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BLXST
2025-12-02 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-12-03 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-12-04 19:00 - 23:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | The Roxy, 9009 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California
Blxst is an American Grammy-nominated singer, rapper, and record producer from South Central Los Angeles, California. Blxst is widely recognized as one of the definitive voices of the new West Coast sound, blending hip-hop and R&B with a smooth, laid-back vibe and highly personal, introspective lyrics, a style often compared to artists like Nate Dogg and Ty Dolla $ign. A truly hands-on artist, he operates his own independent label, Evgle, and gained massive success with his self-produced 2020 debut EP, No Love Lost, which spawned the Platinum hit “Chosen” featuring Tyga and Ty Dolla $ign, and his profile grew significantly after featuring on Kendrick Lamar’s hit single “Die Hard.”

Suffs
2025-12-02 19:30 - 22:30, 2025-12-03 19:30 - 22:30, 2025-12-04 19:30 - 22:30, 2025-12-05 20:00 - 23:00 | Hollywood Pantages Theatre, 6233 Hollywood Blvd. Wayne McWorter (213)365-3500, Hollywood, CA, 90028.0

Lily Kershaw
2025-12-02 21:00 - 22:30 | Hotel Cafe Second Stage, 1623 N Cahuenga Blvd https://www.hotelcafe.com/tickets/?s=events_view&id=5674, Los Angeles, California, 90028.0
Lily Kershaw is an American singer-songwriter and actress from Los Angeles, California, who is known for her compelling blend of indie folk and songwriter pop, delivered with a voice that is often described as both lush and delicate, carrying a simmering ferocity. Born in 1991, she began writing songs as a child and established her career by crafting deeply personal, melodic narratives that candidly explore complex themes like depression, life, and death, which she sees as her way of making sense of the world. Kershaw gained significant public recognition when her song “As It Seems” was featured in the 2012 season finale of the popular CBS series Criminal Minds, a success that led to her signing with Nettwerk Records and releasing her debut acoustic album, Midnight in the Garden, in 2013, followed by her sophomore album, Arcadia (2019), which exhibited a sleeker, more cinematic pop production while retaining its intimate core. She has continued to evolve her sound by combining gentle acoustic performances with hazy electronics on recent releases like her 2024 album Pain & More, all while maintaining an authentic and honest voice that serves as an antidote to Hollywood glitz.

Saba
2025-12-02 21:30 - 23:00, 2025-12-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-12-03 21:30 - 23:30 | Blue Note Jazz Club
A successful independent artist, Saba has rooted his career in an authenticity and musicality that’s made him one of his generation’s most important and unique voices in rap. Saba’s most recent career highlights include performing at the United Center arena for Chance the Rapper’s Acid Rap Anniversary, playing two weekends at Coachella, and touring the US, Europe and Africa in support of his album Few Good Things. This year, Spotify has included Saba’s critically acclaimed CARE FOR ME album amongst it’s “Spotify Classics: Hip-Hop & R&B Albums of the Streaming Era” campaign (which includes Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Tyler the Creator and more) with billboards across LA and NYC.
Saba began making music at age 9 and was writing and producing songs by early adolescence. Building a recording studio in his grandmother’s basement on the west side of Chicago, he and a group of neighborhood friends formed their Pivot Gang collective. In 2019, J. Cole tapped Saba for the Dreamville collaboration album Revenge of the Dreamers III, in which Saba earned his first RIAA Gold certification for the song “Sacrifices.” That same year, Saba, Noname and Smino announced the creation of their Midwest super-group Ghetto Sage with the release of their debut track “Häagen Dazs.” 2022 marked Saba’s second RIAA Gold certification – this time for his own 2016 single “Photosynthesis.”
In 2025, Saba and super-producer, executive, and mentor No ID will drop their highly anticipated collaboration album. On the album, Saba flexes his vivid story-telling, radiating confidence, self-reflection and self-made success over No ID’s illustrious production.

