The best concerts in L.A. this March

Can’t get enough of his yearly appearance at the Bowl? The LA Phil follows up John Williams’s summertime set with the first of two years of live scores and concerts in his honor at Disney Hall.  You can see live scores of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Nov 2, 3) and Superman (Mar 15), plus a Gustavo Dudamel-led evening that includes a performance of a suite of Harry Potter compositions (May 18, 19). Expect Williams scores to also make their way into the David Newman-conducted “A Century of Film” program (Feb 2–4).

The trio of Westsiders—who indeed named themselves after KCRW radio host Cherry Glaser—brings the band’s latest release and a bratty sensibility for poppy punk.

When last she played L.A., Madonna spent nearly two weeks at the Wiltern. This time around, the patron saint of pop is scaling up a bit with shows at the Kia Forum, part of her 40th anniversary Celebration Tour.

While there’s always been a theatrical flair to Fall Out Boy’s music, the band’s latest records take those overwrought inclinations to their logical conclusion. See Patrick Stump and company to dig into their catalog, in front of a crowd of older fans that should know all the words to “Dead on Arrival,” during this show at the Honda Center. Jimmy Eat World, the Maine and Daisy Grenade open.

Going from a grocery store bagger with a SoundCloud account to a featured artist on Cardi B’s smash hit “I Like It” to a Wrestlemania star in just a matter of years, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (a.k.a. Bad Bunny) has become one of the leading voices in the burgeoning Latin trap scene. The Puerto Rican artist with a penchant for shaving intricate patterns into his buzz cut comes to L.A. for a few arena shows.

Everyone reunites—it’s human nature—so it’s no surprise that Sleater-Kinney came back together in 2014. Though the comeback was welcome, the departure of drummer Janet Weiss a few years later sure wasn’t. Even so, this duo version of Sleater-Kinney with Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein still thrashes and swings with a sound quite unlike anyone else.

Mitski has a talent for swift transformation. Over the past several years, she’s rocketed from self-releasing her first two albums and playing DIY gigs to selling out major venues months in advance. Catch her at the Shrine in support of her latest album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We.