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Austra, Bestial Mouths The Troubadour : 8:00 p.m. June 23
High-gloss synth-pop meets the damp 'n' doom in Toronto's Austra, whose 2011 Feel It Break debut earned wild huzzahs for its cold-ass treks down electro-rock's gothier paths. Katie Stelmanis doesn't so much sing as wield a vocal razor, in a tolerably affected operatic mode well matching the... More >>
West Hollywood	Rock

Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters Shrine Auditorium & Expo Center : 7:00 p.m. June 26
LA may not be the mystic beauty it once was to a 20-year-old Robert Plant, but that hasn't stopped the icon from returning to the City of Angels with his newest band, The Sensational Space Shifters. Comprised of members from his previous project, The Strange Sensation, Plant is particularly... More >>
Out of Town	Rock

Justin Bieber Staples Center : 7:00 p.m. daily from June 24 until June 25
Can millions of Justin Bieber fans be wrong? Yes! But the point is, those panting hordes exist; they're not going away (not just yet, anyway), and neither is The, uh, Man himself: Justin Bieber! Listen, there have always been and will always be pop stars, no matter how much you want to piss and... More >>
Out of Town	Rock, Pop

Summer Solstice Sound Bath Center for the Arts Eagle Rock : 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. June 24
If you can't make the trek all the way out to the Integratron in Landers this week, you can still get your soothing, cooling Summer Solstice bliss from a sound bath at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock. Let the tonal frequencies from the quartz crystal bowls and Paiste planetary gongs enter... More >>
Northeast L.A.	Rock

Cornell Campbell, The Fully Fullwood Band, Gappy Ranks & the 7th Street Band The Echoplex : 9:00 p.m. June 26
One of Cornell Campbell's biggest reggae songs in the '70s was "The Gorgon," which makes perfect sense -- Campbell's a mythic figure all his own, too. He cut his share of songs at Coxsone Dodd's famed Studio One, working on some recordings before he was even 12 years old, but it was with... More >>
Out of Town	Rock, Reggae, Dub

Dita Von Teese House of Blues Sunset Strip : 7:30 p.m. June 19; 7:30 p.m. June 20; 7:30 p.m. June 21; 7:30 p.m. June 22
Much as C. Montgomery Burns is the face of nuclear power and Pablo Picasso is the face of unrecognizable faces, Dita Von Teese has become the personage representing the resurgence of burlesque as a force in popular culture. Performing her latest extravaganza, Burlesque: Strip, Strip Hooray! ,... More >>
Out of Town	Rock, Burlesque

Camera Obscura The Wiltern : 7:00 p.m. June 18
After the restrained, bookish, almost shy pop of Camera Obscura's early albums, you can't really blame lead singer Tracyanne Campbell if she wants to let loose exultantly once in a while on an uptempo and electrically rocking tune like "Do It Again," from the Scottish group's fifth album,... More >>
Out of Town	Rock, Pop, Alternative

Pitbull, Ke$ha Hollywood Bowl : 7:30 p.m. June 18
Summer's start is officially three days away, but Pitbull and Ke$ha get an early start tonight at the Bowl. At the outset of Pitbull's 2012 album, Global Warning, it sounds like the Florida rapper is about to weigh in heavily on the state of the universe, as he disses rappers who falsely brag... More >>
Out of Town	Rock, Rap, Pop, Latin, Hip-Hop

Eleanor Friedberger, Teen, Ice Water The Echo : 8:30 p.m. June 18
Eleanor Friedberger's second solo album is indeed a Personal Record. The Fiery Furnaces singer sets new high marks for catchy melodies even as she reveals more of herself and her romantic relationships through a rich accumulation of small but intimate details. The album's first two songs, "I... More >>
Echo Park	Rock, Pop, Alternative

Kisses, Carousel, Mystery Skulls The Troubadour : 8:00 p.m. June 19
There's something a bit deceptive about Kisses. While the L.A. duo, featuring ex-Princeton man Jesse Kivel and Zinzi Edmundson, make no apologies for the glossy glitterings of their uber-stylish pop/disco sounds, neither do they neglect to address the sort of troubling decadence at its core.... More >>
West Hollywood	Rock

Free Moral Agents, Sole, Eureka the Butcher The Airliner : 9:30 p.m. June 19
Long Beach's Free Moral Agents make records that'll be worth a thousand bucks in 15 years, so why not take a lesson from the wise audiences of the future and get into this group now? Starting as something closer to a solo project by ex-Mars Volta (and current Jack White) keyboardist and... More >>
Downtown	Rock