Joel Eckels and Friends
2025-12-03 19:00 - 22:00 | Hotel Cafe Second Stage, 1623 N Cahuenga Blvd https://www.hotelcafe.com/tickets/?s=events_view&id=5674, Los Angeles, California, 90028.0
Joel Eckels is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and sound engineer based in Los Angeles, whose music blends influences from Americana, Blues, Funk, Rock, and Soul, particularly drawing inspiration from his mentor Bill Withers and classic rock like Led Zeppelin. Beyond his artistic output—which includes singles like “Sick and Tired” (2024) and “Ugly” (2025)—Eckels is a foundational figure in the LA music community, having spent over a decade as a talent buyer and curator for prominent venues like Room 5 Lounge and the Hotel Cafe, where he also created and hosted the long-running “Monday Monday” songwriting showcase series. He is also a highly successful production manager and Front of House Sound Engineer for major touring acts, notably Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real, using his extensive background in live sound and community building to inform his own honest and raw songwriting. His event, Joel Eckels and Friends, which is scheduled for December 3, 2025, at the Hotel Cafe Second Stage, is typical of his commitment to collaborative performances that highlight the cross-pollination of talent within the local music scene.

Dirty Projectors Trio: David Longstreth with Chris Bear & Karl McComas-Reichl
2025-12-04 19:00 - 21:00 | California
David Longstreth is the founder and songwriter behind Dirty Projectors, a mainstay in the pop and indie rock worlds since the band’s inception in 2002. Two of the group’s albums, Bitte Orca (2009) and Swing Lo Magellan (2012), are widely regarded as classics of the 2000s and 2010s.
Longstreth is also a prolific co-writer and producer: he’s collaborated with Solange, producing and co-writing five tracks on her masterpiece A Seat A The Table. He co-wrote “FourFive Seconds,” a #1 international hit for Rihanna. He wrote the short album Mount Wittenberg Orca for Björk and Dirty Projectors, and has written songs with David Byrne.
Longstreth’s first orchestral film score was released in April, 2025, the A24 film The Legend Of Ochi, starring Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson & Willem Dafoe, for director Isaiah Saxon. His two-piano score for the film Love Me, starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun, premiered at Sundance in 2024. Longstreth’s scored music has been commissioned by Bang On A Can, s t a r g a z e, the Barbican London, the Helsinki Festival, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
His chamber work, Song Of The Earth, performed by Dirty Projectors and s t a r g a z e, was released in 2025 by Nonesuch / New Amsterdam Records / Transgressive Records. The Los Angeles Philharmonic performed its US premiere in a sold out show at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2024. Longstreth is currently at work on new material with drummer
Chris Bear (Grizzly Bear) and bassist Karl McComas-Reichl.

barrett
2025-12-04 19:00 - 21:30 | Hotel Cafe, 1623 Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood, CA, 90028
barrett, a young musician primarily known for his genre-blending style that fuses Appalachian folk roots with elements of rock, pop, and R&B, reminiscent of acts like Bon Iver and The Lumineers. Raised on bluegrass and country music in the High Country of North Carolina, barrett is praised for his soulful, often acoustic storytelling, weaving reflective lyrical motifs that touch on mental health, relationships, and nostalgia for his “Appalachian Home.” He gained early recognition performing his own songs with his college band, LUSKA, and his subsequent solo EPs, such as Appalachian Home, have showcased a genuine, honest narrative voice that resonates with audiences seeking authenticity in contemporary folk music.

