Kevin Bronson on September 23rd, 2016

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Friday’s Los Angeles concerts:

► Jane’s Addiction’s 25th anniversary show brings the Cult, Garbage and Violent Femmes to the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre.
► Day 1 of the inaugural Music Tastes Good festival in downtown Long Beach is highlighted by Rival Sons, RX Bandits, Living Colour and Son Little.
► Cold War Kids headline the Hollywood Palladium, supported by the Strumbellas.
► Twin Shadow performs Prince’s “Purple Rain” in its entirety at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
► Band of Skulls rock the Wiltern in support of their new album “By Default.”
► The Desert Stars Festival kicks off at Pappy & Harriet’s, headed up by And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Moon Duo, Strawberry Alarm Clock and Sloan.
► Dinosaur Jr. is back for another night at the Teragram Ballroom.
► And Crystal Castles visit the Fonda Theatre behind their new album “Amnesty (!), with Guidance opening.

Also:

Duke Dumont at the Novo
Paper Pilots, Corbu and Madeira at the Satellite
Foy Vance and Trevor Sensor at the Troubadour
The Black Heartthrobs, the Velopheliacs and more at the Lost Knight
Royal Canoe and Yip Yops at the Hi Hat
Ozzfest Meets Knotfest with Black Sabbath, Disturbed, Megadeth, Opeth and more at the San Manuel Amphitheater
Grupo Fantasma, Buyepongo and Here Lies Man at the El Rey Theatre
Luke Bryan at the Forum
Young Dubliners at the Rose
Ottmar Liebert at the Saban Theatre
NOTS, Batwings Catwings and French Vanilla at Resident
Share Lions at the Bootleg Theater
Cockeyed Ghost, Dragsterbarbie and Superbean at the Silverlake Lounge
Oliver Twist & the Shouts, Negro Galacticus, Canto and Jurassic Shark at the Smell
Minimall, Windward Flyer, the Brite Sides and Mostly Kosher at El Cid
Matt Wertz and Josh Kelley at the Hotel Café
Sara Niemietz, Venus & the Moon and the Battlefield at the Hotel Café Second Stage
Joey Supratta & Ttereve, Seriate Collective, PhLi Cargo and lowrcasegod at the Mint
Thirdstory and LOLO at the Roxy Theatre
Futuristic, Beez, Shy Grey and J. Rob the Chief at the Roxy Theatre (Late Show)
Professor Colombo, Puscie Jones Revue and Addie Hamilton at the Viper Room
Look Park at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
Metalachi, Harmful If Swallowed, Glen & the Sunshine Gang and Black Lagoon at Saint Rocke
Josh & Kira at Saint Rocke (Happy Hour)
The Expendables and Tribal Theory at the Glass House
Shark Toys, Traps PS and Rexx at Acerogami
A Tribe Called Red at the Wayfarer
Die Antwoord at the Observatory
Nothing But Thieves at the Constellation Room
Octonauts at the Fox Performing Arts Center (Early Kids Show)
Daniel Amat at the Scherr Forum Theatre
Delta Rae, Kristin Diable and David Rosales at the Coach House
Tower of Power at the Fairplex at Pomona
Youth Brigade, the Grim and Mothers of Dissension at the Garage
Durand Jones & the Indications at Mrs. Fish
Space Hurricane, the 131ers, Reverse Order and Missing Sibling at the Redwood Bar
The Bognar Brothers and Gregg Lee Henry at Genghis Cohen
Spindrift, Insect Surfers, M-Squad and Federale at Cafe NELA
Intergalactix, the Diamond Light and more at HM157
Inger Lorre (of the Nmyphs), Backbiter and Electric Children at the Maui Sugar Mill
Missing Persons at the Canyon
Benise at the Fred Kavli Theatre
The “Lost” Concert, with music by Michael Giacchino, at the Ford Amphitheatre