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Friday
 · Music round-up: Darker My Love plays the Echo, Rob Dickinson is at the Hotel Cafe, the Killers succumb to their inner-Vegasness at the Wiltern and Mariah Carey moves as little as humanly possible on the Staples Center stage.
· The Fake Gallery hosts The Blaine-In, an evening of comedians playing music. A welcome opportunity for anyone who's long felt the urge to laugh loudly and openly at coffee-house folk music culture. Featuring Craig Anton, Rita D'Albert, Charles Ezell, Jim Earl, Ileen Goldsmith, Ray James, Danny Kinsella, Paul Kozlowski, Matthew Lawton, Jon Manfrelotti, Linda Pine, Mark Rivers and Kurt Weitzman.
Saturday
 · Don your hippest undead-wear and drag yourself to the LA Zombie Walk in search of nourishing brains. (The route ends at Sunset and Fairfax, so plan on going hungry.)
· The 1st Annual LA Weekly Detour Music Festival invades downtown, with Beck, Basement Jaxx and Queens of the Stone Age headlining, with DJ sets by VHS or Beta, Shapard Fairey, and more.
· For those who will never forgive Queens of the Stone Age for appearing on Pepsi Smash, there's the thoroughly indie Eagle Rock Music Festival on Colorado Blvd. between Eagle Rock Blvd. and Argus, featuring Jesca Hoop, Eleni Mandell, Monsters Are Waiting and Bodies of Water.
Sunday
 · The Album Leaf play the Troubadour, and Califone is at Spaceland.
· Authors Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman read from their book Yiddish with George and Laura at the Skirball Center, with the phlegmatic language opening up a whole new universe of vocabulary-mangling opportunities for the President.
· Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin hosts his weekly comedy variety show, Jeff Garlin's Combo Platter at the UCB theater, tonight featuring the voice of Flushed Away's rodent gourmand, Patton Oswalt.