Hey Dish Network customers, there was a drop of almost 90% in new subscribers to your service last quarter showing that the telcos are becoming even more competitive in the digital TV/broadband space. The company is recording higher profits though so all is not lost if they regroup and get their act together. TV options tonight are pretty poor, even on the premium networks. If the SAG and studios don't get their acts together, nighttimes......

In the previous installations of Coachella there have been some huge headliners. Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Bjork, The Beastie Boys but none quite on the level of day two's headliner, the Purple One, Prince. From the moment he hit the stage with Morris Day and Shelia E. it was apparent that the audience was in for a lesson in musicianship and showmanship. As he played through a set mixed of standards and the cover......

The moment has finally materialized: The official lineup for the three-day mega music fest in the middle of nowhere (aka Empire Polo Field in Indio) has been announced. Start putting those Susan B. Anthonys in your piggy banks now, music fans. 3-Day passes will run you $269.00 (+ $3 charity + applicable service fees), and single day passes are $90 (+ $1 charity + applicable service fees). If you're just picking one day, be ready......

If you keep walking west down Hollywood Blvd past the nonsense of Hollywood & Highland, past the tourist and super heroes at the Chinese Theater and down the next block, you will find the Knitting Factory, tucked away beneath what was once a movie theater. Boasting three stages and tons of bands every night, the Knitting Factory comes to us via New York and has hosted some shows this year that LAist had a great......

After last season's excellent cliffhanger, on August 13th Weeds returns to Showtime for its 3rd season. LAist asked Creator and Executive Producer, Jenji Kohan about breaking into television, being a working mom, and what draws her to the flawed characters she has created. LAist: The new season of Weeds begins on August 13. How do feel going into your 3rd season? Jenji Kohan: I feel tired, but great. We took the finale of season......

Having achieved a degree of musical success in their pre-teen years that would make most adult musicians green with envy, Seattle indie rock duo Smoosh has become a musical sensation that manages to transcend the twin curses of both the tween and indie rock genres. Unlike the cloyingly precocious, prefab stars of Nickelodeon or the earnestly self-serious icons of indie rock, Smoosh has a unique sound that manages to be charmingly naive and authentically......

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together in the sight of Rock and in the face of Roll, to join together you, dear LAist reader, and this New Music Tuesday in holy Matrimony. This mystical union is not to be entered into lightly, or unadvisedly, but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly (ha), and in the fear of the reaper. More cowbell. L'chaim. OUT TODAY: .38 Special - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: (A&M)......

The New Cars, Persephone’s Bees @ House of Blues Gob Iron @ The Troubadour Roger O'Donnell (The Cure), Christopher Willets, Haley Bonar @ Spaceland Spank Rock, Debonair Samir, DJ C-Town @ Safari Sam's Death Cab for Cutie, Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins @ Bren Events Center The Cops, Dead Ponies, Tsk Tsk @ The Scene Nova Kayne the Great @ Lava Lounge Wirgo, Garrison Starr, John Eddie @ The Mint Brandi Shearer, Elizaveta,......

Death Cab For Cutie, Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins @ Terrace Theater The Delta Spirit, What Made Milwaukee Famous @ Spaceland The Parson Red Heads, Black Pine, The Faraway Places, Nico Stai @ Echo Four Good Men, (ex members of Simple Minds & Big Country) @ Knitting Factory Sarah Silverman @ Largo Metal Skool, The New Fidelity, Underwater City People, Pu$$y Cow @ Key Club Rib Bib, Faggot, Gay Beast, The Munchers, Mad......

"NBA Basketball" (KCAL, 7:00 p.m.) Lakers @ Trailblazers "Jericho" (CBS, 8:00 p.m.) The Mayor, who went wandering around the nuclear wilderness, gets sick - who'da thunk? "The War" (PBS, 8:00 p.m.) Ken Burns has a new mini-series about WWII, the "War to End All Wars". Expect the FCC to fine all PBS stations who air the 7-parter due to adult language. "The Biggest Loser" (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) "They're Back" - nuff said "America's Next......

Be Your Own Pet Be Your Own Pet (Ecstatic Peace) – Thurston Moore signed this teenage band from Nashville. Critics like to compare the lead singer to Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Most critics think it’s a fun, infectious record but detractors criticize the lack of sophistication. The whole thing only lasts 33 minutes. Tickets are still available for their show at the Troubadour on June 27th. Carla Bozulich Evangelista (Constellation) –......

Calling all members of the “[Frank] Gehry Army.” Tomorrow’s opening of The Frostig Collection 2006 at Berman Turner Projects E-1 Gallery will feature Gehry, Robert Graham, R. Kenton Nelson and others to benefit children with learning disabilities. 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. (via art.blogging.la) A Play on Action: 5 Los Angeles Artists Consider Feminism by taking "into account the sociopolitical implications of third wave feminism through photography, video, drawing and site-specific installation." Saturday at the......

The alt-rock phenoms Death Cab For Cutie played to a full house last night at the Wiltern. With five albums of material at their disposal, the band selected an eclectic mix of new and old. All the big crowd pleasers were included, like "The Sound of Settling," "The New Year," "Soul Meets Body," and "Marching Bands of Manhattan." They saved the gems, "Transaltanticism" and "I Will Follow You Into The Dark" for the encore.......

FRIDAY • 826LA hosts a conversation—sponsored by Believer Magazine—between Mike Davis (author of City of Quartz and The Ecology of Fear) and Joshuah Bearman, with special guest activist and photographer Monique Verdin. The conversation starts at 7 PM. RSVP here or call (310) 305-8418. • Stars will play an acoustic set from their album Set Yourself on Fire at Amoeba Music at 6 PM. Admission is free. • El Cid features Cerberus Shoal, Mike......

Here are five songs that are topping our iTunes playlist this week... Kick back and relax with Death Cab for Cutie's I Will Follow You Into The Dark. Death Cab play the Wiltern on October 21. Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am teams with DMC and Sarah McLachlan on the Just Like Me. The unusual "Cats in the Cradle" cover is plucked from McLachlan's new Bloom remix CD. The collaboration is odd, but it works. Of......