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Tonight In Rock: Stars, Dengue Fever, Mayer Hawthorne, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Weekend will be performing tonight at the Echoplex | Picture via Weekend's Myspace
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Weekend will be performing tonight at the Echoplex | Picture via Weekend's Myspace
Our Pick: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Weekend, Sonny and the Sunsets @ Echoplex
Tonight Canadian indie rock quintet Stars will be headlining the Wiltern with none other than San Franciscan indie pop trio Geographer in tow. LA-by-way-of-Michigan retro soul singer-songwriter Mayer Hawthorne is poised to grace the Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theater with actor/writer/comedian/MC Donald Glover, who performs under the pseudonym Childish Gambino. And, lastly, LA-based Cambodian rock outfit Dengue Fever will be providing the live score for the stop-motion film "The Lost World" at UCLA's Royce Hall. But we strongly suggest heading over to the Echoplex to catch NY-bred indie pop act the Pains of Being Pure at Heart (LAist Interview). LAist favorites, San Franciscan post-punk trio Weekend, who recently released one of 2010's most satisfyingly noisy discs, Sports, and "beach-pop" quartet Sonny & the Sunsets are slated to kick things off.
Weekend - "End Times"
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Falling Over"
Sonny & The Sunsets - "Too Young To Burn"
Stars - "The Ghost of Genova Heights"
Geographer - "Age of Consent (New Order Cover)"
Dengue Fever - "Ethanopium"
Mayer Hawthorne - "Just Ain't Gonna Work Out"
Devo @ Club Nokia
Stars, Geographer @ The Wiltern
Ghostface Killah @ The Roxy
Dengue Fever: "The Lost World" @ UCLA's Royce Hall
Misfits @ Key Club
Mayer Hawthorne & The Country, Childish Gambino, Gordon Voidwell @ The Music Box at the Henry Fonda Theater
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Weekend, Sonny and the Sunsets @ Echoplex
The Blank Tapes, Incan Abraham, The Silverlake Chorus @ Spaceland
Teitur @ Bootleg Theater
Over The Rhine, Lucy Wainwright Roche @ Troubadour
The Joe Corso Band, Kara Aubrey, Ines Kembel, Traveler, Joalby and Esjay @ The Mint
Y LUV, Dreamkiller, Los Brigands @ Mr. T's Bowl
Jubilee Singers, Pamela Shaffer, Saint Sea Hat, Elle King @ Pehrspace
The Mother Hips @ McCabe's Guitar Shop
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