Last August, Aimee Mann, Joan Osborne, Rob Laufer, Ian Ball from Gomez, and Al Jorgensen joined Cheap Trick and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra to recreate Sgt. Peppers on it's 40th Anniversary. They'll do it again June 28th. We're four months out from the official start of the 2008 Hollywood Bowl Season and the schedule is nearly complete. Single tickets won't go on sale for a couple months but the Bowl is offering 16 different......

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......

Need some butt-rock to motivate your ass out the door to finish shopping? Luckily it's not just Satan, Satan, Satan all the time with these guys. TWISTED SISTER - Heavy Metal Christmas (Twelve Days of Christmas) That's quite a swag bag Dee Snider's accumulated by day twelve... twenty-two pairs of spandex pants, thirty studded belts, thirty-six quarts of Jack... but one wonders where he can possibly fit twelve Ozzy tattoos on his body. &righticonhover=0x333232&text=0x333232&slider=0xF2F2F2&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0xFFFFFF&loader=0x838383&soundFile=http://aprodxn.com/laist/10 Heavy......

Bob Thompson’s passionate preview of last night’s Biblical Proof of UFOs show at Spaceland told the story of one of the truly great lost Los Angeles bands. Three unassuming nice guys who subverted the local scene for six-some years, then dissolved into the ether. Bob’s reverence is not undeserved. In their prime, BPUFO mastered the art of dynamics better than any band I’ve ever seen. I always pictured them crammed into a sweaty practice......

by Chuck Clayton for LAist Toothpaste is good and so is orange juice, but it’s a goddamn tragedy every time you try to combine them. Like power-pop. Seems like a no-brainer on paper, you know — mixing Beatles melodic values with bigger guitars and drums — but, in practice, power pop nearly never works. It’s usually whiny and wimpy and often flabby, too, all the wrong Paul McCartney moves played by, well, Beatle nerds......

Justin Timberlake @ Staples Center Cheap Trick @ Bike Fest, Bonelli Park (San Dimas) Pink Martini @ Hollywood Bowl The Spazmatics @ Dragonfly VHS or Beta @ The Glasshouse Handsome Furs, Johnny and The Moon, Nico Stai @ The Echo Hello Menno, Io Perry, Mike Stinson, Alina Simone, Icebird @ Spaceland Letting Up Despite Great Faults, The Henry Clay People @ All Star Lanes......

In the springtime when the Hollywood Bowl announced their schedule, a friend of mine made sure to secure tickets to the “Sgt. Pepper’s at 40...a Beatles Celebration featuring Cheap Trick”. For some reason he agreed to go camping at Catalina Island for the weekend with friends, so I ended up with tickets for Saturday night's performance. Looking around the audience in our Section R1 seats, the audience was what was expected for a bunch......

Rage Against the Machine, Wu-Tang Clan, Cypress Hill, Public Enemy, Nas, the Roots, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Sage Francis, Brother Ali @ Hyundai Pavillion John Densmore & Tribal Jazz @ LACMA (5pm) Poison, Ratt @ Gibson Hookah, Saccharine Trust, Ghidra @ Mr. T's Bowl Minnie Driver, Mark Olson, AM @ The Hotel Cafe Cheap Trick @ Hollywood Bowl Very Be Careful @ The Bordello Danger Kitty @ The Canyon Scissors for Lefty, Gran Ronde......

Cheap Trick - "Magical Mystery Tour", Tokyo '92 Cheap Trick, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra @ Hollywood Bowl (some Beatles thing) Great Northern, The Comas, Twilight Sleep @ Spaceland KC & the Sunshine Band @ The Canyon The Adolescents, Channel 3 @ Safari Sam's Tim McGraw, Faith Hill @ The Honda Center CunninLynguists, Tonedeff, PackFM @ The Roxy Guitars & Saxes, Warren Hill, Diane Schuur @ Rainbow Lagoon - Long Beach Jazz Fest Raine Maida,......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

Cheap Trick @ The Canyon Dir en Grey @ Wiltern The English Beat @ Key Club James Taylor @ Wilshire Theatre Flogging Molly @ Henry Fonda The Blue Hawaiians @ Lava Lounge The Groovy Rednecks @ Anarchy Library I See Hawks in LA, Mike Stinson @ The Scene The Strays, King Cheetah, The Stranger’s Six @ Spaceland Lady Sinatra, Veruca Salt, The Ringers, Tack @ Viper Room The Deserters, Sin City, Leroy, Tandy, The......

Mere Mortals @ Silverlake Lounge Cheap Trick @ The Wiltern Peter Frampton @ The Canyon Regina Spektor @ Avalon Shelby Lynne, The Watson Twins @ El Rey Moving Picture Show, Castaneda @ Spaceland Robert Randolph & the Family Band @ House of Blues Drewfest, Big Moves, Juanita Mannequin @ Viper Room X-Ray OK, Letting Up Despite Great Faults @ Little Pedro's Mouse on Mars, Birdy Num Num, Carmen Rizzo @ The Echo Hijos de......

Rockstar: Supernova took a wrong turn down American Idol alley tonight, taping the arrival of the singers in their tricked out Honda Elements. We'll take solace that at least they didn't air commercials of the rockers riding the Elements through Hollywood like AI contestants did with the Ford Focus. So they didn't cheese out entirely. But there is one more show left.. All five of the finalists were in the bottom three at some......

TUESDAY • Les Savy Fav with The Hold Steady, Thunderbirds Are Now and Swearing At Motorists are at Avalon tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $17. • The one and only Cheap Trick are at the House of Blues Sunset. Doors open at 8 PM; tickets are $33.50. [18+] • LACMA features a 7:30 PM lecture, Eames Interiors: "Functioning Decoration," by Pat Kirkham of the Bard Graduate Center in New York. Admission is $15.......

At MOCA at the Pacific Design Center, Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena, partners at Escher GuneWardena Architecture, will be giving an art talk on the Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec exhibition currently at MOCA. The talk begins at 6:30 PM. At Spaceland, see rowdy country rockers The Gourds with Von Cotten and Brokedown. Doors open at 9:00 PM. Tonight is the second and final Cheap Trick show at the Canyon Club. Doors open at 6:00......

LAist once saw someone do a karaoke rendition of Cheap Trick's "Surrender" that involved a blow-up guitar; particularly considering that the act took place in a coffee house, it was an impressive show. LAist is willing to concede, however, that tonight's actual Cheap Trick show at the Canyon Club will probably top it. Doors open at 6:00 PM for dinner reservations; the show starts at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $42.50. In film, the Silver......