Tonight in L.A.: Tame Impala, Papercranes, Los Lobos, Marvelous Toy, HoneyHoney, the Rescues

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[A hearty happy birthday to Beth Orton …]

Tonight’s top 3 outings:

‣ Australian psych-rockers Tame Impala [who made a good impression on a June visit to L.A.] play to a sold-out Echoplex.
‣ Rain Phoenix of Papercranes, whose second album “Let’s Make Babies in the Woods” is due Jan. 24 on Manimal Vinyl, will join Emily Kokal, Cameron McGill, Leslie Stevens and Joe Sumner at a benefit for the Art of Elysium at Largo. That’s the video for Papercranes’ “Synapses,” above.
‣ And Marvelous Toy kicks off a residency at LaBrie’s in Glendale, performing some of the material the band is prepping for its next album. The Hectors and the Mid Cities open.

||| Download: Papercranes, “Synapses”

Not to mention: Los Lobos’ sold-out appearance at the Grammy Museum; HoneyHoney at the Bootleg Theater; Andrew Jackson Jihad and Royal Monsters at the Troubadour; the Rescues at the Hotel Cafe; Everclear at the Key Club; Ingenue at the Redwood Bar; Off! doing a record-release set at Origami Vinyl; the Outdoors and Masks at the Silverlake Lounge; TSF at the Viper Room; and Dita Von Teese’s Burlesque at the Roxy.