Music Picks: Baaba Maal, Snuffaluffagus & Rats, Carlene Carter and Friends, Country Throwdown

Also playing Monday: LINE AND CIRCLE at Silverlake Lounge; WE BARBARIANS at Spaceland; ATHLETE, CARNEY at Troubadour; SPEAKEASY TIGER, LORDS OF JACK at Viper Room; UNKLE MONKEY at the Waterfront.

Carlene Carter (see Thursday)

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Hollywood Bowl

2301 N. Highland Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90068

Category: Music Venues

Region: Out of Town

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The Echoplex

1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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The Redwood Bar & Grill

316 W. Second St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown

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Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

8800 Irvine Center Dr
Irvine, CA 92603

Category: Performing Arts Venues

Region: Out of Town

The Greek Theatre

2700 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027

Category: Community Venues

Region: Los Feliz

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TUESDAY/JUNE/22

BEBE BUELL AT THE ROXY
"It's easy to smile, seduce and beguile and live in denial, so I'll play the fool, I'll play the mess, I'll look real cool in my Versace dress," Bebe Buell declares on "Air Kisses for the Masses," from her latest CD, Sugar. She's likely referring to her former life as a groupie (although she prefers to call herself a muse), when she seduced and beguiled such celebrities as Elvis Costello, Jimmy Page, Stiv Bators, Jack Nicholson and Mick Jagger. While she's better known as the mother of Liv Tyler (who was raised for many years thinking that her real father was Buell's former beau Todd Rundgren instead of Steven Tyler) and as the co-author (with Victor Bockris) of the 2001 memoir, Rebel Heart, Buell has also had a legitimate longtime career as a singer, working with the Cars, Power Station and Don Fleming. She's backed by her husband, former Das Damen guitarist Jim Wallerstein, on the new album, which ranges from the glittery nostalgia of "When We Were Godhead" and an interesting remake of Johnny Thunders' "(She's So) Untouchable," to more generic '80s-style synth-pop and new wave. At times, Buell's tuneful alto is shaded with a newfound low, shadowy huskiness that recalls the world-weary persona of Marianne Faithfull. Tonight's bill also features a rare return by late '70s new-wave journeymen Gary Myrick & the Figures ("She Talks in Stereo") and a solo turn by the ever-captivating power-pop/punk chanteuse Holly Vincent ("Wanna Go Home"), who's collaborated with Johnette Napolitano and Joey Ramone. (Falling James)

DEVIN, GARY & ROSS AT SYNCHRONICITY SPACE
The Gary in the middle of "Devin, Gary & Ross" is none other than Gary Panter, the brilliant, inspiring visual artist whose career is usually milestoned with references to his set design for Pee-wee's Playhouse, Frank Zappa album covers, and his strange underground comics and illustrations for groundbreaking magazines like RAW and Slash. But Panter has always been so much more than that, an all-around, uncontainable creative soul in the body of a polite, self-effacing Okie by way of L.A. and Brooklyn. His commitment to "psychedelia" in all its forms (paintings, posters, light-shows, etc.) also encompasses music. He's bringing his DIY riffs on the psychedelic blues tradition of Cream and Hendrix to town in conjunction with ZPFfffft!!!, a group exhibition featuring classic and new works by Panter, Bob Zoell and Devin Flynn, who is also in the band. This is a group with links to the Residents and Lightning Bolt, so expect a clever alloy of playfulness and intensity. Like all of Panter's artistic offerings, highly recommended. (Gustavo Turner)

Also playing Tuesday: GOGOL BORDELLO at the Mayan; GEMMA RAY at Origami Vinyl (see Music feature); PEGGY SUE at Spaceland; SPACE WAVES at Bootleg Theater; CASSANDRA WILSON at Catalina Jazz Club; BLUE RODEO, JUSTIN RUTLEDGE at the Mint; THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, FEDERALE at the Music Box.

WEDNESDAY/JUNE/23

GREGORY ISAACS AT HOUSE OF BLUES
It's been estimated that reggae great Gregory Isaacs has released more than 500 albums over the past half-century. Although that number includes compilations, it's a stunning feat, especially considering how often that man's dulcet voice has struck gold. The Cool Ruler, as he is known, may possess the most gorgeous set of pipes that Jamaica's ever produced (and Jamaica's produced plenty of pipes). Those smooth vocals powered him through countless talent contests as a teen in Jamaica and eventually lent themselves to the invention of a subgenre called "lovers rock," which found reggae crooners abandoning the pot, politics and proselytizing for paeans to the fairer sex. His biggest, most enduring hit was 1982's "Night Nurse," which described a very serious medical condition that needed constant afterhours attention. But Isaacs' best material came from the especially prolific streak he experienced between '73 and '76, when he collaborated with virtually every hit-making producer on the island in order to stock his independent label and record store, African Museum. (Chris Martins)

MATMOS AND SO PERCUSSION, LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS AT REC CENTER STUDIO
Classical-steeped eccentric ensembles seem to grow on trees in Brooklyn, but So Percussion is the real deal. The Yale-spawned quartet has worked with everyone from Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt to the Dirty Projectors and Dan Deacon, playing everything from gongs and cymbals to beer cans and cactus spines. They've also co-written and recorded an entire album's worth of left-field forays in collaboration with Baltimore production duo Matmos. The record is called Treasure State, and it finds these longtime conspirators achieving a harmonious synchronicity: While Matmos offers bubbling melodies and electronic squall peppered with instrumental exoticism, So Percussion counters with steel drums, chimes, blown-into bottles and various unidentifiable sources. The result is an album that'd be classified as ambient or minimal is if wasn't so utterly brimming with brightness. Come out for this one and you're almost guaranteed to see something get smashed, be it a teacup for the sake of sampling or your expectations. (Chris Martins)