GROOVES

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Center Stage: Scott Wannberg and John Harris

Highlights

Rock, Pop

The Brothers Johnson, Shuggie Otis at Twilight Dance Series (Santa Monica Pier), 6/27, 7:30pm. FREE. In the same way that punk rock ended dinosaur rock and paved the way for alt-rock, hip-hop pushed out soul music, and has all but killed R&B. The Johnson Bros. are the epitome of that sweet, funky harmonious groove thang that was dance music, but not disco. Shuggie Otis has also come out of his semi-seclusion to make this special appearance with them.
Fishbone CD Release Party at Temple Bar, 7/3. Celebrating their new release, “Live At Temple Bar & More.”
Puffy, AmiYumi at Amoeba, 7/3, 7pm. FREE!
The Who at The Verizon Amphitheatre, 6/29
Julie Vox & The Checkers, DJ Lee at Club 66/77 (Bigfoot Lounge), 6/27
Lil’ Luis & The Wild Teens at Bigfoot Lounge, 7/2
Sunstorm: DJ Ben Vendetta, Bowerbird Intelligentleman at Bigfoot Lodge, 7/3
Mat Treiber Group at The Cat Club, 6/28
Jesus Jones, 44 Hour Drive at The El Rey, 6/27
Live Bluegrass: Pat Cloud & The Instant Brothers, The Cache Valley Drifters at McCabe’s, 6/28
I See Hawks in LA, The Steve Owen Trio, The Patrick Conway Trio at Canter’s Kibbitz Room, 6/28
Pink at The Wiltern, 6/28
George Sarah, Rasputina at The Knitting Factory, 6/29
H is Orange, Mezzo, Kaddisfly, Daulesc at The Joint, 6/28
Tommy Lee at The House of Blues, 6/27
Ben Taylor, El Tambor & Weapon Of Choice at Temple Bar, 6/30. (Son of James Taylor & Carly Simon)

Jazz, Classical

Scott Colley, Ravi Coltrane, Adam Rogers, Bill Stewart at The Jazz Bakery, 6/27
James Carney, Dan Lutz, Dan Morris at The Lira Series, 6/29 (105 Vignes St., Downtown - 323.267.1830)
Richard Davis Quintet at The World Stage, 6/29

Readings,
Performances

Wanda Coleman, Shawna Kenney, Pleasant Gehman, Annette Zilinkas, Iris Berry, John Wahl, Jerome Moetinger, Lionel Marchetti and more at Beyond Baroque (See BB listings)
Franc Baliton and Michael Morrissey in “FrankenMichael II” at FLOPHOUSE Fest of Performance (Crazy Space - at 18th Street Arts Complex), 6/28. Liz Young presents new work, 6/29. 1629 18th St. (310) 829-9789.
Kenneth Turan at Midnight Special Bookstore, 7/2.

The Week Ahead

Thursday, June 27

The Brothers Johnson, Shuggie Otis at Twilight Dance Series (Santa Monica Pier), 6/27, 7:30pm. FREE.
Julie Vox & The Checkers, DJ Lee at Club 66/77 (Bigfoot Lounge)
Jesus Jones, 44 Hour Drive at The El Rey
Breaking Pangae, Static Lullaby, Skiptrace, Ol’ Yeller at The Troubadour
Tommy Lee, The Flying Tigers at The House of Blues
Loaded (w/Duff McKagan of Guns & Roses), Stargunn, Fireball Ministry, Bomber, Whole Lotta Rosies, The Who Show at Club Vodka
Fidel, Todos Tus Muertos at The Key Club
Bamboleo at The Conga Room
Starvations, Rattlesnakes, Rolling Blackouts, Butcher Holler at The Silverlake Lounge

Friday, June 28

Live Bluegrass: Pat Cloud & The Instant Brothers, The Cache Valley Drifters at McCabe’s.
Abandoned Pools, Ken Andrews Band at The Roxy
Kings of Nuttin’, Coffin Draggers, Betty Rage at The Troubadour
I See Hawks in LA, The Steve Owen Trio, The Patrick Conway Trio at Canter’s Kibbitz Room
Pink at The Wiltern
Static X at The Key Club
H Is Orange, Kaddisfly, Dualesc at The Joint
Parlour, Dengue Fever at The Derby

