Dirty Projectors play with the La Philharmonic Saturday Feb 27th!

Another week of shows down….another one begins!!!!

Busy week ahead for shows in the southland. Dinosaur Jr. will be playing a FREE show at The Troubadour on Tuesday. Better camp out early less ye not get in. Also Dirty Projectors will be returning to Los Angeles to perform a special event with the LA Philharmonic Orchestra at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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MONDAY FEB. 22nd, 2010

Tommy Santee Klaws, Gamble House, Fort Wife, Regrets and Brunettes, Italian Japanese @ Silverlake Lounge – FREE (21yrs+)

- Sean Carnage Presents Nicole Kidman Ellie Fortune Mason Lindahl Subtle Selves @ Pehrspace – $5 All Ages
- Red Arrow Messenger, The Damn Sons, United By Sound @ Bootleg – FREE (21yrs+)
- Useless Keys, Free Energy, Boxviolet, Repeater @ The Echo – FREE (21yrs+)

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 23rd, 2010

Dinosaur Jr. @ Troubadour – FREE SHOW FIRST COME FIRST SERVED! (All Ages)

Glacier Hiking, Haim, Kitten, Go West Young Man @ The Echo – $5 with RSVP (18yrs+)
Free Energy, The Mystery Lights, The Blank Tapes, Early Dolphin @ Spaceland (21yrs+)

- Blessed Deep, Puppies and Kittens, Garbaj Kaetz @ Echo Curio – $5 All Ages
- Roll The Tanks, Bill Clark Star Vehicle, Oh The Spanish Moss, Torches In Trees @ Silverlake Lounge – $7 (21yrs+)
- Ferraby Lionheart, Leslie & The Badgers, Charlie Wadhams, All Spots To Black @ Bootleg – FREE (21yrs+)
- Mariah Carey @ Gibson Ampitheatre
- Butch Walker Album Release Show @ Hotel Cafe

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24th, 2010

Goldspot @ Hotel Cafe

- Elaine’s Hella Hipster Hoedown w/ Manhattan Murdery Mystery, Mystery Lights, Hi Ho Silver Oh, The Shade, The Layabouts @ Echo Curio – $5 All Ages
- Sarah Burton, Faye Blais, Rob Laufer @ Silverlake Lounge – $8 (21yrs+)
- Nicole Simone, Penelope Fortier, Sonus Quartet @ Bootleg – $10 (21yrs+)
- Oliver Future, Jesus Makes The Shotgun Sound, Queen Kwong @ The Echo (18yrs+)
- Dub Club @ The Echoplex
-  Club NME w/ Dan Black @ Spaceland
- The Rescues, Lucy Schwartz @ The Troubadour (All Ages)
- Mariah Carey @ Gibson Amphitheatre
- Hollyboots, New Clear Child, AXIS @ Mr. T’s Bowl
- Spider Problem, Peg Leg Love, The Crystelles, and The Choke @ 5 Stars Bar

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25th, 2010

Andrew Lynch, The Section Quartet, Downtown/Union, Eagle & Talon @ The Echo – $5 (18yrs+)
Down & Derby Roller Disco @ The Echoplex

Visqueen, Bear Hands, Adam Bones @ Spaceland (21yrs+)

- City of Progress, Whqles, Water and Power, Wrag and Bone, and Cousins @ Synchronicity Space – $5 All Ages
- Ellie Fortune, Mason Lindhal, Featherbeard, Jeffertiti’s Nile @ Echo Curio – $5 Al Ages
- Cheese On Bread, Diamonds Under Fire @ Silverlake Lounge – $8 (21yrs+)
-Spring Summer, Audra Mae, Senator & The New Republic @ Bootleg – $8 (21yrs+)
- Pancho and Sancho, Fish Circus, Leave it Alone, Full Force Rising @ The Troubadour (All Ages)
- Cheap Trick @ House Of Blues Sunset
- The Icarus Line @ The Roxy
- The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Nico Vega, ONCE @ The Glass House, Pomona
- Jim Bianco, Joey Ryan @ Hotel Cafe
- Fuck-Ass and the Greese Patrol, Wicked Relish, Venus Envy, Little Baby Justice, The Lazy Stalkers  @ Mr. T’s Bowl

