Concerts Around Monrovia & LA County: This Week In Music

MONROVIA, CA – There are a ton of great shows to catch this week in Los Angeles County, and we've gathered a list of live music from twenty of the county's top music venues for this week's round-up. From blues, to throwbacks, to indie rock, and electronic, there's something for everyone to see.

Patch caught up with Jo Hirabayashi, frontman of Jo Passed. The band from Vancouver, British Columbia recently released their album "Their Prime," which is both dreamy and chaotic, zany while navigating the complexities young adulthood.

Jo Passed is performing August 27 at 8 p.m. at the Teragram Ballroom alongside Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever.

Emily Holland: How would you describe your music in 5 words?

Jo Hirabayashi: spiritually chill anxiety heart-adelic core

EH: When making music, what inspires you?

JH: Music is definitely the main inspiration, other bands, other songs, all the possibilities and then the reordering and reinterpreting of those possibilities.

EH: Can you tell us a little bit about how your 20s impacted the themes in “Their Prime?”

JH: I felt like a lot of my 20s was a search for something, for like a footing or a self of belonging or place, not just physically but in terms of my own identity. So there's that feeling in "Their Prime" of that kind of desperation to settle... Hitting 30 meant not really succeeding in the search, but succeeding in feeling a full indifference to that search.

EH: Have any guilty pleasures?

JH: Nerd pursuits – currently collecting garbage on survival mode in Fallout 4.

EH: What’s the most difficult part of the music making process for you?

JH: Marketing. Haha. Maybe that initial spark of a song is "difficult?" But maybe not really difficult so much as fickle.. Maybe the quest for authenticity vs the barrier of repetition?

EH: What do you hope for the future of your music?
JH: I want to make future music. As far as my music now in the future, I hope to feel content to keep playing old songs in the future. I hope to re-visit old forms of sonic futurism in a few years but then move passed that phase.

Cool thing about making records is some of them will still be sitting around decades from now. The future terrifies me but I think songs will still be important.

Jo Passed is performing August 27 at the Teragram Ballroom with Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. Show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets can be bought here. Follow Jo Passed on Bandcamp, Facebook, Twitter, and on SubPop Records.

MONDAY, AUGUST 27

• Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Jo Passed: 7 p.m. at the Teragram Ballroom
• Andrea Schiavelli (Eyes of Love): 8:30 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater
• SABRINA CLAUDIO: 9 p.m. at the Roxy Theatre
• Ruby Haunt - Monday Night Residency: 7 p.m. at the Moroccan
• Summer Mondays with Zane Carney: 7 p.m. at the Troubadour

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28

• Sam Smith: 8 p.m. at the Staples Center
• Carmina Burana: 8 p.m. at the Hollywood Bowl
• Parting Lines (record release show): 8:30 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater
• TILIAN with Royal Coda , Andrés , Sunsleep and Little Image: 8 p.m. at the Roxy Theatre
• Napalm Death, Cattle Decapitation, Crematorium, Thrown Into Exile: 6 p.m. at the Teragram Ballroom
• Fiona Grey (Album Release!): 7:30 p.m. at the Moroccan

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29

• Sam Smith: 8 p.m. at the Staples Center
• George Benson • Ledisi • Lean on Me: José James Celebrates Bill Withers: 8 p.m. at the Hollywood Bowl
• Alice In Chains Signing: 6 p.m. at Amoeba Records Hollywood
• X-pac 12360 live: 7:30 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater
• Brenda Carsey & the Awe: 7:30 p.m. at the Moroccan
• Freddy & Francine, Jamie Drake, Jason Hawk Harris: 8 p.m. at the Troubadour
• YES FEATURING JON ANDERSON | TREVOR RABIN | RICK WAKEMAN: 6 p.m. at the Greek Theatre

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30

• Carmina Burana: 8 p.m. at the Hollywood Bowl
• Taken By Trees: 6 p.m. at Amoeba Records Hollywood
• Rooney Mating Ritual, Goldensuns: 8 p.m. at The Regent Theater
• Oscar Key Sung: 8:30 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater
• THE STRIKE with Brighton & Valentina: 9 p.m. at the Roxy Theatre
• Los Colognes, Talk Time: 7:30 p.m. at the Moroccan

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31

• JERRY BELL with JD Hall & Sounds of Delphonics: 8 p.m. at The Fonda Theatre
• John Williams: Maestro of the Movies: 8 p.m. at the Hollywood Bowl
• Egyptian Lover: 6:30 p.m. at Amoeba Records Hollywood
• Non Servium: 7:30 p.m. at The Regent Theater
• Eli Paperboy Reed, Omar & The Stringpoppers, TJ Mayes: 8:30 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater
• BAD BAD HATS with Cumulus: 9 p.m. at the Roxy Theatre
• Tom Walker, Oliver Riot: 7:30 p.m. at the Moroccan
• We Found New Music Fridays: 11 p.m. at the Moroccan
• SHP Showcase, Soul Rising, Alone Together, Zach Zimmerman, Slow Burning Car, Ayline Artin: 7:30 p.m. at the Troubadour
• MIDGE URE & PAUL YOUNG: 9 p.m. at the El Rey Theatre
• JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT: 6 p.m. at the Greek Theatre

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

• OOKAY with MIKNNA & SWAGE: 9 p.m. at The Fonda Theatre
• John Williams: Maestro of the Movies: 8 p.m. at the Hollywood Bowl
• Grease 40th Anniversary +70s Night: 10 p.m. at The Regent Theater
• Liniker e os Caramelows, Chola Orange, Lionmilk: 8:30 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater
• DEVOUR: 9 p.m. at the Roxy Theatre
• Dino Cazares' Birthday Party: 7 p.m. at the Teragram Ballroom
• Videodrome Discothèque: 10 p.m. at the Moroccan
• Vaud and The Villains, We the Folk: 8 p.m. at the Troubadour
• THE AQUABATS!: 4 p.m. at the El Rey Theatre

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

• John Williams: Maestro of the Movies: 8 p.m. at the Hollywood Bowl
• The Rock 'N' Roll Flea Market: 11 a.m. at The Regent Theater
• Okay Embrace, Larkin Grimm, Goose Pimple: 8:30 p.m. at the Bootleg Theater
• A Mystical Night with Cubensis - Live Grateful Dead Music: 7 p.m. at the Moroccan
• Sheer Mag, Marbled Eye, Blues Lawyer: 7 p.m. at the Troubadour

Photo by Ryan Walter Wagner