This week’s best indie shows and pop shows (and everything else) in Los Angeles feature Alabama Shakes, Shannon and the Clams, Jorja Smith, Wasia Project. Kokoroko, Robert Glasper, Sonoda, Alexandra Savior, Los Aguilar, Esha Tewari, Susannah Joffe, Zzzahara, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Glass Beams, Alex Isley, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Raekwon & Ghostface, MURS 3:16, Dilated Peoples, and a lot more. Check out all the best concerts happening in Los Angeles this week.
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* Shows in bold are super recommended
8/11 keshi, Starfall at Kia Forum
8/11 Puscifer at Exchange LA
8/11 Shannon and the Clams, Vicky Tafoya, Chulita Vinyl Club at The Glass House
8/11 FUJII KAZE at Greek Theatre
8/12 Jorja Smith at Hollywood Palladium
8/12 Sandy Honig, Total Heat at The Echo
8/12 Counting Crows, The Glaslight Anthem at YouTube Theater
8/12 Wasia Project at Pico Union Project
8/12 Evan Blix, Country Restroom, Scout Paret at Zebulon
8/13 Alabama Shakes, Shannon and the Clams at Hollywood Bowl
8/13 Kokoroko at The Regent Theater
8/13 Lydia Night at The Echo
8/13 Tedeschi Trucks Band at The Greek Theatre
8/13 Simple Plan at YouTube Theater
8/14 Robert Glasper at Blue Note LA
8/14 Sonoda, Sun Colony at The Del Monte
8/14 Horsegirl, Godcaster, Kraus at Teragram Ballroom
8/14 Semetary, Ghost Mountain at The Regent Theater
8/14 Red Leather at The Roxy
8/14-16 Alexandra Savior at Troubadour
8/15 Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Slaughterhouse at Lodge Room
8/15 Robert Glasper at Blue Note LA
8/15 daine, Ch111oe, ethn reis at The Echo
8/15-16 Los Aguilar at the Hollywood Bowl
8/15 Jack Rabbit, Lovpune at Makeout Music
8/15 Esha Tewari with Susannah Joffe at Fonda Theatre
8/15 Two Another with No Suits at The Roxy
8/16 Echo Park Rising w/ Tijuana Panthers, Bob Baker’s Marionette Theater, La Doña, Zzzahara, Fake Dad, and more at The Echo / Echoplex
8/15 Mo Dotti, Steel Wool, Scone at Permanent Records Roadhouse
8/15 Modern Time Machines, Waves Crashing, Giant Waste of Man at Non Plus Ultra
8/16 RÜFÜS DU SOL, Glass Beams at Rose Bowl
8/16 Ternion Sound at 1720
8/16 St. Paul & The Broken Bones at Burton Chase Park (FREE)
8/16 Lxs Cochinxs! at Levitt Pavilion (FREE)
8/16 Freestyle Festival w/ Lisa Lisa, Exposè, Trinere, Robin s, Noel & more at Greek Theatre
8/16 flipturn with Sun Room at Fox Theater Pomona
8/16 Alex Isley at Blue Note LA
8/16 Thirty Seconds To Mars at Kia Forum
8/16 Wild Pink, Villagerrr, Morpho, Ruby Sparks, Macky at Zebulon
8/16 Delilah Bon at Lodge Room
8/16 Black Belt Eagle Scout, Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Jlin feat. Glen Begay and Bearspring at The Broad
8/16 Darci at The Roxy
8/16 Rhyme Fest w/ Raekwon & Ghostface, MURS 3:16, Dilated Peoples, the Alchemist, Dead Prez, Tha Alkaholics & more at The Torch
8/16 Sina Bathaie at The Vermont Hollywood
8/16/225 Madeline Kenney at Scribble
8/16 Macey Gray at the Palace Theatre
8/16 niko rain & EJEAN w/ siopaolo at Moroccan Lounge
8/17 Soul Source with Chicago house legend Roy Davis Jr. & more at Gloria Molina Park’s Sunday Sessions (FREE)
8/17 Alex Isley at Blue Note LA
8/17 Blush with Precocious Neophyte at Moroccan Lounge
8/17 Damian Marley, Stephen Marley at Hollywood Bowl
8/17 Zo!, Tall Black Guy, DJ Severe at Lodge Room
8/17 Escape-ism, Street Fruit, Dorothy Fuzz (FREE) at Zebulon
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More Shows This August in LA
