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MODESELEKTOR AT EL REY THEATRE

Let's be clear about the music of Modeselektor: You can get all heady and intellectual about it, or dancedancedancedance. Or both, we suppose. Modeselektor — named after a function on the Roland RE-201 Space Echo analog delay effects unit (now you know) — is Berlin's Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, a wired couple of dudes who live and breathe the noisy-nasty jumbling jungle of IDM, glitch, electro and, of course, hip-hop. They wouldn't stand out all that much, however, if it weren't for their rather devilish disregard for genre or trend, often coming up with mixes equally at home with the screech of metal, the luxuriant wisps of "ambient" and (we could swear) even the odd bit of country and western. They don't, in other words, give a toss about your hairsplitting electronic-music genre wars. But they do care that you dance your ass off when they rip onstage, tonight most likely pulverizing last year's Moderat album (on the BPitch Control label) and further stompings on techno-dubstep terrain. (John Payne)

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Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

8800 Irvine Center Dr
Irvine, CA 92603

Category: Music Venues

Region: Out of Town

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El Rey Theatre

5515 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park

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The Smell

247 S. Main St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Downtown

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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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Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk

100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608

Category: Attractions/Amusement Parks

Region: Out of Town

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The Echo

1822 W. Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Echo Park

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MUSE AT HONDA CENTER

Perhaps their sheltered incubation in a sleepy seaside town and a lack of diluting lineup changes since forming in 1994 has preserved in Muse a mild madness. For no matter how poppy they get, the Brit trio still stir in unfashionable globs of progressive rock and classical/exotic baroque that keep them idiosyncratic, intriguing and, well, credible. Like their obvious aural ancestors Queen, Muse are the acceptable face of prog, shamelessly catchy but seldom kitschy and with enough singable singles on last year's The Resistance ("Uprising," "Resistance") to make people actually listen to that album's 13-minute "Exogenesis: Symphony" epic. Even when we don't really know what falsetto-prone singer Matthew Bellamy is on about, his heroic, can't-keep-us-down lyrics can be comfortably projected onto our own everyday struggles. And don't worry: Muse's music translates unusually well in megavenues like Honda Center, as it was always aimed squarely at 'em. (Paul Rogers)

Also playing Thursday: JOHNNY WINTER at the Canyon; JOHNNY POLYGON & PM DAWN at the Whisky; FOOL'S GOLD, WALLPAPER, RAINBOW ARABIA at the Troubadour.