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Tonight Grammy-nominated Tennessee-based pop punk outfit Paramore will be headlining the Hollywood Palladium with Nashville's own electro-infused indie rock quartet Paper Route and Michigan-based punk outfit the Swellers in tow (Postponed!). English garage rockers the Horrors are poised to take on the El Rey Theatre with none other than Costa Mesa-bred rockers Japanese Motors. And, lastly, Seattle-based folk maestros the Cave Singers will be performing at the Echo with Vancouver-based folk rockers Lightning Dust and Foreign Born side-project Big Search. But we strongly suggest heading over to the Troubadour to catch Swedish multi-instrumentalist Loney Dear (LAist Interview). LAist favorites, Swedish singer-songwriter Anna Ternheim and New York's own shoegaze queen Asobi Seksu are slated to kick things off.

Tonight Grammy Award winning R&B singer Robin Thicke will be headlining Nokia Theatre in Downtown. Parisian composer and musician Yann Tiersen is poised to share the El Rey Theatre with none other than Brooklyn-based shoegazer Asobi Seksu. And, lastly, Iowa-bred deep-blues vocalist/musician William Elliott Whitmore will be headlining the Knitting Factory's Main Stage. But we strongly suggest heading over to BOXeight to catch local buzz band Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, who will be performing alongside a handful of stellar LA-based acts like Megapuss, thenewno2, Fool's Gold, Rainbow^Arabia and Saint Motel.

Walking in at the Troubadour that night was like walking into a magic forest glade. I half expected to see sparkling nymphs in gauzy outfits leaping around from behind the concert goers, cackling merrily as they played tag. Perhaps if there had been any absinthe in the place that would be exactly what I saw. Brooklyn's electro pop piece Bell was on stage spreading their musical glitter all over the Troubadour making it sparkle and shine.

Tonight the Black Keys' front man Dan Auerbach will be headlining the El Rey Theatre. LA-based indie pop outfit the Bird and the Bee are poised to play the Tricot Showroom. New York's own shoegaze queen Asobi Seksu will be gracing the Troubadour. And, lastly, local indie rock trio Nico Vega are slated to open for the Von Bondies at the Roxy. But we strongly suggest heading over to Largo at the Coronet. Not only will Rickie Lee Jones be rocking the main stage (with a very, very special guest we're told), but Boston-based ex-Candy Butcher front man Mike Viola will be playing in the Little Room.

                      

On Halloween, New York-based shoegazers Asobi Seksu (MySpace), whose previous Southern California appearance was two years ago at The Echo (MySpace), returned there to complete the final stop on their current domestic tour, performing songs from their existing repertoire and the new album that is tentatively scheduled to street in February. The show was a homecoming for frontwoman Yuki Chikudate, as she grew up in Gardena and her relatives were in the audience.

Happy Halloween! Tonight there are tons of concerts across the Greater Los Angeles Area. We were looking forward to the Little Radio extravaganza in the outskirts of Downtown. Unfortunately, "the titanic team-up that had to happen" simply floundered. But, thankfully, that isn't stopping the Henry Clay People. They will be performing tonight at the Cat and Fiddle Pub in Hollweird with Long Beach-based rockers the Tall Hands. The monolithic Parisian electro duo Justice will be headlining a line-up at the Shrine Auditorium that is sure to sate anyone who's craving a dance party—including sets from Daedelus, Soulwax, Boys Noize, Crystal Castles, Crookers and Simian Mobile Disco, among many others. The Secret Machines are the special guests of a psych-induced bill over at Spaceland, which features LA locals the Entrance Band and Dead Meadow's own Jason Simon. And NY-based shoegazer Asobi Seksu will be putting onlookers at the Echo in a heavily distorted trance. It was exactly two years ago to date that Spaceland Recordings released Live at the Echo 10/6/06. We can't rule out the possibility of another recording. So we certainly suggest heading over to commemorate the release and potentially partake in history again. But we're embarking on a rowdy adventure an hour southward! Say what? The Growlers, who recently won Best Rock Band in the OC Weekly's annual Best Of List, and Austin-by-way-of-Dallas the Strange Boys (LAist Review) will be unleashing retro 60s, garage-style blues-rock at the Womens Club in Laguna Beach. We know it's a hell of a drive, but it'll be the most rollicking Halloween experience of your life.

John Doe @ Largo Deftones @ Avalon Brand New Heavies @ El Rey Lindsey Buckingham @ Wiltern A Flock of Seagulls @ Hollywood Park The Wrens, Asobi Seksu, Bon Savants @The Troubadour Petra Haden & the Sellouts @ Getty Center Ima Robot, Whitestarr @ Roxy Ray Parker Jr. @ Vault 350 Islands @ Henry Fonda Lupe Fiasco @ Key Club Gliss @ Amoeba Janis Ian @ McCabe's Kid Koala, Fog @ The Echo La...

Magnolia Electric Co., Bottomless Pit @ The Knitting Factory

The Monday holiday makes it a very light week for new releases. Here are a few things that caught our eye....

After a week in which LAist sat on a panel, enjoyed immensely the panels of others, partied with our publisher, our co-conspirator from the north and the brand new baby of the family, caught Asobi Seksu with Neal Pollack, and ate ourselves into oblivion, it is finally time for us to head home.

Not only has Giant Robot opened its own restaurant on Sawtelle boulevard, bringing their total number of shops on the block to three, but they are hosting new work from artist Nikki McClure starting this Saturday. We liked Nikki when she was part of Dub Narcotic Sound System and dropped funky songs on us like "Booty Run" in the mid-nineties.