Jazz Legends: MARCUS MILLER (2x Grammy Award-winning Musician, Songwriter, and Record Producer)
2025-12-04 19:00 - 22:00, 2025-12-04 22:00 - 23:30, 2025-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Catalina Jazz Club, 6725 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California, 90028.0
The event features the legendary Marcus Miller, an American musician, composer, and producer widely regarded as one of the most influential electric bass players in modern jazz and R&B. A two-time Grammy Award winner and UNESCO Artist For Peace, Miller is celebrated for his distinctive sound—a unique combination of funk, groove, soul, and virtuosic technical skill. His immense career includes a pivotal role as the composer, producer, and primary collaborator for Miles Davis on seminal late-career albums like Tutu, and a 15-year partnership with Luther Vandross, resulting in numerous platinum albums and hits like “Power of Love.” Beyond his solo work, Miller’s signature basslines can be heard on over 500 recordings by artists ranging from Bill Withers (“Just The Two Of Us”) and Herbie Hancock to Eric Clapton and Mariah Carey, establishing him as a true giant of contemporary music.

Amaarae: The Black Star Experience
2025-12-04 19:00 - 22:30 | Hollywood Palladium, 6215 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, California
The Amaarae: The Black Star Experience is a special, limited-run concert tour launched by the critically acclaimed Ghanaian-American singer, songwriter, and producer Amaarae to celebrate her 2025 third studio album, BLACK STAR. This album and its corresponding live experience are celebrated as a powerful, futuristic statement of cultural pride and personal liberation, characterized by Amaarae’s signature soft, ethereal vocals blended with an adventurous, high-octane mix of global club sounds—including ghettotech, house, techno, and Brazilian baile funk—alongside African dance genres like azonto and highlife. T

Ángela Aguilar - LIBRE CORAZÓN TOUR 2025
2025-12-04 20:00 - 23:00 | Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California, 90028.0
Ángela Aguilar is a highly popular and influential Mexican-American singer, known as a principal figure in the contemporary revitalization of Mexican regional music (Música Mexicana), specifically the Mariachi and Ranchera genres. Born in 2003, she is the daughter of the iconic singer Pepe Aguilar and the granddaughter of the legendary “Golden Era” stars Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre, making her a fourth-generation member of one of Mexico’s most important musical dynasties.
Her career launched into international prominence with her 2018 album, Primero Soy Mexicana, which earned her a Grammy nomination and two Latin Grammy nominations, and she is celebrated for her powerful yet delicate vocal delivery and her commitment to honoring traditional Mexican attire in her performances. Key songs that have defined her career include the emotional single “La Llorona” and the massive viral hit “Dime Cómo Quieres,” a duet with Christian Nodal. She is widely regarded as a young standard-bearer for traditional Mexican music, successfully bringing the genre to a new generation through her active social media presence and collaborative work.

Sophia Zamani
2025-12-04 21:30 - 23:30 | Hotel Cafe Second Stage, 1623 N Cahuenga Blvd https://www.hotelcafe.com/tickets/?s=events_view&id=5674, Los Angeles, California, 90028.0
Sophia Zamani is an immensely talented 19-year-old American singer-songwriter, known for developing a unique and captivating sound that artfully straddles the lines between modern country, alternative, and indie-folk sensibilities. Originally from California, Zamani has been performing since the age of five and built an early foundation in music by teaching herself guitar alongside piano lessons, later catching the attention of Bruce Springsteen’s in-house producer, Ron Aniello, who became her mentor and helped guide her first steps into the music industry. Her career has quickly gained momentum with the release of her debut album Shelter from the Rain (2024) and her recent EP, Start Again (2025), which feature over a hundred of her original songs, and she has collaborated with notable producers and engineers like David Baron (The Lumineers) and GRAMMY-award winner Emily Lazar (Maggie Rogers), all while she continues to pursue her bachelor’s degree at Pepperdine University.

Melina
2025-12-04 22:30 - 23:30 | Hotel Cafe Second Stage, 1623 N Cahuenga Blvd https://www.hotelcafe.com/tickets/?s=events_view&id=5674, Los Angeles, California, 90028.0
Melina Ruais, who established herself in the music world after gaining significant visibility during her time on La Voix (The Voice Quebec) in 2014, where she made it to the quarter-finals. After using that momentum to release her first EP in 2017, she committed fully to her musical vision, culminating in her first full-length album, Revival, which showcases a powerful, contemporary pop sound with strong influences of gospel and soul. Although she started her career in Montreal with a foundation in classical piano and an a cappella background, she moved to Los Angeles in 2013 to study audio engineering, eventually becoming a highly experienced vocal instructor and coach while maintaining her career as a singer-songwriter and producer, making her a well-connected figure in the local music industry that frequents the Hotel Cafe.

