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Best Shows This Week (February 23 - March 1) in LA

Gorillaz, The Fiery Furnaces, Bitchin Bajas, Host Family, loveliescrushing, The Joy Formidable, clipping., Ghost, Shadow Show, ESPRIT 空想, Porches, Paris Texas, YOB, Yellow Days + more!

February 22, 2026

MONDAY
Gorillaz play Hollywood Palladium. Let's meet up beforehand on melancholy hill.
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MONDAY
Swedish post-doom spirits Ghost play Intuit Dome. Your presence is requested.
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TUESDAY
Swirly Welsh rockers The Joy Formidable play Hollywood Forever and people are dying to get in.
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WEDNESDAY
Lush LA post ___ shoegazers Host Family play Zebulon with solid support from local heroes, Mo Dotti.
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THURSDAY
Porches plays a solo show at Sid The Cat Auditorium. Definitely worth stepping slightly outside for.
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FRIDAY
The Fiery Furnaces (born: 2000) play their first headlining LA show in 4 years at Hollywood Forever and people are dying to get in.
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SATURDAY
Highly experimental hip hop heroes clipping. play Fonda Theatre.
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SATURDAY
Chicago's Bitchin Bajas play Lodge Room with solid support from Geologist of Animal Collective.
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SATURDAY
Ambient shoegaze duo loveliesecrushing (born: 1991) play a super rare LA show at Zebulon.
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SATURDAY
Harmonious '60s-inspired Detroit power/psych/pop trio Shadow Show headline Townhouse Venice. RIYL: swirling fuzzy hooks galore.
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SUNDAY
Hip hop duo Paris Texas plays Hollywood Forever and people are dying to get in.
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OTHER NOTABLE SHOWS THIS WEEK:
YOB, ESPRIT 空想 (win tickets), Yellow Days, Together Pangea, Summer Salt, (((O))), SadGirl, The Paranoyds, Uni Boys, Cory Hanson, Ryan Sawyer/Jeff Parker/Tunde Adebimpe/Tara Jane O'Neil, Brandi Carlile, The Head and the Heart, Lady Gaga, The Browning (win tickets), Rome Streetz & Your Old Droog (win tickets), Chatterton, Sam Grisman Project (win tickets), Lola Kirke, Tyler Ballgame, Somebody's Child (win tickets), Vortxz (win tickets), Magic City Hippies (win tickets), Charm School, A Wilhelm Scream, Katatonia (win tickets), Matt Pryor (of The Get Up Kids) and more!