Radio Free Silver Lake

Video Free Silver Lake: Live Picks Playing Soon (Angel Olsen, No Age, Protomartyr, The Blank Tapes, Nada Surf)

By Kathryn Pinto

The other day I was reminded that I interviewed my first band (Avi Buffalo) for Radio Free Silver Lake eight years ago. When I agreed to "rock a phoner," I had absolutely no idea how long it takes to transcribe an interview, or I might not have been so eager. A lot has happened since that first call; I don't have as many free mornings to type out conversations with bands and there aren't as many people blogging about music. Still there are new bands, new venues,  and a scene that has always been vibrant is ever-changing. Already this year has seen some promising activity: a weekend of Girlschool, the women-led music and ideas festival at the Bootleg and Buzzbands stage at the Chinatown New Year Festival are kicking off festival season. This week in Video Free Silver Lake I share some bands and solo artists I'm looking forward to seeing in the coming weeks.

1. No Age
   Thursday March 8 at the Highland Park Ebell Club
   
   The metal and jazz loving Ben Ratliff, former pop critic for the New York Times turned me on to the art punk duo in a Times review before I ever lived in Los Angeles. Per Mr. Ratliff, what at first listen sounds like disorder and punk impulse reveals structure and pattern and a satisfying payoff on attentive listening, but overthinking never gets in the way of the sweaty fun.
   
   
2. Protomartyr
   Saturday March 19 at the Teragram Ballroom
   
   Guys from Detroit who seem too rough around the edges to say something this smart. Protomartyr are fronted by  Joe Casey, a guy who seems to have temporarily put his career as a what--building super? HVAC technician? (actually doorman at the Gem Theater in Detroit) on hold to come out of rock n roll retirement to play with guys ten years younger. They started as a lark, a goof, but it stuck.
   
   
3. The Blank Tapes
   Monday March Residency at the Echo
   
   A garage band trio fronted by Matt Adams, who cross pollinates his songwriting with  just about any style from folk to psych to surf. The Blank Tapes are musician's musicians  who have been generous and active in the Los Angeles music community for long enough that they  draw from a deep pool of talent and bring some excellent bands to play in support on their residency: Joel Jerome, Avid Dancer and Imaad Wasif just to start the list.
   
   
4. Nada Surf 
   Saturday May 12 at the Teragram Ballroom
   
   In the mid 2000's they were the band that had survived being a one-hit wonder of the 1990's alt rock era, and being dropped from their record label and had returned to form flying slightly under the radio as a moderately successful touring band. About this time I fell for this band hard. They were one of the first live shows I saw solo, and it sold me on the particular pleasures of going out without a plus one.
   
   
5. Angel Olsen
   Tuesday April 17 at the El Rey
   
   Angel Olsen has a way of seducing the audience with her voice and with a sidelong glance that seems to be directed at you specifically. She has managed to hold this intensity, this revelatory performance and connection to the audience as the size of the rooms she plays increase.

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 (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 (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: "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

The L.A. Show Low Down (Or: "Bare Bones Edition...")

by Brad Roberts

It's pretty ironic and bizarre to be celebrating American Independence now that our country has been purchased by the Russians and run by a madman. To quote the eloquent orange one, "Sad!"

week of July 3 - 9

Monday, July 3 

Recommended:

4th of July Fireworks Spectacular w/ Pentatonix @ Hollywood Bo

Bloody Death Skull, Cutty Flam, Ramonda Hammer, August Eve @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular w/ Pentatonix @ Hollywood Bowl
• AOE, Trishes, Michael O., Emily Elbert @ The Satellite
• Bloody Death Skull, Cutty Flam, Ramonda Hammer, August Eve @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks - David Bowie Nite @ Echoplex
• Watch for Horses, Hollow Fortyfives, RMB, Late Night Revival @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Girl Pusher, Model/Actriz, HOUNDS @ The Smell

Tuesday, July 4

Recommended:

4th of July Fireworks Spectacular w/ Pentatonix @ Hollywood Bowl

playing tonight:

• 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular w/ Pentatonix @ Hollywood Bowl
• Noelle Tannen, Joe Endozo, Fayleen Morrow, Esbie  Fonte @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Cesar Saez, The Mexican Standoff @ Harvard & Stone

Wednesday, July 5

Recommended:

Miss Jupiter Presents Amagianascience Debut Album Release Show w/ Mother Echo, Nora Keyes, Rachel Mason @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Norwegian Arms, King Hurrah, Cold Fronts (solo) @ The Satellite
• "Desert Nights" w/ Lucy & La Mer, Annachristie @ The Standard
• Miss Jupiter Presents Amagianascience Debut Album Release Show w/ Mother Echo, Nora Keyes, Rachel Mason @ The Hi Hat
• Tulpa & Blankts, Goodnight Texas, LRN GRN & The Lost Grapes, Mister Paradise, Tyler Edwards @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• She-Devils, Tesha @ Resident
• Anarbor, Sundressed, Shadow The Wild @ Bootleg Bar

Thursday, July 6

Recommended:

Psychic Love, Jupiter Winter, Big Air, Yellowbirddd @ The Satellite

Robert Jon & The Wreck, The Two Tens, LA River Bend @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Psychic Love, Jupiter Winter, Big Air, Yellowbirddd @ The Satellite
• The Regrettes, The Tracks @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• Titan, Silverio, Anzano @ The Regent Theatre
• Froth, Adult Books, Moaning @ The Echo
• Teen Daze, Sam O.B. @ Echoplex
• Distant Cousins, Gidon, Zev the Wolf, Shaun Jacobs @ Hotel Café
• Kat Myers & The Buzzards, Ivory DeVille, Joel Jerome @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Sheer, Furnace Girl, Prissy Whip @ The Smell
• Robert Jon & The Wreck, The Two Tens, LA River Bend @ The Hi Hat
• Kyle McNeill, Maesa Pullman and The Last Hurrah, Fabiano Nascimento @ Bootleg Bar
• The Absurd, Cairo Knife Fight, Piel, The Golden Hexegrams, Cristina Vane @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Beach Fossils, She Devils, Ablebody @ El Rey

Friday, July 7

Recommended:

Sure Sure, Street Joy, Emerson Star @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• Sure Sure, Street Joy, Emerson Star @ The Satellite
• Fartbarf, The Manx, FACIAL @ The Echo
• The Melvins, Spotlights @ The Troubadour
• Western Standard Time @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• Sean Rowe, Annie Hardy @ The Sanctuary at Pico-Union Project
• Trace Bundy & Mike Dawes, Zachariah Kaler @ Hotel Café
• Lilac Sessions w/ Marcus Von Rittberg, The Hawkline Monster, Chris Loggins; Lynette Williams, Nina Storey, Madi Diaz @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Eagle Rock Gospel Singers, Black Crystal Wolf Kids, Jamie Drake, Jason Hawk Harris @ The Hi Hat
• Rozes, Carrie Lane @ Resident
• "Amp vs. Amp" Battle Show: Kicked Off  The Streets vs. The High Curbs, Sweet Pill vs. The OK Shack, Sea Ghouls vs. EMP  @ The Smell
• Ashes and Roots, Old Man's Money, Arthur Watership, Jane N' The Jungle, The Hate Club @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Paula Cole @ McCabe's

Saturday, July 8

Recommended:

King Washington, Faulkner, Wilding, Hamster @ The Troubadour

playing tonight:

• Madame Gandhi, Veronica Banqui, Le Ra, Fawns of Love, Play Like A Girl @ The Echo
• King Washington, Faulkner, Wilding, Hamster @ The Troubadour
• The Suffers @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• Unseen Fest. w/ HOTT MT, Goon, Draag, Alyeska, Wolf Woodcock @ The Hi Hat
• Part Time, Haunted Horses, L.A. Drones, Deth Crux @ El Cid
• DragonForce, Once Human @ The Roxy
• Karen & Kill Evans, Abe, DARK PULSE @ The Smell
• Aydra Jenson, Juliet Annerino @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Sara Niemietz Record Release Show, Gene Evaro Jr. @ Hotel Café
• Scout Durwood, Cindy Alexander, Carly & The Universe, Horace Gold, Sara Jackson-Holman @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Jesse Redwing @ Bootleg Bar
• Peter Case @ McCabe's

Sunday, July 9

Recommended:

Grand Ole Echo w/ Gethan Jenkins, Brian Whelan, Desure, Professor Columbo @ The Echo

playing tonight

• Grand Ole Echo w/ Gethan Jenkins, Brian Whelan, Desure, Professor Columbo @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ The Phantom Limbs, Egrets On Ergot, Future Shoxx @ Echople
• Audra Isadora @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Love Bothing EP Release Party, Chatrooms, Old Notes, Andys Room, Birdluck @ The Hi Hat
• Lord Dying, Yidhra, Rtg, Ironaut @ Bootleg Bar
• NRBQ @ McCabe's

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week of July 10 - 16

Monday, July 10

Recommended:

