An L.A. Week in LA
Los Angeles' punk-era artists Keith Morris (in OFF!) and The Blasters' Phil and Dave Alvin visit New Orleans this week.
Los Angeles' punk-era artists Keith Morris (in OFF!) and The Blasters' Phil and Dave Alvin visit New Orleans this week.
[Updated] Friday: Miniature Tigers, The Griswolds, King Rey, 10 p.m., One Eyed Jacks: Your affection for Brooklyn indie pop band Miniature Tigers will have a lot to do with your ability to handle cute-sounding electropop, and/or your ability to find something sly or subversive in it. (tickets) Also on Friday: Gravity A, 10 p.m., Maple Leaf Bar; Sex Party EP-release party, Sissy Nobby, 10 p.m., AllWays Lounge; Dubb Nubb, Erin Miley, TBA, 10 p.m., Gasa Gasa (tickets); Fpoon, Jerkagram, Charles Bronson’s Bronze Sons, 10 p.m., Howlin’ Wolf’s Den (tickets); Cathercist, Better by Design, Kaboom!, FinFox, 9 p.m., House of Blues (tickets)
Saturday: Prom Date album-release party, Saint Bell, Bionica, 10 p.m., Gasa Gasa: I like the punk directness in Prom Date's electropop. The show will debut the band's new album, Portraits. (tickets) Also on Saturday: Feufollet, Tess Brunet and the Black Orchids, Sirens, 10 p.m., One Eyed Jacks (tickets); John Doe and Friends, 10 p.m., House of Blues (tickets); Royal Fingerbowl, Narcissy, 10 p.m., Siberia (tickets); Walter “Wolfman” Washington and The Roadmasters, 10 p.m., Tipitina’s (tickets)
Sunday: OFF!, Gay Kiss, Bad Antics, Classhole, 10 p.m., Siberia: Classic, straight-ahead Los Angeles punk rock with a properly bad attitude, led by Keith Morris from Black Flag and Circle Jerks. (tickets) Also on Sunday: Black Kids, Ghostboxing Championship, 10 p.m., One Eyed Jacks (tickets)
Tuesday: Dave and Phil Alvin with the Guilty Ones, Johnny J. and the Hitmen, 8 p.m., Rock ’n’ Bowl: The Alvin brothers have rarely performed together since Dave left The Blasters. but they came together to celebrate their shared love of bluesman Big Bill Broonzy when they recorded the album Common Ground.
Wednesday: Jolie Holland, Shy Hunters, 8 p.m., House of Blues: Jolie Holland's folk rock has been a little mannered in the past; it's a lot mannered on The Wine Dark Sea, which trades in her love of melody for Waitsian distortion and yowl. (tickets) Also on Wednesday: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Alec Ounsworth 10 p.m., One Eyed Jacks (tickets); Keyshia Cole, 9 p.m., House of Blues (tickets)
Other Stuff
Photographer Skip Bolen has opened LA46, a "general store and vintage market" at 2232 St. Claude Ave. Saturday night at 6, bassist James Singleton will perform, and Houston mural artist Sharla Hammond will create a mural outdoors with the the theme "Everyday People."
Updated August 8, 6:16 a.m.
The subhede originally implied that the John Doe that will play is the member of X. The John Doe that will play the House of Blues' "New Orleans' Most Wanted Series" is a local rapper.
