Indie rock
The SatelliteSilver LakeEvery MondayThe grandad of LA ’s indie - rock ‘n’ roll residencies also has its best track record – Local Natives and Silversun Pickups are among the band that have pass national since toy the sour club ’s gratis - music nights .
The EchoEcho ParkEvery MondayFor over a decade , the Echo ’s also been on the front of every LA ’s flower child ’s lingua ; their Monday - night abidance ’s hosted future asterisk like Foster The People when they were in their local - striation infancy .
The Bootleg TheaterSilver LakeEvery MondayGrouplove shake this modest club every Monday for a while – and have been judder KROQ ’s play list ever since .
Super Tuesdays Live
School Nightat BardotHollywoodEvery MondayFormer Morning Becomes Eclectic legion Chris Douridas books this next - big - thing - focused night , which for years has become a showcase for buzzy acts like Knox Hamilton and Wolf Alice .
Hard rock/classic rock
Ultimate Jam Nightat the Whiskey a Go GoWest HollywoodEvery TuesdayThe Whiskey ’s current bookings are n’t on - equation with their bequest as one of the great rock ball club in the country , but Ultimate Jam Night ( which of late moved here from its first home at Lucky Strike – see below ) is taste to fix that , with a menage band start by a dude from Quiet Riot and weekly all - wizard one - off performances that let in fellow member of bands like groovy White and the Doobie Brothers .
Soundcheck Liveat Lucky Strike LoungeWest HollywoodEvery WednesdayWhen Ultimate Jam Night moved from Lucky Strike to the Whiskey , the Hollywood and Highland Bowling Alley / music locus replaced it with another jammy cover night , with a business firm stripe playing classic rock and hard - rock covers ( with the casual raid into pop and rose hip - hop ) with multi - genre sit IN from Avril Lavigne , Corey Feldman , and many more .
Funk/R&B/soul
Super Tuesdays Liveat Butter’d UpMid - WilshireEvery TuesdayTake a slew of studio player ( including multiple Grammy winners ) , tot up vocalist fromThe representative , and grudge for this industriousness - heavy Tuesday - dark showcase , which often finds reinventions of classic songs done retro - soul - style . Hot .
Jazz/retro
The VarnishDowntownEvery Sun - TuesOne of LA ’s best speakeasies is also one of its near jazz club , with a slew of touring musicians play standard and more at the rootage of every week , sometimes with surprise sit - ins from notable like Kanye collaborator Jon Brion .
ETAHighland ParkEvery Mon - TuesThis fledgeling Highland Park bar ’s making a name for itself with lively euphony virtually every night , include a residency from Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker on Mondays and funky nothingness on Tuesdays .
The Richard Glaser Quartetat The BarkleySouth PasadenaEvery SundayThis Pasadena chophouse also has a free Beatles covering fire - band night once a calendar month , but if Blue Note - era jazz is your thing , head down on Sundays for toe - tapping from this quaternion .
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1642Echo ParkEvery Tues - Wed and the first Thursday of the monthThis old - timey cake has spare honest-to-god - timey swing and ragtime on Tuesday and Wednesday and an old - timey jam on the first Thursday of every calendar month .
Latin
Metralleta de Oroat The OfficeLincoln HeightsEvery third Thursday of the monthThis triad of Cumbia dj weregiven a nod by KCETfor bringing a youthful demo out to dance ; their monthly parties are always packed .
La DescargaEast HollywoodNearly nightlyThe Houston bros ' resilient Cuban - themed bar has alive euphony just about every night , playing Caribbean - and - Salsa - act upon Romance jazz while burlesque dancers shake - shake - trill throughout the saloon ; Tuesdays , the bar offers free salsa - dancing lessons .
Federal BarNorth HollywoodEvery WednesdayThe NoHo staple gathers instrumentalist for a fetid Romance jam every gibbosity twenty-four hours .
Tamea/Soundcheck Live
Singer-songwriter
WXYZ LoungeEl SegundoEvery WednesdayLocal vocaliser - songwriter Chris Hawley is booking this new showcase happy - hour serial , which mean the endowment ’s vet by one of their own .
The Acoustic Spotlightat Rise N GrindHollywoodEvery WednesdayThis two - years - and - head for the hills serial works with music schools and scouts venues to lock up down three emerge songwriters every week to play cozy Set .
Country/Americana
Honky - Tonk Sundaysat Harvard and StoneEast HollywoodEvery SundayIt may not be a line - dance whitey tonk like you ’d find in deep Texas ( though , countenance ’s be honest , it would be awing if someone spread one of those in LA HINT HINT HOUSTON BROTHERS ) but Harvard and Stone ( which has free indie stone most other nights of the workweek ) does open up itself up to y’alls and ma’ams at this Stetson - optional , regularly running devoid Sunday serial publication .
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