The Monday Show Low Down (Or "To Crush Your Enemies, To See Them Driven Before You, To Hear The Lamentations of Their Women...")

We're only a few weeks away from the start of the holiday season, which is good for food, but bad for music because it's when the great shows begin to dry up like something that was once wet going very dry...

But take a look at this week's calendar and you'll see it's not happening quite yet: There's at least something worth catching every night of the week (and most of them cheap or for free).

Monday, November 10
- The Western States Motel, Marching Band (From Sweden), The Boxing Lesson @ Spaceland
- King Kahn & the BBQ Show, The Dutchess & The Duke, Flash Express @ The Echo
- Vic Chestnut, Elf Power @ Echoplex
- Resident Hero @ The Troubadour
- The Dharma Bums, My Velcroe, The Big Booty Party, & The Picket Rockets @ Mr T’s Bowl
- Resident Hero @ The Troubadour
- Sean Carnage Presents The Monolators, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Billygoat, 60watt kid, & Health club @ Pehrspace
- CHRIS WABICH + ADAM MATTA + AMRITA @ Echo Curio
- Eagle Rock Bowling & Drinking Club Presents VC benefit show feat. At Demonhead, The Miles Approach, Danger Bees @ All-Star Lanes
- His Orchestra, Grace Woodroofe, Gods Gang, An Horse, & Alaskan Summer @ The Silver Lake Lounge (FREE)

DECISION:
Tonight's a great night to see The Monolators and Manhattan Murder Mystery play together over at the small and BYOB fabulous Pehrspace.

Tuesday, November 11
- Aquarium Drunkard presents: Bishop Allen, An Horse, Electric Owls, One AM Radio @ The Echo
- Travis @ The Troubadour
- The Dizzys, New London, Criminal Belly, Bizzart, & Madhappy @ Mr T's Bowl
- Copeland @ The El Rey
- Travis @ The Troubadour
- Rickie Lee Jones @ Largo
- Rami Dearest, Talk To Angels, Two Guns @ Spaceland
- Pit er Pat, Lucky Dragons, Hecuba, & PALMS @ The Smell
- Kaiser Chiefs @ The Henry Fonda Music Box
- Grampall Jookabox, Death to Fresh, Kid Moxie, Brandon Mayer and The Hidden Powers, & Chris Robley @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Indie 103 & Echo present: Earlimart, Afternoons, Red Cortez, Dazzler @ Echoplex

DECISION:
If Earlimart, Afternoons, or Red Cortez (formerly Weather Underground) were playing separately, it'd be worth going to see them play. Altogether? Well, yeah, much more so...

Wednesday, November 12
- The (International) Noise Conspiracy & Night Horse @ El Cid
- Love Grenades & Little Red Radio @ Bordello
- Decompress, The Health Club, Vital Transformation, BoxViolet, & Cobra Lilies @ Mr T's Bowl
- MADHAPPY + SWORD OF FATIMA + UNPOPPABLE + guests @ Echo Curio
- The Atma, Ivy Walls, & Depreciation Guild @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Adam Stephens, Frank Fairfield, & Evan Way @ Tangier
- Dungen, Women, Life On Earth @ The Echo
- Dub Club @ Echoplex
- Crooked Fingers @ The Troubadour
- Indie 103 presents CLUB NME with: The Entrance Band, The Growlers @ Spaceland
- Stab City @ Redwood Bar
- Jonatha Brooke w/ Glen Phillips @ Largo
- LOW END THEORY - BLANK BLUE + SPECIAL GUESTS @ The Airliner
- RESTAVRANT + Line and Circle @ Three of Clubs

DECISION:
Ever caught The Monolators' other band The Cobra Lilies? They're out at Mr T's Bowl on Wednesday night.

