Music Picks: Hugh Cornwell, Carlos Guitarlos, Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion
Also, Charlene Soraia, Chuck Loeb, the Head Cat, Feed Me and others
The Head Cat
THE ROXY
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Bootleg Theater
2200 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Out of Town
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Catalina Bar & Grill
6725 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Out of Town
House of Blues Sunset Strip
8430 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Out of Town
El Rey Theatre
5515 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park
Blue Whale
123 Astronaut E S Onizuka St., No. 301
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Bars/Clubs
Region: Chinatown/ Elysian Park
Walt Disney Concert Hall
111 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Category: Music Venues
Region: Out of Town
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The thought of big, bad Lemmy Kilmister crooning acoustic Buddy Holly pop songs evokes other unexpected images, like Godzilla getting a job in a china shop or Frankenstein having a tea party with stuffed animals. Most of Lemmy's fans are used to seeing him blow down the walls with his fearsome, longtime hard-rock trio Motorhead, but the English singer-bassist's gloriously ravaged pipes also work surprisingly well amid the stripped-down intimacy of his rockabilly side project, the Head Cat. There's a kind of raw Teddy Boy soul when he yowls his way through Holly's "Not Fade Away" and Carl Perkins' "Matchbox" with that distinctively husky voice. Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom and ace guitarist Danny B. Harvey keep things rocking, replacing Motorhead's hurricane force and volume with a low-key roots-rock savvy. —Falling James
Also playing:
JOVANOTTI at El Rey Theatre; JANIVA MAGNESS at McCabe's; JOHNNY MANDEL BIG BAND at Vitello's; HOWARD ALDEN at Alvas Showroom.
sun 3/18
Lindstrøm
EL REY THEATRE
Pretty much everything you need to know about this Norwegian disco revivalist's dedication to old-school tunecraft is contained in the fact that dude got Todd Rundgren to remix a cut from his just-released album, Six Cups of Rebel. (Who knew Rundgren was even taking submissions for remix work!?) On Six Cups, his solo follow-up to 2010's excellent Real Life Is No Cool collab with singer Christabelle, Lindstrøm stretches out his Laffy Taffy electro-pop grooves to newly ecstatic extremes without sacrificing the supersticky hooks that distinguish him from so many of his peers. Expect that he'll stretch them even further tonight, and that he'll throw in some material he has created since finishing Six Cups. —Mikael Wood
LIQUID KITTY
If you're going to name yourself Carlos Guitarlos, you'd better make sure you're a damned good guitarist. So good, in fact, that you can play anywhere, out on the streets or in a fancy concert hall, with the uncanny ability to pull from memory just about any blues-rock classic and, on top of that, play it in a style that's uniquely your own. And then, somehow, you should also be so good that you can write and sing dozens of your own originals, in all manner of genres, from bewitchingly sad ballads and deft Beatles-like pop structures to ragingly dirty blues and Latin soul. You'd better be so good that you can become a waste case midway through your long career and piss off all of your remaining friends and end up living on the street, and — when you finally stagger back to your feet like a punch-drunk boxer — still play like a mother and earn the plaudits of a new generation of loyal fans. —Falling James
Also playing:
DIA FRAMPTON at Troubadour; SIR RICHARD BISHOP at Museum of Jurassic Technology; WEILERSTEIN PLAYS TCHAIKOVSKY at Disney Concert Hall.
mon 3/19
THE HOTEL CAFÉ
Charlene Soraia coos mellow pop songs with gentle acoustic backing and occasional orchestral washes of strings, but there's nothing wimpy about the music on the 23-year-old English singer's debut, Moonchild. Whether she's tripping about in ethereal spaces with gauzy spells like "Lightyears" and the quietly urgent "Postcards From Io" or falling back to Earth with pastoral reveries like "Daffodils," Soraia layers her chansons with soulfully sumptuous harmonies. A former classmate of Kate Nash and Adele, she even shows her "bad" side on the slyly charming confessional "Almost Stole a Book." Even more impressive is Soraia's masterful dexterity on guitar; she underscores her dreamy tunes with subtly pulsing chords and jazzy inflections. —Falling James
Useless Keys
SATELLITE
Useless Keys' stoned, zoned and sometimes droning indie psychedelia is deceptively purposeful. The beats are basic yet make significant shifts of venom and velocity; the artfully strangulated guitars tune in, drop out and knowingly lurk to maximum effect; and Michael Bauer's vocals are airily vacant as if, as much as anything, to add weight to their sonic surroundings. Set stalwarts "White Noise" and "Down Threw" make pretty bitchin' bong songs, but these well-liked locals also offer a gentle poetry and cultured grasp of arrangement that distance them from so many acts exploring ostensibly similar sensibilities. —Paul Rogers
Also playing:
TEMPER TRAP, PAPA at El Rey Theatre; LONEY DEAR at Bootleg Theater; VOXHAUL BROADCAST at the Satellite; ED SCHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT at Pehrspace; BLACK TUSK at Whisky A Go Go.
tue 3/20
MUSIC BOX
These New York stalwarts have done the near impossible, scoring a massive summer anthem with 1996's "Popular," from their major-label debut High/Low, and subsequently winning a dedicated cult following with a string of rock-solid indie releases. Hence, the earnest alt-rockers live out their latter days as both one-hit wonders and critical darlings. Their just-out seventh LP, The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy, is nearly perfect, with its careening guitars, soothing jangle, downturned melodies and warming backups. Though Matthew Caws is now 44, his lyrics about "trying to figure it all out" are as poignant and hope-soaked as ever, while his longtime compatriots, bassist Daniel Lorca and drummer Ira Elliot, complement every emotion, making a real case for the oft-forgotten might of the power trio. Twenty years into their career, Nada Surf are that rarest of bands that only seem to get better with age. —Chris Martins
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