Marleigh Riggins

WEDNESDAY • The Troubadour has Monade (ex-Stereolab) with The Zincs and Azalia Snail at 8 PM. Tickets are $12 advance, $14 at the door. • At the Egyptian Theatre, catch either of two screenings of Inflated: The Blow Up Doll Films of Steve Hall and Cathee Wilkins, at 7 and 9 PM. The screening features the films Deep Africa, Scout's Honor, Tonight's the Night, I Touch Myself, Lick My Pussy Dog!, and Hambone. [17+]...

TUESDAY • Headphones (featuring Dave Bazan of Pedro the Lion) perform tonight at the Troubadour with the Crystal Skulls and Army Navy. Doors open at 8 PM; tickets are $10 advance, $12 at the door. • The Go-Go's are bringing back the '80s tonight at The Vault 350. Doors open at 7 PM and tickets are a rock-bottom $54. • Film Threat hosts a special Star Wars Rarities screening (with Slave Leia Bikini Contest)...

FRIDAY • Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy performs solo at the Henry Fonda Theater at 9 PM. Doors open at 8 PM. • The King of California, Dave Alvin, performs tonight at McCabe's Guitar Shop with Mike Stinson. The show starts at 8 PM and tickets are $20. • Spaceland features the reunited original 1985 lineup of the LA punk band The Leaving Trains, performing with Falling James and Dirty Little Secret. Doors open at...

THURSDAY • Smog performs tonight at Amoeba Music, doing songs off the new album A River Ain't Too Much to Love, at 7 PM. • The Echo hosts Boombip and Fog tonight at 8:30 PM. Tickets are $10 advance, $12 at the door. [18+] • Year Future, 400 Blows and Wires On Fire are on tonight at The Glasshouse, starting at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $8. • At The Scene, catch locals The Distortions,...

WEDNESDAY • The Scene hosts the 2nd Annual Vaudeville Burlesque & Variety Show, "The Hollywood Hootch," starring Mr. Charlie, Jessika Von Fuhr, The Martini Kings, Violet Valentine, Downtown Val Fernando of the Derby Dolls and singer comedienne Veronica Cyphree, with DJ Skot from 400 Blows. Cover is $8. • The New Beverly Cinema has a Fritz Lang double feature, screening Metropolis at 7:30 PM, followed by M at 9:50....

TUESDAY • Caribou (formerly known as Manitoba) performs tonight at Spaceland with Junior Boy, Brad Lainer and Christopher Willits and the Russian Futurists. • The El Rey hosts The Dears, Marjorie Fair and The Shout Out Louds tonight at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $15.50. • RES Magazine hosts it's monthly screening tonight, featuring new videos for the Basement Jaxx, Quasimoto, Aesop Rock and Amon Tobin, plus the West Coast premiere of Chris Cunningham's new...

MONDAY • At Largo, show up around 8 PM to witness the Greg Proops Chat Show with Dave Eggers. • Ludovic Lefebvre, chef at Bastide on Melrose, signs his new book Crave: The Feast of the Five Senses at 7:00 PM at Vroman's in Pasadena....

FRIDAY • Melt Banana makes an appearance tonight at the Troubadour, along with Das Oath and Toxic Shock & The Flaming Tampons at 8 PM. Tickets are $12. • Architecture in Helsinki will be giving a free in-store performance at Amoeba Music at 7 PM. • The Books and Mia Doi Todd are at the Knitting Factory tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $12 advance, $14 at the door. • At The Fold at...

THURSDAY • Sam Prekop (of The Sea & Cake) will be performing tonight at the Troubadour with Pit er Pat. Doors open at 8 PM. Tickets are $15. • At the Silverlake Lounge, SF/Berliners The Vanishing will perform with Dame Darcy, New Collapse and Shoot Out the Lights. Cover is $8. • Locals Killola will be performing tonight at the Viper Room with The Binges and Oliver Future. Tickets are $7 with flyer. •...

WEDNESDAY • AFI at ArcLight presents the 1955 thriller The Night of the Hunter at 8 PM. • CineSpace hosts the premiere of the Bonnaroo 2004 DVD tonight at 8 PM. Doors open at 7 PM. • The 2004 documentary about outsider artist Henry Darger, In the Realms of the Unreal, shows tonight at 8 PM at the 7 Dudley Cinema in Venice. Admisssion is free. Click here to see our complete list of...