If tonight's slim pickings in the music scene had an official theme, it would fall into Western/Country. In mid-country, House of Blues, Sunset Strip, is hosting a night of insane Psychobilly (punk, meet rockabilly). The Southlands of Long Beach finds the baritone country rock sounds of Brad Johnson at Cowboy Country and to the north in the Valley, the straight ahead country rockabilly Jeffrey Michaels visits The Cowboy Palace Saloon. Of other interests and......

2006 Performance of Unsilent Night in SF Unsilent Night @ Pan-Pacific Regional Park Tori Amos @ Nokia Theatre Spank Rock, LA Riots, Steve Aoki @ LAX Ingrid Michaelson @ Hotel Cafe Listing Ship, The Harpeth Trace @ Spaceland Bad Kitty Project @ Lighthouse Cafe The Evangenitals @ Mr. T's Bowl Wayne "The Train" Hancock @ Safari Sam's Ne-Yo @ The Wiltern Part Time Punks @ The Echo Carlos Guitarlos @ Liquid Kitty The Spazmatics......

Mavis Staples, Charlie Musselwhite, The North Mississippi Allstars @ Malibu Performing Arts Jill Scott @ House of Blues Meshell Ndegeocello @ Galaxy Theater Two Gallants, Blitzen Trapper, Songs For Mom @ El Rey Say Hi To Your Mom, The Velvet Teen, The A-Sides @ The Troubadour The Parson Red Heads, Acute, Le Switch, The Weather Underground @ Spaceland Electric Six, Gore Gore Girls, We Are the Fury @ Key Club Kari Kimmel, Sareet @......

Les Claypool @ Henry Fonda Mandy Moore @ Roxy Clark 8, Hazelden, Cossack @ The Scene Two Headed Dog @ Largo Jetboy, Attic of Love, Bad Things @ Viper Room Trophy Girl, Hellzaboppers, Paul Lemire @ Lighthouse Cafe Princetons, Veltexans @ Silverlake Lounge Kemo the Blaxican @ Zanzibar......

They're the best band you'll see all summer. Yes, even better than Rage Against the Machine. Pound-for-pound Arcade Fire has more songs, better songs, and you can't call it comeback. Plus the Canadians will be playing two nights in a venue in a park that will still smell of the remnants of an actual fire. Unless Rage has a stage that looks like a 1970s super computer, another point must be awarded to the......

Goldenboy, Chris McFarland, Wolff @ On the Rox Mando Diao, Pop Levi, The Capshuns @ The Troubadour The Mercy Kiss, Kay Hanley, The Mulhollands @ Key Club Low Stars, Chris Pierce, Chris Joyner, Sam Shaber @ The Hotel Cafe Holly Miranda, Madrigals, The Refinery, Born in the Flood @ Silverlake Lounge The Flesh, Porterville, Spakekitti, Dirty Bandits @ Safari Sam's Captain Squeegee & the Soap Suds, Liquid Cheese, BPM @ Knitting Factory Stinky Pinky,......

Al Green, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Jr. Watson & The Texas Horns, others @ Doheny Blues Festival Stevie Nicks, Chris Issak @ The Greek The Sea & Cake, Robbers on High Street @ The Troubadour The Turtle Island Quartet @ The Jazz Bakery Pit er Pat, Priestbird, Ima Fucking Gymnast @ The Smell Armored Saint, Chingalera, Cockpit @ The Viper Room Grant Lee Phillips @ Largo Thank You Drive Through, Couzin It, Erick Macek @......

Exies, Bad Blood & Broken Hearts, American Eyes, Street Drum Corps @ Key Club Syd Straw @ The Echo Aimee Mann @ Largo Grant Langston & The Supermodels, I See Hawks in LA @ The Mint Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound, Wachi, Arches, Imaad Wasif @ The Smell Shat, Homeless Sexuals, Dragstrip Kitty, The Bombshells, Kriminal Pogo @ The Scene The Skabs, Reckless, Disable Youth, 40 Ouncers, DVML, Vicious Attack @ Cobalt Cafe Slow......

