Last month, the singer-songwriter supergroup trio The Living Sisters (MySpace), comprised of The Bird and the Bee (MySpace)'s Inara George (MySpace), Eleni Mandell (MySpace), and Lavender Diamond (MySpace)'s Becky Stark, performed at the 35th Annual Topanga Days Festival (MySpace). George's upcoming shows are on July 16th and 23rd at Tangier in Los Feliz, debuting a new collaboration with Van Dyke Parks (MySpace). And Mandell's upcoming shows are on June 11th and 18th at Tangier.......

Rock Insider, a blog dedicated to music and life in Los Angeles, shares a top ten list: The Best Los Angeles Albums of 2007. We are happy to report that some LAist local favs made the list including Sea Wolf, Great Northern, Eleni Mandell, The Valley Arena and The Deadly Syndrome. No more choose-your-own-price for Radiohead's "In Rainbows" album starting on Monday. The band, who had previously written off Apple iTunes, is currently in talks......

Common - "The People" "The People" was one of our most-played summer jamz. It was on Kanye's "Can't Tell Me Nothin" sampler because Kanye produced it and listen to how sweet it is. It's the sort of non-thug, uplifting, positive hip-hop that people once talked about, but now people are buying. This is the direction BEP could have gone if they hadn't chosen the path of the lowest common denominator aka the Gwen Stefani......

Tea in the Sahara The Police @ Staples Miggs, Johnette Napolitano, Bernadette Colomine @ Temple Bar Radio Birdman, Miss Derringer, Nothing People @ El Rey Prs Hltn Mthrfckrs, Juiceboxxx, 3oh!3, Porterville @ The Echo Great Lake Swimmers, Eleni Mandell, Ferraby Lionheart, Buddy, Marissa Nadle @ The Hotel Cafe Barbie & the Hookers, Cut the Line, Lower Class Kids, Second Class @ The Scene Das Llamas, Moonrats, The Girlfriend Experience, The Bad Things @ Safari......

We listen to a lot of music each week. Mostly new music because we have ADD and are bored by everything. Because we're saving the world we don't always have time to review all the new music we're listening to so on Fridays we do a brief summary of what's been booming from the iTunes. Sonic Youth - Destroyed Room Arcade Fire - Neon Bible John Oszajca - Elephant Graveyard Fishbone - Still Stuck......

Syd Barrett Tribute Night with Bedroom Walls, Big Search, Biirdie, Eleni Mandell, Good Listeners, Gwendolyn, Irving, Nora Keyes, Marjorie Faire, Pity Party, Priscilla Ahn, Thundersnail, Mezzanine Owls, Ina James, Leviathan Brothers, Douglas Lee, Kennedy, Yes Me To Death, Moon Upstairs, Hubcaps @ The Bordello Eleni Mandell (above) @ Amoeba Eddie Money @ House of Blues Colin Hay @ Largo Cece Winans @ Pasadena Civic Hot Rod Circuit, Limbeck, The Forecast @ The Troubadour Warner......

What NME wrote about local band Mere Mortals yesterday: The hotly tipped LA-based band are known for adeptly combining elements of Britpop and psychedelic rock reminiscent of Primal Scream or The Jesus And Mary Chain, earning them 'best unsigned band' accolades left and right. Mere Mortals @ Spaceland The Fuxedos @ Safari Sam's The Wreckers, Kate Voegele @ The Roxy Eleni Mandell @ The Bordello Intervention, Mathew Jordan, Anaura, The Dimes @ The Mint......

By week's end, LA is regularly littered with a handful of free rags. Combined, these publications put the Tribune Company's Spring Street operation LA Times to shame as far as reporting on the dozens of municipalities that make up this metropolis of more than 12 million people. LAist reads the weeklies so you don't have to. If there's anything we missed, let us know, or better yet drop it in the comments section below.......

Eleni Mandell, with her sixth full length release, Miracle of Five, hit up the Echo for the KCRW release party last night. The packed and almost giddy crowd filled with literally all walks of life (think middle aged baldies, a trannie, and the usual hipsters) were swaying along to EM’s hushed, moody, jazzy folk. Is jazzy folk even a thing? If it isn’t Mandell has made it one. Highlight of the evening? The Echo......

Tony Bennett @ House of Blues Eleni Mandell @ The Echo Glen Phillips @ The Hotel Cafe Sarah Silverman @ The Troubadour Bill Kirchen, Johnny Dilks, Tony Gilkyson @ Safari Sam's Volumen Cero, Los Super Elegantes, Silvestre @ The Knitting Factory The PKO, Julie Cain, The Jazzabilly Blues, Elevator Band UK @ Lava Lounge The Starfuckers, Mouth to Mouth, Firefly, El Camino @ The Cat Club The Youngs, Hello Menno, Hopewell @ Silverlake Lounge......

OUT TODAY: Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go (Sonic Unyon) Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Men Belinda Carlisle - Voila [Bonus Disc] (Rykodisc) Bloc Party - Weekend in the City (Vice) Chicken Shack - Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (Blue Horizon) Deerhunter - Cryptograms (Kranky) Dexys Midnight Runners - Projected Passion Revue (Umvd Import) Eleni Mandell - Miracle of Five (Zedtone) Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High......

The final score of the Super Bowl was: Indianapolis 29, Chicago 17. Devin Hester got 92 yards. Many entered, but we had three people in our Super Bowl contest with the letter S who were pretty damn close: sam: colts 24-21 hester 123 stacey: colts:29 bears:21 hester:97 Stephen Westrich: Colts 27 Bears 23 Hester 111 Find out who won the cd-six pack (thanks to our pals at Filter) of tunes from Silversun Pickups, Eleni......

LA's Lavender Diamond has headlined shows in London and supported the Decemberists on their U.S. tour last fall. But tonight is their first-ever headlining gig in Los Angeles, with The Finches and Winter Flowers at Safari Sam's. We last caught up with Becky Stark, Lavender Diamond's 25-year-old frontwoman with the delicate voice in June 2005. Last weekend, we were lucky to chase her down near chicken corner for an update. So, what's up with you......

MONDAY • Tangier features Eleni Mandell with Charlie Wadhams tonight at 8:30 PM. Tickets are $10 advance, $12 day of. • The Wiltern features Queens Of The Stone Age with Autolux tonight at 9 PM. Tickets are $28.50. • Social D plays the second and final show at the HOB Sunset with Bullets and Octane tonight at 8:30 PM. Tickets are $25.......

Silverlake rock club Spaceland continues celebrating its month-long 10-year anniversary with two shows this weekend. Tonight, get your alt-country on with chanteuse Eleni Mandell (pictured), who is equal parts Patsy Cline, Tom Waits, and PJ Harvey. Opening is San Francisco's The Court and Spark and Whiskey Biscuit headlines. On Sunday, it's alt-that-and-more with WACO's 13-instrument cacophonous melancholy, Extra Fancy's queercore, and Touchcandy reuniting with a sound explosion that'll knock you back to 1995. If......

The Egyptian Theatre celebrates the 25th anniversary of '80s sci-fi camp-fest "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" tonight at 8:00 PM with all kinds of stuff: guest speakers, exhibits of props, costumes and artwork and drinks. Rumor has it that Vickie from "Small Wonder" will be there! ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead will be performing at The Roxy with Dance Disaster Movement and Forget Cassettes at 9:00 PM. Doors......