L.A. Burning: West Coast Concert Picks, May 9th To 15th 2022

A lot of shows in this week’s West Coast concert picks: first, two festivals, Cruel World with Morrissey, Bauhaus, Blondie, and Beach Life with Weezer, 311, Smashing Pumpkins, and Steve Miller Band. There is also Paul McCartney at So Fi Stadium, The Black Keys at the Troubadour (good luck getting tickets for this one), Big Thief for two nights at the Wiltern, Amy Wilson (of Heart) for two nights at El Rey Theatre, and Liz Phair at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Monday 9
Amy Wilson (of Heart) at El Rey Theatre
Anaïs Mitchell Samantha Crain at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Yeat with SeptembersRich at Fonda Theatre
Papooz with Faux Real at the Lodge Room
Tupac Shakur: Wake Me When I’m Free at The Canvas at L.A. Live
Monday Monday at The Hotel Cafe
Weirdo Night with Dynasty Handbag, Nori Reed, Maylee Todd, Michelle Tea, & Taylor the Sax Bottom at Zebulon
It’s A School Night with Violet Skies, Danielle Ponder, Beck Pete, Emmett Mulroney, POLARTROPICA (DJ Set) at Bardot
Aitch at the Moroccan Lounge
Biffy Clyro, Dead Poet Society at The Belasco
French 79, Terror Jr at The Echo
WEEED, Slow Heat at The Love Song
Dave Harrington, Patrick Shiroishi, Logan Kane, Max Jaffe at Club Tee Gee

Tuesday 10
Gen X Festival: Liz Phair with Bethany Cosentino, Remi Wolf, Vagabon at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
Big Thief, Tucker Zimmerman at the Wiltern
Amy Wilson (of Heart) at El Rey Theatre
CrankGameplays at Fonda Theatre
St. Paul and The Broken Bones, Danielle Ponder at The Theatre at Ace
BoyWithUke with Sarcastic Sounds at The Roxy
PinkPantheress at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Okay Kaya with Hyd at the Lodge Room
French 79 at The Echo
Infected Rain with Gone in April, Through the Oculus, & Quietude at 1720
Combo Chimbita with Que Madre & Linda Nuves at Zebulon
Thank You, I’m Sorry with Hey, Ily & Foxx Bodies at The Smell
The Pack A.D. with Movie Club at El Cid
Emerging Artists Showcase Night at The Goldfish at the Goldfish
ALDN at the Moroccan Lounge
Lil Tecca, BabySantana, Bktherula, yvngxchris at The Belasco
Jeff Caudill, Evan Bartels, onelinedrawing, Zak Schaffer, The Feelings Parade at The Hotel Cafe
Dehd, Pixel Grip at The Regent Theater

Wednesday 11
The Black Keys at the Troubadour
Big Thief, Tucker Zimmerman at The Wiltern
Anson Seabra with Em Beihold at El Rey Theatre
Moonchild with Sofiya Ballin & Austin Antoine at Fonda Theatre
Shout Out Louds with Toledo at the Lodge Room
Billie Marten with Marina Allen at Gold-Diggers
Dean Wareham with Fawns Of Love at Zebulon
Rotimi with HoodCelebrityy and DIXSON with Roxy
The Public Image is Rotten: A documentary & Q&A with Johnny Rotten at the Regent Theater
Friends Don’t Die with Miss Not Ma’am & Minishoppingcart at the Goldfish
Holy Pink with Lou & Co. & LFZ at Permanent Records Roadhouse
Superblast! (Normal Time) with Babelord, Midnight Prisms, & Plexusplay at El Cid
The Mystery Experience, Powder Pink at Harvard & Stone
Austin Ward, Anna Bates at the Moroccan Lounge
No Swoon, Pendant, Shaking Hands at the Silverlake Lounge
Curtis Harding, Joshy Soul at the Teragram Ballroom
Youngtones, Rachel Rose at The Hotel Cafe
Erica Case, Electric Children, Javiar Matos at the Redwood

