Tonight in L.A.: Big Pink, the Features, Twin Tigers

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[Two acts from Buzz Bands LA’s best-of-’09 list, the Features and the Big Pink, hit town on the same night. Not fair …]

The last time the Features played L.A. (supporting the Whigs at the Troubadour in November), it made for one of the best rock shows I’d seen in quite some time. Tonight they return to the Troub for the first of a two-night stand supporting the ascendant Manchester Orchestra [pictured], the Atlanta quintet that toured with Silversun Pickups last year and is playing sold-out shows behind its sophomore album, “Mean Everything to Nothing.” … Coachella-bound U.K. shoegazers  the Big Pink return to the El Rey Theatre supported by A Place To Bury Strangers and Active Child. … Athens, Ga., quartet Twin Tigers, impressive last week at an engagement at 3 Clubs, headlines the Echo; Australia’s Skybombers and recent Echo residents Useless Keys open. … Also: Laura Veirs at Spaceland; Red Tide and His Orchestra at the Silverlake Lounge;  Planets at the Smell; and Sheila Nicholls at the Hotel Cafe.