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Tonight In Rock: Nobunny, Gangi, Slow Animal, Victoria Noll

Victoria Noll will be performing tonight at Pehrspace | Picture via Victoria Noll's Myspace
Our Pick: Elle King, Ema and the Ghosts, Miniature Houses, I Hate You Just Kidding, Victoria Noll @ Pehrspace
Tonight Oakland-based lo-fi garage punk visionary Justin Champlin, otherwise known as Nobunny, will be headlining the Echo. LAist favorites, local experimental psych folk duo Gangi's (LAist Review) are performing for the first time in a long while at the Bootleg Theater with none other than LA's own experimental music/art group Lucky Dragons and Swahili Blonde. And, lastly, New Jersey lo-fi duo Slow Animal will be concluding their sojourn here in LA, wrapping things up with a free in-store performance at Origami Vinyl. But we strongly suggest heading over to the hole-and-corner Pehrspace to catch local folk songbird Victoria Noll.
Victoria Noll - "After You"
Nobunny - "Chuck Berry Holiday"
Gangi - "Commonplace Feathers"
Slow Animal - "TheFUNsun"
Jimmy Cliff, Sly & Robbie and the Taxi Gang, Tarrus Riley @ Hollywood Bowl
Everclear, The Janks, Adam Bones, Adrienne Pierce @ John Anson Ford Amphitheatre
Gangi, Lucky Dragons, Swahili Blonde @ Bootleg Theater
The Spits, No Bunny @ The Echo
Slow Animal @ Origami Vinyl (FREE! Early Show; 7 PM)
Dave Gleason & The Country Ways @ Amoeba Music (FREE! Early Show; 5 PM)
Elle King, Ema and the Ghosts, Miniature Houses, I Hate You Just Kidding, Victoria Noll @ Pehrspace
Terra Naomi, Tao Seeger, Dead Sara, Cary Ann Hearst, Michael Trent, Tongue and Groove @ The Hotel Café
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