Temper Trap at Henry Fonda Theatre – Photo: Craig Parker
We don’t post every show that’s going on every night (in or around L.A.) we just post the goods according to our collective knowledge. We’re music elitists at heart but we try our best to keep an open palette of taste with an affinity towards underground, indie and local musicians and venues. Let us know if we missed something good.
♥ = Top Picks
Click on the venue links to buy tickets and for more info. Set times are added to the show list if and when we receive them and are subject to change.
MONDAY-March 19, 2012
- (FREE) Big Sir 7pm @ Amoeba Music- Hollywood
- ♥ (FREE w/RSVP) Birdy, Ben Von Wildenhaus, A Fine Frenzy @ Bardot
- ♥ Loney Dear 9pm , Ed Vallance 8pm @ Bootleg Theater
- (FREE) The Janks 1030pm , Big Moves 1130pm @ Bootleg Bar
- (FREE) The Blank Tapes, Cherokee Fade, Dead Flowers, Ash Reiter! @ Detroit Bar
- ♥ The Temper Trap, Papa, Izzi Willow @ El Rey Theatre
- (FREE) Little Tybee 7pm @ Origami Vinyl
- Ed Schrader’s Music Beat 11pm , BITCHES 1015pm , Foot Village930pm , Sexting 1145pm @ Pehrspace
- ♥ Monte Mar 1030pm , Yoya 1130pm , Blisses B 830pm , Ariel Rubin @ Silverlake Lounge
- ♥ (FREE) NO, Mwahaha, LA Font @ The Echo
- Walk The Moon, Incan Abraham @ Echoplex
- Micah Brown 8pm @ Constellation Room(The Observatory )
- ♥ Voxhaul Broadcast, Robotanists, Useless Keys, Bonaparte @ The Satellite
- (FREE) Cosmic Slop @ Alex’s Bar
- Hooves 9pm , Vanish Valley 10pm @ Central Social Aid & Pleasure Club
- Red on Red 815pm , Ruby Carrera 915pm , Checkpoint Charlie @ The Viper Room
- Shanica Knowles 730pm, Danielle Taylor 815pm , Sharon Renee 915pm , Regina Leonard 1015pm @ The Mint
- (FREE) Ape Machine, Brainspoon @ Redwood Bar
- (FREE) Holy Grail, Sacrificial Slaughter, All Gods Kills, Lazarus Casket @ Slidebar
- Intronaut, Black Tusk, East of The Wall @ Whisky A Go Go
TUESDAY-March 20, 2012
- (FREE) Julia Holter 7pm @ Amoeba Music- Hollywood
- ♥ Sharon Van Etten, The War on Drugs @ Avalon Hollywood
- Milagres, Hands, 1,2,3 @ Bootleg Bar
- (FREE) Y Luv, Izzi Willow, PK, Hello Vegas @ Central Social Aid & Pleasure Club
- Needtobreathe, Ben Rector @ Club Nokia
- Yelle (DJ Set), Sinden, Bonaparte, Matzerath @ Dim Mak Studios
- ♥ The Temper Trap, Papa, Bryan Davidson @ El Rey Theatre
- Team Me, Wonderbunny Aftershocks 11pm , Sound & Shape 9pm @ Silverlake Lounge
- Big Deal, 2:54, Big Scary @ The Echo
- ♥ Hunx & His Punx, Nobunny, Heavy Cream @ Echoplex
- ♥ Nada Surf, An Horse @ The Fonda Theatre
- ♥ Bahamas, The Driftwood Singers @ The Satellite
- ♥ Of Montreal, Deerhoof @ The Wiltern
- ♥ Of Monsters and Men, Lay Low @ Troubadour
- Tap This 12am , Whiskey Saints 11pm , Vintage Tuesday 10pm , Paranoid Social Club 930pm , Jamie Coobs 9pm , The Weebeee Brothers 8pm @ The Viper Room
- Mr. Luv Jones 7pm @ The Mint
- River Whyless 830pm , Little Tybee 930pm , Chuck Mead 1030pm @ The Mint
- (FREE) Jamtown Superheroes, Sassafras, Auto Modown @ Redwood Bar
- (FREE) The French Cassettes, Pool Honey, Death Lens @ Lot 1 Cafe
- (FREE) Gene Loves Jezebel @ Slidebar
- Al Jardine and Friends @ The Roxy
- Boyce Avenue, Secondhand Serenade, The After Party @ House of Blues-Anaheim
- The Naked and Famous, Vacationer, Now, Now @ The Observatory
- ( FREE before 1030pm w/ RSVP) KKBB, KINGQUEEN, FerroElectric, DJ’S Brandon & Sonny from The Dark @ Boardners
WEDNESDAY-March 21, 2012
- Orgy, Faultline, Radio Black, One Eyed Doll @ Key Club
