Tinariwen at UCLA’s Royce Hall

Tinariwen’s long, repetitive figures of brittle electric guitar wind around trance-inducing hand drums, and it’s positively narcotic. The Touareg band has plenty of stateside admirers, and their recent record “Aman Iman” was among the best guitar albums of 2007. But time on the road has made stage stars of them -- they cut mean poses in sunglasses, twirl like dervishes in the breakdowns and harmonize like a distress call from across the dunes. Royce Hall, UCLA, 340 Royce Drive, L.A.. 8 p.m. Sat. $24-$48. (310) 825-2101.