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26th, 2010

Strange Boys, Chain and the Gang, Neverever @ The Echo – $10 (18yrs+)
Trannyshack @ The Echoplex

Memory Tapes @ Spaceland – $10 (21yrs+)

- The Damselles, HoneyHoney @ Casey’s Downtown
- la-underground Presents Timonium Silian Rail Summer Darling Powerdove @ pehrspace – $5 All Ages
- Dramaturgy presents The Downtown Train, Tricky Sizzler, Ralpheene, Spring Queen @ Echo Curio – $5 All Ages
- The Haters, Sissy Spacek, Gerrit Wittmer & Paul Knowles, AMK @ The Smell – $5 All Ages
- Eric D. Johnson, Breathe Owl Breathe, Leslie & The Badgers, Shakey Graves @ Bootleg – $10
- We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Lonely Forest, Bear Hands @ The Troubadour (All Ages)
- Bon Jovi @ The Grove, Anaheim
- Joni Mitchell’s “The Fiddle and The Drum” @ Royce Hall, UCLA

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27th, 2010

Dirty Projectors (with Los Angeles Philharmonic) @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Mike Watt and The Missing Men @ The Redwood Bar

Jason Mraz (Solo Acoustic) @ The Long Beach Terrace Theatre

- Las Quince Letras Blue Jungle Manhattan Murder Mystery @ pehrspace – $5 All Ages
- Bipolar Bear, Residual Echoes, Neverever, Twisted Stars @ The Smell – $5 All Ages
- Matinee show w/ Elephant Micah, Power Dove @ Echo Curio – $5 All Ages (3pm to 5pm)
- Pangea, God Equals Genocide, Moses Campbell, @ Echo Curio – $5 All Ages
- Corridor + Estelle Raskina @ Origami Vinyl – 7pm – FREE!
- Brunch with The Mother Hips @ Origami Vinyl – Noon – FREE!
- Astra Heights, The Romany Rye, Melon Sun, Jeffertiti’s Nile @ Bootleg – $10 (21yrs+)
- Four Tet, Nathan Fake, Active Child @ The Echoplex
- Funk Sole (CLUB NIGHT) @ The Echo
- Scout Niblett, Dirt Dress @ Spaceland – $10 (21yrs+)
- Zee Avi, AM @ The Troubadour (All Ages)
- Kinky @ Luckman Fine Arts Complex
- Bon Jovi @ The Grove, Anaheim
- Goodie Mob @ Club Nokia
- Evan Dando @ Hotel Cafe
- Emily Wells, Money Mark @ Getty Center

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 28th, 2010

Pehr and Space Waves Booking present: Tenlons Fort, Elephant Micah, Miniature Soap, Ben and Bruno @ pehrspace – $5 All Ages
Scream, The Holloys @ The Echo (EARLY SHOW) 6pm $10 (All Ages)

- Anarchist Cafe presents Azatlan Underground, Subsistenzia, Guerrilla Queenz, In Lak Ech, Plus Yoga Class, Vegan Food, Workshops, Poets, Anarchist Dating Game, Theatrical Play, and much more. @ The Smell – 1pm-8pm
- The Macaroons, Storytimefunland @ The Echo – NOON (All Ages)
- Part Time Punk Smiths/Morrisey Night @ The Echo
- Neil Hamburger @ Spaceland – $8 (21 yrs+)
- Josh Turner with Peter Brandon @ Club Nokia
- Angela McCluskey @ Hotel Cafe

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Free Energy – Something In Common

Leslie & The Badgers – Los Angeles

TRACKS JUST BECAUSE WE LIKE ‘EM

Superhumanoids – Cranial Contest

So Many Wizards – Yellow Hands

The Franks – Ray Gunn Radio

Hello everyone!

I hope you are having a lovely President’s day in your respective neck of the woods. It’s absolutely GORGEOUS in Los Angeles today and shaping up to be an amazing week of shows!!

