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BUY TICKETS: Placebo w/ Cold Cave at the Greek Theatre (7:30pm)

We have a stacked Thursday, Scenestar readers. There are a ton of concert options all around town, including our Show of the Night selection: Placebo! You can see Placebo live when the iconic alternative rock act headlines their first L.A. show in nine years at the Greek Theatre on tonight with opener Cold Cave. The show is in support of their latest release, Never Let Me Go.

If you can't get into our Show of the Night, your other music options include performances by Alice Bag, Ricardo Arjona, Tippy Balady, The Black Dahlia Murder, Bonny Doon, Avalon Emerson, Fruit Bats, Stavros Halkias, The Hives, Incubus, Durand Jones, Kerala Dust, Lacuna Coil, Mad Caddies, Melvins, The Milk Carton Kids, Mr. Bungle, Brooks Nielsen (of The Growlers), Panchiko, Rival Schools, Craig Robinson, Skating Polly, Suga (of BTS), Tolliver, Violent Femmes, and many more.

Click here for ticket links and info on today's shows and upcoming local shows on our concert calendar. For any further updates, be sure to also follow us on Twitter for any last-minute news and set times (posted daily in the comments section) if available for select shows!

THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2023

Placebo w/ Cold Cave at the Greek Theatre (7:30pm)

Suga (of BTS) at the Kia Forum (8:00pm)

Mr. Bungle w/ Melvins & Spotlights at the Hollywood Palladium (7:00pm)

Lizzy McAlpine w/ Olivia Barton at the Wiltern (8:00pm)

Fruit Bats w/ Credit Electric at the Theatre at Ace Hotel (8:00pm)

Durand Jones w/ Mora Michelle at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (9:00pm)

Kerala Dust w/ Al Lover at the Lodge Room (8:30pm)

Rival Schools w/ Soft Blue Shimmer & Jinx at the Teragram Ballroom (8:00pm)

The Black Dahlia Murder w/ Terror, Frozen Soul, Fuming Mouth, & Phobophilic at the Belasco (7:00pm)

Brooks Nielsen (of The Growlers) at the Troubadour (8:00pm)

The Milk Carton Kids at Genghis Cohen (FREE w/ RSVP – 7:00pm)

Avalon Emerson w/ The Charm at El Cid (7:30pm)

Panchiko w/ Horse Jumper of Love & LSD and the Search for God at The Vermont Hollywood (8:00pm)

Bonny Doon w/ Sam Burton at Gold-Diggers (8:00pm)

Skating Polly w/ Lord Friday the 13th at the Moroccan Lounge (7:30pm)

Tolliver w/ Boy Bloom, Rhys Langston, & Telah! at the Goldfish (8:00pm)

We Found New Music (WFNM) w/ Tippy Balady, Nieri, Verskotzi, Sian Michelle, & Mistress & The Martyr at Bar Lubitsch (FREE w/ RSVP – 7:00pm)

All GRL Show: Mental Health w/ DJ Cristy Lawrence, SHEblime, SiksSiksSicks, Leah Martin-Brown, S8nt Elektric, & Frankie & the Studs at The Echo (FREE w/ RSVP – 7:30pm)

Beethoven and Strauss w/ Eva Ollikainen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic & Pierre-Laurent Aimard at Walt Disney Concert Hall (8:00pm)

Sondra “Blinky” Williams at Catalina Bar & Grill (8:30pm)

Val McCallum at the Baked Potato (8:00pm & 10:00pm)

70's Throwback Birthday Celebration w/ Brenna Whitaker at Herb Alpert's Vibrato Grill & Jazz (6:00pm)

Cabizbajo w/ Jonnie King & Vilena at Madame Siam (9:00pm)

Manics w/ Maramar, Clavette, Mimimize, & Ruth at Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (9:00pm)

Chambord w/ Ray Kash at Members (7:00pm)

Made to Move w/ Josh Peace, Venganza, Akumen, & Andy Oro at General Lee's Cocktail House (FREE – 9:00pm)

Spiñorita w/ Mamabear at The Aster (FREE – 7:00pm)

Afterhours Dark Techno at Malfunction (11:59pm)

Stavros Halkias at the Regent Theater (8:00pm)

Stavros Halkias at the Regent Theater (10:00pm)

An Evening w/ Lisa O'Neill at Largo at the Coronet (8:00pm)

