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Tonight In Rock: The Vic Chesnutt Band, Butterfly Boucher, The Section Quartet, Furcast

Vic Chesnutt will be performing tonight at the Echoplex | Photo by Sandlin Gaither via Vic Chesnutt's Myspace
Our Pick: The Vic Chesnutt Band, Warpaint @ Echoplex
Tonight Australian singer-songwriter Butterfly Boucher will be gracing the Troubadour. LA-based string quartet the Section Quartet are poised to take on Largo at the Coronet. And, lastly, eclectic, experimental electronic duo Furcast will be performing at the Bootleg Theater. But we strongly suggest heading over to the Echoplex to catch Athens-based folk troubadours the Vic Chesnutt Band. LAist favorites, local indie rock outfit Warpaint (LAist Review, #2, #3).
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.
Vic Chesnutt - "Philip Guston"
West Coast Left Coast w/ Green Umbrella, John Adams and Kronos Quartet; selections from Marshall, Partch and Zappa @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Ten Out of Tennessee w/ Trent Dabbs, k.s. Rhoads, Erin McCarley, Butterfly Boucher, Jeremy Lister, Tyler James, Matthew Perryman Jones, Andy Davis, Katie Herzig @ Troubadour
The Vic Chesnutt Band, Warpaint @ Echoplex
Swords of Fatima, New Rome Quartet, Lightnin Woodcock @ The Echo
Vise Virsa, London To Tokyo, AM VS FM @ Silver Lake Lounge
Bobby Long with Emma Ejwertz, Patrick Park, Gregory Alan Isakov @ The Hotel Café
Furcast, Bear Face @ Bootleg Theater
The Section Quartet @ Largo at the Coronet
Split Lip Rayfield @ The Viper Room
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