Tonight in L.A.: The Pixies, Broadcast, Butch Walker

Kevin Bronson on November 4th, 2009

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[Birthday cheers go out to Cedric Bixler-Zavala today as we take a look at a busy midweek show lineup …]

The album-as-concert concept gets realized at two L.A. venues tonight – the Pixies start a three-night run at the Palladium with their 20-year-old masterwork “Doolittle” on the menu (L.A. duo No Age opens), and Frank Black talks about the reunion here. And Devo does a second night at the Fonda Theatre, this one to perform its 1980 album “Freedom of Choice.” … The co-headlining tour featuring England’s Broadcast and Atlanta’s Atlas Sound (the brainchild of Bradford Cox) hits the Troubadour. The visitors from the U.K. get the nod as headliners tonight, and it’s sold out. … Brooklyn singer-songwriter Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, whose new album “Summer of Fear” is just out on Saddle Creek, plays Spaceland, with These United States opening. … Butch Walker [pictured] is doing a Wednesday residency at the Hotel Cafe (The Chapin Sisters play there earlier in the evening). … L.A. songstress Mia Doi Todd has a new batch of material, and she’ll play some of those songs tonight at the Bootleg Theater, where the Good Listeners also play. … Good roster of local rockers at the Echo, with Low Vs Diamond, Melee and Voxhaul Broadcast up. … And Long Beach’s Shotgun Showdown heads up a trio of rockers at the Silverlake Lounge that includes ExDetectives and Cue the Moon. … Also: Queen Latifah at the House of Blues; Australia’s the Kin and the U.K.’s the Filthy Souls at the Viper Room; Lukas Rossi at the Roxy; and Faun Fables and” Gwendolyn at the Mint.