Tonight Seattle-based indie rock outfit Modest Mouse will be performing at the Hollywood Palladium with the OC's own Japanese Motors. Mexican electro rockers Kinky are poised to headline the Henry Fonda Music Box. And, lastly, San Franciscan singer-songwriter Miranda Lee Richards will be concluding her month-long residency at Spaceland. But we strongly suggest heading over to the Troubadour to catch NY-based indie rockers French Kicks. more ›

Tonight pop rock sensation OneRepublic will be headlining a bill of relatively mediocre acts at the Palladium in Hollywood. If you're looking for the bizarre, then the El Rey is playing host to beats (experimental electro group Gang Gang Dance) and frenetic guitar playing (Marnie Stern). Speaking of slaying guitars, stoner metal is apparently still very much alive and kicking. Head over to Spaceland for some serious headbanging with Miami-based Torche. And Mexico's own Kinky will be stopping through Club Nokia. But we suggest heading over to McCabe's to see Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson. more ›

Love it or hate it, tonight's New Year's Eve. And while half of the city has vacated for NYE's in Vegas, there's plenty to do right here in LA to welcome '08. more ›

Still haven’t found the perfect gift for that hard-to-buy-for kinky family member? Not sure what to get for the Samantha Jones of your group? Or just broke, and would sooner choke on a reindeer cookie than knit another scarf? There’s hope yet—and thank the gods of crafting, it doesn’t involve mastering a new sweater pattern. This Friday, Babeland, L.A.’s loveable educational sex toy store, will offer up Craftnight. Hosted by Julianna Parr—or “JP the... more ›

Here's the mix: Download or listen to the mix above which contains the songs and their related articles below: - Spoon "Infinite Pet" for show review by Staci Goodner - No Age "Everybody's Down" for a story/show review by Joshua Pressman - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "Tell Me" for a CD review by tomdog - MIA "Galang" for a show review by Joey Maloney - Cake "War Pigs" cuz they play on 11/30 at... more ›

The Detour Festival was ok. I didn't stay for very long because my girlfriend and I felt like cattle, and were tired of doing the unavoidable million laps around City Hall. Basically we echo all the sentiments previously put forth by our faithful editor, Tony Pierce. After the jump enjoy over 60 pics of such bands and big shots as: Kinky, Janeane Garofalo, Autolux, The Ravonettes, and Perry Ferrell's Satellite Party. All Photos by... more ›

Bloc Party, Justice, Satellite Party, Kinky, Comedians of Comedy, Turbonegro, Teddybears, The Raveonettes, Shout Out Louds, Autolux, Celebrity Skin, others @ Detour Festival Dengue Fever, Mia Doi Todd, Chuchito Valdes, The Pity Party, others @ Eagle Rock Music Festival Kenny Burrell, The Pete Escovedo Family Orchestra (with Sheila E.), others @ Jazz at Drew Natalie Cole, Sheryl Lee Ralph, RuPaul, Linda Hopkins, Loretta Devine, Ann Nesby, Deniece Williams, Jennifer Holliday, others @ Divas Simply... more ›

The kids behind tomorrow's Detour Festival are doing some interesting things to make your October street festie experience sweeter. more ›

10/2, 4-6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13 - Morrissey @ The Palladium 10/2 - Nick Lowe, Ron Sexsmith @ Safari Sam's 10/3 - Datarock, Foreign Born, Honeycut @ The Echo 10/3 - Mark Ronson @ The El Rey 10/5 - Metric @ Henry Fonda 10/6 - Bloc Party, Justice, Satellite Party, Kinky, Autolux, Celebrity Skin @ Detour Festival 10/6 - Lukas Rossi @ Viper Room 10/6 - Steve Miller @ The Greek 10/7 -... more ›

LA Weekly's inaugural Detour music festival rocked downtown last October, with frenzied dancing, drinking, and dope smoking on the downtown streets, City Hall lawn, and even St. Vibiana's Cathedral with the likes of Beck, Blonde Redhead, !!!, Queens of the Stone Age, Basement Jaxx, and Nortec Collective. The second Detour is a day-long music extravaganza that's set up to be quite the, um, party, with headliners: Bloc Party, Satellite Party, Justice, Celebrity Skin, and... more ›

While rightly lauded for originating The Office, I think Extras is Ricky Gervais' true masterpiece. I mean, how can you possibly top Harry Potter flicking a rubber into Dame Diana Rigg's hair? I'll tell you how--have David Bowie improvise this song for Gervais' hapless Andy Millman. Unfortunately (really unfortunately), Gervais decided against another season of the show, but Season 2 is now available on DVD. Buy it. Watch it. Live it. more ›

When I saw in the theater, there were about 60 people in the audience.  Virtually all of them maintained the appropriate funereal silence as the film was slowly excreted through the projector.One guy, though, was apparently watching the funniest movie he had ever seen.  I imagine he’s one of the few that will be lining up to buy today.For the rest of us, it’s probably a couple of good docs, some excellent TV, a Jason Alexander boob-heavy curio and a long overdue (for me, at least) Wack Pack biography.

