Music Picks: The Dickies, Rufus Wainwright, Jack DeJohnette

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PORTUGAL. THE MAN at Royce Hall (UCLA); YELLOW ALEX & THE FEELINGS at Bootleg Bar.

Circe Link: See Friday.

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Light Asylum: See Tuesday.

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Andre Nickatina, Fashawn

EL REY THEATRE

With his unpolished swagger and preference for lo-fi beats, Andre Nickatina has, to paraphrase one of the San Fran rapper's lyrics, never jeopardized who he is. Over the course of a dozen-plus records, he's earned a sizable cult who, live, rap along to his detailed screeds about the trials and tribulations of cocaine sales and use. If the man's verses are to be believed, he's been to hell and back — and now is happy to be on the other side, where he commands a stage like the self-made general that he is, on occasion accompanied by pole-dancing strippers, naturally. Though he cites Nas as a major influence, Fresno young gun Fashawn is a good fit to open this strongly West Coast show, having reinvigorating the classic street tough–meets–conscious mind rap trope to convincing effect with his 2009 debut, Boy Meets World. —Chris Martins

Ana Tijoux, 2MEX

ECHO

Of course Chilean MC Ana Tijoux makes an appearance in rapper Invincible's documentary The Revival — like recognizes like, particularly when like means relentless precision and poetic ambition as well as the kind of passion that can weather famine and fire both. That's Tijoux to the core. Born in exile in Paris after her parents escaped after the Allende coup, Tijoux's recent breakout, 1977 (the year of her arrival here on Earth), won global accolades (including from this very paper) and brought her to America for the first time last year. Opener 2MEX is probably one of Los Angeles' very favorite people, a rapper who's put out way too many beloved records to be called "underground," who can write and rhyme in, like, four dimensions at once. —Chris Ziegler

Also playing:

ANNIE TROUSSEAU at Vibrato; THE DANDY WARHOLS, 1776 at the Wiltern.