Luckily, since SXSW Music officially starts on Wednesday, tonight's massive line-up of residencies is hardly affected, save for The Voom Blooms who are replaced by We Barbarians and others at the Viper Room tonight (full list of tonight's residencies after the jump). However, the exodus of Los Angeles based bands is upon us. Also, ticket sales for 2008 Premiere Marquee Club have begun. The "club" has no membership fee and will host over 60 concerts......

As you might have read in Tonight in Rock in LA New Edition is performing tonight at the Gibson Amphitheater. Seriously they are. The same guys who gave us "Candy Girl" as little boys nearly 25 years ago are not only still together as a group but people are still paying their hard earned money ($79.75) to watch them perform. One fan is looking to go to show with three of their friends but......

MTV to Bloggers: We sort of like you but not enough to give a shit about your coverage. LAist to MTV: We sort of like you but not enough to give a shit about your programming. When LAist was invited by MTV to live-blog the 2007 Movie Awards from an on-site "blogging tent," we asked ourselves one crucial question: is this going to be a cool opportunity to offer readers a unique perspective on the......

KCRW's Sounds Eclectic cd is one of our favorite new offerings of 2007. Tonight's fundraiser for the station brings us live performances from Lily Allen, the Cold War Kids, the Shins, shredders Rodrigo y Gabriela, and others @ Gibson Amphitheater The Lords of Altamont, Rolling Blackouts, The Hexxers, The Clamour @ Safari Sam's Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks @ McCabe's Jedi Mind Tricks @ Henry Fonda Trash Fashion, 8-Bit @ The Scene Three......

Chingy, Lil Scrappy, Lloyd, Cherish, Le Toya, E-40, Rick Ross, T.I. @ Gibson Amphitheater Lucy Lawless @ Roxy Al Kooper @ McCabe's canceled The Whispers @ Grove of Anaheim Carlos Guitarlos @ Liquid KItty Jettson, AM Sessions, The Steve Carson Band, The Relay @ Viper Room Talkdemonic, Carolyn Edwards, Candypants, Jeff Merchant, The Sexies @ Spaceland The Nihil, Partial Failure, Joe Finley, Sterocell, The Placebo Effect @ Whisky A Gogo......

If anyone complains about new music today they're not buying the right cds. Arizona's The Format came out with one of the best new discs of any year and is in LAist's Top 5 of 2006, which is quite a feat since there were so many great ones that came out this year. Fun, happy, hopeful, easy to get into, "Dog Problems" was there for us as we fell asleep, there for us as......

Several rock options tonight, there's Beck at the Wiltern, Cat Power at the John Anson Ford, Pink at the Avalon, Mark Knofler and Emmylou Harris at the Gibson Amphitheater, Hawksley Workman at the Viper... or across the street at the Whisky they're throwing a benefit for Arthur Lee, the frontman of the classic 60s group Love. Lee had been touring the world as Love, with the more-than-capable local boys Baby Lemonade as his band.......

Tonight 6/26 Tsar, Hawksley Workman - Spaceland (free) T.I. - House of Blues Corinne Baily Rae - Troubador Metal Skool - Key Club Soccer Mom - Viper Tuesday 6/27 Mike Watt (dj set) - Amoeba (free) Be Your Own Pet - Troubador Beck, Jamie Lidell - Wiltern Les Claypool, The Coup - Avalon Slick Rick - House of Blues Flogging Molly - Molly Malone's Hawksley Workman - Temple Bar Il Divo - Greek Wednesday......

Elf Power Back to the Web (Rykodisc) – They’re an Athens, GA band and part of the Elephant 6 collective of indie rockers. They’ve got a record label and a commune. Apparently this album is less poppy and more acoustic folk. Appearing live at Spaceland on 5/13. Sample tracks on MYSPACE. Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris All the Roadrunning (Nonesuch/Warner Bros.) – This is more a Mark Knopfler album than an Emmylou album. It’s......

LAist had the distinct pleasure of attending the Kanye West show Saturday night at Gibson Amphitheater. Now we must admit we missed Keyshia Cole and Fantasia and went straight for the main performance. Kanye went on around 9:30 and proved why loving him is no bandwagon but the real thing. College Dropout became an instant classic and in our opinion, Late Registration is not far behind. Image from Kanye's Golddigger video from Buzznet.com/fobchemicalreg......