Friday Happenings

Dancing Hipsters

-- Diplo, the scruffy Mississippi kid who introduced the hip crowd to Baltimore club, Miami bass, and Brazilian funk all those years ago, returns to Boston for the first time in what seems like a decade. And he comes with friendsl: Telepathe, the NYC band whose "process-oriented" groove charts a course between My Bloody Valentine and dub and LA rockers Abe Vigoda. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., 8 p.m. $15.

Local Boys

-- Boston's leading light Jonathan Richman gets crazier every year. Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, 7 p.m. Sold out.

Garage Rock

-- If you hear four on the floor in Jamaica Plain tonight, listen carefully; you might also hear two chords and the truth. Local boys Lyres headline garage rock night, with Live Fast Die and Cause Co-motion in the wings. Milky Way Lounge, 403 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, 9 p.m. $8.

Danzig in Worcester

-- If Worcester truly is the Paris of the Eighties, then it's a fitting spot to host eighties icon (and voracious reader) Glen Danzig and his eponymous, if aged, rock band. Performing with Dimmu Borgir. Palladium, 261 Main St., Worcester, 6:55 p.m. (seriously). $27.50/$31.

Image of Telepathe from Myspace