Iliza Shlesinger w/ Craig Robinson, Ron Funches, Brian Monarch, & Mateen Stewart at Hollywood Improv – The Main Room (8:00pm)

Mike Falzone & His Friends Try Stuff w/ Miranda Meadows, Papp Johnson, Willie Simon, Brent Pella, & J.F. Harris at Hollywood Improv – The Lab (7:30pm)

Bizzy w/ Jules Paymer at the Hotel Cafe – Second Stage (6:45pm)

Joey Green at the Hotel Cafe – Second Stage (8:00pm)

Brett Landin at the Hotel Cafe – Second Stage (9:00pm)

Superheaven w/ Cloakroom & Slumped at 1720 (7:00pm)

West of Lincoln: The Neighborhood Queer Bar at the Venice West (7:00pm)

Meernaa w/ Alice Sandahl (of La Luz) & Tino Drima at Zebulon (7:30pm)

Talker w/ Cosmo Gold & Cate Kennan at the Silverlake Lounge (8:30pm)

Blaque Dynamite w/ The Sound Scientists at The Mint (9:15pm)

Thelma and the Sleaze w/ Stuntdriver & Simone Rose at Resident DTLA (8:00pm)

La Papaya Club w/ Quilo, DJ Eléanora, & Robaflor at the Love Song (FREE w/ RSVP – 9:00pm)

Music Trivia at Permanent Records Roadhouse (6:00pm)

Austin Weber at Permanent Records Roadhouse (8:00pm)

Little Miss Nasty w/ Gina And The Eastern Block, & Raven Black at the Viper Room (8:00pm)

Gitai w/ Deep Fryd at Redwood Bar & Grill (8:00pm)

Arden Jones w/ Austin George & Buppy. (DJ Sets) at Winston House (7:00pm)

JackiO w/ Lawndale at Harvelle’s Santa Monica (9:00pm)

Breaking Sound LA w/ Sheldoncole, Ma'at, Ivy Walsh, & AML at Ella Beverly Hills (7:00pm)

Breaking Sound LA w/ Bittersweethearts, Audrey Brazelle, Micah Preite, & Your Friend Juniper at Harvard & Stone (7:00pm)

Steffani Jemison: ‘A Rock, A River, A Street’ (Screening) at 2220 Arts + Archives (8:00pm)

44 – The Unofficial, Unsanctioned, Obama Musical at the Bourbon Room (7:00pm)

The Hives at the Glass House (9:00pm)

Neil Hamburger w/ Major Entertainer at the Sardine (8:00pm)

Alice Bag w/ The Groans, Cosmic Kitten, & DJ Dia at Alex’s Bar (8:00pm)

Dark Funeral w/ Cattle Decapitation, 200 Stab Wounds, & Blackbraid at the Observatory (7:00pm)

Fenne Lily w/ Christian Lee Hutson at the Constellation Room (8:00pm)

Telltale w/ Sundressed, Diva Bleach, Cultivate, Mason Zero, & Dillon Divoid at Chain Reaction (7:00pm)

Gershwin's Rhapsody at Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall (8:00pm)

Mr. Capone-E at the Garden Amphitheatre (8:00pm)

Jameson Burt w/ The Moon Jays & Steve Carson at the Wayfarer (7:45pm)

Throwback Thursday w/ Last Call at the Canyon Club – Agoura Hills (8:00pm)

Ricardo Arjona at Toyota Arena (8:00pm)

Violent Femmes (performing ‘Violent Femmes’) w/ Jesse Ahern at Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace (7:30pm)

Incubus at Yaamava' Theater (8:00pm)

Copper Blues Oxnard Latin Night w/ DJ I-Rock at Copper Blues Oxnard Restaurant (9:00pm)

Lacuna Coil w/ The Birthday Massacre, Blind Channel, & Edge of Paradise at the Majestic Ventura Theater (7:00pm)

Mad Caddies w/ The Happys at Ventura Music Hall (8:00pm)

The Dales at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club (8:00pm)

Get Out of Town at the Lobero Theatre (7:00pm)

SB Surf Co x College Night Launch Party at EOS Lounge (FREE w/ RSVP – 9:00pm)

CANCELLED/POSTPONED/RESCHEDULED

Rose Tattoo at the Whisky A Go Go (CANCELLED)

De'Wayne w/ tiLLie & Marlo the Barbarian at the Parish at House of Blues Anaheim (CANCELLED)

For a list of upcoming shows with links in and around Los Angeles, please visit our online concert calendar here.