LA concert calendar: Live music in LA in April 2013

Lindsey Stirling

• Price band: 1/4

Lindsey Stirling made a name for herself as "the hip-hop violinist" when she made the quarterfinals of America's Got Talent, and her YouTube channel (lindseystomp) has racked up a whopping 223 million views. It's safe to say you can expect a high-drama performance from the musician and dancer tonight (we're pretty sure we can hear the wind machines revving up already).

The Three O'Clock

• Price band: 1/4

This alt-rock group is associated with LA's 1980s Paisley Underground scene (think the Bangles or Dream Syndicate). Expect to hear psychedelic pop rock with a punk energy—a sound that may have been more original in the '80s, but is still pretty fun today.

Angel Olsen

• Price band: 1/4

Angel Olsen, an acrobatic-voiced Chicago indie-folkie whom you might have heard singing alongside Will Oldham, headlines supporting an elegant new LP, Half Way Home.

Beach House

• Price band: 2/4

The Baltimore duo released Bloom, its fourth album of stunning textured dream pop, earlier last year. Beach House, having truly bloomed recently, has the potential to transform any venue into a hazy bedroom of its own design.

Yeasayer + Wild Nothing + Wild Belle

• Price band: 1/4

Yeasayer: Arty local indie faves Yeasayer support their latest, Fragrant World, during this show. Just don't expect a set of anthemic pop songs. Their latest album release skews toward dark, R&B-tinged—and compulsively listenable—material, although we're sure they'll throw in some poppy, sing-along hits like "Ambling Alp."

Wild Nothing: Wild Nothing is Jack Tatum's deliciously dreamy, '80s-style indie rock band. Their gorgeous sophomore album, Nocturne, came out last August. The band members are a little shy (we dare them to make eye contact onstage, even with each other) but their songs get your feet tapping and will stay stuck in your head for days—or until the next set.

Wild Belle: Siblings Elliot and Natalie Bergman make up this Chicago pop rock band, whose sound volleys from psychedelic pop to ska, reggae, funk and jazz. They do a little bit of everything, which you'll hear on this year's release Isles, as well as during this show.

Ghost B.C.

• Price band: 1/4

Ghost B.C. (a.k.a. Ghost) are an anonymous, underground Swedish metal band. They gained a serious amount of cred with their first album, Opus Eponymous, and the hype has only increased since the release of their sophomore LP Infestissumam.

The Selecter + Lee "Scratch" Perry + Skinny Lister

• Price band: 1/4

The Selecter: 2-Tone Records veterans, pop/ska outfit the Selecter—still fronted by Pauline Black—plough on through their 33rd year. They are responsible for ska classics such as "On My Radio," which we just may be lucky enough to hear during this show.

Lee "Scratch" Perry: "The Black Ark days (and the Black Ark studio itself) are a distant memory, but the mark on music—not only reggae—that Lee Perry made there during the last half of the ’70s is indelible. Given that he's most famous as a producer, it's surprising what a great performer Perry still is; bobbing around the stage, he testifies in his own indecipherable tongue, spreading joy with every hoarse syllable."

Skinny Lister: This UK-based, five piece folk act have released a series of self-released singles since their formation in 2009, and recently dropped their debut album Forge & Flagon in January of this year. Skinny Lister has been playing behind the release all year, starting with a tour in Germany, then joining Flogging Molly on the first half of their annual Green17 tour.

Franz Ferdinand

• Price band: 2/4

This Scottish band, formed in Glasgow in 2002, hit it big with their singles "Take Me Out," "No You Girls" and the quirky "Eleanor Put Your Boots On." They've supposedly been working on a new studio album that may or may not come out later this year, so expect to hear brand new songs from the odd rockers.

Foals

• Price band: 2/4

The Oxford quintet, who set themselves apart from the Rapture-like, punk-funk cum retro synth-pop pack by flashing an unselfconscious intelligence and bashing out smart, danceable pop tunes, will play to promote their new album Holy Fire. Think math rock mixed with indie, new wave and a hint of kraut.

Dinosaur Jr.

• Price band: 1/4

The beloved alternative rock band once simply known as Dinosaur, before legal issues forced the addition of "Jr.," are still rocking thirty years later. They'll be making a pit stop at the Glass House in between two weekend sets in the sweaty desert at Coachella.

Vampire Weekend + Tanlines

• Price band: 2/4

Vampire Weekend: Beloved world-pop preppies Vampire Weekend drop by Fox Theater in between two Sunday headlining gigs at Coachella. Pop your collar and channel that chick on the (unauthorized) cover of Contra—the band's addictive second album—to fully enjoy the the restless rockers' show.

Tanlines: At first listen, Mixed Emotions, the debut full-length from Tanlines, sounds like a straightforwardly good-time album: honest pop with swelling synths and giddy arrangements. But as you delve deeper, dark undercurrents emerge and wonderfully anthemic choruses begin to convey lostness and uncertainty. Likewise, the band members engage in multiple identities: Brooklyn indie entertainers who make lighthearted synth-rock, and complex, introspective artists who disclose further depth with each album spin.

Portugal. The Man + Lord Huron

• Price band: 1/4

Portugal. The Man: The grandiose rock of Portugal. The Man—the most important thing ever to emerge from Wasilla, Alaska, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise—fuses soulful vintage psych-pop with hectic modern production. Inked to Atlantic after a long indie stint, the band arrives in Pomona to play oldies, plus songs from its 2011 release, In the Mountain in the Cloud.

Lord Huron: Rising LA indie folk band Lord Huron will play songs from their debut LP, Lonesome Dreams. The project began as lead singer Ben Schneider's vision and now involves four additional members, who offer campfire-ready, harmony-laden folk-pop. They were named KCRW's 2012 "band you should have known," but it's not too late! Get to know them at the Glass House in April.

Bad Religion

• Price band: 1/4

West Coast punk heroes Bad Religion, one of the genre's most distinctive and enduring bands, pays a visit to the Palladium, during which they'll survey their hooky, thought-provoking catalog and air a few tracks from their new full-length, True North.

Tyrone Wells

• Price band: 1/4

California alt-popster Tyrone Wells has been heard on TV shows such as Rescue Me and One Tree Hill, via his arena-ready ballads. He takes the Troubadour stage in April in support of his latest album, Where We Meet.

Bat for Lashes

• Price band: 2/4

Career longevity hinges on reinvention, and art school refugee Natasha Khan knows this. As Bat for Lashes, the London songstress was at the top of the dream-pop tide not so long ago, leading a wave of new artists paying belated homage to Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks with shimmering sound washes and wardrobes to match. Bravely forgoing trendy pop machinery, Bat for Lashes shows us she’s still a step ahead of her peers with 2012's The Haunted Man.

Crystal Castles

• Price band: 2/4

Toronto twosome Crystal Castles offers cool-kid lo-fi synth-pop, ranging from dreamy to ferocious. Alice Glass's silky vocals and sexy style go a long way to make a case for the group's electro-boom staying power.

Shuggie Otis

• Price band: 2/4

Shuggie Otis, a singer-songsmith who issued a couple of psychedelic-soul classics in the early ’70s before dropping out of sight for decades, reemerges in support of a forthcoming reissue, Inspiration Information/Wings of Love.