Kevin Bronson on April 7th, 2012

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A superb Saturday for all tastes:

‣ Nineties alt-rock innovators Swervedriver swing through L.A. for its first show since last summer, this one at the Key Club; Adam Franklin and crew have some new songs, including a made-for-a-movie track called “Good Times Are Hard to Follow,” sung in the movie by Robert Caryle (“Trainspotting”). Heaven, which includes Franklin’s bandmates from his other project Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody, opens, along with locals the Bixby Knolls.
‣ Rodrigo y Gabriela, with a new album “Area 52,” are touring with a backing band for the first time, and the rock-jazz-latin hybridrizers visit the Hollywood Palladium tongiht.
‣ And on the local tip, Dallas Don Burnet [see last week’s post on his solo debut “Cancel My Disappointment”] plays Taix in Echo Park.

Also:

Milo Greene and the Colourist at the Constellation Room in Santa Ana
Bowerbirds at the Troubadour
The Californian and College Kids at the Satellite
Derrick Brown and Caught a Ghost at the Bootleg Bar
Richard Buckner at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
Jesse Thomas and Davis Fetter at the Hotel Cafe
Julia Holter at Origami Vinyl (7 p.m.)
Wolfgang Gartner at the Observatory
Nadia Ali at the Avalon Hollywood
The Dream at the El Rey Theatre
Steven Wilson at the House of Blues
Life Down Here and the Drills at the Roxy
The Record Company at Bardot
Modern Time Machines at Casey’s downtown
Flybatsu at the Smell
Roman Candle Wars at the Redwood Bar
Feedtime and Jon Wayne at the Echo
Jerry Joseph & the Jackmorons and Azar Lawrence at the Mint
Anais Mitchell at the Edye Theatre in Santa Monica
The Record Company at Bardot
Jimpster at Los Globos

Photo of Swervedriver at the Echoplex, June 2011