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CAFÉ CORDIALE

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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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111 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Music Venues

Region: Out of Town

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Once a year drummer Gregg Bissonette hosts a Sunday night show at Café Cordiale, replete with fellow all-star musicians. Bissonette counts stints with Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Ringo Starr, Santana and David Lee Roth among his credits, which also include numerous film and TV soundtracks. His companions tonight include trumpeter Walt Fowler (Frank Zappa), sax/flute/EWI studio master Steve Tavaglione, electric mega-bassist Jimmy "Flim" Johnson, and Jimmy Kimmel Live keyboard wiz Jeff Babko. Bissonette's drumming is respected enough that he was invited to play for the first Buddy Rich Memorial Concert alongside drum luminaries Vinnie Colaiuta, Dennis Chambers, Steve Gadd, Dave Weckl and Louie Bellson. Expect a standing room–only crowd, but it'll be worth it. —Tom Meek

Africa Hitech, JonWayne

BARDOT

The title of Africa Hitech's debut album for Warp, 93 Million Miles, refers to the distance between the Earth and the Sun, but it could just as well allude to vast sonic territory covered by veteran genre-hopper Mark Pritchard (Global Communications, Jedi Knights) and Steve Spacek (from triphop-ish outfit Spacek) in the record's 58 minutes. From ambient field records and astral jazz to grimy beats and pitched bass, there's a far-reaching mix of African and electronic sounds that flow throughout this LP, one of the most entrancing records released this year. Master rapper/beatsmith JonWayne, who just dropped The Death of Andrew, a killer follow-up to his fantastic 8-bit influenced Bowser, opens. —Lainna Fader

Also playing:

BLACK ELEPHANT, TRAPSPS, THE LOVELY BAD THINGS, COSMONAUTS at the Smell; JOHN DAVERSA SMALL BAND at the Baked Potato.

mon 11/28

Sting

WILTERN

Say what you will about Sting's fabled yoga practices and adult-contemporary leanings, it's hard to quibble about someone who has written such seminal tunes as "Roxanne" and "Every Breath You Take." This year, to celebrate his 60th birthday and his 25th anniversary as a solo artist, Sting has embarked on a "Back to Bass" tour, which features stripped-down versions of his solo hits as well as classic Police tunes. For Sting, stripped down means being backed by a five-piece band, with nary a lute or symphony orchestra in earshot. His three-night stand at the Wiltern should be a dream come true for fans hankering to see him in an intimate setting following his sold-out arena shows on The Police reunion tour. —Laura Ferreiro

Russian Circles

TROUBADOUR

However interesting its instrumentation, rock & roll traditionally achieves its most intimate connection through vocals, which makes sans-singing rockers like this Chicago group brave indeed. Like all effective mouthless outfits, this adventurous trio sees their dearth of words as more gift than curse, allowing them to explore places too dense and detailed for the frailties of the human voice, and structures too oblique to support repeated melody. On new album Empros, gauzy guitars step aside to let the bass flex and fuzz in the foreground, while drums batter with earnest bluster. The effect is that of a mute Secret Machines (whose Brandon Curtis produced the record), until closer "Praise Be Man" allows some blurry singing in and reminds that Russian Circles are largely instrumental wholly by choice. —Paul Rogers

Also playing:

RHETT MILLER at Largo; ROBBY MARSHALL GROUP at Seven Grand.

tue 11/29

CSU Northridge Jazz Ensemble's Rolling Stones Tribute

VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Rising up like a cultural oasis from the desert floor of the San Fernando Valley, the beautiful new VPAC is the equal of such venerable structures as Disney, Dorothy and Royce. It's also the home court of the best college jazz ensemble on the West Coast. This band routinely produces top-notch albums and wins contests, including the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival, where they are an annual mainstay. This homage features Stones veterans backup singer Bernard Fowler and saxophonist Tim Ries, Big Phat Band drummer Bernie Dresel, and esteemed jazz guitarist Jeff Miley. Rounding out the ringers is everyone's favorite, Larry Goldings, near perfection on piano and/or organ. —Gary Fukushima

Cave, Sun Araw

SATELLITE

Formed by some of the guys from Warhammer 48K, CAVE zero in on the repetitious pounding and pummeling nature of the best dual drummer'd, riff-heavy hard psychedelic rock. You hear Circle and Pharoah Overlord, as well as Hawkward and Can and Lightning Bolt and Faust, all boiled down into one shaken, stirred and blown-up megafrenzied band. Though they released their debut, Hunt Like Devil/Jamz, on Permanent Records (the label counterpart to the Eagle Rock record shop), CAVE is now at home on Chicago indie powerhouse Drag City, and they play tonight with Sun Araw. —Lainna Fader

Liz Pappademas

BOOTLEG THEATER

We're still amazed about the way Liz Pappademas has reinvented herself. A few years ago, she was a solo singer-songwriter with a decisively propulsive, Fiona Apple piano style matched with unusually dense and poetic lyrics. Since then, she's surrounded herself with a full band, the Level, and released an ambitious concept album, Television City, about romantic entanglements played out against the backdrop of a fictional game show. Pappademas has said the album is a spiritual cross between Brian Eno's Here Come the Warm Jets and Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger, but it sounds like no one else. —Falling James