Test Your Reflex plays this month at Hotel Cafe on Wednesdays | Photo by Luke Wooden via their MySpace Despite SXSW starting up this week with 100+ Los Angeles based bands heading over there, residencies are growing stronger and more venue-diverse across the line, especially on Monday nights where the volume makes it hard to choose from. Here's to a great month of residencies, rock on. Mondays The Chapin Sisters @ The Echo (Free),......

The Tangier is hosting Shark Aid and it has nothing to do with saving those sometimes nasty sea dogs. Aaron Finely, a local sound engineer and musician (Rexaquarium, Kennedy, Joe Lies) was attacked by a shark last October, losing a good chunk of his leg. The medical bill is quite steep, so his friends set up this benefit concert to help out (story via Metromix). Lucky for Finely, his friends play great music. Tonight:......

"Knights of Cydonia" - Muse (One of the best videos of the year because we can relate to it via Guitar Hero 3 and we love Western themes. That and it's a great song.) Abstract 3's Armenian Folk Jazz @ The Baked Potato Muse, Feist, Jimmy Eat World, Modest Mouse, Silversun Pickups, Spoon, The Shins @ Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal Citywalk The Cult, The Cliks @ House of Blues - Disneyland Heavy D @......

E-40 @ Vault 350 Reagan Youth @ The Knitting Factory Deep Purple, Blue Oyster Cult @ Pacific Amphitheatre Poison, Ratt @ Verizon MF Doom @ El Rey Squeeze @ Grove of Anaheim Burning Spear, Sly & Robbie, The Taxi Gang and Wailing Souls Reunion @ Hollywood Bowl Mike Stinson, Jake La Botz, Sarah Stanley, Mike Freas @ The Echo (free) The Short Necked Drafts, Apocalipstick, End, Alter Reality, Girls Night In @ The Whisky......