Kevin Bronson on January 31st, 2013

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Big Thursday evening ahead:

‣ Dave Grohl’s Sound City Players, the all-star cast assembled to play the music created for “Sound City” documentary (there’s an album “Sound City – Real to Reel” on the way in March), rock the Palladium. Collaborators for the L.A. show are expected to include Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, Rick Springfield, Lee Ving of Fear, Brad Wilk of Rage Against The Machine, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Robert Levon Been and Peter Hayes of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Alain Johannes and Chris Goss, along with Grohl’s cuurent and former bandmates including Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Krist Novoselic, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear.
and other familiar faces for a historic evening.
‣ Two Gallants play the Bootleg Theater behind last fall’s album (their first in five years), “The Bloom and the Blight.” Future Twin opens.
‣ San Diego singer-songwriter Tristan Prettyman hits the Troubadour behind her fourth album “Cedar + Gold,” with Paul Cannon supporting.
‣ And Meiko returns to her home turf for a show at the Hotel Cafe on a night that also features Sweet Talk Radio, Haley Pharo, Matt Jennings and My Name Is You.

Also:

HOTT MT and Butcher Boy at the Echo
Batwings Catwings and Rainbow Jackson at the Satellite
Spirit Vine, PNP (Annie Hardy from Giant Drag) and LA Witch at the Standard Hollywood
Crown Plaza, Fawn Spots, Spaceships and Cumstain at the Smell
Marco Benevento and Mike Dillon Band at the Mint
Implants and Assuming We Survive at the Roxy Theatre
Margate, Brothers of Brazil and 80 Proof at the Roxy: On the Rox
Old Testament (Jason Simon of Dead Meadow), Ocha La Rocha, Electric Flower Group and Dave Glasebrook at NOMAD Gallery
Raheem Cohen, Y LUV and Act As If at the Lyric Theater
Nostalghia, Low Leaf, the Moth & The Flame and Pam Shaffer at 3 Clubs
They Live and Backwards Beasts at Harvard & Stone
The Don Williams Group at Vitello’s Jazz & Supper Club
L.A.M.P., Danger Boy, DJSB and Josh Brooks at the Central SAPC
Kamasi Washington Dectet, Teebs, Strangeloop and Earnest Blount at the Del Monte Speakeasy
Bisonte, Astral Jubilee and the Lost Experience at Lot 1 Cafe
The Originalites, Wait For Green and Tony Ferrari at Saint Rocke
Free the Robots at the Constellation Room
Testament at the House of Blues Anaheim
ALO and the California Honeydrops at the Coach House
Thomas Rhett at the Buck Owens Crystal Palace
Jackson Browne at the Fox Theater
Yo Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott at McCallum Theatre
Ian Hunter at the Canyon
Jorma Kaukonen at Pappy & Harriets Pioneertown Palace
Brillz, Etc Etc and Slander at the Yost Theater