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 18^th: Mrs. Henry at The Hi Hat
March 21^st: Curtis Peoples at The Hotel Café
March 25^th: Irontom at The Roxy
March 25^th-28^th: The Tallest Man on Earth at The Troubadour
March 28^th: Larkin Poe at The Fonda Theatre
March 31^st: Rueben and the Dark, Black English at Moroccan Lounge
April 2^nd: The Districts at Teragram Ballroom
April 2^nd/3^rd: Nathaniel Rateliff at The Theatre at Ace Hotel
April 3^rd: Allen Stone at the Fonda Theatre
April 8^th: Lime Cordiale at Moroccan Lounge
April 9^th: Wrabel at The Hotel Cafe
April 11^th: Ruen Brothers at The Hotel Cafe
April 16^th: Mighty Oaks at Moroccan Lounge
April 18^th: Tyler Hilton at The Hotel Cafe
April 19^th: Josh Kelley at The Hotel Cafe
April 21^st: The Coronas at the Troubadour
April 22^nd: The Darkness at The Novo
April 23^rd: CYN at Moroccan Lounge
April 23^rd: Ben Grey at The Hotel Cafe
April 28^th: Suzanne Santo at Bootleg Theater
April 30^th: Arms Akimbo, Mike Mains & The Branches at The Lodge Room
May 1^st: Beachlife Music Festival at Redondo Beach
May 4^th: The Wrecks, The Driver Era at Fonda Theatre
May 5^th: The Wrecks at Fonda Theatre
May 7^th: The 1975 at The Forum
May 9^th: Wrabel at The Hotel Cafe
May 12^th: The Revivalists at Teragram Ballroom
May 13^th: John K. Samson at The Troubadour
May 14^th: Ivan & Alyosha at Bootleg Theater
May 16^th: Against Me! at The Novo
May 18^th: Lewis Capaldi at The Forum
May 21^st: The Milk Carton Kids at the El Rey
May 22^nd: Of Monsters and Men, Gordi at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
June 5^th: Vista Kicks at the Fonda Theatre
June 6^th: Barns Courtney at Exposition Park
June 9^th: Alanis Morissette at Hollywood Bowl
June 10^th: Chvrches at Hollywood Bowl
June 10^th: LP at the Greek Theatre
June 11^th: Harrison Storm at The Hotel Cafe
June 12^th: Toad the Wet Sprocket at Greek Theatre
June 19^th: AWOLNATION, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness at Greek Theatre
June 22^nd: Bayside at The Wiltern
June 27^th: Caroline Rose at The Troubadour
June 28^th: Iron & Wine at Hollywood Bowl
July 18^th: Badflower, Incubus at FivePoint Amphitheater
September 5^th: Lifehouse at The Greek Theatre
September 16^th: Lake Street Dive at Hollywood Bowl
October 13^th: Kaleo at The Greek Theatre
October 14^th: Lenka at Moroccan Lounge
October 17^th: James Arthur at The Greek Theatre
November 17^th: Passenger at Immanuel Presbyterian Church

~ Kristen

 

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