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Tonight in Rock in LA - Kinky, OK Stranger, The Grates

Kinky @ Avalon
The Grates @ Cinespace
OK Stranger @ Key Club
Old Crow Medicine Show @ Henry Fonda
The Adored, Army Navy @ Safari Sam's
A Band Called Pain, LA Leather @ Whisky
The Sparkly Dinosaurs @ Knitting Factory
Metal Skool @ Key Club
Quetzal @ Ameoba (free)
Braille @ Viper Room
Character Assassins, Plastered @ Roxy
The Great Glass Elevator @ Temple Bar
Fangs On Fur @ Mr. T's Bowl
Brutus Gets the Girl @ 14 Below
Los Super Elegantes @ Rio Hondo College
Bizzart, I Heart Lung, New Orleans Is A Dead Museum @ Il Corral
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