The Week Ahead: March 18-24
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Incoming: The Thermals, the Specials, Bajofondo, the Joy Formidable, Lianne La Havas, Chelsea Light Moving, Bernhoft, Black Francis, Imagine Dragons, Wavves, Charlotte Church, Reverend & the Makers, the Black Lips, the Spits, Matt Costa, Clutch, Doldrums, Christopher Owens, Burgerama, Anthrax, Django Django, 7 Lions, Jesca Hoop, Har Mar Superstar
Above:Â That’s Lianne la Havas‘ video for “Elusive.” It’s part of a two-part release with the other video being “Gone.” The folk-soul singer made a big splash at SXSW, and kicks off her U.S. tour this week in support of her debut “Is Your Love Big Enough?” She plays Tuesday and Wednesday at El Rey Theatre.
Our staff picks of the week:
@KRBronson recommends: There’s a ridiculously good slate of shows this week, and in a perfect world I’d bookend the workweek with the Thermals (whose new album “Desperate Ground” is coming in April and is a lock for my best-of-2013 list) and and Django Django (whose self-titled album was No. 2 on my list for 2012). The Thermals hit the Echoplex tonight; Django Django does the Fonda on Saturday.
@Seraphina_LÂ recommends: Many artists who played SXSW are making their way through the U.S. and one of the many includes Norway’s Bernhoft. A one-man show with his guitar, keys, vocal percussion all looped for some major soul melodies, Allen Stone will have to watch his back with Bernhoft (coming to the Hotel Cafe) on the rise.Â
After the jump, the week ahead:
Monday, March 18
The Thermals, Joyce Manor, Dunes and Death Hymn #9 at the Echoplex
The Specials and Little Hurricane at Club Nokia
Bajofondo at the Fonda Theatre
Hunter Hunted, the Black & the White and Big Harp at the Bootleg Bar
Harriet, HighasaKite, Drive He Said and Y Luv at the Echo
Alex Anwandter, Mitzi, Asgeir Trusti, Lovelife, Good Hurt (DJ set) at Bardot
Harper Simon, Willoughby, Henry Wolfe and Heather Porcarro at the Satellite
The Joy Formidable at the Observatory
Kenny Rogers at the McCallum Theatre
Josh Nelson and Jessie Palter at Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club
Mason South at the Federal Bar
Silver Phial, Lost & Found, the Bare Monads and Many Distant Cities at Los Globos
Turbo Lightning, Roses, Snakkes Dolphins ”˜n Shit, Sashcloth and Axes at pehrspace
Jason Joseph & the Spectacular, Naomi Greenwald and Nikki Leonti at the Hotel Café
Shaun DeGrass Trio, Xian & the Infidels and Jack Kovacs at the Mint
Anti-Flag, Dead To Me, Donots and Chotto Ghetto at the Troubadour
Dropdead L.A., Indigenous Robot, Bad With People, Heaven Below and Killset at the Viper Room
Steel Panther at the House of Blues Hollywood
King’s Road at the Central SAPC
The Abe Lincoln Story at Skinny’s
Kat at Saint Rocke
Mt. Ossa, Glorious Wondour and Pomar at the Detroit Bar
The Vespertines, Cherry Glazerr and the Aqua Dolls at the Constellation Room
Tuesday, March 19
Lianne La Havas and Jamie N Commons at the El Rey Theatre
Chelsea Light Moving, Grass Widow and Waxahatchee at the Echoplex
Bernhoft, Robert Francis, Marc Carroll, Cheers Elephant and Luke Sital-Singh at the Hotel Café
Ivan & Alyosha, Tall Tales & the Silver Lining and Daniel Ahearn & the Jones at the Echo
Ross Sea Party at Harvard & Stone
Black Francis and Kim Shattuck at the Mint
Josh Ritter & the Royal City Band and Lake Street Dive at the Fonda Theatre
Imagine Dragons at the House of Blues Anaheim
