red Devil Vortex, Sifting @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, September 14

Recommended:

Sera Cahoone w/ Dylan Pratt, Fernando Perdomo, Bebopalula @ Hotel Café

playing tonight:

• Lavender Fields, Ghost Pavilion, Soxx @ The Satellite
• Alice Glass @ The Echo
• Against Me!, Bleached, The Dirty Nil @ The Fonda Theatre
• Sera Cahoone w/ Dylan Pratt, Fernando Perdomo, Bebopalula @ Hotel Café
• Brendan Hines, Jackie Venson, David Gielan, Rebekah Pahl, Rome Da Luce @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Rostam @ Amoeba Music (6PM)
• Cigarettes After Sex @ Teragram Ballroom
• The Lovemakers, L.A. Girlfriend, Hi Scores @ Resident
• A R I Z O N A, Glades @ The Troubadour
• Henry Jamison, Gracie & Rachel, Anna Ash @ The Hi Hat
• Justus Proffit, Felt Feutre, The Chonks @ The Smell
• QueenMilk, Jason Achilles Mezilis @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Whetham, Bearson, Opia @ El Rey

Friday, September 15

Recommended:

Golden Animals, decker, The Astronots, Joy Downer @ The Hi Hat

The Church, The Helio Sequence @ The Fonda Theatre

playing tonight:

• Frankie and the Witch Fingers Record Release Party, Pow!, The Mad Walls @ The Echo
• Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• Janine, The Secret Things, Gestures & Sounds @ Hotel Café
• J.J. Mellon, Young Valley, Rivers & Suns, John Bardy Butch Norton Duo, The Lost Weekend @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• James Supercave & The Seshen, The Palms, Health, Eli Glad @ Teragram Ballroom
• Peter Brötzmann, Jeff Parker, John Herndon @ Zebulon Cafe
• Golden Animals, decker, The Astronots, Joy Downer @ The Hi Hat
• The Stone Foxes, Johnzo West & The Wayward Souls @ Bootleg Bar
• Gap Girls, Teenage Slang Session, Jody, Anus Kings @ The Smell
• Sandra Macat, Fire Bird Rising, Young Patched, Kikee Bah, Bloom Haydevil @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Together Pangea, Tall Juan, Side Eyes, Daddy Issues @ El Rey
• The Church, The Helio Sequence @ The Fonda Theatre
• Peter Asher & Albert Lee, Kate Taylor @ McCabe's

Saturday, September 16

Recommended:

City And Colour, David Bazan @ The Wiltern

Tristen, Jenny O @ Resident (6:30)

playing tonight:

• Josh Todd & The Conflict Album Release Show, ÆGES, Joyous Wolf @ The Roxy
• Black Kids, Seratones @ Echoplex
• Alex Cameron, Jack Ladder @ The Hi Hat
• Tristen, Jenny O @ Resident (6:30)
• Wayfarers, Sheila Nicholls Record Release Show, Static Surrender, KC's Heroes @ Hotel Café
• Dan Riley Record Release Show, Austin Brown, Trent Bower, "Top Tune" w/ Caitlin Eadie, James Byous, Dalton Cyr, Brendan Hines, George Krikes, Mia Milan & more @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Justine of Lato @ Silver Lake Lounge
• The Shadowboxers, Daisy @ El Rey
• City And Colour, David Bazan @ The Wiltern
• Peter Asher & Albert Lee, Kate Taylor @ McCabe's

Sunday, September 17

Recommended:

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Frank Turner @ Orpheum Theatre

playing tonight: 

• Part Time Punks w/ Sisters of Mercy Nite @ The Echo
• Monsieur Perine @ Echoplex
• Tijuana Panthers, Slothrust, Mourn, Dude York, @ The Regent Theatre
• Vanessa De Mata @ Teragram Ballroom
• Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Frank Turner @ Orpheum Theatre
• EX Stains, Cat Scan, Red Channel @ The Hi Hat
• King Leg, Craig Brown Band, Brian Whelan @ Resident
• KARMIC & Andrew Cole @ Hotel Café
• Leah T, George Krikes, Ryan Lerman, LUCI @ Hotel Café Second Stagel
• Peter Asher & Albert Lee, Kate Taylor @ McCabe's

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Week of September 18 - 24

I applaud Fleet Foxes for not taking the easy way out with their new, challenging album, and it's been six years since they've been around so I look forward to their show at Hollywood Bowl this coming Saturday.

The Texas Flood Relief Show offers a bevy of local talent for a worthy cause at Bootleg on Tuesday, Aaron Espinoza plays The Hi Hat on Wednesday, and Swervedriver are at Teragram Ballroom on Sunday for some highlights of the week.

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, September 18

Recommended:

The Entire Universe, The Abigails, Golden Animals @ Zebulon Cafe

Explosions In The Sky, Holy Fuck @ Greek Theatre

playing tonight:

• New Language, AEGES,  Eurika the Butcher, Fast Friends @ The Satellite
• Jesse Jo Stark @ The Echo
• New Order, Goldfrapp @ Hollywood Bowl
• "School Night!" w/ Maxim Ludwig, Busty and The Bass, Glassy Williams, La Bouquet @ Bardot
• Teen Models, Suzy True, Modern Figure, Las Cruxes, Habitat @ Silver Lake Lounge
• The Entire Universe, The Abigails, Golden Animals @ Zebulon Cafe
• Orchin, Alms, Bain's World, Shidu @ The Hi Hat
• Moonsof Mars, O'Neill Hedson, Silent Rival @ Bootleg Bar
• The National Parks, RIVVRS @ Resident
• Explosions In The Sky, Holy Fuck @ Greek Theatre
• Monday Monday, Emily Barker @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• An Evening with Jamestown Revival @ Largo at the Coronet
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ The Oil Barons, The Planters, Snowball 11 @ Harvard & Stone
  

Tuesday, September 19

Recommended:

Texas Flood Relief Show w/ Austin McCutchen & The Western Stars, Christian Lee Hutson, Brian Whelan, Elijah Ocean, Gethen Jenkins, Leslie Stevens, Ben Reddell Band, Sue Sue Benhoff, Albert and His Dreamboats, Sam Morrow, Brent Rademacher, Charlie Overbey and The Broken Arrows @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• Olivia Kaplan, Johanna Samuels, Camila Webb @ The Satellite
• Olivia O'Brien @ The Echo
• Future Islands, FR/BLCK/PR @ The Greek
• JD Ondara, Crouse @ Hotel Café
• Rosi Golan, Cordovas, Billie, Javier Dunn, Emily Hackett @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• The Smith Street Band, Chris Farren, Mom Jeans @ The Hi Hat
• Texas Flood Relief Show w/ Austin McCutchen & The Western Stars, Christian Lee Hutson, Brian Whelan, Elijah Ocean, Gethen Jenkins, Leslie Stevens, Ben Reddell Band, Sue Sue Benhoff, Albert and His Dreamboats, Sam Morrow, Brent Rademacher, Charlie Overbey and The Broken Arrows @ Bootleg Bar
• PUP @ Moroccan Lounge
• Darrin Stafford, Tim Norton, Amanda Sasser, The Waiter AKA Kiev Braun, Nikki Kelly, Rich Lee & Asia Divine @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Name The Band, Dreamphases, Mosquito @ Harvard & Stone 

Wednesday, September 20

Recommended:

Microdose feat. Arthur King & The Night Sea, Aaron Espinoza @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Transviolet, Sazzie, ZiBBZ @ The Satellite
• Japanese Breakfast, Mannequin Pussy, The Spirit of the Beehive @ The Echo
• Zola Jesus @ The Regent Theatre
• "Desert Nights" w/ RYAT, Drum & Lace @ The Standard
• Jordan Rakei, James Tillman @ The Troubadour
• Microdose feat. Arthur King & The Night Sea, Aaron Espinoza @ The Hi Hat
• Prism Tats, New Swears, VNLVX @ Resident
• Joseph Arthur, The Americans @ Hotel Café
• The Marias, tiLLie, August Eve @ Moroccan Lounge
• Courtship, Saint Mesa @ Bootleg Bar
• RAC, NVDES @ The Fonda Theatre
• Lead Pony @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, September 21

