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The Troubadour
9081 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: West Hollywood
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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
Catalina Bar & Grill
6725 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Out of Town
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Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is a man of multiple voices, talents and interests. A few years back he saw an opportunity to use his self-described "Ferrari" of a studio band, which provides music for his animated series, to back him onstage in echoing the Rat Pack days of Frank Sinatra. MacFarlane's vocal efforts are good enough to have garnered him a 2011 Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, and the sessions creating it were described by superstar drummer Peter Erskine as "the best I've ever worked on." Much like the Rat Pack's, MacFarlane's live shows are laced with humor and conversation, and he and the band even use some of Sinatra's original scores in creating music. —Tom Meek
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Goliath
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These aptly named deathcore heavyweights are a distinctly streetwise face of the genre, shunning fantastic or gory imagery in favor of ugly, grainy storytelling. While both the band's vocalists are equally unintelligible, their conversation of contrasts — one truly Cookie Monster guttural, the other higher and more frantically possessed — keeps Goliath clear of the monotony that has characterized so many ostensibly similar acts. Though ominous, chuggy and heavy as fuck, this local sextet seldom wallows, coming across more as genuine instigators than mere negative ranters. Between sludgy passages of riffs, Goliath's rivet-gun blast-beats should morph even shuddering wallflowers into flailing pit bosses. —Paul Rogers
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The Mae Shi have been missed. In the early aughts, the ebullient art-punks were a staple of L.A.'s all-ages music mecca the Smell, and when they released their bright 2008 LP HLLLYH, the group seemed poised to inherit the good rep of similarly minded acts like Deerhoof and Q And Not U. The band eventually imploded, but the original members are reuniting for this intimate show. Expect a contentious mix of Casio beats and shredded guitars, and to shout along to unsung classics like "Run to Your Grave." Also appearing are local disco noiseniks Laco$te, whose singer Xenia Shin coos postapocalyptic come-ons over dark dance beats and glitch-riddled effects. Hosting the night is funny man Andrew Hyland in the trailer-trashy guise of Jesse Miller, a self-proclaimed Hollywood mogul who divines his insights from a Monster Energy drink. —Chris Martins
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Don't hate Lana Del Rey because she's beautiful. The American singer formerly known as Lizzy Grant may seem to have it all — she has drop-dead good looks, just appeared on Saturday Night Live and is about to release a lavishly lush breakthrough major-label album, Born to Die — but it's as if the fates want to punish her for all of her recent fortune. The album's title reveals that there's a lot more going on with Del Rey than simple, escapist mainstream pop, and a river of sadness runs inexorably through tragic-romantic tunes like "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans." The Lake Placid, N.Y., native exudes plenty of natural star power, but haters like Juliette Lewis (of all people) already are dissing Del Rey for not commanding the stage with enough authority in early live appearances. We suspect they'll be eating their words, and eating from her hands, long before the year is over. —Falling James
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In early September, Perez Hilton discovered the video for Iggy Azalea's song "Pu$$y." The visuals, which feature the 21-year-old native Australian and friends suggestively slurping ice cream as a little boy smacks the hindquarters of a toy horse, caused almost as much controversy as the bombshell blonde rapping about being "wetter than the Amazon." Although in person Iggy is bubbly and nothing like the fiercely sexual (and sometimes problematic) pinup in her videos, expect a demeanor intent on domination tonight — having just signed to Interscope, this performance is her first major L.A. outing. —Rebecca Haithcoat
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Winner of the 2004 Thelonious Monk Jazz Composers Competition, pianist Misha Piatigorsky chose a path different from his contemporaries', forming an original group that deconstructs popular music and reassembles it into a jazz/classical hybrid that recalls the listener to the original tune, sometimes just barely. Partnered with drummer Chris Wabich, the pair adds a string quartet in treatments of songs by the Doors, David Bowie, the Beatles and, in deference to the group's (Black Dog) name, Led Zeppelin, among many others. Vibrato co-owner Eden Alpert's fondness for the band makes the classy club a regular tour stop, and the venue's piano, stage and acoustics are well-suited for the group's sometimes wild forays off rock history's beaten path. Sketchy Black Dog also appear Wednesday at downtown's Blue Whale, site of their 2011 live DVD recording. —Tom Meek
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