Kelsie Clark at Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club
Randy Emata at the Federal Bar
Harvard-Westlake Jazz Band at the Catalina Bar & Grill
Parade of Lights and Lots of Love at the Bootleg Bar
Thy Squid, the Vespertines, Plant Tribe and Rare Monk at the Silverlake Lounge
Heller Keller, G. Green, Wet Illustrated and Shark Toys at the Smell
AutoErotique, VCO and Bones at Dim Mak Studios
Glitter Rose at the Hard Rock Café Hollywood
D-A-D at the Whisky A Go Go
Anti-Flag, Dead To Me, Donots and Destruction Made Simple at the Troubadour
Everything Everything and Bombay Show Pig at the Roxy Theatre
Deep Pink, Sons of the Damned, Cave Underwater, lovelesslust and Jamie Thomas at the Viper Room
Back Bone, Café Con Tequila, Bad Apples, Cinco and Alianza Rebelde at the House of Blues Hollywood
The Black & the White, Y Luv and Of Verona at the Central SAPC
Pasole & the Pinstripes at Saint Rocke
Time & Energy, Evan Geesman and Temo Molina at the Detroit Bar
The Virgins, Har Mar Superstar and COLOR at the Constellation Room
Wednesday, March 20
The Specials and Little Hurricane at the Fox Theatre Pomona
Lianne La Havas and Jamie N Commons at the El Rey Theatre
Imagine Dragons at the Wiltern
Wavves, FIDLAR and Cheatahs at the Echo
Charlotte Church and Harper Blynn at the Troubadour
Faye and Madi Diaz at the Satellite
Bernhoft, Javier Dunn, David & Devine and Mind the Gap at the Hotel Café
Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) at the Belasco Theater
Black Lips at the Soho Restaurant and Music Club
Doldrums at the Constellation Room
Los Autenticos Decadentes at the Glass House
Dorothy Dale Kloss, Suzy Cadham and Ken Prescott at the Catalina Bar & Grill
Torn ACLs, the Ten Thousand, the Reminiscence and Modern Pantheist at the Silverlake Lounge
Cosmic Suckerpunch and Sam Chase at Harvard & Stone
Alexz Johnson, Charlene Kaye, Jay Stolar and Misty Boyce at the Mint
Jesse MacLeod at the Hard Rock Café Hollywood
Yukmouth and Rappin 4-Tay at the Whisky A Go Go
Reverend & the Makers and the Enemy at the Roxy Theatre
Icarus Landing, Nature By Numbers, Bullet & Snowfox, Capsolin and Haun Solo Project at the Viper Room
Echavox, Chelsey Sanchez, Pontea and Taylor Lane at the HOB Voodoo Lounge
Rey Fresco, Sunken Ships, Hinterlands and the Cannoneers at the Central SAPC
Joe Firstman and Zacc West at Saint Rocke
Vida Tina at the House of Blues Anaheim
Bob Schneider and Erick Macek at the Coach House
Thursday, March 21
The Joy Formidable, Guards and Fort Lean at the Fonda Theatre
Black Lips, Night Beats and Beach Party at the El Rey Theatre
Matt Costa, Carly Ritter and Sam Outlaw at the Troubadour
The Spits, Useless Eaters and Smelly Tongues at the Echoplex
Merchandise, Ducktails, Wet Hair and Mark McGuire at the Echo
Dustbowl Revival and Alpha/Beta at Harvard & Stone
Radar Brothers, the Young Dudes and Haunted Summer at Alex’s Bar
Andrew McMahon at the Observatory
Flyleaf, Drowning Pool and Papa J at the House of Blues Anaheim
Soul Jam and Atlantic Starr at the San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino
Kathryn Bostic at Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club
Jake Miller at Velvet Jones
Edie Carey at Genghis Cohen
Denny Seraphine at the Canyon
Har Mar Superstar, the Virgins and COLOR at the Bootleg Bar
Little Dawnee Frinta, A Different Animal, Zermatts, American Males and Creeps at the Silverlake Lounge
Rod Melancon and Chris Pickering at the Satellite
