Everybody’s hitching a ride to Austin this week for some music festival but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any amazing events happening around Los Angeles! This week Animal Collective side project Deakin will be playing two shows on Sunday Mar 21st at the Eagle Rock Center For The Arts, Tune-Yards returns to LA, and High Places will play their first live show in a long ass time before embarking on a spring tour.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Thousand Dozen Gloves @ The Echoplex, $25, 18yrs+
- Sabertooth Tiger, Memory, Tremellow, Mumiy Troll @ Spaceland, $5, (21yrs+)
- Aussie BBQ 2010 w/ The Chevelles, City Riots, Crayon Fields, Goons of Doom, Dappled Cities, Cassette Kids, Sherlock’s Daughter @ The Echo, Day Show, $15, All Ages
- Kidrockers w/ Watson Twins + Special Guests @ The Echoplex, 1PM, $12, All Ages
- Part Time Punks w/ Blessure Grave, Twin Crystals, Random Cuts @ The Echo, $5, 18yrs+
- Gun Outfit, Dunes, Residual Echoes, So Many Wizards @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
- Pill Wonder, 60 Watt Kid, Queen Victoria and Ezra Buchla @ Synchronicity, $5, All Ages
Real Vocal String Quartet, Alicia Jo Rabins @ Bootleg, $15
- Beaches, Love Of Diagrams, Sun Araw, Crystal Antlers @ The Smell, $5, All Ages
- The Swell Season @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop, SOLD OUT
- Darker My Love @ The Prospector
MONDAY MAR 15TH, 2010
Moonrats, Lawrence Arabia, Corridor @ Spaceland, FREE, (21yrs+)
Audacity, ty segal and charlie and the moonhearts @ Burger Records
- The Delta Mirror, Pop Noir, Cannoneers @ The Echo, FREE, (21yrs+)
- Echo & Warp Records present Gonjasufi (DJ set), Gaslamp Killer, Main Frame @ The Echoplex, $10, 18yrs+
- Sean Carnage & KSPC-FM Present The So So Glos, The Lovely Bad Things, Protect Me, Batwings Catwings @ pehrspace, $5, All Ages
- Seaspin, Crayon Fields, Washington, The Damn Sons, Blue Skies For Black Hearts @ Silverlake Lounge, FREE, (21yrs+)
- Halina Larsson, Nema, The Tails @ Bordello, $8, (21yrs+)
- Andy Clockwise, Le Switch, Marvelous Toy, Matt Ellis @ The Troubadour
- Jucifer @ Vacation Vinyl, FREE, 7PM
- She & Him w/ The Chapin Sisters @ Largo At The Coronet
- Jonneine Zapata, Children Colide, Viva City @ The Roxy
- White Stripes Under The Great White Northern Lights Screening @ The Echoplex, 8PM, FREE, All Ages
- Spleen United, Terry Poison, Mad Planet @ The Echo, $8, 18yrs+
- Reptet, Learning Music, Zoo @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
- The White Stripes Film Screening @ The Redwood Bar, 7PM, FREE, (21yrs+)
- The Union Line, Arrows, The Ross Party @ Silverlake Lounge, $8, (21yrs+)
- Peg Leg Love, The Light Rays, The Meka Leka His @ The Prospector Long beach (21yrs+)
WEDNESDAY MAR 17TH, 2010
Les Blanks, The Blasting Company, Francisco The Man @ Spaceland, $5, (21yrs+)
- St. Patricks’s Day w/ Olin & The Moon (performing The Pogues “Rum, Sodomy, and The Lash”), Brant Bjork @ The Echo, $10, 18yrs+
- Dub Club @ The Echoplex, $5, (21yrs+)
- St. Patty’s Extravaganza with The Pirates Charles, Dred Crew of Oddwood, Weasels Exist @ The Redwood Bar, (21yrs+)
- Kingsize, Dead Country @ Silverlake Lounge, $8, (21yrs+)
- Sick Puppies, Janus, Art Of Chaose @ The Troubadour
- Young Dubliners @ House Of Blues Sunset
- New Planets, Kazai Rex, Central Music, Banna Beag Mall, Media Orphan
@ Mr. T’s Bowl
- Wrong Way Driver, The Mallard, Names of Stars, Ovideo @ Spaceland
- Gajah (acid Reign), Sirah, Michael Nhat, Halloween Swim Team Improv Set @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
