BURNIN’ DOWN THE HOUSE: London’s latest controversial...

BURNIN’ DOWN THE HOUSE: London’s latest controversial music craze in London is acid house (a delirious big-beat dance music, which has Brit teens bouncing off the walls (and popping LSD to fuel their frenzy). If L.A. has an answer-music, perhaps it’s the city’s new wave of psych-rock bands, who’ll be on display at Lhasaland Feb. 11. The bill features Caterwaul, Shiva Burlesque, the Nymphs and Red Temple Spirits. . . . Cinemax recently taped a New Orleans special, “The Neville Brothers: Tell It Like It Is,” which will air on the cable service in April. It stars the Nevilles, Buckwheat Zydeco, the Dixie Cups, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Greg Allman, John Hiatt and actor Dennis Quaid, who flew down from Memphis (where he’s starring in “Great Balls of Fire,” the Jerry Lee Lewis bio-film) for a sizzling duet with Bonnie Raitt on “Closer to You,” a song Quaid wrote for “The Big Easy.” But our vote for the night’s most unusual guest star goes to CBS-TV newsman Ed Bradley, a major Crescent City music fan who sings “Sixty-Minute Man.” . . . Kudos to KMPC-FM deejay Jim Ladd for being the only rock deejay in town with enough savvy social consciousness to offer a Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday tribute. On his Monday show, Ladd interspersed excerpts from King speeches with anthems like Patti Smith’s “People Have the Power,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Chimes of Freedom,” Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” and U2’s moving ode to King, “Pride in the Name of Love.”