Bloody Death Skull, Part Time, Wyatt Blair, The Fuzzy Crystals @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• AOE, I, Us & We, Wake the Wild @ The Satellite
• Bloody Death Skull, Part Time, Wyatt Blair, The Fuzzy Crystals @ The Echo
• "School Night!" w/ Autumn In June, DWNTWN Record Release Show, Hollis Brown, Badalax @ Bardot
• Winter (Homecoming Party), BOYO, Franky FLowers, Fragile Gang @ The Hi Hat
• Early Dolphin, Highland Eyeway, Dream Vacation @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Dustin Lovelis, Two Sheds, Rufrano @ Bootleg Bar
• Mutoid Man, Helms Alee, MGR @ Resident
• Monday Monday w/ TBA, Distant Cousins @ Hotel Café Second Stage

Tuesday, July 11

Recommended:

RJ Chesney & The Amateurs, William Hawkins & Courtney Ariel, Gregg Stewart @ Hotel Café Second Stage

playing tonight:

• All Things Blue, Barrie Rose, Bel Haven @ The Satellite
• RJ Chesney & The Amateurs, William Hawkins & Courtney Ariel, Gregg Stewart @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Jaymes Young, Matt Maeson @ The Troubadour
• Steel Panther, The Delta Riggs @ The Roxy
• Dogbreath, Nice Try, Harmony Tividad @ Bootleg Bar
• Julian B, Choric Mu @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Rajas, All Souls, (Big) Pig @ The Hi Hat

Wednesday, July 12

Recommended:

The Crazy Brave Record Release Party, Modpods, LA River Bend @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• The Crazy Brave Record Release Party, Modpods, LA River Bend @ The Satellite
• Rajas, All Souls, (Big) Pig @ The Hi Hat
• Teammate, Dales @ Resident
• Joe Marson & Friends Fay Wolf, Paul Julius @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Dante, The Gutter Daisies @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, July 13

Recommended:

Mad Alchemy Liquid Lighting Tour w/ LSD & the Search for God, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Jesus Sons, Dream Phases, Creatures Choir, Family of Light Band, The Astrroid No. 4, The Turns @ Bootleg Bar

Psychic Love, Yeses @ The Satellite

The Jigsaw Seen, Spidey, Bebopalula, The Forty Nineteens @ Silver Lake Lounge

playing tonight:

• Psychic Love, Yeses @ The Satellite
• Twilight Concert Series w/ Marcia Griffiths, Jah9 @ Santa Monica Pier
• Sports, Yeek, LTENGHT @ The Echo
• CB Brand @ The Love Song
• Ships Have Sailed w/ Jenna Lotti, Annabot, Curious Quail, People Who Could Fly; Shaun Jacobs, Left Vessel @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• War Tapes, L.A. Drones, Le  Cos @ El Cid
• Spirit Mother, Kevin Nichols, Ecstatic Union @ The Smell
• My Goodness @ Resident
• Mad Alchemy Liquid Lighting Tour w/ LSD & the Search for God, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Jesus Sons, Dream Phases, Creatures Choir, Family of Light Band, The Astrroid No. 4, The Turns @ Bootleg Bar
• The Jigsaw Seen, Spidey, Bebopalula, The Forty Nineteens @ Silver Lake Lounge

Friday, July 14

Recommended:

ExSage EP Release Party, Wendy Belen, Gateway Drugs, Polyplastic @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• ExSage EP Release Party, Wendy Belen, Gateway Drugs, Polyplastic @ The Echo
• Jacquie w/ Special Guests, Jules Gslli Fridays w/ Dezmond Meeks & more, Elijah Blake @ Hotel Café
• Scott Ruth, Jesse Macht, Yonatan, Sloanwalkers, Tyler Boone @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• King, Caroline Smith, Arima Ederra @ Resident
• Alvarez Kings, Big Mother Gig, Yacht Punk @ The Hi Hat
• R-REXTASY, Sister Mantos, Momma @ Bootleg Bar
• Frankie & The Witch Fingers, MIND MELD< Psychic Jiu-Jitsu, Kaz Mirblouk @ The Smell
• Adventurist, The Ricky Fitts, Fate Under Fire, Coat Check Girl, Red Light Camera, Cassandra @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Joan Shelley @ McCabe's

Saturday, July 15

Recommended:

Dead Heavens, Æges, Dragg @ Resident

playing tonight:

• Now Now, DEM YUUT, Las Penas @ The Echo
• Nerf Herder, Ozma, Punch Punch Kick @ The Troubadour
• Playboy Manbaby, Catsigns, The High Curbs, The Rosewaters, Santa Barbara @ The Hi Hat
• Dead Heavens, Æges, Dragg @ Resident
• Neila Dar Record Release Show, Singer & The Scientist@ Hotel Café
• Robin Bacior, Nora Rothman EP Release Show, Brandon McCulloch, Kate Sland @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Rare Monk @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Palm, Palberta, Shit Giver @ Bootleg Bar
• John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band @ McCabe's

Sunday, July 16

Recommended:

Brenda Carsey & the Awe Album Release Show w/ Solar Sons, Cassini, Luci @ Hotel Café

playing tonight:

• Grand Ole Echo w/ Banta, Brea Burns, Mara Connor @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks - New Order Nite @ The Echo
• Thou, Graf Orlock, Cloud Rat, False, Moloch @ The Echo
• Jazz Night @ Bootleg Bar
• Brenda Carsey & the Awe Album Release Show w/ Solar Sons, Cassini, Luci @ Hotel Café
• Sound Collective: Sestra, Suerra Blax, Kapali Long, The Last Internationale @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Las Piñas, Las Sanronas Y El Cabron, The Groans, The Vixens @ The Smell
• Led Kaapana @ McCabe's

The L.A. Show Low Down (Or: "The Singer's Going To Sing A Song, And He Wants You All To Sing Along...")

by Brad Roberts

Week of June 19 - 25

Long time since I've head from The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, so this Monday's show is a special event when they open for the Send Medicine residency night, Also Wam Dingis, Cuesta Loeb and Natalie Carol at The Satellite.

 

 

 

Monday, June 19

Recommended:

Send Medicine, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Wam Dingis, Cuesta Loeb, Natalie Carol @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• Send Medicine, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, Wam Dingis, Cuesta Loeb, Natalie Carol @ The Satellite
• Moon Honey, HOTT MT, Twin Temple @ The Echo
• Sevsaliza, Sasha Marie, SwearxxxWords @ Echoplex
• "School Night!" w/ Twinkids, Saya, Gemini Rising, Northeast Party House @ Bardot
• Upset, French Vanilla, Shit Giver @ The Hi Hat
• The Walcott, HoneyHoney, Ted Russell Kamp, Calico the band @ Bootleg Bar
• Monday Monday w/ TBA, Jane Ellen Bryant @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Jacob Whitesides, Castro, Taylor Grey @ The Troubadour
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Slugs, Family Cash, Wires @ Harvard & Stone
• Deathlist, Sunbathe, Gun/Her @ The Smell
  

Tuesday, June 20

Recommended:

Lucy & La Mer, Easy Friend, Andy Clockwise @ Harvard & Stone

playing tonight:

• The Cooties @ The Satellite
• TRACE, Luna Shadows, Layne @ The Echo
• dodie, Tessa Violet, Jim and Sam @ Echoplex
• Troubadours at Hotel Cafe w/ Emma Rena, Dylan Dunlap, Ryan Edgar, & Nico Franc ; Liz Vice @ Hotel Café
• L.A. Music Critic Awards Winners Showcase w/ Bob Leggett featuring Katie Costello, The Spider Accomplice, Papermoon Gypsies, Jerad Finck Lovers and Poets, Wendy Sweetlove, Elyse Haren, Janny Street @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Eagle Rock Brewery's Battle Of The Bands 2017 @ The Hi Hat
• Roger Waters, Us + Them @ Staples Center
• Langhorne Slim & Sara Watkins @ The Troubadour
• PolarTropica, L.A. Girlfriend, The Broken Hearts @ Bootleg Bar
• Ten Miles Wide, Ever So Android, He-Monster, Antenna The End @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Lucy & La Mer, Easy Friend, Andy Clockwise @ Harvard & Stone
• Foodman, KRON, Diamondstein, Sophiaaaahjkl;8901 @ Resident
• Hot Flash Heat Wave, Inner Wave, Worn-Tin @ The Smell
  

Wednesday, June 21

Recommended:

 "Desert Nights" w/ GospelbeacH, George Is Lord @ The Standar

playing tonight:

