Wyclef - "Sweetest Girl" Wyclef Jean @ Nissan Live Shout Out Louds @ Henry Fonda Paul F. Tompkins, Morgan Murphy @ Largo Casxio, Voxhaul Broadcast @ Silverlake Lounge The Airborne Toxic Event, The Western States Motel @ Detroit Bar Brand New, Thrice, mewithoutYou @ The Wiltern The Pity Party, Io Echo @ Viper Room Shannon Hurley, David Ryan Harris @ Hotel Cafe Resident Hero, Whitey @ Roxy......

Peaches - "Fuck the Pain Away" Peaches, Tone Loc @ Avalon Do Make Say Think, Apostle of Hustle @ The Echo Rodrigo Y Gabriela @ Henry Fonda Brand New, Thrice, mewithoutYou @ The Wiltern Dilated Peoples @ The Roxy AMG, DJ Quik @ Key Club Buck 65 @ Troubadour......

The Blood Arm - "Suspicious Character" Fuck Yeah Fest: Deerhunter, Foreign Born, The Nice Boys, Indian Jewelry, Midnight Movies, The Blood Arm, Great Northern, Darker My Love, Bad Dudes, others @ The Echo Macy Gray @ Hollywood Bowl UB40, The English Beat, Elan @ The Greek The Brand New Heavies @ House of Blues The Real McKenzies, Crosstops, Dynamite 8 @ The El Rey Strunz & Farah @ Catalina Bar & Grill House of......

Ice Cube @ Ventura Theatre Kottonmouth Kings @ Queen Mary Jamie Foxx @ Gibson Ricky Martin @ Staples Jon Mayer @ SMC Type O Negative, Celtic Frost, Brand New Sin @ Avalon Trans Am, Zombi, Black Taj @ The Troubadour Miss Derringer, Mad Juana, The Cheat, Olin and the Moon @ The Roxy Xololanxinxo, Fat Hed & Selecta Fada, Human Beings, Dopestyle @ On the Rox Eleven Hundred Springs, I See Hawks in L.A.,......

LAist gets and listens to a Lot of music. You can see the bands we like in the concerts that we review, the Tonight in Rock listings that we compile, and in the cds that we review. But we realize that we listen to way more music than we review so we figured we make a list once a week letting you know what we're into. week ending 4/06/07 Charlie Louvin - "When I......

The Yardbirds circa 1967 Steve Vai and Jerry Cantrell are the only official guitarists listed for this Yardbirds "reunion", but don't be surprised if other legends decide to sit in with original drummer, Jim McCarty, and rhythm guitarist, Chris Dreja. The Yardbirds, The Flash Express, Rolling Blackouts @ The Knitting Factory The Little Ones, Sea Wolf, The Temporary Thing @ The Troubadour De La Soul, KRS One @ The Canyon The Motels, Berlin @......

The Ataris - Welcome the Night (Sanctuary) David Bowie - Station to Station [VCT] (Virgin) David Bromberg - Try Me One More Time (Appleseed) Bobby Conn - King for a Day (Thrill Jockey) Dean & Britta - Back Numbers (Rounder) Delorean - You Can't Win (Yep Roc) John Denver - Essential John Denver (RCA) Dr. Dog - We All Belong (Park the Van) Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue [30th Anniversary Edition]......

Money Mark -- cohort on keys and unofficial 4th member of the Beastie Boys -- walks a sunny and winding road on his latest solo effort, Brand New By Tomorrow, out today on Brushfire Records. Mark’s brand of Atari-Americana incorporates the sort of warm, mellow, tra-la-la, quirk you’d find on Wilco’s Summerteeth or Josh Rouse’s 1972 but dots it with arcade flourishes -- sometimes funky, sometimes punky -- over lo-fi, Beatles-esque melodies. The result......

A Word Or 46: The Oscars blew its big TV wad all over the place so let's get on with our lives. The Daily Show and Colbert Report are back from hiatus -- did they think they were doing the Oscars again? What's their excuse? Lots of new TV tonight. Tonight - Monday - February 26th, 2007 Lakers @ Jazz (KCAL, 6:00 p.m.) Bobcats @ Clippers (PRIME, 7:30 p.m.) How I Met Your Mother/The......

While some debate about who created rock and roll, there has only been one Godfather of Soul, James Brown, who he died this morning of pneumonia. Yesterday he went to the dentist for a "routine appointment" when it was discovered that the "Hardest Working Man in Show Business" had the illness. Rarely has an artist inspired legends with his voice, his songs, his style, and his dancing. Prince, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Sly and......

Blackmore's Night - Winter Carols (Locomotive) Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (Interscope) Daughtry - Daughtry (19 Recordings/ RCA) Handful of Hate - Gruesome Splendour (Cruz del Music) Il Divo - Siempre (Columbia) Jay-Z - Kingdom Come (Roc-A-Fella) Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies (Roadrunner) Patti Labelle - The Gospel According to Patti Labelle (Bungalo) Rock Star Supernova - Rock Star Supernova (Epic) Snoop Dogg - Tha Blue Carpet......

John Doe @ Largo Deftones @ Avalon Brand New Heavies @ El Rey Lindsey Buckingham @ Wiltern A Flock of Seagulls @ Hollywood Park The Wrens, Asobi Seksu, Bon Savants @The Troubadour Petra Haden & the Sellouts @ Getty Center Ima Robot, Whitestarr @ Roxy Ray Parker Jr. @ Vault 350 Islands @ Henry Fonda Lupe Fiasco @ Key Club Gliss @ Amoeba Janis Ian @ McCabe's Kid Koala, Fog @ The Echo La......

For this Laist contributor, the love for The Brand New Heavies began with a little Heavy Rhyme Experience. Before LL Cool J went unplugged and before The Roots became the only contemporary Black (hip-hop, r&b, pop or rock) band with national acclaim and radio airplay in America, there was this eclectic group of British cats getting supremely funky underneath my favorite rap group in high school, The Pharcyde. From "Soul Flower" 14 years ago......