Thursday 12
Carla Morrison with Irene Diaz at the Greek Theatre
Homeshake with Salami Rose Joe Louis at the Wiltern
Clinton Kane with Lexi Jayde at El Rey Theatre
Los Amigos Invisibles at The Roxy
Yeat with SeptembersRich at Fonda Theatre
Tora with Ashes to Amber at The Echo
Tupac Shakur: Wake Me When I’m Free at The Canvas at L.A. Live
T-Pain with Erica Banks, Young Cash, Mason Dane at the Novo
D Savage at the Regent Theater
Kurt Vile (& the Violators), Chastity Belt at The Theatre at Ace
Black Dice with Pod Blotz at the Lodge Room
Billie Marten with Molly Parden at Genghis Cohen
Erin Rae with Logan Ledger at Highland Park Ebell
Gabriel Kahane with Aaron Embry at Gold-Diggers
Negative Approach with Angry Samoan, Corrupted Youth, Countime, & Wolfpack at the Paramount
We Found New Music (WFNM) Thursdays with Nina Nevra, Anni, Alt Bloom, Sean Kennedy, & Jessie Chambers at Bar Lubitsch
Human Issue with Slaughterhouse, Enemy, & Side Eyes at Zebulon
Rareform with Kene O and Friends at Resident DTLA
Maya Elise & The Good Dream with Will Fox & Jacob Peter at the Goldfish
Nowhere Fast with 2Seater, Nneoma, bLAck pARty, Mainstreammacey, & excusememybrotha at El Cid
Tourist, Bamenda at the Moroccan Lounge
Trupa Trupa at the Moroccan Lounge
Cartalk, DCR Pollock, Daniel Brouns at the Silverlake Lounge
Hannah Cutt, Georgia Feroce, Raynes, Pat McManus & Trent Rush, Aiden James, Victoria Rose, LMH at The Hotel Cafe
Banny Grove, Sivan Silver-Schwartz, Anja Salonen at The Love Song
Ninet Tayeb, Jen Awad at the Troubadour
Gene Loves Jezebel with Gordo , Dino Daze, No Avail, Frameways, Benjamin Lazarus, Sisters Doll at the Whisky a Go-Go
Blood Handsome at the Redwood

Friday 13
Paul McCartney at SoFi Stadium
BeachLife Festival with Weezer, 311, Black Pumas, Cold War Kids, Milky Chance, Cannons, Atlas Genius and more at Redondo Beach
Bob Moses with Jon Hopkins at the Greek Theatre
Circle Jerks with 7 Seconds, The Bouncing Souls, & Negative Approach at the Hollywood Palladium
Supergrass at the Wiltern
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram at the Theatre at Ace Hotel
Clinton Kane with Lexi Jayde at El Rey Theatre \
Anna Vissi at the Novo
Yeat with SeptembersRich at Fonda Theatre
Penny & Sparrow, Lera Lynn at the Regent Theater
Post Animal with Caroline Kingsbury at the Lodge Room
Tupac Shakur: Wake Me When I’m Free at The Canvas at L.A. Live
Blanke with Crystal Skies & Last Heroes at Exchange L.A.
Brasko with Bonavega & American Teeth at the Viper Room
Turtle Logic with Buddha Trixie, Watson, & the Ateliers at Jam In The Van
Gatecreeper, Narrow Head, 200 Stab Wounds, Fearing at 1720
The Halluci Nation at the Echoplex
Steve Hackett at the Orpheum Theatre
Esme Patterson at Gold Diggers
The Tissues, Tombstones in Their Eyes, Twilight Rays, Pegzilla at Highland Park Bowl
Johnny Goth at the Moroccan Lounge
Kojaque, Kean Kavanagh at the Moroccan Lounge
After The Burial, Thy Art Is Murder at The Belasco
Peach Kelli Pop, Le Pain, Not From England at The Echo
Don Luxe with Plantasia at the Silverlake Lounge
Jett Kwong, Dustin Wong, Brin, Nina Keith at The Love Song
Israel’s Arcade, Tatiana Hazel, WEB at The Smell
Always You, D.A., Stern, Treatment at Permanent Records Roadhouse
Marcos Vaca, Grudgepacker, G. Whynot, BB Oats at Zebulon
Jeremiah Sammartano, Christopher Lockett, Ruby Friedman Orchestra, Sleepy Gaucho, at The Hotel Cafe
The Fantastic Fellini’s, Mulberry Tops, Lost Mynds, Poet of Midnight at the Redwood

