Crash Mansion, a live-music venue and nightclub owned by the Bowery Restaurant Group and located at 199 Bowery in New York City , is opening their Los Angeles outpost tonight. They have transformed Myron's Ballroom downtown into a club. We read that is has a capacity for 1200 guests, 5 bars and two stages. Bands that have performed in the New York venue include: Beyonce, Janet Jackson, Norah Jones, Joss Stone, Usher, Gavin DeGraw,......

Peaches & Herm, Whitey, Jeffree Starr - she is the foul mouthed over-sexxed rappergrrl and Herm, her backing group consists of JD Samson (Le Tigre’s) and Samantha Maloney (Hole). Jeffree Starr is the transvestite who somehow became one of your Myspace friends @ Avalon The Bangles, Matthew Sweet, The Southland, and others perform as a benefit for the TunaHAKI foundation which helps AIDS orphans @ The Roxy Golem, Jill Soloway, DJ Anaan - Join......

When Google bought YouTube yesterday, the sound you heard was every copyright lawyer in Hollywood cracking his fingers, because the beautiful success of YouTube was its wealth of copywritten material. Now that deep-pockets Google is the new owner, what would keep Lindsay, Avril, and Ashlee's lawyers from suing Google for having a pirated video like this one on the air? And the sad thing is, as talented as Le Tigre is, they now could......

THURSDAY • Tangier features James William Hindle, Bart Davenport, Andrew Goodsight and Hensley tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $10. • Shannon McNally, Speechwriters LLC, Todd Thibaud and Miranda Lee Richards are at the Hotel Cafe tonight at 9 PM. • For those who didn't get tickets to Le Tigre, check out La Polla Loca at Little Pedro's, with resident DJs Senior and Rudy Blue, plus guest DJ JD of Le Tigre. Things heat......