Pentagram , Corrupt, Inviscera, Diabology, Breaking Curfew, Titan's Wrath, Wild Charge, Brutalion
2025-12-05 18:00 - 23:00 | Whisky A-Go-Go, 8901 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, California
Pentagram. Pentagram, active since the early 1970s, is recognized as one of the pioneers of the Doom Metal subgenre, delivering a slow, heavy, and riff-focused sound inspired by Black Sabbath, with frontman Bobby Liebling’s long and tumultuous career becoming the stuff of legend. Supporting them is a stacked bill of emerging and established metal acts, including Corrupt, who bring a powerful, aggressive style of heavy metal or thrash; Inviscera, a melodic metal group often incorporating symphonic or death metal influences; Diabology, a Los Angeles-based thrash metal band known for their technically demanding and energetic compositions; Breaking Curfew, who play various styles of modern hard rock; and heavy metal bands Titan’s Wrath, Wild Charge, and Brutalion, all of whom contribute to a full night of uncompromising, high-decibel rock and metal.

Derrick Hodge
2025-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Blue Note Jazz Club
Derrick Hodge is one of contemporary music’s most complete and complex artists. Also lauded as a composer, he is revered as one of the great bassists and musicians of his generation and his solo projects—Live Today (2013), The Second (2016), and Color of Noize (2020)—have been met with praise from critics and audiences alike. His albums are rich, raw and revelatory, reflecting his roots in the church, a passion for hip hop, and an eternal reverence for melody and classical composition. Like the artist, Hodge’s music contains multitudes.
Growing up just outside Philadelphia, Hodge cut his teeth in the city’s neo-soul movement. At college, he became the bass player and musical director of choice for pioneers like Jill Scott, Maxwell, Floetry, Nas, Common, James Poyser and Musiq Soulchild. At the same time, he played in his university’s orchestra and in jazz circles with legendary musicians including Terence Blanchard, Donald Byrd, Mulgrew Miller and Bootsie Barnes.
Hodge has played a role in countless groundbreaking projects and historic firsts. In 2022, he directed the music for the Academy Awards and arranged for Nas’s performance at the Grammys. As part of CNN’S Juneteenth celebration, he conducted the first all Black orchestra to perform at the Hollywood Bowl. In 2014 Hodge became the first Black composer to compose Hip Hop for the National Symphony when he acted as orchestral arranger and music director for the 20th anniversary celebration of Illmatic. Named one of the top moments in hip hop history by Fender Magazine, it was the first time hip hop was ever performed by the National Symphony Orchestra. He was also the first Black composer to write strings for hip hop at Carnegie Hall and the first Black composer to write symphonic music for hip hop with the Houston Symphony.
Hodge has devoted himself to projects that elevate and animate the African American legacy: the struggle but also—and always—the poetry and the triumph too. It is this ability to honor and advance both culture and people that is the principle thread which weaves together Hodge’s work. He was commissioned to write music for permanent exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He has scored, composed, and consulted for a plethora of small and big screen works, including The Black Candle, a groundbreaking documentary about Kwanzaa narrated by Maya Angelou, and Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, and the 2020 blockbuster The Photograph. While Hodge often lends his talents to the specific set of cinema and storytelling which chronicles Blackness in the U.S., he is also awake to the universal nuances of the human experience. His music tells stories that are simultaneously of a people, and of the people.
Hodge has founded and played in bands and groups as diverse and as influential as R+R=Now, the Robert Glasper Experiment, and The Blue Note All Stars. As a producer he has collaborated with icons including Quincy Jones, Don Was, and Common. As a musical director he has worked with luminaries including Yasiin Bey and, from 2009 to 2019, Maxwell.
The Color of Noize project is Hodge’s signature concept-series, bringing together contrasting sounds, styles to create an immersive audio-visual experience. Color of Noize premiered in 2019 as part of Hodge’s artist residency at Monterey Jazz Festival, where he brought together a collection of musicians, some as young as four, to explore his compositions in a remarkably moving and beautiful concert. As he puts it “it was never just my potential that made things happen; it was my community advocating for me—now I want to advocate for others, to pass that on”.
Whether collaborating with giants, writing for the big screen, forging new paths for orchestral composition, or providing access to his symphonic scores and original arrangements to HBCUs and inner city music programs, his work always contains social commentary, awareness, or insight. Here we find the fundamental character of Hodge; an incurably hopeful man, who, through his work and his art, has made the world a definitively more beautiful place.

