[Birthday greetings today for nice-guy troubadour Jason Mraz. Here’s a snapshot of tonight’s offerings:]
After what seems like an interminable wait, Foreign Born’s sophomore album “Person to Person” is out today on Secretly Canadian. The L.A. quartet is eschewing a club show to celebrate the release, instead opting to play a 6 p.m. in-store at Vacation Vinyl. … Sunset Rubdown, the side project of Spencer Krug from Wolf Parade, also has a new album out today on Jagjaguwar – it’s called “Dragonslayer’ [Download: “Idiot Heart”] – and the band headlines the Echoplex. … And call me cranky, but Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar are sister labels, and the music of Foreign Born and Sunset Rubdown would work well together in tandem, and they’re playing across town from one another? Silly. … The other big deals in town are, of course, Wilco’s second night at the Wiltern (sold out), Dinosaur Jr.’s second night at the Troubadour (Henry Rollins was among the faithful at the first night) and the Veronicas at the Music Box @ Fonda (sold out). … At Space 15 Twenty on Cahuenga, there’s a free 7 p.m. party featuring live performances by Sean Bones and Local Natives. … At the Silverlake Lounge, it’s Denver’s Nathaniel Rateliff and the Wheel (ex-Born in the Flood). … Australia’s the Boat People are in town for three shows; the first is tonight at cozy On the Rox, with Brooklyn’s the Picture and L.A.’s own the Parson Red Heads. … Also: Occidental Brothers at the Echo; George Ellias at Spaceland; LMFAO at the House of Blues; New Planets at Bordello; and Paul McCartney sideman Rusty Anderson at the Hotel Cafe.
Obligatory self-promotional footnote: Futuresounds’ Larry Little, aka LLDope, and I will be tag-teaming DJ duties tonight at Space 15 Twenty, where the main events will be performances by Sean Bones and Local Natives, as well as projections from the movie “Wah Do Dem,” which features the likes of Bones, Norah Jones, Yeasayer, Suckers and MGMT.
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