Kevin Bronson on February 25th, 2010

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[Birthday greetings today go out to Corinne Bailey Rae … Here’s your menu for tonight’s musical feast, with a couple of mp3s at the end as an appetizer:]

Visqueen’s album “Message to Garcia” is getting a lot of attention for what it isn’t – tricked up or gimmicky. The Seattle quartet [pictured] fronted by guitarist Rachel Flotard traffics in exhilarating, straight-ahead rock (Joan Jett has been mentioned in comparisons), and its third full-length, a tribute to Flotard’s late father, is powerful stuff. Visqueen hits Spaceland tonight with Brooklyn’s Bear Hands, who just released the “What a Drag” single. …  It’s the album-release show for Andrew Lynch’s “Sun Incisions” at the Echo, with a local lineup featuring the Section Quartet, Downtown/Union and Eagle & Talon. … Spring Summer and Audra Mae bring their memorable voices to the Bootleg Theater. … And the Icarus Line – with Dante vs. Zombies (ex-Starlite Desperation) – rocks the Roxy. … Also: Cheap Trick at the House of Blues; Jim Bianco and Dan Wilson at the Hotel Cafe; I Will Never Be the Same at the Viper Room; Sweden’s the Soundtrack of Our Lives, with Nico Vega, at the Glass House; the Ruby Friedman Orchestra playing a free party at the Highlands; Broken at Sea’s EP release party at Chain Reaction in Anaheim; Pancho and Sancho at the Troubadour; and lots going on Long Beach, with the Prospector hosting the Henry Clay People, Le Switch and Olin and the Moon and Alex’s Bar hosting 60 Watt Kid.

||| Download: Visqueen: “Hand Me Down”

||| Download: Bear Hands, “What a Drag”