Recommended:

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers @ Hollywood Bowl

playing tonight:

• Fire Chief Charlie, Tokyo Taboo @ The Satellite
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers @ Hollywood Bowl
• Skylar Spence, Jonah Baseball @ The Echo
• Chicano Batman, Khruangbin, Rudy De Anda @ The Fonda Theatre
• Fatai w/ Cosmos & Creatures @ Hotel Café
• Celeigh Chapman, Alfred, The Improv Trio @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Kevin Morby, Shannon Lay @ Teragram Ballroom
• Proper English, Special Guests @ Harvard & Stone
• Glass Animals, Kacy Hill, Amber Mark @ Shrine Auditorium
• Cobra Man, Wild Wing, Brutus VIII @ The Hi Hat
• Stephen Kellogg, Emily Hearn @ Bootleg Bar
• Survival Guide, Lungs and Limbs, Lo' There, Slowtrip @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Jaws of Love, Kelsey Ayer @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Friday, September 22

Recommended:

Psychic TV, LA Drones @ Echoplex

Deerhoof, Christina Schneider's Genius Grant, Mayya and the Revolutionary Hell Yeah! @ Teragram Ballroom

playing tonight:

• Sure Sure, Karen Kilgariff, Huxlee @ The Satellite
• INVSN, Iress @ The Echo
• Psychic TV, LA Drones @ Echoplex
• Andrew Belle, Praytell @ The Troubadour
• Fatai w/ Cosmos & Creatures, 1 AMVRKA @ Hotel Café
• Chicano Batman, Khruangbin, Brainstory @ The Fonda Theatre
• Deerhoof, Christina Schneider's Genius Grant, Mayya and the Revolutionary Hell Yeah! @ Teragram Ballroom
• Citris, Nightgown, Maddie Ross @ Resident
• Vincint, Austin Brown, Mary Scholz Album Release, Quinn Lewis, Linda Perhacs @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Dent May, Steady Holiday, Jimmy Whispers @ Bootleg Bar
• Surge Events presents... @ Silver Lake Lounge
• The Bronx, Plague Vendor, '68 @ El Rey
• Kenny White, Randi Driscoll @ McCabe's

Saturday, September 23

Recommended:

Fleet Foxes, Beach House @ Hollywood Bowl

The Dustbowl Revival @ McCabe's

playing tonight:

• Fleet Foxes, Beach House @ Hollywood Bowl
• Grand Ole Echo w/ Roots Roadhouse w/ Jim Lauderdale, Leila McCalla, Mike Stinson, The Last Bandoleros, Sarah Shook And The Disarmers, more TBA @ The Echo and Echoplex
• Kasabian @ The Wiltern
• Wand, Gun Outfit, Darto @ The Troubadour
• Abbot Kinney Festival 2017 @ Venice
• GGOOLLDD, Kid Bloom @ Resident
• Grand Lord High Master, Sicocis, Tzimani, The Deep Sea Divas @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Martha Wainwright @ Hotel Café (7 & 9:30)
• Chicano Batman, Khruangbin, El Haru Kuroi @ The Fonda Theatre
• Superpoze @ Bootleg Bar
• Very Be Careful 20th Anniversary, Future Pigeon, Bombon @ El Rey
• Arrica Rose & the ...'s Record Release Show, Freddy & Francine w/ Jeffrey Martin, Mr. Sam Slick, Tim Barnett@ Hotel Café Second Stage
• The Dustbowl Revival @ McCabe's

Sunday, September 24

Recommended:

Swervedriver @ Teragram Ballroom

playing tonight:

• Ben Folds, Tall Heights @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• Generacion Suicida  @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ @ The Echo
• Swervedriver @ Teragram Ballroom
• The Toadies, Local H, Max Cady @ The Troubadour
• Elijah Ocean, M. Lockwood Porter, The Harmed Brothers @ Bootleg Bar
• Swerve, Blushh, Illuminati Hotties @ Resident
• Mikel Erentxun @ The Roxy
• Sound Collective w/ Jef Joslin Band, Bashful Creature, Long Beach, The Riverside @ Hotel Café Second Stage

 

The L.A. Show Low Down (Or: "Remember What We've Said And Done And Felt About Each Other...")

by Brad Roberts

Two Week Edition

Week of August 21 - September 3

Saw part of a Judy Collins TV interview in which she was asked if, at 78, she has any plans to retire and I loved her answer: "Oh, no, it isn't part of my repertoire, I am an artist and artists don't retire." On Friday she joins her ex-boyfriend, Stephen Stills, for a concert at Saban Theatre, and an upcoming album collaboration, which has blossomed into a national tour, owing to the excitement this show has generated. This is the first time they have shared a concert stage and I am so very happy I bought a ticket so long ago.

Monday, August 28

Recommended:

Nightmare Air, Dearly Beloved, Facial, Tomahawk Training, a special guest @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• Nightmare Air, Dearly Beloved, Facial, Tomahawk Training, a special guest @ The Satellite
• Imagine Dragons @ The Grammy Museum
• Pioneer 11, Repeated Measures, Chip Monk @ Echoplex
• "School Night!" w/ SoSuperSam, Juiceboxxx, Kiah Victoria, Kyd The Band @ Bardot
• Sleeplust, Liv Slingerland, Bed Bugs, Ioretti @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Mark Lanegan Band, Duke Garwood, Lyenn @ Teragram Ballroom
• Diners, The Squids, Junkie @ The Hi Hat
• Brian Hill & The Noh Starrs, The de Courci Brothers, Janelane, Peach Pit @ Bootleg Bar
• JP Saxe, Hayley Gene Penner, MOONZz @ Hotel Café
• Monday Monday Hootenanny w/ Freddie & Francine, Jeffrey Young, Suzanne Santo, Pretty Polly, Theo Katzman, Kathleen Grace, Diana DeMuth, Tara Priya, Theo Von, and more; See How They Run @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Steel Panther, Magentico @ The Roxy
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Danny Dodge, Missions, The Morning Yells @ Harvard & Stone
  

Tuesday, August 29

Recommended:

El Ten Eleven, Korey Dane @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Here We Go Magic, The Range Of Light Wilderness, Nocona @ Echoplex

playing tonight:

• Here We Go Magic, The Range Of Light Wilderness, Nocona @ Echoplex
• Station Breaks & Friends w/ Gil McKinney, The Sandwich, The Station Breaks @ Hotel Café
• Jamie Kent and Abby Posner, Julian Velard, Ray Goren @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Family Pet Video Release Party, Susan, Slut Island, Dreamboat @ The Hi Hat
• San Cisco, Wooing @ Teragram Ballroom
• David Cook, Kathryn Dean @ The Troubadour
• The Glam Skanks, Solar Sons @ El Cid
• Sorry Kyle, Gardenside, Watashii Wa Dance Company, Raised on TV @ Bootleg Bar
• El Ten Eleven, Korey Dane @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Starover Blue, Chatrooms, Bird Concerns @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Nico & The Nights, F71, Shit Man @ Harvard & Stone
• The Kickback, Faulkner, Half Alive @ Resident
• Plini, David Maxim Micic, Nick Johnson, Mike Dawes @ The Roxy
  

Wednesday, August 30

Recommended:

"School Night!" w/Prelow, Blair, Alxxa, Seramic @ Resident

playing tonight:

• Thelma and the Sleaze @ The Lost Room
• The Neighbourhood @ The Roxy
• "Desert Nights" w/ Cody Crump, Kat Khaleel @ The Standard
• Joywave, Slugs @ The Troubadour
• Filthy Friends, Dressy Bessy @ Teragram Ballroom
• Spare Parts for Broken Hearts, Jane Machine, Iress, Jungle Jungle @ The Hi Hat
• "School Night!" w/Prelow, Blair, Alxxa, Seramic @ Resident
• CeCe, Alyssa Bernal, Ryan Dimore, Jeslyn @ Hotel Café
• Tulpa & Blankts, Kim DiVine Record Release Show, Yay Blynn@ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Parsonfield, Young Mister @ Bootleg Bar
• Future Feats, Pom Poms, Main Man @ Harvard & Stone
• Dead Country Gentlemen, Salem's Bend, Blind Sparrow @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, August 31

