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Best Shows This Week (October 9 - 15) in LA

The Postal Service/Death Cab For Cutie, Slowdive, M83, Built To Spill, Blonde Redhead, Wilco, The Beths, Islands, Run The Jewels, Yves Tumor, Deeper, Les Savy Fav, Metric & more!

October 8, 2023

MONDAY
Swedish songwriter Tove Lo brings her lovely dark post ___ pop to The Bellwether. This show should be 2 Die 4.
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TUESDAY
The mighty M83 headline their first L.A. show in 7 years at Shrine Auditorium. Go and stay late before the dawn heals us.
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WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY
Sparkling hip hop super duo Run The Jewels do a four night stretch at Hollywood Palladium. Let's Go.
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WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
Acclaimed indie harpist Mary Lattimore plays two shows at Hollywood Forever.
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WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
Wilco does a doubleheader at The Bellwether and I'm not trying to break your heart by saying one of the shows is already sold-out because tickets to the other one are (as of this writing) still available.
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THURSDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY
Busy New Zealand indie popsters The Beths headline three shows at Lodge Room (they also open for The Postal Service/Death Cab on Friday).
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THURSDAY
NYC art pop heroes Blonde Redhead play The Belasco. Be there.
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THURSDAY
Toronto's Metric play The Roxy, a band I would walk 804,672 meters to see.
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FRIDAY, SUNDAY & TUESDAY
GIBBARDFEST 2023: The Postal Service + Death Cab For Cutie play three shows at Hollywood Bowl. Give Up your other Plans and go to this instead.
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SATURDAY
Indie rock gods Built to Spill headline the El Rey (they also open for The Postal Service/DCFC on Sunday). There's nothing wrong with loving this band.
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SATURDAY & SUNDAY
U.K. shoegaze greats Slowdive play two shows at The Bellwether. Life is but a dream.
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OTHER NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
Peter Gabriel, Matt and Kim (win tickets), The Mars Volta, Islands (win tickets), The Psychedelic Furs, Les Savy Fav, Movements, Amyl and the Sniffers, The Black Angels, Hemlocke Springs, Sean Nicholas Savage, Godcaster, The Dandy Warhols, Yves Tumor, The Dare, The Drums, Tirzah, My Brightest Diamond, MUNA, Melt Banana, Seu Jorge, Jukebox The Ghost (win tickets), TENGGER, Jitwam (win tickets), Jessie Ware, Lo Moon, Everclear, W.H. Lung, DJ Shadow, Acid Mothers Temple, Stuck, Blondshell, Deeper, Boyscott and lots more...