• King Crimson @ The Greek
• Bipolar Sunshine, Luna Luna, I, Us, & We @ The Echo
• Roger Waters, Us + Them @ Staples Center
• Mountain, Dream Club @ The Regent Theatre
• "Desert Nights" w/ GospelbeacH, George Is Lord @ The Standard
• Chase Bryant @ The Troubadour
• Nick Waterhouse, Sadgirl @ Teragram Ballroom
• Paintbox, Sleuth Dogs, Barrie Rose @ Harvard & Stone
• Welfair, Irene Diaz, August Eve, Gemma Castro, La Infinita @ The Hi Hat
• Fictionist, Arms Akimbo, Raener @ Resident
• Tulpa & BLANKTS, Shallows, Sean Renner @ Hotel Café
• Coby Jones, Samson, Travis Marsh, Shaun Jacobs of Jacobs Riot @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Steve Earle @ Amoeba Music (6 PM)
• The Atomics, Chase Atlantic, The New Electric Sound @ The Roxy
• Broken Fueld Runner, Super Whatevr, River Gods, Church Mouse, Family Thief @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, June 22

Recommended:

The Rescues, Chris Stills, Sweet Crude @ Hotel Café

 Tennis System, Kid Bloom, Low Speech @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Mad Caddies, The Happys, Naked Walrus @ The Roxy
• Twilight Concert Series w/ Khalid, Bibi Bourelli @ Santa Monica Pier
• Aldous Harding, Midnight Sister, Annie Harding @ The Echo
• !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Honus Honus, Sego @ Echoplex
• The Rescues, Chris Stills, Sweet Crude @ Hotel Café
• Diana Demuth, Tim Wheatley @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Leche @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles
• Dopapod, Shaky Feelin' @ Teragram Ballroom
• Futurecastle: A Joint Performance by Rare Futures and Gavin Castleton, Bird Concerns @  Resident
• David Archuleta @ The Troubadour
• Tennis System, Kid Bloom, Low Speech @ The Hi Hat
• Toothless, Minnow @ Bootleg Bar
• The Mosaics, Lily Lyon, Dchav, Jr. Sun, Honeypot @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Sad Park, Sarchasm, Pseudo @ The Smell

Friday, June 23

Recommended:

Boogaloo Assassins 10 Year Anniversary @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• The Revolution @ The Wiltern
• Boogaloo Assassins 10 Year Anniversary @ The Echo
• Jason Mraz & His Superband @ Hollywood Bowl
• Black Lips, Timmy's Organism, Starcrawler @ The Regent Theatre
• Moonchild @ The Troubadour
• Tank and The Bangas, Sweet Crude @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles
• Brave Native, Creature Canyon, The Strike, Gavin Hayley, Alexander Cardinale @ Hotel Café
• Coby Brown, Caleb Trask, Josh Grider, D Henry Fenton, John Bardy Butch Norton Duo @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Belanova @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• Feminist Friday w/ She Keeps Bees, Shannon Lay @ Resident
• The Donkeys, Lens Mozer @ The Hi Hat
• Ripe, Courtship @ Bootleg Bar
• Jurassic Shark, Plumber, Pure Muscle, Hot Brothers @ The Smell
• Arlington, Arms Akimbo, Johnny Rich @  Silver Lake Lounge
• Bad Suns, The Chain Gang of 1974, The Marias @ The Fonda Theatre
• The Mastersons and friends - Special CD Release Concert @ McCabe's

Saturday, June 24

Recommended:

 Kinky @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles and Air @ The Greek

playing tonight:

• Air @ The Greek
• Walters Etc., Peach Kelli Pop, DINERS @ The Echo
• REO Speedwagon, Styx, Don Felder @ The Greek
• J Luca, RVRB, Matt Rose, Noé @ The Troubadour
• Kinky @ Levitt Pavilion, Los Angeles
• Mating Ritual Album Release, Beginners, Dyan, La Bouquet, Oddnesse, Inspired and the Sleep, The Openers @ The Hi Hat
• Seu Jorge performing The Life Aquatic: A Tribute to David Bowie w/ The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra @ Hollywood Bowl
• Ruby Force Record Release Show @ Hotel Café
• Horace Gold, Matt Succich, Rusty Tinder, Tizdale, The Blackbird Revue @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Shark Toys, Swarming Branch, POW! @ Bootleg Bar
• Blind Pilot, Charlie Cunningham @ El Rey
• Deathbomb Arc showcase w/ KASSH Signor Benedick The Moor, Girl Pusher, Baseck, Scumboys/Wrongboy, GRYPT, Hareld @ The Smell
• The Barefoot Movement @ McCabe's

Sunday, June 25

Recommended:

"Déjà Vu": The Complete Album Live in Concert featuring Jeff Alan Ross, Rob Bonfiglio, Steve Fekete, Adam Daniel, Chad Watson, and Christopher Allis @ McCabe's

playing tonight:

• Grand Ole Echo w/ Willie T. Taylor, Deception Past, Jenny Don't And The Spurs, Hayley Thompson King @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ High-Functioning Flesh Record Release Show, Collin Gorman Weiland, C57BL/6 @ The Echo
• Jet Trash EP Release Show @ Silver Lake Lounge (5 PM)
• Peter Bradley Adams, Anna Tivel @ The Troubadour
• My Jerusalem, Mourners @ Resident
• Barry Zito @ Hotel Cafe
• Showtime Goma and Nancy Feast, Roses, Red Channel @ The Hi Hat
• "Déjà Vu": The Complete Album Live in Concert featuring Jeff Alan Ross, Rob Bonfiglio, Steve Fekete, Adam Daniel, Chad Watson, and Christopher Allis @ McCabe's

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Week of June 26 - July 2

Dirty Penni Fest w/ Deap Vally, The Shrine, Plague Vendor, Mike Watt and the Jom and Jerry Show, Enjoy, Starcrawler, Zig Zags, Jurassic Shark, Girl Pusher, Flat Worms, Here Lies Man, Beach Bums, Hit Bargain, The Red Pears, Clit Kat, Espresso, Girl Tears, Janelane, Fringe, Capital Wasteland, Sabrina is Not in This Chat, Sketch Orchestra, Model/Actriz, Worn TIn, Dirty Laundry TV, Penniback Records @ The Echo & Echoplex

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, June 26

Recommended:

"School Night!" w/ Ray Little, Haerts, Strangers You Know, Ethan Gruska @ Resident (this week only)

playing tonight:

• Send Medicine, Cannons, The May Company, OK MAYDAY @ The Satellite
• Moon Honey, Miya Folick, Smoke Season, Lauren Ruth Ward @ The Echo
• Reverie, Blimes Brixton, Welfair, amindi k. fro$t @ Echoplex
• "School Night!" w/ Ray Little, Haerts, Strangers You Know, Ethan Gruska @ Resident (this week only)
• Big Language, Luke Strand, DELAVINA @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Goody Grace, lovelytheband @ The Roxy
• The Walcotts, Hamish Anderson, Joel Taylor @ Bootleg Bar
• Monday Monday Hootenanny, Brandon Jenner @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Cave Clove, Curtsy, Ramona Hammer @ Harvard & Stone

Tuesday, June 27

Recommended:

Climate Day L.A. w/ Moby, Neon Indian, Weyes Blood @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel

playing tonight:

• Sabrina Claudio @ The Echo
• Ella Vos, GROVES, Exes @ Echoplex
• Gordi, Chord Overstreet, Shaun Jacob of Jacob's Riot @ Hotel Café
• Alicia Witt, Electric-Jazz Chanteuse Maya, Aya Maguire & Jessica Gerhardt, D'ALA @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Steel Panther, Voodoo Kills @ The Roxy
• Climate Day L.A. w/ Moby, Neon Indian, Weyes Blood @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• Ron Gallo / White Reaper, Naked Giants @ The Troubadour
• Jonah Parzen-Johnson, Similar Fashion, Booker Stardrum @ Bootleg Bar
• Jessie Reyez @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Red Letter Day, PJKTS, Brian Hadsell, Kira Alexi @ Silver Lake Lounge
• The Revivalists @ The Grammy Museum
• The Social Underground @ Resident
• Lucy & La Mer, Doctrine, Emma Cole @ Harvard & Stone

Wednesday, June 28

Recommended:

Defend L.A. W/ The Pretty Flowers, The Lavender Scare, Kayves, Lonely Bones @ The Hi Hat

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel

playing tonight:

• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• Marnie Herald, Erin Lang @ The Satellite
• EX EYE, Grand Lord High Master, Maccabee @ The Echo
• Chaparrel @ The Love Song
• "Desert Nights" w/ Angela McCluskey, Chris Stills @ The Standard
• Everclear @ The Belasco Theatre
• Bea Miller, FYOHNA @ The Troubadour
• Fit For An Autopsy, Tombs, Moon Tooth, Colombian Necktie @ The Roxy
• Defend L.A. W/ The Pretty Flowers, The Lavender Scare, Kayves, Lonely Bones @ The Hi Hat
• Pierce Fulton Album Release Party, Josh Ocean of NVDES, Noosa & Botnek @ Resident
• Super Lunch, Cotton Ships @ The Smell
• Joe Marson & Friends, Imaginary Tricks, Darla Beaux, Crimson Calamity, Callaghan Belle @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Lola Marsh, KaiL Baxley @ Bootleg Bar
• The Automatic Knives, A.R.S.N.K., Savage Gospel  @ Harvard & Stone
• Day Wave, Blonder, Dear Boy @ El Rey
• Wayward Cactus, Lunar Gateway @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, June 29