- YNM Mgt. Showcase w/ Jerkules, Shakey Graves, Drew Stedman. Trout & Parrot and more @ The Redwood Bar, (21yrs+)
- Ray Argyle (Archways), Confessions Of A Corn Silo @ Silverlake Lounge, $8, (21yrs+)
- New Found Glory with Saves The Day, Hellogoodbye and Fireworks @ House of Blues Sunset
- Brant Bjork @ Vacation Vinyl, 7pm, FREE, ALL AGES
- Voodoo Glow Skulls, Hub City Stompers, Cellphish, Buddha Bomb @ Alex’s Bar, Long Beach, $10 (21yrs+)
FRIDAY MAR 19TH, 2010
Echo & Club Underground Present High Places, Nite Jewel, Dunes @ The Echo, $10, 18yrs+
- Early Dolphin Record Release, The Spires, The French Semester @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
- Lobstin, Jehovas Fitness, Watercolor Paintings, Ana Caravelle @ pehrspace, $5, All Ages
- Hop-Frog’s Drum Jester Devotional, Night at Noon, Amps for Christ @ Synchronicity, $5, All Ages
- Brian Fallon (Of The Gaslight Anthem), Joe Sib @ The Troubadour
- Family Album, Haunted Tiger, Diving Bell @ Spaceland
- The King Cheetah, The Swagger Sticks, The Cold Chills, Telemere Repair, AFG Must Rock @ Mr. T’s Bowl
- Noel Paul Stookey @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop
- Eugene And The 1914, Fort Wife @ Fingerprints Long Beach, FREE, ALL AGES
SATURDAY MAR 20TH, 2010
Sounds of L.A.: Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba @ The Getty
Mike Watt & His Missingmen, Beta Wolf @ The Redwood Bar, 10pm, (21yrs+)
- Beth Hart @ The Echo, 7PM, $15, All Ages
- Funk Sole (CLUB NIGHT) @ The Echo, FREE, (21yrs+)
- Let’s Paint TV, Flugeldar!!!, Mannlicher Carcano @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
- Talea: Electronic Operatic Sound Ritual @ Synchronicity, $5, All Ages
- Jean Baudin, Constant Collection, Devin Sarno & G.E Stinson @ Bootleg, $10
- Devil makes Three, Old Man Markley @ The Troubadour
- Boris Smile “Rockets EP” Release Show @ Open Books, Long Beach, All Ages
- Katie The Pest, Baby Champ, Electric Jellyfish, Light Music @ The Prospector Long beach (21yrs+)
- Torches in Trees @ Hyperion Tavern
- – Papermade Records Showcase: w/ Dash Jacket, Wonder Wheel, Tan Dollar, Black Elephant @ Pehrspace
SUNDAY MAR 21ST, 2010
Deakin @ Eagle Rock Center For The Arts – 2 SHOWS SOLD OUT
- Hell Ya! Night @ Spaceland, $5, (21yrs+)
- Part Time Punks w/ Frank Alpine, Killing Spree @ The Echo, $5, 18yrs+
- Electric Jellyfish, Black Apples, Young Hunting, The Coals @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
- Mia Doi Todd, Mauricio Takara (Sao Paulo), Rebekah Raff Harp Ensemble @ Bootleg, $10, (21yrs+)
- Gomez, The Little Ones @ El Rey Theatre
- Groove Armada Live Set @ Henry Fona
- Tears for Fears @ The Wiltern
- Worker Bee @ Origami Vinyl, FREE, 7PM
- “LOCAL INDIE ROCK BANDS SUPPORT PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT PETER MATHEWS FOR CONGRESS CONCERT” – all proceeds to benefit Mathews for Congress campaign fund – Tiger Tank Euphoria, Eugene and the 1914, Bryan McPherson – @ Alex’s Bar Long Beach, $5 (21 yrs +)
- Saosin, Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster @ The Glass House, Pomona, $15, All Ages
- Larry Brown, John Schlocker Memorial Concert @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop
- Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba @ Amoeba, 7pm, FREE, All Ages
Also crazy stuff in store this week in LA. Broken Bells will be playing a SOLD OUT show this Sunday at The Troubadour. My brother caught their preview show at The Bootleg a few weeks back and is still raving about the James Mercer (Shins) and Danger Mouse (badass) collab. Check out a video of the duo playing “The High Road” below.
