8pm Pop Music

8pm Pop Music

Thievery Corporation doesn’t tour often and it has one of the most rabid followings in electronic music. The result: a two-night engagement at the El Rey. The Washington, D.C., duo of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton traverse the borders between trip-hop and acid jazz, creating alluring, down-tempo moods on such albums as the recent “The Mirror Conspiracy.”

Thievery Corporation, with Blue States and Nicola Conte, El Rey Theatre, 5515 Wilshire Blvd., L.A., 8 p.m., today and Friday. $25. (323) 936-4790.

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8pm Theater

Master of the comic razor-edged rant Eric Bogosian returns with “The Worst of Eric Bogosian,” a raging parade of junkies, businessmen, hipsters, panhandlers and type-A personalities from his off-Broadway solo shows “Drinking in America,” “Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll” and “Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead” and his newest show, “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee.”

“The Worst of Eric Bogosian,” Freud Playhouse, 405 Hilgard Ave., Westwood, today through Saturday, 8 p.m. $35. Adult audiences. (310) 825-2101.

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10pm Pop Music

The banda-bending Tijuana techno masters the Nortec Collective are the inaugural pop attraction of 2002 at L.A.’s new room with a view--the new, lavish, 25,000-square-foot Highlands nightclub.

Nortec Collective, the Highlands, 6801 Hollywood Blvd., L.A., 10 p.m. $12.50. (323) 461-9800.

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8:30pm Jazz

Grammy nominee for contemporary jazz Marcus Miller has been called a musical Renaissance man. He’s a much-sought-after record producer for pop and jazz artists. He scores films. And although originally known as a string-snapping electric bassist when he was part of the Miles Davis groups of the mid-1980s, today Miller successfully works soprano sax and bass clarinet into his act.

Marcus Miller Band, Catalina Bar & Grill, 1640 N. Cahuenga Blvd., L.A., today through Saturday, 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. $25 to $35. (323) 466-2210.