Kevin Bronson on October 12th, 2010

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[Raising a glass today to birthday guy Bob Mould …]

Top 4 shows tonight if you’re not an Alice in Chains fan:

‣ L.A. quartet the 88 celebrates the release of its new, self-titled album at the Troubadour, and there’s plenty to celebrate on this one – Keith Slettedahl, Adam Merrin, Todd O’Keefe and Anthony Zimmitti have never been sharper. See our premiere of “They Ought to See You Know” from last month, and AOL also gave some well-deserved love to “Center of the Sun.”
‣ Eels, their final installment of its album trilogy “Tomorrow Morning” just out, headline the Music Box (and Jesca Hoop opens).
‣ Remy Zero plays Spaceland in the last in a series of reunion shows honoring their late drummer Gregory Slay (who died Jan. 1 from complications of cystic fibrosis). They have new music – download “Til the End” here – and Great Northern emerges from the studio to play a supporting set.
‣ And Travis frontman Fran Healy plays the Hotel Cafe in support of his solo album “Wreckorder.”

Not to mention: Alice in Chains, the Deftones and Mastodon at the Gibson Amphitheatre; the Blakes, the Sea of Cortez and Lord Huron at the Bootleg Theater; the album-release show for Big Search (the solo project of Matt Popieluch of Foreign Born) at the Echo Country Outpost; Jack Johnson at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre; Macy Gray at the Roxy; the Orb at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery; Jean-Yves Thibaudet at Disney Hall; the Script at the Wiltern; Punch Brothers and Chris Thile at the El Rey Theatre; Dave Koz at the Grammy Museum;  That Noise at the Viper Room; Silver City Dead and Olentangy John at the Silverlake Lounge; the Paper Melody at the Mint; and the Limousines at Cinespace.