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KATIE CAMPBELL, NICK MANCINI at Vitello's.

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Rumer: See Tuesday.

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Walt Disney Concert Hall

111 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Music Venues

Region: Out of Town

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Alex's Bar

2913 E. Anaheim St.
Long Beach, CA 90804

Category: Music Venues

Region: Out of Town

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The Smell

247 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown

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El Rey Theatre

5515 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park

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Blue Whale

123 Astronaut E S Onizuka St., No. 301
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Chinatown/ Elysian Park

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The Baked Potato

3787 Cahuenga Blvd. W.
Studio City, CA 91604

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: San Fernando Valley

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The Echoplex

1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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tue 1/24

Danny Brown

THE ECHOPLEX

It says plenty about Danny Brown's views on the pop-rap mainstream that on his buzzed-about 2011 album, XXX, this Detroit-born MC waits until the track "Radio Song" to compare somebody's pussy to lupus. (Other off-color quotables from XXX include the bit in "Pac Blood" where he boasts of "rhymes that'll make the pope wanna get his dick sucked.") An asymmetrically coiffed, skinny jeans–clad oddball with an endearing gap in his grin, Brown is part of a new generation of Internet-rap acts whose renown has little to do with hit singles and energy-drink endorsements; dude's music seems like an extension of his off-kilter charisma, not the other way around. Here he appears as part of a so-called "takeover" by his label Fool's Gold, along with Main Attrakionz and Party Supplies. —Mikael Wood

Rumer

HOTEL CAFÉ

Not to be confused with the celebrispawn of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, Islamabad-born, British-based singer Rumer croons jazzy pop ballads in a gently intoxicating manner. If her sophisticated arrangements and mellow melodies evoke the breezy pop of Burt Bacharach, she has a right — the legendary songwriter has championed her music and even written songs specifically for her. However, Rumer, aka Sarah Joyce, is no mere song interpreter, having written or co-written most of the tunes on her full-length debut album, Seasons of My Soul. Say hello to this "Goodbye Girl" with the big Karen Carpenter voice as she launches her North American tour tonight. —Falling James

Raw Geronimo

LOS GLOBOS

Laena Geronimo was the bassist for the Like during their final and best era as a hip, high-velocity B-52s-via-Blondie pop band. But she's always been admirably generous with her multi-instrumentality, adding violin, voice and more to noted locals like Starlite Desperation and Swahili Blonde. In between, she's nurtured her longtime solo project, Raw Geronimo, now recently expanded — more like "exploded" — into a full and wild live band with a brand-new 45 releasing at this show. If you remember the B-sides of '80s punk comps, where "art" bands like the Nuns, Los Microwaves and Suburban Lawns matched playful technique with a sense of humor and the sheer force of personality, then you'll recognize Raw Geronimo instantly: new wave in the best and weirdest way. —Chris Ziegler

Also playing:

WILCO at the Hollywood Palladium; LOUIE CRUZ BELTRAN at Vitello's.

wed 1/25

Skrillex, Diplo, 12th Planet, Frankie Chan

ECHO

If Aphex Twin and Trent Reznor had had a baby, it probably would have been Skrillex. Straight outta East L.A., the kid with the gothy hair first gained notoriety as frontman for Epitaph punks From First to Last. He went solo to pursue his dubstep-electro-glitch urges in wickedly eclectic mixes that jumble sweet melodics via trance-y synth lines, fearsome electro bass blasts and a pure rock & roll instinct. It's an almost peculiarly perfect set of skills that has made him a much-in-demand remixer, of course (including Katy Perry's "Marry the Night"), and suddenly he's everywhere: He's been nominated for five Grammy Awards this year! He'll be battling L.A.'s bass/wobble comer 12th Planet; also Diplo, the Mad Decent/Favela Funk mainman and biggie remixer (Beyoncé, Snoop Dogg). —John Payne

John West

THE ROXY

As recently as last summer, this Baton Rouge transplant could be seen doing his thing every weekend on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, and he's still known to hit that open-air venue (of sorts) when the mood strikes him. At the moment, though, John West is keeping busy with work on his debut for Island Def Jam's Mercury imprint. Last year the label released advance cuts, featuring rappers Pusha T (of the Clipse) and Big Sean, which suggest it plans to market West to those hip-hop heads who bought John Mayer's records. Tonight West headlines a Vibe-sponsored show at the Roxy with support from Los Angeles' good food–loving TiRon & Ayomari and Raphael Saadiq protégés Tha Boogie. —Mikael Wood

Co.Fee

THE AIRLINER

The My Hollow Drum collective probably is best known to the wider world as home base for beatmaker Teebs, whose deep and liquid compositions were famously lauded by Flying Lotus as sounding like Avatar looked. So what does that make Hollow Drum member Co.Fee? Last year's Easy Listening sounds like what the space marines needed in Aliens: sophisticated electronics, vicious slashes of synthesizer and bass dropping at velocity from deep space. He's got samples from all over this planet — people who chase down world-music reissues for the fuzz guitar will know just where Co.Fee's coming from — and a destination way out in the unknown. It's music for anyone who ever secretly rooted for the monsters to win. —Chris Ziegler

Also playing:

WILCO at the Wiltern; ROY HARGROVE QUINTET at Catalina; ALABAMA SHAKES at Troubadour; KURT ROSENWINKEL at Musicians Institute; BOWERY BEASTS, WHISPERING PINES, ZIG ZAGS at Bootleg Bar.

thu 1/26

Wolves in the Throne Room

ECHOPLEX

This Washington State outfit hails from a subculture sufficiently obsessed with detail that its Los Angeles-based record label, Southern Lord, describes Wolves in the Throne Room this way: "A band that merge[s] a Cascadian eco-spiritual awareness with the misanthropic Norwegian eruptions of the '90s." More simply put, it plays ferocious (if oddly beautiful) black metal about hugging trees. Its latest, last year's Celestial Lineage, features titles like "Rainbow Illness" and "Woodland Cathedral," the latter of which received the NPR-stream treatment alongside tunes by Neon Indian and Markéta Irglová of the Swell Season. Whatever the specifics of the band's circumstance, its live show — volume, smoke, superfast drum beats — is an accessible spectacle to behold. —Mikael Wood

Also playing:

TIM LEFEBVRE, DANNY FRANKEL at Blue Whale; THE WOOD BROS. at Largo; BIG FREEDIA at Bootleg Bar; BERN at Cafe Cordiale; ALLAH LAS, EXPLODING FLOWERS, CELLAR DOORS at the Satellite.