Entries from LAist tagged with 'joanjett'
February 25, 2008
Enough with the Oscar talk -- Kimmel's long-awaited response to "I'm Fuckin' Matt Damon" is here and it's chock-full of hilarity:......
Continue Reading "Post Oscars: Jimmy Kimmel is Fucking Ben Affleck"February 24, 2008
Fresh off their tour with Morrissey, Girl in a Coma is playing their third and final show with Killola tonight in Glendale at The Scene. One Killola member says that the "shows have been extra saucy, and filled with hot love." We'll let you make your own decision. Joan Jett did when she visited the two bands last week to just to listen and have a good time. Also, in our Alex & Sam interview......
Continue Reading "Tonight in Rock: Killola, Girl in a Coma, HAIM"February 21, 2008
West Indian Girl plays The Troubadour tonight | Photo by Ty Parker via their MySpace LA Weekly points us to some hot picks for tonight. About Girl in Coma: "Joan Jett knows a thing or two about rock & roll, and her latest protegees, Girl in a Coma, on her Blackheart label are one of the best and most interesting bands to come out of Texas in a long time," writes Falling James. They......
Continue Reading "Tonight in Rock: Pinback, West Indian Girl, Entrance Band"July 28, 2007
That's right! You do not have to run a 5K Nike race or deal with Ticketmaster to see Joan Jett and the Blackhearts tonight. All you have to do is get to Alhambra for Hot Summer Nights: Alhambra Summer Jubilee. 6 to 10 p.m. Second Street between Main St. & Commonwealth Alhambra, CA Photo from the official Joan Jett MySpace Page......
Continue Reading "Joan Jett To Play Free Tonight"June 9, 2007
Joan Jett, Berlin, Josie Cotton, Martika, Rough Trade, Bitter: Sweet, The Start, Ann Magnuson, Debby Holiday, Taxi Doll @ LA Pride The O'Jays, Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill @ The Greek The Airborne Toxic Event, The Happy Hollows, Radars to the Sky @ The Troubadour Onesidezero, Vokee, Slow Motion Reign, Red Snow @ El Rey Ghost Machinists, Crooked Cowboy, Kind Hearts & Coronets, 8-Bit @ Mr. T's Bowl High Like Five, Die Trying, Coda Vesta,......
Continue Reading "Tonight in Rock in LA - Joan Jett, Berlin, The O'Jays, Keith Sweat, The Airborne Toxic Event, Radars to the Sky "June 9, 2007
MAINSTAGE SATURDAY JUNE 9, 2007 2:30 PM - MC's BEN PATRICK JOHNSON & MARCELLAS REYNOLDS 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM NANCY RANCOURT 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM JUSTIN LANNING 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM TAXI DOLL 4:10 PM - 4:35 PM DEBBY HOLIDAY 4:45 PM - 5:05 PM ANN MAGNUSON MC's BILLY MASTERS & MOMMA 5:15 PM - 5:40 PM THE START 5:50 PM - 6:15 PM BITTER: SWEET 6:25 PM - 6:55 PM ROUGH......
Continue Reading "Joan Jett Headlines LA Pride Tonight"May 18, 2007
A Word or 10: Intercity baseball rivalry tonight - check it. Have a great weekend! Tonight - Friday - May 18, 2007 Dodgers @ Angels (KCAL, 8:00 p.m.) That's the Way It Is: Celebrating Cronkite at 90 (CBS, 8:00 p.m.) The last great newsman turns 90. Dateline NBC (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) More exploitive garbage. The Henry Rollins Show (IFC, 8:00 p.m.) Joan Jett(!!); The Blood Brothers perform America's Funniest Home Videos (ABC, 8:00 p.m.)......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: Blonde Redhead on Conan; SNL Season Finale Tomorrow"April 3, 2007
- Jimmy Carter has been in LA building houses for the needy. He's 82 - Voice of America - Brit and KFed settled their divorce: joint custody, he gets $1 million, sorta - Reuters - Economists at UCLA's Anderson Forecast predict a Californian economic slowdown in the near future, but no recession - Daily Bruin - Local woman sues Petco and the food company who made the dog food that killed her pet -......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra - Oh You Will Be Mine"March 22, 2007
Another one bites the rehab dust, but Jesse Metcalfe is waaay less exciting than Britney - NY Post Speaking of Britney, she's out and hopefully back on her rampage....Umm, is it me or was that NOT thirty days? - Defamer Speaking of rehab, future attendee Rumer Willis, daughter of Demi and Bruce, looks like the new "it" party girl - I Dont Like You in That Way Did rehab graduate Lindsay Lohan find the Lord?......
