BOOTLEG
9081 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: West Hollywood
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123 Astronaut E S Onizuka St., No. 301
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Chinatown/ Elysian Park
8430 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Out of Town
111 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Music Venues
Region: Out of Town
This longtime L.A. singer-songwriter has spent the past couple of years working as one-third of the Living Sisters, her cheeky country-folk trio with Inara George of the Bird & the Bee and Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond. Tonight, though, she takes the stage (at the exceedingly early hour of 8 p.m.) under her own name, presumably playing songs from the string of excellent solo discs she released prior to the Living Sisters gig. Her latest, 2009's Artificial Fire, balanced her inclination toward after-hours torch-song balladry with a number of jumpy roots-rock numbers. Headliner Aaron Embry appears in the wake of his own group stint, in his case as a keyboardist with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. —Mikael Wood
Also playing:
ARKHAM RAZOR at Cobalt Café; TWO MAN GENTLEMAN BAND at the Satellite; ROSIE LEDET at St. Rocke.
mon 1/16
ECHOPLEX
If you're known to enjoy a tasty microbrew, carry a messenger bag and relish the looks cast your way when you're trying out a new pair of retro tube socks or a creative facial hairstyle, then you've probably found yourself comfortably at ease in L.A.'s home away from the crunchy Northwest, Echo Park. This week, two of that region's finest, Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live) and Carrie Brownstein (formerly of Sleater-Kinney), bring their TV sketch-comedy project, Portlandia, to the Echoplex stage, ground zero for L.A.'s hippie types. The series, which they've described as a "love letter" to Portland, is now in its second season on IFC, and rare is the Facebook newsfeed that hasn't featured at least one clip of Armisen's and Brownstein's over-the-top characters: the couple that can't stop watching Battlestar Galactica DVDs; the longhaired, feminist bookstore owners; the obsessive free-range, organic-only foodies. So put on your nicest flannel, grab a beer at Mohawk Bend and bike down the street to catch the live version of Portlandia. It features outtakes, stories and songs from the little Northwest city where the dream of the '90s is alive and well. Also Tues. —Erica E. Phillips
Clare Fischer Big Band
VITELLO'S
Grammy-winning composer-arranger Clare Fischer got his start in the 1950s as the pianist and arranger for legendary group the Hi-Lo's. He moved on as jazz arranger and pianist for musicians including Dizzy Gillespie, Cal Tjader, Joe Pass, George Shearing, Bud Shank and Donald Byrd, and composer of symphonic works played by orchestras worldwide. Beginning in the 1980s, Fischer became one of the most sought-after arrangers in popular music; his résumé includes working with Prince, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Natalie Cole, Celine Dion and Chaka Khan. With the release of 2011's Continuum Fischer, he surpassed the 50th-album mark and received yet another Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement. Fischer's big band now is directed by his son Brent and includes many local studio legends. —Tom Meek
Also playing:
JACQUES LESURE JAM at NOLA'S.
tue 1/17
Early Winters, Nicole Eva Emery
There are at least three different sides to British songbird Carina Round. There's the beguiling singer-songwriter who appeared at this club a few weeks ago. Then there's the psychedelic, hard-rocking wraith who exchanged unholy harmonies with Maynard James Keenan when Puscifer passed through town last month. Now, in a contrastingly mainstream pop collaboration with Justin Rutledge, she reappears/reinvents herself in Early Winters. Fragile ballads like "Turn Around" and such sugary tunes as "Spanish Burn" exude considerable pop potential, although one misses the unpredictable twists and dark corners of Round's solo work. Nicole Eva Emery often performs with the baroque folkie Jesca Hoop (and has also sung backup vocals for Bob Dylan and Rickie Lee Jones), but her own music is heavier and more sprawling as her somber vocals unfurl in slow, mesmerizing waves of watery guitar. —Falling James
Steve Reich, Bang on a Can All-Stars, red fish blue fish
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
Many years ago, a young composer named Steve Reich from NYC had a few ideas about repetition. He made a tape of a preacher hollering "It's gonna rain," made two loops of it and played them back slightly out of sync, creating a mesmeric, moiré pattern–like music. It was an idea he'd developed along with experimenters such as Terry Riley, a "minimalism" that became a hugely influential movement. Reich has worked in varied formats based on propulsive repetition of simple materials, none more supremely moving than his shimmering Music for 18 Musicians, scored for strings, clarinets, voices, pianos and mallet instruments. Tonight Reich and his longtime collaborators, the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the California percussion group red fish blue fish, celebrate his 75th birthday with a performance of 18 Musicians, along with Reich's new double rock quintet 2x5 and classics Clapping Music and Piano Phase/Video Phase. —John Payne
Joanna Malfatti Trio
BLUE WHALE
The venerable California Institute of the Arts is a bastion of creativity, its musical alumni seeping into every branch of the Hollywood music industry. From film scoring to indie rock to jazz, they infuse an often predictable and banal industry with imagination and artistic honesty. Drummer Joanna Malfatti is the latest bright light to come from the program, maybe to follow the trajectories of other mercurial CalArts beatmakers like Kneebody's Nate Wood and Black Note's Willie Jones III. She has her own orbit, however, seamlessly interpolating freer forms of textural improvising with stone grooves that betray her intensive study of African music. Malfatti is joined by fellow CalArtians Cathlene Pineda, a sublime pianist who equally rocks Paul Bley or Paul Hindemith, and Emilio Terranova, a rising star on bass. —Gary Fukushima
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