- Yellow Ostrich 11pm , BlackS& 10pm , Mmoths 9pm @ Bootleg Bar
- Them Jeans, Fuss, 3 Kilos, Rankin @ Detroit Bar
- ♥ The Ting Tings, MNDR @ El Rey Theatre
- (FREE) Lost in the Trees 7pm@ Fingerprints
- The Watkins Family @ Largo
- Basement Babies 10pm , Unicycle Loves You 9pm , Cousins 11pm , Night Moves 8pm @ Silverlake Lounge
- ♥ The Black Ryder, Young Prisms, Strangers Family Band @ The Echo
- Dub Club @ Echoplex
- ♥ Lucero, The Drowning Men @ The Fonda Theatre
- ♥ The Temper Trap, Papa @ The Glass House
- Saviours, Holy Grail, The Shrine @ The Satellite
- The Naked and Famous, NOW, Vacationer @ The Wiltern
- ♥ Of Monsters and Men, Lay Low @ Troubadour
- SXSW Japan Nite: ZZZ’s 1205am , KAO=S 1115pm , Nokies 1030pm , fIN 930pm , The Ajuku Girls 845pm , Eyeshine 8pm @ The Viper Room
- ♥ (FREE) Sentridoh, Lou Barlow @ Origami Vinyl
- Ryan Castle 8pm , XY Unlimited 9pm , The Headlines 10pm , The Get Down Boys 11pm @ The Mint
- (FREE) Merle Jagger, The International Swingers @ Redwood Bar
- (FREE) Grandpire 9pm , Some Sh 10pm , Penny Dreadful 11pm @ Lot 1 Cafe
- (FREE) Narcoleptic Youth, Filthy Nuns, Cerote, Argyle Street @ Slidebar
- (FREE) Stab City, Battle Tapes @ On The Rox (The Roxy)
- Bobby Brackins, Starting Six, Wicker, Mike Taylor @ The Roxy
- Deicide, Abigail Williams, Lecherous Nocturne @ House of Blues-Los Angeles
- For Today @ House of Blues-Anaheim
THURSDAY-March 22, 2012
- ♥ Perfume Genius, Parenthetical Girls, Aaron Embry @ Bootleg Bar
- Patrick Park, I Hate You Just Kidding, Cherokee Fade @ Detroit Bar
- ♥ The Ting Tings, MNDR @ El Rey Theatre
- Emancipator, Shigeto, Marley Carroll @ King King
- Talking To Turtles, The Anti-Job 9pm , Ex-Detectives 11pm , Shannon Stephens @ Silverlake Lounge
- Lost in the Trees, Poor Moon @ The Echo
- Onslaught, Mpire of Evil, Evildead, Fueled By Fire, Anger as Art @ Echoplex
- ♥ Cults, Spectrals, Mrs. Magician @ The Fonda Theatre
- Kevin Devine, The Front Bottoms @ Constellation Room( The Observatory )
- (FREE) Yellow Red Sparks, Jenny Stockdale, Jonny Wickersham @ The Prospector
- Molly McGuire, Aeges, Totimoshi @ The Satellite
- (FREE before 11pm w/ RSVP) Mighty Mouse, Viceroy, Tropicool,Surf Ambassador Hendo @ Central Social Aid & Pleasure Club
- Prong 11pm , Black Tusk 10pm , It’s Casual 9pm , Early Man, Polarization 8pm @ The Viper Room
- (FREE) Gagakirise @ Origami Vinyl
- Haddon Cord 8pm , Andrew Duhon 9pm , Martine Zellar and The Hardways 10pm @ The Mint
- (FREE) Guantanamo Baywatch, Cyclops, The Flytraps, Pastel Vision @ Redwood Bar
- (FREE) Chaser, Under The Influence, DC Fallout @ Slidebar
- Oedipus, Zero 1, Cruz @ The Roxy
- (FREE) Cynthia Gillett,Silverstique, Apartment 28 @ On The Rox (The Roxy)
- ♥ A Night of Divas Starring Diana Ross @ Nokia Theatre
FRIDAY-March 23, 2012
- Peter & the Test Tube Babies, The Generators, Guitar Gangsters, Dirty Filthy Mugs, Killroy @ Alex’s Bar
- Amy Ray, Lindsay Fuller @ Bootleg Bar
- ♥ Ian McCulloch (from Echo And The Bunnymen) @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- The Burn Riffs, Christy Page @ Key Club
- ♥ (FREE w/ RSVP) The Strange Boys, The Coathangers, White Mystery, Wounded Lion @ Los Globos
- ♥ The Magnetic Fields, Bachelorette @ Orpheum Theatre
- (FREE) Howler @ Permanent Records
- Howler, The Static Jacks, TOPS @ The Echo
- ♥ Cults, Spectrals, Mrs. Magician @ The Glass House
- Saint Motel @ Constellation Room(The Observatory )
- ♥ Robert Schwartzman, The Relationship(eat. Brian Bell of Weezer), The Nervous Wreckords @ The Satellite
