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FRANKIE ROSE AND THE OUTS AT THE SMELL

Frankie Rose has spent time over the past few years in an impressive number of buzzed-about indie-pop bands, including Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts and Southern California's own Dum Dum Girls. But Frankie Rose and the Outs is the Brooklyn-based singer-

"I am Kris Kristofferson."

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The Troubadour

9081 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: West Hollywood

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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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The Smell

247 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown

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McCabe's Guitar Shop

3101 Pico Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405

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Region: Out of Town

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Hollywood Bowl

2301 N. Highland Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90068

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guitarist-drummer's current gig, as well as the one in which she steers the ship. Anyone fond of those other acts' fuzzy post-C86 moves is sure to dig the band's self-titled debut, which came out earlier this week on Slumberland. It's fair to say that titles such as "Candy," "Little Brown Haired Girls" and "Girlfriend Island" provide a pretty accurate picture of what you're in for here. But Rose also goes a little dreamier as frontwoman than she did behind her kit, with hooks that sound like they've been stretched out toward some imaginary horizon. With San Francisco's delightfully garage-rocking Hunx and His Punx. Also at the Echo, Sunday. (Mikael Wood)

JON LANGFORD & SKULLORCHARD AT McCABE'S

The Welsh expatriate and longtime Chicago resident Jon Langford surveys the state of the world — both real and imagined — on his latest solo album, Old Devils (Bloodshot Records). "Laws of metaphysics are bending/To produce a happy ending," he declares hopefully on the ballad "Book of Your Life," but by the very next track, the jangly pop-rock tune "Getting Used to Uselessness," the leftist singer-guitarist is already drinking from "the cup of bitterness, where's the sin in that?" Langford got his start in the late-'70s Leeds punk band the Mekons and the post-punk side project the Three Johns, before moving to the States and branching out with various alt-country outfits, including the Waco Brothers and Pine Valley Cosmonauts, as well as disparate collaborations with Kevin Coyne, Rosie Flores, Alejandro Escovedo and Richard Buckner. Old Devils draws upon Langford's numerous personas, from the rootsy burn of "Self Portrait" and the British pub rock of "1234 Ever" to the acoustic country-folk idyll "Luxury" and the swirling West Indies exotica of "Pieces of the Past," a sordidly unromantic pirates' tale that's highlighted by a foreboding guest voice-over by R&B-soul icon Andre Williams. (Falling James)

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON AT THE CERRITOS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

"A long time ago, I met a beautiful young woman in an elevator in New York City. I used to bump into her at about 3 in the morning, every night. After a while I gathered up my courage and I said to her, 'Are you looking for something?' And she said, 'Yes, I'm looking for something.' I knew by the tone of her voice that she wasn't trying to realize some unfulfilled potential of her inner nature but she was actually looking for something. I said, 'Who or what are you looking for?' She said, 'Kris Kristofferson.' I said, 'I am Kris Kristofferson.' And I deceived her for many nights." —Leonard Cohen, introducing "Chelsea Hotel #2" in 1985. (Gustavo Turner)

Also playing Saturday: Rx BANDITS at the Troubadour (see above); BAND OF HORSES, ADMIRAL RADLEY, DARKER MY LOVE at the Greek; '70s SOUL JAM at Fairplex; JERRY LEE LEWIS, REVEREND HORTON HEAT, THE HEAD CAT at the Fox Theater Pomona; RANCID, ADOLESCENTS, TELECASTER at the Music Box; MUSE, PASSION PIT at Staples Center; X JAPAN at the Wiltern; FLIPSIDE 2010 at American Legion Post 206; SARA RADLE, GOLDENBOY at Casey's Irish Pub; EARTHLINGS?, SWEETHEAD at Pappy & Harriet's Palace; GILBY CLARKE at the Whisky A Go-Go; THE CHARLES LLOYD NEW QUARTET at the Nate Holding Performing Arts Center; THE DAVE LIEBMAN NY QUARTET at Vitello's.

SUNDAY/SEPTEMBER/26

BEACH HOUSE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL

Guitarist/keyboardist Alex Scally and chanteuse Victoria Legrand are from Baltimore, and they call themselves Beach House. The classically trained duo's eponymous first album and its follow-up, Devotion, offered a rather ethereal dream-pop. Flowing with hazy sprawls of warm synth chordage and slide guitars curling around Legrand's languid alto, the duo zeroed in on a nostalgia-soaked, somewhat awkward tranquility that held a tension ready to snap. On their just-out Teen Dream (Sub Pop), conceived and recorded in a converted church in upstate New York, the duo up the urgency a tad, using their blessedly spare surface of pretty guitar leads and cascading (and indecipherable) vocal textures to further prod us toward that longing for a lost time, a lost love, or for something that never existed at all, and might never. There's a paradoxically comforting glow to it all, like the crackle of a bonfire. (Also playing, a certain preppie band from NYC.) (John Payne)

NEIL HAMBURGER AT SPACELAND

See Go LA. Also get the anticomedian's new Drag City CD Hot February Night — great road-trip entertainment. (Gustavo Turner)

Also playing Sunday: Rx BANDITS at the Troubadour (see above); JON LANGFORD at Amoeba; HAPPY TOGETHER TOUR WITH THE TURTLES et al. at the Fairplex; SEAL, DAVID FOSTER at the Grammy Museum

MONDAY/SEPTEMBER/27

THE BLACK KEYS, NICOLE ATKINS AT THE HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM

The Akron, Ohio, duo the Black Keys are heavily influenced by the blues and late-'60s power trios, but they transmogrify such inspirations with an approach that manages to be fresh and vital instead of nostalgic and stultifying. In recent years, they've moved beyond the bluesy formalism of their early releases into a more experimental and wider-ranging style, thanks in part to collaborations with producer Danger Mouse and such rappers as Raekwon, RZA and Mos Def. Songs like "Tighten Up" and "Next Girl," from the Black Keys' latest album, Brothers, are distinguished by singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach's woeful lamentations and heavy riffing and drummer Patrick Carney's primal grooves, with newfound traces of trippy pop slipping between the cracks. Interestingly, they're billed with the talented New Jersey chanteuse Nicole Atkins, who's more of a pure pop songwriter in the Brill Building tradition on her debut CD, Neptune City. Atkins has a soaring, dreamy voice that evokes Cass Elliot, and she imbues her lush balladry with a spectral glow that's simultaneously candied and haunting. Along with her own sophisticated originals, she weaves some genuine magic with unusual covers, such as the Church's "Under the Milky Way" and the Doors' "The Crystal Ship." Also Tuesday. (Falling James)