Recommended:

The Buttertones, Pinky Pinky @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles

playing tonight:

• Tolliver, MetronOhm, Kilo Tango, The Black Heartthrobs @ The Satellite
• The Paranoyds, Frankie and the Witch Fingers @ The Echo
• Surf Curse, Tacocat, Starcrawler @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
• Spain @ The Love Song
• The Buttertones, Pinky Pinky @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• David Ryan Harris Record Release Show w/ Raelee Nikole & more @ Hotel Café
• Sarah Hollins EP Release Show, 100 Year War w/ Special Guests @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Twilight Concert Series w/ LeMaitre, Coast Modern @ Santa Monica Pier
• Buzzcocks, Dollyrots @ The Roxy
• Holy Wars EP Release Party, New Language, Night Talks @ The Hi Hat
• Bedouine, Chimney, Special Guest @ Bootleg Bar
• Foxes & Lions, Runnner, Bird & Thorn, Rachel Mazer @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Sir Sly, PAPA @ El Rey

Friday, June 30

Recommended:

NK Riot Album Release Party, VOWWS, The Eleventh Frequency @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• October Kickoff Party w/ Junior Boys, Kilo Kish, How To Dress Well @ The Globe Theatre
• NK Riot Album Release Party, VOWWS, The Eleventh Frequency @ The Echo
• Vieux Farka Toure @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• Dream Machines, Superet, Thumpasaurus @ The Troubadour
• David Ryan Harris Record Release Show w/ Jessica Childress & Lynette Williams, Adam Lasher Band, Jules Galli and Friends @ Hotel Café
• Alfa Record Release Show, Griff Clawson, Nick Rosen Project w/ Kerry Hart, Olivia Grace  @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Nikka Costa@ Teragram Ballroom
• Maria Del Pilar @ Resident
• Ducktails, Jimmy Whispers @ The Hi Hat
• Killradio, Radkey @ Bootleg Bar
• Caterwall, Super Lunch, The Chonks, The Pavemen @ The Smell
• Megan Jade, Everly, Johmny Chief Project, Drugs In The Alley, Crashing Spades, Bryan Senatore @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Buzzcocks, Dollyrots @ The Roxy

Saturday, July 1

Recommended:

The Districts, The Spirit Of The Beehive @ The Troubadour

playing tonight:

• Choco (w/ fireworks) @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• Yung Pinch @ The Roxy
• The Districts, The Spirit Of The Beehive @ The Troubadour
• John Isaac Watters Rainstorm Brother, @ The Hi Hat
• No Chaparone @ Resident
• Meatbodies, Feels, POW @ Teragram Ballroom
• Ray Argyle, Rose Shawhan, Sahil Bahl, Justin Paul Sanders @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Louise Goffin, Myra Flynn, Fort Defiance, Brandon McCulloch @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Diana, Nicholas Krgovich @ Bootleg Bar

Sunday, July 2

Recommended:

Dirty Penni Fest w/ Deap Vally, The Shrine, Plague Vendor, Mike Watt and the Jom and Jerry Show, Enjoy, Starcrawler, Zig Zags, Jurassic Shark, Girl Pusher, Flat Worms, Here Lies Man, Beach Bums, Hit Bargain, The Red Pears, Clit Kat, Espresso, Girl Tears, Janelane, Fringe, Capital Wasteland, Sabrina is Not in This Chat, Sketch Orchestra, Model/Actriz, Worn TIn, Dirty Laundry TV, Penniback Records @ The Echo & Echoplex

Land of Talk @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

playing tonight:

• Land of Talk @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Jessica Fichot @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• Part Time Punks w/ Noveller, Troller, Pet Heaven @ Echoplex
• Dirty Penni Fest w/ Deap Vally, The Shrine, Plague Vendor, Mike Watt and the Jom and Jerry Show, Enjoy, Starcrawler, Zig Zags, Jurassic Shark, Girl Pusher, Flat Worms, Here Lies Man, Beach Bums, Hit Bargain, The Red Pears, Clit Kat, Espresso, Girl Tears, Janelane, Fringe, Capital Wasteland, Sabrina is Not in This Chat, Sketch Orchestra, Model/Actriz, Worn TIn, Dirty Laundry TV, Penniback Records @ The Echo & Echoplex
• Adan Jodorowsky, Cesar Saez, Rudy De Anda @ Bootleg Bar
• The Bolos, Jesus Sons @ Resident (4 PM)

The L.A. Show Low Down (Or: "Never Minding The World With The Armor Of A Few Of Us, Losing Everything To Hope...")

by Brad Roberts

Two Week Edition

Week of June 5 - 11

The big show for me this week is Dead Meadow (at right), Matt Hollywood and the Bad Feelings and Baast on Friday at The Satellite. The Playboy Jazz Festival is this coming weekend at Hollywood Bowl, so beware Hollywood traffic those days.

Monday, June 5

Recommended:

Moon Honey, The Dead Ships, SWIMM, The Bomb @  Echoplex

playing tonight:

• Send Medicine, Dream Phases, Elijah Ocean, Fleece @ The Satellite
• Whores, Wrong, Bummer, Hepa-Titus @ The Echo
• Moon Honey, The Dead Ships, SWIMM, The Bomb @  Echoplex
• Big Language, StaG, Andrea Silva, Anna Lee & the Authority @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Former Faces EP RElease, Greyface, Ghost Pavilion @ The Hi Hat
• The Walcott, Jessica Childress, Puscie Jones Review @ Bootleg Bar
• Monday Monday hosted by The Deltaz @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Badflower, Goodbye June, Cheridomingo @ The Troubadour
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ The Maria's, The Deapsea Goes, The Crazy Brave @ Harvard & Stone

Tuesday, June 6

Recommended:

Imaad Wasif, Avi Buffalo, Iress @ Bootleg Bar

Daniel Lanois & Rocco DeLuca @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

playing tonight:

• DCHAV, GETSOME! @ The Satellite
• Daniel Lanois & Rocco DeLuca @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Amy Vachal w/ Jesse Clegg, Patrick Droney @ Hotel Café
• Neighborhood Thieves w/ Chloe Jane, Madeleine McQueen &  Sydney Bakst, Rosy Nolan @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Mothlight Album Release, Rosechild, Raener, Lanterns @ The Hi Hat
• Dylan Scott, Temecula Road @ The Troubadour
• Imaad Wasif, Avi Buffalo, Iress @ Bootleg Bar
• Nicolette Smith, Fire Chief Charlie, Alex Meinglas, Kim Tillman, What the Time Presents @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Lucy & La Mer, Wasi, Rosi Turker @ Harvard & Stone
• Gothic Tropic, Madame Gandhi, Kid Bloom @ Resident

Wednesday, June 7

Recommended:

 "Desert Nights" w/ We Are The West, Justine Bennett @ The Standard

playing tonight:

• Nina Diaz, SEE @ The Satellite
• No Vacation, The Belinda Butchers, Tim Atlas @ The Echo
• Valerie June, Lynn Cardona @ El Rey
• "Desert Nights" w/ We Are The West, Justine Bennett @ The Standard
• Teleskopes, Bone Acre, Holy Wars @ Harvard & Stone
• Princess @ Teragram Ballroom
• The Picturebooks, Mike Vallely & The New Arms @ The Hi Hat
• Dermot Kennedy, Saint Mesa @ Resident
• Austin Brown w/ Dana Williams, J Gregory, Juju Blooms @ Hotel Café
• Michelson & The Hawkline Monster, Worth @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Skating Polly, Gal Pals, Starcrawler @ Bootleg Bar
• Sheryl Crow @ The Grammy Museum
• Sleeplust, New Spell, Yumi, The Gorgeous Knight @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, June 8

Recommended:

So Many Wizards, Roses, Susan, Trabants @ The Hi Hat and Boogarins, JJUUJJUU @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• Smooth Hound Smith @ The Satellite
• Merchandise, B Boys, Chasm @ The Echo
• Adult, Sextile, Pod Blotz @ Echoplex
• CB Brand @ The Love Song
• The Rescues, Christina Castle @ Hotel Café
• Edison, Jesse Clegg, Everett Coast, Andrew London @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Princess @ Teragram Ballroom
• Waters, NVDES, Fast Friends @ The Roxy
• Wheeler Walker Jr., Republican Hair @ The Troubadour
• So Many Wizards, Roses, Susan, Trabants @ The Hi Hat
• Sheryl Crow @ The Greek
• Boogarins, JJUUJJUU @ Bootleg Bar
• Thanks Light, SilverTwins @ Silver Lake Lounge
• SadGirl, Gemma Castro @ The Smell

Friday, June 9

Recommended:

Dead Meadow, Matt Hollywood and the Bad Feelings, Baast @ The Satellite

Maxim Ludwig Record Release Show, Banta, Olivia Jane Kaplan @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• Dead Meadow, Matt Hollywood and the Bad Feelings, Baast @ The Satellite
• First Fridays w/ Wild Belle, Gabriel Garzon-Montana, Nick Hakim @ The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
• Overcoats, Yoke Lore @ The Echo
• Taj Mahal & Keb Mo @ The Grammy Museum
• TJ Stafford, Lou Pine @ The Troubadour
• Bombadil, Mario Jose, The Filharmonic, Travis Atreo, Pontea, Johnny Gates, Cody Lovass @ Hotel Café
• Alec Lytle, Harrison Kipner, L. Sharp, Mike Wingless & The Flight, Greg McFall Record Release Show @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Hurray For The Riff Raff, Making Movies @ Teragram Ballroom
• Nancy Sanchez @ Resident
• Free Throw, Homesafe, Heart Attack Man, Mom Jeans @ The Hi Hat
• Maxim Ludwig Record Release Show, Banta, Olivia Jane Kaplan @ Bootleg Bar
• Cuco, The Tracks, Jurassic Shark, August Eve @ The Smell
• Shayne Grey, Sammy Plotkin, Amber Blu, Peter Bonoff, The Pretty Flowers, Jacob the Horse, Johnny Rich @ Silver Lake Lounge
• ZZ Ward, Earl St. Clair @ The Roxy
• SoMo, K Major @ The Fonda Theatre
• Jonathan Edwards @ McCabe's

Saturday, June 10

Recommended:

Saturdays Off The 405 w/ White Fence @ The Getty Center

Playboy Jazz Festival @ Hollywood Bowl

playing tonight:

• Playboy Jazz Festival @ Hollywood Bowl
• Valley Queen, Velvet, Metronohm, Lexie Rose @ The Echo
• Saturdays Off The 405 w/ White Fence @ The Getty Center
• VHS Collection, Tigertown, DWNTWN @ The Troubadour
• Turnover, Gleemer, Westpoint, Minnow @ The Hi Hat
• Unwed Sailor, Ant'lrd @ Resident
• Said The Sky, Xan Griffin, William Black @ The Roxy
• Tocaio, Commissure, Night Wolves, Zanya @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Kawika Young, Young Mister, Melody Federer, John Coggins @ Hotel Café
• Freddie & Francine w/ Caroline Spence, Horace Gold, Daniel Kirkpatrick, Pueblo @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Joshua James, RIVVRS @ Bootleg Bar
• Frankenzap's Monster @ McCabe's

Sunday, June 11

Recommended:

Chris Stills & Friends @ Hotel Café Second Stage

playing tonight:

• Grand Ole Echo w/ Casper Allen, Rick Shelly @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ Anatcho Punk Nite w/ Penis Envy covers Crass, Blood Jelly covers Flux of Pink Indians, Subhumans, Rudimentary Peni and Zounds, Gutterchild covers Vice Squad @ The Echo
• Pop Wig Records Rock Gig #1 w/ Angel Dust, Big Bite, Odd Man Out, Bugg, firewalker @ The Hi HatPlayboy Jazz Festival @ Hollywood Bowl
• The Anniversary, Dude York, Fullbloods @ The Troubadour
• Saint Pe, Never Young, Vex Ruffin @ Bootleg Bar
• Countless Thousand @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Chris Stills & Friends @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Roy Book Binder @ McCabe's

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Week of June 12 - 18

Excited to see Low and Mono on Monday, June 12 at Downtown's Globe Theatre.

Monday, June 12

Recommended:

Low, Mono @ Globe Theatre

Send Medicine, Avid Dancer, The Dead Horse Rhythm, Bjorn and the Sun @ The Satellite

Frank Ferdinand, Omni @ The Regent Theatre

playing tonight:

• Send Medicine, Avid Dancer, The Dead Horse Rhythm, Bjorn and the Sun @ The Satellite
• Moon Honey, Draemings, Cellars, Alina Bea @ The Echo
• Low, Mono @ Globe Theatre
• Rostam @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Frank Ferdinand, Omni @ The Regent Theatre
• "School Night!" w/ Ten Fe, Blond Ambition, Dermot Kennedy, Amy Shark @ Bardot
• Big Language, Seneca and the River, Illuminati Hotties  @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Nick Hakim @ Amoeba Music
• Spaceface, Sugar Candy Mountain, Veronica Bianqui @ The Hi Hat
• The Walcotts, Hearty Har, Ben Jaffe @ Bootleg Bar
• Monday Monday hosted by Kristen Toedtman, Alisha Witt @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• AJR Album Release Show, Bay Ledges @ The Troubadour
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series @ Harvard & Stone
• LP, Josiah and the Bonnevilles @ El Rey

Tuesday, June 13

Recommended:

Pom Poms and Ramona Hammer Joint Record Release Party, Brass Box, Alyeska @ Echoplex

playing tonight:

• Brendan Wardell and the Lucas Bros., The Bath Boys, Yassir Lester, Jamel Johnson, Chase Bernstein @ The Satellite
• Amy Shark, Nicole Hale @ The Echo
• Pom Poms and Ramona Hammer Joint Record Release Party, Brass Box, Alyeska @ Echoplex
• Ten Fe w/ Tom Crouch, Jesse Malin @ Hotel Café
• Suzy Jones, Katrina Stone @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Vista Kicks, Midnight Faces, Name The Band @ The Hi Hat
• Circa Waves, Dreamers, Mainland @ Teragram Ballroom
• Dan Auerbach @ The Grammy Museum
• The Deslondes @ Bootleg Bar
• Joan Osborne Sings Bob Dylan @ The Regent Theatre
  

Wednesday, June 14

Recommended:

Justin Harward of The Moody Blues @ The Grammy Museum

playing tonight:

• Honors, Saro, Lily McQueen @ The Echo
• Justin Harward @ The Grammy Museum
• Theo Katzman, Joey Dosik, Madison Douglas @ The Troubadour
• Marian Hill, Opia @ The Fonda Theatre
• Russell Watson @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• Ten Fe w/ Tom Crouch @ Hotel Café
• Joe Marson & Friends, Auni, Zac Taylor, Ninet, Darka Beaux @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• A Giant Dog, Qui, Criminal Hygiene @ Bootleg Bar
• ZOSO - The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience @ El Rey
• Jamarage, Detangler @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, June 15

Recommended:

Gangs of Youth, The Soft White Sixties @ The Echo

Imagine Dragons @ The Belasco Theatre

playing tonight

• Kevin Morby @ Amoeba Music
• Andrew St. James, The Lovemakers, US Elevator @ The Satellite
• Gangs of Youth, The Soft White Sixties @ The Echo
• Sandy (Alex G), Japanese Breakfast, Cende @ Echople
• The Rescues, Rita Wilson, Cobi @ Hotel Café
• Edison, Rose + Pacific, Houston In The Blind @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Cosmonauts @ Teragram Ballroom
• Phoenix, Mac DeMarco, The Lemon Twigs @ Hollywood Bowl
• COIN, A R I Z O N A @ The Troubadour
• North Mississippi Allstars, Rev Sekou @ The Roxy
• Imagine Dragons @ The Belasco Theatre
• Cory Branan @ Bootleg BarMOCA Music w/ Teebs, Milo & more @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
• Hello Stranger, no suit w/ Jackii, Vicaria, The Patients  @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Marian Hill, Opia @ The Fonda Theatre

Friday, June 16

Recommended:

Evan Dando, Gateway Drugs @ The Roxy

playing tonight:

• Boston, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts @ The Greek
• Elderbrook, Kauf, Georgi Kay @ The Echo
• Evan Dando, Gateway Drugs @ The Roxy
• COIN, A R I Z O N A @ The Troubadour
• Jules Galli & Friends, Johnny Gates, Bootleg Rascal, Mike Marlin & The Melomaniacs @ Hotel Café
• Christopher Paul Stelling, David Rothschild, The High Divers, 222 & The Rifle @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• The Hellflowers, North By North, The Great Sadness @ The Hi Hat
• Amindi K. Fro$t, The Crudes, Dancing Tongues, Widow @ The Smell
• Bad Suns, Hunny, Field Medic @ The Fonda Theatre
• Jill Sobule @ McCabe's

Saturday, June 17

Recommended:

Opening Night with The Moody Blues at The Hollywood Bowl

The Dustbowl Revival, Birds of Chicago @ Teragram Ballroom

The Record Company, The Brothers Comatose @ The Fonda Theatre

playing tonight:

• Opening Night with The Moody Blues @ The Hollywood Bowl
• The Maxican Standoff, Nancy Sanchez, Sin Color @ Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles
• Drab Majesty, Xeno and Oaklander, Chasms, Tamara Sky @ Echoplex
• Reeve Carney, O'Neill Hudson @ The Troubadour
• The Record Company, The Brothers Comatose @ The Fonda Theatre
• VIZA, Indigo Child, Avakian, Christopher Piliguian @ The Roxy
• The Dustbowl Revival, Birds of Chicago @ Teragram Ballroom
• Cosmos & Creature, Shea Diamond, Brandon McCulloch @ Hotel  Café
• Trubdr. Adam Road, Ray Goren, Morten Lava, Mint Trip, Ryan Tharp and Jacob Furr @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Zakk Sabbath, Beastmaster @ El Rey
• Dan Navarro @ McCabe's

Sunday, June 18

Recommended:

Celebrate Father's Day at the Grand Ole Echo w/ The Easy Leaves, Gospel Beach, Paige Calico, Mayeux & Broussard @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• New Move, Sister Mantos, David Divad @ The Hi Hat
• Grand Ole Echo w/ The Easy Leaves, Gospel Beach, Paige Calico, Mayeux & Broussard @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ Kristeen Young, Technophobia, NHLA @ Echoplex (10 PM)
• Punk is Dad - A Special Father's Day Celebration w/ Redd Kross, The Side Eyes, J.F.A., The Meow Twins, Professor and the Madman, White Night @ Echoplex (4 PM)
• John Mellencamp @ The Greek
• Reggae Night XVI w/ Ziggy Marley w/ Orchestra, The Specials @ Hollywood Bowl
• Top Tune Comedy Show, Alicia Witt @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Ben Vaughn Trio, Barbara Manning w/ David Wenger, Russ Tolman and Friends @ McCabe's

The L.A. Show Low Down (Or: "No Town More Barren Than Our Town, No Haven Safer Than The One They Tore Down...")

by Brad Roberts

Two-Week and Memorial Day Edition

One has to have been blind not to have been noticing the rapid slow down in the local music scene lately. I don't know if people are so shell-shocked at this horrifying Trump presidency that they have been rendered immobile, or if no one dares leave the house, or if all have been stunned into a creative breakdown, but whatever it is, the effects are being felt all over.

I can barely muster the energy to walk up the street, yet have been attending the high ticket attractions that I payed for months ago, like Feist, The Shins, and The New Pornographers. All three shows were great, but there's a bit of a palor hanging over every audience. I'm hopeful of a return to normalcy, but far from sure of it.

With no more music coming from Taix Lounge, El Cid, The Lost Knight, The Lost Room, Pehrspace, and others, the choice of venues has dropped to a handful. Is the local music scene dying or just sleeping? I honestly don't know.

Therefore...I'm going to do a two-week edition. And there are signs of life over the course of the next two weeks and beyond.  There are the Calvin Love and The Diamond Light residencies on Monday, the Omar Velasco residency on Tuesday, but I missed out on tickets for Amanda Palmer and Edward Ka-Spel at The Troubadour on Wednesday since it's sold out 

The week is rounded out with the Play Like A Girl program at Echoplex on Saturday featuring a host of female fronted bands like Kitten, Smoke Season and Sisu among many others.

Week of May 22 - May 28

Monday, May 22

Recommended:

Calvin Love, Los Angeles Police Department, Nani @ Bootleg Bar

The Diamond Light, Ivory DeVille, Children @ The Satellite

playing tonight:

• The Diamond Light, Ivory DeVille, Children @ The Satellite
• Barrows, Moth Drops, Psychic Jui-jitsu, Dream Phases @ The Echo
• Kikagaku Moyo, Sugar Candy Mountain, Levitation Room @ Echoplex
• "School Night!" w/ Magic Giant, Pop Noir, Azul, Glades @ Bardot
• AM Exchange, Rebel Rose, Jamarage, Dingo Down @ Silver Lake Lounge
• The Strumbellas, Reuben and the Dark @ The Fonda Theatre
• Asian American Heritage Month Showcase ft. Young Lovers, Miss Jupiter, Christian Francisco, Past Hype, Bones Like Snowflakes @ The Hi Hat
• Calvin Love, Los Angeles Police Department, Nani @ Bootleg Bar
• Anuhea w/ Mahi Crabbe and Tenelle @ Hotel Café
• Monday Monday Hootenanny, Leslie Mendelson, Rotana@ Hotel Café Second Stage
• An Evening with Judith Hill @ The Troubadour
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Marco With Love, The Sweet Things, Liza Colby @ Harvard & Stone
• Morrissey's 58th Unhappy Birthday Celebration w/ Sweet and Tender, Dirty Old Town @ El Rey

Tuesday, May 23

Recommended:

Omar Velasco, Griff Goldsmith, Xander Ferreira @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Air Traffic Controller, Low Hums @ The Satellite
• Lauv, Molly Kate Kestner, CVBZ @ The Echo
• Balcony TV presents Josh Radnor and Ben Lee w/ Laura Jean Anderson & Zeke Duhon @ Hotel Café
• The Bluegrass Station presents Sam Lee, Chris Lind, Madison Cunningham & Margo Valiante; Mike Brown @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Omar Velasco, Griff Goldsmith, Xander Ferreira @ The Hi Hat
• Girlpool, Snail Mail @ Teragram Ballroom
• Mother Mother, Smoke Season, Preston Graves @ The Troubadour
• Fakear, Pink Sock @ Bootleg Bar
• Fenech-Soler, Knox Hamilton, Hawai @ The Roxy
• Jim Priest, Sandra Macat, A.O. Gerber, Electric Carlos, Them Guns @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Mosquito, special guests @ Harvard & Stone
• Katelyn Tarver, NONA, Violet Days @ Resident
• Matisyahu @ Amoeba Music (6 PM)
  

Wednesday, May 24

Recommended:

Amanda Palmer and Edward Ka-Spel @ The Troubadour

playing tonight:

• Poppy Jean Crawford, Sweater, Cryote @ The Satellite
• Hoops, Parts, The Tracks @ The Echo
• Candlemass, Taake, GosT, Volahn @ The Regent Theatre
• "Desert Nights" w/ Pete Molinari, Reverend Jeff + friends @ The Standard
• Amanda Palmer and Edward Ka-Spel @ The Troubadour
• Pinkish Black, Clay Rendering @ The Hi Hat
• Cassandra Jenkins Release Show, Lola Lirke, Ali Dinteen w/ Hannah Sassoon, Petunia & the Vipers @ Resident
• KASL, J. Bonigno, Marco With Love @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Monogem Record Release, Party Nails, Sheare @ Bootleg Bar
• Genevieve Artadi, WASI, Sir.Kami @ The Smell
• Quantum Split, Lonely Bones, About The Noise, SilverTwins @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, May 25

Recommended:

Band of Horses, Frightened Rabbit @ The Greek

Dear Lemon Trees, Madison Cunningham, Charlyne Yi @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• Pantha du Prince, Telefon Tel Aviv, Newman Wolf @ The Regent Theatre
• JR JR @ The Echo
• Band of Horses, Frightened Rabbit @ The Greek
• Earl St. Clair w/ special guests, Saint Mesa, Vincint, Sam Woolf @ Hotel Café
• Laura Leighe, Nico Franc, Ivy Alex, Christopher Watson, Wolfe Jackson @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• The Andres Dinner Party, Marry The Psycho, FOOL @ The Smell
• Zee Will, NiceGuyxVinny @ Resident
• Elephant Revival, Steve Poltz @ The Troubadour
• Midnight Oil @ The Wiltern
• No Parents, C ROY, Dumb Fucks, Enemy, Musty Boyz @ The Hi Hat
• Dear Lemon Trees, Madison Cunningham, Charlyne Yi @ Bootleg Bar
• ZAUB, Aaron Waldman, Becca Roth, Bubbeleh @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Gavin James, Marc Scibilia, Chord Overstreet @ El Rey

Friday, May 26

Recommended:

Cutty Flam Album Release Party, Summer Twins, Twin Seas @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Wafia, Demo Taped @ The Echo
• Arkona, Sirenia, MindMaze, GraveShadow @ Echoplex
• Martha Ambrosius, Eric Benét @ The Wiltern
• Grand Canyon w/ The Reigning Monarchs, Chesney Hawkes, Diana DeMuth, Jessy Greene @ Hotel Café
• Mario Jose, Jennifer Knapp w/ Special Guests, Leila Milki Album Release Show, Isabelle @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• MainMan, The Planters, Fitness, James V @ Teragram Ballroom
• Hidden Charms, Isaac Rother & The Phantoms @ Resident
• Cutty Flam Album Release Party, Summer Twins, Twin Seas @ The Hi Hat
• L.A. Takedown, Tara Jane O'Neil @ Bootleg Bar
• Prettiest Eyes, Moaning, Rearranged Face, Cat Scan @ The Smell
• Wallows, Love Ghost, The Feal, Christopher Piliguian @ The Roxy

Saturday, May 27

Recommended:

Play Like A Girl w/ Kitten, Smoke Season, Sisu, Blimes Brixton, Hewan, The Bedroom Witch, Stars At Night, Twin Temple, Spare Parts For Broken Hearts, Iress, + DJ sets by Vowws, Kera and the Lesbians, Honey Power, Smash Club @ Echoplex

