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23rd Annual Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Festival Rancho Santa Susana Community Center and Park : 11:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. May 26
We Love You, Candye Kane! There's a slew of great reasons to go to the 23rd Annual Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Festival, and not just because of the fest's logo: an alligator in sunglasses playing the guitar. (You need the T-shirt.) On the Blues Stage: The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Rod Piazza and... More >>
Ventura County	Zydeco, Rock, Festival, Cajun, Blues

Baron Von Luxxury, Harlan, Jinja Safari, The M.I.D.S., DJ Daisy O'Dell The Echo : 8:30 p.m. May 28
On the surface, Baron Von Luxxury seems like an electro-disco geek lothario made in the image of Beck's Midnight Vultures. But spend a little time with this Silver Lake resident's new album, The Last Seduction, and you'll discover what makes him unique. He offsets his falsetto with a... More >>
Echo Park	Rock, Indie

The John Daversa Small Band The Joint : 8:00 p.m. May 29
For more than a decade, trumpeter John Daversa has nurtured a big band that has become one of the area's finest, most often seen crammed into the cozy Baked Potato on Sunday nights. In recent years, Daversa also has begun developing a quintet, which is set to follow last year's big-band album,... More >>
Out of Town	Rock, Jazz

The Clean, The Black Watch, Regal Degal The Echo : 8:30 p.m. May 30
In many ways, The Clean are like New Zealand's equivalent to The Urinals. Each band started in the late 1970s, releasing obscure singles that melded lo-fi production and musical backing with an art-pop aesthetic that invoked predecessors like the Velvet Underground. Both groups are better known... More >>
Echo Park	Rock, Psychedelic, Post-Punk, Indie, Alternative

The 26th Annual JazzReggae Festival Intramural Field : 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. May 27
There isn't necessarily a lot of jazz in UCLA's annual JazzReggae Festival, but there will be a lot of thrilling music pumped out anyway over the course of this Memorial Day weekend. If it wasn't already clear that The Roots are one of America's greatest and most versatile live bands, the... More >>
West L.A.	Reggae, Rock, Rap, Jazz, Hip-Hop

Hilary Hahn & Hauschka El Rey Theatre : 8:00 p.m. May 28
On paper, the pairing of American concert violinist Hilary Hahn with German electronic composer-pianist Hauschka looks like one of those perfect-for-adverts things about how supposedly disparate musicians are bridging cultural/aesthetic gaps to find common territory in a new form of art blah... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Rock, Classical, Alternative

Dry the River, Marvelous Toy, Noah & the Megafauna Bootleg Theater : 9:00 p.m. May 30
Dry the River have been called the next Mumford & Sons, but the British band's backstory isn't the usual folksy fare. Singer-guitarist Peter Liddle began writing songs in his bedroom while at medical school, but when he realized what he had, he traded in his scrubs for Levis and solo status for... More >>
Out of Town	Rock, Alternative

The Shrine, Zig Zags Bootleg Theater : 8:00 p.m. May 31
Get in the van with The Shrine — it'll be the van with the red-eyed wizard, lightning bursting out of every orifice, airbrushed in bleeding fluorescents on the side — and let the spray-paint fumes and hallucinogens fight for control of your mind. This Venice power trio are a band... More >>
Out of Town	Rock

James McCartney, The Rambles, DJ Dayle Roxy Theatre : 8:00 p.m. May 31
Paul McCartney's only son looks more than sounds like his dad: On a pair of recent EPs (newly collected on The Complete EP Collection), James McCartney pursues a cloistered indie-rock vibe that kind of recalls Bakesale-era Sebadoh, of all things. Evidence online suggests he boosts the energy a... More >>
West Hollywood	Rock, Pop

Active Child, Lord Huron, Annie Stela The Troubadour : 8:00 p.m. May 31
It absolutely shouldn't work. Melding choral vocals, glittery synths and a stand-up harp (of all things!) should not work. Harps are not cool. Neither are high, wavering falsettos. But somehow local favorite Active Child (aka Pat Grossi) has managed to put together a show that stirs the soul... More >>
West Hollywood	Rock

RSWD The Echoplex : 8:30 p.m. May 31
Rising L.A.-to-S.F. emcee Alexander Spit worships at the throne of deceased Bay Area king rapper Mac Dre, but rather than imbue his beats with the essence of thizz (ecstasy), he's inspired by a different brand of intoxicant. Some have called what he does "shroom-bap," a combination of classic... More >>
Out of Town	Rock, Dance

Suburban Spawn, Karl?, The Youngs, The Donner Party People Party People Alex's Bar : 9:00 p.m. May 31
Out of all the L.A. punk and new-wave bands of the late '70s and early '80s, the Suburban Lawns were truly uncategorizable. The Long Beach quintet's wickedly sarcastic "Gidget Goes to Hell" was a KROQ hit, and its video was even aired on Saturday Night Live, but these former CalArts students... More >>
Out of Town	Tribute, Rock, Punk, New Wave, Alternative

