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Also playing:

LA FONT, BLACK APPLES at Silverlake Lounge; MOSES CAMPBELL, RACES at Bootleg Theater.

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No Age: See Thursday.

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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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Region: Burbank

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tue 7/19

Alkaline Trio

@TROUBADOUR

These long-running Chicago goth-punk guys are out on the road in support of Damnesia, a new set of acoustic remakes of tunes from throughout their death-haunted songbook. (The album, like the tour, marks the band's 15th anniversary together.) Despite a brief major-label stint a few years ago, Alkaline Trio never quite managed the mainstream breakthrough some of their Warped Tour cohorts did; that's probably why they returned to Indieland in 2010, partnering with Epitaph to form their own label, Heart & Skull. Still, their cult remains remarkably devoted, especially in the band's second home of Southern California. Their two Troubadour gigs are sold out. With the Smoking Popes, another hardy Windy City pop-punk act. Also Thurs. —Mikael Wood

Imelda May

@EL REY

Her fine new Mayhem record hits the streets come July 19, so grab it while you can and race on down to El Rey to see her holler it live onstage. The Dublin-born May has that rarest thing, charisma, and her band gets a tricky sound so right, a beauteous fusion of twangin' surf guitars, swing, rockabilly, blues and May's own 1920s flapper-girl scat-style brazenness. It's an oomph-packed formula that made her debut, Love Tattoo, such a huge gonzo triple platinum–type smasheroo last year, here and abroad and elsewhere. The new album only adds further power and confidence to the sound, if such a thing is possible, and boasts an odd highlight in a wicked take on Soft Cell's "Tainted Love." Big party tonight: Imelda and her boys'll be dressed to the nines, believe it. —John Payne

Also playing:

NIK FREITAS, JEREMY MESSERSMITH at the Satellite; DUDAMEL/MOZART at Hollywood Bowl; THE REMAINERS at Bootleg Bar; WOOLEN at Lot 1.

wed 7/20

Gary Lucas

@GRAMMY MUSEUM

Guitar wiz Gary Lucas is an arty octopus string superstar who first made his name as a young member of the Magic Band figuring out and actually playing the rhythms and rocky landscapes of Captain Beefheart, and later on performing and composing (and being Grammy-nominated) with the late Jeff Buckley. He's lately brought back his long-running Gods and Monsters project with a new album, The Ordeal of Civility, produced by the Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison and masterfully rocked by Television's Billy Ficca on drums and the Modern Lovers' Ernie Brooks on bass. Lucas has shown a voracious appetite and instrumental facility for a jaw-droppingly wide variety of musics old and new and exotic and familiar, including Chinese pop songs from the 1930s and '40s, avant-ish scores for silent films and intelligent rethinks on the deepest of Delta blues. He brings an enormous breadth of vision to his music, in other words — as well as some really astounding chops. Guitar players or the merely curious, there's a lot to dig here. —John Payne

Also playing:

BIG YOUTH, KHAIRY ARBY at the Echo; WOLFGANG SCHALK QUARTET at Blue Whale; PEK PEK at Silverlake Lounge; SATURN NEVER SLEEPS at the Airliner.

thu 7/21

No Age

@LEVITT PAVILION AT MACARTHUR PARK

Summer's here, and the time is right for dancing in the streets ... and in public parks and other outdoor spaces. Usually, such open-air shows tend to be nostalgia fests aimed at aging baby boomers who want to relive their classic-rock past, but this evening's booking is bracingly adventurous. No Age might be more associated with dank and dark nightclubs like the Smell, where the local post-punk duo got their start, but there's something wickedly exciting about the thought of Randy Randall and Dean Spunt ruffling the feathers of MacArthur Park's pigeons with their yearning blasts of fuzzed-out noise. No Age's new Sub Pop album, Everything in Between, doesn't follow any particular formula, ranging from atmospheric post-punk soundscapes ("Positive Amputation," "Life Prowler") to straight-up punk barnburners ("Fever Dreaming") and even an atypical lo-fi aside ("Common Heat"). —Falling James

DâM-FunK, The Coathangers

@FREAK CITY

A lot of parties promise that they can't, they won't and they don't stop — but we're puttin' our get-down-and-dirty money on this one. L.A.'s own DâM-FunK, who time-travels with a grab-bag of funkdified goodies, ranging from his own sophisticated G-shit to boogie to modern soul to Italo-disco, headlines. But listen up if you like hot girls playing punk really rambunctiously as much for themselves as for you: Atlanta quartet the Coathangers drop in to tear up the stage, shake the room into a seething mass, and maybe scare you a little bit (that's where their guns are aimed, we think). Nocando and Salva round out the helluva night. —Rebecca Haithcoat

Owl City

@CLUB NOKIA

Last year this small-town Minnesota synth-pop whiz played Club Nokia behind the smash-hit success of "Fireflies," Owl City's blippy 2009 tribute to the Postal Service (the band, not the mailmen). At that time Adam Young seemed more interested in taking Owl City in a boring indie-drone direction than in duplicating the appealing electro-emo whimsy of "Fireflies." So give it up for the guy because on All Things Bright and Beautiful, the new follow-up to his million-selling Ocean Eyes, Young resists the urge to go chillwave and sticks instead to what he does best — even if the radio is no longer listening. With earnest singer-songwriter dude Mat Kearney and Breanne Düren, who also plays in the Owl City live band. —Mikael Wood

Also playing:

BEN FOLDS at the Wiltern; FOOL'S GOLD, ICEAGE at Amoeba; RESBOX at Steve Allen Theater; ABE VIGODA, PARENTHETICAL GIRLS, EXTRA LIFE at the Echo; TRIO SANGHA at Blue Whale; DUDAMEL/STRAUSS at Hollywood Bowl; HEAVY at Echoplex; TIM ROBBINS & THE ROGUES GALLERY BAND at Largo.