All Music events
- Music: Experimental
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No Age
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Tuesday Dec 2 (7pm) @ The Troubadour
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After censors forced him to remove his Obama shirt at a taping for the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, No Age guitarist Randy Randall... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Sebastien Tellier
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Wednesday Dec 3 (8pm) @ Music Box at the Fonda Theater
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A club superstar for the American Apparel set, French popster Sebastien Tellier toes the line between bangin' electroclash and unrepentant new wave kitsch, simultaneously alluding... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Remix Hotel
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Thursday Dec 4 (3–9pm) @ SAE Institute of Technology
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Remix magazine's Remix Hotel decamps to LA this weekend for three full days of panels, workshops, after-parties, and free tunes. Highlights include keynote speakers and... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Meat Beat Manifesto
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Thursday Dec 4 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory
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Since forming in Swindon in 1987, Meat Beat Manifesto have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving out a distinct (if... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Sea and Cake
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Thursday Dec 4 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
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Built from the wreckage of the late, great Shrimp Boat, arty popsters the Sea and Cake are the frothy confection their name implies, with the... View details »
- Music: Classical
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The Calder Quartet
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Friday Dec 5 (7:30pm) @ Herbert Zipper Concert Hall
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Inspired by the sculptor Alexander Calder and his monumentally jovial aesthetic, the Calder Quartet blends the skill and repertoire of classical strings with a distinctly... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Crystal Antlers
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Friday Dec 5 (8:30pm) @ The Echo
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Pitchfork-anointed hot new things Crystal Antlers take a free-form, orchestral approach, layering sizzling rock with trippy, space-obsessed interludes. Hot off last summer's successful Fuck Yeah... View details »
- Music: Festival
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Winterfresh Festival
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Saturday Dec 6 (7pm–5am) @ Lot 61
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The Winterfresh Festival hosts 40 world-class performers in four winter-themed rooms, complete with snow-bunny dancers, photo booths, snow-making machines, and Christmas trees. The masterminds of... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Dressy Bessy
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Saturday Dec 6 (8:30pm) @ Spaceland
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Dressy Bessy, quite simply, are all about having a good time. The playful tone this Denver-based collective adopts has bubbled over into a few mediums;... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Little Joy
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Sunday Dec 7 (8pm) @ The Troubadour
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If the Strokes is the tree, Fabrizio Moretti's new side project, Little Joy, doesn't fall far from it. Rodrigo Amarante's (Los Hermanos) croon recalls Julian... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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Venice Rocks
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Sunday Dec 7 (8pm–2am) @ The Garter Lounge
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Cementing its reputation as the loudest, most debauched new-music weekly on the West Side, Venice Rocks' fierce Sunday line-ups feature everything from punk, funk, and... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Friendly Fires
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Sunday Dec 7 (8:30pm) @ Spaceland
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Following in the footsteps of new-millennium electro/rock hybrids like MGMT and LCD Soundsystem, UK-bred popsters Friendly Fires combine the frantic beats of vintage disco with... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
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The Coup
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Monday Dec 8 (9pm) @ House of Blues Sunset Strip
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Last time we heard from Oakland rap crew the Coup, it was when mastermind MC Boots Riley called in a nasty case of police profiling... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Wilderness
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Tuesday Dec 9 (8:30pm) @ The Echo
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The members of Florida-cum-Baltimore-based band Wilderness have been working together for 11 years, and it shows in the maturity of their sound. James Johnson's plaintive,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Wreck the Halls
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Wednesday Dec 10 (6pm) @ Club Nokia
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A musical menagerie, Wreck the Halls puts an alt-rock spin on the holiday season without succumbing to overloaded bills or cheesy band antics. Presented by... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
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High on Fire
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Wednesday Dec 10 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory
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If the metal resurgence hasn't already jumped the shark, it's getting uncomfortably mainstream, and dyed-in-the-wool headbangers are retreating into increasingly esoteric and "extreme" microgenres. High... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Venetian Snares
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Friday Dec 12 (9pm) @ Knitting Factory
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In the world of glitchy electronic experimentalism, Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert, and Autechre tend to garner the lion's share of accolades. While their ADD-addled, breakbeat-heavy... View details »
- Music: Classical
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LA Chamber Orchestra
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Saturday Dec 13 (8pm) @ Alex Theatre
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The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra celebrates its 40th anniversary this season with a program that redefines small-ensemble instrumental music. Music director Jeffrey Kahane conducts three... View details »
- Music: Classical
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Respighi + Rutter
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Sunday Dec 14 (7pm) @ Disney Concert Hall
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Conducted by Los Angeles Master Chorale Music Director Grant Gershon and assistant Ariel Quintana, late Harvard professor Daniel Pinkham's Christmas Cantata, composed in 1957, showcases... View details »
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- Music: Classical
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LA Phil
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Thursday Dec 4 (8pm) @ Disney Concert Hall
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The relentless coverage of Esa-Pekka Salonen and the LA Philharmonic's long kiss goodnight is an emotional affair for the city's classical music scene. Salonen's appointment... View details »
