Shows in Weho This Week: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Motion City Soundtrack and Mute Math

This week is by far the best time of the year to catch a live show in West Hollywood.

The Sunset Strip Music Festival is bringing a diverse set of acts to the boulevard Saturday. Participating acts—Motley Crue, The Veronicas, Nico Vega, , Bush, Public Enemy, Cobra Starship, to name a few—will be performing at , and

West Hollywood is chalk full of talented bands and live acts this week. Mute Math is doing a very intimate show at on Tuesday night and the Weepies are performing a special acoustic set on Wednesday. Catch Motion City Soundtrack performing back-to-back shows at the  Friday and Saturday.

Monday, August 15:

• Kicking Daisies, Jackson Guthy - Troubadour at 7 p.m.
• Little Dragon - Roxy Theatre at 8 p.m.
• Pilot Touhill, Me Vs. Myself, Automatique, Butcher Babies, 8mm - Viper Room at 8:15 p.m.
• ZZYZZX, Melllow Man Ace of Cypress Hill, Delicious Vinyl Records - Whisky A Go-Go at 9 p.m.
• Water & Power, Cameron Dye & the Match Finger Band, Charles - Genghis Cohen at 9 p.m.
• Reggie Watts - Largo at 9 p.m.
• Steel Panther w/ Octane Mob and Lightnin Woodcock - House of Blues at 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday, August 16:

• The Roxy's Locals Mixtape: The Green Children, The Bolts, Kyle Nicolaides, Los Einstein, End of Ever, Chloe Pappas, London Shover, Winter, Sleeper - Roxy Theatre at 7 p.m.
• Mute Math - Troubadour at 8 p.m.
• Verily, The Broken, The Cold Chills, 7 Lions, Harsh White Light, Marcus Singletary - Viper room at 8 p.m.
• Robot Room, Monument Field, The Heavy Feathers, Gel, The Kyms - Whisky A Go-Go at 8 p.m.
• Scattered Hamlet, Run Devil Run, Gunpowder Secrets, Goldsboro, The Mulhollands - Key Club at 8:30 p.m.
• Tom Hadley of Spandau Ballet - House of Blues at 8:30 p.m.
• Reggie Watts - Largo at 9 p.m.

Wednesday, August 17:

• Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Adestria - Key Club at 5:50 p.m.
• The Roxy's Locals Mixtape: The Shrills, Benvenue, Blessed Le Strange, Lido Beach, Awaken The Empire, Picture Me Broken, Open Air Stereo - Roxy Theatre at 7 p.m.
• In Fear and Faith, VAnna, A Loss for Words, Ten After Two, 
• Crowd Theory, Cassidy Haley & The Sunshine Rebels, Foul PLay, Regal, Greenhorse, No Kind of Rider - Viper Room at 8 p.m.
• Eric Schackne, Danielle DeCosmo, Barrett - Genghis Cohen at 8 p.m.
• An Acoustic Evening w/ The Weepies - Troubadour at 8 p.m.
• KCRW Presents Cut Chemist w/ Mr. Lif - House of Blues at 9 p.m.
• Demetri Martin & Friends - Largo at 9 p.m.
• White City Graves, Brown's Bad Week, Vette, Gnimm - Whisky A Go-Go at 9 p.m.

Thursday, August 18:

• NY77, Lady Heat, Rainbow Jackson, Sorry Nelson - On The Rox at 8 p.m.
• 98.7 Close to Home: Nico Vega, Eastern Conference Champions, State Line Empire, Goldenspell, Incan Abraham - Roxy Theatre at 8 p.m.
• Gilli Moon, John Clinebell, Neara Russell, Ariana Hall, Elliott Samuel - Genghis Cohen at 8 p.m.
• The Veronicas, Nude, The Tender Box, Run Run Run, The Canyons, Acoustic Lounge: Courtney & Natalie, Ashley Alexander, The Burlington Family, Robbie Davis - Viper Room at 8 p.m.
• Dave Alvin & The Guilty ones, Los Straitjackets - Troubadour at 8 p.m.
• Uriah Heap, Neon Max, Souljoiners, OhSoWild - Key Club at 8:30 p.m.
• The Faceless, Rusty Eye, Burning At The Stake, Ampora - Whisky A Go-Go at 9 p.m.
• Sarah Silverman and Friends - Largo at 9 p.m.

Friday, August 19:

• Sunset Strip Music Festival: Ray Manzarek & Robby Krieger of The Doors - Whisky A Go-Go at 7 p.m.
• The Randy Rogers Band, Reckless Kelly, Micky & The Motorcars - Troubadour at 7:30 p.m.
• SSMF at On The Rox - True Press, David Haack, Kevin Martin, The Local Weather - On The Rox at 8 p.m.
• Buckcherry - Roxy Theatre at 8 p.m.
• Dredg, City of Blue, Cromwell, Crowd Theory - Key Club at 8 p.m.
• Todd Lincoln Richards, Tracy Newman, Rose Finklestein - Genghis Cohen at 8 p.m.
• LG Ones to Watch Presents: Motion City Soundtrack - House of Blues at 8 p.m.
• Sunset Strip Music Festival DrumJ Eli James, Hillbilly Herald, Purple Melon, Lady Sinatra, Taylor Locke & The Roughs - Viper Room at 8:30 p.m.
• Is Anyone Up? w/ DJ Hunter Moore - Key Club at 9 p.m. (Free)
• The Watkins Family Hour - Largo at 9 p.m.

Saturday, August 20:

• Metalachi - On The Rox at 11:59 p.m.
• SSMF at The Roxy: Warner Drive, The Limousines, Imagine Dragons, Jordan Cook, Kill The Complex, Sabrosa Purr, Queen Caveat, Let Live, CHAPPO, The Expanders, Rye Rye, Semi Precious Weapons, Empire - Roxy Theatre at 1 p.m.
• SSMF Key Club Stage: Voxhaul Broadcast, Pigeon John, Deluka, Epilogues, Vampires Everywhere!, Youngblood Hawke, Indians, Kozmonaut, LOve and a .38, Son Locuaz - Key Club at 1 p.m.

• Comedy on the Rocks, Chris Valenti, Freddie Moore and Dennis Peters, Honey Bunch - Genghis Cohen at 7 p.m.
• Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Revoltaire, Maxim Ludwig & the Santa Fe Seven - Troubadour at 7:30 p.m.
• LG Ones to Watch Presents: Motion City Soundtrack - House of Blues at 8 p.m.
• The Paul F. Tompkins Show - Largo at 8:30 p.m.
• SSMF After Party: Felix Cartal, Harvard Bass, Them Jeans, Bones- Key Club at 10 p.m. (Free w/ festival ticket)
• Mickey Avalon, DMC (of Run DMC), Deathface - Viper Room at 10 p.m.

Sunday, August 21:

• God is An Astronaut - Troubadour at 7 p.m.
• Trip to The Morgue, Star Destroyer, Scorned, Maxxxwell Carlisle, Poor Man's Poison - Whisky A Go-Go at 7:30 p.m.
• Blacklist Union Residency, Firesky CD Release Party, Petals - Viper Room at 8 p.m.
• Ryli - House of Blues at 9 p.m.

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