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Spectrum, The Black Ryder

@ THE TROUBADOUR

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The Forum

3900 W. Manchester Blvd.
Inglewood, CA 90305

Category: Music Venues

Region: Inglewood

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Staples Center

1111 S. Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015

Category: Community Venues

Region: Out of Town

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Walt Disney Concert Hall

111 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Music Venues

Region: Out of Town

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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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El Rey Theatre

5515 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park

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The Redwood Bar & Grill

316 W. Second St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown

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If there's a true father of the chillwave movement, it's Peter "Sonic Boom" Kember, who initially rose to fame as one of the main brains behind the legendary minimalist space-rock outfit Spacemen 3. After that band's untimely demise he founded this project and took the comely drone and luminescent haze he was known for and saddled them to pop songs. The result has been a string of humbly catchy tunes with a bed-sit vibe, bathed in analog feedback and sung in an off-the-cuff, ennui-dripping style (so, basically, like Ariel Pink and Nite Jewel). This show should be a boon for both nostalgists and those looking for a crash course in Boom. —Chris Martins

L.A. Bluegrass Situation

@ LARGO

Largo is the supersecret headquarters of some of the best bluegrass nights in town, and now they welcome us into their gorgeous and intimate theater as they proudly present siblings Sean and Sara Watkins. Formerly of the much-loved, acoustic fiddle–driven Nickel Creek, Sean and Sara stretch the bounds of Americana and bluegrass with a whole host of musician friends guesting in their regular Largo show, the Watkins Family Hour — many of them Largo veterans themselves. Their shows are always packed with surprises, and given the unusually formal festival setting, you're likely to be in for something new and special at this second annual event. –Lainna Fader

Dirty Beaches

@ THE ECHO

Alex Zhang Hungtai was born in Taiwan and now lives in Montreal, but his sound is about as true-blue American as it gets. That's not some kind of backhanded xenophobe come-on, but a reference to the fact that the man makes music like Elvis Presley — that is, if the King had been into canned beats and home recording. Badlands is Hungtai's debut album after a handful of cassette and vinyl releases that steadily upped the indie clamor for his dark and swooning '50s-inspired minimal rock & roll, in debt as much to Suicide as to Jerry Lee. Opening is Bell Gardens, a different sort of throwback — '70s AM radio pop — that spun off of the revered cross-Atlantic ambient project Stars of the Lid. —Chris Martins

Also playing Thursday: RACHEL GOODRICH at Hotel Café.