Lots of free concerts this week including Wearedios CD release show at The Troubadour Tuesday night with The Henry Clay People and Signals (Ex Mae-Shi). With all that extra cash why not pick up Wearedios new album #3 which is FABULOUS. I do believe it is their best album yet.

TICKET GIVEAWAYS!

Recent Matador signees Harlem bring their jangly rock n’ roll to SoCal this week for two shows. Want to win tickets to see them live this Saturday Feb. 20th at Spaceland? Click here to enter.

Imaad Wasif wraps up his residency at Spaceland this Thursday February 18th with a bang. Lou Barlow (Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh) with The Missingmen, and Avi Buffalo will support. Click here to enter to win a pair of tickets.

And finally our show(s) of the week: FYF Fest is bringing Cold Cave back to Southern California for two shows with Best Coast, and Smith Westerns! Avi Buffalo will also play the Pomona show on Feb. 17th. Click here to enter to win tickets to both shows. We’re giving away 9 pairs of tickets!!

Did we forget any shows? Add to the hype machine! Feel free to send us an email to tonightinla@rockinsider.com.

xoxo
JAX – ROCK INSIDER
AKA THE MANAGEMENT

MONDAY FEB. 15TH, 2010

Princeton, Le Switch, Wade Ryff & Friends, Adam Stern @ Spaceland – FREE (21yrs+)

Gamble House, Horse Stories, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, La Font @ Silverlake Lounge – FREE (21yrs+)

- Useless Keys, Aushua, We Barbarians, Science @ The Echo – FREE (21yrs+)
- Red Arrow Messenger, Maxim Ludwig, He’s My Brother She’s My Sister @ Bootleg – FREE (21yrs+)
- Arrington De Dionyso’s Malaikat Dan Singa (Old Time Relijun), Emily Lacy, Whoa Hunx, Peg Leg Love @ L’Keg Gallery – $5 (All Ages)
- Sean Carnage Presents Foot Ox, French Quarter, Kevin Greenspon, W.H.I.T.E. @ pehrspace – $5 (All Ages)
- New Music Monday with Peter Weiss, Josh Kilnghoffer, Black Church @ Echo Curio – $5 (All Ages)
- Teddy Thompson @ Largo at the Coronet
- Ruby Friedman Orchestra, Sally Jaye, Melineh Kurdian, Driftwood Reunion Band @ Hotel Cafe

TUESDAY FEB. 16TH, 2010

Wearedios, The Henry Clay People, Signals @ Troubadour – FREE (All Ages)

Mia Doi Todd, Becky Stark, Farmer Dave Scher, DJ Frosty @ Spaceland

Aquarium Drunkard presents Magic Kids, Pearl Harbour, Dunes @ The Echo – $10 (All Ages)

- Ollin, Las Cafeteras, Mentritas, upground @ The Echoplex – $12 (18yrs+)
- Cheese on Bread, Royalchord, Big Whup @ Echo Curio – $5 (All Ages)
- An Evening With Rickie Lee Jones @ The Vista Theatre – $30 (All Ages)
- Roll The Tanks, Hungry Angry Baby, Hello Dragon, Vanish Valley @ Silverlake Lounge – $7 (21yrs+)
- Ferraby Lionheart, The Sweet Hurt, John Gold, Dough Rollers @ Bootleg – FREE (21yrs+)
- Alkaline Trio, Cursive @ Glass House in Pomona
- Los Lonely Boys, Alejandro Escovedo, Carrie Rodriguez @ House of Blues
- Lissie, Jay Nash @ Hotel Cafe

WEDNESDAY FEB. 17TH, 2010

Cold Cave, Avi Buffalo, Smith Westerns, Best Coast @ The Glass House Pomona $10 (All Ages ) [CLICK HERE TO WIN TICKETS]

