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Tonight In Rock: Laura Veirs, Foreign Born, Avi Buffalo, Spirit Vine

Laura Veirs will be playing tonight at the Hotel Café | Photo by Tucker Martine via Laura Veirs' Myspace
Our Pick: Bleu's record release, Mike Viola, Laura Veirs, Luluc, Adam Bones @ The Hotel Café
Tonight Long Beach/Los Alamitos natives Avi Buffalo (LAist Interview, Review) will be performing at the Airliner in Lincoln Heights. (Canceled!) LAist favorites Foreign Born (LAist Review) will be gracing the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa with none other than English rockers the Veils. And, lastly, New Zealand-based rock outfit the Datsuns will be taking on Spaceland with locals Spirit Vine in tow. But we strongly suggest heading over to the Hotel Café to catch Portland-based songstress Laura Veirs. LAist favorites Mike Viola (LAist Interview) and Luluc will be performing as well.
You can find these listings as well as the rest of the week's in our weekly Week In Rock post, which goes up every Sunday.
Laura Veirs - "Secret Someones"
Bleu's record release, Mike Viola, Laura Veirs, Luluc, Adam Bones @ The Hotel Café
Bebe @ Amoeba Music
The Datsuns, Spirit Vine @ The Echo
We Are The Pilots @ The Mint
Avi Buffalo @ The Airliner (Canceled!)
Scarlet Grey, Lido Beach, Oh No Not Stereo, the leisures, Total Mischief @ Troubadour
The Child (with Holly Marilyn), Mini Mansions, Christian Stone, Mike Semple @ Spaceland
Ivy Walls, Winston & the Telescreen, Blue Jungle @ Bordello
The Soft Hands @ The Prospector
Foreign Born, The Veils, Other Girls @ Detroit Bar
Matt (of The Sweet Sweet Things) and Michael Rosas (of Satisfaction) @ La Cave
Katie Costello, Spring Standards @ Saint Rocke
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