One dark note this week…the emergence of a new, sinister and completely unnecessary form of DVD.Actually, I should say a new form of packaging a DVD since there is not really any fresh material on these so-called “steelbook” and “lenticular” editions.They just look really shiny.Because I am sick and tired of studios repackaging crap in new boxes, these releases are consigned to “after the jump”.

Norbit
Maxed Out
The Messengers
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Fired!
Seinfeld: Season 8
CHiPs: The Complete First Season
Rescue Me: The Complete Third Season
Kenneth Keith Kallenbach: American Icon
Senior Trip
Fantastic Voyage (Collector’s Edition)
Twelve O’Clock High (Special Edition)
Hogan’s Heroes: The Complete Series
Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
The Henry Rollins Show: Season One
SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Adventures
The Best of Chappelle’s Show (Uncensored)
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
Unholy Matrimony/My Third Wife George (Kinky Couples Double Feature)
French Quarter
Seizure!
The Sand Pebbles more ›

Before tomorrow night's MLS match pitting the LA Galaxy against DC United, Mexican rock band Kinky will play a special pre-game set for soccer and music fans. Kinky is five-member band from Monterrey, Mexico. Their song "Solo un Paso" from is the theme for Fox Sports en Español's 2007 MLS broadcasts, with the video featured n the channel's pre-game montage. Here's the video for "Sister Twisted," which features a gaucho with some amazingly rubber-limbed dance... more ›

Sea Wolf, The Bird & the Bee, The Little Ones, Dengue Fever @ The Echo MXPX @ Avalon Ima Robot @ Natural History Museum Ima Fucking Gymnast @ Pehrspace Kinky @ El Rey The Autumns, The Sugarplastic @ Spaceland Elini Mandell @ Malibu Performing Arts Center 8-Bit, Bark Bark Bark, 8-Bit Weapon @ The Scene Agnostic Front, U.S. Roughnecks, Viva Hate, Hold My Own @ Knitting Factory Mother Tongue, Maryandi, The Sixth Chamber, The... more ›

In the six seasons of American Idol, LAist can't recall a more average group of singers -- in voice and personality. Tuesday nights so far have been two hours of tedium, except for one or two standout performances a night. Last night -- British Invasion Night -- was no different. The song choices were unappealing to those under 40, and it's a safe bet that many of the contestants never even heard of their... more ›

People don't realize until they show up and then leave empty-handed, but most who show up at the Grammys tonight will lose. So for all you losers, and all your loser friends who might not want to go to those glitzy glamorous chi-chi award parties, here are some alternatives where you'll find some locals rocking out and dancing to actual music ZZ Top @ House of Blues Smith's Night @ The Echo Kinky Karaoke... more ›

- The outcome of Long Beach Halloween beatings came out today and some people are not happy (LA Times) more ›

A Word or 44: The first 1/2 of the "24" season premiere was quite good even though I don't understand how Jack found the terrorist dude before his house got blown up. Also, was there some anal play going on between Jack and the first terrorist guy? Kinky. Tonight - Monday - January 15th, 2007 "Lawrence of Arabia" (TCM, 5:00 p.m.) Quite possibly the best movie ever made. "Hamlet" (IFC, 6:00 p.m.) Classic Shakespeare... more ›

Hope for DVDs in your stockings and lots of trips to your cinema center - this weekend and next week will be reruns of just about everything including late night programming. I guess the idea is that you're supposed to be spending time with people you love or like or something. Today - Saturday College Basketball is scattered all over the tube from morning 'til night. "A Christmas Carol" (TCM, 11:00 a.m.) This is... more ›

The Donnas, Kinky, Rooney, Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs, John Doe, Johnette Napolitano, Agent Orange, Josie Cotton, many others @ Bergamot Station more ›

A Love Ends Suicide - In the Disaster (Metal Blade) Alice Donut - Fuzz (Howler) Audioslave - Revelations (Epic) Beyoncé - B'Day (Columbia) Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse (Metal Blade) Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (Warp) Hem - Funnel Crowd (Nettwerk) Honkytonk Homeslice - Honkytonk Homeslice (digipak; Sci Fidelity) Horse the Band - Pizza (EP; Koch) Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death (EMI) Jars of Clay - Good Monsters (Essential) Jucifer... more ›

