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When Enuff Z'Nuff's eponymous debut hit in 1989, the stars seemed perfectly aligned. For beneath the Illinois outfit's then MTV-requisite androgynous attire, DayGlo videos and masturbatory guitars beat a heart of near-perfect, slightly psychedelic pop (notably in harmony-stacked singles "New...
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Out of Town
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Rock, Metal, Hard Rock |
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Joss Stone and Dave Stewart have been thick as thieves lately: Last year he produced her fifth studio disc, LP1, then recruited her to join SuperHeavy, the supremely goofy world-beat supergroup they share with Mick Jagger, Damian Marley and A.R. Rahman. Now the U.K. retro-soul star and the...
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West Hollywood
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Rock, Pop |
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Key Club :
Thu., February 9, 8:30pm
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This English pop-soul lass is finally set to release the follow-up to her 2008 U.S. debut, Shine. Perhaps to remind folks of her existence before All of Me arrives Feb. 28, Estelle is on the road this month headlining the latest edition of BET's Music Matters Tour. (Curiously, last year's trek...
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West Hollywood
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Rock, R&B, Pop |
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The Satellite :
Fri., February 10, 9:00pm
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These are good years for L.A.'s Spindrift — it's been 10 good years, actually, with the 10th anniversary of the band tonight — but these cosmic cowboys (and girl) have really been on the ride of their life lately. They released the formidable and imaginative Classic Soundtracks Vol....
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Silver Lake
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Rock, Alternative |
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It's a Venezuelan invasion. Two of the Caribbean nation's biggest acts were nominated for Grammys in the Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album category this year, and they're giving L.A. a preview before Sunday's awards show. La Vida Boheme are the young'uns. The dancy punkers like to show audiences a...
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Downtown
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Rock, Latin, Alternative |
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When you round up the best and brightest of L.A.'s cutting-edge pianists and hook them up with People Inside Electronics, aka PIE, aural visions abound. Founded by pianist-composer and USC prof Aron Kallay and composer Isaac Shankler, PIE has been presenting concerts focusing on innovative uses...
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West L.A.
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Rock, Electronica, Classical |
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Roxy Theatre :
Sat., February 11, 8:00pm
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The utterances of these splatter-lovin' San Jose death-metal vets are easy to describe yet deceptively challenging to deliver with their degree of embitterment. In short, venomous noise emanates from every instrument, multiple times per beat, all the time, while founding vocalist/guitarist Matt...
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West Hollywood
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Rock, Metal |
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The Smell :
Sat., February 11, 8:30pm
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Pop-pop-indie-guitar-pop (yes, that much pop) sister duo Summer Twins have just released their self-titled LP, which starts with beautiful Phil Spector–like production (courtesy John Dust and the Germs' Don Bolles) and blooms into a happily daring and carefully detailed set of songs....
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Downtown
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Rock |
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The Echo :
Sat., February 11, 9:00pm
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It may have taken some time — several decades, in fact — for Syl Johnson to get the respect and musical credit he deserves. In typically sluggish fashion, the slow-moving folks behind the Grammys are only now getting around to acknowledging the Chicago soul singer for the rich...
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Echo Park
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Soul, Rock, R&B, Blues |
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The Echoplex :
Sun., February 12, 9:00pm
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It sounds like pure bolts of liquid sunshine pouring out of the sky when the Rebirth Brass Band's horns start blowing together. The New Orleans icons take their high school marching-band roots and blast them to the heavens, mixing jazzy insinuations within their nimbly funky rhythms on their...
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Out of Town
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Soul, Rock, R&B |
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A fearless artist and performer whose voice inhabits a room like a choir of ghosts, this Echo Park native cuts an unexpected swath through the respective oeuvres of Tom Waits and Nina Simone. Many will have witnessed Dorian Wood as the accordion-toting soul of L.A.'s finest left-field street...
