Things to Do this Week

for the week of Sept. 17th-next sunday

• Monday: The Sounds at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
• Tuesday: The Rentals at the HOB-Anaheim, or Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (!)(!) at the Troubadour (Playing on Wednesday and Thursday as well)
• Wednesday: New Pornographers at the Fonda(!)(!) (also on Thursday), or Club NME with West Indian Girl and the Softlightes at Spaceland.
• Thursday: Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem at the Hollywood Bowl (!)(!)(!), Sylvie at the Odyssey Theatre (performances also on Friday and Saturday), The Spot at the Banshee (ditto), or Damien Rice at the Greek (!)(!)(!).
• Friday: One Flew West at Studio/Stage (performance on Saturday and Sunday as well), Air at the Greek, The Rentals at the Fonda, Pirates and Ninjas: An Extravagant Adventure at the Theatre of Note (performing on Saturday also) or Cat Power and the Dirty Delta Blues at the Avalon (!)(!)(!)(!)
• Saturday: Cure in The Canyon at the Bony Pony Ranch (Join Shannon Tweed, CCH Pounder and other celebs for a lovely afternoon of tea and beauty treatments while benefiting breast-cancer research.) @ 11:00 a.m., Footsteps at the Hayworth (Sunday as well) or Walking into Traffic at the Unknown Theater.
• Sunday: Rufus Wainwright Sings Judy Garland: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (background) (!)(!)(!)(!)(!) @ 7 p.m.