Los Angeles Show Calendar, April-May-June 2009

Hey, folks. We’re going to start doing this again, if only so I can keep track of where I’ll be. Like the Album Release Calendar, the Los Angeles Show Calendar is by no means a definitive list — it’s a selection of shows that I personally am interested in, recommend or will be attending.

[Destroyer at the Troubadour / photo by David Greenwald]

I’ll be updating frequently and will do fresh posts for future months as dates start coming in. Press people — have a show you’d like listed here? Let me know: rawkblog [at] gmail [dot] com. (Note: Jon Brion plays at Largo every Friday and is always recommended, so I won’t list his individual dates.)

4/10 and 4/11 – Leonard Cohen @ Nokia Theatre
4/13 Monday – Henry Clay People, The Broken West, The World Record, Writer (Go to this show!) @ Spaceland
4/17-4/19 Friday-Sunday – Everyone @ Coachella Valley Arts & Music Festival
4/18 Saturday – Mark Eitzel (American Music Club) @ Largo
4/25 Saturday – Mandy Moore @ Largo
4/26 Sunday – Grouper @ The Smell
4/29 Wednesday – Thao and the Get Down Stay Down @ Hotel Cafe
5/3 Sunday – Damien Jurado @ Spaceland
5/7, 5/8 and 5/9, Thursday-Saturday – Van Morrison (doing Astral Weeks) @ Orpheum Theatre
5/8 Friday – Iron & Wine @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery
5/9 Saturday – Iron & Wine @ Troubadour
5/10 Sunday – Destroyer @ Echoplex
5/16 Saturday – Doves @ Wiltern AND Loney Dear @ Spaceland
5/18 Monday – Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s w/ Telekinesis @ Troubadour
5/19 Tuesday – Decemberists @ Hollywood Palladium
5/20 Wednesday – The Walkmen @ The El Rey
5/27 Wednesday – Jens Lekman @ The Echo AND Sun Kil Moon (Mark Kozelek) @ The El Rey
5/28 Thursday – St. Vincent @ El Rey AND Jens Lekman @ The Echo
5/29 Friday – Japandroids @ Silverlake Lounge AND Animal Collective @ The Wiltern
6/8 Monday – Metric @ The Wiltern
6/11 Thursday – The Church (!) @ The Roxy AND Camera Obscura @ Henry Fonda AND Au Revoir Simone @ The El Rey (really?)
6/12 Friday – Neko Case @ The Greek Theatre
6/16-6/19 Tuesday-Friday- Art Brut @ Spaceland
6/19 Friday – Grizzly Bear @ Wiltern
6/20 Saturday – Constantines w/ Crystal Antlers @ Echo
6/28 Sunday – Phoenix @ Wiltern
7/20 Monday – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ The Echo