Santigold Club Nokia : 8:00 p.m. June 1
It's almost comical to label an artist as groundbreaking in today's rinse-and-repeat musical landscape. But in 2008, when Santi White, better known as Santigold, emerged with her dub-inflected eponymous debut stuffed with polyrhythmic electro-pulses and whiplash rhymes — not to mention an... More >>
Out of Town	Rock

Rusko Hollywood Palladium : 8:00 p.m. June 1
He's got a string of upcoming festival dates (including Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas) and a collaborative EP with Cypress Hill due out June 5. But first Rusko hits the Palladium tonight for the final date of his North American tour in support of this spring's Songs. As that title... More >>
Out of Town	Rock

Krautrock Classics John Anson Ford Amphitheatre : 8:00 p.m. June 1
Barring a reunion of Ege Bamyasi–era Can, which would involve a resurrection, it's hard to imagine a more exciting event for L.A.-area fans of Krautrock, the '60s-born German experimental movement that continues to deeply inform most progressive music today. The Dublab crew and Teutonic... More >>
Out of Town	Rock, Prog

Vital Information Catalina Bar & Grill : 8:30 p.m. June 1
Not long after becoming a member of the soon-to-be-superstar band Journey in 1978, drummer Steve Smith began what has become jazz fusion's longest-running ensemble, Vital Information. It has developed into one of the genre's most successful groups under Smith's consistent hand. Trained at... More >>
Out of Town	Jazz

Charli XCX Bootleg Theater : 8:00 p.m. June 2
Though she's only 19, London's Charli XCX peddles a dark but infectious brand of synthesized pop that seems destined to fill arenas in the near future. The sultry and charismatic future star is taking a break from opening for Santigold's tour to play this intimate headliner in honor of her... More >>
Out of Town	Rock

Star & Dagger, The Hangmen El Cid : 10:30 p.m. June 2
It might be hard to remember now, but Sean Yseult was the bassist back when White Zombie were actually a somewhat terrifying hard-rock ensemble, before leader Rob Zombie took the act in a safely cartoonish and more predictable direction. Now Yseult is back in black with the new band Star &... More >>
Silver Lake	Rock, Hard Rock

The Duke Spirit, Hacienda The Echoplex : 7:00 p.m. June 3
The Duke Spirit breaks off from its recent tour with Jane's Addiction long enough to headline its own show tonight at the Echoplex. It feels like it's been ages since the English quintet made a dramatic breakthrough on these shores with their second album, Neptune, whose shadowy tunes were... More >>
Out of Town	Rock, Alternative

Yo Gotti Key Club : 8:00 p.m. June 4
This scrappy Memphis rapper — best known for his series of Cocaine Muzik mixtapes — didn't quite set the world on fire earlier this year with the release of Live From the Kitchen, his long-delayed studio debut for RCA. But Yo Gotti's been in the biz for too long to give up now, so... More >>
West Hollywood	Rock

Emily Jane White The Mint : 8:00 p.m. June 4
Steeped in the deep woods around Santa Cruz and the wide open fields of California's "up north," Emily Jane White sings slow and heartbreaking songs that echo Townes Van Zandt ("The Cliff," on her upcoming Ode to Sentience) but sound like they come from somewhere between the utter desolation of... More >>
Out of Town	Rock, Pop, Alternative

Walk the Moon The Troubadour : 8:00 p.m. June 4
Smartly combining pop sensibilities with a postmodern spin on The Killers' waiflike appearance and Brandon Flowers' anguished howls, Walk the Moon are sure to bring the bounce tonight, touring behind their EP Anna Sun. Regularly upstaging bigger touring partners such as Young the Giant, it's... More >>
West Hollywood	Rock

LMFAO & the Party Rock Crew Staples Center : 7:00 p.m. June 5
Call us crazy, but there's something supremely satisfying about giving yourself fully to the temptations of an adolescent, substance-free pop song. SkyBlu and RedFoo, the two afro-ed, self-proclaimed party rockers who call themselves LMFAO, know this to be true. Because they surely have to know... More >>
Out of Town	Rock

Church of Misery, Hail Hornet, The Gates of Slumber, DJ Pete Majors The Satellite : 9:00 p.m. June 5
Church of Misery are a metal band that couldn't care less about Satan. For almost 20 years, the depraved acts of living men have provided more than enough lyrical fodder for this Japanese quartet's brand of stoner doom. There is nothing thrash, death or –core about what Church of Misery... More >>
Silver Lake	Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative

Go Betty Go, Muholland, Diana Meyer Howl at the Moon : 8:00 p.m. June 6
When this Glendale-based, all-Latina pop-punk band first started making noise 10 years ago, they faced an almost immediate wave of classically misguided chick-band derision. Led by sisters Aixa and Nicolette Vilar and driven by Betty Cisneros' walloping guitar, the band's weeknight Mr. T's... More >>
San Fernando Valley	Rock, Punk, Alternative