Jam fans and piano aficionados would be doing themselves a service by going to The Mint tonight. Ivory and ebony virtuoso Marco Benevento takes to the stage at the Pico funk hub to lay down some thick jazz, granola tunes and the occasional party starter like "Limbs of a Pine." You may remember Marco from the Benevento/Russo Duo - but tonight's outfit should be a bit more eclectic, plus he is joined by Mike Dillon of Garage A Trois, Polyphonic Spree, Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade and more.
Its a magnificent night of music to close out the first month of the year as Dave Grohl celebrates his documentary with a Sound City Players performance at Hollywood Palladium, a free KRS-ONE show at Slidebar and the improvisation skills of Marco Benevento and Mike Dillon at The Mint.
If those legends weren't enough - there is a healthy dosage of beatsmiths and producers descending on LA venues tonight too. Free The Robots cuts up at Constellation Room while a pseudo Low End Theory crew celebrates the life of Austin Peralta at Del Monte Speakeasy when Daedelus, Teebs and Gaslamp Killer all lay down dope sets for the low cost of $5 entry (proceeds go to charity).
A full list of tonight's shows are below...
Sound City Players
@ Hollywood Palladium
Jordan Booth, Natalise, Nura Creitz @ Room 5 Lounge
Meiko, Sweet Talk Radio, Haley Pharo, Matt Jennings, My Name
Is You @ The Hotel Café
Max Lugavere, Sonia Rao, Danni Rosner, Eric Mellgren, Mike
Stocksdale @ WitZend
Harlow Gold @ Harvelle’s
L.A.M.P., Danger Boy, DJSB, Josh Brooks & More @ The
Central SAPC
Austin Peralata
Tribute w/ Kamasi Washington Dectet, Teebs, Strangeloop feat. Earnest Blount,
Daedelus, Gaslamp Killer @ Del Monte Speakeasy
Marco Benevento, Mike
Dillon Band @ The Mint
Tristan Prettyman, Paul Cannon @ Troubadour
Petty Cash, Black
Coat, The High, Lows, JD Bender @ The Viper Room
Implants, Assuming We Survive, The Hollowed, I’mU, Dirty
Pints @ The Roxy
KROQ Locals Only Presents: Margate, Brothers of Brazil, 80
Proof @ On The Rox
Lise de la Salle Plays Rachmaninoff @ Walt Disney Concert
Hall
Bisonte, Astral Jubilee, The Lost Experience @ Lot 1 Café
Near Mess Craft Beer Fest Night 3 w/ Rainbow Jackson, Batwings Catwings, Luna is Honey @ The Satellite
Zaireeka Listening Party,
HOTT MT, Butcher Boy @ The Echo
Two Gallants, Future
Twin @ Bootleg Theater
JT Ross The Harmonica Boss @ One Eyed Gypsy
The Burning of Rome, T.V. Mike and the Scarecrows, Paper
Planes, D. Lee Wagoneer @ SIlverlake Lounge
Eric Jag, Lushbunny, HyJynx, The Rogue Mechanica @ King King
Club
They Live & Backwards Beast @ Harvard & Stone
Brillz, Etc! Etc!,
Slander @ Yost Theater
Free The Robots @
Constellation Room
Drinking Flowers, The Flying Hand @ Detroit Bar (FREE)
Tony Ferrari (6 PM); 40 Oz. To Freedom, The Originalites,
Wait for Green @ Saint Rocke
The Rift, Brando’s Island, Kitten Kuroi, Inside the Black,
Dave Edery @ TRiP
KRS-One, Macarone
@ Slidebar (FREE)
Crown Plaza, Fawn Spots, Spaceships, Cumstain @ The Smell
Electric Flower Group, Ochal La Rocha, Dave Glasebrook @
NOMAD
In Defence, Sleepwalkers, Fissure, Tim Raldo & The
Filthy Fuks @ Unit B Studio
Kumpania @ El Cid
Spirit Vine, PNP,
LA Witch @ Standard Hollywood
Nostalghia, Low Leaf, the Moth & The Flame @ 3 Clubs
Its not your average hump day here in LA to end the first month of 2013 because of the artists playing in town. Its the end of a slamming guitar rocking residency at The Mint which featured Eric McFadden for five weeks and the appearance of the aging Who at Staples Center.
While Townsend and friends attempt to take a hefty crowd to a teenage wasteland, plenty of emerging artists will be stamping their identity on some LA sonic enclaves. Kyle Nicolaides pumps out emotional and sometimes dark songwriting at Room 5 Lounge, Lushlife,Groundislava and Zak Waters deliver a healthy and diverse set of local music flavor at The Echo, Antibalas gets a little tribal beat at Troubadour and Hot Buttered Rum jams some free bluegrass at Slidebar.
Other notables include Metalachi and Great White Buffalo at El Cid and Niki & The Dove at The Barn with Vacationer as support. Full list of Wednesday's shows below....
Steve Delameter, Kyle
Nicolaides, Lucinda Ora @ Room 5 Lounge
Willy Mason w/ Escondido, The Cerny Brothers, Yoya @ The
Hotel Café
Get your weekend #turntup - cause its Friday and the music is cruising through LA. From the freshly signed sounds of Kid Ink at Key Club to the jams of Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers at The Constellation Room - there is a lot to aurally digest.
