Kevin Bronson on October 7th, 2009

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[My reference material tells me Simon Cowell turns the big Five-Oh today. I know that name from somewhere. … Here’s what’s happening somewhere else:]

Fever Ray, the solo incarnation of singer Karin Dreijer Andersson of critical darlings the Knife, plays to a sold-out Fonda tonight behind its wonderfully eerie self-titled album [Above, the video for the new single, “Seven”]. Opening is L.A.’s experimental electro maestro Nosaj Thing. … Jack Penate and Miike Snow [review of Sunday’s show] play Club NME at Spaceland. … No-wavers
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks headline the El Rey Theatre, supported by Mika Miko, the Urinals and the Lamps. … It’s another sold-out night for Pearl Jam and Ben Harper and the Relentless7 at the Gibson Amphitheatre. … And it’s the second of Ingrid Michaelson’s sold-out stint at the Troubadour. … Also: Kissing Cousins at the Silverlake Lounge; the Wardens at 7 p.m. at Space 15 Twenty; the Queers at the Knitting Factory; Totimoshi at the Echo; the Indigo Planet Records release party for its Invisible Children benefit album at the Viper Room; Deer Tick at the Detroit; and the Chapin Sisters and Catherine Feeny at the Hotel Cafe.