Marleigh Riggins

TUESDAY • Daniel Lanois with Mother Superior, plus Johnathan Rice and Gwendolyn are at Spaceland tonight. Doors open at 9 PM. • Cake, Tegan and Sara and Gogol Bordello headline The Wiltern, along with comic Eugene Mirman. The show starts at 8 PM and tickets are $25. • The completely awesome double feature of Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn at 7:30 and Return of the Living Dead at 9:15 PM hits the New...

FRIDAY • McCabe's Guitar Shop presents Peter Case & Friends Tribute and Record Release Party, featuring Dave Alvin, Marvin Etzioni, Gary Heffern, Claire Holley, Mike Martt, Amilia K. Spicer and Victoria Williams. The show starts at 8 PM. Tickets are $20. • Jarboe (of The Swans), Red Sparowes, House of Low Culture and MGR (featuring Matt Gallagher of Isis) perform tonight at the Knitting Factory. Tickets are $10 and doors open at 8 PM....

THURSDAY • Spaceland Productions presents Calexico at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $22 advance, $24 day of. • Drew Carey headlines the High Times Comedy Night at the Hollywood Improv tonight at 8 PM, featuring Greg Proops, Gary Gulman, Doug Benson and Louis Katz. Click here to see our list of events for the week....

WEDNESDAY • Tokyo String Quartet and clarinetist Sabine Meyer perform works by Haydn, Dvorak and Mozart tonight at UCLA Live beginning at 8 PM. Tickets are $22-42. • Outfest Wednesdays at the Egyptian Theatre features a sneak preview of Imagine Me & You at 7:30 PM. • AFI at ArcLight features a special screening of the 1969 classic Midnight Cowboy at 8 PM. • The Hammer Museum features "Masters of LA's Underground Comics," a...

TUESDAY • The Grindhouse Film Festival returns to the New Beverly, featuring Headless Eyes at 7:30 PM, followed by Night of the Zombies at 9:30. Admission, as always, is $7. • Daniel Lanois with Mother Superior, Pedestrian and Sarabeth Tucek are at Spaceland tonight. Doors open at 9 PM. • The Open Mike Andrews returns to Tangier. Cover is $5. • It's iPod Night at The Scene. Bring your iPod and impress everyone with...

FRIDAY • The Helio Sequence, King of France (featuring Michael Azerrad, author of Our Band Could Be Your Life) and The Can't See are at Spaceland tonight. Doors open at 9 PM. • Rademacher, Harpeth Trace, The Kris Special and Raymond Richards (of The Idaho Falls) are playing a free show tonight at Mr. T's Bowl in Highland Park. The show starts at 10 PM. • Kristin Hersh's second night at Tangier opens with...

THURSDAY • Tonight is the opening reception for "How It Happens" at Pharmaka Gallery. The party runs from 6-9 PM during the Downtown Art Walk. • Kristin Hersh performs the first of her two nights at Tangier. Lauren Shera opens the show at 8 PM; tickets are $17 advance, $20 day-of. • If you haven't seen it yet, check out the Golden Globe nominated Kung Fu Hustle at the Aero tonight at 7:30 PM....

WEDNESDAY • The Aero Theatre features a screening of the third Golden Globe-nominated Foreign Language film, Joyeux Noel at 7:30 PM. Discussion to follow with director. • Taxi Driver is on the big screen once again tonight at the Arclight at 8 PM. • The Actors' Gang's roving performance of The Exonerated comes to REDCAT for shows tonight through Sunday. Tickets are $28-32 (non-members)....

MONDAY • Subtitle, Eliot Lipp and Leo 123 are at Tangier tonight at 8:30 PM. Cover is $8....

FRIDAY • Night two of GSL's Flood & Mudslide Season Warm-Up Party at The Echo features 400 Blows, Free Moral Agents, Labwaste, Coaxial and Gabriel Hart and His Upset Black Guitar. Doors open at 7 PM; tickets are $10 or $18 for a two-night pass. • The second night of Nouvelle Vague at Tangier, with The Good Listeners and DJ Senor Amor. Tickets are $25. • Another Hitchcock double feature at 7:30 PM, with...