Music Picks: Coldplay, Estelle, Joss Stone, Lana Del Rey

Also playing:

BLACK CRYSTAL WOLF KIDS, BIKOS at the Echo; JOSHUA BELL at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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Storm Large: See Saturday.

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Eleanor Friedberger: See Friday.

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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

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The Avalon

1735 Vine St.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Hollywood

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The Smell

247 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown

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Catalina Bar & Grill

6725 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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Pehrspace

325 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Echo Park

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Amoeba Music

6400 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Category: Music Venues

Region: Out of Town

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wed 2/8

Jóhann Jóhannsson

HOLLYWOOD FOREVER

Icelandic composer-musician–sound artist Jóhann Jóhannsson proffers a stately brand of not-rock that merges electronics and symphonic orchestrations channeled through the last 50 years' history of minimalism and other new-music conceptions. He's made several recordings for the likes of the Touch, Mille Plateaux and Mego labels, and scored a number of films, the latest of which is his somber, spine-tingling, brass band/pipe organ/electronics score for experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison's The Miners' Hymns (available via the Fat Cat imprint). Tonight, Jóhannsson is joined by the Formalist Quartet for a retrospective of his varied works; he also performs the Miners' Hymns score live on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" on Tues., Feb. 7, at 11:15 a.m. —John Payne

Coldplay

CLUB NOKIA

Listening to Coldplay isn't far removed from staking a permanent residence on the couch of that psychiatrist who won't shut up about a glorious light at tunnel's end. The U.K. band's newest, more narrative-based effort, Mylo Xyloto, isn't necessarily worlds cheerier than past efforts — dudes have always had a flair for the sugary side of life — but Chris Martin and his bombastic pals are still noticeably riding a crest of giddiness. For Coldplay, spreading the gospel of optimism, exemplified by this iHeartRadio charity performance benefiting local youth organizations, is quite fitting. Their new swirly-pop symphonies (listen for standouts "Paradise" and "Hurts Like Heaven") may not make that mountain of debt disappear, but they surely will make life's bitter pills a bit easier to swallow. —Dan Hyman

Also playing:

THEE SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA at Troubadour; LAURA GIBSON, BREATHE OWL BREATHE at the Echo; MACHINE GUN KELLY at Key Club; XIBALBA at Cobalt Café.

thu 2/9

Estelle

KEY CLUB

This English pop-soul lass is finally set to release the follow-up to her 2008 U.S. debut, Shine. Perhaps to remind folks of her existence before All of Me arrives Feb. 28, Estelle is on the road this month headlining the latest edition of BET's Music Matters Tour. (Curiously, last year's trek was headlined by a Brit, too: Marshia Ambrosius, formerly of Floetry.) None of the advance singles Estelle has released so far attains the lovely effervescence of "American Boy," her will.i.am-produced breakthrough; then again, hardly anyone else's have, either. Also on the bill: songwriters-turned-performers Stacy Barthe and Luke James, as well as Elle Varner, an L.A. native who says she was signed to J Records after being discovered checking coats at a club in New York. —Mikael Wood

Joss Stone & Dave Stewart

TROUBADOUR

Joss Stone and Dave Stewart have been thick as thieves lately: Last year he produced her fifth studio disc, LP1, then recruited her to join SuperHeavy, the supremely goofy world-beat supergroup they share with Mick Jagger, Damian Marley and A.R. Rahman. Now the U.K. retro-soul star and the former Eurythmic are out doing shows on what they're referring to as the More Love Tour; more (or perhaps less) precisely, it's a "music adventure like never before seen," according to Stewart's website, with special guests and everything. Whatever shape the gig takes tonight, expect lots and lots of singing: Compared to her earlier records, LP1 felt like a showcase for Stone's big-lunged vocals rather than her taste in old-fashioned R&B acts. —Mikael Wood

Enuff Z'Nuff

WHISKY A GO GO

When Enuff Z'Nuff's eponymous debut hit in 1989, the stars seemed perfectly aligned. For beneath the Illinois outfit's then MTV–requisite androgynous attire, DayGlo videos and masturbatory guitars beat a heart of near perfect, slightly psychedelic pop (notably in harmony-stacked singles "New Thing" and "Fly High Michelle"), which shamed most of its pouting peers. But in truth, the album offered a hell of a lot just a little too late: Grunge had damned all things poodle-haired and overproduced, and the major record labels dutifully threw promising babies like EZN out with the bathwater. Yet the band has endured through numerous lineup changes (and two members' deaths), maintaining international cult status based on its sheer songwriting prowess. With Enuff's main men (singer Donnie Vie and bassist Chip Z'Nuff) reunited, expect hypermelodic heyday flashbacks. —Paul Rogers

Also playing:

ROBERTA FLACK at Segerstrom Center; MARK LANEGAN BAND, LEGENDARY DUO at the Echoplex; CLASS ACTRESS at the Echo; RUMSPRINGA, KIEV at Bootleg Bar; LOUIE CRUZ BELTRAN at Vitello's.