Thursday, November 13
- Death to Anders, Thailand, Low Redland, & The Frontier Brothers @ The Silver Lake Lounge
- Look Daggers @ Amoeba Music (7PM)
- The Younger Lovers, Crocodiles, The Caldonias, PROTECTME, & Meho Plaza @ The Smell
- Robyn Hitchcock @ Largo
- Ludo @ The Troubadour
- Filter presents: West Indian Girl, Mere Mortals, Klum, Mondo Domingo @ Spaceland
- Legendary Pink Dots @ The Knitting Factory
- Nora Keyes @ The Knitting Factory - Alter Knit
- Olin and The Moon & Good Ole War @ USC
- Tommy Santee Klaws, The Preachers Son, ARTICHOKE, Marvelous Toy @ Hyperion Tavern
- Jseca Hoop @ The Hotel Cafe
- SPIN Magazine and Citi present GYM CLASS HEROES w/ One Block Radius @ The Key Club
- John Doe & Kathleen Edwards @ The El Rey
- Alanis Morissette @ The Orpheum
- And You Will Know Us By the Trail Of Dead & Useless Keys @ The Echo
- Downtown Art Walk w/ The Monthlies w/ Olin & The Moon, Ragsy @ Junglerush Gallery

DECISION:
Artichoke and Marvelous Toy at the tiny cash-only no-sign-out-front Hyperion Tavern could be a lot of fun. (Also like Death to Anders and Thailand at The Silver Lake Lounge.)

Friday, November 14
- Club Underground & Echo presents: The Little Ones, What Made Milwaukee Famous @ The Echo
- Deerhoof, Experimental Dental School, Kit @ Echoplex
- The Sundowners @ Mr T's Bowl
- Vienna Noise Choir, The Skeletons, & Nite Jewel @ The Smell
- Fauna Valetta, The Tijuana Panthers, Spider Problem @ Redwood Bar
- Mudhoney @ The El Rey
- Alanis Morissette @ The Orpheum
- Jon Brion @ Largo
- Tyrone Wells @ The Troubadour
- Dead Confederate, Apollo Sunshine @ Spaceland
- (((eagle winged palace))), Billygoat, & John Thill @ Pehrspace
- RATS + ERASER #4 + RAFE MANDEL + DONUT @ Echo Curio
- Indie 103.1 presents Uh Huh Her @ The Avalon

DECISION:
You know, The Little Ones perform here so infrequently, it's almost like they're a touring band when they play in LA... But whatever, getting to see them with What Made Milwaukee Famous should be great.

Also, Eagle Winged Palace are celebrating a vinyl EP release over at Pehrspace (and I'm DJing between sets).

Saturday, November 15
- On The Rox with First From The Sea & Olin and The Moon @ The Roxy
- Anglos, TGB, Oh Yeah The Future, & Hail Citizen @ The Cocaine at Live Jazz
- Hang The DJs & Echo Present: Adult., Pop Noir @ The Echo
- Gang Gang Dance & Marnie Stern @ The El Rey
- Hollywood Trash, Rondo Brothers, Le Surge, Delaney Gibson, & All Destroyed Momentarily @ Mr T's Bowl
- Melissa Ferrick w/ Andrew Ripp @ Largo
- Danielson @ The Troubadour
- Torche, Black Cobra, Clouds @ Spaceland
- Minibosses, Totally Radd!!, Sweetbleeders, & Land Before Time @ The Smell
- Dorian Wood, Marc Manning, Red Maids, & Mooey Moobau @ Pehrspace
- WOODS + SUN ARAW + ROBEDOOR + WAVVES @ Echo Curio
- Santa Ana Music & Arts Festival w/ Busdriver, Free Moral Agents, The Entrance Band, Venus Infers, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, & more @ Santa Ana

DECISION:
I keep hearing good things about Olin & The Moon... The show at The Smell w/ video game theme song playing Minibosses equals geeky fun.

Sunday, November 16
- Tigers Can Bite You & The Savages @ The Knitting Factory
- Kiosk Live @ The El Rey
- A Cursive Memory @ The Troubadour
- Minus the Bear @ The Henry Fonda Music Box
- Charlie Wadhams & Opa Cupa @ Tangier
- sBACH + VICIOUS GUNS + AUNT DRACULA @ Echo Curio
- A Cursive Memory @ The Troubadour
- Part Time Punks Fest w/ Pylon, Medium Medium, Love Is All, plus more... @ The Echo
- Mark Farina @ Amoeba Music

DECISION:
Tigers Can Bite You and The Savages at The Knitting Factory equals good.

That's it. Did I miss anything? Please lemme know.