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Tonight In Rock: George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, The Bird And The Bee, The National, Akron/Family
Akron/Family will be performing Saturday at the El Rey Theatre | Picture via Akron/Family's Myspace
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Akron/Family will be performing Saturday at the El Rey Theatre | Picture via Akron/Family's Myspace
Our Pick: Akron/Family, Howlin' Rain, Lucky Dragons @ El Rey Theatre
Tonight the principal architect of P-Funk, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic (LAist Review), will be performing at Club Nokia in Downtown. Grammy-nominated pop singer Katy Perry (LAist Review, #2) is poised to headline the Hollywood Palladium with none other than local indie pop duo the Bird and the Bee (LAist Review, #2). And, lastly, Brooklyn-by-way-of-Cincinnati indie rock act the National will be taking on the Wiltern with California-bred folk rocker Cass McCombs in tow. But we strongly suggest heading over to the El Rey Theatre to catch NY-based experimental folk rock outfit Akron/Family. LAist favorites Howlin' Rain (LAist Review) and Lucky Dragons are slated to kick things off.
You can find these listings as well as the rest of the week's in our weekly Week In Rock post, which (generally) goes up every Sunday.
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Akron/Family - "Before And Again"
Liza Minnelli @ Hollywood Bowl
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic @ Club Nokia
Katy Perry, The Bird and The Bee @ Hollywood Palladium
The National, Cass McCombs @ The Wiltern
Band of Horses @ Pomona Fox Theater
Carl Cox @ The Vanguard
The Minus 5, The Baseball Project feat. Steve Wynn @ Troubadour
Akron/Family, Howlin' Rain, Lucky Dragons @ El Rey Theatre
his Orchestra, Kenneth Pattengale, Soul Puppet @ Bootleg Theatre
Box Elders, Audacity, Tijuana Panthers @ The Echo
The Warlocks, The Useless Keys, The Black Apples @ Spaceland
Princeton's 7" Release, Fol Chen, and secret special guest @ Pehrspace
The Monolators' 12" release, boxViolet, Odd Modern, DJ Boy Without Orange @ Silver Factory Studios
Maia Sharp, Michelle Featherstone, The Dirty Diamond, Rusty Anderson, Jason Heath & The Greedy Souls, Graham Isaacson @ The Hotel Café
Blaine Campbell, Ruthann Friedman, Helene Renaut @ Echo Curio
The Night at Dramaturgy, The Monthlies and friends @ Mr. T's Bowl
Shurman, Welldiggers Banquet, Tony Gilkyson @ Redwood Bar & Grill
Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa, Pain of Salvation, Beardfish @ Greek Theatre
Joe Pernice @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
Beethoven Billy Bragg Ninth @ The Broad Stage (1310 11th St., Santa Monica)
Thee Makeout Party, Mannequin Men, Davila 666, Slab City, Gestapo Khazi @ Alex's Bar
Modest Mouse, The Night Marchers @ The Grove of Anaheim
Rocco Deluca & the Burden @ Saint Rocke
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