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Tonight In Rock: Ting Tings, Ditty Bops, Dead Kennedys

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MOCA is starting up a six-week film series tomorrow night at their The Geffen Contemporary location in Little Tokyo and who better to be there to play a music set than Henry Rollins? The film screened will be "Underground Forces," a film about the early punk scene with footage of Black Flag, the Cramps, etc. Rollins will be on for two hours from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The movie will start shoryly after. It's free with that day's museum admission ($10 or $5 for students w/ID), so take advantage of that and peruse the galleries while you're there since it stays open late until 11:00 p.m.
Music listings after the jump...
Tiësto @ Vanguard
Quetzal @ Temple Bar
Local H @ Troubadour
Jonathan Richman @ The Mint
Jon Brion @ Largo at the Coronet
The Ting Tings @ Jimmy Kimmel Live
The Wombats, Pop Noir @ The Roxy
The Ditty Bops @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
Aimee Mann @ House of Blues (Anaheim)
Living Legends @ Music Box/Henry Fonda
Chimaira, Soilent Green, Dethklok @ Wiltern
James, Sky Parade, Evan Slamka @ Spaceland
Mountain Goats, Annuals @ Natural History Museum
Pizza!, Pigeons or Panthers, Brother, No Paws (No Lions) @ pehrspace
Dead Kennedys, JFA, Union 13, More Than Ever @ House of Blues (WeHo)
The Monolators, Seasons, Avi Buffalo, Master Slash Slave, Billygoat @ Mr. T's Bowl
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