Kevin Bronson on October 29th, 2010

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[What a weekend: Gavin Rossdale, Grace Slick and my wife (hello there) celebrate birthdays on Saturday. Meanwhile, this Halloween, I’m dressing as invisible.]

Top 4 local shows:

‣ The Henry Clay People’s second annual Rock and Roll Circus goes off tonight at the Echoplex (free mix CD if you dress up), with the Little Ones, Andy Clockwise, We Barbarians, the Monolators, Downtown/Union, Red Cortez, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Marvelous Toy, the Steelwells, Olin and the Moon and the Hectors.
‣ Nico Vega and Saint Motel pay homage to witches and witch hunts tonight at the Roxy, where Imagine Dragons and Queen Caveat also perform.
‣ Moving Units might have some new stuff when they lead the dance party at the Troubadour tonight.
‣ The sublimely dreamy Devics hasn’t been around in a while, Sara Lov and Dustin O’Halloran having been concentrating on their solo proejcts; they play the Bootleg Theater tonight with Jake Blanton and Willoughby.

Top 3 musical parties:

‣ HARD Haunted Mansion, with a lineup including Underworld, Bloody Beetroots, Busy P, Crookers, Jack Beats, Rusko, Calvin Harris, Boyz Noise and L.A. beat-scene wunderkind Flying Lotus, goes off Saturday and Sunday at the Shrine Expo Hall.
‣ KCRW’s annual Masquerade at the Legendary Park Plaza on Saturday offers sets from Cut Chemist, U.K. rockers the Duke Spirit and Joshua Tree electro-rockers Gram Rabbit, along with 13 of the station’s DJs.
‣ And the Ninjatune 20th Anniversary celebration goes off Saturday at the Echoplex with appearances by Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, Cut Chemist, DJ Food & DK, Eskmo and Ghostbeard.

And the top 3 who-cares-if-it’s-Halloween shows:
‣ Stone Temple Pilots and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club rock the Nokia Theatre tonight.
‣ Of Montreal and Janelle Monae hold forth at the Palladium on Saturday.
‣ And Portugal. The Man (that’s their video for “Guns and Dogs,” above) join White Denim and HoneyChild for a Saturday show at the El Rey Theatre.

Elsewhere tonight: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan at the El Rey Theatre; the Tender Box and Of Verona at the Viper Room; Big Business and Night Horse at Spaceland; Peelander-Z and Brothers Collateral at the Grand Star in Chinatown; Gabriel Iglesias at the Canyon Club; Bring Me the Horizon at Club Nokia; Kate Nash at the Music Box; Suicide Silence at the Glass House; the Entrance Band at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown; Peter Mulvey & Jeffrey Foucault (early) and the Secret Sisters (late) at McCabe’s; Hauschka and Maxim Ludwig at the Hotel Cafe; JackAss at the Redwood Bar; Ovideo at Casey’s Bar downtown; and the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey at the Mint.

Also Saturday: the Negro Problem at the Getty Museum; the Lovetones, the Asteroid #4 and the Quarter After at Spaceland; Vaud & the Villains at Fais Do-Do; Pelican and Goatsnake at the Troubadour; Poncho Sanchez at Brixton South Bay; Tiger Army at the Grove of Anaheim; the Dan Band at Club Nokia; Dead Man’s Party at the Galaxy Concert Theatre; the English Beat at Saint Rocke; Beats Antique and Eliot Lipp at the Music Box; Cubensis at the Mint; Lights Over Paris at the Roxy; Suffocation at the Glass House; Where Angels Suffer at the Viper Room; Cue the Moon at Pehrspace.

Also Sunday: DJ Shadow and Pigeon John at the House of Blues; Murderdolls at the Roxy; Hybrid XL at the Vanguard; Tiger Army at the Grove of Anaheim; Horrorpops at the Glass House; Joe Pug and Nik Freitas at Spaceland; Moses Campbell at the Smell; Frank Alpine and Violet Tremors at the Echo; and Purple Melon and KAV at the Viper Room.