- The Watson Twins, Deep Sea Diver, Daisy McCrakin @ Bootleg – $10 (21yrs+)
- Old Man Markley, The Pine Box Boys @ The Echo- $10 (18yrs+)
- Low End Theory Club: Shlohmo, Ernest Gonzales,Sodapop @ Airliner
- Arrington De Dionyso’s Malaikat Dan Singa, Corey Fogel, Infinite Body, Kevin Greenspon @ Echo Curio – $5 (All Ages)
- Club NME: Oh My Stars, Curtains For You, Summer Obsession, I Hate Kate @ Spaceland ($5)
- Dub Club @ The Echoplex (21yrs+)
- Under the Asbury, Joshua Norton, Mason Reed @ Silverlake Lounge – $8 (21yrs+)
- Bob Schneider, Smile Smile @ The Troubadour
- Alkaline Trio, Cursive, The Dear & Departed @ House of Blues Sunset – All Ages
- Austin Hartley Leonard, Caitlin Crosby, Matt Hires, Jason Castro, Reni Lane @ Hotel Cafe
-The Here After Is Here, An American Starlet, Last American Buffalo @ 3 of Clubs

THURSDAY FEB. 18TH, 2010

Imaad Wasif, Lou Barlow & The Missing Men, Avi Buffalo @ Spaceland – $7 (21yrs+) [CLICK HERE TO ENTER TO WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS]

Cold Cave, Best Coast, Smith Westerns @ The Echoplex – $12 (All Ages) [CLICK HERE TO ENTER TO WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS]

- Fanfarlo @ Amoeba (Free)
- Crooked Cowboy & the Freshwater Indians, Cairo Gang, Johnny O’Donnel and Famous Players, John Webster Johns @ The Echo
- Random Patterns, Alpine Decline + special guests @ Synchronicity Space – $5 (All Ages)
- Mother Turf, The Boy, Tubby Boots @ L’Keg Gallery – $5 (All Ages)
- Shoenberg Knife Fight Ensemble Record Release, Matthew Teardrop, Seasons, Garbaj Kaetz @ Echo Curio – $5 (All Ages)
- A Solo Acoustic Evening with Chris Shiflett of Foo Fighters, Audra Mae @ LaBrie’s
- Rare Grooves (ex-members of The Widow Babies) Black Elephant (ex-members of A.M.). TraPsPs, The Happy Hollows @ The Smell – $5 (All Ages)
- See Green. Ives The Band, Audrey Ryan @ Silverlake Lounge – $8 (21yrs+)
- John Butler Trio, Charlie Mars @ The Troubadour – SOLD OUT
- Medeski Martin & Wood @ El Rey
- Wartime Blues, La Font, Linda Vista, David Shane Smith @ Mr. T’s Bowl

FRIDAY FEB. 19TH, 2010

Ancestors, Black Math Horseman, Intronaut, Mountains of California @ Spaceland – $8 (21yrs+)

Harlem (Texas), Audacity, Blue Jungle, Cobalt Cranes, Cosmonauts @ L’Keg Gallery – $5 (All Ages)

- Earthless / Tweak Bird / Year Long Disaster @ Detroit Bar
- C-Horse, The Lonsome Heroes, Rocking Horse People, The Terrapin @ Echo Curio – $5 (All Ages)
- KRS-One @ The Roxy
- Club Underground Fitz and the Tantrums, Pop Noir @ The Echo – $8 (18yrs+)
- howardAmb, Vaginals, Farraday Trippers + Sleepwalkers Local, Missincinatti, and LA Fog @ Synchronicity Space – $5 (All Ages)
- Old Toy Trains, Jubilee Singers, Subtle Selves @ pehrspace – $5 (All Ages)
- The Damselles, Insect Surfers, Reigning Monarchs @ Casey’s Downtown
- I promote good bands presents Radars To The Sky, One Trick Pony, – Mississippi Man, Rademacher @ The Echoplex – $10 (18yrs+)
- Tera Melos. All Leather (members of The Locust and Some Girls from SD), F’N A! @ The Smell – $5 (All Ages)
- Danny Chaimson & The 11th Hour @ Home Restaurant – $10
- Randy Newman @ Royce Hall
- John Brion @ Largo
- StirFry and the Hammerheads, Research Society, Six/&/Julian, The Franks, Tracy Dean and Jesus @ Mr. T’s Bowl

SATURDAY FEB. 20TH, 2010

Harlem, Dante vs. Zombies, J Worthington Foulfellows @ Spaceland – $8 (21yrs+) [CLICK HERE TO ENTER TO WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS]

