Music Picks: Willie Nelson's Country Throwdown, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, Peter Murphy

fri 6/24

Nikki Corvette: See Thursday.

Peter Murphy: See Wednesday.

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The Echoplex

1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Category: Bars and Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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Roxy Theatre

9009 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Category: Bars and Clubs

Region: West Hollywood

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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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Hollywood Bowl

2301 N. Highland Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90068

Category: Music Venues

Region: Out of Town

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The Middle Class, Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds, Grant Hart, Urinals

@ECHOPLEX

Presented by L.A. Record, this astonishing dream bill is sort of a thinking punk's answer to the Warped Tour, as it's loaded with massively influential (albeit relatively obscure) musicians. With their hyperaccelerated beats and minimalist structures, Orange County's The Middle Class and Westwood's Urinals invented hardcore punk in the late 1970s. But what's ultimately fascinating about both bands is how they refused to cash in on the hardcore explosion in the early 1980s, evolving instead into more experimental directions à la Gang of Four. The early Urinals were a direct influence on the Gun Club and Yo La Tengo, who covered their songs, but the ongoing trio continue to craft weirdly engrossing new alt-pop spells. The Middle Class reunited here for the first time in three decades at last year's Frontier Records anniversary show. Jeff Atta's detached, seemingly indifferent vocals on the exhilarating proto-thrash blast "Out of Vogue" are still a distinct contrast to most hardcore shouters. Shape-shifting guitarist Kid Congo (Gun Club, Bad Seeds) intones boho poetry over a sparse and spacy No Wave backing. Grant Hart may not get as much attention as his former Hüsker Dü partner, Bob Mould, but he wrote and sang many of that band's most memorable tunes. —Falling James

Willie Nelson's Country Throwdown

@CITIZENS BUSINESS BANK ARENA

Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman dipped his toe into twangier waters last year with the inaugural Country Throwdown tour, and for this summer's follow-up trek the promoter bagged Willie Nelson as headliner. In addition to Nelson — who has dedicated the last few years of his recording career to a succession of satisfying genre efforts, including 2005's reggae-fied Countryman and 2009's supper-clubby American Classic — the main stage will feature tenderhearted roughneck Jamey Johnson and Johnson's frequent writing partner Randy Houser. (The two penned Trace Adkins' "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk.") Also on the bill: a handful of Nashville B-listers — Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert, Craig Campbell — as well as Willie's son Lukas, with his cringe-inducingly named backing band, Promise of the Real. —Mikael Wood

Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs

@HOTEL CAFÉ

Former Headcoatee (and White Stripes guest vocalist) Holly Golightly has always had a penchant for American musical forms, deriving inspiration from blues, country, rockabilly, garage and early rock & roll. Her most recent release, No Help Coming, is full of simple songs about simple things, alive with shuffling percussion and fingerpicking and even waltz-y rhythms now and then. Less restrained than 2008's Dirt Don't Hurt and rawer than her 2003 release, Truly She Is None Other, Golightly's work with the Brokeoffs is a pleasant mix of country, blues and early bluegrass. The British transplant somehow makes music that feels and sounds authentically American, even with her clipped Cockney accent — now a bit muted from spending time in Georgia raising horses. —Kristina Benson

Andre Williams, Jail Weddings, Death Hymn Number 9

@SATELLITE

Always wild King of Rhythm Andre Williams made dirty rock & roll and sleazy soul across storied labels Motown, Chess and Fortune, writing and recording primal R&B raunch like "Bacon Fat" (covered by the Cramps), "Greasy Chicken" and little-girl-lust classic "Jail Bait." (And, most recognizable of all, the John Waters–approved hit "Shake a Tail Feather.") The self-styled Black Godfather wrote Stevie Wonder's first song and produced hits for Mary Wells, Ike & Tina Turner and even Funkadelic. Tonight, he's backed by 10-person '60s retro-pop ensemble Jail Weddings, whose guitarist Brian Waters has spent plenty of time side-manning with Williams. Gories-inspired garage-punk trio Death Hymn Number 9 open the show. —Lainna Fader

Erykah Badu, Be'la Dona, KING

@THE ROXY

Reigning priestess of hippie hip-hop Erykah Badu goes undercover as the bad, bad DJ Lo Down Loretta Brown for BET's "Black Girls Rock & Soul Tour." The lineup don't lie: In addition to Badu, D.C.'s Be'la Dona will serve as house (go-go) band for the evening, former model/current DJ Beverly Bond will spin, and unlisted "special guests" usually actually are pretty special here in L.A. But the biggest draw might be KING, whose blissful harmonies became a sensation after tastemakers Phonte and Questlove blew them up on Twitter literally overnight. —Rebecca Haithcoat

Also playing:

BLACK LIPS at the Music Box; ROONEY at El Rey; RED SPAROWES, COLISEUM, AEGES at Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock; FANCY SPACE PEOPLE, ARIEL PINK at Escarpment Warehouse; BLACKALICIOUS at Key Club; SPACE COMES SOFT, DIVA DOMPE, EMILY LACY, DISCOMBOBULATED VENTRILOQUIST at the Smell.

sat 6/25

tUnE-YarDs

@TROUBADOUR

Their April Who Kill record made us think you don't need much more than a ukulele and an idiosync 'tude to make great, well ... art, yeah? tUnE-YarDs' Merrill Garbus bawls and howls a lot when she makes her way-lo-fi "pop"-folk sound, force-feeding the listener provocative topical words about having sex and the right to fight and what wicked work contemporary society hath wrought. That it's not a big drag is due mainly to the way she and bassist Nate Brenner strew their big sonic mess with found soundscapes and a lot of real interesting digital quackery to take the whole thing into a kind of new reality — a clunkily charming place where human beings are encouraged to think and do for themselves. Inspiring! —John Payne