The Mecolodiacs. Photo by Elise Thompson.
Looking for cool live music this week? Here’s some show recommendations:
**EPR = Echo Park Rising shows
Thursday 8/15
American Barbershop – Birth Defects, Turbulent Hearts, Broken Baby, Doctrin, New Evil, Beers For Fears + Velvet Starlings (EPR)
Levitt Pavilion MacArthur Park – Fartbarf + Numb.er
Prospector (Long Beach) – Compress Collide, One High Five, Dropout Heroes + Cheery Tang
Redwood Bar – Wrinkling Brothers, Mecolodiacs + Slim Zwerling & the Yums
Friday 8/16
American Barber Shop – Electric Children, Dirty Cakes, Flames of Durga, Ugly Sweaters, Speed of Light, Spare Parts for Broken Hearts, The Manx, Iress + Fucked Forever (EPR)
Cafe Nela – The Corpuscles, Double Naught Spy Car, Electric Ferrets + Mars
Liberty Stage (Liberty & Reservior Sts.) – The Red Pears, The Paranoyds, Sister Mantos, Cat Scan + Allensworth (EPR)
Redwood Bar – Teenage Goo Goo Muck, Bella Novela, The Damed + Rumours
Spacedust (2153 W. Sunset) – Cigarette Burns, Vaguess, The Haunts, Cassini, Miss Jupiter, Poppy Jean Crawford, Traps PS + L.A. Drones (EPR)
Saturday 8/17
5 Star Bar – The Vibrators, Resilience, Narcopleptic Youth, The Grim, Informal Society, The Bastards, Bad Ass, Down! Not Out!, Soto St., The Spewers, Subverteer + Power Beer, 1pm
Cinema Bar – Talkin Treason, Groovy Rednecks + Pedal Strike
Liberty Stage – French Vanilla, Egrets on Ergot, Saro, Perfection Black Nile, Palm Springsteen + L.A.Qoolside (EPR)
Maui Sugar Mill – Black Widows, Atomic Sherpas, Exploding Pintos + Wasted,Inc.
Sunday 8/18
Alex’s Bar – The Last (40thAnniversary), The Zeros, The Alley Cats + Tropsky Icepick, 2pm, then at 8PM, Inhuman Atrocities, Zombie Eating Horse, headstone + Deified
Cafe Nela – Psilocybin Pony (Cars tribute), Mango Napalm, Non-Blips, A Bleeding Sky + Sinful Nature
The Echo – Ravens Moreland, Melted Bodies, Radwaste, Bank of America, Draemings, R. Clown, Dancing Tongues, Ever So Android, N8NoFace + Bob Villain (Part Time Punks, EPR) 2:15pm; Albert & His Dreamboats, Jason Hawks Harris, Parting Lines, Pacific Range, S.O.S. + Leggy Peggy (Patio, EPR) 4pm
Little Joy – The Great Sadness, Prissy Whip, Assquatch, DMTina & The Bumps, Kevlar, Bloody Death Skull, Sunny Gummy Hands, The Gems + KidEyes (EPR)
Sticky Rice (1801 Sunset, LA) – Dream Phases, The Dates, Susan, Photo Ops, Butch Bastard, Guy Blakeslee, Frome-Rose, Lael Neale, Ryan Baine, Henry Wolfe + Laciste (EPR)
Monday 8/19
Corbin Bowl – Johnny Madcap & The Distractions + The Ripkatz, 9pm, all ages, free!
The Echo – Automatic, Adult Books, Gold Cage, Body Double + DJ John Roller
Tuesday 8/20
Cinema Bar – The Wrinkling Brothers, The Red Cars + Run Downhill
Wednesday 8/21
Catch One – Kadavar, ASG + Truckfighters
Greek Theatre – Steve Miller Band + Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
