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Rihanna Staples Center : 7:30 p.m. April 8
The Barbadian pop rebel joins forces with musical cohorts Nicki Minaj, Wiz Khalifa, Illy Da King and A$AP Rocky for the Los Angeles stop of her Diamonds World Tour. Although recently panned by some critics and fans for a very public reunion with former abuser Chris Brown, she remains... More >>
Out of Town	Music

Write Club Los Angeles Bootleg Theater : 7:00 p.m. April 8
Fight Club is so passe; these days, even word lovers hold clandestine get-togethers for the sake of a good (literary) fight. Celebrating a year going strong, Write Club Los Angeles tonight hosts another unique showdown where brave souls put their writing chops to the test. Two writers get two... More >>
Out of Town	Literary Events

Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside The Troubadour : 8:00 p.m. April 8
Usually, when songwriters are as wickedly intelligent as Thao Nguyen, they tend to write morbidly gloomy and/or overly serious anthems of great meaning and purpose. That's not to say the Virginia native doesn't have her grand and heavy mood swings -- sometimes every few seconds in the same... More >>
West Hollywood	Music

Tom Sizemore Book Soup : 7:00 p.m. April 9
Tough-guy character actor Tom Sizemore's mind-boggling devotion to the fine art of self-destruction has long been legendary. With his new tell-all memoir, By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There, Sizemore details his life as a meth-head so resolute that in 2006 alone he managed, while living in... More >>
West Hollywood	Literary Events

Megafauna, Dr. DeVito, The Face, Blue Blazer Central Social Aid & Pleasure Club : 8:00 p.m. April 10
Austin’s Megafauna make feral prog-punk with (of course) mega-intensity, the kind of thing that switches from heartbreak to mindmelt in the time it takes to touch toe to guitar pedal. Case in point: minute 2:44 on 2012 track “Love Project,” where guitarist and singer Dani Neff... More >>
Santa Monica	Music

Lost & Found Film Club Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theatre : 10:30 p.m. April 10
We're pleased to hear that a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign ensured that Cinefamily will have the digital projection equipment to comply with the latest arm-twisting from the big Hollywood studios. But the theater still celebrates the ephemeral with its monthly "Lost & Found Film Club"... More >>
Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax	Film

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Baroque Conversations The Colburn School of Music, Zipper Concert Hall : 7:00 p.m. April 11
Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D minor for unaccompanied violin is one of the major rites of passage for any aspiring violinist. A suite of dances composed of five movements, it culminates in the famous “Chaconne,” a tour de force that demands not only endurance — it goes on... More >>
Downtown	Music

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Baroque Conversations The Colburn School of Music, Zipper Concert Hall : 7:00 p.m. April 11
Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor for unaccompanied violin is one of the major rites of passage for any aspiring violinist. A suite of dances composed of five movements, it culminates in the famous "Chaconne," a tour de force that demands not only endurance -- it goes on for some 15 minutes of... More >>
Downtown	Music

Roger McEvoy Greenwalt Los Globos : 8:00 p.m. April 11
An institution-in-the-making in New York City and at Austin’s SXSW festival, Beatles Complete on Ukulele suggests that not only have the Fab Four’s best-known songs withstood the tests of time and bastardization, but that all of them can still emote almost regardless of delivery.... More >>
Silver Lake	Music

Savages, No Bra The Echo : 8:30 p.m. April 11
The London band Savages belie their name and their new album title, Silence Yourself, with thoughtful, elliptical broadsides that demand that listeners question everything they know while teaching “ourselves new ways of positive manipulations.” Gemma Thompson’s momentous,... More >>
Echo Park	Music

March Comedy Madness The Improv : April 12
March Madness isn't just for basketball or crazy people anymore -- now comedians are getting in on the action. Tonight is the final championship in the seventh annual March Comedy Madness tournament, or, you know, the one elimination competition in March that actually matters. Hosted by... More >>
West Hollywood	Comedy

RAC, The Knocks Loyola Marymount University : 8:00 p.m. April 12
In a sonic culture where so many remixes are aggressively chopped and screwed versions of their former, nicer selves, the spunky reinterpretations of Remix Artist Collective are a breath of fresh air. That is to say that RAC's current members André Allen Anjos, Andrew Maury and Karl... More >>
Westchester/ LAX	Music

