If you live in/around the L.A. area, seriously consider attending these:

• Region: Echo Park
  Music: Dirty Projectors* and Little Wings**
  Vitals: Rec Center Studio on Saturday, October 31 (two sets)
  (details at LA Weekly)

* read “Balls Deep In The R&B,” a feature about Dirty Projectors, here.
** listen to Little Wings’ “Boom!” on the Now Hear This sidebar

• Region: Silver Lake
  Music: The Happy Hollows, Pepper Rabbit, and Dirt Dress
  Vitals: Spaceland on Monday, November 2 (beginning of residency)
  (details at LA Weekly)

• Region: Hollywood
  Music: Pixies and No Age
  Vitals: Hollywood Palladium on Thursday, November 5
  (details at LA Weekly)