Also playing:
COLD (aka CHOLOS ON ACID) at Cobalt Café; LAIDBACK LUKE, ZEDD, CONGOROCK at Hollywood Palladium; CROCODILES, BLEEDING RAINBOW, DUNES at the Echoplex; PUNCH BROTHERS at El Rey Theatre; LUCKY DRAGONS at the Smell; LUIS AND THE WILDFIRES at Viva Cantina; SARA LEIB at Blue Whale.
316 W. Second St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Downtown
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Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Los Angeles, CA 90069
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sun 3/11
Nneka
TROUBADOUR
Just as she divides her time between Hamburg and Nigeria, and her lyrics between English and Igbo, German-Nigerian singer Nneka seems torn between love for her oil-rich African homeland and despair at the corruption that condemns much of it to poverty. But 15 tracks of hand-wringing would not much of an album (or career) make, so Nneka tastefully juggles genres — including R&B, reggae, hip-hop and Afropop — and vocal styles to sweeten the pot on last year's Soul Is Heavy. Equally happy rapping or sliding into an earthy, soulful croon, she's Lauryn Hill's logical successor, only with a vision that's as much panoramic as personal. Nneka might have fared better in the Live Aid–era '80s, when compassion briefly went mainstream, but her untimely arrival only makes her message more vital. —Paul Rogers
Slow Club
THE ECHOPLEX
Even if Slow Club singer-guitarist Charles Watson and singer-percussionist Rebecca Taylor don't get around to playing a lick of music tonight, they will still find ways to charm the audience. Watson will act as the straight man while Taylor tells jokes and cajoles the crowd to buy her a drink (although she was so sheepish when someone at their Spaceland gig in 2010 finally handed her a vodka that she apologized, calling it the "skankiest" thing she's ever done in her life). Many of the songs on Slow Club's most recent album, Paradise, capture that same sense of exuberance and joy, but for all of the Sheffield duo's carefree chemistry onstage, both Watson and Taylor take turns crooning incredibly sad and moving ballads like the intimate acoustic idyll "Hackney Marsh" and the beautifully delicate and elegiac "Gold Mountain." Seldom has sadness been so much fun. —Falling James
Lagwagon, Cobra Skull
EL REY THEATRE
In hindsight, Lagwagon were very aptly named. While other melody-loving '90s punks rushed madly to the freshly tapped keg of major-label success, the guys from Goleta dragged ass, uninterested in what would soon be a useless font of dissipating foam. They were never meant to be a Green Day or an Offspring; Lagwagon were better than that. Sure, they too traded in careening rhythms, sudden harmonies and squalling guitars, but even as far back as their 1992 debut, Duh, Lagwagon sounded more mature, sturdier, more together. While singer Joey Cape displayed a sense of humor, he never played the clown. Their politics were sharp, not shocking; the emotion plain, not maudlin. It's not surprising, then, that the group recently found the impetus to hit the road behind a box set compiling their five pre-millennial LPs — slow and steady wins the race. —Chris Martins
Billy Childs, Kronos Quartet, Bill Frisell
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
The L.A. Phil presents an unusual triple bill tonight with three standout acts. Guitarist Bill Frisell's Beautiful Dreamers open the evening as a trio, including violinist Edvynd Kang and drummer Rudy Royston, with a set expected to mix jazz and Americana. Next up is the San Francisco–based Kronos Quartet, who have set the musical bar for decades as the most consistently adventurous string quartet in modern music, winning a Grammy in 2004. Kronos will play a new composition written by the evening's final performer, multiple Grammy–winning pianist and composer Billy Childs, whose quartet includes Steve Wilson, Scott Colley and Brian Blade. Childs has plenty of experience composing for his own chamber ensemble, so a collaboration with Kronos should be a natural fit. —Tom Meek
Also playing:
TAKEN BY TREES at Bootleg Bar; GRITO ROCK L.A. at the Airliner.
mon 3/12
Apparat
EL REY THEATRE
This Berlin-based electro dude had a big 2011, landing his song "Goodbye" in the season finale of Breaking Bad and having iTunes name The Devil's Walk the best electronic album of the year. Now Apparat (aka Sascha Ring) is headed to the United States for what his label says are his first live shows here since 2007. He hits L.A. following a couple of dates in Mexico (where he created portions of The Devil's Walk) and just ahead of his trip to Austin for South by Southwest (where he'll play a KCRW showcase alongside Kimbra and Band of Skulls). Judging by clips on YouTube, the four-piece Apparat live band should appeal to folks who really dug that Sigur Rós concert film from last fall. You know who you are. —Mikael Wood
Counterparts
COBALT CAFÉ
Like all great hardcore crews, Canada's Counterparts are much more than just four chords and an overflow of anger issues. While lozenge-craving frontman Brendan Murphy is no contented camper, he vocalizes his discontent through (mostly) discernible lyrics, and his bandmates' instruments spasm and sputter in imaginative, attention-holding ways. The drums have an almost athletic discipline and dexterity; the bass dares to undulate away from the root notes; and the quintet's twin guitars converse and convulse with an occasional sense of metalcore curiosity. Any message hits home harder when artfully articulated, Counterparts' ferociously crafted call to arms included. —Paul Rogers
The named only Billy Childs did a bang'n job fill'n-in for Bobby West @ Double M Jazz Salon, Masters of the Ark led by Jesse Sharps. Aloe Blacc's side-personnel tenor saxophonist, Randal Fisher guest soloed. The young lion is from PAPA's den, a co-collaborator w/ Free Association @ The Rack, alternating Suns., & D'z Intern @ Dolores Petersen Presents: Showcase and Open Mic / Jam every Th nite "Companion Events @ HSB&G.
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