Kevin Bronson on December 12th, 2015

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Saturday’s Los Angeles concerts, but first a word from your neighborhood blogger:

► The Buzz Bands LA Holiday Hurrah brings SWIMM, Babes and Memory Rounds (first live performance) to El Cid. A portion of the evening’s proceeds goes to Sweet Relief. More info on the Facebook event page.
► HEALTH rocks the Teragram Ballroom, supported by Pictureplane and Horsehead.
► Odesza heads up the lineup at the Shrine Expo Hall, joined by Hayden James and Louis Futon.
► Country singer Sam Outlaw saddles up at the Bootleg Theater, supported by Reverend Baron and Ellie Mae & the Ricochets.
► It’s the fourth and final night of Beach House at the Fonda Theatre. Skyler Skjelset opens.
► And it’s Night 1 of the big KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Forum, with Twenty One Pilots, the Struts, Halsey, X Ambassadors, Bastille, Weezer, Disclosure, AWOLNATION, Cage the Elephant, Foals and Silversun Pickups.

Also:

Dam-Funk & the Light, Peanut Butter Wolf and Mayer Hawthorne at the Echoplex
Hohotel benefit, Night 2, with Abby & the Myth, Boh Doran, Buddy, Charley Turner, Honey County, Javier Dunn, Jim & Sam, Joel Eckels, Justin Hulsey, Jessie Thomas, Kristen Toetdman, Melissa Polinar, Ramsey, Scotch Jane, Sleeping Wolf, Sweet Talk Radio, the Absolute and Wrabel at the Hotel Café
Kidz Bop Kids at Club Nokia
Las Cafeteras at the El Rey Theatre
Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde and John 5 at the Wiltern
Alejandro Fernandez at the Microsoft Theater
Alex Beeker & the Freaks, Range of Light and Wilderness at the Echo
Death in June featuring Miro Snejdr, Herr Lounge Corps, Joy of Life and Spiritual Front at Complex
Spelles, Cellars and Gypsum at the Lost Room
The Juan Maclean, Teki Latex, Girl Unit, Honey Soundsystem, Goddollars and Paradise at Los Globos
Hex Horizontal, Reptoid and Cinder Cone at the Smell
Curtsy at the Virgil
The H&S House Band at Harvard & Stone
Rebel House Radio, Everly Snodgrass, Steremother, Picwood and BEMO at the Mint
Maya Rudolph & Gretchen Lieberum are Princess and Fan Fiction at the Troubadour
Atomic Punks at the Whisky a Go Go
The Mormons, Authentic Sellout and Riding Shotgun at the Viper Room
Max Vangeli and Atomic Mike at Avalon Hollywood
Kill the Noise and Friends at Sound Nightclub
Dotcom, Twrk and Party Thieves at Exchange LA
Shirley Rolls and Sean Gospel & the Nightstalkers at the Redwood Bar
Wages, Historian and Chainsaw Rainbow at the Ham and Eggs Tavern
Terminal A, Rollercoasterwater, Hobard W Fink, BCGs and Secret Garden at the Church of Fun
Schizophonics, Santa Sabbath, the Automatics and Jon Wahl & Joe Baiza at Cafe NELA
The Rayford Bros. at Villains Tavern
Youbloom LA Music Festival
Brad Kay’s Regressive Jazz Quartet at the Del Monte Speakeasy
Jackshit at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
The Aggrolites, the Delirians and the Originalites at Saint Rocke
The Futures League, Roah Summit, Fellow Bohemian and Decorations at the Wayfarer
Reverend Horton Heat, Nekromantix, the Bellrays and Lords of Altamont at the Observatory
Personal & the Pizzas, White Fang, Johnny Otis Davila and Barreracudas at the Constellation Room
Elevated Genius at the Yost Theater
Eli Young Band at the House of Blues Anaheim
Branchez at the Yost Theater
Armor for Sleep and the Body Rampant at the Glass House
Dweezil Zappa at the Coach House
Evening Guests, Stumpwaller, Jetlemons. Titus and Cameron Ernst at Molly Malone’s
John Pizzarelli, Monica Mancini and Cheyenne Jackson at the Valley Performing Arts Center
Berlin at the Canyon
Dennis Chambers, Randy Brecker and Tom Kennedy at the Catalina Club