Kevin Bronson on July 27th, 2012

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Your Friday fun:

‣ Salem and IO Echo do the first of the Play MOCA music/art series at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in downtown L.A.
‣ Pop harmonies for lunch? If you work downtown, you can catch Lady Danville at noon as part of the Grand Performances series at California Plaza.
‣ Z-Trip holds forth at Control at Avalon Hollywood.
‣ Sub Pop label mates King Tuff and Jaill bring their raucous garage rock to the Echo.
‣ Big night at the Hotel Cafe, with Cary Brothers, Harper Blynn, Madi Diaz teaming up for one show and Mind the Gap minding the late slot.
‣ And the annual power-pop festival International Pop Overthrow kicks off 10 days worth of shows at Molly Malone’s, where mod-pop forerunners the Records featuring John Wicks – often compared with good reason to Big Star back in their late-’70s/early ’80s heyday – head up a lineup that features Linus Of Hollywood, the Names featuring Dave Galluzzo, Seth Swirsky, Peachfuzz and more.
‣ And it’s “Global Fusion Night” in the annual Music at the Zoo series at the Los Angeles Zoo. From 6 to 9 p.m. bands such as the Rocky Neck Bluegrass Band, Marieve Herington Band, Paddy’s Pig, Wicked Tinkers, AK and Her Kalashnikovs, Bandidos de Amor, Tropical Punch, Shaya and Rafi, and Kenny Hudson and World Beat serenade the animals staying up past their bedtimes, and humans getting close to theirs.

Also:

Kaskade at Staples Center
Barenaked Ladies, Blues Traveler, Big Head Todd & the Monsters and Cracker at the Gibson Amphitheatre
MewithoutYou, Kevin Devine and Buried Beds at the Troubadour
The Dangerous Summer, New Empire, From Indian Lakes and the Vegas Breakdown at the Roxy
The Sister Ruby Band, L.A. Witch, the Union Line, Tigerbitch and the Cochinas at the House of Blues Foundation Room
Abe Vigoda and Raw Geronimo at Human Resources
Ying Yang Twins at the Key Club
Nocando, Subtitle, Pistol McFly, Taurus Scott and Falcons at the Bootleg Bar
The Psychic, Paramount, Life Coach and Lantvm at the Satellite
Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds at Levitt Pavilion Pasadena
Lonestar at Club Nokia
Steel Pulse and the Dirty Heads at the Pacific Amphitheatre
Gram Rabbit and Spindrift at “Party in the Desert” at the Hood in Palm Desert
Jackie Greene at Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace
Union 13 and Battalion of Saints at the Observatory
Anuhea at the Constellation Room
Divide the Day, the Sleeping Sea King and Assuming We Survive at Stingers Bar & Nightclub
The Motels at the Canyon Club
The Corima, Upsilon Acrux, Cory Flanigan and Van Exel at the Smell
Ugly Ugly Words, Sophia Bastian and Mercy & Paloma at El Cid
The Shrine and FIDLAR at the Blue Star
True & the Strays, Planet Booty, Matu and Matt Wolpe at the Mint
Noah Benardout at the Hard Rock Café Hollywood
Jon Brion at the Largo
Junkyard at the Whisky
Quinto Sol at the House of Blues Anaheim
Sequent Gem, Alex Arndt & the Sonic Universe and the Navs at On the Rox
The Barry Zweig Trio at the Del Monte Speakeasy
The Farewell Drifters at McCabe’s Guitar Shop
Liz Nash (Happy Hour) at Saint Rocke
The In Between, Shoot Up the Cat, Christian Hernandez and the Rotation at the Coach House