Acoustice performance of "Love My Way" by the Psychedelic Furs Psychedelic Furs, Persephone’s Bees @ Key Club Melvins, 400 Blows, Tweak Bird @ The Echoplex Cheap Trick @ The Canyon Social Distortion with Lee Rocker @ House of Blues (Sunset Strip) Nikka Costa, DJ C-Minus @ Roxy Chris Brown & Bow Wow with Sean Kingston, Soulja Boy, Shop Boyz @ Gibson Ampitheatre The Supersuckers, Horse Theives @ Viper Room......

Former protégé of super producers The Neptunes, Vanessa Marquez has sang alongside big names like Justin Timberlake, Usher and Nelly. Marquez, best known as the female voice on Timberlake's hit single "Rock Your Body" is on her own and looking to make a name for herself. The Rialto native, who takes the stage tonight at the National Orange Show Fairground in San Bernardino opening for Omarion and Marques Houston, took some time out from a......

A Word or 80: Spent the weekend in Canada, my first visit, in the province of Quebec to be exact. I found the radio programming to be innovative and excellent but television sucked. I'm sure there's some good programmes (please give me cred for the spelling) out there but in a first glance/overview kind of perspective it was wanting. Dear Canuck friends, don't take it personally, American TV sucks for the most part as......

RBD, Nelly Furtado & Timbaland, Danity Kane, JoJo, Bow Wow @ Honda Center The Faint, Ladytron, Ratatat @ Palladium KT Tunstall @ Key Club Camp Freddy, Lilly Allen @ Avalon The Roches @ Royce Hall Earl Klugh @ Vault 350 Enrique Iglesias @ Wiltern Storm & the Balls, The Oohlas, Boatel @ Knitting Factory Amy Millan, Greg Laswell @ The Troubadour Zach Brooke @ Unknown Theater Brant Bjork & the Bros, Abby Travis, Haywire......

Honky @ The Scene The Roots @ Avalon Vice @ Steve Allen Theatre Brazilian Girls @ The Wiltern Veruca Salt, 45 Grave @ Vault 350 Dios Malos, Future Pigeon @ The Echo My Chemical Romance @ House of Blues Ladytron, Midnight Movies @ El Rey Theater Devo, A Flock of Seagulls, Bow Wow Wow @ Greek The Horrors, The Cinematics, The Deadly Syndrome @ Safari Sam's......

Devo, Flock of Seagulls, Bow Wow Wow, Dramarama @ Grove of Anaheim Scritti Politti @ Roxy Pere Ubu @ UCLA Royce Hall Honky (Butthole Surfer JD Pinkus) @ Alex's Bar Banyan (Stephen Perkins, Mike Watt) @ The Mint The Bonebrake Syncopators (X's DJ Bonebrake) @ The Derby Carlos Guitarlos (Of Van Halen's "Top Jimmy" fame) @ Liquid KItty Fright Night, Friday the 13th @ New Beverly......

Devo, A Flock of Seagulls, Bow Wow Wow @ Grove of Anaheim Cypress Hill @ House of Blues KMFDM @ Henry Fonda Theater John Prine @ Wilshire Ebell Theater Nina Hartley (reading) @ Skylight Books Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 with Peter Buck @ Key Club Average White Band @ The Canyon Volto @ The Knitting Factory Reel Big Fish @ Avalon Susan Werner @ McCabe's Dirty Little Secret @ Amoeba Bob Schneider,......

Some of you don't like seeing birthdays. Welll, we think it's kind of sad to only pay attention to people when they die (Gordon Parks, Chris Penn). We'd like to give folks a little nod while they're alive. So as we wish them happy birthday, join us — or just don't read it. Emmanuel Lewis will always be small, even as he turns 35 today. Rapper Lil' Bow Wow is (almost) all grown up —......