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Whitechapel

@ HOUSE OF BLUES

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316 W. Second St.
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111 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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Key Club

9039 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

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13114 Downey Ave.
Paramount, CA 90723-2413

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8430 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069

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9081 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

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2913 E. Anaheim St.
Long Beach, CA 90804

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In a very graphic case of "going to 11," Tennessee's Whitechapel crafts its malevolent deathcore with three guitarists. This allows for down-tuned doom, finger-widdling flurries and punctuating false harmonic squeals to simultaneously provide context for Phil Bozeman's disturbingly possessed post-Pantera vocals and a rhythm section that attacks with a cornered, Gadhafi-esque cruelty. Last year's A New Era of Corruption is both a triumph of actual songs over pure riffs and, in the wake of the tragic death of Bozeman's mother, a monument to pessimism ("The Darkest Day of Man" and "Single File to Dehumanization"). Technically excellent yet utterly heartfelt, Whitechapel is a soundtrack for cynical teens moving out of their parents' shadow and into the world — and that's no small achievement. —Paul Rogers

Fergus & Geronimo

@ THE TROUBADOUR

Last January we tipped the secret legion of clever weirdos (Matt Groening and Gary Panter, we're looking at you) to the release of a little gem called unlearn, by Texas duo Fergus & Geronimo. It's kinda uncanny how "Wanna Know What I Would Do If I Was You" sounds like a 1968 vintage Mothers studio outtake, and the Zappatista effect is enhanced by note-perfect askew pseudo-oldies "Powerful Lovin' " and the title track. Jason Kelly and Andrew Savage hide behind the Fergus and Geronimo masks, and they are also (surprise, surprise) big Sparks fans. "We both have a natural inclination for being odd," says Savage/Fergus. We'd like to issue a full endorsement of their oddity. —Gustavo Turner

Also playing Saturday:

REVOLVER at the Satellite; UNWRITTEN LAW, THE PRICKS at the Roxy; SXSW KICK-OFF PARTY WITH MIAMI HORROR, CHAPEL CLUB, SUPERHUMANOIDS at the Echoplex; 2-HEADED BEAST FEST at CalArts; GONZALES at Mondrian/Skybar.

sun 3/13

J*DaVeY, Blu

@ Key Club

Miss Jack Davey, the sexy-tough lead singer, and Brook D'Leau, the beatsmith who backs her as she climbs the microphone stand, are J*DaVeY, a Los Angeles duo you'd swear was masterminded by Prince. With D'Leau's viscous beats throbbing underneath Miss Jack Davey's panting vocals, the music's as seductive as their live show. Blu, L.A.'s most enigmatic, artistic rapper, joins them tonight. Although the blogosphere waits breathlessly for another album — hell, another anything — from him, he lives in a cosmos with a different address from the rest of us. But at a Boombox appearance last fall, a female DJ succeeded in drawing him back down to Earth. Every artist needs a muse, and Miss Jack Davey seems ripe for Blu's picking. Or vice versa. —Rebecca Haithcoat

Love Revisited

@ ALEX'S BAR

Love Revisited is more than just a tribute to the late, great Arthur Lee, as the project features Love's original lead guitarist, Johnny Echols, and one of Lee's longtime backup bands, Baby Lemonade. While Love Revisited essays many Love classics, including "Alone Again Or" and "7 & 7 Is," what makes the group so fascinating is how they remake relative obscurities like "Can't Explain" and Echols' unreleased late-'60s rarity "America." Even better, it's nothing but a pure joy to hear Echols' bubbling eruption of notes on the hard-rock coda to the multipart psychedelic epic "Your Mind and We Belong Together." Although neither Echols nor Baby Lemonade's Mike Randle can sing with the same force, wit and sheer personality as the mercurial Lee, their versions will make you fall in Love again. —Falling James

Juanes

@ STAPLES CENTER

In contrast with his fellow Colombian superstar Shakira (whose Sale el Sol kept his P.A.R.C.E. out of the top spot on Billboard's Latin Albums chart last December), Juanes has yet to make a move into English-language pop. But that's hardly prevented him from rousing arena audiences throughout the United States: An open-eared rocker addicted to big choruses, dude steps onstage and immediately starts transmitting the kind of charisma you need only eyes and ears to comprehend. Like all of Juanes' albums, P.A.R.C.E. contains no shortage of well-meaning issue songs about injustice and disaster. In "Segovia," for instance, he pays tribute to the victims of a politically motivated 1988 massacre in a Colombian town. As always, though, specificity somehow takes a backseat to universality. —Mikael Wood

Silk Flowers, Frank Alpine

@ THE ECHO

Though gothy electro act Silk Flowers hails from New York, they'll always sound at home in L.A. Theirs is a sound that seems spawned at our beloved DIY institution the Smell — noisy, lo-fi, dark yet playful and decidedly not for the radio. But that doesn't mean it isn't fun. Their new album, Ltd. Form, is, fittingly, out on the label owned by No Age member Dean Spunt (PPM), and though it brings to mind legendary downers like Suicide and Ian Curtis, there's a certain humor in the almost medieval-sounding vocals of Aviram Cohen, and an easy roll to the trio's unerring groove. Opener Frank Alpine is a local duo led by Rich Moreno, a minimal synth evangelist, who infuses his bedroom jams with punky effervescence. —Chris Martins

Also playing Sunday:

CAVE SINGERS, LIA ICES, FRANK FAIRFIELD at the Autry; CANDYE KANE at Redwood Bar & Grill; BEAT SWAP MEET (#13) THREE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH AWOL ONE at Grandstar; FUNERAL PYRE, THE SECRET, GRAF ORLOCK, LOW PLACES, SEVEN SISTERS OF SLEEP at the Echo; RED FANG, WEEDEATER, DANAVAN at the Echoplex.