Whirr and Nothing at the Smell
Blind Date, Hotel Cinema, Holychild, Finish Ticket, the Last Royals, the Rubens and Gareth Asher at the Hotel Café
Johnny Hi-Fi, Lowly Spects, Anabot, the Neighborhood Bullys and HasKaLa at the Mint
Event Horizon, Eyeshine, Glitter Rose and RED9 at the Hard Rock Café Hollywood
Little Caesar at the Whisky A Go Go
Ionia, Strange Native, the Nearly Deads, Lakeview Drive, Otto the Dog and Big Red Beaver at the Roxy Theatre
Cusses, Cameron Carlo, Stereotype and the Dirty Diamond at the Viper Room
Ilza Rosario, Tarah Arnold and Morgan Lawson at the Codega Acoustic Lounge
Clutch, Orange Goblin, Lionize and Scorpion Child at the House of Blues Hollywood
Lee Boy Simpson and Brittany Davis at the HOB Voodoo Lounge
Lovelife and ROOM8 at the Central SAPC
Pimps of Joytime, Vokab Kompany and RnD at Saint Rocke
Jerry Garcia Band, Bus to Neptune and the Gospel Swamp Blues Band at the Coach House
Friday, March 22
Doldrums, Blue Hawaii and Sean Nicholas Savage at the Bootleg Bar
Citizens!, Lovelife and Torches at the Echo
Christopher Owens at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre
Lotus and VibeSquad at the El Rey Theatre
Les Claypool and Reformed Whores at the Troubadour
Black Lips, the Spits, Bleached, Nick Waterhouse, Bizarre Ride II, the Pharcyde, Night Beats, Pangea, Merchandise, Tijuana Panthers, the Audacity, the Lovely Bad Things, White Fang, the Garden, Feeding People, the Abigails, Beach Party, Wet Hair and Cherry Glazerr at the Observatory
Anthrax at the House of Blues Anaheim
Black Francis, Davis Fetter and Kim Shattuck at the Coach House
Time & Distance and the Lion Faced Boy at the Vault
Hellyeah and All That Remains at Club Nokia
Poncho Sanchez at Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club
Gordon Lightfoot at the City National Grove of Anaheim
The Specials at the Majestic Ventura Theater
Mikel Erentxun at the Ember of Anaheim
Kim Waters at the Catalina Bar & Grill
Leann Rimes at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa
Andrea Bensmiller at Genghis Cohen
John ”˜00’ Fleming at the Yost Theater
Billy Erickson & Jerry Boone at the Morongo Casino Resort & Spa
Today is the Day, Black Tusk, KEN Mode and Fight Amp at the Satellite
Alex Anwandter at Los Globos
Surveillance, Chasms, Infinite Body and Unmanned at the Smell
Mojo Stone, Jake Salley & the Prospectors, the Far Country and Ramshackle at El Cid
Claire Cronin, O Holler, JRMBRCK and Huxley Anne at Pehrspace
Alexz Johnson, Charlene Kaye, Miracles of Modern Science, Vicci Martinez and Midnight Spin at the Hotel Café
JGB, Melvin Seals and the Record Company at the Mint
Motel Drive at the Hard Rock Café Hollywood
Crash Diet at the Whisky A Go Go
Rapscallions at the Roxy Theatre
Mor Ve Otesi and Twenty7 at the Viper Room
Umphrey’s McGee at the House of Blues Hollywood
Deadhead Roses, Imani Chile, B Music, Black Whiskey Union, Two Ton Folk, Amir & Jeanna and Bruce Beacom at the HOB Foundation Room
Don’t Stop Or We’ll Die at the Largo at the Coronet
The Barry Zweig Trio at the Del Monte Speakeasy
Lawrence Lebo at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
Stevie G at Saint Rocke
Saturday, March 23
Django Django and Night Moves at the Fonda Theatre
Rudimental, Kidnap Kid and Faye at the Troubadour
7 Lions, 360 and the Public Trust at the Viper Room
Umphrey’s McGee at the House of Blues Hollywood