- ♥ Black Love, Black Mare, Black Sea, Black Sheep Wall @ The Smell
- Nit Grit, Two Fresh @ El Rey Theatre
- Silent Frisco, 9pm Idiot Savante, motion Potion @ Central Social Aid & Pleasure Club
- fIN 12am , Juke Cartel 11pm , Young Rapscallions 10pm, The Kingston Springs 9pm @ The Viper Room
- Mojo Junkies 845pm, The Dirty Knobs 950pm @ The Mint
- (FREE) The Flash Express, Geisha Girls, Van Excel @ Redwood Bar
- Attack of The Loiud, The Dramedy, Spaceships, Dream Homes @ Lot 1 Cafe
- Orgy, Seismatik @ The Observatory
- Metalachi, Ghouls Night Out @ Slidebar
- (FREE) Mal, After, DJ Divine Elements, DJ Conscise @ On The Rox (The Roxy)
- Conspirator, Justin Pail, KJ Sawka(Pendulum) @ The Roxy
- ♥ Funk-A-Palooza: George Clinton, Con Funk Shun, S.O.S. Band @ Gibson Amphitheatre
- FADERHEAD @ Das Bunker
- The Ataris, The Go Reflex, Margate, Sederra @ Dipiazza’s
SATURDAY-March 24, 2012
- ♥ Dead Meadow, The Shrine @ Alex’s Bar
- Release the Sunbird (feat Zach Rogue of Rogue Wave) 11pm , Everybody Else 10pm @ Bootleg Bar
- Riton, American Royalty, Kedd Cook @ Detroit Bar
- Set Your Goals, Cartel, Fireworks, Mixtapes, Super Prime @ Key Club
- Odd Modern, Midnight Door @ Pehrspace
- ♥ Fun., Avalanche City @ The Glass House
- ♥ OFF!, Wavves, Ty Segall, The Strange Boys, White Fence, King Tuff, Fidlar, Lovely Bad Things, Dirt Dress, Audacity, Pangea, Feeding People, Tomorrow’s Tulips, The Abigails, The Tyde, Cosmonauts @ The Observatory
- ♥ (FREE) Very Be Careful, Cumbia Machin @ The Prospector
- ♥ Imperial Teen, Radiation City, The Breakups @ The Satellite
- ♥ BITCHES, Batwings Catwings, Chapter 24, Peter Pants @ The Smell
- (FREE) Funky Sole @ The Echo
- Five Finger Death Punch, Soulfly, Windowpane @ Fox Theater Pomona
- The Diamond Light 11pm , The Kingston Springs 10pm @ Central Social Aid & Pleasure Club
- Mumiy Troll 10pm, Run Run Run 9pm , Proseka 8pm @ The Viper Room
- (FREE) This Frontier Needs Heroes, Levi Strom @ Origami Vinyl
- Mark Hildreth 8pm , Whitley Heights 9pm , Roulette Dares 10pm , Aficionado 11pm @ The Mint
- (FREE) Los Vigilantes, L.A. Drugz, White Murder, The Better Maker, She Rides @ Redwoood Bar
- Good Luck Bear, Jake Whitener @ Lot 1 Cafe
- ♥ (FREE) Mini Mansions @ Slidebar
- Father Tiger, Red Abbey, Mount Fabric, The Moan @ The Roxy
- (FREE) Honor Flow Productions, Random Citizens, Marbella, Clouds Like Mountains, Tyler Balabas @ On The Rox (The Roxy)
- ♥ Ani DiFranco, Seth Glier @ Orpheum Theatre
SUNDAY-March 25, 2012
- ♥ Good Old War, Belle Brigade, Family Of The Year @ Avalon Hollywood
- ♥ The Entrance Band, Lumerians, Jeffertitti’s Nile, Cosmonauts, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Dahga Bloom, Farmer Dave Scher and The Wizards of The West, Ahkiyyini, Allah-Las @ Bootleg Theater
- Them Jeans, Anna Lunoe @ Drai’s Hollywood
- Vitalic (DJ Set), Matzerath @ El Rey Theatre
- Release the Sunbird @ Constellation Room(The Observatory )
- ♥ CSS @ The Observatory
- Neil Hamburger @ The Satellite
- Krautrock Nite with Neu!, Can and Faust Cover Bands @ The Echo
- All Else Fails, Blacklight Revelation, Doc Holiday, Killix @ Alex’s Bar
- Cubensis 6pm @ Central Social Social Aid & Pleasure Club
- Imani Chyle, Jussie Smollet 12am , Reign Morton 11pm 10pm, TJ Gibson @ The Viper Room
- FREE) DJ Mario Cotto and Ben Block @ The Mint
- (FREE) Triple Dog Dare, Automatic Knives @ Redwood Bar
- (FREE) Buck O Nine, Save The Swim Team, Stupid Flanders @ Slidebar