Recommended:

LA Witch @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles 

playing tonight:

• Snowball ii, Teleskopes, Black Sea @ The Satellite
• LA Witch @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles
• Alisan Porter w/ Mike Schiavo, CALICO The Band w/ Brian Whelan, The Needs, Danny Dodge @ Hotel Café
• Brendan Hines, Pop Cautious, Reina Mora, Polar Quest, The Void Nation @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• The Oh Sees, Zig Zags, Lars Finberg @ Teragram Ballroom
• The Soulfire Collective @ Resident
• The Fontaines, Perta, Luci, Vincint @ The Troubadour
• Walter, Denim Skull, Cat Scan @ The Hi Hat
• Coastal Clouds, Paige Calico, Okay Embrace @ Bootleg Bar
• Niantic, The Absurd, Goblin Parade, Waterloo @ Silver Lake Lounge

Friday, September 1

Recommended:

Stephen Stills and Judy Collins, Kenny White @ Saban Theatre

Young Creatures Single Release Show, Summer Twins, Half Stack, SUR @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• Young Creatures Single Release Show, Summer Twins, Half Stack, SUR @ The Satellite
• Honey Child, Crook, Scrolls @ The Echo
• Stephen Stills and Judy Collins, Kenny White @ Saban Theatre
• Sleeping With Sirens, The Write Noise, Palaye Royale, Chase Atlantic @ The Troubadour
• Aubrey Logan, Mario Jose, Black Waat3r EP Release Show w/ Emi Seacrest @ Hotel Café
• D.T. Robbins, The Battlefield EP Release, Short Sleeve Heart, Pacific Range, Amber Farris @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Hunny, Hot Flash Heat Wave, BOYO @ Teragram Ballroom
• The Fresh & Onlys, Earth Girl Helen Brown, Lars Finberg @ Resident
• Whale Fall, Batwings Catwings, Gregory Uhlmann @ The Hi Hat
• Whispertown and friends Record Release Party, Jake Bellows, Nik Freitas, Jason Boesel, Special Guests @ Bootleg Bar
• Clit Kat, Slay Squad, Sketch Orchestra @ The Smell
• Starving Darling, The Doo Drops, Hold For T-Roy, House of Mary, Native Names, Sam Valdez @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Peanut Butter Wolf @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles

Saturday, September 2

Recommended:

Christy Hays, Isaak Opatz, Joe Bourdet, Full Safari @ Silver Lake Lounge

playing tonight:

• Peanut Butter Wolf @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles
• Christy Hays, Isaak Opatz, Joe Bourdet, Full Safari @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Choreography, Club Night, Rumblepak, Man & The Smells @ The Hi Hat
• Nomi Abadi, Keaton Simons and friends @ Hotel Café
• Radnor & Lee, Matt Hires, Brandon McCulloch, Laura Savage @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Kuromi, Hot Brothers, Super Lunch, Alice @ Bootleg Bar
• The Red Pears, Nick Normal, The High Curbs, The Goobs @ The Smell

Sunday, September 3

Recommended:

Johnny Travis Jr., The Delta Dawns @ Harvard & Stone

playing tonight:

• Part Time Punks w/ Smiths/Morrissey Nite @ Echoplex
• Frankie Cosmos, Iji, Alyeska @ Echoplex
• Kina Grannis, Imaginary Future @ Teragram Ballroom
• Johnny Travis Jr., The Delta Dawns @ Harvard & Stone
• Tickle Torture, Dez Fink, Congo Montana @ Bootleg Bar
• Derek Ted, Field Medic, Goth Babe @ The Smell

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Week of September 4 - 10

Monday, September 4 • Labor Day

Recommended:

Nightshift Labor Day Music Fest w/ Grace Potter, Revolution, Ozomatli & more @ Grand Park, DTLA

playing tonight:

• New Language, The New Pacific @ The Satellite
• iji, Post-Life, The Lentils @ The Smell
• Nightshift Labor Day Music Fest w/ Grace Potter, Revolution, Ozomatli & more @ Grand Park, DTLA
• Event Horizon, Chamuco, Goliathan, The Great Sadness @ Silver Lake Lounge

 

 

Tuesday, September 5

Recommended:

Brandon Wardell, Todd Glass, Kurt Braunohler, Ian Karmel, Sam Jay @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• Brandon Wardell, Todd Glass, Kurt Braunohler, Ian Karmel, Sam Jay @ The Satellite
• Michaela Anne, Thompson Springs and friends @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Luke Rathborne, No Win @ Bootleg Bar
• Teen Models, Mo Dotti, Dr. Fadeaway, Bearcats, Pizza Stains @ Silver Lake Lounge

 

Wednesday, September 6

Recommended:

George Sarah Band, James Rose, Jacob Cole, LA River Bend @ Silver Lake Lounge

playing tonight:

• Beachwood Coyotes EP Release Party, Hate Drugs, Blushh @ The Satellite
• Dermot Kennedy @ The Troubadour
• Carbon Leaf, Kat Myers and the Buzzards @ The Roxy
• Lara FM, WASI (as Le Tigre) @ Resident
• Garrison Starr & The Wealthy West, London Thor, LAE., Sadie Rose @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Kirin J. Callanan, Fatal Jazz, Spike Fuck @ Bootleg Bar
• George Sarah Band, James Rose, Jacob Cole, LA River Bend @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, September 7

Recommended:

Fruit Bats (Solo Set), Jed Maheu @ Resident

playing tonight:

• See Through Dresses, Minnow, Draag, Children @ The Satellite
• New Mystics, HOTT MT @ The Echo
• Boot On Stage @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Doyle Bramhall II @ Teragram Ballroom
• Fruit Bats (Solo Set), Jed Maheu @ Resident
• Vérité, Tigertown @ The Troubadour
• The Velotron, Earth Is A Death Star, Desert Tundra @ The Smell
• Stiff Little Fingers, Death By Unga Bunga @ El Rey

Friday, September 8

Recommended:

Pity Party, Beach Goons, Junkie @ The Smell

Golden Animals, decker., The Astronots, Joy Downer @ The Hi Hat

Tom Brosseau, Dr. John J. Levitin @ McCabe's

The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles

playing tonight:

• Little Monarch, BAUM, Goldwash, Wayfarers @ The Satellite
• Kolars, Livingmore, Moded @ The Echo
• Vallis Alps, Saro, Nylo @ Echoplex
• TOPS, She-Devils @ The Troubadour
• Lillie May w/ Rhyan Sinclair, KiSMiT w/ Madison Douglas & more @ Hotel Café
• Taylor Phelan, The Icarus Account, The Sweeplings Record Release Show, The Workday Release @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• D.D. Dumbo, Midnight Sister @ Teragram Ballroom
• So Pitted, Toner, Cowgirl Clue @ Resident
• Golden Animals, decker., The Astronots, Joy Downer @ The Hi Hat
• Wovenhand, King Dude @ Bootleg Bar
• Pity Party, Beach Goons, Junkie @ The Smell
• Broken Field Runner, Human Behavior, Foxx Bodies, Kali Kazoo @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Leroy Sanchez, Mario Jose @ El Rey
• The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles
• Tom Brosseau, Dr. John J. Levitin @ McCabe's

Saturday, September 9

Recommended:

Allison Weiss, Cillie Barnes, Wait. Think. Fast., Naomi Greene @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• Allison Weiss, Cillie Barnes, Wait. Think. Fast., Naomi Greene @ The Echo
• Acoustic, Baby Medusa, Big Mess, The Moonshots, Slow Boat to Nova Scotia, The Lovepools, He-Monster @ Silver Lake Lounge
• The Side Eyes, Kuromi, Clit Kat, Bearcats @ The Troubadour
• Quicksand, No Joy @ Teragram Ballroom
• Dave Barnes, Jonah Nillson, Megan Tibbits @ Hotel Café
• Steve Everett, J. Hofstee, Darden Smith, Scenic Underground @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Ring The Alarm, @ Bootleg Bar
• Lemaitre, Stanaj @ El Rey
• The Night Game, Nightly @ The Roxy
• Loudon Wainwright III @ McCabe's (8 & 10 PM)

Sunday, September 10

Recommended:

Tender, Parade Of Lights, Traces @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• Tender, Parade Of Lights, Traces @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ ChameleonsVox, Soft Kill, DRAA @ Echoplex
• Common Ground Fest West w/ Layne, WRENN, Glacier Veins, Super Whatever, Sincerely Me, Cory Wells, Point North, Early Internet, Charlie Saxton, Frankie Foti @ The Hi Hat
• Ken Block & Drew Copeland of Sister Hazel, Leah Capelle, Paul Givant @ Hotel Café
• Oort Smog, Reptoid, Fucked Forever, Cinder Cone @ The Smell
• Terry Reid @ McCabe's

The L.A. Show Low Down

by Brad Roberts

Two Week Edition

Week of August 14 - 20

Echo Park Rising 2017 on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Line-up here. Schedule coming.

