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fri 3/18

Acid Mothers Temple: See Wednesday.

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Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk

100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608

Category: Attractions and Amusement Parks

Region: Out of Town

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Valley Performing Arts Center

18111 Nordhoff St.
Northridge, CA 91330-8448

Category: Music Venues

Region: San Fernando Valley

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The Getty Center

1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Category: Museums

Region: Out of Town

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Bootleg Theater

2200 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90057

Category: Bars and Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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The Troubadour

9081 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Category: Bars and Clubs

Region: West Hollywood

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The Down & Out

501 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013-2310

Category: Bars and Clubs

Region: Downtown

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George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic

@ GIBSON AMPHITHEATRE

Even at 69 years old, North Carolina–born funk archetype George Clinton shows no signs of slowing down. "We got 25 members we gonna hit you with," he said of his current tour in a recent interview. "We gonna hit you hard." And though the current touring lineup of the legendary Parliament-Funkadelic doesn't include star players Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell, numerous members of the original '70s lineup (which combined Clinton's two bands into one massive psych-funk circus) are still with the group. This means that the majority of the radical politics, conceptual silliness, choppy instrumentation and stanking grooves are still intact. Clinton's most recent album is a 2008 soul covers project, so there's a good chance the band will play a mix of classics both its own and by others. —Chris Martins

The Ex

@ THE SATELLITE

For sheer pluck and iconoclastic verve, veteran Dutch anarcho-punks the Ex win win win: Since 1979 they've released 25 albums on their own label (123 releases total), played something like 2,000 gigs all over Europe and the U.S., and never, ever sold out to the expectations of the mass-marketing meatheads. Their independence plays out musically, too, solid proof being their new Steve Albini–produced Catchmyshoe, a typically untypical batch of eclectica featuring their very own muscular hybrid of off-kilter post-punk discord — baritone guitar rifferini, Afro-rock horn blasts and jazzed-out drum polyrhythms, and loads of pure anarchist noise. Longtime vocalist G.W. Sok's yowling spot has been filled by the equally intense Arnold de Boer, best known as the vocalist for Ex touring mates Zea. —John Payne

Also playing Friday:

HOUSE OF PAIN, BIG B, DIRTBALL, SOZAY at House of Blues; YOUNG DUBLINERS, SURGEON MARTA at Key Club; LAVA BAND at Bootleg Theater; PHAROAH SANDERS QUARTET at Catalina Bar & Grill.

sat 3/19

Roseanne Cash

@ VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

One of the greatest gifts Roseanne Cash ever received from her late father, Johnny Cash, was a list of classic country and folk songs, which he gave to her when she was 18 years old. More than three decades later, she's released The List, an album with a dozen covers drawn from her dad's top 100 favorites. Joined by such celebrity guests as Jeff Tweedy, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello, she imbues her versions of "Long Black Veil," "Sea of Heartbreak" and "Heartaches by the Number" with a gently contemplative perspective that's often quite moving, especially in the wake of all the travails she's suffered this decade, including serious brain surgery in 2007 and the deaths of her father, mother and stepmother June Cash. —Falling James

Also playing Saturday:

BIG DICK, BRENDAN HINES at the Satellite; DEVO, THE OCTOPUS PROJECT at Club Nokia; WILD UP at Bootleg Theater.

sun 3/20

Wu Man

@ GETTY CENTER

Wu Man is the potentate of the pipa, a Chinese lutelike instrument whose roots date back more than 2,000 years. Since relocating to the United States from her native China in 1990, she has promoted the pipa tirelessly, researching the archives of ancient Chinese and Japanese dynasties for a deeper understanding of the instrument's true promise and power, and making great contributions in a deliciously daring series of collaborations with jazz, new-music and contemporary classical musicians such as the Kronos Quartet. She's a consummate musician of astonishing finesse and delicacy — and, when needed, strikingly soulful fire. To hear her pluck the pipa is a multidimensional experience, at the very least a voyage back through time. The performance accompanies the exhibit "Brush and Shutter: Early Photography in China." —John Payne

Also playing Sunday:

FUGIYA & MYAGI, FOL CHEN at the Echo; JONAS BROTHERS at Gibson Amphitheatre.

mon 3/21

HoneyHoney

@ BOOTLEG THEATER

Led by singer Suzanne Santo and guitarist Ben Jaffe, the local band HoneyHoney continue their monthlong residency at the Bootleg with a set of tunes from their upcoming second album, Billy Jack. Santo has an inviting purr as Jaffe adorns her melodic entreaties with a variety of musical settings ranging from straight-ahead country and down-home folk to dreamy pop and more exotic rhythms. After releasing their aptly titled debut full-length album, First Rodeo, on actor Kiefer Sutherland's Ironworks Music label, HoneyHoney struck out on their own, but they don't appear to have missed a beat with Billy Jack. Although HoneyHoney burst with mainstream commercial potential, they're even better when Santo confides quirky and unexpected lyrics like, "A sex change is the least of what you need." —Falling James

Girl Talk

@ HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM

Girl Talk, aka Pittsburgh's Gregg Michael Gillis, may have racked up most of his accolades and controversy for his rather liberal on-record interpretation of copyright law, but he deserves more attention for his live show. It invariably becomes a full-blown rave, thanks not only to his mix mastery (the man never skips a beat), but also to the very fabric of his songs. Gillis is, by trade, a mash-up artist who mines the entire modern pop spectrum for familiar musical moments that go well together. His 2010 album All Day cycles through 373 samples in 71 minutes, which means that Ice Cube ends up juxtaposed with Devo, and Pitbull winds up rapping over Depeche Mode. It sounds crazy, but it makes for the greatest touring house party on earth. [See Page Two.] —Chris Martins