This weekend in L.A.

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[This should be some Sweet Sixteen party — Miley Cyrus celebrates a birthday on Sunday. And she seems like such a veteran already.]

Tonight: I love the flip cards in the following video for “Squeeze Me” — and if you want to start your weekend off with a party, it doesn’t get much more fun hot Dutch dance act Kraak & Smaak, who are at the Music Box @ Fonda tonight with San Francisco’s Mike Relm.

Also tonight: Anya Marina [pictured] is something of a stylistic changeling — just enough, with her flair for sharp observations and sharper couplets, to make her forthcoming album, “Slow & Steady Seduction, Phase II,” remain interesting start to finish. She’ll play a show leading up to the record’s Dec. 9 release tonight at the Hotel Cafe. … Ex-pro surfer Timmy Curran rocks the Troubadour, while Lucinda Williams will be making waves of a different kind at the Wiltern. … At the Echo, it’s Light in the Attic’s recent discovery, Rodriguez; the label recently released his album almost 40 years after it originally surfaced. One of the openers is the San Francisco outfit Sleepy Sun, who Buzz Band scouts lauded after a show last night at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach. … And there are some excellent local offerings — the Human Value and the Black Kites are on the bill at Spaceland, and the Moving Picture Show play Tangier.

Saturday: Of Montreal brings its often-calamitous live act to the Palladium, while Sweden’s Little Dragon hits the Roxy with a barrel full of loungey electro music. … O’Death’s punky, almost-anything-goes mountain music should be an earful at Spaceland, with locals Le Switch and Death to Anders onboard. … Down in O.C., young Long Beach punkers Run Doris Run celebrate the release of their album “Vultures” at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, while Venus Infers and Billy Boy on Poison play the Slidebar in Fullerton. … Then again, if you have broad tastes and a Dutch dance music hangover, Rhett Miller (at Largo) could be just the thing.

Sunday: Yeasayer, whose album is likely to get some love on the indie-hippest best-of-’08 lists, holds forth at the Troubadour. … At Spaceland it’ll be old-school Silver Lake, with ’90s stalwarts Ferdinand (who have an album of unreleased songs and rarities coming out) recovening with Double Naught Spy Car and Bollweevil. … And The Gray Kid will rock the Dakota Lounge (ex-Temple Bar) in Santa Monica. Happy weekend.

Anya Marina photo by Autumn de Wilde