The Germs, Dr. Know, Black President, The Diffs, The Politicians @ Safari Sam's The Knitters @ The Getty (rsvp: 310 440-7300) Aimee Mann, Paul Bryan @ Largo Mike Watt & the Missing Men, Bizzart @ The Troubadour The Submarines @ The Echo Lovelikefire, Eskimohunter, Mezzanine Owls @ El Cid Groovy Rednecks, Cheatin' Kind @ JD's Sports Bar Mustard Plug, Buck-O-Nine, Satori, Los Kung Fu Monkeys @ The Knitting Factory Murderland, The VooDuo, Funeral Director......

Rockstar Supernova, The Panic Channel, Toby Rand & Juke Cartel, Dilana @ Long Beach Arena Money Mark @ Amoeba (free, 7pm) Mezzanine Owls, Black Palms @ El Cid The Exies @ Whisky A Gogo Tribal, Azur @ House of Blues Georgie James, Love of Diagrams, DJ Franki Chan @ Safari Sam's Tom Brosseau, Pedestrian, Ill Lit, Lenka @ The Hotel Cafe Le Rev, Northern, Castle Door, Locksley @ Key Club Nels Cline & Glenn......

The Who @ Long Beach Arena Division Day, Love of Diagrams, Canon, La Rocca @ Spaceland Eastern Conference Champions, I Make this Sound, The Procession @ Silverlake Lounge The Binges, Bleu, Dial Zero, Andy Dick & the Bitches of the Century @ King King The Faceless, Toast to the Gods, Earned in Blood, Straight to Vengeance @ Whisky A Go Go Floater 6, The Nervous Wrecks, Boozehounds, Marie Catastrophe, Uglysticks @ Lava Lounge Go......

Cheap Trick @ The Canyon Dir en Grey @ Wiltern The English Beat @ Key Club James Taylor @ Wilshire Theatre Flogging Molly @ Henry Fonda The Blue Hawaiians @ Lava Lounge The Groovy Rednecks @ Anarchy Library I See Hawks in LA, Mike Stinson @ The Scene The Strays, King Cheetah, The Stranger’s Six @ Spaceland Lady Sinatra, Veruca Salt, The Ringers, Tack @ Viper Room The Deserters, Sin City, Leroy, Tandy, The......

Fish Circus, The Tallulah Sound Experiment, Nerviosea @ Viper Room James Taylor @ Wilshire Theatre Silverchair @ El Rey Johnette Napolitano, Noah Stone, Jesca Hoop, Luke Paquin @ The Hotel Cafe Roxy Cottontail, Lazaro Casanova @ Safari Sam's Cartel, Cobra Starship, Boys Like Girls, Permanent Me @ House of Blues Jesu, Oxbow, Intronaut, Everlovely Lightningheart @ Spaceland The Mothman Infanticide Trio, The Swamp Arc Welders, The Bad Ass Brass Band @ Mr. T's Bowl......

Eastern Conference Champions "To The Wind" The Airbourne Toxic Event, The Sharp Ease, Dead Ponies @ Viper Room Division Day, Bedroom Walls, Tigers Can Bite You @ Spaceland Ralph Stanley @ El Rey Sarah Silverman @ Largo Metal Skool, Prima Donna, Mardo, The Sugi Tap @ Key Club Eastern Conference Champions, Blvd., Meho Plaza @ Silverlake Lounge Will Haven, Eightfourseven, Death Valley High, Red Host @ The Troubadour The Binges, The Ringers, Andy Dick......

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,......

Pick of the Day Lemmy's new band The Head Cat headlines The Knitting Factory tonight. The Motorhead frontman has secured Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom and Lonesome Spurs guitarist Danny B. Harvey and turned it wayyyy down -- for him, that is. Opening is Bauhaus' Daniel Ash on the wheels of steel, kicking off the night with Speedbuggy. Single, lonely men rejoice. Common @ House of Blues Ne-Yo @ Key Club Teena Marie......

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......

Midnight Star, Heatwave, Bloodstone, El Chicano, Evelyn "Champagne" King @ The Forum The Roots, Jill Scott, Lupe Fiasco, Akon @ Gibson Amphitheatre The Ettes, Rocket, The Affair @ The Scene Bob Weir & Rat Dog @ Ventura Theatre Los Lobos @ The Canyon The Mentors @ The Knitting Factory Cindy Lee Berryhill, John Doe @ Largo The Groovie Ghoulies @ Alex's Bar Mirah, Anna Oxygen & Sir DSS, The Sharp Ease @ The Troubadour......

Tony Bennett @ House of Blues Eleni Mandell @ The Echo Glen Phillips @ The Hotel Cafe Sarah Silverman @ The Troubadour Bill Kirchen, Johnny Dilks, Tony Gilkyson @ Safari Sam's Volumen Cero, Los Super Elegantes, Silvestre @ The Knitting Factory The PKO, Julie Cain, The Jazzabilly Blues, Elevator Band UK @ Lava Lounge The Starfuckers, Mouth to Mouth, Firefly, El Camino @ The Cat Club The Youngs, Hello Menno, Hopewell @ Silverlake Lounge......

