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THURSDAY • Night one of GSL's Flood & Mudslide Season Warm-Up Party takes place tonight at The Echo, featuring Veronica Lipgloss and the Evil Eyes, Year Future, Demonstrations and Sexytime Explosion. Doors open at 7 PM. Tickets are $10, or $18 for a two-night pass. • Nouveau popsters Nouvelle Vague are at Tangier tonight with Becky Stark and DJ Senor Amor. Tickets are $25. • Catch Mellowdrone acoustic tonight at Spaceland; doors open at...

WEDNESDAY • XBXRX, Hello Astronaut, Goodbye Television, Silver Daggers, Abe Vigoda and Sharon Cheslow all happen tonight at The Smell. Doors open at 9 PM; admission is $5. Click here to see our events for the week....

TUESDAY • Wolf Parade, Chad Van Gaalen and Jason Friedman perform tonight at the El Rey at 8 PM. Tickets are $18.50. • A thought-provoking double feature tonight at the New Beverly: Cronenberg's A History of Violence at 7:30 PM and Peckinpah's Straw Dogs at 9:25....

With any luck, right now the mistletoe is hung, the presents are wrapped, the wassail is bubbling and all of our lovely readers are snuggled up happily at home, enjoying the beginning of what promises to be a fine holiday weekend. We understand, however, that most of us are not that lucky. Most of us are, in fact, probably at work right now, resigned to spending one more day shuffling papers prior to making...

MONDAY • Tangier features Eleni Mandell with Charlie Wadhams tonight at 8:30 PM. Tickets are $10 advance, $12 day of. • The Wiltern features Queens Of The Stone Age with Autolux tonight at 9 PM. Tickets are $28.50. • Social D plays the second and final show at the HOB Sunset with Bullets and Octane tonight at 8:30 PM. Tickets are $25....

FRIDAY • Richard Swift, Crystal Skulls and David Dondero are at Spaceland tonight at 9 PM. • Groovy Rednecks, Dime Box Band and Carlos Guitarlos are at The Echo at 9 PM. Tickets are $5. [18+]...

THURSDAY • Xiu Xiu, Babyland and The Dead Science are at the Troubadour tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $12. • Southern Culture on the Skids and The Weary Boys play at The Echo starting at 8:30. Tickets are $15. [18+] • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club performs two acoustic shows tonight at the Hotel Cafe--doors open at 7 and 10 PM. All presale tickets are sold out, but a limited number of tickets are...

WEDNESDAY • The Disney Concert Hall features a Holiday Sing-Along with husband-and-wife Judith Owen and Harry Shearer tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $10-45. • It's another High Times Comedy Night at the Hollywood Improv, featuring Sarah Silverman, Zach Galifianakis, Al Madrigal, Matt Besser and Jasper Redd, starting at 8 PM. Tickets are $15....

LAist has ten pairs of tickets to give away for Wednesday's MySpace Records record release party at The Key Club. Celebrating the release of MySpace Records Volume 1 compilation, featured artists Plain White T's, The Summer Obsession and New Years Day are all scheduled to perform. Enter now for your chance to win; the contest ends Wednesday, December 14th at 9 AM. Fine Print: Affiliates of LAist (and any other -ist sites), MySpace, The...

Just 12 hours remain to enter! LAist and our friends at RES Magazine would like to send you and a guest to this month's screening at the Egyptian Theatre on Tuesday, December 13th at 8 PM. This month, audience members will be treated to the announcement of Audience Choice and Jury Award-winning films from RESFest 2005, plus new videos for Royksopp, Bright Eyes and the White Stripes, and new short films from Tronic, Neill...