Also this week in LA: YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE! FINALLY WILL BE PLAYING IN LOS ANGELES!!!!!!!!!!!
A few years back the band got detained at the Canadian border and weren’t allowed to enter the United States for 2 years!!! ahh I’m so excited.
Concert Calendar w/ picks below! See you out at shows?
SUNDAY MAR 7TH, 2010
LA Record & White Noise Present: Audacity, FIM, Fantastica Bastidas, Peg Leg Love @ Spaceland, $5, (21yrs+)
The Like, Jail Weddings, VOICEsVOICEs, Manhattan Murder Mystery @ All Star Lanes, Free Admission, Free Colt 45 all night, (21yrs+)
- Earthworm Ensemble @ The Echo – EARLY SHOW – Kid’s Show, $5, All Ages
- Part Time Punks @ The Echo, $5, 18yrs+
- L’Orchidee D’Hawaii, Bell Novela, Manicorn, George Glass @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
- Living Suns, My Pet Saddle, and Tijuana Panthers @ Cinsepace, FREE, 18yrs+
- One Trick Pony, Dylan Trees @ Griffith Park, 3pm, All Ages, Free
- Voxhaul Broadcast, Grand Atlantic @ The Viper Room (21yrs+_
MONDAY MAR 8TH, 2010
Thee Vicars, Night Beats, Cobalt Cranes, Los Sweepers, Strangers Family @ The Redwood Bar (21yrs+)
- Moonrats, ASKA, Adanowsky, Soko @ Spaceland, FREE, (21yrs+)
- The Delta Mirror, Alexandra Hope, Corridor, Sister Crayon @ The Echo, FREE, 21yrs+
- New Music Monday w/ David Scott Stone, The urged, Mirror To Mirror @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
Sean Carnage Presents A very secret special guest, Bambara, Summer of Glaciers, Hellomynameischad @ pehrspace, $5, All Ages
- Seaspin, Wild Yaks, Repeater, The Romany Rye @ Silverlake Lounge, FREE, (21yrs+)
- Alesana, with A Skylit Drive , Of Mice & Men , The Word Alive and We Came as Romans @ El Rey Theatre, All Ages
- Stockholm Syndrome, These United States, Check In The Dark @ The Roxy
- Year Long Disaster, National Dust, Bigbang, Normandie, Chasing Kings @ Troubadour
- David Bazan, Headlights, Kissing Cousins @ Alex’s Bar, Long Beach, (21yrs+)
TUESDAY MAR 9TH, 2010
Laura Veirs, Old Believers, Cataldo @ Spaceland, $12, (21yrs+) Red Tide, Superhumanoids, Random Patterns, His Orchestra @ Silverlake Lounge, $8, (21yrs+)
- Future Sounds & The Echo Present Twin Tigers, Skybombers, Useless Keys, Apes of Wrath @ The Echo, $5, 18yrs+
- Taterbug, Tracy Trance, Infinite Body, Pocahaunted @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
The Neurotics, The Crazy Squeeze, D-Rex @ The Redwood Bar, (21yrs+)
- Meredith Meyer, Haroula Rose, Brandon McCulloch and The Deadbirds, Dudley Saunders @ The Viper Room, (21yrs+)
- Stereo Heroes @ Cinespace
- Planets (Napa), Totally Serious, LA Fog, Secondary (Seattle, WA) @ The Smell, $5, All Ages
- The Big Pink, A Place To Bury Strangers, Active Child @ The El Rey Theatre
Manchester Orchestra, The Features, Biffy Clyro, O’Brother @ Troubadour – SOLD OUT
- Wild Yaks, Girl Problems @ The Viper Room (21yrs+)
WEDNESDAY MAR 10TH, 2010
Abe Vigoda, Lovvers, The Black Apples @ The Echo, $10, 18+
Little Boots, Dragonette, Class Actress @ El Rey Theatre
Text of Light (feat. Lee Ranaldo), Parallel @ Silent Movie Theatre (Cinefamily)
- Club NME w/ Olin & The Moon, Correatown, Finn Riggins, Jared Mees & The Grown Children @ Spaceland, $7, (21yrs+)
