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FRIDAY

• Avalon features Chevelle and Taproot tonight at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $22.

• Modfather Paul Weller performs tonight at The Wiltern at 8 PM. Tickets are $30-37.50.

• The Decemberists and Sons and Daughters are at The Glasshouse tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $15.

• The UCLA Live season kicks off with live theater, featuring plays by Charlie Kaufman and Francis Fregoli, plus music by Carter Burwell and featuring Hope Davis, Peter Dinklage, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan, Meryl Streep and David Thewlis. The plays begin at 8 PM; tickets are $38-60 ($17 for UCLA students).

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