Kevin Bronson on September 1st, 2010

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[Happy September. And happy 35th to Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of the Mars Volta.]

Top show I will attend tonight if I can remove the headphones long enough to attend a show:

‣ Sometimes when I’m lost in the ambient music made by Jonathan D. Haskell – aka Seven Saturdays – I feel like I’m hearing the soundtrack to a dream I haven’t had yet. His new album, out this week, is titled “The Snowflakes That Hit Us Became Our Stars” [pay what you want, always nice]. Haskell is clearly a composer with vision, not to mention excellent graphic artists and great video collaborators. Above is the Katie West-directed video for the album track “Au Revoir;” the one for “True Romance” is nicely done too … aw, heck, check them all. Seven Saturdays celebrates their album release tonight at the Bootleg Theater, supported by Helen Stellar.

||| Download: Haskell also recently recorded a version of the fourth movement of “Are We Lost Mammals of an Approaching Transcendental Epoch” by Dr. Strangeloop, the experimental VJ and former college buddy of Flying Lotus. Get it here for free.

Elsewhere tonight: A free 7 p.m. show with Princeton, the Bonedaddys and the Reflectacles at the West L.A. Bandshell (11338 Santa Monica Blvd.); Tallahassee at Crane’s Hollywood Tavern; Ty Segall and the Franks at Spaceland;  Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses at the Grammy Museum; Busdriver at Low End Theory at the Airliner; Jamie Drake and Amber Rubarth at the Hotel Cafe; India.Arie, Terence Blanchard, Wayne Shorter and others at the Hollywood Bowl celebrating Herbie Hancock; Alex Lambert and Dance Recital at the Roxy; Exploding Flowers and Residual Echoes at the Silverlake Lounge; Pete Molinari and Miranda Lee Richards at the Redwood Bar; and Men at the Glass House.