Shonen Knife, Winter, French Vanilla @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• Colin Keene, Mike Scully @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Play Like A Girl w/ Kitten, Smoke Season, Sisu, Blimes Brixton, Hewan, The Bedroom Witch, Stars At Night, Twin Temple, Spare Parts For Broken Hearts, Iress, + DJ sets by Vowws, Kera and the Lesbians, Honey Power, Smash Club @ Echoplex
• Melanie Taylor, Alone Together, Dough The Freshkid, Watrcup, Torrio Jetson @ The Troubadour
• Sleepy Sun Record Release, Big Search @ The Hi Hat
• Spookey Ruben - Electric Brunch Residency @ Resident (2 PM)
• Giuda, Stitches, Hammered Satin @ Teragram Ballroom
• Charlotte Martin final live performance w/ special guest Yonatan, Campfire Cassettes Record Release Show, Don't Stop Or We'll Die @ Hotel Café
• Brandon McCulloch, Future Feats, John Chandler, Molly Kruse @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Shonen Knife, Winter, French Vanilla @ Bootleg Bar
• WAR, Los Lonely Boys @ The Greek
• Part Time, Billy Changer, Gabbi Green, Canto @ The Smell

Sunday, May 28

Recommended:

The Lovely Bad Things, Wild Wing, The Red Pears, JOOS @ The Hi Hat

playing tonight:

• Jurassic Shark, Espresso, Clit Kat, Keif Season, Kuromi @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ Smiths/Morrissey Nite @ The Echo
• The Lovely Bad Things, Wild Wing, The Red Pears, JOOS @ The Hi Hat
• Ty Alex, Erin Cassels Brown @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Tickle Torture, jackbenny, The Put Off @ Bootleg Bar
• Frontier Ruckus, Special Guests @ Hotel Café
• Tongue & Groove @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• French Vanilla, Mommy Long Legs, Rotten Blossom, Peach Kelli Pop @ The Smell

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Week of May 29 - June 4

This week I catch up with The Mountain Goats as John Darnielle introduces his latest music on Wednesday at The Mayan.

Björk is performing with an orchestra in a very special show at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Tuesday.

Monday, May 29 MEMORIAL DAY

Recommended:

The Diamond Light, Wilding, Water Slice, Good Snake @ The Satellite

Calvin Love, Korey Dane, NO WIN, Jacky Winter @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• The Diamond Light, Wilding, Water Slice, Good Snake @ The Satellite
• Killer Kaya, The Bad Applez, Ruby Jane & The Reckless, Desert Tundra @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Doctrin Bearhunter, Caroucells @ The Hi Hat
• Calvin Love, Korey Dane, NO WIN, Jacky Winter @ Bootleg Bar

Tuesday, May 30

Recommended:

Björk @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Oh Land @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

playing tonight:

• Battle Tapes, Rococode, Holy Wars @ The Satellite
• Sean Gadd Record Release Party, Cillie Barnes, Alyeska @ The Echo
• The Protomen @ Echoplex
• Björk @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
• Stray Birds, Roof Beam Carpenters, Particle Kid @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Oh Land @ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
• Decker-Con, Tim Heidecker, Gregg Turkington @ The Regent Theatre
• Peter Matthew Bauer, Butch Bastard, Reverend Baron @ Bootleg Bar
• Synth Punk, El Mister Mudd, Hollow Fortyfives, Fernweh @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Katelyn Tarver, Groves, O'neill Hudson @ Resident

Wednesday, May 31

Recommended:

The Mountain Goats, Holy Sons @ The Mayan

Miranda Lee Richards Album Release Show, GospelbeacH, Purple Mountain Majesties, Maesa @ Bootleg Bar

playing tonight:

• Rosie Tucker, Fell Runner, Foxes & Lions, Huxlee @ The Satellite
• The Mountain Goats, Holy Sons @ The Mayan
• Dead & Company @ Hollywood Bowl
• "Desert Nights" w/ @ The Standard
• Too Many Zooz @ The Troubadour
• DLD @ The Roxy
• Maty Noyes, David Davis @ Hotel Café
• Jennah Bell, Panthyr, Emma Jane Thommen, Darla Beaux @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Miranda Lee Richards Album Release Show, GospelbeacH, Purple Mountain Majesties, Maesa @ Bootleg Bar
• Dead & Company @ Hollywood Bowl
• Obey The Wolves, No Darling, chainsaw rainbow, Snails @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, June 1

Recommended:

Sam Outlaw, Michaela Anne @ The Troubadour

playing tonight:

• Beat Mosaic, Jorgie, Youth On Soda @ The Satellite
• Popshop West 048 w/ Fletcher, Flint Eastwood @ The Echo (7 PM)
• Reed Mathis and Electric Beethoven @ The Echo (10:30 PM)
• Little Hurricane, Jaime Wyatt @ Echoplex
• The Rescues, Adaline @ Hotel Café
• Edison, Kris Angelis EP Release Show w/ Adjoa Skinner, Shani Rose EP Release Show @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Durand Jones & The Indications, Street Joy @ Resident
• Sam Outlaw, Michaela Anne @ The Troubadour
• Springtime Carnivore, Cones, Buzzy @ Bootleg Bar
• Natalie Ceva, Alex Cano, Cilience, Lower Still @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Mount Kimbie, Ash Koosha, Tirzah @ El Rey

Friday, June 2

Recommended:

Blake Hazard, Two Sheds, Parting Lines @ Resident

playing tonight:

• Vulfpeck, Joey Dosik @ The Regent Theatre Cat Signs, Billy Changer, Distractor @ Mas Malo
• The Weirdos, Dirty & His Fists, The Wolly Bandits @ The Echo
• Busted @ The Troubadour
• Mario Jose, Johnny Gates, Silver Twins @ Hotel Café
• Roses & Cigarettes, Sheila Nicholls, Hunter Perrin @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Wavves, So Stressed, Kino Kimino @ Teragram Ballroom
• Blake Hazard, Two Sheds, Parting Lines @ Resident
• Feral Ohms, Pins Of Light, Zig Zags @ The Hi Hat
• Happyness, BOYO @ Bootleg Bar
• Beach Bums, Red Punk, Matter Room, Clit Kat @ The Smell
• CAPTURE, Owls Head @ The Roxy
• Lewis Del Mar, Anna Wise @ El Rey
• CHON, Tesa Melos, Little Tybee @ The Fonda Theatre
• Hubby Jenkins @ McCabe's

Saturday, June 3

Recommended:

Avi Buffalo, Dante Elephante, Rufrano @ The Echo (5:30 PM)

playing tonight:

• Vulfpeck, Joey Dosik @ The Regent Theatre
• Avi Buffalo, Dante Elephante, Rufrano @ The Echo (5:30 PM)
• Highly Suspect @ The Fonda Theatre
• John Isaac Watters Rainstorm Brothers @ The Hi Hat
• The Birthday Massacre, Army of the Universe, Sumo Cyco @ The Roxy
• Great Good Fine OK, Morgan, Pretty Sister @ Teragram Ballroom Go Fever @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Sam Babayan Band, Josh Halverson, Everly, Travis Peery Band @ Hotel Café
• Zachariah & The Lobos Riders & Missi Pyle, K Phillips, Atomic Walrus, Short Sleeve Heart @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Lambchop, Brokeback @ Bootleg Bar
• Justin Townes Earle, The Sadies @ El Rey

Sunday, June 4

Recommended:

Grand Ole Echo w/ Christian Lee Hutson, Johnny Fritz, Mapache, Matt Hopper, Mister Paradise @ The Echo

playing tonight:

• Goon, Dead Soft, Young Jesus, YESES @ The Hi Hat
• Grand Ole Echo w/ Christian Lee Hutson, Johnny Fritz, Mapache, Matt Hopper, Mister Paradise @ The Echo
• Part Time Punks w/ The Primitives, Cruel Summer, Susan @ The Echo
• Tiger Jaw, Saintseneca, Smidley @ The Regent Theatre
• Computer Games @ Teragram Ballroom
• Elvis Costello and The Imposters @ The Greek

 

The L.A. Show Low Down (Or: "Glistening In The Moonlight, Lisening To The Frogs, Hiding Ourselves In The Trees, Watching With Demon Eyes...")

by Brad Roberts

The only time I ever saw The Flaming Lips (at right) was when they played Jimmy Kimmel Show over 10 years ago and played a half hour set out in the backyard of the El Capitan Theater which is just outside my kitchen window. But it's time I finally caught a full performance from this landmark band and I get my chance on Tuesday night at The Theatre at Ace Hotel.

This was also going to be the week to see Grandaddy in their current tour for the latest album, until the unexpected death of their bass player, Kevin Garcia, last Tuesday which devastated the band and has shut down the tour. Condolences to all. Their new album is a winner and a fitting tribute for Garcia.

