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Also playing Sunday:

PAUL WELLER at Avalon; THE GAME at House of Blues; CHENCHA BERRINCHES, COUGAR at the Knitting Factory; WENDY WALDMAN, CINDY BULLENS at the Coffee Gallery Backstage.

The Blow (Photo by Sarah Cass)

Listing Ship, Tuesday

John Fogerty (Photo by Norman Seef)

Eleni Mandell (Photo courtesy Conqueroo)

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5The Binges at the King King

It’s been a while since the King King has hosted regular rock & roll shows, but the Hollywood club gets back to live action with a considerable bang with the debut of the Binges’ monthlong Monday-night residency. The local band feature two sisters from Tokyo, bassist Tsuzumi Okai and guitarist Mayuko Okai, who carve some artfully shredded hard-rock riffage while singer Dylan Squatcho slobbers over everything with doglike enthusiasm and appropriately rabid howling. Mr. Squatcho doesn’t really have anything new to say — on “Rock and Roll,” he brags about starting one of those vague rock “revolutions” that seemingly occur only on the soundtrack to TV commercials, while the non-ironic lyrics to “Pay to Play” sound like they were written by an ’80s metal band — but the Binges amp up their AC/DC chords with the saving grace of punk rock intensity. (Falling James)

Also playing Monday:

PAUL WELLER at Avalon; LILY ALLEN at Henry Fonda Theater; SIMON DAWES at the Echo; THE GAME at House of Blues; LETTER OPENERS at the Key Club; DIVISION DAY, THE MOVIES at Spaceland; RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE at the Coffee Gallery Backstage.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Listing Ship, The Shakes, Bodies of Water at the Echo

Jim Morrison died three decades ago, and it seems like he’s been dying ever since, with starry tributes, fawning commemorations and endless reissues of the same old greatest hits. Meanwhile, Love leader Arthur Lee — who directly influenced Morrison and first brought the Doors to the attention of Elektra Records — passed with relatively little attention last year. What gives? Lee’s songs have been praised by Robert Plant, lifted by the Rolling Stones, and covered by everyone from the Damned and the Bangles to Shockabilly and the New Christs. Although Love’s more celebrated ’60s classics — ranging from the shimmering elegance of “Andmoreagain” to the proto-punk fury of “7 & 7 Is” — are still available, most of Lee’s work since then is criminally out of print. Tonight, several of L.A.’s own criminally underrated pop groups take on his legacy, including Bodies of Water, Kind Hearts & Coronets, the Shakes (whose recent Teenacide CD, The Rise and Fall of Modern Living, is a wonderful pop travelogue through the back streets of Silver Lake) and Listing Ship, whose Heather Lockie and Julie Carpenter will reprise the string parts they played when they backed Lee on tour in 2004. (Falling James)

Also playing Tuesday:

GILL LANDRY at Genghis Cohen; THE NIGHTWATCHMAN, BEN HARPER, MARINA V at the Hotel Café; THE 88, THE OOHLAS at the Key Club; SANDRA COLLINS, PAUL OAKENFOLD at the Knitting Factory; TOM BROSSEAU, JOHN DOE at Largo; BLOODY HOLLIES, RED HEARTS at the Scene; MOLLY HOWSON at El Cid.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7

Eleni Mandell at the Echo

Eleni Mandell’s sixth album, Miracle of Five, begins not with a bang but with a sultry come-on titled “Moonglow, Lamp Low.” The snare beat and languorous sax that set the tone tell us that the singer — make that chanteuse — is in a “Blue Velvet” kind of mood and ready for her David Lynch close-up. The 12 songs are all pretty, dreamy and unsettling, featuring an array of superb guest musicians including Nels Cline and DJ Bonebrake. There’s the psycho waltz of “Girls” (“I am the dice you roll in the alley/I am the pennies that come in handy”) and the hill-Billie Holiday swoon of “Miss Me,” that latter of which could actually break your heart. Slow dancing will ensue. (Libby Molyneaux)

Also playing Thursday:

TONY BENNETT at House of Blues; VOLUMEN CERO, LOS SUPER ELEGANTES at the Knitting Factory; NINJA ACADEMY at Mr. T’s Bowl; JUCIFER, SASQUATCH at the Scene; VISIONARIES at the Viper Room.