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Best Shows This Week (October 2 - 8) in LA

Weyes Blood, Wilco, The Walkmen, Fontaines D.C., The Mountain Goats, Thundercat, The Zombies, Youth Lagoon, Teenage Wrist, Empress Of, Waxahatchee, Spellling and more!

October 1, 2023

MONDAY
The Pretenders play The Regent Theater. If you go, I'll stand by you.
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MONDAY - WEDNESDAY
The Walkmen play three shows at Fonda Theatre. They're winning.
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TUESDAY
The Mountain Goats play The Belasco. All hail this band.
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TUESDAY
The 1975 play a special intimate show at The Roxy in 2023.
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WEDNESDAY
Empress Of plays Hollywood Forever and people are dying to get in.
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WEDNESDAY
Weyes Blood play The Greek Theatre. A good band is hard to find.
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WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY
Wilco play three shows at The Theatre at Ace this week and also do a signing at Amoeba Music. Wilco is everywhere.
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THURSDAY
Thundercat brings the bass and beats goodness to The Greek.
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FRIDAY
British invasion legends The Zombies play Alex Theatre in Glendale. This will be their year.
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FRIDAY
Timecop1983 plays El Rey Theatre. Synthwave shall live forever.
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FRIDAY
Youth Lagoon, led by forever soundshifter Trevor Powers, play their first LA show in 8 years (it's nice having a 19-year old database of past shows sometimes) at Teragram Ballroom.
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SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Oakland post ___ pop artist Spellling plays South Pasadena Masonic Lodge and Bob Baker Marionette Theater this weekend. Missing it would be practically sacriligius (sic).
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SUNDAY
Teenage Wrist plays swirly shoegaze goodness at Lodge Room, a solid way to spend a Sunday.
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OTHER NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
Waxahatchee, Fontaines D.C., Flat Worms, Wolf Eyes, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Coheed and Cambria, Nosaj Thing, My Brightest Diamond, Divino Niño, John, Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul, The Church, Will Butler, Kurt Vile & the Violators, PC Music, L7, Lo Moon, Been Stellar, Luna Luna (win tickets), Gus Dapperton, Rina Sawayama,The All-American Rejects, J.R.C.G., Dummy, Night Beats, Polyphia, Hiatus Kaiyote, Clem Snide, Provoker, The Shivas, Spiritual Cramp, Converge and lots more...