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, White Fence, King Tuff, FIDLAR, Hunx & His Punx, Beachwood Sparks, Allah-Las, Shannon & the Clams, Summer Twins, Soft Pack, Dixie Band, Natural Child, Gap Dream, Cosmonauts, the Memories, Sam Flax, Fletcher C. Johnson, Tomorrows Tulips, Guantanamo Baywatch, Hindu Pirates and the Aquadolls at the Observatory
Hoodie Allen, Aer, Jared Evan and Brodi Nicholas at the Yost Theater
Guttermouth at the Industry Theater
Atlantic Starr at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk
Jason Stoll at the Recital Hall at CSUN
Les Claypool at Pappy & Harriets Pioneertown Palace
Schematic at the Bootleg Bar
Black Hi-Lighter, Lynda Kay and Young Creatures at El Cid
Jesca Hoop, Pebaluna, Low Cut Connie, Tango Alpha Tango and Kim Michalowski at the Hotel Café
Burnout!, Crimekillz, Zackey Force Funk, Dexter Story and Oliver the 2nd at the Echoplex
Fuzz, Chad & the Meat Bodies and Bad Antics at the Smell
Jesca Hoop, Pebaluna, Low Cut Connie, Tango Alpha Tango and Kim Michalowski at the Hotel Café
Charles Wright & the Watts at the Mint
Frank Stallone at Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club
Mikel Erentxun at 333 Live
Gordon Lightfoot at the Spotlight 29 Casino
Kim Waters at the Catalina Bar & Grill
Shajarian and Pournazeri Brothers at the Nokia Theatre LA Live
Chris Trapper at Genghis Cohen
Dead Man’s Party at the Canyon
Sex Panther at the Yost Theater
L.A. Guns at the Whisky A Go Go
Enter Shikari, Architects, Heartist, Crossfaith, Fire Tiger, Jutty Fanxx and Snatch Magnet at the Roxy Theatre
Otis Heat, the Bottom Dollars and Deathrow Tull at the Central SAPC
Hiatus Kaiyote, Shafiq Husayn and Dove Society at the Del Monte Speakeasy
Michelle Shocked at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
Suedehead, California Lions and the Green Machines at Alex’s Bar
The Mavericks and Seth Walker at the Coach House
Sunday, March 24
Hoodie Allen, Aer and Jared Evan at the El Rey Theatre
Body Parts and Foxtails Brigade at the Satellite
Moses Campbell, the Hive Dwellers, White Rainbow and Young Hunting at the Smell
Blue Sky Black Death and Child Actor at the Bootleg Bar
Lebanon Hanover, Jewels of the Nile and Deathday at the Echo
The La-Las at Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club
Vicente Fernandez at the Staples Center
Yuja Wang at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
Kim Waters at the Catalina Bar & Grill
Michael Nesmith at the Canyon
Lucinda Ora, Holes & Hearts, the Black Heartthrobs and Glowbird at the Lot 1 Café
Ryan White, Sunday Lane, Zak Schaffer, Allison Kaplan and Tongue & Groove at the Hotel Café
Sneaky Sound System and Dinka at Dim Mak Studios
Lappitt-Rocha Sunday Night Jazz Jam at the Mint
Jake Miller at the Roxy Theatre
AMX & Bobby Debarge Jr., Jack Berry and Brittany Barber at the Viper Room
Fogelfoot at the Kelly McGrarry Lounge
Los Bunkers and Pastilla at the House of Blues Hollywood
The Pinstripes at the Central SAPC
Janis Ian and Oran Etkin & Timbalooloo at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
Cubensis and Moonalice at Saint Rocke
Tammie Brown at Alex’s Bar
Deer Rick, Restavrant and the Shrills at the Observatory
Mod Sun, Cisco Adler, Tayyib Ali and Pat Brown at the Constellation Room
Clutch, Orange Goblin, Lionize and Scorpion Child at the House of Blues Anaheim
The Ferns, the Grills and the Andrew Corradini Band at the Coach House
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