Sounds Around Town 

Irvine’s indie-rock sensation Young the Giant plays the Santa Barbara Bowl, with Milky Chance and Rosa Linn as opening acts for the 6 pm concert on August 18, the last before a three-week hiatus at the amphitheater. That same night also brings a SOhO date with the Long Beach Dub Allstars, who formed from the remnants of Sublime after the death of frontman Brad Nowell in 1996 as a one-off to support the late singer-songwriter’s family, but are still around after 25 years, albeit with a decade-long hiatus. The Allstars put out a new album, Echo Mountain High, in April…. Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre closes out its youth education summer season with a Kids for Kids Benefit Concert called “What the World Needs Now” on August 19 focusing on compositions by Burt Bacharach (“That’s What Friends are For,” “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” “Close to You,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” “The Look of Love,” “Walk on By”) performed, directed, and choreographed by current RTC students, joined by Rubicon alumni and special guests… If you got shut out of tickets to see the David Crosby tribute show “Stand and Be Counted” at the Lobero on August 20, you can hear music spanning the same era in Ojai instead as the great ‘60s-’70s folk singer Judy Collins, who at age 84 is still going strong in both social activism and delivering clear-voiced interpretations, plays the Libbey Bowl with Sophie B. Hawkins, a fellow musician/activist who scored several hits in the 1990s, opening.