Carmen Rizzo will play the Temple Bar tonight Be joyful with the electro-pop sounds of Hey Willpower (Will from Imperial Teen and Tomo from Tussle) at The Echo or get a more worldly groove on at the Temple Bar. Jackshit, who we interviewed once, plays tonight and there are two in-store performances as well: one at Amoeba (of course) and the other at Active Ride Show. There's a few sold out shows, but you......

Ryan Adams sucks and Matt Costa is all the way in Long Beach, so if there's anything worth checking out tonight that you probably haven't done, then it's some salsa dancing in Studio City with Johnny Polanco (pictured right). His band has "contagious Latin Music that is truly appreciated by the dancing connoisseurs." Rock. Johnny Polanco y Su Conjunto Amistad @ Mama Juana's Bone Thugs-N-Harmony @ Crash Mansion Poison the Well, The Locust, Dance Gavin......

Dethklok - "Bloodrocuted" The Pogues @ The Wiltern Michelle Shocked @ Temple Bar West Indian Girl, The Mae Shi, Ashkon @ The Highlands Dios Malos @ Rio Honda College Jon Brion @ Largo Danzig @ Grove of Anaheim Northern @ The Troubadour Matt Costa @ Detroit Bar Vincent Fernandez @ The Gibson The Ringers, Dutch Pink @ Viper Room Bad Dudes, Planets, Totally Serious @ The Smell You Me & Iowa, Coco B's, Saint......

RBD @ Gibson Paul Weller @ Avalon Morrissey @ Pasadena Civic Auditorium Minnie Driver @ The Hotel Cafe X-Clan @ Key Club Loudon Wainwright III @ McCabe's (two shows) Billy Vera & the Beaters @ Cozy's Bar & Grill Grant Lee Phillips @ Largo Hookers & Blow @ Paladino's Joni & Gina's Wedding @ El Cid (lesbian wedding fun) G Love & Special Sauce, Matt Costa @ House of Blues Moving Units, The Deadly......

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,......

Now that the weather is more normal we can go back to enjoying the fact that we live in LA and do Southern Californian things like skating, surfing, and editing movies on our Macs. "A Brokedown Melody" is a beautiful new surf film starring the likes of Kelly Slater, Tom Curren, Gerry Lopez, the Malloys, Rob Machado, CJ Hobgood, Jack Johnson and others. It features two tunes by Johnson, a previous unrelease solo number......

Harrison Ford, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw - Ellen, 4pm (NBC) Red Sox at Anaheim Angels, 7pm (UPN) Dodgers at San Diego Padres, 7pm (FSPT) William Cohen - Daily Show, 8pm (Comedy Central) Paul Krugman - Colbert Report, 8:30pm (Comedy Central) Big Brother - 9pm (CBS) When the Levees Broke: Acts 3 & 4 - 9pm (HBO) Rock Star: Supernova - 10pm (CBS) Chris Elliott, Rep. Nancy Pelosi - David Letterman, 11:30p (CBS) Matt Costa......

Tonight The Upper Crust (pictured) @ Spaceland Go-Go's, Morningwood @ Greek Steve Miller @ Pacific Amphitheatre Matt Costa, Watson Twins @ Troubadour The Romantics @ Hollywood Park Appleseed Cast @ The Echo Saturday Bobby Brown, En Vogue, Bell Biv Devoe, SWV @ Greek The Upper Crust @ Alex's Bar Z-Trip @ Vault 350 Mason Jennings @ Tower (Santa Monica) Sunday Fishboy @ Tangier Ray Davies @ Wiltern Greg Graffin @ Troubadour Monday Darker My......

Is anybody driving three hours to the desert for this? Two day passes ($167 + $23 in fees) and Saturday tickets ($86 + $15 in fees) are still available. Most of the rock bands have played LA clubs in the past few months. Otherwise you better really like DJs and house music…… Saturday 4/29 Depeche Mode (about 16 years past their prime), Daft Punk (five years past their prime), Franz Ferdinand (the last album......

FRIDAY • The Knitting Factory features Geisha Girls, Glass Candy, Danava and Captain Ahab at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $8. • Richard Buckner performs at El Cid with Anders Parker and Matt Costa. Tickets are $10 and the show starts at 9:30 PM. • Head for The Scene to see Squab, Los Abandoned, Associate and Lyra. Cover is $8. • Beyond Baroque presents poets Denise Duhamel and Lisa Glatt reading tonight at 7:30 PM. •......

FRIDAY • At the Knitting Factory, see Fu Manchu, The Chelsea Smiles and Big Elf at 8 PM. Tickets are $12 advance, $14 at the door. • The Fold at Tangier has Ramblin' Jack Elliott with Bob and Elijah Forrest and Tom Brosseau for $20. • The Trashcan Sinatras will be performing tonight at The El Rey with Matt Costa and Mellow Drunk at 8 PM. Tickets are $21. • Andy Bell is back,......

• Spaceland Productions presents a special performance by Jolie Holland with guest Sean Hayes at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Barnsdall Park. The show begins at 7 PM; tickets are $13 advance and $15 at the door. • The talented and amazing Paul Westerberg performs the first of two nights at the Henry Fonda Theater at 9 PM. • Clint Conley & Co. are in town, as Mission of Burma takes the stage with 400......