Tonight in L.A.: Blake Mills, Meg Myers, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fatboy Slim, Old Crow Medicine Show, Monarchy, Cloud Cult, Karen O, Becca Stevens Band, Roll the Tanks, Train, Chuck Ragan, Moving Units, Gabriel Garzon-Montano, Mystery Skulls, Lovelife
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A dizzying array of great shows for your Thursday:
‣ Neutral Milk Hotel, so sublime at Coachella heads up a great lineup at the Hollywood Bowl that also features the Breeders and Daniel Johnston. Caveat: The notoriously camera-shy Jeff Mangum has stipulated that Neutral Milk Hotel’s set not be shown on the Bowl’s big screens. So bring binoculars.
‣ Blake Mills celebrates the release of his album “Heigh Ho” with a show at the El Rey Theatre.
‣ Meg Myers – that’s the new Robert Hales-directed video for “Go,” above, from her “Make a Shadow” EP – rocks the Echo, supported by Irontom and Bizzy Kiddo.
‣ Big night at the Shrine Expo Hall, with Fatboy Slim heading up a lineup that includes Nervo and Oliver Heldens.
‣ Karen O does the second of three nights of her “Crush Songs” at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
‣ Old Crow Medicine Show rumbles into the Wiltern behind their latest album “Remedy.”
‣ U.K. duo Monarchy and M83’s J. Laser team up for a night of electro at the Echoplex.
‣ Minnesota indie-rockers Cloud Cult recently released an acoustic album titled “Unplug,” and they do two sets at the Troubadour, one acoustic and one electric, that are being billed as “An Evening With …”
‣ And punk-rockers Roll the Tanks play the Satellite behind their debut album “Broke Til Midnight,” with TS & the Past Haunts and Weird Sex supporting.
Also:
Gabriel Garzon-Montano at Fifty Seven
Lovelife, Olivver and Raw Fabrics at the Roxy Theatre
George Benson at the Los Angeles County Fair
Train at the Pantages Theatre
Becca Stevens Band and Liz Cuesta at the Bootleg HiFi
The Suicide Doors, Alex Sloane, Transoverload, Daniivory, Excel Beats, Kira Morrison, Deedub, Purdue Avenue and PuppyTheGreat at the Silverlake Lounge
This Legend, Tommy Peacock and Shindig Avenue at Loaded Hollywood
Basement Babies, Great Ghosts, Let’s Drive to Alaska, New Octaves and Orchid Light at Lot 1
The Rave-Ups and Jeff Crosby & the Refugees at El Cid
PRIME and Raiz at Complex
Chuck Ragan, Rusty Maples, Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds and Little Lapin at the Hotel Café
Burning Palms, Los Craters and Wax Children at Harvard & Stone
Davina & the Vagabonds, the Braves Ones and Dreaming Bull at the Mint
Addey Lane at the Hard Rock Hollywood (Happy Hour)
Marc Ford, Elijah Ford and Hunter & the Dirty Jacks at the Viper Room
Carnage at the House of Blues Sunset Strip
Valerie Broussard and Alexa Ferr at the HOB Voodoo Lounge
Gentle Pony and Honey Well at the HOB Foundation Room
The Letters Home at Fais Do Do
Elan Atias, Daniel Bambaata Marley and Ital Vibes at Saint Rocke
Mystery Skulls, Mosco Rosco and Paper Pilots at the Slidebar
Summer Twins, Naïve Thieves, Gymshorts and Deep Fields at the Wayfarer
Hot Snakes, the Heartaches and White Murder at Alex’s Bar
Tomorrows Tulips at the Constellation Room
Moving Units, Torches and Minutes Til Midnight at the Observatory
Tomasina at the House of Blues Anaheim
Mt. Eden at the Yost Theater
Aaron Carter, Nic Neufeld, Justine Abigail and Sidney Bowen at the Coach House
Jeffrey Osborne at the San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino
Lisa Fischer and Grand Baton at the Catalina Bar & Grill
Wow. I wish I’d known that about NMH when I bought the tickets to see them. I grew up listening to them and was really excited to get to see them live, but I can’t afford 60+$ a ticket. Everyone assured me you could still see from the back on the big screens. It would have been nice of the Hollywood Bowl to put a notice about that on their website to warn people.