Kevin Bronson on September 17th, 2010

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[It’s one busy show-going weekend. Again.]

Top 6 places to be in you’re into supporting your neighborhood bands:

‣ The Parson Red Heads, the psych-pop band who moved from Oregon to L.A. band five years ago, are moving back to Oregon next month. They headline Spaceland tonight, with Le Switch and the World Record supporting, and it’s only $2 if you wear white (which, traditionally, the band does). [Background.]
‣ The music lineup for Lobsterfest at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro is the event’s best ever. (Watch this blog later this morning for set times.) Among the 18 bands playing: Saint Motel tonight; Gram Rabbit, Fitz & the Tantrums and Dengue Fever on Saturday; and John Doe & Exene Cervenka on Sunday.
‣ Breakout indie-poppers Local Natives do shows tonight and Saturday at the Music Box.
‣ Art-rockers Autolux, behind their sophomore album, “Transit Transit,” play the Glass House tonight and the El Rey on Saturday.
‣ Disco-funk quartet Casxio celebrates the release of its debut “Friends vs. Lovers” on Saturday at Spaceland. [Background.]
‣ And Ozomatli (with guests Cut Chemist and Cheech Marin) and Calexico play the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday as part of KCRW’s ¡Viva Mexico! program.

I detail some other stuff on my post for LA Weekly’s West Coast Sound, but here’s the rest of your fare:

Also tonight: The Clean Air Clear Stars festival at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown (also Saturday); Hanson at the House of Blues; Primus and Mariachi El Bronx at Club Nokia; Men at the Echo; Avenged Sevenfold and Distrubed at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre;  Mark Kozelek at Largo; Gamble House at the Grand Star in Chinatown; Pantha Du Prince at the Echoplex; Marina and the Diamonds and Young the Giant at the El Rey Theatre; Mystery Jets at the Troubadour; Eliza Gilkyson at McCabe’s; Spirit Vine at the 5 Star Bar; Keaton Simons at the Mint; the Silver Lake Chorus at the Bootleg Theater; Matt Sorum’s Darling Stilettos at the Viper Room; the Adicts at the Key Club; Assemble the Skyline at the Roxy; and Abrakadabra at Saint Rocke.

Also Saturday: Phoenix, Grizzly Bear and Girls at the Hollywod Bowl; 93.5 Kday’s Frest Fest at the Nokia Theatre with Ice Cube, DJ Quik, Tha Dogg Pound and Warren G; Tyvek, Jeff the Brotherhood and Wounded Lion at the Smell; the Riverdales at the Troubadour; Heart at the Gibson Amphitheatre; the Motels at the Brixton in Redondo Beach; Taylor Locke & the Roughs and Heavy Young Heathens at the Mint; Joe Gil at the Hotel Cafe; Moses Campbell at Pehrspace; Dirty Sweet and the Binges at the Bootleg Theater; the B Foundation at the Roxy; Nekromantix at the Glass House; the Steve Miller Band, the Cult, the Fixx and others at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre; Swords of Fatima at the Redwood Bar; Elizabeth Cook at McCabe’s; Lyfe Jennings at the Key Club; Fireball Ministry at the Blue Star Bar; Bastidas at Echo Curio; and the Love Language and Radar Brothers with a free in-store at Origami Vinyl.

Also Sunday: A free in-store at Amoeba with Richard Thompson; Mia Doi Todd at the Hotel Cafe; Fiction Company at Spaceland; Tamaryn and Puro Instinct at the Echo; Screeching Weasel and the Dollyrots at Club Nokia; the Emotions and Deniece Williams at Gibson Amphitheatre; the Jonas Brothers at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre; the Blasters at the Redwood Bar; and Peter Himmelman at McCabe’s.