Music Picks: Willie Nelson's Country Throwdown, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, Peter Murphy

Also playing:

RIHANNA at Staples Center; REBEL PEBBLES (reunion show) at Silverlake Lounge; THE SOUL OF JOHN BLACK at Little Temple; THE POSTELLES at Echo; MA-DO QUARTET (SATOKO FUJII) at Blue Whale.

Nikki Corvette: See Thursday.

Peter Murphy: See Wednesday.

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The Echoplex

1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: Out of Town

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Roxy Theatre

9009 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: West Hollywood

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The Troubadour

9081 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Category: Bars/Clubs

Region: West Hollywood

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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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wed 6/29

Peter Murphy

@TROUBADOUR

Bauhaus was indeed greater than the sum of its parts, crafting in the early 1980s compellingly moody soundscapes that still sound bracingly new today, especially when compared to obvious imitators like Interpol and She Wants Revenge. While former members David J, Kevin Haskins and Daniel Ash have occasionally reached similar creative heights with such projects as Love & Rockets and Tones on Tail, Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy has had a much spottier solo career. His latest CD, Ninth, is a vast improvement over previous releases, as Murphy sings his "praise in modal tones." The album ranges from shadowy incantations like the enigmatic "Secret Silk Society" to more straightforward post-punk glam rockers like "Velocity Bird." He even evokes Bauhaus a bit with the skittering guitars of "Seesaw Sway" and the wounded romanticism of his darkly veiled vocals on "I Spit Roses." —Falling James

Sarabeth Tucek

@BOOTLEG BAR

The associations of some artists are studies in the extreme. Like old photographs of Bob Marley and the Jackson 5, or Nancy Reagan kissing Mr. T on the top of his head, the concept of those people in that room at the same time is fairly mind-boggling in its implications. Singer-songwriter Sarabeth Tucek has worked with both Bill Callahan of Smog and Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, synthesizing those influences and her own burgeoning talents into a voice lying somewhere between a whisper and a gasp, hovering over the guitar strings before falling headlong into a dive. Her new album, Get Well Soon, came out on Sonic Cathedral about two months ago and it's about her late father. The implications of that particular dynamic are boggling and intricate on their own, unfolding with every note and every word. Also tonight: Twilight Sleep, Magic Mirror. —David Cotner

Also playing:

ALELA DIANE at Echo; SONDRE LERCHE at El Rey.

thu 6/30

Animals & Men

@THE SMELL

Some bands from the early days of British punk and art rock emerged from obscurity and just as quickly melted straight back into it. Animals & Men, named for the Adam & the Ants song — both groups staunch friends of the ampersand — had a few singles through the late '70s and the early '80s and then became the band known as the Terraplanes. Not so much killed by death as annihilated by oblivion, they're rocketing back out of obscurity for a U.S. tour, turning the people on to the jagged and the dissonant. Seeing them live isn't an exercise in arrogance but instead ambition — an aesthetic long embraced by the warm brick walls of the Smell — and their music, no matter how sporadically pursued, has kept them youthful and spry as they tour, supporting their recent self-titled Convulsive Records 12-inch. Also tonight: Dunes, KIT, Wounded Lion. —David Cotner

Everything Is Festival with Proctor & Bergman, Neil Hamburger, Andrew W.K., et al.

@CINEFAMILY

Potentially, anything can be funny — or at the very least cracked, right? Bearing that in mind, here's an excuse to convene a bunch of like-minded weirdos of the film and video ephemera collector persuasion and toss them onto a big pile of people who do and say things comical and ... well, it's all about having fun! Nothing wrong with that. Firesign Theater's Proctor & Bergman will surreal the deal, Neil Hamburger will be tragically unfunny and you will laugh; Andrew W.K. gives a motivational lecture to encourage us not to kill ourselves; Mark Hosler of Negativland plays a video and yaks about his "band's" infamous media hoaxes; a panel of writers from Conan O'Brien's show (both NBC and TBS versions) tell behind-the-scenes stories; Joe Dante's four-hour found-footage epic, Movie Orgy, gets a rare screening; and the Found Footage Battle Royale returns! —John Payne

Nikki Corvette

@REDWOOD BAR & GRILL

With the recent change of seasons, it's time once again for some "Summertime Fun" from Detroit pop-punk princess Nikki Corvette. Although her ebullient power-pop singles on Bomp Records with Nikki & the Corvettes in the late 1970s established her as a winsome Motor City rival to Debbie Harry, she's always been a fan of harder bands like the MC5, the Stooges and her old pals the Ramones. In recent years, her music has gotten increasingly punk, even as it's still crowned with her terminally effervescent melodies. During that time, she's collaborated with such raucous peers as the Short Fuses' Travis Ramin and the Gore Gore Girls' Amy Surdu, and tonight she'll be backed by a band of all-star locals, led by the ubiquitous punk drummer Roy Morgan. —Falling James

HEAVY

@ECHOPLEX

Dubstep's long been a part of Low End Theory at Lincoln Heights' Airliner, but now it's found a new home — this weekly party at the Echoplex called HEAVY. Daddy Kev and Nobody — two DJs who could easily whip up regular sets in pretty much any genre in about 15 seconds flat — serve as residents at both weeklies along with 6BLOCC, one of the earliest and loudest local practitioners of U.K.-born dank and dirty beats so bass-heavy they'll massage your inner organs and make your head spin. Expect special guests of the same caliber gracing Low End. If you've been paying attention, you know you'll be kicking yourself later for missing out. —Lainna Fader

Also playing:

SPINDRIFT at Dark Horse; CORRIDOR, JOHNNY O'DONNELL, RESIDUAL ECHOES at Echo; IDA MARIA at Roxy.