Kevin Bronson on April 29th, 2011

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There’s a bounty of riches on this fantastic Friday:

‣ Prince is back for another thrill ride at the Forum.
‣ The Airborne Toxic Event completes its string of album-release week shows with a gig at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre featuring teaturing the Calder Quartet.
‣ Tennessee rockers Royal Bangs [see our posts from March] hit the Echo, with Superhumanoids opening.
‣ At the Satellite, local quintet Les Blanks celebrates the release of their new album “In Country;” Races celebrate the release of their new 7-inch; and the World Record and Honey Loving Cells also join in the fun.
‣ Folk songstress and Black Keys collaborator Jessica Lea Mayfield (pictured) headlines the Troubadour, supported by Nathaniel Rateliff. (Mayfield also appears on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” at 11:15 a.m.)
‣ Sean Rowe, whose Anti- Records debut “Magic” has earned plenty of raves, plays the Bootleg Theater, supported by Olin and the Moon and Gaby Moreno.
‣ The Memorials (the project of ex-Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen, along with singer Viveca Hawkins) and Ikey Owens’ Free Moral Agents rock the Mint.
‣ And at Lot 1 Cafe, it’s Chasing Kings and Francisco the Man.

Also:

Joe Purdy and the Milk Carton Kids at Saint Rocke
The Kai Clark Band’s Tribute to Gene Clark & Arthur Lee at the Roxy (celebrating the reissue of LOVE’S 1973 album “Black Beauty” and Gene Clark’s 1977 album “Two Sides To Every Story”)
Curren$y at the El Rey Theatre
Punch Brothers at Largo
Super Diamond at the Viper Room
Ovideo at Casey’s downtown
Too Short, Ja Rule, Xzibit, Kurupt, Digital Underground and Tha Alkaholiks at the Gibson Amphitheatre.
Hot Club of Cowtown at McCabe’s
Rob Giles and Lisa Jones at the Hotel Cafe
Owens Valley Dynamite and the New Fidelity at Mr. T’s Bowl

Photo by Michael Wilson