Update later in the week as venues release schedules.

Monday, Aug 14

Recommended:

Nightmare Air, The Saint James Society, Sea Ghouls, Pair Of Arrows @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• Nightmare Air, The Saint James Society, Sea Ghouls, Pair Of Arrows @ The Satellite
• Pioneer 11, Ralfy The Plug, Natia, Frosty Da Snowman, Passion Of The Weiss @  The Echo
• "School Night!" w/ Jessica Childress, Madalen Duke, La Bouquet, Faye Webster @ Bardot
• Triangle Fire, Cosmonaut Radio, Good Mistakes, Latumba, Little Bones @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Brian Hill & The Noh Starrs, Shannon Lay, Rose Dorn, Cardinal Fang @ Bootleg Bar
• California Crooners Club, JP Sax @ Hotel Café
• Monday Monday, Jack Vanity @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• John Moreland, Christian Lee Hutson @ The Troubadour
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Fiona Silver, Majken, Nikki Lorenzo @ Harvard & Stone
  

Tuesday, Aug 15

Recommended:

Matthew Sweet, Tommy Keene, Chris Price @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• John Earle w/ Heather Jewett, Gabe Liedman, Kera and the Lesbians, Aida Rodriguez, Michelle Buteau, BUCK @ The Satellite
• Matthew Sweet, Tommy Keene, Chris Price @ The Echo
• Washed Out @ The Wiltern
• Brandon Stansell & Friends, Justin Hulsey @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Pokey Lafarge, Ruston Kelly @ The Troubadour
• The Bay Ledges EP Release Party, Birthday @ Bootleg Bar
• Old Dominion @ Harvard & Stone 

Wednesday, Aug 16

Recommended:

Go Betty Go, The Two Tens Record Release Show, The Katellas @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• Go Betty Go, The Two Tens Record Release Show, The Katellas @ The Satellite
• Royal Blood @ The Wiltern
• "Desert Nights" w/ Overjoy, Sophie Strauss @ The Standard
• Pokey Lafarge, Ruston Kelly @ The Troubadour
• Neon Indian @ Teragram Ballroom
• Microdose, The Pocket Rockets, Henry Nowhere @ The Hi Hat
• Highlands, Spirit Mother, No 44 @ Harvard & Stone
• Jade Bird, Lexie Rose, Madi Diaz @ Hotel Café
• Tulpa & Blankts, Travis Hayes, Hirsh, Javier Dunn @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• KI:THEORY, Cannons, Harmless @ Bootleg Bar
• Bearcats, Iris Jupiter, The Love-Inns @ The Smell

Thursday, Aug 17

Recommended:

ECHO PARK RISING 2017 Line-up here. Schedule coming.

playing tonight:

• Twilight Concert Series w/ Warpaint, Wild Belle @ Santa Monica Pier
• Ethan Gruska, Tall Tall Trees, Fernando Pardomo CD Release Show, Matt Holubowski @ Hotel Cafe
• Gordi @ Resident
• The Warlocks @ Harvard & Stone
• Margaret Glaspy, Liza Anne @ The Troubadour
• Mt. Joy, Avid Dancer, Dr. Doctor @ Bootleg Bar

Friday, Aug 18

Recommended:

ECHO PARK RISING 2017 Line-up here. Schedule coming.

playing tonight: 

• Cody Johnson, Josh Ward @ The Troubadour
• Vintage Trouble, Hamish Anderson, Jules Galli, Sarah Jaffe @ Hotel Café
• Brazilian Girls, The Soft White Sixties @ Teragram Ballroom
• Terry Malts, Real Numbers, Business Of Dreams, Wellness @ The Hi Hat
• Lo Tom, TW Walsh @ Bootleg Bar
• Jay Bizness, Vann Clayton, TSLA, Alpha Boss, Memo El Premo @ The Smell
• Patterson Hood @ McCabe's

Saturday, Aug 19

Recommended:

ECHO PARK RISING 2017 Line-up here. Schedule coming.

playing tonight 

• X @ Pershing Square
• Decorator Album Release Show, The Shakers, Andy Alto, The Mosaics, Alice Underground @ The Troubadour
• Zeal & Ardor @ The Hi Hat
• Machinedrum, Eprom, Mala, AWE, Matthew David & Rochelle Jordan @ The Fonda Theatre
• Shabazz Palace, Porter Ray, Derrick C. Brown @ The Regent Theatre
• Coffee House Arena Rock IIII w/ Valerie Broussard, Vic Fuentes, Dani Rose, Joel Taylor, Tommy Hobson, Toni Staley, Skyler Day, Wilkie Ferguson, James Babson, Sleeping Wolf, Garrison Starr, Keaton Simons + more, Matt Monroe w/ Special Guests (7 - 9PM) @ Hotel Café
• Pickwick, Prism Tats @ Bootleg Bar
• Jake Davis, Emily C. Browning, Elise Trouw @ Teragram Ballroom
• Capital Wasteland, Kuromi, Plumber, Whaja Dew @ The Smell
• Stan Ridgway @ McCabe's

Sunday, Aug 20

Recommended:

ECHO PARK RISING 2017 Line-up here. Schedule coming.

playing tonight:

 

• Chick Corea Elektric Band, Bela Fleck and the Flectones @ The Wiltern
• Jazz Night - 1 Year Anniversary w/ David Binney Group, Chord Four, IT LO @ Bootleg Bar
• The John Stewart Band, Chuck McDermott Band @ McCabe's

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Week of August 21 - 27

I'll finish this up later in the week...

Monday, Aug 21

Recommended:

playing tonight:

- Nightmare Air, Terminal A, Davis, Tamahawk Training @ The Satellite

- Pioneer 11, Chester Watson, T.Y.E., Earoh @ The Echo

- @ Echoplex

- "School Night!" w/ @ Bardot

- @ Silver Lake Lounge

- @ Teragram Ballroom

- @ The Hi Hat

- Brian Hill & The Noh Starrs, Pinky Pinky, Raspberry Blonde, Easy Love @ Bootleg Bar

- Bear Fight, KIDDO, Little Wolves, Royaljag @ Resident

- JP Saxe @ Hotel Café

- @ Hotel Café Second Stage

- @ The Troubadour

- Ilegal Mescal Music Series @ Harvard & Stone

- Dead Cross @ El Rey

playing tonight:

- The Cooties w/ Kate Berlant, Steven Castillo, Josh Adam Meyers @ The Satellite

- Melvins, Spotlights @ The Echo

- @ Echoplex

- King Leg, Western Scecne @ Hotel Café

- @ Hotel Café Second Stage

- Sur, Magic Bronson, The Little Miss @ The Hi Hat

- @ Teragram Ballroom

- @ The Troubadour

- @ Bootleg Bar

- All Scene Eye w/ @ The Virgil

- @ Silver Lake LoungE

-- @ Harvard & Stone 

- @ Resident

- @ El Rey

Wednesday, Aug 23

Recommended:

playing tonight:

- @ The Satellite

- Psychic Ills, Numb.er, Vinyl Williams @ The Echo

- @ Echoplex

- "Desert Nights" w/ @ The Standard

- @ The Troubadour

- @ Teragram Ballroom

- Low Hum, Dimber, Soft Lions, Object As Subject @ The Hi Hat

- @ Resident

 - Dean Lewis @ Hotel Café

- @ Hotel Café Second Stage

- @ Bootleg Bar

- @ El Rey

- @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, Aug 24

Recommended:

playing tonight:

