Your fantastic 1st of March:

‣ Hey, Jimmy Kimmel, you and Matt Damon are on the list: Morrissey and Patti Smith hold forth at Staples Center, winding up a week of anticipation and public relations adventures.
‣ Surfer Blood previews music off its forthcoming album “Pythons” (coming out this summer) at the Echo, with Grand Rapids opening.
‣ First Fridays at the Natural History Museum resumes with the Allah-Las and the Babies at First Fridays at the Natural History Museum
‣ Snowden returns in May with its first full-length since 2006 [see video for “The Beat Comes”]; songwriter Jordan Jeffares and mates headline the Satellite with support sets from L.A. duo the Donnies the Amys and Swedish post-rock band Immanu El, who were mighty impressive last fall when they played Culture Collide.
‣ And glammy power-pop quintet Free Energy rocks the Bootleg Bar, supported by Wake Up Lucid and the Chances.Also:

Morgan Page, Adrian Lux and Brazzabelle at Club Nokia
The Used at the Wiltern
Method Man at the Key Club
Dilated Peoples and Dumbfounded at the Roxy Theatre
Kishi Bashi, Shugo Tokumaru and Tall Tall Trees at the Troubadour
G. Love & Special Sauce at the House of Blues Hollywood
Caspian, Junius and Native at the Echoplex
R. Stevie Moore, Lake, Plateaus and Bouquet at the Smell
Irontom, Nona and the Janks at O’Brien’s in Santa Monica
Stella By Starlight at the Virgil
Young Empress, Ash Reiter, Familiar Haunts and Heathers at Pehrspace
Songs Preservation Society, Ari Hest, Goldenboy, the New Familiar, Philip Boone, Whiskerman and Jillette Johnson at the Hotel Café
Farzad Golpayegani, the Brothers Comatose and Ben Miller Band at the Mint
Matthew Teardrop, Malcolm Sosa, Joey Siara and more at Lot 1 Cafe
Elaine Faye at the Hard Rock Café Hollywood
Warner Drive, Queen Caveat, Gina & the Eastern Block and Tin Men at the Viper Room
The Shape, Kingdom Business, Mr. Good Day and Tracy Rappa & the Heat at the Roxy: On the Rox
Denny Seiwell Trio at Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club
Las Lavanderas at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk
Parokya Ni Edgar at the City National Grove of Anaheim
Oleta Adams at the Catalina Bar & Grill
SuperVision, Paul Basic and Hamm FM at the Central SAPC
Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
Haunted Summer and Avi Zahner Isenberg at Casey’s
Johnny O’Donnell and Jackson Tanner at Taix
The Spazmatics, Big Mess and Mic Dangerously at Saint Rocke
The White Buffalo at the Observatory
Electric Six at the Constellation Room
Super Diamond and Wayward Sons at the House of Blues Anaheim
David Lindley, Toulouse Engelhardt and the Delta 88s at the Coach House
Dennis DeYoung at the Fox Performing Arts Center
Willie Nelson at the Fantasy Springs Resort
Ms. Song Zu Ying at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall
Ambrosia at the Canyon
Gram Rabbit at Pappy & Harriets Pioneertown Palace
Michael Feinstein at the McCallum Theatre

Photo by Fabio Lovino