8/18 The Philharmonik at Blue Note LA
8/19 My Morning Jacket at Hollywood Palladium
8/19 Open Mike Eagle with Jordan Patterson and J.Rocc at the Hammer Museum (FREE)
8/19 Terrace Martin with Special Guest Kenyon Dixon at Blue Note LA
8/19 Michael Angelakos is Passion Pit at Moroccan Lounge
8/20 Midnight Generation at Echoplex
8/21-22 Robert Glasper at Blue Note LA
8/20-21 Ethel Cain, 9million at Shrine Auditorium
8/20 H.R. (of Bad Brains) at Whisky a Go-Go
8/20 Terrace Martin with Special Guest Kenyon Dixon at Blue Note LA
8/22-24 Maestro of the Movies celebrating the music of John Williams at the Hollywood Bowl
8/22 The J-Town Bronzeville Suite at California Plaza as part of Grand Performances (FREE)
8/22 Japanese Breakfast, Ginger Root at The Greek Theatre
8/23 Lula Washington Dance Theatre 45th Anniversary Celebration at The Ford
8/23 Kinky & Los Abandoned at Levitt Pavilion (FREE)
8/23-24 Emily King at Blue Note LA
8/23 Oro Sólido at California Plaza as part of Grand Performances (FREE)
8/25 Béla Fleck and the Flecktones at The Ford
8/25 Mayer Hawthorne at Blue Note LA
8/26 Spoon, Pete Molinari at The Observatory (Orange County, no LA show)
8/28 Sarabande Africaine: Angélique Kidjo & Yo-Yo Ma with Thierry Vaton and David Donatien
and special guest Sinkane at the Hollywood Bowl
8/29-30 Cyndi Lauper at Hollywood Bowl
8/29 The Offspring, Jimmy Eat World, New Found Glory at Kia Forum
8/29-31 Mac DeMarco at The Greek Theatre
8/30 Betty Who, LA Phil at The Ford
8/30 Liberación Collective: Sudan & US Migrants Benefit feat. Lauren Jauregui, DannyLux, Zanib, Xiuhtezcatl, and more at The Miracle Theater Inglewood
8/30 Redd Kross, Juanita & Juan, Kate Clover & DJ Keith Morris at Levitt Pavilion (FREE)
8/31 Sílvia Pérez Cruz, La Muchacha, Y La Madrigal (Luz Elena Mendoza of Y La Bamba) at The Ford
September Preview
9/3 Hiatus Kaiyote, Snarky Puppy at Hollywood Bowl
9/4 Calva Louise, Mike’s Dead, Sicksense at The Roxy
9/4 The Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Dehd at The Greek Theatre
9/5 Jenny Hval at Lodge Room
9/5 Thievery Corporation at The Greek Theatre
9/6-7 Oasis, Cage the Elephant at Rose Bowl
9/7 Youth Code with King Yosef at Echoplex
9/7 ASTROPICAL (members of Bomba Estéreo and Rawayana) at Hollywood Bowl
9/9 Ninajirachi at The Roxy
9/9 Sofiane Pamart at The Ford
9/9 Hot Chip at Fonda Theatre
9/10 Provoker, Choir Boy, Touching Ice at Fonda Theatre
9/11 Billie Marten at El Rey Theatre
9/15 Cuco at The Greek Theatre
9/13 Sonido Gallo Negro, É Arenas at The Ford
9/15 Neil Young (and the chrome hearts) at Hollywood Bowl
9/18 Kumo 99 at The Paramount
9/18 JP Saxe at The Ford
9/18 Nine Inch Nails, Boys Noize at Kia Forum
9/19 Anika, Lauren Early at Echoplex
9/19 Nine Inch Nails, Boys Noize at Kia Forum
9/19-20 Aly & AJ, Amanda Shires at The Ford
9/20 TOPS at The Bellwether
9/21 Arc de Soleil at Fonda Theatre
9/21 Air (with orchestra), Bonobo (DJ Set) at Hollywood Bowl
9/24 Band of Horses, Iron and Wine at The Wiltern
9/24 Perfect Angel: The Definitive Minnie Riperton Tribute at Hollywood Bowl
9/25-26 LCD Soundsystem, Pulp at Hollywood Bowl
9/26 Mr. Gnome at Gold-Diggers
9/26 yeule at The Belasco
9/26-27 Magdalena Bay at Hollywood Forever
9/27 Big Thief at Hollywood Bowl
9/27 Hunx and His Punx at The Belasco
9/27 Renée Elise Goldsberry at The Ford
9/27 The Murder Capital at The Echo
9/28 Spiritualized at Orpheum Theatre
9/30 Osees, Brigid Dawson, DREAM_MEGA at Teragram Ballroom
9/30 Sparks at The Greek Theatre
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