Alabama Shakes at Hollywood Palladium

Alabama Shakes’ first album, “Boys & Girls,” is an electric jolt that anyone who loves blues-based rock music should track down immediately. Consisting of three men and one young explosion named Brittany Howard on vocals and guitar, the group, which formed in northern Alabama in 2009, offers stripped-down truth, minus any affectation, histrionics or irony. Rather, the Shakes make rock ‘n’ soul music as if the last 40 years of popular sounds had never happened. Songs, instead, suggest that sweet period from 1966 to 1974, when electric blues and rock music were intermingling. Hollywood Palladium, 6215 W Sunset Blvd., L.A. 7 p.m. Thu. $35. livenation.com.