Kevin Bronson on June 16th, 2010

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[Happy birthday to Ben Kweller, who inches ever-so-closer to the Big Three-Oh today, which is hard to believe if you knew him back in the Radish days …]

My top 3 reasons tonight to postpone obsessing over Game 7:

‣ Eastern Conference Champions, all fired up from scoring the song “A Million Miles an Hour” on the “Twilight Eclipse” soundtrack and almost finished with work on a new album, plays the Bootleg Theater in support of Hot Hot Heat’s June residency.
‣ Junip [pictured], the side project of Swedish songsmith José González, plays the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, joined by for L.A. denizen Ferraby Lionheart (now based in Nashville), whose forthcoming album “The Jack of Hearts” will jack with your folkie heart. [Download: Junip’s “Rope and Summit” EP here; e-mail required.]
‣ And L.A. quintet Everest, with their excellent new album “On Approach” already on your shelf (if it isn’t, get busy), does a 7 p.m. in-store at Amoeba.

Your tastes may vary: My daily roundup is on LA Weekly’s West Coast Sound.