Fitz and the Tantrums: With their second album, More Than Just a Dream, dropping earlier this month before they appeared at KROQ’s Weenie Roast (above), it was only a matter of time before these L.A. rock ’n’ soul favorites added a proper hometown show: July 27 at the Wiltern, with the Colourist opening. Tickets, $25-$27.50, go on sale Friday, May 31, at 10 a.m.
Also at that venue and also on sale at that time: Animal Collective, Baltimore’s acclaimed experimental outfit, still touring behind last year’s Centipede Hz, returns Oct. 21, with Dan Deacon opening, $25.
Plus, New Zealand ensemble the Naked and Famous, who are wrapping work in L.A. on their second effort, arrive at the art deco theater on Sept. 27, $30, after launching a 19-date North American run at House of Blues San Diego on Sept. 25, $25. (They come back Oct. 26 to play the Fox Theater in Pomona, $25-$35.)
Brian Wilson with Al Jardine and David Marks: Well, they can’t very well call themselves the Beach Boys, can they? Not while Mike Love’s got legal control of the name, anyway. So, as previously reported, the parts of the legendary California group who aren’t named Love or Bruce Johnston are touring on their own, with a Greek Theatre show slated for Oct. 20, $35-$75, on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.
Two Door Cinema Club: The Northern Irish act, increasingly popular stateside (they drew pretty huge at both Coachellas last month), return for a spotlight at the Greek on Nov. 2, with opening sets from Capital Cities and St. Lucia, $35-$45, on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. Those in South O.C. might want to catch nearly the same lineup, with Peace substituting for Capital Cities, when it plays Halloween night at Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay in San Diego, $33, on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
Also at the Greek: The Regeneration Tour 2013 will bring together Erasure’s Andy Bell, Howard Jones, Information Society and Men Without Hats on Aug. 30, $34.75-$69.75, on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.
HIM & Volbeat: With so many heavier rock bands taking part in Sacramento’s Aftershock Festival in mid-September, it’s only logical several of them will add dates closer to us. Here’s the first: the Finnish goth-metal favorite and their Scandinavian neighbors from Denmark will headline the Hollywood Palladium the day after that weekend event ends, Sept. 16. All That Remains and Airbourne open. Tickets, $42.50, are on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
First City Festival: Speaking of NorCal events that might be worth a cheap flight or daylong drive, Monterey will host its first Coachella-esque gathering Aug. 24-25 at the city’s County Fair and Event Center, with Modest Mouse, Passion Pit, MGMT, Neko Case and Beach House topping the bill.
Much of the rest of the lineup is a who’s who of indie stars, many of whom are appearing at L.A.’s FYF Fest that same weekend: Toro y Moi, Devendra Banhart, Washed Out, Okkervil River, Deerhunter, Purity Ring, Dr. Dog, the Hold Steady, Delta Spirit, Father John Misty, plus more than a dozen more. Tickets, $149.50 for two-day passes, are on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
The Black Angels: Before they too head to the First City Festival, these Austin psych-rockers, touring behind new album Indigo Meadow, will warm-up at the Observatory in Santa Ana, $20. Lucero does the same thing on Aug. 24, $18. Both gigs go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
And in the venue’s smaller Constellation Room: Tallhart with From Indian Lakes, Aug. 1, $10; Owen with Laura Stevenson, Aug. 2, $13; and Lightning Dust, Aug. 7, 10.
Blink-182: Think we might see an O.C. or L.A. gig from the punk-pop trio in late summer or early fall? Sure makes sense now that they’ve been announced as headliner of KJEE’s Summer Round Up at Santa Barbara Bowl on Sept. 18. (They're also booked, along with Thirty Seconds to Mars and 11 more bands, for 91X's X-Fest at Sleep Train Amphitheatre in Chula Vista on Sept. 20, $19.50-$49.50.) Atlas Genius and New Politics open at the Bowl, $35-$55, on sale Friday at 4 p.m.
DJ Quik & Suga Free: Another night from the rappers, this time at the Fox Theater in Pomona on July 20, $35-$45, on sale Friday at 10 a.m.
Pepe Aguilar: The Texan ranchera star has yet another performance at the doomed Gibson Amphitheatre before it closes, Sept. 5, $54.75-$194.75, on sale Friday at 1.