Andrew Bird @ Bovard Auditorium at USC

The Entrance Band, Lights, Pocahaunted @ Bootleg – $15 (18yrs+)

- Brendan Benson, Frank Fairfield @ Troubadour
- MUSINK: The Damned, The Buzzcocks, The Head Cat, Jim Rose @ OC Fair & Event Center
- Chuck Dukowski Sextet, Insect vs. Robots, The Shrine, Voodoo Merchant @ Echo Curio – $5 (All Ages)
- Conspiracy of Beards: 30 Piece Leonard Cohen Choral Tribute @ The Mint
- Fantastica Bastidas, Peg Leg Love, The Health Club, The Crystelles @ L’Keg Gallery – $5 (All Ages)
- The Eternal Triangle, Seasons, George Glass, Magick Orchids, The Transmissions @ pehrspace – $5 (All Ages)
- FUNK SOLE (Club Night) @ The Echo – FREE
-Wet & Reckless, Wild Yaks, The 1921A, Cosio @ The Redwood Bar – $10 (21yrs+)
-Tinariwen @ Royce Hall
-VOICEsVOICEs (as Gold Ether) @ Origami Vinyl
-Fanfarlo, April Smith & The Great Picture Show @ El Rey

SUNDAY FEB. 21ST, 2010

Sloan, Taylor Locke & The Roughs, The World Record @ King King – $15 (21yrs+)
- Kicking Skunk, David Lee Paulson (AKA Minions), Duality @ Echo Curio – $5 (All Ages)
- Hell Ya! Night @ Spaceland
- Mirah, Rachel Cantu, Morgan Meyn @ Bootleg – $14 (21yrs+)
- Lemon Sun, The Secret 6 @ Alex’s Bar ($5)
- White Lung (Vancouver, B.C.), Nu Sensae (Vancouver, B.C.), Friendly Neighbors, NASA Space Universe @ The Smell – $5 (All Ages)
- Part Time Punks Factory Records Night @ The Echo
- Ray Wylie Hubbard, Amy Speace @ McCabe’s

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Cold Cave – Life Magazine

Smith Westerns – Imagine, Pt. 3

Best Coast – The Sun Was High (And So Was I)

Avi Buffalo – What’s In It For?

Harlem – Friendly Ghost 

Farmer Dave Scher – Bab’lone Nights 

Wearedios – Stare At Wheel 

The Henry Clay People – Something In The Water 

The Happy Hollows – High Wire 

Pearl Harbor – Luv Goon

Imaad Wasif – Priestess

Lissie – Everywhere I Go 

Audacity – Teenage Town 

Cobalt Cranes – Freak Out

Princeton – Calypso Gold

Gamble House – Central Park

Want to win tickets to see Cold Cave, Avi Buffalo, Best Coast, and Smith Westerns at The Glass House in Pomona next Wednesday Feb 17th? WE’RE GIVING AWAY 7 PAIRS OF TICKETS!!!!!!!!

This lineup is so good its totally worth the 30 minute drive from LA.

Don’t want to drive? We’re also giving away two pairs of tickets to see Cold Cave at The Echoplex on the 18th! To win those you’ll have to be extra special in my eyes…

Tickets are also available through ticketfly for just $10!

TO ENTER BOTH CONTESTS CLICK HERE! WINNERS WILL BE NOTIFIED VIA E-MAIL!

[Stream] Brian Wilson – Southern California

There is nothing I love more than hooking up a devoted reader with limited edition FREE SHIT.

Today’s free shit tops the wedding cake. We’re giving away a copy of Brian Wilson‘s “That Lucky Old Sun” on limited-edition 180-gram vinyl along with a 7″ vinyl single of “Midnight’s Another Day.”

I think most people know by now that I’m kind of fanatic about vinyl. Trust me. If Cornerstone Promotions would have sent these pieces straight to my house I would be keeping them for myself!!

To enter simply answer the trivia question below:

Q. What year was Wilson indicted into the Rock Hall Of Fame?

Send the answer in an email with your full name and mailing address to jax@rockinsider.com. Please be sure to put BRIAN WILSON SWAG in the subject line.