If you want to jazz up your night - Stanley Clarke Band plays at Catalina Bar and Grill, but the funkier jams will be heard at The Mint during the NAMM Jam with Leo Nocentelli (Funky Meters), Stanton Moore and Bill Dickens with special guests.
12th Planet, AC Slater and Kelley Dean bring some bass and wobbly filth to the floors of Avalon, while Crookers make the crowd toss and turn at The Observatory.
Indie westsiders should check out El Ten Eleven and Races at The Central SAPC, and for other good music Cody ChestnuTT at Troubadour and Jon Brion at Largo would be good choices too. For a full list of tonight's shows in LA, look below:
Max Graham, Darin Epsilon @ Exchange LA
Mozart & Beethoven’s
5th @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Social Studies, Creeps, Jung Bouquet @ Pehrspace
The Downtown Train @ One Eyed Gypsy
Vim Dicta, The Do-Its @ Harvard & Stone
Pageants, The Reflections, Sisu @ Bootleg Bar
Wovenhand, VUM, Little Red Lung @ The Satellite
Help Mike! w/ Adolescents, Mike Watt + The Missingmen, 45
Grave, AUDACITY, White Flag, The Abigails, Channel 3, The Garden, Agent Orange,
White Night, The Urinals, Shattered Faith @ The Echoplex
Gojira, The Devin Townsend Project, Atlas Moth @ Fonda
Theatre
Stanley Clarke Band
@ Catalina Bar & Grill
Plotz, Dorian Whood, Ghiant, Crab Lions @ El Cid
Pebaluna, Joe McKee, Big Harp, Bell Gardens, Kita Klane,
Gypsy & The Cat @ The Hotel Café
Action Item, Max Schneider, Paradise Fears, Before You Exit
@ The Roxy (6:30)
Chris Lightfoot, Quest The Artist, Chloe Pappas @ The Roxy
(10:15)
Odd Ball, Loose Nuts, Anchor Babies, Bullets Made of Statues
@ On The Rox
Ours, Updownup, Sabrosa Purr @ The Viper Room
Social Distortion @ House of Blues – Sunset
Kid Ink @ Key
Club
El Ten Eleven, We
Were Indians, Races @ The Central SAPC
LBDA, Los Angelitos, Special @ Brixton South Bay
The Barry Zweig Trio @ Del Monte Speakeasy
The Mast, Bacchanal Soundsystem @ Del Monte Speakeasy
Al Stewart @ mcCabe’s Guitar Shop
Unwritten Law, Harmful If Swallowed, Lose Control, Sir Zacc
West @ Saint ROcke
Crookers @ The
Observatory
Nicki Bluhm & The
Gramblers @ Constellation Room
Big B @ Industry Theater
Iration @ Majestic
Ventura Theater
Charles Feelgood @ Yost Theater
Cody ChesnuTT @
Troubadour
12th
Planet, AC Slater, Getter, Kelly Dean, Steady @ Avalon
Jon Brion @ Largo
Blue Sky Riders feat. Kenny Loggins, Gary Burr, Georgia
Middleman @ The Mint
NAMM JAMM Experience
w/ Leo Nocentelli, Stanton Moore, Bill Dickens w/ Special Guests @ The Mint
James Clay Garrison, Galen, Piranha Chihuahua, Nayanna
Holley, John Anderson @ WitZend
Jun @ Amoeba REcords
Raul Campos, Joaquin Garcia, Eric Tucker, DJ Santi @ King
King Club
Billy The Kid, Benny Marchant, Copper & Glass @ Room 5
Lounge
We wouldn't really be a music blog if we didn't post this within 24 hours of the line-up being leaked - its the 2013 Coachella line-up. Digest it and discuss amongst yourselves. More tickets go on sale here Tuesday.
Finally back in Los Angeles for more than five minutes - which means SUPERGOOD will be hitting the pavement, NAMM and venue bars to indulge in the finest of musical offerings. Tonight - its time to go underground for some classic hip-hop.
Former Def Jux act, Cannibal Ox reunite for a performance at The Roxy that celebrates more than a decade since the release of Cold Vein. They've been joined nationally by Chicago veteran rapper Keith Masters, whose "Game Day: Pt II" has been a football friendly synch all year long - but in LA the show gets an extra dosage of street from the illest Jewish rapper in Koreatown - Kosha Dillz. To participate in a contest to get on the guest list - tweet out @theroxy @supergoodmusic @koshadillz @keithmasters #cannibaloxreuniontour - and maybe you'll win a pair of tickets!
On the westside, there is more underground chemistry, but of the electronic and beat variety in the form of Break Science's late show at The Central SAPC. They're joined by Continuum (jobot Live) - doors are at 10.
Muse rocks Staples Center for proper if you are looking for an entertainment spectacle. Support from Band of Skulls means it should be solid from opening to close.
Other notable shows include Nia Andrews at Del Monte Speakeasy, a free performance from FIDLAR at Amoeba Records, Sarah Silverman at Largo and Ours with Lady Sinatra and The Diamond Light at The Viper Room.
Tito Nieves @ The Mayan
Muse, Band of Skulls
@ Staples Center
Mozart & Beethoven’s
5th @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Ingenue, Field Mouse, Dirty Dishes, Bare Monads @ Lot 1 Café
