[Birthday greetings go out today to Colin Meloy of the Decemberists ...]
Top 5 shows for your hand-holding urges and other date-night needs:
☛ Belle & Sebastian play at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, preceded by a screening of the movie “Trainspotting.”
☛ Australian folkies Angus & Julia Stone — who sold out three straight nights at Hollywood Forever back in May — headline the El Rey Theatre. (That’s their video for “Hold On,” above.)
☛ Jenny & Johnny (that’s Lewis & Rice, y’know) play the Troubadour.
☛ First Aid Kit, the medicine provided by Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg [yesterday's post], will be dispensed at the Echo, with Ferraby Lionheart opening
☛ And the inimitable Van Morrison visits the Greek Theatre.
Your tastes may vary: Talvin Singh and Ariana Delawari at the Echoplex; Slash at the House of Blues; Washed Out at Cinespace; Hexham Heads and Nightmare Air at Spaceland; Repeater and Box Violet the Silverlake Lounge; Anna Nalick and Emily Ebert at the Hotel Cafe; Black Cherry and New Kingdom at the Roxy; London to Tokyo and Many of Odd Nature at the Viper Room; Child Abuse and Bipolar Bear at the Smell; Roseanne Cash at the Grammy Museum; Hypnogaja at the Mint; and Alain Johannes’ 7 p.m. in-store at Amoeba.
