Music Picks: Roseanne Cash, Theophilus London, Acid Mothers Temple

Also playing Monday:

SPIRIT VINE, MI GU, WET & RECKLESS, SISTER CRAYON at the Echo.

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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tues 3/22

Fresh & Onlys

@ THE ECHO

Surf's up and the Fresh & Onlys are coming to town. The San Francisco beat combo, specialists in a brash blend of classic guitar rock and garage grunge, skew an especially atmospheric slant on their jangle-heavy, in-your-face-and-mind pop. The songs' moody mystery is aided immeasurably by the jawdroppin' skills of guitarist Wymond Miles, who drenches just about everything in that echoed-out twang some of us craVve from all those Sergio Leone and Beach Blanket Bingo movies. That sound comes off fresh on the band's new album, Play It Strange, which the F&O's pumped out in one frenzied week with the almighty Tim Green (Fucking Champs, Comets on Fire) on the boards — which is cool, but understand that this band really delivers the chills via supersolid songwriting courtesy Tim Cohen and Shayde Sartin. —John Payne

Destroyer

@ THE TROUBADOUR

Vancouver pop chameleon Dan Bejar got his biggest boost in the early aughts as a member of the indie-revered rock collective New Pornographers, but he's been making poetically knotty, musically challenging albums on his own since 1996. The recently released Kaputt is his ninth as Destroyer, and it might be his most accessible bit of weirdness yet — a fascinating mélange of quiet-storm R&B, Steely Dan–style jazz and new romantic pomp funneled through his own skewed take on singer-songwriterdom. As mercurial and mysterious as Bob Dylan himself, Bejar, who is accompanied by a full band in person, is always a good bet. Get there in time to catch local Devon Williams, the Lavender Diamond sideman who, on his own, crafts dreamy, haze-drenched guitar pop sure to set you swooning. —Chris Martins

Raphael Saadiq, Quadron

@ THE MUSIC BOX

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Also playing Tuesday:

VIVA VOCE, DAMIEN JURADO, JEZABELS at the Satellite; THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES at the Echoplex; JULIANNA BARWICK, ESBEN AND THE WITCH at Bootleg Theater; ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC at Walt Disney Concert Hall; CITY AND COLOUR at El Rey Theatre; IF BY YES at Largo; ABIGAIL WASHBURN at Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace.

wed 3/23

Acid Mothers Temple

@ THE SATELLITE

As a recent L.A. Weekly interviewee stated, "LSD is shamanistic," and no current touring group embodies that ethos better than Japan's Acid Mothers Temple. Formed as a "soul collective" by legendary experimental guitarist Makoto Kawabata in 1995, the group has been a clearinghouse for the Far East avant-garde ever since. The Mothers' discography is, appropriately, incredibly long and difficult to navigate, but their sound is an ear-shredding combination of stony prog, arty atmosphere and groove-steeped Krautrock. Their latest psychedelic opus is In 0 to Infinity, another sonic soup of squirreling guitars, strange effects and confusing moans, but the best way to visit the Temple is in person, where Kawabata and his minions have free rein to melt minds however they see fit. Bring a bucket for your brain. —Chris Martins

The Watkins Family Hour

@ LARGO AT THE CORONET

For several years now, the Watkins Family Hour have been bringing their intimate Americana idylls to Largo, creating an oasis of rural warmth in Hollywood, of all places. Siblings Sean Watkins and Sara Watkins carry on with the bluegrass revisionism and country soul of their old band Nickel Creek while branching out in newer collaborations like the extended supergroup Works Progress Administration. As the Watkins Family Hour, Sara weaves heartsick fiddle reveries and high-lonesome vocals with Sean's sympathetic harmonies and fundamental guitar backing to often-enchanting effect. The Watkinses manage the neat trick of being folksy without being corny, and their regular shows at Largo take on an even greater allure when they're joined by such stellar pals as the moodily beguiling piano-pop diva Fiona Apple. —Falling James

Toro y Moi

@ THE TROUBADOUR

South Carolina chillwave maestro Chaz Bundick has been talking up the use of live instruments on Underneath the Pine, his new sophomore disc under the stage name Toro y Moi. (By the way, when your real name is as awesome as Chaz Bundick, why on earth would you adopt a pseudonym?) Yet where the presence of guitars, etc., turns many fellow electro types into insufferable jazz-jam dullards, Bundick ups the groove quotient considerably here: "New Beat" is rubber-band disco-soul à la Off the Wall, while "Still Sound" rocks Steely Dan down to Electric Avenue; in "Before I'm Done," dude even figures out how to connect post-Air loungeadelica to Zombies-style pop. With Montreal's similarly groove-fixated Braids and Cloud Nothings, blog-buzzed fuzz-pop merchants from Cleveland. —Mikael Wood

Also playing Wednesday:

PRINCE RAMA, LUCKY DRAGONS, SUN ARAW, ADVENTURE at the Smell; ONIBABA at Blue Whale; THE NOVOCAINES, HOT PANDA at Silverlake Lounge; O'DEATH, DAVID DONDERO, FRANZ NICOLAY at the Echo; LIAM FINN at the Autry; BLACK APPLES at Bootleg Theater.

thurs 3/24

Fatso Jetson

@ THE DOWN & OUT

Apart from everything else they've done, Mario Lalli and Larry Lalli were key figures in launching the Indio music scene that eventually led to the rise of stoner-rock bands like Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age. The Lalli brothers booked the crucial desert nightclub Rhythm & Brews and currently run the Sierra Madre jazz club Café 322, but their own music, with such wacked-out jazz-and-beyond combos as the Sort of Quartet, shouldn't be overlooked. As Fatso Jetson, the Lallis crank out a sound that's as properly loud and heavy as their stoner-rock peers, but their jazz roots and prog-rock dexterity often take the band into much stranger and more diverse places on riff-tangled workouts like "Pleasure Bent" and "Procrastination Process." —Falling James