PJ Harvey is in the middle of a new world tour and drops in to Los Angeles on Friday night at The Greek.

Zach Rogue of Rogue Wave is involved in a new project called Rogue + Jaye, which is a collaboration between Zach and Courtney Jaye, and they have even released an album, and are appearing on Tuesday at Hotel Café. His consistently fine output just got even better.

Next Sunday The Echo/Echoplex complex offers a bunch of compelling shows with the Grand Ole Echo at 3 PM with the wonderful Pearl Charles, aided by Lauren Barth, Levi Parham, and The Country Lips at Echoplex. Stick around for more hippies with Acid Mothers Temple, Babylon, and Flying Hair at 8:30 PM, also at Echoplex, and then go upstairs for Part Time Punks with The Vacant Lots, Gateway Drugs, and The Meeting Places at The Echo.

Monday, May 8

Recommended:

A chance to see supergroup La Santa Cecilia in a free set at Amoeba Music at 5:30 PM.

Get loud with four bands, Barrows, QunQ, Facial, and Moaning at Echoplex.

Calvin Love has been crafting his subtle and deeply personal worldview songs for a while now, developing a strong following, contrasts with Maxim Ludwig's loud, gritty swagger tonight at Bootleg Bar.

playing tonight:

• La Santa Cecilia @ Amoeba Music (5:30 PM)
• The Diamond Light, Down and Outlaws, EasyFriend @ The Satellite
• Lydia Ainsworth, Jim-E Stack, Rival Consoles @ The Echo
• Barrows, QunQ, Facial, Moaning @ Echoplex
• "School Night!" w/ Rafferty, Kid Wave, On Planets, Bay Ledges @ Bardot
• Aye Nako, Potty Mouth, Sister Mantos, French Vanilla @ The Hi Hat
• Calvin Love, Maxim Ludwig, Deep Fields, Glances, special guests @ Bootleg Bar
• The Social Underground: Open Jam Sessions w/ SuVi, Groove Martini @ Resident
• Monday Monday w/ Hayley Brownell, McKail, Leo James Conroy, Arthur Watership, Lean, Diana DeMuth, The Creston Line, Josiah & the Bonnevilles, Madison Douglas, Ivory DeVille @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Mod Sun, Marty Grimes, SwagHollywood, New Hippys @ The Roxy
• Ilegal Mescal Music Series w/ Midnight Divide, Holy Wars, Madus @ Harvard & Stone

Tuesday, May 9

Recommended:

If you're not at The Flaming Lips show at The Theatre at Ace Hotel, with Klangstof, check out Omar Velasco on the second night of his May Tuesday residency at The Hi Hat, featuring an impressive line up with Lola Kirk, Christian Lee Hutson, and Sierra Reeves.

playing tonight:

• Reggie Watts & Karen @ The Satellite
• The Flaming Lips, Klangstof @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• Brainstory, E Arenas, Chola Orange, Qvole Collective @ The Echo
• Josh Radnor & Ben Lee @ Hotel Café
• Willa Mamet, Mosaics, Mascarada, Sumeau, Scarlett @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Omar Velasco, Lola Kirk, Christian Lee Hutson, Sierra Reeves @ The Hi Hat
• Peter Silberman @ Teragram Ballroom
• Rodney Crowell, Joe Robinson @ The Troubadour
• The Weeks, The Lonely Biscuits, Lauren Ruth Ward @ The Roxy
• Futurebirds, Gold Connections @ Bootleg Bar
• Violet Rose, Old Man's Money @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Mosquito, special guests @ Harvard & Stone
• Katelyn Tarver, Shallows, Riot Child @ Resident
• Barnes Courtney, Foxtrax @ El Rey

Wednesday, May 10

Recommended:

A new project by Rogue Wave's Zach Rogue called Rogue + Jaye have their first local show at Hotel Café.

"Desert Nights" features Eleanor Friedberger, Henry Wolfe at The Standard.

Tift Merritt and The Suitcase Junket headline at Bootleg Bar.

playing tonight:

• Lil Peep @ The Echo
• "Desert Nights" w/ Eleanor Friedberger, Henry Wolfe @ The Standard
• Frank Iero and the Patience, Dave Hause and The Mermaid @ The Troubadour
• Ryan Reidy, Fragile Gang, Shit Giver, Post Life @ The Hi Hat
• Cataldo @ Resident
• Rogue + Jaye, Madison Douglas @ Hotel Café
• Ryan Amador, Nicky Egan, Kate Bass, Drinker @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Tift Merritt, The Suitcase Junket @ Bootleg Bar
• Bird Concerns, M. Lockwood Porter, Bird & Thorn, Derek Ted @ Silver Lake Lounge

Thursday, May 11

Recommended:

Dear Boy make beautiful sounds at The Echo, with Loveyou andAvalon Lurks.

playing tonight:

• Greyhounds @ The Satellite
• Dear Boy, Loveyou, Avalon Lurks @ The Echo
• Timber Timbre, The Wooden Sky @ Echoplex
• Com Truise, Clark, Tamara Sky @ The Regent Theatre
• The Americans, Craig Paddock @ Hotel Café
• Tom Fruend & Kirby Lenker, Mark Bates, The Mrs., The Improv Trio @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Gabriel Garzon-Montano, Space People @ The Troubadour
• The BuildOn Benefit w/ The 100 Year War, Zealyn, Tyler Hilton, Greg Holden and Zane Carney @ The Roxy
• Magic Wands, Geneva Jacuzzi, Glaare @ The Hi Hat
• Jesse Wilson, Ulysses S. Grant, Kat Khaleel @ Bootleg Bar
• Jerkagram, Orphan Goggles, The Anti-Job @ Silver Lake Lounge

Friday, May 12

Recommended:

The Red Pairs, Pity Party, Beach Bums, and The Cozzmos rally for The Smell, while PJ Harvey does The Greek.

playing tonight:

• Real Friends, Tiny Moving Parts, Have Mercy, Broadside, Nothing Nowhere @ The Regent Theatre
• PJ Harvey @ The Greek
• Ely Rose Presents Creepshow, The Proof., Mike Barone & Friends @ Hotel Café
• Complicated Animals, Friends & Nightmares, Ghost Pavillion @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• All Them Witches, Idle Bloom @ The Roxy
• WASI EP Release Party, Goons, Blushh, Maddie Ross, Taleen Kali @ The Hi Hat
• Alina Bea, OHMME, Ben Babbitt @ Bootleg Bar
• The Red Pairs, Pity Party, Beach Bums, The Cozzmos @ The Smell
• Aleksandre James, Cities, Daise, WildEyes, Snowball II @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Jerron Blind Boy Paxton @ McCabe's

Saturday, May 13

Recommended:

Terrific bill with Superet, Emerson Star, and Green Gerry at Bootleg Bar.

playing tonight:

• Fishbone, Tabitha featuring Stephen Perkins @ Echoplex
• Twin Forks, Dan Layus, The Social Animals @ The Troubadour
• Maniac, Midnite Snaxxx, Die Group @ The Hi Hat
• Conor Oberst @ The Greek
• Aimee Mann @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel
• Train, OAR, Natasha Bedingfield @ Hollywood Bowl
• Alex Dezen, Mike Dunn, Jeff Caudill @ Resident
• The Thurston Moore Group, Marissa Anderson @ Teragram Ballroom
• Alxxa, Henry Hall, Melissa Gottlieb, Simone, The Dales @ Hotel Café
• Kristeen Young & Brandon McCulloch & special guests, Drew Chadwick, Henry Grace, Justin Levinson @ Hotel Café Second Stage
• Superet, Emerson Star, Green Gerry @ Bootleg Bar
• Willa Rae & The Minor Arcana, Mia Milan, The NewArkansans, Brandon Solis @ Silver Lake Lounge
• Young Lovers, Terra Firma Dinosaur, Sunset Swim, Surrogate Brains @ The Smell
• Quiles & Cloud, Allison Pierce @ McCabe's

Sunday, May 14

Recommended:

Spend the afternoon and evening with Grand Ole Echo starring Pearl Charles, Lauren Barth, Levi Parham, and The Country Lips at 3 PM, Acid Mothers Temple, Babylon, and Flying Hair at 8:30 PM both at Echoplex, and then Part Time Punks takes over The Echo at 10 featuring The Vacant Lots, Gateway Drugs, and The Meeting Places.

playing tonight:

• Grand Ole Echo w/ Pearl Charles, Lauren Barth, Levi Parham, The Country Lips @ Echoplex (3 PM)
• Acid Mothers Temple, Babylon, Flying Hair @ Echoplex (8:30 PM)
• Part Time Punks w/ The Vacant Lots, Gateway Drugs, The Meeting Places @ The Echo
• Matt Pryor, Dan Andriano @ The Echo (6 PM)
• Sleeptalk, Hush, Kill Trend, Rouxx @ Bootleg Bar
• As It Is, Roam, Grayscale, Skeep On It @ The Roxy
• Lonely Heartstring Band @ McCabe's