- Dub Club Presents Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus mixed by Scientist, All Star Sabar Orchestra, Claudius Linton @ The Echoplex, $12, (21yrs+)
- Cassorla, Learning Music, Boy Eats Drum Machine, Dylan Trees @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
- Hell Ya! Presents The Dance Party, Killola, Bullet & Snowfox, Intelligent Design @ Crazy Girls, $5, 21 Yrs+
- Delta Spirit, We Barbarians, Jonny Corndawg @ Bootleg, $12, (21yrs+)
- Agent Ribbons, Wet & Reckless, Kissing Cousins, Esquire @ Silverlake Lounge, $8, (21yrs+)
- The Temper Trap, Darker My Love @ Henry Fonda
- Manchester Orchestra, The Features, Biffy Clyro, O’Brother @ Troubadour – SOLD OUT
- Twin Tigers, The Soft Hands, Bella Novella, L’Orchidee D’Hawai @ Alex’s Bar, Long Beach
THURSDAY MAR 11TH, 2010
Slow Club @ Spaceland, $10, (21yrs+)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Whigs @ The Echoplex, $25, 18yrs+
Thee Ohsees, 400 Blows, Baths @ Nomad Warehouse
- The Cave Singers, The Dutchess And The Duke, The Moondoggies @ The Echo, $12, 18yrs+
- Beliss, Ora Cogan, Amanda Jo Williams, Fort King @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
- Jason Heath & The Greedy Souls, Fire Bug, Seasons, Torches in Trees @ Garden Party (209 S Garey St. LA 90012)
- Hear Gallery Presents Go West Young Man, Satellite Crush, Dreamers, Lexicondon @ 5 Star Bar, FREE, 18yrs+
- Kevin Earnest, Alex Kemp, Pilot Whale @ Silverlake Lounge, $8, (21yrs+)
- So Cow, Battlehooch, Christmas Island, Judgement Day @ The Smell, $5, All Ages
- The New Mastersounds, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue @ El Rey Theatre
- Dawes, Cory Chiesel & The Wandering Sons, Jason Boesel @ Troubadour
- Jim Bianco, Joey Ryan @ Hotel Cafe
- Miles Kurosky (Ex Beulah) @ Amoeba, 7pm, FREE
- An Evening With the Watson Twins @ Largo, $25
- Spindrift, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians @ The Prospector Long Beach
FRIDAY MAR 12TH, 2010
Crystal Antlers @ The Grace First Presbyterian Church, Long Beach, All Ages
Echo & Club Underground Present Sleepy Sun, Slang Chickens @ The Echo, $10, 18yrs+
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Whigs @ The Echoplex, $25, 18yrs+
- Quasi, Explode Into Colors, The French Semester @ Spaceland, $14, (21yrs+)
- Amps For Christ, Cabeza De Vaca Arkestra + The Live Soundtrack of Parallax @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
CGT Mouse’s Birthday Show! w/ Stoned At Heart, Jack Wilson Jr., Downtown/Union @ pehrspace, $5, All Ages
Pack AD, Symbol Six, The Muertones @ The Redwood Bar (21yrs+)
- The Diamond Light, The Gasoline Angels, Megasapien @ The Unknown Theatre, $10, All Ages
- Killing Spree (Bar Night) w/ Djs Black Rainbow, Gibby Miller, Zane Is Trouble, Carlorossi @ Two Headed Horse
Holly Miranda, Yellow Red Sparks @ Bootleg, $10
Anna Oxygen, Broken Water, Happy Prescriptions, Dunes @ The Smell, $5, All Ages
- Adolescents, Youth Brigade @ El Rey Theatre
- CONTROL present M.A.N.D.Y. & Felix Cartal (Record Release Party) @ Avalon Hollywood
- The Happy Hollows, The Veils, Twilight Sleep @ The Troubadour
- Little Boots, Dragonette, Class Actress @ The Glass House, Pomona, $15, All Ages
