Sets 12/8 ~ 12/14

Interesting shows around Los Angeles this week:

Monday 12/8
AC/DC, The Answer @ Forum
Xu Xu Fang, EXITMUSIC, Winter Flowers, Corridor @ Echo
James Walsh (Starsailor) @ Hotel Cafe
Me’Shell Ndegeocello @ House of Blues (Sunset)
The Movies, Rademacher, Vibe Slayer, Sarah Negahdari @ Spaceland
Realicide, Halloween Swim Team, Skhara, Aymeric Hainaux @ Pehrspace
Emily Lacy, Blanket, Misscinncinati, Pacific Trim, Monstro @ Echo Curio
Circus Minor @ Viper Room

Tuesday 12/9
Gary Jules, Rosie Thomas, Minibar, Rami Jaffee @ Hotel Cafe
k.d. lang, Mandy Moore @ Troubadour
Wilderness, Moonrats, San Serac @ Echo
Rocco Deluca / AJ Degrasse / Scott Harrah / James Harrell @ Gypsy Lounge
ROBOTANISTS – EP RELEASE PARTY + Kissing Cousins + One Trick Pony + Two Guns @ Spaceland
The Polyamorous Affair, Casxio, Light @ Echoplex
Tom Morello: the Nightwatchman @ El Rey
Lemonwilde, Dynamite Walls, Deccatree, Boo Yeah Club @ Silverlake Lounge
AGNOSTIC FRONT @ Keyclub
Common @ Virgin Megastore as well as Hollywood & Highland
Sara Bareilles on Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Wednesday 12/10
Longwave / War Tapes / Eulogies @ Troubadour
Indie 103.1′s “Wreck the Halls” (THE PRETENDERS, BLOC PARTY, CSS, BLACK KIDS) @ Club Nokia
Kassin + 2, El Ten Eleven, Obi Best, Rachel Goodrich @ Hotel Cafe
Heavy D @ Viper Room
Shannon Hurley @ Genghis Cohen
The Solvents, Maya Dorn, The Next of Kin @ Echo Curio
High On Fire, Krallice @ Knitting Factory
Ledisi @ El Rey
Franklin For Short, Cartographers, Satellite Crush, Young Hunting @ Silverlake Lounge
Zappa Plays Zappa @ Roxy
Sully Erna @ Music Box
Los Lobos @ House of Blues (Anaheim)
Adele on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Thursday 12/11
CSS, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head @ Echoplex
Murs @ El Rey
Zappa Plays Zappa @ Roxy
Power 106′s Cali Christmas (KANYE WEST, T.I., BUSTA RHYMES) @ Gibson Amphitheatre
Heather Reid, Paul Doucette @ Largo
Juliette Commagere @ Troubadour
Joe Firstman, Brian Wright & the Waco Tragedies, The Paper Raincoat, MIranda Lee Richards, Kristeen Young, Matt Miller @ Hotel Cafe
Northstar Session, Monstro Flora, Hotel St. George, Intricate Machines @ Silverlake Lounge
Snow Patrol on Jimmy Kimmel Live
The Cure on Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Friday 12/12
Babyland, Not the Government, Cindergarden, Damage Effect @ Smell
Run Run Run, Von Iva @ Echo
Phantom Planet, The Like @  Troubadour
The Aquabats, Suburban Legends, Dusty Rhodes & The River Band @ Music Box
Radars to the Sky record release, The Hectors, Wildbirds & Peacedrum, Archways @ Spaceland
Mike Ness, Ryan Bingham @ El Rey
Zappa Plays Zappa @ Roxy
Metallica With Lamb of God and the Sword @ Citizens Business Bank Arena (Ontario, California)
Shiloe, Tigers Can Bite You, Kid Mud, Geographer @ Echo Curio
J.D. Souther, April Smith @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop
Los Lobos @ House of Blues (Sunset)
Policy, Manhattan Murder Mystery, The Transmissions @ Pehrspace
The Cure on Last Call with Carson Daly
Death Cab for Cutie on Late Show with Craig Furguson
Barry Manilow on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Saturday 12/13
Stevie Wonder @ Nokia Theatre
KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas – Night 1 (The Offspring, Stone Temple Pilots, Rise Against, AFI (special appearance), Staind, Three Days Grace, Slightly Stoopid, Hollywood Undead) @Gibson Amphitheatre
The Deadly Syndrome, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Castledoor, Happy Hollows, The Pity Party, Amnion @ Echoplex
Etta James & The Roots Band @ Club Nokia
Shiny Toy Guns @ Dakota Live Music Lounge
Pizza!, VOICEsVOICEs, Voice on Tape, Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk @ Smell
Maipei, Little Red Radio @ Echo

Sunday 12/14
KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas – Night 2 (The Cure, The Killers, Death Cab For Cutie, Paramore, Franz Ferdinand, Scott Weiland, Snow Patrol, Vampire Weekend) @ Gibson Amphitheatre
Slang Chickens, The Franks @ Echo
Alkaline Trio @ Keyclub
DJ Spinna @ Vanguard