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Out of Town
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These perpetually wounded, well-known-at-home Anglos are tackling two major career crossroads simultaneously: Three albums in (and now firmly out of their teens), they're gingerly transitioning from boyish pop-punk to "credible" rock and attempting — as all serious U.K. bands must at...
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West Hollywood
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The Echoplex :
Tue., February 14, 8:30pm
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As their names implies, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour have a glittery, sparkling sound, with their euphoric pop songs glazed with a stellar shine. On the Danish band's just-released second album, Out of Frequency, sleek keyboards and a festive horn section pump up singer Mette Lindberg's kittenish...
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Out of Town
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"I miss my wife," wails Nick Thorburn on "Can't Feel My Face," an organ-blaring standout from A Sleep and a Forgetting. The latest album from Brooklyn-based Islands, to be released on this same Valentine's Day, is most certainly a breakup record, but rather than dwell in minor keys and...
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Out of Town
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Rock, Indie |
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The Satellite :
Tue., February 14, 9:00pm
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Though still a fresh-faced young'un, Audra Mae has an old-soul rock & roll voice. She belts like she could be the spawn of Janis, but Audra Mae's actually the great-great-niece of Judy Garland. From Oklahoma and complete with a hard-scrabble past, Audra Mae came to L.A. seven years ago with $20...
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Silver Lake
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Rock, Indie |
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REDCAT :
Wed., February 15, 7:00pm
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Alongside all his chart-topping megahits, new-music visionary John Cage composed many lesser-heard and equally notable pieces. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Cage's birth, REDCAT offers two nights of this rarely played stuff remade/remodeled by CalArts' new music ensemble, the New...
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Downtown
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Experimental, Classical, Avant-Garde |
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If the 70-year-old Cuban pianist were to perform magic instead of music, Valdes would draw comparisons to Merlin, Gandalf and Dumbledore. The old wizard of Latin jazz still commands the piano with thundering power and shimmering virtuosity, conjuring Art Tatum, McCoy Tyner, Horowitz and even...
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Out of Town
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Latin, Jazz, Afropop |
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While knowing that The FountNHead take their name from Ayn Rand's famous paean to nonconformity certainly prepares one to expect the unexpected from this Atlanta rap outfit, their reality still feels like a fiction dreamed up in a distant utopia. Owing equally to the hippie politics of Arrested...
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Out of Town
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Rock, Rap, Hip-Hop |
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Nokia Theatre :
Thu., February 16, 8:00pm
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The kids today probably know him better from his role in the upcoming Hunger Games movie, but Lenny Kravitz is still making records, good ones. Last year's Black and White America found the retro-rock fashion plate in as funky a mode as we've heard him since Are You Gonna Go My Way. The album's...
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Downtown
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The Echo :
Thu., February 16, 8:30pm
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These days, uber-producer Rick Rubin has his hand on so many dials there's naturally some skepticism whenever the zen master touts his next "discovery." But Bay Area riff-rockers Howlin Rain, signed to the bearded industry titan's own American Recordings label, re-energize dude with some...
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Echo Park
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Rock, Indie |
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Longtime Frank Zappa drummer Chad Wackerman reunites with guitar god Allan Holdsworth, sublime bassist Jimmy Johnson and keyboardist Jim Cox for a two-night (Thursday-Friday) album release event. Nine years in the making, Wackerman's Dreams Nightmares and Improvisations features Holdsworth,...
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San Fernando Valley
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Rock, Jazz |
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Segerstrom Center for the Arts :
Daily from Fri., February 10 until Sat., February 11, 8:00pm
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The title of this R&B veteran's new studio disc tells you what you need to know: On Let It Be Roberta: Flack Sings the Beatles, that's precisely what she does, albeit in an appealingly schizophrenic style that honors the Fab Four's bone-deep eclecticism better than most Beatles tributes do. "In...
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Out of Town
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Soul, Rock, Pop |
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Out of Town
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Amplyfi :
Thu., February 9
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Hollywood
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Chinatown/ Elysian Park
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