I've always been intrigued by other "best of" lists, but this year I decided to take it to a whole new level. I e-mailed a handful of bands that I've seen this past year in order to unearth what exactly captivated them in '07. As music listeners, it is our duty to take a keen interest in our favorite musician's influences. After all, they rocked our little world, might as well see what rocked their......

Fuck Yeah Fest has officially ended and it was Fuck Yeah-tastic. I was on my feet for nearly seven hours, regularly traversing Sunset Blvd to see ten bands perform on Sunday. Between eight rolls of film and hundreds of digital pictures, this is day two through my lens.......

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......

Unwritten Law @ Ventura Theatre Indian Jewelry, Clipd Beaks @ The Echo The Hangups, Fozzy's Hero @ The Gig The Maze, Kara Dio Guardi @ The Mint Resident Hero @ Viper Room Tim Jones, Carrie Turner, Elke @ The Hotel Cafe June In July, Death Valley Days, Spacelord @ Spaceland Tekat, Teddy's Cheer Club, Greater California @ Alex's Bar Chencha Berrinches, Union 13, Los Kung Fu Monkeys @ The Knitting Factory Fatal Launch, Sacrificer,......

Alice Cooper @ Grove of Anaheim Patton Oswalt, Doug Benson @ Troubadour Comets on Fire, Indian Jewelry, No Doctors @ Echo Get Him Eat Him @ Spaceland World Party @ Tower, Sunset (free - 7pm) The Kids of Widney High @ Key Club Brass Monkey Brass Band @ Temple Bar Eyes of Fire, Soul Take @ Whisky Tyler Hilton @ House of Blues 50 Cent Haircut @ Canter's Kibitz Room photo by the sweaty......

Fri 5/26 - Elefant / Voxtrot / Silversun Pickups @ the Wiltern ($20) – Elefant's new album, The Black Magic Show, is out on Hollywood Records. They've got a stylish front man with lots of swagger and they should appeal to fans of the Killers and She Wants Revenge. Silversun Pickups are getting ready to release their debut full-length, Carnavas, on Dangerbird Records on July 11th. The people who’ve heard it say it’s really......

FRIDAY • Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) and The High Strung play the Knitting Factory tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $18. • ESG and Future Pigeon are on stage at The Echo tonight at 9 PM, along with guest DJs Michael Stock (Part-Time Punks), Jimi Hey (Indian Jewelry) and Dark Alley. Tickets are $25. [18+]......

FRIDAY • Bob Mould and Curt Kirkwood play the Troubadour tonight. Doors open at 8 PM; tickets are $15 advance. • Ariel Pink, Indian Jewelry, Gris Gris and Belong are at The Echo tonight. Doors open at 8:30 PM and tickets are $8. [18+] • Tangier features The Court and Spark, The Autumn Defense and Biirdie tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $10. • Saul Williams presents and signs The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The......

Arthur Magazine and the Spaceland folks — the people who brought us ArthurFest at summer's end — are presenting a winter fete. Tickets have just gone on sale for Arthur Ball, which will feature documentary films, speakers and of course dozens of live performances by the multiculti progressive psychedelic likes of Society of Rockets, Indian Jewelry, Afrobeatdown and Winter Flowers. There won't be any police there, that we know of. The title just made......

Grab a jacket, some friends and get out of the house. There are plenty of free gigs to keep you occupied. SATURDAY, 10/8 Catch Hot Club Quartette at Cafe Z in the Skirball Cultural Center followed by a free screening of Algeria in a Smile. The show starts at noon. Call (310) 440-4500. DJs Michael Stock and Benjamin White of Part Time Punks continue their residency at MOCA. The show starts at 6pm. It's......