It was a hell of a thing to see Dweezil Zappa onstage at the Wiltern last night, jamming with his pop, who of course passed away fourteen years ago. You can thank modern technology. Frank was projected on a large screen behind the actual living musicians, who played along to his vocal and guitar tracks. Of course we’ve seen this kind of thing before, Natalie Cole’s sentimental duet with her father being the first......

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: "Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!" On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment The action was thick......

Beyonce continues to bully the charts. And far too many people think that buying Kenny G CDs is an appropriate use of money. I know we can do better than this. Here to make miserable your otherwise sunny day is a list of this week’s Billboard No.1s. Below is the short list. More good news after the jump... Billboard Charts Issue Date: January 27, 2007 The Billboard 200 - Dreamgirls:Soundtrack The Billboard Hot 100......

LAist is proud to begin offering a weekly, chart roundup of Billboard Magazine’s most coveted rankings. Join us as we revel in the conventional standard of musical success. Let us cross our fingers, hoist our lighters, and dream together of the supreme resurrection of artist-driven recordings that will forever eclipse the dark cloud of big label greed, A&R sleaze and disposable audio. Amen. Here are this week’s chart toppers. Behold the #1’s. Billboard Charts......

(+44) - When Your Heart Stops Beating (Interscope) Ali B - Ali B Presents ... Air Breaks (Air) And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided (Interscope) April Wine - Roughly Speaking (April Wine) Bad Astronaut - Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment (Fat) Johnny Cash - At San Quentin (two CDs and one DVD; Columbia) Cassettes - 'Neath the Pale Moon (Buddyhead) Cee-Lo - Closet Freak (Arista/Legacy) Depeche......