Joseph Arthur, Stars of Track & Field @ Roxy Wolfmother @ Grove of Anaheim Sage Francis @ Amoeba (7pm) Kristin Hersh @ El Rey Bone Thugs-n-Harmony @ House of Blues Mother Mother @ Spaceland Grace Potter & the Nocturnals @ The Troubadour That Noise, Kingsize, The Silence @ Viper Room Bury Your Dead, Suicide SIlence @ The Whisky The Alternate Routes, The Matt Ellis Band @ The Hotel Cafe She's Your Sister, The Waking......

People always ask us, "how do you always get great tickets to all those shows?" And we say, "we get them the day they come out." And they say, "how do you know?" And we say, "you mean you don't know?" Tickets go on sale Saturday morning (10am) for: The Mars Volta @ Orpheum Theatre, 4/3 The Format @ Mayan Theater, 6/14 Iggy and The Stooges @ Wiltern 4/23 John Legend @ Gibson, 4/6......

Lifetime, Mika Miko @ The Troubadour Kristin Hersh @ Amoeba (2pm) Mana @ Gibson Dave Alvin @ McCabe's Aimee Mann @ Largo Camera Obscura @ El Rey Neko Case @ Henry Fonda Leo Nocentelli, Cyril Neville @ The Mint Everyday Stranger, The Moderates, Ride the Blinds, Modicum @ Lava Lounge El Ten Eleven, Whirling Dervish, Someday Assassin @ The Scene John Wiese, Captain Ahab, Flaspar, Kyle H. Mabson, Sky Pigs @ The Smell Destruction,......

This might be a good week to give your piggybank the ol' smasheroo and excavate your couch cushions for awol monies. The CD player NEEDS your donations. Don't delay. Rush out now in a buying frenzy. Here's a glanceable list of new noteables and rightous reissues being handed down today. Ten octzillion more after the jump... Arbouretum - Rites Of Uncovering (Thrill Jockey) The Bird & The Bee - Bird And The Bee (Blue......

Insane Clown Posse @ Vault 350 Los Lobos @ Disney Concert Hall Kristin Hersh @ El Cid Foreigner @ The Canyon The 88 @ The Getty (free) Omar, Kim Hill @ Temple Bar Pretty Boy Floyd @ Paladino's The Clean Prophets @ Amoeba (free) Citizen Cope, Alice Smith @ House of Blues Neglected Youth, Crazy Wetbacks @ Colbalt Cafe Murderland, Graveside Rockers, Stab-Outs @ The Scene Blond Lemon Jefferson @ Arcadia Blues Club Electric......

FRIDAY • The Helio Sequence, King of France (featuring Michael Azerrad, author of Our Band Could Be Your Life) and The Can't See are at Spaceland tonight. Doors open at 9 PM. • Rademacher, Harpeth Trace, The Kris Special and Raymond Richards (of The Idaho Falls) are playing a free show tonight at Mr. T's Bowl in Highland Park. The show starts at 10 PM. • Kristin Hersh's second night at Tangier opens with......

THURSDAY • Tonight is the opening reception for "How It Happens" at Pharmaka Gallery. The party runs from 6–9 PM during the Downtown Art Walk. • Kristin Hersh performs the first of her two nights at Tangier. Lauren Shera opens the show at 8 PM; tickets are $17 advance, $20 day-of. • If you haven't seen it yet, check out the Golden Globe nominated Kung Fu Hustle at the Aero tonight at 7:30 PM.......

At UCLA's Hammer Museum, see artist Lorna Simpson at 7:00 PM giving a lecture on her work, which explores "the photographic medium, viewpoints of the self, and the relationship between image and text." Tonight kicks off the 8th Annual Hollywood Film Festival at the ArcLight, featuring such films as Finding Neverland, I Am David, Undertow, P.S., The Machinist, and Enduring Love. The festival runs through October 18th, and also includes the "Hollywood Horror, Sci-Fi......

Happy Tuesday, readers. A nice selection of events have presented themselves today, so get out there and have a good time! At The Echo, Concerts for Victory presents John Doe, Kristin Hersh and Grant Lee Phillips, along with Blake Hazard and Bedroom Walls, in a concert to benefit John Kerry. Doors open at 7:30 PM and tickets are $15.00 pre-sale and $18.00 at the door. (18+)......