Hey, Hollywood Bowl, any time you want to take a breather from booking nerd-salivating sets for fall, you just go ahead and relax and pour yourself a drink. Pavement and Sonic Youth and No Age on Sept. 30? Phoenix and Grizzly Bear and Girls on Sept. 18? And now LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip and Sleigh Bells on Oct. 15?

Kids, prepare your Ticketmaster trigger fingers for 10 a.m. Friday.

-- August Brown

Photo: James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem performs onstage during the Splendour in the Grass festival at Woodfordia on July 30 in Woodford, Australia. Credit: Mark Metcalfe / Getty Images.

This much is true: If you write a song called “Drunk Girls,” no matter how thick you cake on the layers of irony, you will reap what you sow.

Of course, there are other ways to explain the popularity of James Murphy, the 40-year-old frontman of LCD Soundsystem, who sold out the Hollywood Palladium on Friday night: He’s synthesized the last 30 years of avant-garde guitar and dance music into a pop-friendly package with knowingly referential winks for the snobs (covers of tracks by Suicide frontman Alan Vega; Brian Eno and David Bowie homage; the critical catnip of debut single “Losing My Edge”) and enough extended groove for the Fisher Price rave kids. He’s Grammy-nominated. Spike Jonze directs his videos. He’s toured with Arcade Fire. He’s even made an album for Nike.

But had there been breathalyzers lining Hollywood Boulevard around midnight, they would have revealed a ridiculously high percentage of drunk girls — and even more drunk boys. As in the first single from  LCD Soundsystem's third album, “This Is Happening,” there were drunk girls waiting an hour in line to pee, drunk girls queuing in 30-person columns to purchase $10 drinks to prolong their buzz. Drunk boys who didn’t walk like pedestrians, they fist-pumped like frat boys — not the “Jersey Shore” crowd, but certainly their viewing audience (not that there’s anything wrong with that).