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Ximena Sariñana

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The Echoplex

1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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The Troubadour

9081 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: West Hollywood

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Viva Cantina

900 Riverside Drive
Burbank, CA 91506

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@ECHOPLEX

Ximena Sariñana may come off at first like a mainstream pop singer with her radio-friendly piano ballads, but the Mexican chanteuse has a subversive side that sets her apart from other Latin-pop divas. A former child actor who starred in telenovelas when she was 11 years old, Sariñana slyly titled her 2008 debut album Mediocre even though it quickly became clear that the Guadalajara native was anything but ordinary. The album's sunny melodies belie the sometimes-bittersweet lyrics, and she's also musically adventurous enough to collaborate with her hard-rocking boyfriend, the Mars Volta's Omar Rodríguez-López. At tonight's set, she'll preview some of the new English-language tunes from her upcoming second album. —Falling James

Azalia Snail, Now, Psychic Friend

@321 LOUNGE AT TAIX

Love these way-outta-trendy-step nights at 321, the best place for music and vibes that are not about commerce, strange as that may sound. The surrealist folk rock proggy psychedelia-ist Azalia Snail is a veteran nonaligner who's been putting out records indie-wise for these 20-plus years, the latest being the sublimely quirky, dreamy, lovely and deep Celestial Respect on ace imprimatur Silber Records. Ms. Snail will be playing multiple odd instruments and crooning from that warmly entrancing record, possibly with the accompaniment of supreme multitalent Dan West. Now is 60 Watt Kid Kevin Litrow's one-man band in which hypnotic and strange dreamscapes can and do clash rudely with topical realities; Psychic Friend is represented tonight by Will, the ex-Imperial Teen man who will be whipping out some solo piano of the good-humored and heartbreaking variety. —John Payne

Also playing:

THE MONKEES at the Greek Theatre; J.D. SOUTHER at McCabe's; MATT MAYHALL QUARTET at Blue Whale; OSLO at the Satellite; MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY at Pehrspace.

sun 7/17

Makabert Fynd

@THE BLVD.

While mainstream punk long ago became more bumper sticker than brutal, there are pockets of hard-core resistance to the genre's dumbing-down. Sweden's Makabert Fynd is one. Their urgent jackboot beats occasionally make way for midpaced breaks, and there's some supple musicality amidst the maelstrom, but MF's main message is one of functional garage guitars and arms-around, yell-along choruses. Though proudly delivered in their native tongue (cuz real punks don't, like, pander), Makabert Fynd's acute sense of injustice and seemingly insatiable discontent require no translation. Raging, belligerent music like this is becoming a rare beast, yet Makabert Fynd is not only surviving but defiantly thriving. —Paul Rogers

Evie Sands

@VIVA CANTINA

When one thinks about all of the hard times Evie Sands endured early in her career in the 1960s, it's somewhat amazing that she's still thriving and productive these days instead of permanently embittered. The Brooklyn-raised singer recorded radiant versions of "Take Me for a Little While," "I Can't Let Go" and "Angel of the Morning," but — thanks to bad timing and various music-industry shenanigans — could only watch helplessly as lesser performers scored hits that should have been hers. Sands had some success with a 1969 remake of "Any Way That You Want Me" and came into her own as a songwriter in the 1970s (penning tunes for Barbra Streisand, Dusty Springfield and, later on, Beth Orton and Beck), before dropping out of sight until a mid-'90s comeback. In recent years, she's appeared as a guitarist with local alt-pop maven Adam Marsland, but it's a rare thrill when she belts out a set of her own winsomely engaging tunes. —Falling James

Also playing:

NERVOUS GENDER, VIOLET TREMORS at the Echo; PUCCINI'S TURANDOT at Hollywood Bowl; HEROES & HEROINES, SODA JERKS, PUTNAM HALL, MOXY PHINX at the Satellite; THE CTHULUS at Origami.

mon 7/18

Theophilus London

@Troubadour

The East Coast counterpart of L.A.'s own neo–new wave hip-hop scene, Theophilus London keeps running his fingers through genres, smearing all the colors together for a sound that references early Prince as easily as Morrissey — first track on his latest, "Why Even Try," sounds like the Purple One layered with the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. Yet even as each of his four mixtapes and just-released, major-label debut, Timez Is Weird These Days (tonight's the record release), have roots in the synth-driven dance-pop of the '80s, they all branch out and move hip-hop even further into the future. As the title of his DâM-FunK remix says, "Accept the New." —Rebecca Haithcoat

Crystal Antlers

@THE ECHO

Long Beach's Crystal Antlers continue their Monday night Echo residency, this time with Tijuana Panthers, Jeffertitti's Nile and the Allah Las. Crystal Antlers' sophomore full-length album, Two-Way Mirror, which was released July 12 on their new imprint Recreation Ltd., marks a new direction for the psych-rock band. They've turned to new territory, both physically and sonically, to record the follow-up to 2009's Tentacles, the final LP released by famous independent label Touch and Go before they went out of business. Crystal Antlers wrote much of the material in a small town in Mexico before returning home to California to record with the help of producer Ikey Owns of the Mars Volta/Free Moral Agents, adding in more pop and post-punk echoes than ever before. —Lainna Fader