Saturday 14
Cruel World 2022 with Morrissey, Bauhaus, Blondie, 45 Grave, Automatic, Berlin, Black Marble, Blaqk Audio, Christian Death, Cold Cave, Devo, Drab Majesty, Echo & The Bunnymen, English Beat, Jay Aston’s Gene Loves Jezebel, London After Midnight, Missing Persons, Public Image Ltd., Sextile, Soft Kill, The Church, The Damned, The KVB, The Meteors, The Psychedelic Furs, TR/ST, & Violent Femmes at Brookside at the Rose Bowl
BeachLife Festival with Smashing Pumpkins, Vance Joy, Stone Temple Pilots, Capital Cities, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Matisyahu, Sugar Ray, The Record Company, Art Alexakis, and more at Redondo Beach
Tupac Shakur: Wake Me When I’m Free at The Canvas at L.A. Live
Allie X at El Rey Theatre
William Black, Fairlane, Cinema Kid at the Fonda Theatre
MC5 with S8NT ELEKTRIC at The Roxy
Twice at the Banc of California
Steve Hackett at the Orpheum Theatre
Andy Stott with Debit at the Lodge Room
Sam Outlaw, Victoria Bailey at the Troubadour
El Santo Golpe with Angel Peaches & La Junta LA (DJ Set) at the Paramount
Minimal Effort x Do Not Sit On The Furniture with Behrouz, John Tejada, Squire, & Human Resources at Liaison
Mandala with Elle PF & Mia Mormino at the Viper Room
Jeremy Sole’s Le Frique Sonique with Rich Medina & DJ Seano at Resident DTLA
The Far Side, Th1rt3en at 1720
Advance Base, Claire Cronin, Karima Walker at 2220 Arts + Archives
Alex Zhang Hungtai, Carlos Nino at Feels Like Floating Elysian Park
Taleen Kali at Feels Like Floating
Stephen Sanchez at the Moroccan Lounge
Cigarette Bums, Jonathan Deathrich, Cory Lomberg & Crazy Horse at Non Plus Ultra
Sam Mickens, Nicholas Merz at Permanent Records Roadhouse
Coyote Flambo! at the Silverlake Lounge
Snow Tha Product at The Belasco
Hey Violet, WRENN, Victoria Anthony at The Echo
Cruel Diagonals, Paradot, Super Hit at The Love Song
Dying Fetus, Chelsea Grin, Bodysnatcher, Frozen Soul, Undeath at The Regent Theater
MaZhe, Illusion Hills, Yagi at The Smell
Hammerhead, Leather Slave, dream mega at Zebulon
Melissa Sullivan and Hope Levy, Tatiana Erse, Coby Brown and the Magic Band, Brad Byrd, Cobi at The Hotel Cafe
Screaming Rebel Angels, Moonlight Trio at the Redwood

Sunday 15
Cruel World 2022 with Morrissey, Bauhaus, Blondie, 45 Grave, Automatic, Berlin, Black Marble, Blaqk Audio, Christian Death, Cold Cave, Devo, Drab Majesty, Echo & The Bunnymen, English Beat, Jay Aston’s Gene Loves Jezebel, London After Midnight, Missing Persons, Public Image Ltd., Sextile, Soft Kill, The Church, The Damned, The KVB, The Meteors, The Psychedelic Furs, TR/ST, & Violent Femmes at Brookside at the Rose Bowl
BeachLife Festival with Steve Miller Band, Sheryl Crow, Lord Huron, UB40, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, and more at Redondo Beach
Son Lux with Nappy Nina at the Fonda Theatre
Ital Vibes with Kat Hall, LakeDub, & Spliff Vision at the Viper Room
Make It Rain: A Water Drop LA Fundraiser with Chanel & the Circus, Emmy Miller, MyCompiledThoughts, Mandala., Karly Low, Jamie Loftus, & Caitlin Durante at Resident DTLA
Tupac Shakur: Wake Me When I’m Free at The Canvas at L.A. Live
Twice at the Banc of California
P1Harmony at the Theatre at Ace Hotel
Hypocrisy, The Agonist at 1720
Wifisfuneral at Catch One
Son Lux, Nappy Nina at the Fonda Theatre
Massage, Moded at Gold Diggers
Behemoth, Arch Enemy at the Hollywood Palladium
Brandon Coleman at the Lodge Room
bennytheghost, Devon Again, King Mala at the Moroccan Lounge
Moon Hooch, Jason Leech at the Teragram Ballroom
Wet, Zsela at The Regent Theater
Kranium at The Roxy
Garza, Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation at the Troubadour
HTRK, M. Caye Castagnetto at Zebulon
Only Bricks & KLEE at The Hotel Cafe
Bloodshot Cosmonaut, Stone Cyn hyw, Brass Knuckle Voodoo at the Redwood