Tonight in L.A.: Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven, Peter Hook & the Light, Fleet Foxes, the Joy Formidable, the Moondoggies, the Horrible Crowes

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First, if you were an album getting played tonight, which one would you be?

‣ In advance of the annual Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven cookout in Pioneertown this weekend, David Lowery brings both of his bands to the Satellite with a special agenda: Cracker will be performing its 1993 album “Kerosene Hat,” and Camper Van Beethoven will be performing 1989’s “Key Lime Pie.”
‣ Peter Hook & the Light visit the Music Box to take on the Joy Division album “Closer,” and Hook and his band will be joined for the performance by Moby (who, it says here, once played in a post-punk band called AWOL). El Ten Eleven opens.

And the rest of a wickedly busy Wednesday:

‣ Fleet Foxes and the Walkmen team up for a big night at the Greek Theatre.
‣Welsh rock trio the Joy Formidable play the El Rey behind their full-length “The Big Roar,” which kind of describes their live show. Telekinesis and local indie rockers Races open. That’s the video for the Joy Formidable’s “A Heavy Abacus,” above.
‣ Seattle sextet the Moondoggies, working on a follow-up to 2010’s very good “Tidelands,” visit the Echo, with the Romany Rye and Post War Quartet supporting.
‣ The Gaslight Anthem’s frontman Brian Fallon brings his side project the Horrible Crowes to the Troubadour. (Check out a stream of their album “Elsie” here.)
‣ And Patrick Wolf will be previewing material off his forthcoming album “Lupercalia” during the first of two nights at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Also:

The White Buffalo at the Bootleg Theater
The Wind and Francisco the Man at the Silverlake Lounge
Paul Kelly at the Hotel Cafe
Spirit Animal’s in-store at Origami Vinyl (7 p.m.)
A House for Lions and Big Harp at the Central SAPC
RTX at Freak City
Danko Jones and Fireball Ministry at the Roxy
Fay Wolf at Room 5
Free Moral Agents at Low End Theory at the Airliner
Sun City Revival, Full Blown Stone at the Viper Room
Nightmare & the Cat at Boardner’s
Pangea at the Smell
Il Albanico at Lot 1 Cafe
Backseat Bingo at the Down and Out