Tonight in L.A.: Metallica, Weyes Blood, the Paper Kites
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Also on Thursday: Heaps n Heaps, Sextile, the Dustbowl Revival, Inner-City Arts benefit, Hotel Café benefit, Annie Hardy, Band of Merrymakers, Oslo

Also on Thursday: Heaps n Heaps, Sextile, the Dustbowl Revival, Inner-City Arts benefit, Hotel Café benefit, Annie Hardy, Band of Merrymakers, Oslo
Aaron Embry’s new album “Life Ahead,” a collection of folk songs, covers, instrumentals and a devotional, is his first release since 2012’s “Tiny Prayers.”
Thorcraft Cobra — Billy Zimmer and Tammy Glover — return in January with their second album, “The Distance.” It’s about coming a long way, baby.
Witchcraft and supernatural keyboards join forces in the “Sunshine Daydream” music video, the first single from Mr. Elevator’s forthcoming album on Rad Cat Records.
Also on Wednesday: Living Legends, Vinyl Williams, Sara Watkins, the Sounds, Puppet, Mako, Fat Nick
The Shelters and Dear Boy — two L.A. quartets on the rise — closed out 2016 with a big show Monday night at the Troubadour.
Jesika von Rabbit casts her spell on a shadowy club in director Guiseppe Asaro’s video for her new solo single, “Going Down.”
On their second trip to L.A. in a two-month span, U.K. psych-rockers Glass Animals played a sold-out show at the El Rey Theatre.
Nate Cole, once of the L.A. indie-pop band Castledoor, this week releases his solo debut album “Bad Beat,” lending his singular voice to a batch of emotionally direct meditations.
Le Butcherettes capped a riotous night at the second Riot Grill Fest at the Regent Theater.