Tenacious D @ Gibson Frank Black @ House of Blues Sepultura @ Vault 350 Julieta Venegas @ Wiltern The Slits @ The Troubadour MF Doom, Madlib @ El Rey The Mutaytor, Stolen Babies @ Henry Fonda Midnight Movies, The Willowz @ Spaceland Jon Brion @ Largo The Fucking Ocean @ El Cid Golden State, Scissors for Lefty @ Viper Silent Meow, Beatmo, Dollyrots, Last Action Heroes @ Lava Lounge Have Another Monkey, Jeremy Buck......

The Cramps, The Demolition Doll Rods, The Groovie Ghoulies @ House of Blues ¡Forward, Russia! @ Spaceland Z Trip, DJ Goldenhead @ Vault 350 John Lee Hooker Jr. @ Harvelle's India.Arie @ Grove of Anaheim Stuart A. Staples @ The Troubadour Witchcraft, Danava @ Safari Sam's Ahmet Zappa (signing) @ Book Soup Billy Vera & the Beaters @ Rusty's Surf Ranch Jesca Hoop, Emily Wells @ The Hotel Cafe Los Super Elegantes, Mika Miko......

Eddie Izzard, Drew Carey @ Largo Chuck E. Weiss @ Highland Grounds Corinne Bailey Rae @ John Anson Ford The Be Good Tanyas @ El Rey Airpushers @ El Cid Go Betty Go @ The Derby Merchants of Moonshine @ Alpine Village Hawthorne Heights @ Grove of Anaheim Say Hi to Your Mom, Metal Hearts @ Spaceland The Kooks, Chin Up Chin Up @ Safari Sam's Kennedy, Peachcake @ Key Club You Army, Attic......

Ten days before Halloween and so many killer shows to choose from tonight. Clearly the obvious choice for the season would be dressing up as Eddie and going to the Maiden show. Imagine that parking lot scene. Sun Ra Arkestra, Money Mark, Watts Prophets @ Arthur Nights, Palace Theatre Bob Dylan @ Long Beach Arena Iron Maiden @ Irvine Meadows Rancid @ Henry Fonda The Decemberists @ Wiltern Meshell Ndegeocello @ Temple Bar Lucinda......

Deadboy & the Elephantmen @ The Troubadour James Ellroy @ Vroman's Bookstore (Pasadena) Dead Ponies @ Silverlake Lounge Alana Sweetwater, Laura Jansen @ The Hotel Cafe The Larks @ Taix The Shout @ Lighthouse Cafe Christian Simmons @ Cowboy Palace Saloon No Age, Silver Creme, The Mae Shi @ The Smell The Faraway Places,The Moon Upstairs @ Spaceland......

Unearth, Bleeding Through, Animosity @ Wiltern Bitch, Dame Fortune, Compound X @ Paladino's Kelly Dalton, Charley Turner, Jason Karaban @ Hotel Cafe Scream, James Hall @ Viper Room Atomic Punks, Cicada, Eli Santana, Prowler @ Whisky Thank You Drive Thru @ Lighthouse Cafe Grant Lee Phillips @ Largo Kottonmouth Kings, Hed PE @ Vault 350 The Nice Boys, The Afterhours, The Clamour @ Spaceland Supafloss, Blasphemus Guitars, Rebel Rebel @ The Gig New Collapse,......

AFI @ Long Beach Arena Y&T @ Vine Street Banyan @ The Mint Etta James @ The Canyon Spoken Gun @ Malibu Inn Neighborhood Bullies @ Taix Kottonmouth Kings @ Vault 350 Ladykillers, Kleveland @ The Scene Toshi Reagon, Blackcast @ On the Rox Aisle 4, Dead City Sunday @ The Roxy Have Another Monkey @ Lighthouse Cafe Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands @ McCabe's Tortoise, Saccharine Trust @ The Troubadour Greg Laswell,......

For us there is no better LA street fair than the Sunset Junction annual event in the Silver Lake stretch of Sunset Blvd. One can enjoy eating chicken on a stick and drinking a beer while peoplewatching the hipsters, the kids, those of alternative lifestyles, and the random tourists who don't really know what they've stumbled into. The volunteer "donation" is now a hard $15 admission, but for all the good music, good food,......