Saturday, June 29

George Sarah, Rasputina at The Knitting Factory
Powered By Rock, DJs Dave Young, AJ Ramone at Bigfoot Lounge
Lift To Experience, Dick Army at The Silverlake Lounge
Anna Waronker, Green & Yellow TV, Patrick Park at The Troubadour
Paul Barrere, Fred Tackett at McCabe’s. Original guitarist for Little Feat
Dreda, Depswa, Hotwire, Leisure at The Roxy
Finemachine, Chris Pierce, Jones at The Mint
Strung out, Poison The Well, Rise Against, Rufio at The Palladium
The Dan Band at 1650
The Bordersnakes at The Gig
Pink at The Wiltern
The Who at The Verizon Amphitheatre
Richard Davis Quintet at The World Stage

Sunday, June 30

Keeali’I Reichel, The Brothers Cazimero, Les Grands Ballets de Tahiti, Halau, Keeli’I O Nalani, Hosted by Tom Schnabel at Polynesian Paradise! (Hollywood Bowl)
All Someday I, Wretch Like Me, Armstrong at The Troubadour
David Baerwald, Abra Moore, Sheila Nichols at The Mint
George Sarah at Sea Level Records
Lift To Experience (Texas), Devics, John Gold at The Derby

Monday, July 1

Brazzaville at Temple Bar, 7/1. Neil Strauss of the NY Times calls them “vagabond pop for fans of Morphine, Tom Waits, Spain, Leonard Cohen and Tindersticks.”
The Who at the Hollywood Bowl
King’s X at The Key Club
Jack Tempchin, Waddy Wachtel, Phil Jones, Terry Reid, special surprise guests at Jack Tempchin’s Big Mondays (The Joint)

Tuesday, July 2

The Flatlanders at The Troubadour
Simon Townshend at The Mint
Dolly Varden, Postfontaine, Wiffle at The Silverlake Lounge
The Peak Show, Joy Jones & The Nappy Godchild Project & Niki Crawford at Temple Bar, 7/2. Their intention is “to slap the Westside silly with a tasty cocktail of Trip-Hop on the Rocks with a twist of kick ass.”

Wednesday, July 3

Calavera, Blazing Haley, Devil Doll, Los Creepers at The Troubadour
James Hall and The Pleasure Club (New Orleans), Shesus (Ohio) at the Silverlake Lounge

Clubs

14 Below – 1348 14th St., Santa Monica (310)451-5040. Or go to www.14below.com
Club Sugar - 814 Broadway Ave., Santa Monica. (310)899.1989 www.clubsugar. com
Harvelle’s Blues Club – Downhome westside spot since 1931. Tuesdays: Bad Boy Jones. 1432 Fourth St., Santa Monica (310)395-1676
Liquid Lounge - Gotham Hall presents. (800) 384-8865 ext. 0 or go to www.gothamhall.com or www.salsasundays.com
Lush - 2020 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica. (310)829-1933
McCabes – (see above). Sunday of every month at 7pm: Free Talent Night. 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 310 828-4403 www.mccabes.com.
Rusty’s Surf Ranch- Every other Thursday: Women Who Cook. 256 Santa Monica Pier (310)393-PIER
Temple Bar –1026 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica (310)393-6611. Sun, 6/16, Verve Recording Artists Action Figure Party featuring
The Friendship - 112 W. Channel, Santa Monica.
The Joint – 8771 W. Pico Blvd. (310)275-2619
The West End - 5th & Arizona in Santa Monica. (310)313-3292 www.westendclubs.com

