Kevin Bronson on September 21st, 2013

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‣ The 75th annual Chinatown Mid-Autumn Moon Festival brings seven bands – including Kan Wakan, the Little Ones, Body Parts, Avid Dancer, Black Hi-Lighter, Northern American and Victory – to the LA Weekly Live Music Stage at a free, all-ages event that includes cultural activities, a culinary stage, the Dragon Dance and much more. We suspect there will be moon cakes involved too.
‣ Big Black Delta does an installment of Saturdays Off the 405 at the Getty Center.
‣ Tarfest returns to the La Brea Tar Pits Park, with music from Saint Motel, Nightmare Air, Echosmith, Tapioca & the Flea and Irontom.
‣  The Beach Ball Festival at the Santa Monica Pier boasts a lineup including Aloe Black, Allen Stone, Maceo Parker, Lee Fields & the Expressions and more.
‣ Diana Krall holds forth at the Greek Theatre.
‣ At the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, it’s the Epicenter Festival, with the Offspring, A Day to Remember, Bad Religion, Pennywise, Pierce the Veil, All Time Low, Falling in Reverse, the Wonder Years, FIDLAR and more at the Epicenter Festival at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
‣ Dublab’s 14th Anniversary Celebration goes off at Maker City LA (1933 S. Broadway, 11th floor)
‣ The second Venice Music Crawl brings more than 60 bands – including Keaton Simons, Jenni Alpert, Das Tapes, Walla, Omniflux, Kid Cadaver, Sea Lions, Yoya, LA Font and Spaceships – to various locations along Lincoln Boulevard in Venice.
‣ And at the Satellite, Vanaprasta and Fever the Ghost are joined by about a dozen other bands fora  free, day-long event called Camchella.

Also:

Wax Tailor & the Dusty Rainbow and Buck 65 at the El Rey Theatre
The Octopus Project, Paper Lions and Plvs Vltra at the Echo
The Dan Band at Club Nokia
Iration at the Wiltern
Zendaya and Artist vs Poet at the Los Angeles County Fair
Katie Ray at the Genghis Cohen
Jack Russell’s Great White at the M15 Concert Bar & Grill
Will Sparks, Dzeko & Torres at DBERRIE at AVALON Hollywood
ShyBoy and R.A.I.D. at the Echoplex
Charlotte Sometimes, Sara Skinner and Only on Tuesdays at Los Globos
The So So Glos, Diarrhea Planet, Moses Campbell and Dustin & the Explosions at the Smell
Palace of Buddies and Toy Bombs at Lot 1
We Are Twin at the Virgil
Nacosta at Casey’s
Charlie Clark, Among Savages and Ian Ball at the Bootleg Bar
Summer Twins, Alexandra & the Starlight Band, Zachary James & the All Seeing Eyes and Adult Cinema at El Cid
Signals, Pregnant, N.O.W. and W-H-I-T-E at pehrspace
Taro Hart, Michael Stagliano, Adam’s Attic, the Ghost Remains, the Senators and Charles McDonald at the Hotel Café
Carey Appel, Dig the Kid, Michelle Delamor and Mind the Gap at the Mint
Fools & Sages, the PCH Crew, Sidewalk Affair, Galvanized Souls at the Troubadour
Keb Mo at the Whisky A Go Go
Dirty Nasty, Beardo, Super Groupie, Tayyib Ali and Prada-G at the Roxy Theatre
Ceasefire, Vertigo and Electra at the Viper Room
Brad Kay’s Regressive Jazz Quartet at the Del Monte Speakeasy
Jim Kweskin and the Crockett Sisters at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
The Spazmatics and Rat Soup at Saint Rocke
Tin Lizzy at Saint Rocke (Early Show)
Tweak Bird, the Shrine, Retox and Babylon Sweethearts at the Detroit Bar
The Slackers, the Debonaires, South Central Skankers, Matamoska and Upground at the Observatory
Low Life Music, All Else Fails, Spades & Blades, the Slow Forward, King Thick and OKT at the House of Blues Anaheim
Kamelot, Delain and Eklipse at the City National Grove of Anaheim
The Blasters, the Delta 88’s and the Hot Rod Trio at the Coach House
Foreverland, Shaky Feelin’ and Black Crystal Wolf Kids at the California Beer Festival in Ventura
Flashback Jack at the Honda Center
Rocktoberfest feat. Don Diablo at the Yost Theater
Frank Stallone at Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club
Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway at the Catalina Bar & Grill
Shoemaker Brothers and Heaven & Earth at the Canyon
Marco Antonio Solis and Lupita D’Alessio at the Santa Barbara Bowl