Kevin Bronson on December 3rd, 2010

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Top 5 outings this weekend:

‣ Stones Throw Records’ Aloe Blacc and the Grand Scheme hit the Echoplex tonight. That’s Alan Algee’s video for “Femme Fatale,” above.
‣ Power-pop doesn’t get any better that the pairing of the Posies and Brendan Benson tonight at Club Nokia.
‣ Jens Lekman performs an RSVP-only gig at the Skybar at the Mondrian on Saturday.
‣ Passion Pit plays the Fox Theater in Pomona on Saturday (and the Palladium on Tuesday) with locals We Barbarians and Pepper Rabbit opening.
‣ And Sunday it’s Wu-Tang Clan at Club Nokia.

Also tonight: Camp Freddy at the Roxy; Atlas Sound at the Echo; Liars at TheSex (816 S. Santa Fe Ave.); the Charlie Hunter Trio at the Mint; Lower Heaven and Exploding Flowers at Spaceland; Fences and Jenny O at the Bootleg Theater; the big Power 106 Cali Christmas with Ice Cube, Chris Brown and others at Gibson Amphitheatre; Dweezil Zappa Plays Zappa at the Music Box; Dark Star Orchestra at the El Rey Theatre; Ernie Halter at the Troubadour; Digable Planets at the Whisky; Holly Conlan at the Hotel Cafe; Dead Kennedys at the House of Blues; the Girls Can Hears Us at the Viper Room; Ghestapo Khazi at the Smell; Liz Pappademas at Pehrspace; Alejandro Cohen & the Pharoahs at the Museum of Neon Art; and Exene Cervenka’s in-store performance at Vacation Vinyl.

Also Saturday: Giant Drag and Fences at the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa; the Aggrolites at the Slide Bar in Fullerton; Capital Cities at the Troubadour; Straight No Chaser at the Wiltern; Luna Sea at the Palladium; the Charlie Hunter Trio at the Mint; the Opera at the Viper Room; the Bolts at the Roxy; Daylong Valleys of the Nile at the Smell; and Moses Campbell at Pehrspace.

Also Sunday: Alice Coltrane Tribute with McCoy Tyner, Kyp Malone, Nels Cline and Flying Lotus, among others, at UCLA’s Royce Hall; Kool Keith at the Roxy; Mississippi Man and Rumspringa at the Bootleg Theater; One Trick Pony Meredith Meyer and Star Parts at the Satellite (f/k/a Spaceland); Swahili Blonde and Scotty the Kid at Space 1520; Devon Williams at the Echo; Marchfourth Marching Band at the Echoplex; Danko Jones and Lady Sinatra at the Troubadour; KIIS FM’s Jingle Ball, with Katy Perry, Nelly, Enrique Iglesias and others at Nokia Theatre; the Ditty Bops at McCabe’s; and Marco Benevento at the Mint