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New video from Dengue Fever

04:58 PM PT, Mar 6 2008

Local miscellany: The cinematic quality to Dengue Fever's sound makes it a natural for music videos. Here's the latest from the band's third album, "Venus on Earth." The track is titled "Seeing Hands":


Elsewhere: That sold-out Hot Chip show that was postponed Feb. 4 (at the El Rey) has been rescheduled for April 28 -- and it's at the Mayan. No on-sale date has been announced for the additional tickets yet; tickets for the original show will be honored... Locally famous folkies and Jenny Lewis collaborators the Watson Twins are now aligned with Vanguard Records and have a debut album, "Fire Songs," coming June 24. ... Midnight Movies are back with a new EP, "Nights," out digitally on Tuesday (check out "Should Have Known" on MySpace.

Highlights for tonight, March 6

Local dream-rock quintet Twilight Sleep celebrates the release of its new EP, "Race to the Bottom of the Sea," with a show tonight at the Echo that also features Karin Tatoyan and Restaurant. ... Brooklyn psych-rock quartet My Best Fiend, whose album of tuneful neuroses reminds you of stuff like Pink Floyd and Clinic, plays the first of a two-night stand in L.A. at the Viper Room. (The band is at the Echo on Friday.)  Also teeing it up on the good Viper Room bill tonight: Gran Ronde, Reeve Carney and the Daylights. ... Big goings-on at the Forum, where the Foo Fighters and Against Me! perform. ... The Junior Boys are doing a DJ set at Spaceland, where Troy This is playing. ... The Start kicks off a residency at Crash Mansion. ... And local quartet the Hanks mark the release of their sophomore album, "Distance," with a show at the Knitting Factory.

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Kevin Bronson
Kevin Bronson has covered emerging and indie music since 2002 in his weekly Buzz Bands column in the Calendar Weekend section of the L.A. Times. He adores caffeine, judicious use of falsetto and the 6-4-3 double play. He abhors exclamation points, modern country and any notion that New York City is the center of the cultural universe. He's older than any music blogger he knows but has been known to pogo. He'll try not to pretend.

Bronson's Buzz Bands show can be heard Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. Pacific time on the Internet radio station LittleRadio.com.

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