Kevin Bronson on June 28th, 2012

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Here are your Thursday things:

‣ Indie hip-hop standout El-P visits Check Yo Ponytail at the Echoplex behind his first solo album in five years, “Cancer for Cure,” joined by Killer Mike and more.
‣ U.K. funk-soul outfit the Heavy, with its third album “The Glorious Dead” coming in August [here’s a sample], plays the Bootleg Bar supported by the Skins and Wake Up Lucid.
‣ Justin Townes Earle, touring in support of his March release “Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now,” headlines the El Rey Theatre, with Tristen opening.
‣ Great free show at the Levitt Pavilion in Pasadena featuring the Watson Twins and Jesse Sykes.
‣ And KCRW music director Jason Bentley and Jeremy Sole DJ at the “Hammer Bash,” a night at the Hammer Museum celebrating the kickoff of the institution’s exhibition “Made in L.A. 2012.”³

Also:

Josh Groban at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
Grant Lee Buffalo and Tommy Santee Klaws at Echo
Beat Club, Lovers Drugs and the Active Set at the Satellite
Mariah MacManus at the Hotel Café
Magic Mirror and the Bixby Knolls at Harvard & Stone
Standing Hawthorn, Deccatree and Social Scruff at the Constellation Room
Sucker for Pumps, Great White Buffalo, Dandelo, Pony and Reb Kennedy at the Troubadour
Dukes of September at the Gibson Amphitheater
Marillion at the House of Blues Hollywood
Kenny Burrell Quintet at the Catalina Bar and Grill
School of Rock Allstars at the Echo
Kyle McNeill & the Stumble and Scott Ryan & Thunderbeast at El Cid
Religious Girls, Unstoppable Death, Batwings Catwings and Stab City at Pehrspace
Nathan Picard, Delta, Gone Dada and Joe Taylor at the Mint
Jim Huff, Willie’s Nerve Clinic and the Bad Bad Things at the Hard Rock Café
Kady Z, Matt Shockley, Tommy & the High Pilots and Sara Skinner at the Roxy
Midnight Apache, Matt Mann & the Shine Runners, Bunny West and Thunder From Heaven at On the Rox
Guardian Ghost at the Viper Room
He’s My Brother, She’s My Sister, Tumbleweed Wanderers and Nick Shattuck at Saint Rocke
Blackwater Jukebox at TAix
Johnny Osborne, Spawnbreezy and Bushman at the Coach House
Foxxhound and Phil Connelly at the House of Blues Anaheim
Death Hymn Number 9, Dahga Bloom, the Shrills and GBMC at Alex’s Bar