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Best Shows This Week (May 20 - 27) in LA

Kraftwerk, Cloud Nothings, Shannon Lay, Sky Ferriera, Bully, Joanna Newsom, Pearl Jam, Bratmobile, Kathleen Hanna, Gogol Bordello, St. Vincent & more!

May 19, 2024

MONDAY
Great NYC gypsy punks Gogol Bordello play The Observatory OC.
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MONDAY
Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill/Le Tigre) talks with Amy Poehler about her new memoir Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk at Wilshire Ebell Theatre.
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TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
Pearl Jam plays two shows at Kia Forum. Can't find a better band.
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TUESDAY ONWARD
German electronic music icons Kraftwerk begin a big time run of nine (9) shows (playing a different album each night!) at Walt Disney Concert Hall in celebration of the 50th anniversary of their classic album Autobahn.
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TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY
Esteemed English songwriter Robyn Hitchock plays two shows at Zebulon.
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THURSDAY
Influential '90s era Olympia punk band Bratmobile play a super cool schmool reunion show at Lodge Room with support from The Paranoyds and more.
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THURSDAY
Bully plays The Echo and you better go to this show OR ELSE (pounds fist).
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FRIDAY
Folk punk songwriter Shannon Lay leads a good one at Gold-Diggers.
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FRIDAY & SATURDAY
Cleveland fuzz punk heroes Cloud Nothings play The Observatory OC and Lodge Room this week.
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SATURDAY
Sky Ferreira celebrates the 10th anniversary of her debut album Night Time, My Time by performing it in full at The Wiltern. Not sold-out... yet.
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SUNDAY & MONDAY
Joanna Newsom plays the final two shows of her run at The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever, including a special Sunday matinee show for kids.
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OTHER NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
MUNA, St. Vincent, Queens of the Stone Age, Har Mar Superstar, NORMANS, Illuminati Hotties, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Day Wilson, Rebounder, Kimbra, Emmet Cohen, Stiff Little Fingers, Knower, Sun Kil Moon, Suzie True, Mo Dotti, Holly Humberstone, Die Spitz, The Queers, Microwave, Origami Angel, Truth Club, Teezo Touchdown, Cattle Decapitation, Jagged Baptist Club, Wine Lips, Jim White, Marisa Anderson, Paul F. Tompkins, Rawayana, Madness and lots more...