Coffeehouses
and Other Spaces

Anastasia’s Asylum – Live music nightly, no cover. 1028 Wilshire, Santa Monica. (310)394-7113
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center - Critically acclaimed events, FREE Workshops & Readings. Events this week: Fri, 6/28, 7:30pm: SCOTT WANNBERG and JOHN HARRIS. SCOTT WANNBERG, “lover of noir films, Westerns, popcorn, John Sayles, and ongoing noun at Duttons Bookstore in Brentwood” has a new book coming out called Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, and will “smilingly cite Philip Levine, Charles Bukowski, John Thomas, and S.A. Griffin as favorite poets.” JOHN HARRIS “founded the Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop at Beyond Baroque in 1969 with Joseph Hansen. For many years he was proprietor of Papa Bach Books, the historic bookstore and lit center where a generation of Los Angeles writers came of age artistically. His manuscript Climbing was a finalist for the University of Pittsburgh U.S. Poetry Award judged by Muriel Rukeyser.” Sat, 6/29, 7:30pm: MANUEL LUNA, NAOMI QUIÑONEZ, PETER HARRIS, and WANDA COLEMAN. WANDA COLEMAN, an L.A. native, has received honors from the NEA, Guggenheim, and California Arts Council fellowships, and received the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets for Bathwater Wine. NAOMI QUIÑONES has written two books of poetry Hummingbird Dream/Colibri and The Smoking Mirror, and was co-editor of Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry and Decolonial Voices: Chicana Chicano Cultural studies in the 21 Century. PETER J. HARRIS is producer/host of KPFK’s Inspiration House: VoiceMusic for Whole Living, Mondays 10-11 pm, 90.7 FM, publisher of Drumming Between Us: Black Love & Erotic Poetry. MANUEL LUNA is a published poet. Sat, 6/29, 10pm: SHAWNA KENNEY, JON WAHL & THE AMADANS, ANNETTE ZILINKAS, PLEASANT GEHMAN, IRIS BERRY. SHAWNA KENNEY is a freelance journalist and author of the award-winning memoir, I Was a Teenage Dominatrix. JON WAHL & THE AMADANS will be doing “different and delicate renderings” of tunes from their new release “SOUR SUITE.” ANNETTE ZILINKAS, formerly of the Ringling Sisters and Blood on the Saddle, will be reading and singing. PLEASANT GEHMAN poet, painter, singer, dancer, reads from her latest book “Escape from Houdini Mountain.” MC’d by IRIS BERRY. Sun, 6/30, 7:30pm: Beyond Music: with JEROME NOETINGER, LIONEL MARCHETTI, DAJUIN YAO and JOHN BISCHOFF. An evening of Musique Concrete from France. Pioneers of contemporary musique concrete, French composers JEROME MOETINGER and LIONEL MARCHETTI make their first appearance in the United States. Along with Noetinger and Marchetti, Beyond Baroque is proud to present electronic musician and co-founder of the League of Automatic Composers JOHN BISCHOFF and Berkeley-based Chinese musique concrete composer, sound artist, web artist, and radio DJ DAJUIN YAO. Ongoing LIFE STORIES Performance Workshop, 10 week session, classes Sat 10-1 or Sun 11-2. $250. Call 310.281.3175. (310)822-3006. 681 Venice Blvd., Venice.
Duttons Books Brentwood – Critically acclaimed readings and events. Tue, 7/2, 7pm: Nancy Lemann reads and signs “Malaise,” which deals with “displaced and debauched Southerners, the clash between the old and the new, and the search for lov, honor and a home in a different setting (California)…” –Library Journal. 11975 San Vicente Blvd.
Legal Grind – Award winning coffee house offers legal help with your coffee. www.legalgrind.com, or call (310)452-3160. 7640 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica, 90405.
Metro Rags & Java – Tuesdays: Philosopher’s Café. 1630 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, 90405. (310)396-8356
Midnight Special Bookstore - Open and featured readings, political discussions & groups, renowned authors and reading circles, computer and technology groups, science fiction book club and much more. Events: Fri, 6/28, 8pm: OPEN POETRY, (7:30 sign-ups). Sat, 6/29, 3pm: LATINO/A POPULAR CULTURE edited by Michelle Habell-Pallan and Mary Romero. “In Latino/a Popular Culture, Habell-Pallán and Romero have brought together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to analyze representations of Latinidad in a diversity of genres–media, culture, music, film, theatre, art, and sports–that are emerging across the nation in relation to Chicanas, Chicanos, mestizos, Puerto Ricans, Caribbeans, Central Americans and South Americans, and Latinos in Canada.” Sun, 6/30, 5pm: Tongue & Groove, a reading of poetry and prose by the members of prize-winning poet Cathy Coleman’s Writing Workshop. Tue, 7/2, 7pm: FAIR the media watch group, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting presents their monthly program on the role of the media in shaping our views. This months’s program will feature Kenneth Turan, author of “Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World they Made.” 1318 3rd Street Promenade Santa Monica, CA 90401, v310.393-2923 f:310.394.6123 | books@msbooks.com | www.msbooks. com.