- Early Winter Record Release/Final Show @ The Satellite

- Twilight Concert Series @ Santa Monica Pier

- LPX, Monogem, Tulpa & Blankts The Echo

- @ Echoplex

- Ethan Gruska, Jade Bird, Matt Holubowski @ Hotel Café

- @ Hotel Café Second Stage

- @ Teragram Ballroom

- @ Resident

- Ghost Noise, Casey Chisholm, The Tissues @ The Smell

- Chela, Disco Shrine, Zealyn, Axel Mansoor @ The Hi Hat

- @ Bootleg Bar

- @ Silver Lake Lounge

- @ El Rey

Friday, Aug 25

Recommended:

playing tonight:

- Empty Palace, Delicate Boys, Ecstatic Union, Kevin Nichols @ The Satellite

- Guantanamo Baywatch, Susan, VNLVX @ The Echo

- @ Echoplex

- Tara Beier featuring Ted Jones, Mothlight, Ecstatic Union @ The Troubadour

- Huxlee, Ghost Lit Kingdom, Maggie Malyn @ Hotel Café

- @ Hotel Café Second Stage

- @ Teragram Ballroom

- @ Resident

- Slaughter And The Dogs, Cheap Tissue, Tenement Rats @ The Hi Hat

- @ Bootleg Bar

- Beach Bums, Kicked Off The Streets @ The Smell

- @ Silver Lake Lounge

- The Dead Daisies, The Dives @ El Rey

- @ The Fonda Theatre

- Tammy Faye Starlight, Eszther Balint @ McCabe's

Saturday, Aug 26

Recommended:

playing tonight:

- @ The Satellite

- Jenny and the Maxicats @ The Echo

- @ Echoplex

- @ The Troubadour

- Bodies Of Water Record Release, Joel Jerome @ The Hi Hat

- Kaleo Express @ The Wiltern

- Potty Mouth, Colleen Green, Ramonda Hammer, Pouty @ Teragram Ballroom

- Moa, Space Cadets & Friends @ Hotel Café

- @ Hotel Café Second Stage 

- @ Bootleg Bar

- Mew, Monakr @ El Rey

- Polartropica, Nightgown, Mini Bear, Pussy Vision, Derde Verde @ The Smell

- Ernest Troost, Claudia Russell & Broce Kaplan @ McCabe's

Sunday, Aug 27

Recommended:

playing tonight:

- @ The Satellite

- Grand Ole Echo w/ @ The Echo

- Part Time Punks w/ @ The Echo

- @ Echoplex

- Redacted Mixtape Release, The Unending Thread, Roger Hallaway, Birdluck @ The Hi Hat

- Sawyer Fredericks, Gabriel Wolfchild and the Northern Lights, Haley Johnsen @ The Troubadour

- @ Bootleg Bar

- @ Resident

- @ Hotel Café

- @ Hotel Café Second Stage

- @ El Rey

- No Age, Gun Outfit, Sun Araw, r.r. barbadas @ The Smell

- Chely Wright @ McCabe's

The L.A. Show Low Down (Or: "A Life To Live As Me, A Moment That Feels Free, Like Two Big Colliders, Singing Out Their Days...")

by Brad Roberts

Friday night at The Satellite was amazing with The Parson Red Heads returning to town for one night only!

week of July 31 - Aug. 6

Monday, July 31

Recommended:

Bloody Death Skull, Lucy & La Mer, Tein Temple, Edith Crash @ Echoplex

Dustin Lovelis, Joel Jerome, Fortjams @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• AOE, Amber Navran, Fitness @ The Satellite
• The Chris Robinson Brotherhood @ Amoeba Music
• Bloody Death Skull, Lucy & La Mer, Tein Temple, Edith Crash @ Echoplex
• "School Night!" w/ Angela McCluskey, Bedouine, Georgi Kay, Emily Bell @ Bardot
• Watch for Horses, Prison for Kids, Glass Spells, Beachwood Coyotes @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Dustin Lovelis, Joel Jerome, Fortjams @ Bootleg Bar
• Wild Cub @ Resident
• Monday Monday: Hootenanny (8 PM) w/ Jensen McRae, Chris Lind, Travis Howard, Sometimes We Sing, Together, J Blynn, Hannah Blaylock, Hootenanny Bluegrass Band, Lucy Woodward, Ben Jaffe, Hoot Jam; Alanna Sweetwater (7 PM) @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ The Fake Furs, Color & Thunder, DL @ Harvard & Stone

Tuesday, August 1

Recommended:

Grateful Shred & Friends: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 75th Birthday w/ Delicate Steve, King Tuff, Fruit Bats, Leslie Stevens, William Tyler, Jenny O, Omar Velasco @ Teragram Ballroom

playing tonight:

• PBR Pop-Up Art Show w/ EEEKS, War Tapes,  Coastal Clouds @ The Satellite
• Joseph Arthur, Bruce Sudano w/ Edward Rogers @ Hotel Café
• Kelsey Waldon, Olivia O'Brien, LAE., Cosmos & Creature @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Ex-Cult, Enemy, Form Rank @ The Hi Hat
• Grateful Shred & Friends: Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 75th Birthday w/ Delicate Steve, King Tuff, Fruit Bats, Leslie Stevens, William Tyler, Jenny O, Omar Velasco @ Teragram Ballroom
• Civil Engineering, Danke @ Bootleg Bar
• Surge Event Presents @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Dream Goat, Satellite Sky @ Harvard & Stone
• Itasca, Scott Hirsch, Lauren Barth, Dylan Golden Aycock @ Resident

Wednesday, August 2

Recommended:

Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie @ The Greek

Stevenson Ranch Davidians, My Dallas Teens @ Harvard & Stone

"Desert Nights" w/ Lauren Ruth Ward & Pearl Charles @ The Standard

playing tonight:

• Wolf People, Qui, Dancing Tongues @ The Echo
• Prissy Whip, Casual Hex, HYĀNE @ The Smell
• "Desert Nights" w/ Lauren Ruth Ward & Pearl Charles @ The Standard
• Stevenson Ranch Davidians, My Dallas Teens @ Harvard & Stone
• Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie @ The Greek
• Michael Vidal, Crystales, Red Channel @ The Hi Hat
• The Brian Setzer Orchestra, JD McPherson @ Hollywood Bowl
• Chevelle @ The Wiltern
• The Rocketboys, The Whistles & The Bells @ Resident
• Tulpa & BLANKTZ, Air for Ants, Simon Lunche, Molly with Charles @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Crown The Empire, I See Stars, Palaye Royale, Out Came The Wolves @ The Roxy
• Jason Berk, Todd O'Keefe, Pacific Soul Ltd., Zach Jones & The Transatlantics, Sam Marine, Mod Hippie, International Pop Overthrow @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, August 3

Recommended:

Leslie Stevens & The Badgers, Moonsville Collective @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles

Ethan Gruska, Fenway, We Are Forests @ Hotel Café

In The Valley Below, Flagship @ The Troubadour

playing tonight:

• Sorry Kyle EP Release Show, Raised on TV, Gardenside @ The Satellite
• Leslie Stevens & The Badgers, Moonsville Collective @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles
• GospelbeacH, Trummors, George is Lord @ The Echo\
• Amigo the Devil, Wil Ridge, Blind John Pope @ Echoplex
• Twilight Concert Series w/ Valerie June, Irma Thomas @ Santa Monica Pier
• Ethan Gruska, Fenway, We Are Forests @ Hotel Café
• Boots On Stage w/ Courtney Cole, Golden West, Truxton Mile, Chris Gagnon, Chris Cocilovo @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Chastity Belt, Never Young, Lala Lala @ Teragram Ballroom
• Juan Waiters, The Molochs @ Resident
• In The Valley Below, Flagship @ The Troubadour
• Matthewdavid, D Tiberio,  Cakedog, Gossamer, Low Limit @ The Hi Hat
• Sarah Pigion, Brandon Schott, Morty Shallman, Diamond Hands, Mason & The Jars, Super Buffet, International Pop Overthrow @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Turnpike Troubadours, Charlie Crockett @ El Rey

