The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week
Monday, January 21
Jessie Ware -- See Wednesday
Baron von Luxxury, Yellow Alex, Yung Skeeter
THE SATELLITE
Electro-pop comes in splendiferous shapes and sizes. And Baron von Luxxury brings the wicked-wit version, in which DeBarge, ELO, Hall & Oates and other formerly uncool '80s soul stylists float through the disco in super-smoove grooves and madly hooky tunes. Von Luxxury's ace The Last Seduction is out right now on Manimal Vinyl. Falsetto crooner Yellow Alex's classic soul and New Age pop brew blends Prince, Chic and FX with choreographed dance steps, bass lines and space-age sound, while Spotify "DJ in residence" Yung Skeeter, aka Trevor McFedries, has whipped out beats and remixes for Black Eyed Peas, Chris Brown and Azealia Banks. He had a top-10 album in 2007 with his rap crew Shwayze and now is launching a new mixtape/remix radio show with his Dim Mak label boss, Steve Aoki. --John Payne
See also: Baron Von Luxxury on His Friends' Double-Suicide, Five Years Later
Tuesday, January 22
Quicksand
FONDA THEATRE
If there's a single reason why these New Yorkers can still fill distant theaters fully 18 years since their last release (1995's Manic Compression), it's because the aggressive sense of unease they summoned for much of the '90s has yet to be so convincingly revisited by anyone else. Quicksand are like an innocent inmate pacing a windowless cell on the eve of release, rippling with pent-up plans, belated explanations and overly marinated revenge. Like a less pretentious Tool, the recently reunited quartet bubbles, chugs and chimes on a riff until it takes on initially hidden shapes and implications, with Walter Schreifels' ragged utterances more another instrument than the main emotional event. Quicksand have come back because the intrinsically human disquiet they so deftly tap into never went away. --Paul Rogers
Wednesday, January 23
Muse
STAPLES CENTER
Not since late-'70s Queen, to whom they owe a hefty sonic debt, has anyone made radio-friendly rock as ambitious, eclectic, escapist and just plain epic as this English trio. On last year's The 2nd Law, they meld ostensibly incongruous elements including dubstep's ominous electronica, Freddie Mercury's strutting camp, masturbatory prog guitars and frontman Matthew Bellamy's Darkness-worthy falsetto into a thoughtfully orgasmic, emotionally overloaded opus. Now a full-blown Brit institution -- their song "Survival" served as the official song for last year's London Olympics -- and remarkably unfettered by their limited numbers (though augmented with a keyboardist/percussionist onstage), Muse craft live shows as fascinating and challenging as their recordings, consistently leaving the impression that something much more significant than mere notes and beats just happened. (Also Thurs., Jan. 24, & Sat., Jan. 26) --Paul Rogers
Sahtyre
LOW END THEORY
Rapper Sahtyre is a Project Blowed vet who started as a promising 13-year-old, invited by the mighty Kail to come down to the open-mic and learn to get REALLY good. Then he bounced toward the future after Low End Theory resident Nocando tipped him and fellow Swim Team MC Open Mike Eagle for great things. So here's a recent great thing: Sahtyre's grinding "LSD (The Anthem)." "Try to make me go to rehab like Amy," he growls, while an already ravaged beat collapses into bass and pixels and a sloooo-mo chorus. More monsters like this, please. With Scoop DeVille, the storied L.A. rapper and producer still sailing off his recent hit work on Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d city, and the happily soulful Dayvid Thomas. --Chris Ziegler
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The Satellite
1717 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
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