Music Picks: She Wants Revenge, Nilbog, Lady Gaga

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13114 Downey Ave.
Paramount, CA 90723-2413

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Southeastern Cities

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The Echoplex

1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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Voxhaul Broadcast

@ THE TROUBADOUR

Voxhaul Broadcast's strength is pushing multiple stylistic and emotional buttons without succumbing to lowest-common-denominator anonymity. Though the Silver Lake (via Orange County) quartet indulge in everything from twinkly goth guitars and a Morrissey-esque sense of classic storytelling to Lennon-McCartney melodic instincts and loose-hipped soul, they still sound coherent of vision and mission. It really helps that, whatever genre alley VB may wander, frontfella David Dennis always sounds like a strutting, rather poetic dandy who, however self-aware, is consistently sincere. This is never more evident than in Voxhaul Broadcast's celebratory, in-the-moment live sets. —Paul Rogers

MEN

@ THE ECHOPLEX

Two and a half years after their tentative first gigs, Le Tigre's JD Samson and guitarists Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Michael O'Neill have tightened their repertoire into a solid set. Onstage and in their new record, Talk About Body, Samson has graduated to the dynamic frontwoman of her own kick-ass dance/punk outfit. Agit-pop, if you will. They call it visibility. —Gustavo Turner

Also playing Saturday:

HABIB KOITÉ, OLIVER MTUKUDZI at UCLA; LENI STERN GROUP at Blue Whale; GOOD CHARLOTTE at House of Blues.

sun 3/27

Variedades

@ THE ECHOPLEX

The celebrated writer Rubén Martínez hosts the debut of this monthly variety show in the spirit of his grandparents, who were vaudeville performers in L.A. in the early 20th century. Each show has a theme, with this one titled "The Road to Los Angeles," inspired by the John Fante novel. While it's not clear yet how much Variedades will involve old vaudeville standbys like slapstick and jugglers, Martínez intends to bridge the city's cultural divide by bringing together diverse literary, musical and theatrical artists. He's off to a good start, with scheduled participants like La Santa Maria's Marisoul, Son Jarocho's César Castro, KPFK's Betto Arcos and musicologist/author Josh Kun. It's rumored that Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano might drop by to lend a spoken word or two. —Falling James

Neil Hamburger

@ THE SATELLITE

Comedian Neil Hamburger will entertain the hipsterati at the former location of Spaceland. Will Britney Spears show up? Cross your (middle) fingers. —Dave Parkman

Also playing Sunday:

 HUGH CORNWELL at Alex's Bar.

mon 3/28

Lady Gaga

@ STAPLES CENTER

The Illuminati continue their campaign of indoctrination of Generations XYZ with their latest puppet. It doesn't matter if you love him, Him or legendary emo band HIM — in fact, when it comes to pop's latest queen, nothing really matters, as Freddie Mercury once said, way before he tuned in to "Radio Gaga." —Dave Parkman

Also playing Monday:

ART VS. SCIENCE at Bootleg Theater; BOWERY BEASTS at Silverlake Lounge.

tues 3/29

Röyksopp

@ THE WILTERN

You don't need us to convince you of the quality of Röyksopp's beats — just peep the guest vocalists this Norwegian duo has attracted over the years: Robyn, Lykke Li, Erlend Øye and Karin Dreijer Andersson of the Knife have all collaborated with Röyksopp, whose cuddly 2001 debut, Melody A.M., deserves a spot on any list of the best down-tempo albums of all time. (We'll admit that's not a list many people seem to be in a rush to make.) Last year's Senior found the group in singer-free ambient-wallpaper mode; it's a grown-up sequel of sorts to 2009's popwise Junior, which you're likely to hear more from at the Wiltern. [Ed.'s note: Next up, MFA?] With Jon Hopkins, the Eno-endorsed English electronic-music dude best known for having been sampled by Coldplay on their Viva la Vida. —Mikael Wood

Nilbog

@ CINEFAMILY at SILENT MOVIE THEATRE

Nilbog is the horror-film-score tribute band to end all horror-film-score tribute bands ... although, come to think of it, the competition's probably not that fierce. Featuring members of Captain Ahab, Anavan, Monsturo and the Black Apples, Nilbog rip out amazingly accurate takes on scary shock-shlock themes by the likes of John Carpenter, Giorgio Moroder, Ennio Morricone and, yup, Goblin (Geddit? Backwards writing — how satanic!). Armed with a nifty array of vintage synths, analog spooky-sounds gear and an uncanny gift for the flavor and feel of the original scores, Nilbog get it right. Tonight hear the six-piece unit tackle tunes from semilegendary jewels of the genre such as Deep Red, Escape From New York and Friday the 13th Part III, followed by a 35 mm screening of director Giulio Paradisi's 1979 sci-fi "classic" The Visitor. —John Payne

OMD

@ THE MUSIC BOX

[See Friday.]

Salem

@ THE ECHOPLEX

Much-hyped Michigan/Chicago crew Salem are, like, very fashionable, which ain't as bad as it sounds. Their King Night album of last year brought a wild hodgepodge of just about every trendy sound making the rounds, from gritty grime to semiwicked dub, rubbing lewdly against nasty Southern-style hip-hop, boom-bass moderne electronique, gothy druggy witch house (boo!) — cue fog machines and strobes and a little heroin chic. In between the pastiched bits of borrowed personality and style, the band leaked something that obliterated their obvious reference points and the sheer grasping trendiness of it all, and that was their persuasive sound of pure young ambition. In other words, they couldn't give a toss how contrived this thing is, and they're gonna do it anyway. File under Beautiful Mess. —John Payne