Kevin Bronson on August 21st, 2011

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It’s a good day to get off to an early start:

‣ The Gourmet Music Carnival – part food fair, part flea market and part music festival – goes off at Los Angeles State Historic part from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., with Letting Up Despite Great Faults, Walking Sleep, Francisco the Man and Mad Planet among the bands performing. Set times here.
‣ Sparta’s Jim Ward (pictured) headlines the Satellite behind his solo release “Quiet in the Valley, On the Shores the End Begins & the Electric Six,” recently previewed here.
‣ Irish post-rockers God Is an Astronaut visit the Troubadour.
‣ Tyrone Wells, along with Michael Grimm (“America’s Got Talent”) and L.A. rock bands Of Verona and Satellite, highlight “An Evening of Independence” at the Ford Amphitheatre.
‣ And this is liable to be a cool thing: Local band Black Flamingo will do a set of Cocteau Twins covers tonight at Part Time Punks at the Echo.

Also:

Sade and John Legend at Staples Center
Rose’s Pawn Shop and the Get Down Boys at Grand Ole Echo at the Echo (5 p.m.)
Kenan Bell at Hemingway’s
Zachary Ross at the Mint
Stacey Earle at McCabe’s

Photo by Zach Passero