2020 has been rough! These last couple of weeks in particular have been difficult to get through, culminating with the cancellation of my favorite week of the year at SXSW. I am doing my best to focus on the silver lining which is that instead of Austin, I will be spending my birthday week in Florida watching my baseball team at Spring Training (something I have never done because of the timing with SXSW). I guess I will be watching the next generation of baseball players rather than sampling the next musical breakouts…
Hopefully, all of my top SXSW2020 picks come through LA soon. We’re off to a start this week with shows from Patrick Sweany, Frances Quinlan, and Great Grandpa (among many others):
Monday: Wrabel at The Hotel Cafe (7pm)
ALSO: It’s a School Night f. The Jacks, Lucy Clearwater, Nico Franc at Bardot (8pm)
ALSO: Your Smith at Checker Hall (7pm)
ALSO: Glass Animals at The Troubadour (7pm)
ALSO: Monday Monday f. The Cordovas at The Hotel Cafe second stage (8pm)
Tuesday: Keane at Dolby Theatre (8pm)
ALSO: Caitlin Sherman w/ Elijah Ocean FREE at The Love Song Bar (9pm)
ALSO: Whispertown at Bootleg Bar (8:30)
ALSO: Asgeir at Teragram Ballroom (8pm)
ALSO Writer’s Block LA at The Hotel Cafe second stage (9pm)
Weds: Jesse & Friends at The Hotel Cafe (8pm)
ALSO: WFNM f. Nick Leng, Jupiter Winter at Madame Siam (7pm)
ALSO: Desert Nights f. Dead Rock West, Shane Alexander at The Standard Hollywood (7pm)
ALSO: Tamino at Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (8pm)
ALSO: Soul Asylum at Teragram ballroom (8pm)
Thursday: Patrick Sweany at Bootleg Bar (8:30)
ALSO: Dylan Dunlap at The Love Song Bar (8pm)
ALSO: Whitacre at The Hotel Cafe second stage (7pm)
ALSO: WFNM f. YVR at Bar Lubitsch (7pm)
ALSO: Frances Quinlan at Pico Union Project (8pm)
ALSO: Grace Potter w/ Bailen at The El Rey (8pm)
ALSO: Tamino at Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (8pm)
ALSO: Delta Spirit at Teragram Ballroom (9pm)
Friday: Great Grandpa at Moroccan Lounge (7pm)
ALSO: Benjamin Jaffee at Moroccan Lounge (9:30)
ALSO: The Ballroom Thieves at The Satellite (9pm)
ALSO: Verite at The Roxy (9pm)
ALSO: Tracy Bonham w/ Hey, King! at The Hotel Cafe second stage (7pm)
ALSO: Busty and The Bass at The Troubadour (8pm)
ALSO: Inara George and Larry Goldings at Bootleg Theater (8:30)
ALSO: Delta Spirit at Teragram Ballroom (9pm)
ALSO: Umphrey’s McGee at The Wiltern (6:30)
Saturday: Siv Jakobsen, Misty Boyce at The Hotel Cafe second stage (7,10)
ALSO: Joyous Wolf at The Viper Room (7:30)
ALSO: Distant Cousins at The Mint (11pm)
ALSO: Singer Songwriter Showcase f. Jessie Payo, Joe Marson, Lucy Clearwater at The Zephyr Theatre (8pm)
ALSO: Third Eye Blind at The Wiltern (7pm)
ALSO: The Strokes at The Forum (7:30)
Sunday: Caleb Trask at The Hotel Cafe second stage (9pm)
To Keep in Mind:
March 18th: Mrs. Henry at The Hi Hat
March 21st: Curtis Peoples at The Hotel Café
March 25th: Irontom at The Roxy
March 25th-28th: The Tallest Man on Earth at The Troubadour
March 28th: Larkin Poe at The Fonda Theatre
March 31st: Rueben and the Dark, Black English at Moroccan Lounge
April 2nd: The Districts at Teragram Ballroom
April 2nd/3rd: Nathaniel Rateliff at The Theatre at Ace Hotel
April 3rd: Allen Stone at the Fonda Theatre
April 8th: Lime Cordiale at Moroccan Lounge
April 9th: Wrabel at The Hotel Cafe
April 11th: Ruen Brothers at The Hotel Cafe
April 16th: Mighty Oaks at Moroccan Lounge
April 18th: Tyler Hilton at The Hotel Cafe
April 19th: Josh Kelley at The Hotel Cafe
April 21st: The Coronas at the Troubadour
April 22nd: The Darkness at The Novo
April 23rd: CYN at Moroccan Lounge
April 23rd: Ben Grey at The Hotel Cafe
April 28th: Suzanne Santo at Bootleg Theater
April 30th: Arms Akimbo, Mike Mains & The Branches at The Lodge Room
May 1st: Beachlife Music Festival at Redondo Beach
May 4th: The Wrecks, The Driver Era at Fonda Theatre
May 5th: The Wrecks at Fonda Theatre
May 7th: The 1975 at The Forum
May 9th: Wrabel at The Hotel Cafe
May 12th: The Revivalists at Teragram Ballroom
May 13th: John K. Samson at The Troubadour
May 14th: Ivan & Alyosha at Bootleg Theater
May 16th: Against Me! at The Novo
May 18th: Lewis Capaldi at The Forum
May 21st: The Milk Carton Kids at the El Rey
May 22nd: Of Monsters and Men, Gordi at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
June 5th: Vista Kicks at the Fonda Theatre
June 6th: Barns Courtney at Exposition Park
June 9th: Alanis Morissette at Hollywood Bowl
June 10th: Chvrches at Hollywood Bowl
June 10th: LP at the Greek Theatre
June 11th: Harrison Storm at The Hotel Cafe
June 12th: Toad the Wet Sprocket at Greek Theatre
June 19th: AWOLNATION, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness at Greek Theatre
June 22nd: Bayside at The Wiltern
June 27th: Caroline Rose at The Troubadour
June 28th: Iron & Wine at Hollywood Bowl
July 18th: Badflower, Incubus at FivePoint Amphitheater
September 5th: Lifehouse at The Greek Theatre
September 16th: Lake Street Dive at Hollywood Bowl
October 13th: Kaleo at The Greek Theatre
October 14th: Lenka at Moroccan Lounge
October 17th: James Arthur at The Greek Theatre
November 17th: Passenger at Immanuel Presbyterian Church
~ Kristen
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