Did you know the Lava Lounge is closing? Did you know bands aren't going to be playing there any more? Did you know they're going to renovate it into a real cocktail lounge? Did you know you only have a few more weeks to enjoy the Lava Lounge as you've enjoyed it for the last 13 years? Did you know that when LAist was a little more into the singles scene, let's say, the......

Tom Morello (The Nightwatchman), Ben Harper, Marina V @ Hotel Cafe Bodies of Water, Kind Hearts & Coronets, the Shakes @ The Echo (Arthur Lee tribute) Paul Oakenfold @ The Knitting Factory mere mortals @ Lava Lounge Tom Brosseau, John Doe @ Largo stellastar*, Monsters Are Waiting @ Safari Sam's The 88, The Oohlas, The Pink Spiders @ Key Club Dynamite Walls, Nico Stai, Berko @ Spaceland Molly Howson, The Countrypolitans, Killing Casanova @......

M. Ward, Victoria Williams @ El Rey Dengue Fever @ Temple Bar Morrissey @ Pasadena Civic Auditorium Gladys Knight @ Gibson The Monolators, Repeater, The Friends of Dennis Wilson @ Mr. T's Bowl KRS-One @ The Knitting Factory Ladysmith Black Mambazo @ Cal State Long Beach Pierre de Reeder @ The Mint Margaret Cho @ Largo Mose Allison @ The Jazz Bakery Ron Sexsmith, Annie Stela @ The Troubadour G Love & Special Sauce,......

- The outcome of Long Beach Halloween beatings came out today and some people are not happy (LA Times) - Former Republican Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee makes his bid for President (CBS2) - On a call for a rubbish fire in Playa del Rey, Los Angeles Firefighters found smoldering remains of what appeared to be a human adult (LAFD News & Information) - There will be an antiwar protest Downtown tomorrow (LAO) - The......

Deerhoof, Hella, Busdriver @ El Rey GZA, DJ Muggs, Gone Mad @ Key Club Gram Rabbit @ Spaceland Will Hoge, The Jane Does @ The Knitting Factory Baxter House, Seasons, The Sufferers Incorporated @ Mr. T's Bowl God Forbid, Goatwhore, The Human Abstract, Mnemic, Arsis @ Whisky Franklin for Short, Highlines, One False Move, The Return @ Lava Lounge Stepsonday, Thieves & Liars, The Valley Arena, Light FM @ Silverlake Lounge Dar Williams, Priscilla......

Two of LAist's favorite bands are playing tonight. The (still) best unsigned LA band in LA, the Mere Mortals. And the happiest/saddest tunes ever from a married couple since the Carpenters, The Submarines. Mere Mortals, Pity Party @ Silverlake Lounge (free) The Submarines @ The Echo Sarah Silverman @ Largo The Idyllists, The Rolling Blackouts @ Safari Sam's (LA Weekly hints that Lemmy might show up) The Broken West @ Spaceland Metal Skool @......

The Submarines @ The Echo Pussy Cow, Slingshots @ Lava Lounge Metal Skool, Daybreak Ends @ Key Club Yearlong Disaster, Bloodcat Love, The Ebbs @ Viper Room Pity Party, Hello Menno, Io Perry, The By and By @ Silverlake Lounge Kriminal Pogo, Battle Flask, Running on Fumes, The Booze Hounds @ The Scene Northstar Sessions, Jeremy & Jessica Bergen, Twilight Sleep @ The Knitting Factory Captain Ahab, Health, Paris Hilton Motherfuckers, Fag Bashers @......

The Colour @ Spaceland Unwritten Law, As Fast As @ House of Blues The Spazmatics @ The Canyon High Places, Yachts @ Il Corral The Studiofix, Icy Core of Jupiter @ The Smell Wallpaper Airplanes, Tracing Amber @ Lava Lounge Suicide Holiday, Kilter Grey, Tom Korbee, My So Called Friend @ Viper Room John West, Chris Pierce (no relation), Kandace Lindsay @ The Hotel Cafe Kissing Tigers, Die Rockers Die, The Henry Clay People,......

Blondie @ The Canyon The Knitters @ Safari Sam's Blackalicious, Fatlip & Tre, Fatlip & Tre @ El Rey Atomic, Stone Vengeance, Witch of Endor @ The Joint Bad Acid Trip, Stolen Babies, The Dolemite Project @ The Knitting Factory The Chicago Afrobeat Project, Rhythm Roots All-Stars @ Temple Bar Trophy Girl, Skeeter Truck, Screaming Yeehaws @ The Scene Hollywood Roses, Fatum, Waking Hours @ Whisky a Go Go Buckcherry, Eighteen Visions, American Eyes......

In a city so cultured that it boasts not one, but two excellent community college radio stations, Los Angeles doesn't play when it comes to our entertainment dollar. We've seen it all, most of it was eh, and we're barraged daily by opportunities to see major stars perform so when Joey Lawrence, Lisa Rinna, Drew Lachey and Joey McIntyre, along with 2006 winner Emmitt Smith and loser Mario Lopez, we weren't surprised when people......

