Music Picks: Sunset Junction Street Fair, Lucinda Williams, Y & T, Tanya Morgan

JULIETTE COMMAGERE, PAPER CRANES, LUKE RATHBONE, ESTELLE RASKINA AT THE ECHO

Juliette Commagere has got to have one of the most bizarre résumés of any musician trying to go it alone in the City of Angels. As far as others people's bands go, she's played with both Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer project and ... wait for it ... the Bird and the Bee. She's contributed to albums by Avenged Sevenfold and ... one more time ... Ry Cooder. She had a so-so indie rock band called Hello Stranger that toured with Kings of Leon — which also resulted in a collaboration with Vieux Farka Touré — and now she's been reborn as a self-styled artsy type. The thing is, we're not complaining, as her upcoming Manimal Vinyl debut, The Procession, is a fascinating and beautiful 10-song platter. Think label mate Bat for Lashes, her friend Obi Best or obvious inspiration Kate Bush. Pop elements collide with washes of synth sounds, percussion both live and electronic, and mild injections of noise. The ends really do justify the means. (Chris Martins)

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The Greek Theatre

2700 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Category: Community Venues

Region: Los Feliz

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Bootleg Theater

2200 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90057

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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Y&T AT KEY CLUB

Though hair metal was as much a decadelong fashion faux pas as a musical movement, it was nonetheless the genre's more capable songsmiths who prevailed. Thus NorCal's Y&T, even without the lipstick shtick and dangerous-to-know swagger of many of their peers, shifted 4 million albums of t-top rock under Reagan and had a waiting audience when they reunited in 2001. Already six discs into their career when In Rock We Trust broke them in 1984, Y&T eclipsed any stylistic mustiness with muscular melodies and frontman Dave Meniketti's valiant, vibrato-tipped bellow. Though they're best known for Baywatch-approved bubblegum single "Summertime Girls," their chuggy-riffed rockers ("Black Tiger," "Mean Streak") and ludicrously melodramatic ballads (notably "I Believe in You") are equally escapist. This year's Facemelter aims too hard for a 30-year flashback but, for Y&T at least, that's a chapter worth re-reading. (Paul Rogers)

Also playing Thursday: BLACK MOUNTAIN, LOWER HEAVEN at Bootleg Theater; THE SPAZMATICS at the Canyon Club; FRANK SINATRA JR., LENNY WHITE BAND at Catalina Jazz Club; LYNYRD SKYNYRD at Gibson Amphitheatre; THE HOLD STEADY, JAILL at the Glass House; THE UNION LINE, THE COLOURIST, YELLOW RED SPARKS, MOONSHINE & THE DRUGS at Grove of Anaheim; NICOLE MITCHELL TRIO at the Hammer Museum; THURSDAY CLASSICS: LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC with LEONARD SLATKIN, JAMES GALWAY at the Hollywood Bowl; HAYLEY TAYLOR at Hotel Café; CHUCK MEAD at Levitt Pavilion Pasadena; SPIRIT ANIMAL at Redwood Bar; KENGE KENGE at Skirball Cultural Center; RADARS TO THE SKY, DEATH TO ANDERS, SMOKERS IN LOVE at Spaceland; NEIGHBORHOOD BULLYS at Weber's Place.