Friday, August 4

Recommended:

Imaad Wasif, Pink Mountaintops, Dommengang @ The Satellite

Cosmonauts, Adult Books, Winter, Matt Taylor @ Teragram Ballroom

playing tonight:

• Imaad Wasif, Pink Mountaintops, Dommengang @ The Satellite
• Fatsl Jamz, Franky Flowers, BOYO, Sugar Cubes @ The Echo
• Nails, Negative Approach, Bloodclot, Final Conflict @ Echoplex
• Sleeptalk, La Bouquet, Michael Barr, Hush, My Native Tongue @ The Troubadour
• Elliott Yamin & BLake Lewis w/ Special Guests, Riley Smith Record Release Show, Wake the Wild & Common Souls @ Hotel Café
• Parker Gispert, Emily Herndon w/ Drew Taubenfeld, Juju BLooms, The Acetates, Early Dolphin, Gregg Stewart @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Cosmonauts, Adult Books, Winter, Matt Taylor @ Teragram Ballroom
• Christina LaRocca, Crook @ Resident
• Hamiljam  @ Bootleg Theatr
• Alex Napping, Hand Habits, Justus Proffit @ Bootleg Bar
• Billy Changer, Valen, Lily Waters @ The Smell
• Surge Event Presents @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Boogaloo Assassins @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles
• Amadou & Miriam @ El Rey
• David Baerwald, Sarah Kramer@ McCabe's

Saturday, August 5

Recommended:

Jared & The Mill, Kolars, Banta @ The Troubadour

playing tonight:

• Allday @ The Echo (6 PM)
• Jared & The Mill, Kolars, Banta @ The Troubadour
• Skyler Day, Will Jay, LadyHD, No Suits w/ Jackii, Michelle Lewis @ Hotel Café
• Josh Arbour & his String Trio, Carly Van Shaik & Kara Connolly, Brandon McCulloch presents Amanda Sasser, Ghost Monster & more, James Quick @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Bent Knee, The Alexander Noice Sextet, Bearsronaut @ Bootleg Bar
• New Breed Brass Band @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles
• Bane's World, Ariel View, The Florida Mistakes, Gold Vine @ The Smell
• Badfinger's "Straight Up" live and complete starring Joey Molland plus The Byrd's "The Ballad of Easy Rider" complete and more starring John York @ McCabe's

Sunday, August 6

Recommended:

Belle and Sebastian, Spoon @ Hollywood Bowl

Grand Ole Echo w/ Elijah Ocean, Summer Dean, Ben Reddell Band @ The Echo

Lucky Diaz & the Family Jam Band @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles

playing tonight:

• Belle and Sebastian, Spoon @ Hollywood Bowl
• Grand Ole Echo w/ Elijah Ocean, Summer Dean, Ben Reddell Band @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ Swirlies, Cruel Summer, Tennis System, Time Punks @ The Echo
• Slow Caves, Canto @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Daniella Mason & Katelyn Tarver @ Bootleg Bar
• Lucky Diaz & the Family Jam Band @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles
• Celebrity Crush, Rose Dorn, TBA @ The Smell

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week of Aug. 7 - 13

Monday, August 7

Recommended:

Nightmare Air, Iress, Slugs, Holy Wars, Tomahawk Training @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• Nightmare Air, Iress, Slugs, Holy Wars, Tomahawk Training @ The Satellite
• Pioneer 11, Calvin Valntine, Tolliver, Versis @ The Echo
• "School Night!" w/ Ruby Friedman Orchestra, The Outdoor Type + more TBA @ Bardot
• Origami Ghosts, Big Bang Television, Saint Cecilia @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Brian Hill & The Noh Starrs, Drinking Flowers, Okey Dokey, Black Sea @ Bootleg Bar
• Steel Panther, The Raskins @ The Roxy
• Monday Monday, Brooks Forsyth @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• legal Mescal Music Series @ Harvard & Stone

Tuesday, August 8

Recommended:

Zen Mother, Flying Hair, Ted Byrnes, Electric Sound Bath @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• Stu Larsen, Van Williams @ The Echo
• Two Feet, Melvv @ Echoplex
• Priests @ Highland Park Ebell
• The Mae Trio, Tom Freund & Korby Lenker, Neon Moon @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Twolips EP Release Party, Charles X, Black Monroe, Mohdalsoul @ The Hi Hat
• Jon Wolfe, David Lorango, Honey County @ The Troubadour
• Zen Mother, Flying Hair, Ted Byrnes, Electric Sound Bath @ Bootleg Bar
• Charley & Faust @ Silver Lake Lounge

Wednesday, August 9

Recommended:

Monobody, The Unending Thread, Culture Vulture @ The Smell

playing tonight:

• The Colour Coast Single Release Party, Bianca Gisselle, The Mercury Wheel @ The Satellite
• Current Joys, Bane's World, Gap Girls @ The Echo
• "Desert Nights" w/ Pete Molinari, Fiona Silver @ The Standard
• Brick + Mortar, Split Party @ The Hi Hat
• Sophie Simmons @ Resident
• Beta Play & friends, Zach Porter from The Tragic Thrills @ Hotel Café
• Jody Quine, Rich Wyman @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• AHLEUCHATISTAS, Booker Stardrum, Fell Runner, Ben Boye @ Bootleg Bar
• Monobody, The Unending Thread, Culture Vulture @ The Smell
• Zigtebra, Athleisure, Collaboration & Gemmitsrius & Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, August 10

Recommended:

Ethan Gruska, Matthew Mayfield, Jamie Drake @ Hotel Café

playing tonight:

• Korey Dane @ Amoeba Music
• Steve Miller Band, Peter Frampton @ The Greek
• Twilight Concert Series w/ Mon Laferte, Buscabulla @ Santa Monica Pier
• Tyler Childers, Eddie Berman @ The Echo
• Ethan Gruska, Matthew Mayfield, Jamie Drake @ Hotel Café
• Nova Miller, SiSSi, Scott Goldbaum, Leone, Mark Geary @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Maggie Rogers, HANA @ Teragram Ballroom
• Nyxe, Drum & Lace, Beca @ Resident
• Suzanne Santo of HoneyHoney @ Bootleg Bar
• Travis Knight @ Silver Lake Lounge

Friday, August 11

Recommended:

The Birth Defects, Buffalo Tooth, Friendship Commanders, Imaad Wasif @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Brightener, Jacob Sigman, Sky Renee, Zach Alwin @ The Satellite
• Tracy Bryant, Matt Lamkin and The Confirmations, Vanilla, Smokescreens @ The Echo
• Vaud & The Villains @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles
• Steve Earle & The Dukes, The Mastersons @ The Troubadour
• Hanni El Khatib @ FigAt7th
• Lindsay Kupser, Lissa Dane, Stacy Rosch, Poppy's Field, Ashton York @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Jonny Lang @ Teragram Ballroom
• Kucka, Mobley @ Resident\
• The Birth Defects, Buffalo Tooth, Friendship Commanders, Imaad Wasif @ The Hi Hat
• Negro Galacticus, Wolf Woodcock, Euphio, Canto @ The Smell
• Surge Event Presents @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Dead Rock West @ McCabe's

Saturday, August 12

Recommended:

 B-52's @ Pershing Square

playing tonight:

 

• B-52's @ Pershing Square
• Steve Earle & The Dukes, The Mastersons @ The Troubadour
• Nite Jewel, Geneva Jacuzzi, Harriet Brown @ Teragram Ballroom
• Disastroid, Morbid Eclipse, Brilliant Machine, Void Vater @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Planes On Paper, Shane Alexander & The Great Favorites, Prophecy, Adam Rose @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Meat Wave, Dasher, Rad Payoff, Clown Sounds @ Bootleg Bar
• Dreamcar, Superet @ The Fonda
• Jim Kweskin @ McCabe's

Sunday, August 13

Recommended:

Part Time Punks w/ Soft Kill, Second Still, Human Leather, Intimatchine @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• Grand Ole Echo w/ Caleb Caudle, Ruby Force, Tiki Dominique @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ Soft Kill, Second Still, Human Leather, Intimatchine @ The EchoDreamcar, Superet @ The Fonda
• Luke Sweeney, Part Time, Healing Gems, Cassandra @ Bootleg Bar
• TOMÁS PAGÁN MOTTA & Friends @ Hotel Café Second Stage

 

The L.A. Show Low Down (Or: "Future’s Not What It Used To Be, We Still Gotta Go There...")

by Brad Roberts

You know how it is when you fall in love with a new album and all you want to do is listen to it over and over again and you start waking up in the middle of the night with the music ringing through your brain, sometimes even from the midpoint of a song as if you've been listening to the whole album all the while you've been asleep. Well it's happened again, this time with the spectacular new album from Broken Social Scene, Hug of Thunder, released last week, which is an effort of such grand ambition and extraordinary musical accomplishment that is becomes a career defining milestone. It leaves me stunned. Like all the different threads that exist in a band of 15 have finally coalesced into the most potent, unified force since they first collaborated in 1999. And their hippie message of unity and togetherness in this Trumpian era is most welcome. Can't wait to see them at The Wiltern in October.

