Jenny Owen Youngs @ The Bordello Yo-Yo Ma @ Royce Hall Average White Band @ Cerritos Center Air Supply @ The Orpheum KRS-One @ House of Blues The Warlocks, Darker My Love @ Troubadour Tiger Army, Said Radio @ Wiltern I See Hawks in L.A. @ Cinema Bar Fear, The Gears, The Outsiders @ Safari Sam's The Parson Red Heads, Or the Whale @ The Echo Glen Phillips @ Largo sweet ass contest Wanna......

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......

First we'd like to congratulate our Justin Timberlake winner ChiGirl who has a great blog with our badge permanently on her blog. If you didn't win the JT seats, leave your button on your blog because we will have at least one contest a month for people who permanently link to us. How's that? Justin Timberlake, Pink @ Staples Center The Nightwatchman @ The Hotel Cafe Darker My Love, The Holy Curtain @ Safari......

The Killers @ The Wiltern Mariah Carey @ Staples Center Roger Waters @ Hollywood Bowl Country Joe McDonald @ McCabe's Jonny Lang @ House of Blues Mere Mortals @ the Hear Gallery Killola, 8mm, It’s Revenge @ Safari Sam's MC Chris, The Hairbrain Scheme @ The Roxy Riverboat Gamblers, Dead to Me @ Alex's Bar Dirty Sweet, Nico Vega @ Viper Room Courtney Jaye @ Amoeba (free) 8 Bit @ Mr. T's Bowl Una,......

There are so many good cds coming out this week, it's sorta like Christmas in August. We will be reviewing some of these cds over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we put our faves in bold. Against Me - Americans Abroad!!! Against Me!!! Live in London!!! (Fat Wreck Chords) Alexisonfire - Crisis (Vagrant) "Clerks II" soundtrack (Bulletproof) Cursive - Happy Hollow (Saddle Creek) Danity Kane - Danity Kane (Bad Boy) Darker......

Giant Drag, The Thermals, Envy, Dios Malos, Tussle, Silversun Pickups, Darker My Love, Foreign Born, Toys that Kill, Brother Reade, Whiskey Biscuit, Rolling Blackouts, Strange Boys, The Minor Canon, Sleeping People, Subtitle & Friends, Graf Orlock, Chuck Ragan, Hit Me Back, Carry the Casket, Upsilon Acrux,Shapes and Sizes, Thee Make Out Party, Michael Runion, Life with an Astronaut @ Fuck Yeah Fest Ted Nugent @House of Blues Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker @ Key Club......

Alice Cooper @ Ventura Theatre Nickelback @ Pond of Anaheim Lisa Germano @ Amoeba (free, 7pm) XO @ Viper Room The Star Fuckers @ The Cat Club Silversun Pickups, Darker My Love @ The Troubadour Brutus Gets the Girl @ The Scene Dennis DeYoung @ The Canyon Bad Dudes @ The Smell Craig Wedren & Adam Wade @ Spaceland......

Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young @ Hollywood Bowl Santana @ Verizon Ettes, Bright Light Fever, The Oohlas @ The Echo (free) Darker My Love @ Spaceland Beth Orton @ Avalon Corrine Bailey Rae @ House of Blues International Pop Overthrow @ Cat Club Panic! at the Disco @ Grove of Anaheim Amos Lee @ Hotel Cafe Smif N Wessun @ Knitting Factory Neuromance @ Viper Pack of Wolves @ The Good Hurt Metal Skool @......

They're dreamy they're psychedelic and they're heavy. They're Darker My Love and they've been holding court at Spaceland these Monday nights, for free, for your collective asses. Here's what we wish. You know how they have all these festivals and everything has a theme? You don't even need a festival for this, but we'd love to see one with Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg, Black Crowes, Wolfmother and Darker My Love, because this band just......

Tonight The Upper Crust (pictured) @ Spaceland Go-Go's, Morningwood @ Greek Steve Miller @ Pacific Amphitheatre Matt Costa, Watson Twins @ Troubadour The Romantics @ Hollywood Park Appleseed Cast @ The Echo Saturday Bobby Brown, En Vogue, Bell Biv Devoe, SWV @ Greek The Upper Crust @ Alex's Bar Z-Trip @ Vault 350 Mason Jennings @ Tower (Santa Monica) Sunday Fishboy @ Tangier Ray Davies @ Wiltern Greg Graffin @ Troubadour Monday Darker My......

Fri 6/9 - Silversun Pickups / Film School @ the Echo ($10) – The Silversun Pickups drop their debut full-length, Carnavas, on July 25th on Dangerbird Records. The record is consistently strong and they're one of the handful of local bands with a really good chance of blowing up this year. Expect to hear a few Smashing Pumpkins comparisons in the reviews (classic Gish/Siamese Dream-era Pumpkins). San Francisco’s Film School frequently gets favorably compared......

THURSDAY • Mary Timony, Timonium and Holloy are at The Echo tonight at 9 PM. Tickets are $10. [18+] • Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers are at the Viper Room with the Deere Johns at 8:30 PM. • The Scene hosts Complete Control Thursdays, featuring Darker My Love and The Drips, with DJ sets by Keith Morris, Tenniel Chu and Kevin Fitzgerald. Cover is $5. • Richard Matheson discusses and signs Woman tonight at......

THURSDAY • At the Knitting Factory, check out Red Sparowes (members of Isis, Neurosis, Pleasure Forever, Angel Hair and Halifax Pier) with Darker My Love, Skull Sküll (members of Liars and Young People), DJ Travis Keller and DJ Sam Velde at 8 PM. Tickets are $8 advance, $10 at the door. • The Raveonettes wrap up their last night at Spaceland with She Wants Revenge and Be Your Own Pet. Doors open at 9......

Tonight at the Knitting Factory, the Early Day Miners are performing with Chris Brokaw at 8:30 PM. Admission is $7. At The Fold at King King, tonight features Darker My Love, Eskimohunter and The Drips (members of The Bronx). Cover is $7. AFI at ArcLight presents a special screening of the Marlon Brando classic On the Waterfront at 8 PM.......

At the Hammer Museum show up at 7:00 PM to see In the Realms of the Unreal, filmmaker Jessica Yu's 2004 documentary on outsider artists Henry Darger. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and Ms Yu will be on hand after the film for a Q&A session. Meanwhile, The Fold at King King plays host to Tsar, Darker My Love and Thieves Like Us for......