Kevin Bronson on December 8th, 2012

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‣ The first night of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas goes off at the Gibson Amphitheatre, with Garbage and AWOLNATION reprising their performances at May’s Weenie Roast, and Rise Against, Bush, the Lumineers, Walk The Moon, the Gaslight Anthem, Slightly Stoopid, Two Door Cinema Club and Youngblood Hawke also joining in. Set times.
‣ Live performances by the Gaslamp Killer and Morri$ kick off a night called The Zoo at the Central SAPC; Dam-Funk and Sun Araw join in with DJ sets.
‣ YACHT celebrates 10 years as a band with a show at the Echoplex. That’s their video for “I Walked Alone,” above.
‣ And the Ross Sea Party, their album “Hotel Pool” recently out, heads up a local at the Bootleg Bar that includes Y LUV and Zak Waters.

Also:

Turbo Fruits at Los Globos
James Supercave, Hosannas and L.A. Girlfriend at the Satellite
Boyce Avenue, Tyler Hilton and Megan Nicole at Club Nokia
Borgore, Schoolboy and Kennedy Jones at the Fonda Theatre
Cosmic Gate, Cary Brothers and W&W at the Palladium
Roy Hargrove Quintet at the Catalina Bar & Grill
The Danes at the Virgil
The Brixtones, Natalie Smith and Hilary Parkin at El Cid
Uncle Daddy, Jesse Woods, Ruthanne, the Walcotts and the Ragged Jubilee at the Hotel Café
Bonnie Bishop at the Mint
World/Inferno Friendship Society, O’Death and Bobby Joe Ebola at the Troubadour
Candy For Coal, Joshua Ketchmark, Stonefeather, Absence of a Hero and Relentless Nation at the Roxy Theatre
Danni Rouge at the Roxy: On the Rox
Sister Rogers and Destani Wolf at the Del Monte Speakeasy
Signal Hill and the Littlest Viking at Pehrspace
David Wax Museum at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
Zachary James at the Redwood Bar
The Section Quartet at the Edye Space at the Broad Stage
Lindsay Rae Spurlock at Room 5
Gram Rabbit and the Abigails (acoustic) at the Cobraside warehouse sale (3639 San Fernando Rd., Glendale)
Mammoth Thunderpower, Sleeping Sea King, Koresh and Bombay Snakes at the Detroit Bar
West of Texas, Damngivers, Sam Outlaw, Willie Cash & the Cashiers and the Copycats at Alex’s Bar
Bloc Party and Dum Dum Girls at the Observatory
Saul Hernandez at the House of Blues Anaheim
Dennis Quaid and the Sharks at the Coach House
Craze, AC Slater, Harvard Bass, Flinch and GTA at the Fox Theater Pomona