The remainder of this year is turning into a concert-goer's fever dream. My calendar is filling up with some of the favorite bands I have been following right from the beginning of my musical re-birth. Some have been on hiatus, Some have plowed through the last ten years non-stop. As of this week I have a major concert event at least once every month right through December.

What is it with all these twenty year old bands suddenly releasing some of the best music of their multi-storied careers? Like Pitchfork said in their review of the new album from Broken Social Scene, many indie rock giant of the past decade have been releasing new music, almost like a big collective response to the emerging horror of the Trump years. Music can save us and raise us into renewed activism. I'm hopeful that this may trickle down into the local music scene which has of late been gripped in a kind of paralysis.

So far, this year has seen the release of Heartworms from The Shins and and Whiteout Conditions from The New Pornographers that rank among their best records. And now comes Hug of Thunder and Visuals by Mew, another brilliant album, maybe their best, and the new Fleet Foxes effort, Crack-Up, which is pulling me in slowly. Add to that upcoming releases from Arcade Fire (later this month), The National ( in September), and Grizzly Bear, in August, and this is a year to contend with.

week of July 17 - 23

On the other hand, the prohibitively expensive FYF Fest 2017 gets underway this weekend at Exposition Park and quite frankly that line up doesn't warrant digging that deep into my pockets. But fear not for I have picked out some shows this week with The Happy Hollows, yOya, and Allah-Las.

Monday, July 17

Recommended:

Bloody Death Skull, Happy Hollows, Zero DeZire, Quazar & The Bamboozled @ The Echo

Dustin Lovelis, Tino Drima, Wilding @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• AOE, Common Souls, Jennah Bell @ The Satellite
• Bloody Death Skull, Happy Hollows, Zero DeZire, Quazar & The Bamboozled @ The Echo
• "School Night!" w/ R.LUM.R, Harts, Star Parks, Stacey @ Bardot
• Watch For Horses, Bless My Stars, Yume, Fellow Bohemians @ Silver Lake Lounge
• The Chamanas Record Release, Ruzzi, The Marias @ The Hi Hat
• Dustin Lovelis, Tino Drima, Wilding @ Bootleg Bar
• Uncle Lucius, Space Hurricane @ Resident
• Monday Monday w/ The Hawkline Monster, Scott Goldbaum, Patrick Joseph, Sydney Bakst, Kurt Hunter, Nicole Jaffe, Connor Pledger, Chris Loggins, Sarah Hollins, Parker Ainsworth ; Jake Walker @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Trickster Guru, The Zachary Kibbee Band, Faunavasion, The Entire Universe @ Harvard & Stone

Tuesday, July 18

Recommended:

yOya, J.E. Sunde, Ryan Lerman, Philip Krohnengold @ The Hi Hat

Retro Futura w/ Howard Jones, Paul Young, The English Beat, Men Without Hats, & more @ The Greek

playing tonight:

• Nation of Language, POW!, Dang @ The Satellite
• Algiers, Sextile, Moon Diagrams @ Echoplex
• Verde 70, Agnes Azria @ Hotel Café
• Sophie Strauss, Heartstring Hunters, Katie Boeck, Danelle @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• yOya, J.E. Sunde, Ryan Lerman, Philip Krohnengold @ The Hi Hat
• Retro Futura w/ Howard Jones, Paul Young, The English Beat, Men Without Hats, & more @ The Greek
• The Coffeehouse Live Tour w/ Joshua Radin, Rachael Yamagata, Brandon Jenner @ The Belasco Theatre
• Cymbals Eat Guitars, Palo Duro @ Bootleg Bar
• Madeline Lauer, Romarius Beard @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Mitch Grainger, Maesa Pullman @ Harvard & Stone
• The Delta Riggs, The Soft White Sixties @ Resident

Wednesday, July 19

Recommended:

"Desert Nights" w/ Allah-Las @ The Standard

playing tonight:

• Retro Futura w/ Howard Jones, Paul Young, The English Beat, Men Without Hats, & more @ The Greek
• Cat Scan, Shark Toysm VNLVX @ Harvard & Stone
• "Desert Nights" w/ Allah-Las @ The Standard
• Dzang, Cones, Maxim Ludwig @ The Hi Hat
• TV Heads, Crook , The Bomb @ Resident
• Wrabel, Tulpa & BLANKTZ, Samson @ Hotel Café
• Kasey Lansdale, George Stanford, Dean Alexander, Sarah Roberts, Doncat @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Hazel English, Kera and The Lesbians @ Bootleg Bar
• The Sword, Big Jesus & All Souls @ El Rey
• Alien Space Kitchen, Clark Chimp @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, July 20

Recommended:

Third Blind Eye: Summer Gods Tour w/ Special Guests Silversun Pickups @ The Greek

Psychic Love, Pom Poms, Santa Barbara, Omniflux @ The Satellite 

Twilight Concert Series w/ Eric Burdon & The Animals, Mr. Elevator, Rusty's EAC @ Santa Monica Pier

"Planetarium" performed by Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister @ The Fairbanks Lawn at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

playing tonight:

• Psychic Love, Pom Poms, Santa Barbara, Omniflux @ The Satellite
• Twilight Concert Series w/ Eric Burdon & The Animals, Mr. Elevator, Rusty's EAC @ Santa Monica Pier
• Cap'n Jazz @ The Echo
• Dead Kennedys, Wrath, The Gears, The Last Internati0nale @ Echoplex
• Zola Jesus, Lawrence Rothman, Smerz @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
• Brainstory, Ethiopia Cali @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• The Marked Men, Royal Headache, Audacity, Fkat Worms @ The Regent Theatre
• Smerz, Yaeji @ The Globe Theatre
• Third Blind Eye: Summer Gods Tour w/ Special Guests Silversun Pickups @ The Greek
• Birdtalker w/ Austin Manuel, Perta, The Fontaines @ Hotel Café
• "Planetarium" performed by Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister @ The Fairbanks Lawn at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Jesse Baez, Emmitt James @ Resident
• Hawk Percival and Friends, Rock Horn Project, Trackless @ The Troubadour
• Rozwell Kid, Vundabar, Great Grandpa @ The Hi Hat
• The Americans, Laura Jean Anderson, Camila Webb @ Bootleg Bar
• Bien Bien, Sabre, Runnner, Jake Weisman @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Perfume Genius, serpentwithfeet @ El Rey

Friday, July 21

Recommended:

FYF Fest 2017 @ Exposition Park

Santoros Vinyl Release Party, So Many Wizards, Wyatt Blair @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• Sound in Focus w/ Paul Oakenfold, Mondo Cozmo, Lo Moon @ Annenberg Space for Photography
• Santoros Vinyl Release Party, So Many Wizards, Wyatt Blair @ The Echo
• Ruby Force, The Morning Yells, Brother Sister @ El Cid
• MNDSGN @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• Josh Kelley, Molly Kate Kestner @ The Troubadour
• Sidewalk Chalk, Lynette Williams, Pendustry Live Playlist @ Hotel Café
• Trouble In The Wind, The Standstills, Jack and the Bear w/ The Ferdy Mayne & The Absurd, Mitchell Schaffer, Sammy Arriga @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Javier Mena, Vanessa Zamora, Cesar Saez, Pony @ Teragram Ballroom
• FYF Fest 2017 @ Exposition Park
• Identity Crisis, Xavier Miller, The Hate Club, Ben Lamar, Almost Awake @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Shelby Lynne @ McCabe's (8 & 10 PM)