FIVE EASY PIECES
2025-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California
Five Easy Pieces is a celebrated 1970 American road drama and character study from the New Hollywood era, directed by Bob Rafelson and starring Jack Nicholson in a career-defining role as Robert “Bobby” Dupea. The film is essentially about alienation and identity, focusing on Bobby, a highly gifted former classical piano prodigy from a wealthy, cultured family of musicians who has willfully rejected his privileged upbringing to live a chaotic, blue-collar existence as a restless oil rig worker in Southern California with his unsophisticated waitress girlfriend, Rayette (Karen Black). The plot centers on his reluctant journey back to his estranged, upper-class family’s isolated home in Washington state to visit his dying, stroke-afflicted father, a trip that forces him to confront his past, his sense of failure, and the fact that he feels like an outcast in both the intellectual world he fled and the working-class world he adopted. The film is famous for its dark humor, raw emotionality, and particularly for the unforgettable diner scene where Bobby’s frustration boils over into a confrontation with a waitress over ordering toast.

Anna of the North
2025-12-05 19:00 - 22:00 | The Roxy, 9009 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California
Anna of the North is a highly regarded Norwegian singer-songwriter whose music is characterized as minimalist electropop or dream pop, known for its distinct blend of atmospheric, synth-heavy production and her light, emotionally resonant vocal delivery. Originally a duo with producer Brady Daniell-Smith, the project became a solo endeavor under Lotterud in 2018, and she is celebrated for crafting deeply personal and often melancholy songs about modern relationships and introspection. Anna of the North gained significant traction after collaborating with artists like Tyler, the Creator on his Flower Boy album (2017) and Rejjie Snow, but her independent success is cemented by her three studio albums, Lovers (2017), Dream Girl (2019), and Crazy Life (2022), which feature popular tracks like “Sway” and “Leaver,” establishing her as a unique and influential voice in contemporary Scandinavian pop.

Scars on Broadway
2025-12-05 19:00 - 22:00 | Hollywood Palladium, 6215 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, California
Scars on Broadway is an American alternative metal and experimental rock band that serves as the primary side project of Daron Malakian, the guitarist, composer, and second vocalist for the multi-platinum band System of a Down. Formed in 2006 (initially with SOAD drummer John Dolmayan), the band’s musical style deviates from System of a Down’s thrash extremes toward a more straightforward rock sound infused with elements of new wave keyboards, punk swagger, and melodic pop sensibilities, all while retaining Malakian’s signature complex lyrical themes and idiosyncratic sonic quirks. After an initial acclaimed self-titled debut album in 2008, the band went on hiatus and later reformed, with the project evolving to become more solely focused on Malakian’s direction, leading to the 2018 album Dictator and the upcoming 2024 album Addicted to the Violence, with the current core members typically including Malakian on lead vocals and guitar, Orbel Babayan on rhythm guitar, and Roman Lomtadze on drums.

