Daniel Johnston at SXSW, 3/07 He's probably best known for his "Hi How Are You" tshirt that Kurt Cobain often wore, but if you don't know Daniel Johnston's music you're really missing out and you should definitely pick up the award-winning DVD, "The Devil and Daniel Johnston". Equally amateurish and darkly genius, Johnston's tunes lie somewhere between Brian Wilson and Wesley Willis while being heavily influenced by the Beatles: Daniel Johnston @ Henry Fonda......

You may have noticed a new button on our left-hand column with the title We See The Best Concerts. It dawned on us the other day that we really do go to the best concerts and we usually write about them the next day or a few days later. So here's a wrap up of all 37 shows we reviewed this month, with links to the posts just in case you missed it. Chris......

Magic Bullets A simmering sextet from San Francisco, Magic Bullets may be the most ordinary-looking bunch of guys to start up a post-punk band. Their haircuts are short, and so are their songs. You might invite them over to mow your lawn, but you don’t expect them to churn out the kind of evocative, guitar-layered songs that instantly flood your mind with moody memories. Well, at least this mind (after a slew of free......

Sonic Youth @ Urban Outfitters - Santa Monica Daft Punk, Ratatat @ LA Sports Arena The Rentals, Goldenboy @ Spaceland Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons @ Kodak The Dwarves, The Dickies @ Galaxy Theatre Veruca Salt, The Flys @ Key Club Erasure @ Grove of Anaheim Theo & the Skyscrapers @ The Echo Rasputina, My Brightest Diamond @ The El Rey Nervous Gender @ The Cocaine Black Kites, The Transmissions, The Switch @......

Bjork from last night's performance at Coachella Arcade Fire, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tiesto, The Decemberists, The Good the Bad & the Queen, Kings of Leon, The Rapture, Blonde Redhead, The New Pornographers, The Black Keys, Ozomatli, Ghostface Killah, others @ Coachella Wayne Kramer @ The Hotel Cafe Backbiter @ Mr. T's Bowl Vixen @ Knitting Factory The Walkmen, Magic Bullets, Foreign Born @ Echo Ex-Plex Dr. Know, Mad Parade, Bad Reaction @ The......