Kevin Bronson on September 22nd, 2010

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[Happy birthday, Joan Jett. Now for a busy Thursday night …]

Top 5 places to be tonight (at one time, if you’re really good):

‣ Maybe you remember Cloud Cult’s raucous set at Coachella in 2009. Maybe you like to see live painting onstage while a band performs. Maybe you’re heard the Minneapolis art-pop collective’s new album “Light Chaser” is really good, in a typically all-over-the-map way. Then you probably already know they’re at the Roxy tonight.

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‣ Tommy Keene, who earlier this year released the very good career summation “Tommy Keene You Hear Me: A Retrospective 1983-2009,” plays Spaceland tonight, performing his 1986 major-label debut “Songs From the Film.”
‣ Mercury Prize winners The xx – who, by the way, are auctioning off the X-emblazoned lightboxes that adorn their stage show – play the Palladium, with Warpaint and Zola Jesus supporting.
‣ The Airborne Toxic Event winds up the U.S. leg of its acoustic tour with the Calder Quartet with a show at the Ford Amphitheatre.
‣ Jimmy Tamborello’s Dntel emerges to play Low End Theory at the Airliner.

Elsewhere: Michael Franti & Spearhead at Club Nokia; Bleu and Mike Viola at the Hotel Cafe; Cinderella Motel and Future Ghost at the Silverlake Lounge; Riverboat Gamblers at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach; the Do at the Bootleg Theater; Dead Man’s Army and Hillbilly Herald at the Viper Room; What Laura Says at the Echo; Boyz Skule & the Precious Medals at Molly Malone’s; Modern Time Machines and the Meeting Places at 3 Clubs; at Neo at Echo Curio.