Swervedriver's Adam Franklin emerges with new album

There should be a healthy number of shoegazer fans who will genuflect and show up tonight at the Echo to check out Adam Franklin. He's the former front man of Creation Records staple Swervedriver, and eight years after that band called it quits  he has a new album "Bolts of Melody" (released in June) -- which incorporates touches of his band's old noise into a psychedelic and folk-rock stew.

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Touts for Tuesday, July 17

There's new music from locals Mighty Six Ninety (and one song on the MySpace site is free); they're on the bill tonight at the Key Club with this month's residents, the newly reconstituted Maxeen. ... It should be a crowded house for Crowded House at the Troubadour. ... And with Spoon and the Watson Twins scheduled to play Cinespace, there should be a long line of hope-I-get-ins along Hollywood Boulevard. ... The Eastern Conference Champions show [read below] is now at the Silverlake Lounge, with Vampire Weekend also playing. ... And Minnie Driver (yes, she can play and sing as well as act) celebrates the release of "Seastories" with a show at the Hotel Cafe.

Don't believe me about Minnie Driver? Stream the album here.