Madlib, Peanut Butter Wolf, Dam-Funk, J Rocc, Egyptian Lover, Jonwayne, The Lions, Myron & E, Vex Ruffin, Diva, Doobie Sisters Exchange LA : 9:00 p.m. June 20
It's a blow-out year for music documentaries -- Joe Meek, Danny Fields and Big Star all are headed for the multiplex -- and now L.A.'s own Stones Throw gets onscreen with the crushing Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton. Crowd funded to completion late last year, Our Vinyl follows Stones Throw founder... More >>
Downtown	Rock, Rap, Hip-Hop, Film & Audio-Visual, DJ

Sea Wolf El Rey Theatre : 8:00 p.m. June 21
On the third Sea Wolf album, Old World Romance, lone wolf Alex Brown Church embraces adulthood. These beautifully crafted songs showcase Sea Wolf's signature emotive nature by turning themselves inside out with refreshing fluidity. Propelled by glistening melodies, which crib from Travis' Fran... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Rock

Venice Music Crawl Deus Ex Machina : 12:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. June 22
In an effort to jumpstart a music scene on the Westside, the inaugural Venice Music Crawl is stacked with sponsors and a commendable roster of bands ready to take Venice to the next level. On the heels of Central SAPC closing, VMC is enthusiastic about launching the first weekend of summer and... More >>
Venice/ Marina del Rey	Rock, Indie Rock, Festival, Alternative

Iris DeMent First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles : 8:00 p.m. June 22
Although Iris DeMent was raised in Los Angeles, the Arkansas native rarely performs here, appearing in this city about as often as she releases albums. Her latest, 2012's Sing the Delta, was issued a mere eight years after her fourth album, a set of gospel standards titled Lifeline, but it's... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Rock, Folk, Country

She & Him, Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell Hollywood Bowl : 7:00 p.m. June 23
People seem to only love or hate Zooey Deschanel, finding her either adorably cute or insufferably contrived in her attempts to be cute, with hardly any middle ground in between. Perhaps folks confuse the singer with the ditzy character she portrays on the sitcom New Girl, but she's nonetheless... More >>
Out of Town	Rock, Pop, Country

Bosnian Rainbows First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles : 8:00 p.m. June 25
As a collaborative project featuring members of Le Butcherettes and The Mars Volta, El Paso quartet Bosnian Rainbows often exceeds the limitations of those earlier groups. Rising from the ashes of latter-day punks At the Drive-In, the more commercially hard-rocking Mars Volta dazzled fans with... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Alternative, Rock

Booker T El Rey Theatre : 9:00 p.m. June 25
With all due apologies to Mozart, Henry Mancini and The Chantays, has there ever been a cooler piece of instrumental music than "Green Onions" by Booker T. & the M.G.'s? The slinky, strutting track rides a simple blues pattern, but Steve Cropper's curt smacks of guitar and Booker T. Jones'... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Rock, R&B

Mavis Staples The Fonda Theatre : 9:00 p.m. June 26
The gospel-informed veteran singer Mavis Staples, one of America's greatest soul survivors, never fails to flabbergast. With her singular style, that slinky, sanctified, oft-minor-keyed brand of funk dignity (first proposed and codified by brilliant forebear Pops Staples in the mid-20th... More >>
Out of Town	Soul, Rock, R&B, Gospel

AM & Shawn Lee Hammer Museum : 7:00 p.m. June 27
Shawn Lee is less a musician than a machine -- the kind of polymath who could be a whole band and maybe even a whole label by himself. (And if you want to count the number of funky, poppy, hip-hoppy albums he's released with Costa Mesa's noted Ubiquity Records, you'll see that's no... More >>
West L.A.	Rock

Kendrick Scott Oracle Blue Whale : 9:00 p.m. June 21; 9:00 p.m. June 22
Drummer Kendrick Scott is a man of faith, introspection and Conviction, the name of his latest, best-selling album. He's also a fan of Bruce Lee and The Matrix. How would that movie's Oracle respond to sharing her name with his band? She might say, "You didn't come here to make the choice,... More >>
Chinatown/ Elysian Park	Jazz

Iggy Azalea The Echoplex : 7:00 p.m. June 23; 8:30 p.m. June 24
Influenced by the likes of Timbaland, Missy Elliott and Tupac, Australian-born femcee Iggy Azalea began honing her craft soon after relocating to Miami and Atlanta. In a 2012 interview with The Pop Manifesto, the Island Def Jam rap sensation explained: "I lived in the South for five years.... More >>
Out of Town	Rock

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The Sir Sultry Quintet El Cid : 8:00 p.m. every Tue.
Cleveland-raised Ethan Margolis found flamenco music through an unusual path. While at the University of Michigan studying Spanish language and literature, he was inspired by a performance by the master guitarist Paco De Lucia to travel to Southern Spain and spend a dozen years immersed in... More >>
Silver Lake	World, Rock, Latin, Jazz

Bruce Lofgren Trio Jax Bar & Grill : 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. June 18
Glendale	Jazz

James Torme Vibrato Grill & Jazz : 6:30 p.m. June 18
West L.A.	Jazz