Concert highlights include Flogging Molly + The Interrupters, Boys Noize
Welcome to Seven in Seven, where each week in this space we’ll be taking a look at shows coming to the region over the next week. As always, whether your musical tastes are rock and roll, jazz, heavy metal, R&B, singer-songwriter or indie, there’ll always be something to check out. Here’s seven of the best on the docket for the very frontloaded week of June 24:
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It’s a punk rock double bill at The Mann as Flogging Molly teams up with The Interrupters for a co-headlining show. Starting out as the house band for Molly Malone’s in Los Angeles and building a loyal following through endless touring, Flogging Molly has become a staple in the punk scene over the past 20 years, kicking off with their raucous debut album “Swagger” and continuing through additional studio releases, including the upcoming “Anthem.” Formed in 2011, The Interrupters came together when the Bivona brothers — guitarist Kevin Bivona, bassist Justin Bivona, drummer Jesse
Flogging Molly + The Interrupters — Friday at The Mann
Bivona — found themselves on various bills with Aimee Allen in 2009. Upon bonding over musical tastes, the four formed The Interrupters, with Allen taking on the name “Aimee Interrupter,” and delivered their selftitled debut in 2014.
Boys Noize — Friday at The Ave Live
Boys Noize, aka the German-Iraqi DJ and Grammy winner Alex Ridha, brings volume and diversity of under his moniker that has put him in high demand among artists seeking his patented sonic techniques and peerless production. Over the years, he’s worked with everyone from Frank Ocean and Lady Gaga to Depeche Mode and Rammstein. His latest LP, “‘+/-,” encapsulates a distillation of his career in waveform shape, where valleys of subterranean techno, industrial and house transition into peaks of star-driven collaborations with some of the brightest stars on the electronic music scene.
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Liily — Friday at Silk City
Liily are four Los Angeles musicians who, up until now, were mostly known for their manic and cacophonous live shows. Those performances, alongside a couple of early singles