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The Echoplex

1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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3790 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90010

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3221 Donald Douglas Loop S.
Santa Monica, CA 90405

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TV on the Radio, Arctic Monkeys, Panda Bear, Warpaint, Smith Westerns

HOLLYWOOD BOWL

It's hard to believe that the Bowl season is already at an end, but what better way to close it out than a quintuple bill featuring some of the best indie rockers on both sides of the Atlantic? Topping tonight's lineup is TV on the Radio, whose stellar new album, Nine Types of Light, is one of the best of the Brooklyn band's distinguished career. Co-headliners Arctic Monkeys have been selling out shows all year behind their fourth consecutive No. 1 album in their native U.K., Suck It and See. Recorded in Los Angeles, it boasts upbeat, guitar-driven licks reminiscent of Franz Ferdinand and the Clash, with frontman Alex Turner's gift for a turn of phrase. Also on tonight's bill are L.A. indie darlings Warpaint, Animal Collective spinoff Panda Bear and promising young Chicago quartet Smith Westerns. —Laura Ferreiro

Also playing:

SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS at the Echo (Grand Ole Echo); THEO BLECKMANN, TODD SICKAFOOSE at REDCAT; NYAZ with AZAM ALI at El Rey Theatre; PAT METHENY at Santa Monica Performing Arts Center.

mon 9/26

Emil Richards Big Band

TYPHOON

Typhoon at the Santa Monica Airport has three things that make it fairly unusual: an Asian menu including insects (anyone for Taiwanese crickets?), easy, free parking and a Monday night big-band series that has quietly become a Westside jazz favorite. Tonight the stage is taken by vibraphonist and percussion wizard Emil Richards, who has been plying his trade since the 1950s. Richards' résumé includes playing with Frank Sinatra and Frank Zappa, Don Ellis, George Harrison, Bing Crosby, Joni Mitchell, John Williams and Quincy Jones, plus nearly 2,000 recordings, movies and television shows. Richards' respect among fellow musicians surrounds him with many of L.A.'s other studio legends for his occasional 17-piece big-band shows, which feature easily more than 500 years' worth of collective musical genius. Consider yourself lucky if you can get a table. —Tom Meek

Also playing:

HANNI EL KHATIB, KISSING COUSINS, FEEDING PEOPLE at the Echo.

tue 9/27

Duran Duran, Neon Trees

NOKIA THEATRE

Discard Red Carpet Massacre, the thumping, beat-heavy 2007 disaster from suave '80s synth stars Duran Duran. That was a misguided attempt at relevancy that saw Simon Le Bon, Roger Taylor and co. pairing up with, of all people, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. Instead, focus on their newest Mark Ronson–produced effort, All You Need Is Now, a return to the iconic brand of crotch-thrusting cheese rock that once had women readily removing their La Blanca bikinis, and you'll instantly remember why you once told people you didn't like "the prettiest boys in rock," even though you clearly did. They're joined (rather oddly) by Mohawk-donning Tyler Glenn and Neon Trees, the Utah faux–new wave crew who've infiltrated mainstream consciousness thanks to their chart-topping single "Animal," from their 2010 debut LP, Habits. —Dan Hyman

Herbie Hancock

HOLLYWOOD BOWL

Jazz piano ace Herbie Hancock is eminently qualified to do the interpretin' as he, conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A. Phil dig into a big, tasty platter of that most uniquely American composer, George Gershwin. They'll play the heart-thumping Rhapsody in Blue, of course, and the swinging An American in Paris, yes. But you also get the lesser-known Cuban Overture, an exuberant, to say the least, piece of fantastic rhythmic variation. Hancock got his start playing the classical stuff as a child prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. Like Gershwin, his head and heart are all over the musical map, equally at home in the trad and modern jazz contexts, right on up to hip-hoppy funk and pop-savvy fluff. Perhaps this former Miles Davis man can whip up a Rhapsody in Kind of Blue ... just a thought. —John Payne

Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys

GREEK THEATRE

When Emmylou Harris headlined El Rey Theatre earlier this year, the Nashville country-folk chanteuse was hardly in a nostalgic mood, eschewing her many classics and early hits for a set of all-new songs from her latest album, Hard Bargain. It was a brave choice that emphasized the emotional intensity of such moving ballads as "My Name Is Emmett Till" and "Darlin' Kate" (an ode to the late Kate McGarrigle). The only problem was that, apart from a guest appearance by Ryan Adams, Harris was backed by just a guitarist and a keyboardist doubling on electric drums, and the songs felt thin and a little stiff. For tonight's set, she'll be joined by a larger band, the Red Dirt Boys, who should give those tunes some heft and personality. Her pals Patty Griffin & Buddy Miller open the show, adding to the down-home family vibe. —Falling James

MC Chris

TROUBADOUR

After watching what George Lucas has done to Star Wars in his latest edits, you'll probably need to blow off some steam, maybe hang out with people just as upset by the plundering of their childhoods as you. Fortunately, MC Chris, the king of nerdcore (who prefers to not be married to that genre), will hang around to comfort you with his mad hip-hop skillz. To date, MC Chris has five albums, as well as a couple EPs and soundtrack contributions that focus on geek life and are filled with references to Star Wars, Serenity, video games and being picked on. This, along with his growing popularity in the comedy scene and assorted work with Adult Swim (most notably his role as MC Pee Pants on Aqua Teen Hunger Force), has MC Chris on his way to becoming a legend in the nerdverse. —Diamond Bodine-Fischer