Not ready for the weekend to end? Out of cash? Here are four awesome free shows (and one show that MIGHT be free) to go to tonight with times, ticket info, directions, and more. Enjoy!

• Pete Rock | 7:00pm at Ameoba Music in Hollywood – Map | All Ages | Tickets free
• Whitman, Lucky Dragons, American Gil & The Major Dudes, and more| 9:00pm at Pehrspace | All Ages | Ticket Price Unknown
• Macon Greyson | 8:00pm at Silverlake Lounge – Map | 21+ | Tickets free
• Voxhaul Broadcast, Lemon Sun, Rumspringa, and more | 9:00pm at Spaceland – Map | 21+ | Tickets free
• The Chapin Sisters, I See Hawks in LA, and Moris Tepper | 8:30pm at The Echo – Map | 21+ | Tickets free

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Enjoy your Sunday with this group of local bands playing in Los Angeles tonight – with times, ticket info, directions, and more.

• The Avett Brothers and Jessica Lea Mayfield | 7:00pm at the El Rey Theatre - Map | All Ages | Tickets $19 Buy Now
• Eleni Mandell, Musee Mecanique, Alex and Sam, and Correatown | 7:00pm at Tangier – Map | 21+ | Tickets $10
• The Black Keys and Jay Reatard | 7:00pm at The Glass House – Map | All Ages | Tickets $20 Buy Now
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | 8:00pm at The Wiltern – Map | All Ages | Tickets $20 Buy Now

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It’s Saturday, time to go out, see a good band and get try to get a decent picture of them with your digital camera. Here is your round up of all the local bands playing in Los Angeles tonight – with times, ticket info, directions, and more

• The Library, The Good Listeners, and Vermouth | 8:00pm at Bordello – Map | 21+ $10 Buy Now
• GZA and Blue Scholars | 8:00pm at the El Rey Theatre - Map | All Ages $22.50 Buy Now
• Rio En Medio, Hecuba, Quinn Walker, and Meara O’Reilly | 8:30pm at Spaceland – Map | 21+ $8 Buy Now
• Brother Reade, The Glitch Mob, and Nosaj Thing | 9:00pm at The Echo – Map | 18+ | Tickets $10

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It’s Friday NIGHT! Here is a round up of local bands playing in Los Angeles tonight – with times, ticket info, directions, and more.

• United By Sound and Spider Problem | 8:00pm at Bordello – Map | 21+ | Tickets $10
• Semi Precious Weapons, Gods and Monsters, Suicide Holiday, and more | 8:00pm at Safari Sam’s – Map | All Ages | Tickets $8 Buy Now
• The Gray Kid, Casxio, Nu-tra | 8:00pm at The Echoplex – Map | 18+ | Tickets $10 Buy Now
• The Snow | 9:00pm at The Echo – Map (Club Underground) | 18+ | Tickets $7
• Imaad Wasif and Voice On Tape | 9:00pm at The Smell – Map | All Ages | Tickets $5

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Thursday’s been the new Friday for a while now, so start rocking out. Here is a round up of all the local bands playing in Los Angeles tonight – with times, ticket info, directions, and more.

• Mandi Perkins, Christa Borden, Gabe Mann, Alyssa Jacey | 7:00pm at the Roxy – Map | All Ages | Tickets $12 Buy now
• Kenny Garrett Quartet | 8:00pm and 10:00pm at Catalina Bar & Grill – Map | 21+ | Tickets $22 Buy now
• The English Beat + RX Bandits | 8:30pm at the Grove of Anaheim – Map | All Ages | Tickets $25 Buy Now
• theSTART | 8:00pm at Crash Mansion LA – Map | 18+ | Tickets $5 Buy Now
• Tokyo Police Club | 8:00pm at The Troubadour – Map | All Ages | Tickets $15 Buy now
• Red Sparowes with Russian Circles, The Holloys | 8:30pm at Echoplex (below The Echo) – Map | 18+ | Tickets $12 Buy now
• The Chapin Sisters | 7:00pm at Ameoba Music in Hollywood – Map | All Ages | Free!
• The Expendables | 8:30pm at Canyon Club in Agoura Hills – Map – | All Ages | Tickets $15 Buy now

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What a way to get over hump day! See some awesome live music in your area tonight! Here is a round up of  local bands playing in Los Angeles tonight – with times, ticket info, directions, and more.

• Fever Fever, Milo, Blue Sky Divide | 8:00pm at Bordello – Map | 21+ | Tickets $10
• Alberta Cross and Asher | 8:30pm at  Spaceland – Map (Indie 103.1/Club NME) | 21+ | Tickets $8 Buy Now
• Jessica Fichot, Brandon Meyer and The Hidden Powers | 8:00pm at  Tangier – Map | 21+ | Tickets $10 Buy Now
• Kaki King | 9:00pm at the Roxy – Map | All Ages | Tickets $14 Buy Now
• The Henry Clay People, The Natural Disasters, and Aushua | 9:00pm at  The Scene – Map | 21+ | tba
• Tokyo Police Club, Eagle Seagull, and We Barbarians | 8:00pm at the  The Troubadour – Map | All Ages | Tickets $15 Buy Now

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Here is your round up of all the local bands playing in Los Angeles tonight – with times, ticket info, directions, and more.

• Jose Gonzalez | 8:00pm at The Wiltern – Map | All Ages | Tickets $22.50 Buy Now
• Tokyo Police Club | 7:00pm at The Glass House – Map | All Ages | Tickets $15.00 Buy Now
• Carla Bozulich and Evangelista | 7:00pm at Amoeba in Hollywood- Map | All Ages | Tickets Free
• Craft Club | 10:00pm at Silverlake Lounge - Map | All Ages | Tickets $8
• All Time Low, The Rocket Summer and The Matches | 6:00pm at The Music Box at the Fonda in Hollywood – Map | All Ages | Tickets $12.50 Buy Now
• Saul Williams | 8:00pm at The Troubadour – Map | All Ages | Tickets $20.00 Buy Now
• Candlebox | 8:00pm at The Roxy – Map | All Ages| Tickets $25.00 Buy Now
• Jules Day | 8:00pm at Catalina Bar & Grill – Map | 21+ | Tickets $15.00 Buy Now

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Latin jazz legends Francisco Aguabella (featured left) and Chuchito Valdes (featured right)performed at Crash Mansion on Friday night in a concert tribute to Fania records, the now over 40 year old record company that drove the popularity and success of salsa and other Latin music in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

The show opened with Aguabella, a legendary conguero who has played with Dizzy Gillespie and Tito Puente and now teaches his craft at UCLA, performing with a full band and Valdes sitting off stage. Aguabella’s band played wonderfully, beginning with a song that got the crowd up and moving, capping it off with a solo by Aguabella.

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Los Angeles’ Pacifica radio station, 90.7 FM, KPFK, had its first annual Spring Benefit Concert this passed Thursday evening during the advent of the vernal equinox itself. Those waiting in line for the all ages event outside the L.A. Crash Mansion were a mix of adolescent to late-middle aged hippies, yippies, Brazilian music fans, jazz lovers and more. Upon stepping inside, one was greeted with enough free Mexican food (up until 9:00pm) and music to fill up on until summer comes around. And with such an eclectic lineup of quality artists, KPFK left those inside and outside its listener base hungry for more shows to come.

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