Music Picks: Esperanza Spalding, Elbow, Toro Y Moi, Blink-182
Also, Glen Campbell, the Smashing Pumpkins, Lanie Lane and others
mon 10/3
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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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The Redwood Bar & Grill
316 W. Second St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Bars and Clubs
Region: Downtown
John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
2580 Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90068
Category: Music Venues
Region: Out of Town
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Toro Y Moi started 10 years ago as the bedroom project of South Carolina native Chaz Bundick, a 23-year-old singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist who's proved to be one of the pioneers of the burgeoning chillwave movement. With soft synths, dreamy vocals and catchy melodies, the critically adored Bundick makes listenable, well-crafted lo-fi pop songs that'll get stuck in your head for days and days. Tonight he plays with fuzzy, punky rock upstarts Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Bass Drum of Death. —Lainna Fader
Also playing:
PETER BJORN AND JOHN, EMPEROR X at the Smell; SWAHILI BLONDE at the Echo; DUM DUM GIRLS, CROCODILES at Troubadour; DAVID BINNEY QUARTET at Blue Whale.
tue 10/4
Takemitsu, Feldman, others
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
The L.A. Phil's new-music/contemporary classical series Green Umbrella opens its season with Dutch conductor Otto Tausk leading an ensemble in a provocatively juxtaposed selection of works. The program features the U.S. premiere of Austrian microtonalist composer Georg Friedrich Haas' Chants Oubliés (an L.A. Phil commission), and Zosha Di Castri's La forma dello spazio. Close listening to Morton Feldman's extraordinarily fine-graded Viola in My Life Nos. 1 and 2 pays deeply moving dividends. Likewise for the cleansing tone bath in Rain Coming by the 20th century's greatest orchestrator, Toru Takemitsu. —John Payne
Locksley
BOOTLEG BAR
Snappy sonic cousins to L.A.'s own Rooney (with whom they've toured), New Yorkers Locksley bring enough new wave slick and punky clip to their sunny '60s rock & roll to steer them well clear of "retro" territory. Melody matters most to these shaggy lads, so they can happily default to whoa-ohs and yeah-yeahs without dumbing down, but that's not to say there's any lack of wistful, lost-love melancholy amidst their outwardly optimistic creations. Locksley served a stint as Ray Davies' backing band and, even without him, proudly carry the torch for marvelously succinct, supertuneful rock-lite. A timely reminder that "pop music" needn't refer just to Britney and Big Time Rush. —Paul Rogers
Also playing:
FUNERAL PARTY and MONA at the Roxy; BEIRUT, LAETITIA SADIER at Greek Theatre; PETER BJORN AND JOHN at the Echo; DAN SARTAIN at Satellite; THE JAYHAWKS at Troubadour.
wed 10/5
Lanie Lane, Terra Naomi
SILVERLAKE LOUNGE
Lanie Lane is shameless about trying to bring back the past. She has a sweet, birdlike voice, which she uses to chase the ghosts of old blues and jazz legends. While the Australian wunderkind may not be entirely convincing on her earnest and clear-eyed remake of Willie Dixon's swaggering blues anthem "Hoochie Coochie Man," her version has a certain weird charm, and at least she's not trying to be ironic. Lane's mannerisms and vocal tics are obviously secondhand (to the point where it sounds like she's even imitating the tinny tone of an ancient turntable), but her voice is beguiling, making it no surprise that Jack White has already swooped in and recorded a single with her. Terra Naomi comes at a pop from a relatively modern mainstream singer-songwriter angle, but songs like "Time" and "Say It's Possible" are no less enchanting. —Falling James
WILTERN
With several early-'90s rock outfits celebrating two decades of notoriety, it should come as no surprise that Billy Corgan's Pumpkins also are prepping remastered releases of their highly influential albums. This gig, though — the first on a 12-city tour — is a different beast. Corgan, forever working on his 44-song "opus," Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, may use Oceania, his newest LP due next year, as justification, but who are we kidding? Like most of his recent outings, which have seen Corgan berating audiences, this minitour, with a lineup consisting of none of the band's original members, is another step in his never-ending quest for revalidation. The question then becomes, are people still willing to shell out the dough to hear a middle-aged man complain? You betcha. —Dan Hyman
Also playing:
BLONDIE, NICO VEGA at Club Nokia; FAUSTIN LINYEKULA/STUDIOS KABAKO at REDCAT; PETER BJORN & JOHN at El Rey Theatre; LOW ANTHEM at Troubadour; SLUMGUM, DWIGHT TRIBLE at Royal-T; QUARTETTO FANTASTICO at Blue Whale.
thu 10/6
CLUB NOKIA
Musical heroes don't generally give us the heads-up when they're ready to shuffle off into the great abyss, leaving behind nothing more than dusty footprints to honor their legends. That's not the case for Glen Campbell, '60s country icon, TV host, session master and all-around badass. The 75-year-old in June was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease; he decided to go on a final global jaunt in support of his new album, Ghost on the Canvas. The collection of vintage guitar-driven grit is aided with turns from admiring peers Paul Westerberg and Jakob Dylan. While certainly bittersweet, Campbell's slow demise, and subsequent soiree, is as good a notice as any that if you're looking to bid farewell to the Rhinestone Cowboy, now may be the time. —Dan Hyman
Black Star
HOUSE OF BLUES
Hard to believe Mos Def and Talib Kweli's only album, Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star, is 13 years old. After all, both MCs have managed to stay fresh-faced by running with younger cats. Mos, catching Odd Future's unholy spirit, shouted "Swag!" jubilantly into the Jimmy Fallon camera after the group's first televised appearance; Kweli has a big-brother relationship with Bow Wow. But their headlining set at last spring's Paid Dues gave them away — all those years in the game have polished them into consummate performers. The most promising rappers on the come-up point to both master lyricists as influencers, and we wouldn't be surprised if a few of them drop in on this show. —Rebecca Haithcoat
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