Division Day, Dusty Rhodes celebrate album releases

Division Day and Dusty Rhodes and the River Band celebrate their album releases tonight.

Division Day, which plays at the Echo, is something of the Little Band That Could. The quartet initially self-released "Beartrap Island" last year, then hooked up with a start-up label that planned to re-release the album with wider distribution. That start-up never started up. Local imprint Eenie Meenie now has the album, remastered with a couple new songs.

Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, a folk-rock six-piece from Anaheim, released "Today You Live" (SideOneDummy Records), a collection of rootsy, harmony-laden numbers with accordion, banjo, mandolin, sitar and harmonica. The band plays the Key Club tonight, where We Are Lions kicks off an October residency. The Sunset Strip nightclub's Ruby Tuesdays are all-ages and free.

Other touts for Tuesday, Oct. 2

Nick Lowe plays Safari Sam's. ... The Weakerthans, behind their new "Reunion Tour" album, play the El Rey, which is sold out. ... Atmosphere tees it up at the Music Box @ Fonda [that's the new name for the Fonda Theatre, a press release tells me]. ... And Metric plays the Glass House.



Photos: Top, Division Day; above, Dusty Rhodes and the River Band