Saturday, July 22

Recommended:

Yowie, Corima Record Release, Feather Wolf, Henry Barajas @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• Yowie, Corima Record Release, Feather Wolf, Henry Barajas @ The Echo
• Jungle Fire @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• Viza, Caroucells, Nathi @ The Troubadour
• FYF Fest 2017 @ Exposition Park
• Afterglow, Jane Machine @ Resident
• The Dirty Diamond and Friends, Night Click w/ Chimney & Misty Boyce @ Hotel Café
• John K & Ilana Armida, Maggie Koerner, J3PO, A is for Atom @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Stef Chita, Moaning, Shannon Lay, Soccer Mommy @ Bootleg Bar
• Javina Magness @ McCabe's

Sunday, July 23

Recommended:

Sondheim On Sondheim @ Hollywood Bowl

playing tonight:

• Grand Ole Echo w/ Agastock 2017 @ The Echo
• The Hollow Trees @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• Part Time Punks w/ HIDE, Future Blondes, Bustié @ Echoplex
• Sondheim On Sondheim @ Hollywood Bow
• lFYF Fest 2017 @ Exposition Park
• Nani, Mega Bog @ Bootleg Bar
• Molly Kruse Video Release w/ Brittany O'Neill & Lean @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Roy Zimmerman @ McCabe's

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week of July  24 - 30

This week features a show I've been looking forward to for months, the glorious return of The Parson Red Heads to our local stage at The Satellite to help celebrate the release of the Vinyl Guitars Forever album by The World Record (at right) on it's tenth anniversary this Friday. Adding to the enticement, The Henry Clay People and a reunion of Le Switch add to the merriment.

Monday, July 24

Recommended:

Dhani Harrison, Mereki @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• AOE, Lapel, Pavy @ The Satellite
• Dhani Harrison, Mereki @ The Echo
• Bloody Death Skull, Chrome Canyon, L.A. Takedown, r.r. barbadas @ Echoplex
• "School Night!" w/ @ Bardott
• Dustin Lovelis, GospelbeacH, Lens Mozer @ Bootleg Bar
• Monday Monday, Wes Swing @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series @ Harvard & Stone

Tuesday, July 25

Recommended:

StaG (farewell show), Brothertiger, Deep Breaths @ The Satellite

The New Schematics, Jessica Lamb, Ghost Lit Kingdom @ Silver Lake Lounge

playing tonight:

• StaG (farewell show), Brothertiger, Deep Breaths @ The Satellite
• Joey w/ Jay Hype (7PM), Joey w/ Aldae (9:30) @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Defend L.A. Benefit featuring The Great Sadness, Butch Bastard, Worms, The Pinks @ The Hi Hat
• Daisy, Teo Halm, The Roswell Universe @ Resident
• Post Animal, Levitation Room, Femni @ Bootleg Bar
• The New Schematics, Jessica Lamb, Ghost Lit Kingdom @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Mitch Grainer w/ Special Guests @ Harvard & Stone
• Nana Grizol, Your Heart Breaks, Wizard Apprentice @ The Smell
• Blackberry Smoke, The Cadillac Three @ The Fonda Theatre
  

Wednesday, July 26

Recommended:

Facial, Color Caves, Clear, Low Hum @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• Facial, Color Caves, Clear, Low Hum @ The Satellite
• Wolf Alice @ The Echo
• Deronda, Oddnesse, The Family Cash @ Harvard & Stone
• "Desert Nights" w/ Jess Williamson, Kacey Johansing @ The Standard
• Delta Rae, Liz Longley @ The Troubadour
• Warbly Jets, King Shelter, Pinky Pinky @ The Roxy
• The Singles Album Release Show, Tommy Clifton Band, The Plexikill, Tiger Tank @ The Hi Hat
• Sleeplust, Rosechild, Dr. Doctor @ Resident
• Alpha Pup Showcase, Stacey Munroe & Chase Cohl @ Hotel Café
• Joe Marson & Friends, Ninet, The Songwriters Round w/ David Rothschild, Rebecca Peters, Ari Herstand, Angie Keilhauer, Nico Franc, Annabel Lee @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Worriers, Chris Farren, Camp Cope, Typesetter @ Bootleg Bar
• Josh Harmony, Jordan Lovelis, Andy Waddell, Desert Hounds @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, July 27

Recommended:

Psychic Love, Night Talks, Bones Muhroni, Rival Cavves @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• Psychic Love, Night Talks, Bones Muhroni, Rival Cavves @ The Satellite
• Twilight Concert Series w/ Miami Horror, Cleopold @ Santa Monica Pier
• Korey Dane, Peter Matthew Bauer @ The Echo (5:30)
• Thee Commons @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• No Age, Purity, & more @ The Smell
• RJ Bloke, Buhu, Candio Bandio, Ben Limpic, Dan Kattan @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• The Life and Times, Mossbreaker, INTRCPTR @ Resident
• Jeff Rosenstock, Laura Stevenson, Kitty Kat Fan Club, The Matt Kurz One @ The Troubadour
• Litronix Record Release Party, Alina Bea, Avi Buffalo @ The Hi Ha
• Cillie Barnes, Z Berg, Allie Crow Buckley @ Bootleg Bar
• B.R. Lively, Danny Pratt @ Silver Lake Lounge

Friday, July 28

Recommended:

The World Record Vinyl Release Party, The Henry Clay People, The Parson Red Heads, Le Switch @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• The World Record Vinyl Release Party, The Henry Clay People, The Parson Red Heads, Le Switch @ The Satellite
• Steve Gunn, Heron Oblivion, Mary Lattimore @ The Echo
• Madina Lake, PVSHER, The New Pacific @ The Roxy
• Slow Magic, Ian Chang @ The Troubadour
• Zealyn w/ O'Neill Hudson & Flavia, Jules Galli Fridays w/ Special Guests, Water Seed @ Hotel Café
• Scarlet Sails, Radiator King, Magnolia Memoir @ Resident
• All Get Out, Souvenirs, I'm Glad It's You @ The Hi Hat
• Edward Richards, COTE, Kristen Reilly @ Bootleg Bar
• Treasure Mammal, Glob, Margot Padilla @ The Smell
• Bush, She Wants Revenge @ Hollywood Palladium
• JD Souther @ McCabe's

Saturday, July 29

Recommended:

Strange Forest w/ Devendra Banhart @ The Broad

Rooney, Run River North @ Teragram Ballroom

playing tonight:

• East of Eli, State To State, City Of Sound, Smoky Knights @ The Roxy
• Sound in Focus w/ Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Natalia LaFourcade @ Annenberg Space for Photography
• Baio @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• Rhett Miller, Kate Micucci @ The Troubadour
• Portugal, The Man @ Hollywood Palladium
• Strange Forest w/ Devendra Banhart @ The Broad
• Rooney, Run River North @ Teragram Ballroom
• Wake Child, Bodacious Thang, Charge & Deliver, Rob LaFond @ Hotel Café
• Waxahatchee, Cayetana, Snail Mail @ The Regent Theatre
• The By Gods, Sad Baxter, Heflin @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Marika Hackman, The Big Moon @ Bootleg Bar
• A Tribe Called Red @ El Rey
• Saturdays Off The 405 w/ Steve Gunn @ The Getty Center

Sunday, July 30

Recommended:

Grand Ole Echo w/ Greg Felden, Victoria Bailey @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• Grand Ole Echo w/ Greg Felden, Victoria Bailey @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ Hide, Future Blondes, Bustie @ The Echo
• Prayers, High-Functioning Flesh, Night Club @ Echoplex
• Twinkle Time @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• AJR, Johnny Balik @ The Troubadour
• Tobin Sprout, Elf Power @ Bootleg Bar
• The Minus 5 @ McCabe's