Tonight in L.A.

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[Thirty years ago, Chic’s “Le Freak” started a six-week run at No. 1, but who knew Slash was a fan?]

morello-07Just because Nov. 4 has come and gone doesn’t mean that Tom Morello’s protest music is somehow passé. Appearing as the Nightwatchman, Morello [pictured at the Hotel Cafe in 2007] is joined by the Coup’s Boots Riley for a show tonight at the El Rey Theatre. … Heavy Water Experiments (ex-Imogene) rock the Knitting Factory. … Robotanists celebrate their EP release [see next post] at Spaceland. … Electro-spacerockers Little Red Radio head up the lineup at Indie 103.1’s Check One Twosdays at the Echoplex, while, upstairs at the Echo, Baltimore art-rockers Wilderness play on a bill that includes up-and-coming locals Moonrats. … Low Vs Diamond and the Shys team up to bring the rock at the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa. … And I have to think I’ll like the new music as much or more than I liked what I heard back in their short-lived Atlantic Records days: Deccatree plays at the Silverlake Lounge.