Continue Reading "Gossip Quickie, Get Ready for Some Rehab"December 7, 2006
Tonight - Thursday "My Name Is Earl" (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) Back-to-back new episodes. "Survivor: Cook Islands" (CBS, 8:00 p.m.) Castaways' loved ones arrive on the island to pull at heartstrings, somebody cuts a finger with a machete "Total Eclipse" (IFC, 8:40 p.m.) It's dueling poets, with Leonardo DiCaprio as Rimbaud and David Thewlis as Verlaine in this truly awful 19th-century costume drama. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (CBS, 9:00 p.m.) Danny Bonaduce guest-stars, providing us......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: Earl; Poets; Gibson; Slim Pickins tonight my friends -- I hope you had something else TiVoed"December 4, 2006
Tonight - Monday "Monday Night Football" (ESPN, 5:30 p.m.) Panthers @ Eagles "College Basketball" (ESPN2, 6:00 p.m.) USC @ Kansas "NBA Basketball" (Fox Sports, 7:30 p.m.) Pacers @ Lakers "The Girl With the Pearl Earring" (IFC, 7:50 p.m.) Peter Webber's flick about Dutch painter Vermeer, and Scarlett Johansson before it was all about her boobs. "The 2006 Billboard Music Awards" (FOX, 8:00 p.m.) Fergie shakes her thing, the Killers rock, and unfortunately, Celine Dion......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: Some Sports; Scarlett Johansson; Billboard Music Awards; Joan Jett"November 7, 2006
Although it might be tempting to stay home tonight to watch the results come in, they won't all be in until early tomorrow morning. So do yourself a favor and look at that list. Look at it. That is probably the best lineup of shows we've seen in LA all year. If you don't see a show tonight, on a beautiful night, pretty much the last day of summer, then well... good. More beer......
Continue Reading "Tonight in Rock in LA - Corgan & Townshend, Aerosmith & Crue, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Joan Jett, NY Dolls, Nick Lachey"September 22, 2006
On this day in 1979, a two- to three-kiloton nuclear bomb explosion (or something) was detected in the Indian Ocean about halfway between South Africa and Antarctica. No country to date has claimed responsibility. On this day in 1958, Joan Marie Larkin was born in Philadelphia. Upon relocation to Hollywood, Ms. Larkin became better known as Joan Jett and was responsible for blowing up the rock establishment with her all-girl band The Runaways. Now......
Continue Reading "Happy birthday, Joan Jett"January 19, 2006
The Daily News talks to Cherie Currie, now a mom who lives in the Valley suburb of West Hills. Currie was the lead singer of The Runaways from 1975 to 1977; that's her in the center of the photo next to Joan Jett. You've heard "Cherry Bomb," right? That's Cherie rocking with The Runaways. Reassuringly (at least to us), Cherie still hasn't lost her edge. She may be a 40-something divorced ex-actress, but she's......
Continue Reading "Who knew the Daily News listened to punk?"September 13, 2005
If you're listening ever so closely to Star 98.7 these days, they've slightly shifted formats, combining "Real Star Variety" with -- drumroll please -- '80s music. (Like we didn't get enough "totally '80s" weekends). Further down the radio dial, the "new" KBIG 104.3 has switched to a playlist that includes today's best music, some dance stuff and -- ready for this -- '80s music. (Both are owned by radio industry giant Clear Channel -......
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