Los Lobos, The Original Low Riders (members of War) @ House of Blues Photek @ Vanguard DJ AM @ LAX Cockwind @ Il Corral Nine Inch Chili Pumpkins @ The Joint Patty Booker, Lisa Finnie @ Cinema Bar The Sufferers Incorporated, Seasons @ Mr. T's Bowl Countershock, In the Flatfields, Anglo Jackson, My Revolver @ Lava Lounge Fatal Mack, Born Leaders, Bad News, Parview Rec, Big Fats @ The Knitting Factory......

The Escovedo Family: Pete, Alejandro, and Shelia E. @ Disney Hall El Vez @ Knitting Factory Ozomatli @ House of Blues The Dan Band @ The Avalon Very Be Careful @ The Echo Bob Forrest @ Silverlake Lounge (5:30p) Jeremy Enigk @ The Troubadour Mad Parade @ The Scene Go Betty Go @ Lava Lounge Adam Rose, The Cavesingers @ The Mint The Cairo Gang, Fool's Gold @ El Cid This Side of Blonde,......

Sepultura, Sworn Enemy, Diecast @ Whisky X-Clan Toy Drive @ Temple Bar Ozomatli @ House of Blues Tigra @ Silverlake Lounge Los Abandoned @ Pershing Square (free, 8pm) Smegma, Nels Cline, Polar Goldie Cats, Dinosaurs With Horns @ The Echo The Woolly Bandits, Sons and Lovers @ Knitting Factory The Bolides, Forcefield On @ Alex's Bar The Watkins Family Hour @ Largo The Cave Singers, Moonrats @ Spaceland Naked & Shameless, Evil Maria @......

Guns N' Roses, Sebastian Bach, Suicide Girls @ Gibson Too $hort @ The Knitting Factory Banyan @ The Mint Rama Duke @ Viper Otep @ Whisky A Gogo Sono Luz @ King King The Lonesome Spurs @ Cinema Bar Bad Acid Trip, Harry Perry (pictured) @ The Good Hurt Fortitude, Valiant, Third String Cavalier @ Roxy You Army, Macminn, Jason Karaban @ The Hotel Cafe The Dedication, Leonel, Buildings Breeding @ Lava Lounge Secret......

Metal Skool @ Key Club Hinder @ Roxy Messiah Sing-Along @ Disney Hall The Delta Spirit, Army Navy @ Spaceland Libbie Schrader, Jen & Abby @ The Hotel Cafe Matcli, Amity, Goodbye Valentine @ The Knitting Factory High Speed Scene, Electromagnetic @ Silverlake Lounge Native June, Coda Vesta, Dirty Kings, Brutus Gets the Girl @ The Troubadour The Parson Redheads, The Kris Special, Stevenson Ranch Davidians @ The Echo The Peppermint Creeps, Romak &......

The Key Club gets top billing tonight because The Bronx headlines a benefit for Wheels for Humanity, which supplies wheelchairs. Also on the bill : Chuck Ragan (ex-Hot Water Music) with members of Flogging Molly, and some rock star karaoke. Everyone will probably be there for either the ice skating or Great Northern, but The Submarines came out with a haunting CD that we played all summer long. Go downtown and ice skate from......

Syd Straw with D.J. Bonebrake and ex–Balancing Act bro Willie Aron @ McCabe's Aimee Mann (pictured), Paul F. Tompkins @ Malibu Performance Arts Black Label Society, Priestess @ Wiltern Napalm Death, A Life Once Lost @ Whisky Bob Forrest @ Silverlake Lounge (5:30p Happy Hour show) Ziggy Marley, Skye @ Avalon Judy Tenuta @ Steve Allen Damien Rice @ Orpheum Mario Escovedo @ El Cid Restaurant Aquabats, The Lashes, Army of Freshmen @ El......

The New Cars, Persephone’s Bees @ House of Blues Gob Iron @ The Troubadour Roger O'Donnell (The Cure), Christopher Willets, Haley Bonar @ Spaceland Spank Rock, Debonair Samir, DJ C-Town @ Safari Sam's Death Cab for Cutie, Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins @ Bren Events Center The Cops, Dead Ponies, Tsk Tsk @ The Scene Nova Kayne the Great @ Lava Lounge Wirgo, Garrison Starr, John Eddie @ The Mint Brandi Shearer, Elizaveta,......

Death Cab For Cutie, Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins @ Terrace Theater The Delta Spirit, What Made Milwaukee Famous @ Spaceland The Parson Red Heads, Black Pine, The Faraway Places, Nico Stai @ Echo Four Good Men, (ex members of Simple Minds & Big Country) @ Knitting Factory Sarah Silverman @ Largo Metal Skool, The New Fidelity, Underwater City People, Pu$$y Cow @ Key Club Rib Bib, Faggot, Gay Beast, The Munchers, Mad......