Kevin Bronson on August 6th, 2009

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[Elliott Smith would have been 40 years old today. I think I will spend a meditative hour with “XO” this afternoon …]

John Doe and the Sadies bring their collaboration to the Echoplex tonight behind “Country Club,” a new album of country covers (plus three Sadies’ compositions and one by Doe and Exene Cervenka). Jill Sobule supports. … Spindrift [pictured], whose latest slab of hallucinatory spaghetti Western rock, “The Legend of God’s Gun” just came out on Tee Pee Records, headline Spaceland, with the always exellent Magic Mirror among the openers. … Newly signed to Domino Records, Santa Monica’s Chief plays 3 Clubs, joined by Princeton and Cheetahsauras. … Greg Laswell, behind his new “Covers” EP, and Brooklyn trio Elizabeth & the Catapult, behind their new album “Taller Children,” team up at the sold-out Troubadour. … Boston trio Vivian Darkbloom hits town for a show at the Silverlake Lounge with the Hard to Get. … Also: Billy Harvey at Largo; the Monthlies as part of International Pop Overthrow at the Knitting Factory; Bullets and Octane at the Roxy; the Absolute at the Viper Room; Quintron & Miss Pussycat at the Echo; and Robotanists at downtown’s Silver Factory Studios.

||| Downloads: Spindrift’s “The Legend of God’s Gun” and Elizabeth & the Catapult’s “Taller Children” and Vivian Darkbloom’s “Cold War”