Amelia Day
2025-12-05 19:00 - 22:30 | Hotel Cafe, 1623 Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood, CA, 90028
Amelia Day is an independent American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who is quickly emerging as a folk rock powerhouse, often drawing comparisons to artists like Sheryl Crow, Brandi Carlile, and Hozier, and she is known for blending folk, rock, and pop with raw, heartfelt delivery and unforgettable melodies. Born and raised in Sumner, Washington, Day is a self-described writer first, with perceptive lyricism that delves into themes of young queer life, journeying into adulthood, and the complexities of culture, as evidenced in her upcoming EP Ego Trip, featuring the single “Lady Los Angeles.” She is proficient on guitar, keys, bass, and drums and has independently amassed millions of streams and a loyal following, selling out shows in cities like Seattle and Boston and playing major festivals such as Bumbershoot, all without a manager, agent, or label, often performing with her backing band The Cloves.

Yesterday’s Tomorrow - Zachary Benson Friedberg
2025-12-05 19:00 - 23:00 | La Luz de Jesus Gallery, 4633 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California
Zachary Benson Friedberg hits the walls of La Luz de Jesus Gallery again this winter for the newest showcase of paintings titled “Yesterday’s Tomorrow”, featuring a collection of iconic mid-century buildings that have been demolished. Friedberg acknowledges the nostalgia for the disappearing architecture of Googie style diners across Southern California by mixing them with sci-fi elements to celebrate their optimistic vision of the future. As if to suggest, instead of being torn down for new, drab, and homogenous development, they had been transported to another dimension, servicing weary travelers until the next lightyear. In this newest body of work, Friedberg presents the mid-century modern buildings with a deliberate absence of aliens and humans, allowing the diners to imagine themselves as the figurative presence. This liminality is iconically and uniquely playful. By taking inspiration from artists like Hiroshi Nagai, Friedberg imagines alternate realities that evoke both nostalgia and futuristic idealism.

Louis C.K.
2025-12-05 19:30 - 23:00 | Dolby Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California, 90028.0
Louis C.K. is a six-time Emmy Award and three-time Grammy Award winner. He has released over ten stand up specials including his most recent “Louis C.K. at the Dolby,” “Sorry,” and “Sincerely, Louis C.K.,” all released direct to fans on his website. In 2023, C.K. live-streamed his sold out in the round performance from Madison Square Garden, aptly named “Back To The Garden,” through his website. Previous specials include “Shameless,” “Chewed Up,” “Hilarious,” “Word – Live at Carnegie Hall” (audio), “Live at the Beacon Theater,” “Oh My God,” “Live at the Comedy Store,” and “Louis C.K. 2017.” C.K. is the creator, writer, director, and star of the Peabody Award winning shows “Louie” and “Horace and Pete.” C.K. also co-wrote, directed, and appeared in the feature film “Fourth of July,” released in theaters nationwide in July 2022. In January 2015, he became the first comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden three times for the same tour.

Baby Bugs w Satin Puppets
2025-12-05 20:00 - 22:00 | Hollywood Forever, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90038, United States
Baby Bugs and Satin Puppets are two prominent independent music projects known for their collaborative and emotionally intense styles within the alternative music and pop scenes. Baby Bugs is the music project of artist Bowie Rabas (they/them), who has built a significant following with raw, cathartic lyrics that honestly address difficult personal subjects like mental illness, religious trauma, and emotional abuse, blending a background in bluegrass guitar with alternative, pop, and singer-songwriter influences, exemplified by their viral 2021 debut “Hey Bunny.” Satin Puppets, led by the identical twin sisters Joanna and Julia Araujo, are an alternative goth duo known for their haunting, cinematic orchestral pop and dark Victorian aesthetic, which extends from their surreal visual art and social media presence into their music, often collaborating with producer Nxghtshade to create atmospheric, melancholic tracks like “Sulky Eyed Creatures,” which also features Baby Bugs. The two acts frequently share stages, offering a unified presence that resonates with the modern independent music community seeking dark, atmospheric, and deeply vulnerable art.
