Dusty Rhodes and the River Band If you're all about Ron Paul for president, or just want to kick it with Ron Paul devotees (how about the ladies of Hotties4Paul?), then Safari Sam's is your place tonight. The Short List (some MP3s after the jump) Tattooed Millionaires, Bobby L.A. Hip Hop, Jordan Loder @ Safari Sam's American Music Club @ Taix The Valley Area, Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, Restaurant @ The Echo......

KT Tunstall - "Black Horse & The Cherry Tree" KT Tunstall @ Avalon Misfits @ House of Blues Spiritualized @ The Vista Black Dice, No Age, Mika Miko @ Echoplex Sondre Lerche @ Troubadour American Music Club @ Echo Jill Sobule, Julia Sweeney @ Largo The Whigs, Wild Sweet Orange @ Spaceland Falco Does It Dirty, Omissa, There Shall Be Blood @ Knitting Factory Back Door Slam @ Viper Room DTFM, Truth In Fiction,......

AMERICAN MUSIC an acoustic punk documentary Part Time Punks @ The Echo Anavan, Team Robespierre, Eyes & Ears, Foot Village, Lacoste @ The Smell The Rock 'N Roll Adventure Kids @ Alex's Bar Malas Noches, Faculty, Off The Cross, Mournblade, Ascension @ The Airliner The Spazmatics @ Dragonfly Violent Femmes @ Pacific Amphitheatre High Recommendation John Anson Ford Amphitheater @ 6 p.m. | more info "with Eastside R&B group Tierra (featuring The Salas Brothers);......

Not that we care what they think in Frisco but the SF Weekly (wait, we thought you weren't supposed to call it SF? hmmmm) named Honeycut the Best Soul/Funk Band in town. Well, this isn't your father's soul music. There's Garbage in there, some electronica... modern might be a good way to put it. Sorta sounds like Beck's forays into nu whiteboy funk which is dangerous because even Beck has failed in that world......

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Blood Brothers @ Henry Fonda Black Eyed Peas, Ciara, Danity Kane @ Staples Center RZA (pictured) @ Key Club Bob Forrest @ Silverlake Lounge (5:30pm, Happy Hour people!) The Dickies, Agent Orange @ The Knitting Factory Imogen Heap @ The Wiltern American Music Club @ Spaceland Anita Baker @ Gibson The Fray @ The Troubadour Fu Manchu, Open Hand, The Substitutes @ Viper Room......

Lloyd Banks, Cartel, Suspects, Stamina @House of Blues Perry Farrell, The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello), Nuno Bettencourt @ Hotel Cafe American Music Club @ Silverlake Lounge Steve Aoki @ Cinespace Gregg Allman @ The Canyon Michael Penn @ Largo The Evangelicals @ Spaceland The Lovemakers @ The Troubadour No Thanks, Diablo's Darlings @ Viper Room The Handsome Family, The Chapin Sisters, HT Heartache @ El Cid Restaurant The Hidden Cameras, Born Ruffians, The Minor Canon......

Tuesday Night "Rachael Ray's Thanksgiving in 60" (FOOD, 6:00 p.m.) If you're in need of last minute T-giving ideas watch this evil little sprite dish them out "Beauty and the Beast" (IFC, 6:00 p.m.) Director Jean Cocteau's 1946 surreal take on the fairy tale. Hey, at least I'm not pushing you to watch Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky" at 9:25 p.m. "NHL Hockey" (PRIME, 7:00 p.m.) Sharks @ Ducks "NBA Basketball" (the CW or FSW, 7:30......

James Tenney died on Thursday, August 24th of lung cancer. The last time I spoke to Jim Tenney, it was at Target in Valencia. As always, it was a bit of an awkward situation. I think I was buying Halo 2; something that may not be too impressive to a professor who was a conceptual composer. The only music I was doing post-college was scoring a documentary, but his body language seemed stoic in......

The father of Chicano music has died. Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero, Jr. was 88. The man should be considered a Los Angeles icon having spent most of his adult life living in and around the city. 20 years ago, he and his son, Mark Guerrero, performed "Two Generations of Mexican-American Music in L.A." at the Southwest Museum in Highland Park and have done similar performances throughout California ever since. Recognized by The Smithsonian as a......

It's a slow week in town, but show up at the Egyptian Theatre at 8:00 PM to see the Jean-Pierre Jeunet Tribute, featuring the films Delicatessen and Amelie. Jeunet will be on-hand for a discussion following the films, schedule permitting. At 7:00 PM, Amoeba Music will be hosting the reunited American Music Club, playing songs off their new album, Love Songs for Patriots. At the Silverlake Lounge, show up around 9:00 PM for a......