The Untamed Youth, Thee Midniters, The Phantom Surfers, Haunted George, Rev. Beat-Man, Deke Dickerson's All-Star Frat Band, The Go Nuts, The Sloths, The Castle Kings, Kim Fowley, Mark & the Escorts, Thee Cormans, The Loons, The Shag Rats, Thee Tee Pees The Echo : 12:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. April 13
While NYC big-beat swamis Billy Miller and Miriam Linna’s Sandy-soaked Norton Records warehouse has enjoyed a variety of fundraising events in the last few months, this flat-out astonishing lineup is the most potent testimony yet to the power of Norton’s achievements and... More >>
Echo Park	Music

Groundislava Bootleg Theater : 8:00 p.m. April 13
Groundislava is one of those guys who makes music like Tao Lin writes — minimal and atmospheric at the same time. You can focus on each little tiny part or just let yourself dissolve completely. Yes, his recent Katy Perry remix is a bit of a departure, but not as much as you’d... More >>
Out of Town	Music

The Tamir Hendelman Trio Wilshire Ebell Theatre : 8:00 p.m. April 13
Since moving to Los Angeles from his native Israel at age 12, all this pianist has done is win a national Yamaha keyboard competition and tour Japan as a teenager, join the famed Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, have an album (Destinations, 2010) reach No. 1 on the jazz charts and become the... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Music

L.A. Heritage Day Pico House : 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. April 14
Don’t even try telling this to those snobbish New Yorkers, but Southern California in general, and L.A. in particular, are brimming with culture — so much so that we need an official day to reflect on the awesomeness of both. Hence L.A. Heritage Day, an event that started in 2008... More >>
Chinatown/ Elysian Park	Festivals

Mudhoney, The Freeks The Echo : 8:00 p.m. April 14
Although Nirvana and Pearl Jam get most of the credit these days, it was really the mid-’80s Seattle band Green River that set the template for the heavy, sludgy, hard-rock sound that would later be called grunge. Green River singer Mark Arm and guitarist Steve Turner reconfigured... More >>
Echo Park	Music

Merle Haggard Canyon Club : 9:00 p.m. April 14
Merle Haggard is the only native Californian ever inducted into Nashville’s most exclusive club, the Country Music Hall of Fame, but he sure as hell does not play Los Angeles anywhere near often enough. And that is a damn shame, because Haggard’s brilliant original compositions and... More >>
San Fernando Valley	Music

Westside Connections: Mona Simpson Eli & Edythe Broad Stage : 7:30 p.m. April 15
Art is often as much a method of making connections — this leaf inspiring that poem inciting that song — as it is a linear blast of pure creativity. The Westside Connections Series was born in a rather canny observance of this effect. An initiative of the L.A. Chamber Orchestra,... More >>
Santa Monica	Literary Events

Ghost B.C. El Rey Theatre : 8:00 p.m. April 15
Opus Eponymous, the 2011 debut album from Sweden’s Ghost B.C., was a refreshing blast of ’70s-inspired melodic metal that threw back to the days when Blue Öyster Cult reigned supreme. Songs like “Stand by Him” and “Ritual” were delightfully catchy odes... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Music

Spiritualized Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace : 8:00 p.m. April 15
In the past when performers have been booked to appear at Coachella, they’ve been contractually prevented from playing other shows in the SoCal area during that time. Now, with the desert music festival spread out over two weekends, bands have increasingly been popping up at small clubs... More >>
San Bernardino County	Music

Anthony Bourdain and Roy Choi Pantages Theater : 7:30 p.m. April 16
As part of his aptly named Guts and Glory tour, TV personality, author and chef Anthony Bourdain — also known as that dude who eats crazy shit on Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations — will share stories alongside chef-author Roy Choi, whose Kogi trucks made L.A. fall hard for both the... More >>
Hollywood	Literary Events, Food & Drink

TV Tuesdays: Sybil Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theatre : 7:30 p.m. April 16
Flora Rheta Schreiber’s 1973 Sybil, about a woman with 16 personalities manifested from an abusive childhood at the hands of her schizophrenic mother, sold 6 million copies and made Shirley Ardell Mason the most famous American case of multiple personality disorder. But in 2011, Debbie... More >>
Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax	Film

Foals El Rey Theatre : 8:00 p.m. April 16
Holy Fire, the third album from the Oxford, England-based outfit Foals, sees the art/dance, math/rock experimental dabbles of the group’s previous works take form. Under the tutelage of accomplished progressive producers Alan Moulder (Bloc Party, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins) and... More >>
Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park	Music

King Khan The Troubadour : 8:00 p.m. April 16
Can I get a hallelujah? Because after far too long — their last LP together was in 2009 — the twin world-class rock & rollers Mark Sultan (aka BBQ) and King Khan are finally back together and doing an extended U.S. tour as the band that made us love them. (“Did they hate each... More >>
West Hollywood	Music