Kinky @ Avalon The Grates @ Cinespace OK Stranger @ Key Club Old Crow Medicine Show @ Henry Fonda The Adored, Army Navy @ Safari Sam's A Band Called Pain, LA Leather @ Whisky The Sparkly Dinosaurs @ Knitting Factory Metal Skool @ Key Club Quetzal @ Ameoba (free) Braille @ Viper Room Character Assassins, Plastered @ Roxy The Great Glass Elevator @ Temple Bar Fangs On Fur @ Mr. T's Bowl Brutus Gets... more ›

The Cramps, Hank Williams III, Drive By Truckers, Dave Alvin, Candye Kane, Nona Hendryx, Richard Street @ Sunset Junction The Smithereens, Susanna Hoffs & Matthew Sweet, The Minus 5, Jefferson Starship (minus Grace Slick) @ House of Blues Faster Pussycat, Stephen Adler, Bang Tango @ Safari Sam's Gotan Project, Zero 7 @ Hollywood Bowl Minion, Hot Wired, Searh Tea, Rock Beats Paper @ Viper Room Nevermore, Agent Steel, Scarred, Cage, Nuclear Winter @ Knitting... more ›

Dear LAist, I know you're all over The Grates, but are you familiar with Kinky? I have been asked by two different boys today to see each of these shows. I don't know what to do. AHHHHHHH. - P. Hilton Dear Perez, Yes it's true we're down with the Grates, but the good news is that even though the Grates play at Cinespace on that Tuesday, 9/5 (by the way, you're quite an organized... more ›

This week ExperienceLA.com slyly launched their new site design and features to the public, beta style. Now you can RSS Feed "What's Hot" events, upcoming events, closing events, or even better: design your own feed (how genius is that?). Go to it, use it, experience Los Angeles. more ›

While The Other Venice Film Festival finishes up this weekend, three local film fests hit Los Angeles. Tonight through Sunday, Perspectives International Film Festival, at Laemmle's Music Hall 3, features films that challenge stereotypes of the lives of people with developmental disabilities. The Silver Lake Film Festival, in its 6th year, begins next Thursday. Joining them at the ArcLight, will be the Fringe Fest '06 & mp-4 Fest. more ›

Torontoist throws down the gauntlet and challenges all comers: pillow fight, bitch. They also stand up for a fellow blogger taking heat from the TTC and welcome city-wide WiFi. more ›

WEDNESDAY more ›

The days are getting shorter, but that's no excuse to stay at home. Have fun
without emptying your pockets. Unless otherwise noted, all performances are free.

SATURDAY, 9/10

• Shakti Foundation presents a program of classical Indian music and dance
  at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center at 6pm. Call (310) 781-7171.
  
• DJs Michael Stock and Benjamin White of Part Time
  Punks continue their two month residency at
  MOCA at 6pm. Kinky
  takes the stage at 8pm, followed by a spoken word performance by David
  St. John. The evening is free with general museum admission. Call (213)
  621-1734.
  

SUNDAY, 9/11

• Catch the Rainwater Bluegrass Band at the Hollywood Farmers Market, from
  8am-noon. Call (323) 463-3171.
  
• The Young Jazz Alliance perform at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena
  at 5pm. For information, call (626) 398-3344.
  
• Violinist
  Bing Wang and pianist Vicki Ray play for the LACMA Sundays
  Live Series.
  The show starts at 6pm. Call (323) 857-6234.
  
• DJs Michael Stock and Benjamin White spin post-punk, mutant disco and
  indie 80s-90s at the echo at 10pm.
  
• Carlos Guitarlos hits The Liquid Kitty at 10pm. For info, call (310) 473-3707.
  

MONDAY, 9/12

• The Oohlas continue their residency at the
  echo. Fly Better Broken open
  the night, with Toys That Kill and Tarzana wrapping
  up the evening. The doors open at 8:30pm and the show starts at 9pm. For
  details, call (213) 413-8200.
  
• Run Run Run continue their residency
  at Spaceland.
  Doors open at 8pm and the show begins at 9pm. Call (323) 661-4380
  
• Oliver Future and My
  Sexual Dad open for One Of The Loudest
  Tragedies Ever Heard at the
  Silverlake Lounge. The first show starts at 9pm. Call (323) 666-2407
  

It appears that tonight will be a quiet night in town as everyone gears up for the Labor Day Weekend festivities. LAist will definitely be lounging and enjoying the extra day off and hopes that you all will, too. more ›