Music Picks: Robben Ford, Hard L.A., Adams Conducts Adams, the Polyphonic Spree

Also playing:

TIMUR AND THE DIME MUSEUM at the Echo.

Sleigh Bells: See Wednesday.

Charlotte Martin: See Sunday.

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The Redwood Bar & Grill

316 W. Second St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown

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The Satellite

1717 Silver Lake Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Silver Lake

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The Wiltern

3790 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90010

Category: Music Venues

Region: Out of Town

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Club Nokia

800 W. Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90015

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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Bootleg Theater

2200 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90057

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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El Rey Theatre

5515 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park

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The Echoplex

1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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The Airliner

2419 N. Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90031

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown

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Fox Theater Pomona

301 S. Garey Ave.
Pomona, CA 91766

Category: Music Venues

Region: Out of Town

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The Troubadour

9081 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: West Hollywood

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The Pierces

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Last week this New York City sister act finally issued an American version of their album You & I, which originally came out in England in May 2011. Given the album's excellence, the Pierces' rock-star connections and — look, there's no use denying it — the ladies' CW-ready good looks, it's anyone's guess why a U.S. label took so long to get on board. Maybe old-model A&R types were spooked by soft sales of 2007's equally excellent Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge. Whatever the case, You & I (produced in part by Guy Berryman of Coldplay) was worth the wait, with an embarrassment of gorgeous goth-folk riches perfect for use over the long summer to come. The Pierces were excellent at the Hotel Cafe in January; expect nothing less tonight. —Mikael Wood

Adams Conducts Adams

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

L.A. Phil Creative Chair John Adams interprets works by three composers. One facet of Adams' own varied modernist, expressionist concerns comes to light in his Violin Concerto, where the soloist (longtime Adams collaborator Leila Josefowicz) plays without stopping throughout the entire piece, the orchestra serving as rhythmic/colorative backdrop. Arvo Pärt's Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten is a spiritually cleansing piece that simulates the ambience of a very old cathedral. And Philip Glass' Symphony No. 9 gets its West Coast premiere tonight; this L.A. Phil co-commission is a large-scale, three-movement work for orchestra. There's a lot of bass-y brass and timpani in it, and Glass himself calls it "big and unrelenting." Also Fri. and Sat. —John Payne

Also playing:

HELMET at House of Blues; BEAR IN HEAVEN, BLOUSE at the Echo; INSPECTAH DECK at Detroit Bar (Costa Mesa); LEAH ZEGER at Vibrato; HOT SNAKES, BEEHIVE AND THE BARRACUDAS at Alex's Bar.