- Carrie Newcomer @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop, $17.50
- Truth Salvage Company w/ The Parson Red Heads, Basia Bulat @ Hotel Cafe
- Zac Brown Band @ Gibson Amphitheatre
SATURDAY MAR 13TH, 2010
You Say Party We Say Die, White Arrows @ The Echoplex, $14, 18yrs+
The Fresh And Onlys, Wounded Lion, Surf City, Pivot @ Spaceland, $10, (21yrs+)
IHRNR + Wendo Present Hunx & His Punkettes, Shannon & The Clams, Audacity, Dunes @ 622 N. Ave 54, Highland Park, $5, Free Beer provided by Colt 45
- Funky Sole (CLUB NIGHT) @ The Echo, FREE, (21yrs+)
- Extra Life, Jesus Makes The Shotgun Sound, Halloween Swim Team, + Guests @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
- La Ghost, The Health Club, Cosmonauts, Black Elephant (ex AM) @ pehrspace, $5, All Ages
- Aaron Anderson & Eric Carlson (ex Hardland/Heartland) Acid Wreath and the Post-Everything Melted Brain Mess /M/Negalith All La LA Land: Beyond the Dead End @ Synchronicity, $5, All Ages
- Chop Tops, Los Duggans, Sawyer Family, Hard Fall Hearts, Seven 40 Seven @ The Redwood Bar (21yrs+)
- Choir Of Young Believers, Great Northern @ Bootleg, $8
- Death Sentence: Panda!, Auto Da Fe, Foot Village, The Urxed @ The Smell, $5, All Ages
- Vinicio Capossela, Sara Lov @ El Rey Theatre
- Matthew Good, Automatic Love Letter @ The Troubadour
- The Franks @ Origami Vinyl, Free, 7PM
- HARD13 with Fake Blood, Jack Beats, Boy 8-Bit, and DESTRUCTO @ Club Nokia
- Lucy Kaplansky @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop, $20
- Watson Twins @ Fingerprints, Long Beach FREE, ALL AGES
- Athlete @ Hotel Cafe
- E-40 @ The Key Club
- The English Beat @ The Roxy
- A Sunny Day in Glasgow w/ Pollyn + George Sarah @ The Mint
- Toad The Wet Sprocket @ The Galaxy Theater, Santa Ana
- Saturday Night At The Getty: The Living Sisters @ Harold M Williams Auditorium
- FMLY Ride w/ Entrance Band, 60 watt kid, Neon Navajo, Rumspringa, @ McWorld – see link for details http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=292806724718&ref=ts
Repeater, Seaspin, Useless Keys, Dietra Kruschev @ The Prospector, Long Beach
SUNDAY MAR 14TH, 2010
Broken Bells @ The Troubadour – SOLD OUT
The Swell Season @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop, SOLD OUT
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Thousand Dozen Gloves @ The Echoplex, $25, 18yrs+
- Sabertooth Tiger, Memory, Tremellow, Mumiy Troll @ Spaceland, $5, (21yrs+)
- Aussie BBQ 2010 w/ The Chevelles, City Riots, Crayon Fields, Goons of Doom, Dappled Cities, Cassette Kids, Sherlock’s Daughter @ The Echo, Day Show, $15, All Ages
- Kidrockers w/ Watson Twins + Special Guests @ The Echoplex, 1PM, $12, All Ages
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Thousand Dozen Gloves @ The Echoplex, $25, 18yrs+
- Part Time Punks w/ Blessure Grave, Twin Crystals, Random Cuts @ The Echo, $5, 18yrs+
- Gun Outfit, Dunes, Residual Echoes, So Many Wizards @ Echo Curio, $5, All Ages
- Pill Wonder, 60 Watt Kid, Queen Victoria and Ezra Buchla @ Synchronicity, $5, All Ages
- Real Vocal String Quartet, Alicia Jo Rabins @ Bootleg, $15
- Beaches, Love Of Diagrams, Sun Araw @ The Smell, $5, All Ages
- Darker My Love @ The Prospector
Broken Bells @ The Troubadour – SOLD OUT
