Music Picks: Hugh Cornwell, Carlos Guitarlos, Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion
Also, Charlene Soraia, Chuck Loeb, the Head Cat, Feed Me and others
Also playing:
OF MONTREAL, DEERHOOF at the Wiltern; HUNX & HIS PUNX, NOBUNNY at the Echoplex [See Music feature]; MILAGRES, HANDS, 1,2,3 at Bootleg Bar; SHARON VAN ETTEN at Avalon; BRENNA WHITAKER at Vibrato; JESSICA VAUTOR at Blue Whale; KIRK FLETCHER at the Baked Potato; NEEDTOBREATHE at Club Nokia; BAHAMAS at the Satellite.
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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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Holy Grail
SATELLITE
One day they'll probably just call 'em "Grail," the same way nobody bothers saying "Judas" or "Iron" when they talk about the baddest beasts of the new wave of British heavy metal — all that energy wasted on extra words could be used to wail, right? That's just simple thermodynamics, although if you listen carefully to the shred tornado that starts "My Last Attack," you may wonder if some universal law of guitar velocity is being violated. Last album Crisis of Utopia is hooky, heavy and absolutely dedicated to the genre: "Run your sword/through the enemy!" howls singer Luna, and suddenly you ARE the last space barbarian left standing between chaos and order. So killer they're actually good for you. —Chris Ziegler
BLUE WHALE
Not long ago, a young blues guitarist from Buenos Aires saw the Woody Allen flick Sweet and Lowdown and was inspired by the guitar work of the character Emmet Ray. Within a few years of that fateful viewing, Gonzalo Bergara was headlining Gypsy jazz festivals, drawing worthy comparisons to Stochelo Rosenberg, Biréli Lagrène and, of course, Django Reinhardt. Now a worldwide guitar sensation, Bergara keeps his chops sharp by playing gigs in his current hometown of L.A. With all due respect to Sean Penn, were Allen to recast the character of the confident and virtuosic Emmet Ray, he might have picked Gonzalo instead, for the young man certainly can play the part. With Brian Netzley (bass), Jeff Radaich (rhythm guitar) and the charmingly talented Leah Zeger (violin). —Gary Fukushima
Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion
WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL
Tabla maestro Hussain gathers many of the greatest artists from India's classical and folk traditions to explore the broad and deep reach of Indian music. Hussain himself is a player of nimble-fingered fire whose improvisational gifts have graced collaborations with a wide swath of rock, jazz and Western classical artists, including George Harrison, Yo-Yo Ma and his own Shakti band with guitarist John McLaughlin and L. Shankar. His 1992 album, Planet Drum, won a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. Tonight the masters traverse the melodic (raga) and rhythmic (tala) elements, bridging divides between the traditional and contemporary, the folk and classical. The program includes the dancing drummers of Manipur, dance-drumming martial arts by Meitei Pung Cholom Performing Troupe and kathak dancer Antonia Minnecola. —John Payne
Also playing:
THE NAKED & FAMOUS at the Wiltern; TING TINGS, MNDR at El Rey Theatre; GRAHAM DECHTER at Lighthouse Café; JEFF COLELLA at Vibrato; THE BLACK RYDER, YOUNG PRISMS at the Echo; AUSTIN PERALTA, STRANGELOOP at Low End Theory; ROMEO SANTOS at Staples Center; TIM FINN at Largo; ORGY at Key Club; DEICIDE at House of Blues.
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Quantic and Alice Russell
EXCHANGE L.A.
With her rich and breathy coo, U.K. soul singer Alice Russell would have sounded perfect fronting a psych-tinged R&B act from the '70s. Thankfully, she's found a time machine in Colombia-based producer Will Holland, aka Quantic, the highly prolific underground answer to Mark Ronson. The man himself plays a veritable arsenal of instruments (guitars, bass, keys, horns, drums), and he specializes in the funkiest strains of music from around the world: jazz, soul, salsa, bossa and various Afro-sourced beats. They have collaborated in the past, but the just-out Look Around the Corner is their first full-length together and it features Holland's cumbia-steeped Combo Bárbaro outfit. Swimming in rolling rhythms, swooning strings, acrobatic harmonies and warm atmosphere, songs like "Here Again" and "Boogaloo 33" sound beamed in from an era where AutoTune and the iPod would seem like sci-fi. —Chris Martins
Cults
FONDA THEATRE
New York's Cults are certainly less mysterious today than they were when they emerged in 2010 with the instant Internet semihit "Go Outside." For one thing, we now know who's in the band, including Madeline Follin, whose brother Richie fronts (or maybe used to front?) Orange County's Willowz. But this sly little fuzz-pop outfit still feels like some kind of art-school project about the reality-gobbling nature of retro culture; Cults' self-titled 2011 debut is almost entirely devoid of any discernible personality, which I take to be precisely the point. They play here with San Diego's Mrs. Magician and Spectrals, a redheaded English dude who looks like King Krule and sounds like Best Coast. —Mikael Wood
Perfume Genius, Parenthetical Girls
BOOTLEG BAR
It initially seems strange to refer to the arrival of Perfume Genius as "jarring," which the Seattle-based musician's label does. But even though Mike Hadreas' songs are taut, piano-based works of impossibly fragile beauty, the impression they make is one of significant shock. Certainly his subject matter is partly responsible — 2009 single "Mr. Peterson" was a believably firsthand account of a pedophiliac teacher's eventual suicide — but while Hadreas has kin in arty dramatists like Xiu Xiu and Antony Hegarty, his shaky-voiced, confessional delivery is instantly relatable and endlessly compelling. On this year's Put Your Back N 2 It, he swoons and sways like a soul singer, but never at the expense of intimacy. His neighbors in Parenthetical Girls are similarly emotive but aim for the orchestral, led by the arresting Zac Pennington, a vamping frontman with an operatic set of pipes. —Chris Martins
Also playing:
LOST IN THE TREES, POOR MOON at the Echo; JOE LA BARBERA at Vitello's; RACHELLE FERRELL at Catalina; KATIA MORAES at Zanzibar; YOUNG JEEZY at House of Blues; TOTIMOSHI at the Satellite; ONSLAUGHT at the Echoplex.
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