The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week
Monday, July 23
Foxygen -- See Monday
The xx
FONDA THEATRE
These U.K. goth-soul ghouls haven't played in the United States since 2010, when The xx wrapped up support of their self-titled semi-hit debut and subsequently went into studio-hibernation mode. This summer, they're back on the road ahead of the Sept. 11 release of Coexist, the trio's highly anticipated sophomore disc. New songs they've been doing live overseas suggest that The xx's recent dalliances with Shakira and Rihanna (both of whom sampled tunes from The xx) haven't made them any less moody or whispery. With Jacques Greene, a Montreal-based DJ best known perhaps as the geeky white dude into whose left ear Azealia Banks is yelling in the video for "212." --Mikael Wood
Foxygen
ORIGAMI VINYL
Foxygen are full of paradoxical truths. They are tribute and reinvention. They are weird and easy to love. They are sloppy but sound. They are unknown but born to be rock heroes. Imagine Bowie reinvented by Ariel Pink, the Stones covered by Sonic Youth, or a drunk John Lennon locked in a basement with an old Casio, a trashed Fender and a glitchy four-track. The "band" comprises two rock & roll bums: Olympia, Wash.'s Sam France (vocals) and New York City's Jonathan Rado (guitar, keys), both 22 years old and both clearly obsessed with classics. Their 2011 debut EP, Take the Kids Off Broadway, is filled with impressionistic takes on past masters fleshed out using deep bass grooves, blissfully shambling strum, loosely mapped beats, all manner of effects and layers of voice that alternately growl, shout, swoon and hum. Suck up their rare air as it floats overhead. --Chris Martins
Tuesday, July 24
Scream It Like You Mean It
GLASS HOUSE (Pomona)
Bringing together multiple purveyors of multiple heavy-metal "-core" subgenres, this monthlong package tour confirms that, when it comes to super-aggressive guitar music, there are indeed myriad ways to skin the proverbial cat. Ohio's Attack Attack! add interest to their otherwise line-towing, middle-weight metalcore with techno-flavored electronic sprinkles, while The Chariot's slightly deranged, raw-throated matchcore actually (and thankfully) sounds more like a thrust for self-expression than just a plea for commercial validation. Frequently dubbed "deathcore," relative veterans The Acacia Strain create contemporary and ambitious metallic hardcore that traces a string-calloused finger through Pantera and Meshuggah all the way to Dillinger Escape Plan. With more than a dozen other core-suffixed bands on this same bill, "Corecore" can only be a matter of time. --Paul Rogers
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The Fonda Theatre
6126 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
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