Cisco Adler protégé and collaborator, Shwayze (seen to the left), is hitting up Redondo Beach tonight with his happier sounding indie hip-hop. He grew up in a trailer park... a trailer park in Malibu that is. “To me, it was the nicest trailer of all time," the 22-year-old musician says. He and Adler play at the Venezia Italian Grill and you can start your night in Malibu, riding the bus down with the gang (RSVPs required, see the MySpace flier). more ›

The Wiggles Do The Humpty Dance. It's trippy! more ›

"Let Them Knock" - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings The Tossers @ Chain Reaction Brooke Fraser, Jordan Lawhead @ The Troubadour A Place to Bury Strangers, Xu Xu Fang, Mere Mortals @ Silverlake Lounge Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings @ El Rey Theatre Oliver Future, Dan Rockett, Starving For Gravity @ The Viper Room Steve Carlson, Chris Stills, Bryan Master, Emily Jane White @ The Hotel Cafe Port O’Brien, The Cave Singers @ The... more ›

Tonight at the Shrine Auditorium, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will bestow the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards. This year the Academy has launched their Green With Emmy Campaign. The event features the use of alternative fuel sources for deliveries, hybrid vehicles for talent, recycled paper, a set created from mostly rentals with less construction and waste, staff tuxedo will be dry cleaned with eco friendly solutions and not covered in plastic bags,... more ›

Plasticsoul, Brandon Schott, Brady Harris, The Karabal Nightlife @ Mr. T's Bowl
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The Noisettes @ Amoeba (6:30pm) The Noisettes, The Maccabees, The Pity Party @ The Troubadour Sage Francis, Buck 65 @ Henry Fonda Mere Mortals, Kind Hearts & Coronets @ Spaceland Peter Case, Ron Franklin @ Largo Roger Waters @ Verizon Amphitheatre Derek Trucks @ Ford Amphitheater The Dillards @ McCabe's Rhino Bucket, DC-4, Wicked Relish, Fantastic Black @ Paladino's Led Zepagain @ Hollywood Park... more ›

Dinosaur Jr., Awesome Color @ The Troubadour The Germs @ Galaxy Theatre Peter Case, Grant-Lee Phillips @ Largo Al Kooper @ McCabe's Don McLean @ The Canyon mere mortals @ Market Gallery The Fuxedos @ The Echo Atomic Punks, Lure, Demize, Flake @ Whisky A Gogo Los Infernos, Charley Horse, Hellbound Hayride @ Safari Sam's The Rock & Roll Adventure Kids, Les Hormones, The Lateenos @ Mr. T's Bowl Horse the Band, Black Pyramids,... more ›

Nas @ House of Blues mere mortals @ Safari Sam's Cornelius, Holy Fuck @ El Rey Musexpo, Dan Mangan, Pete Murray @ Viper Room Elegantly Wasted, The Changing, Jessie Marin, Damn Hippie Freaks @ Knitting Factory Metal Skool, By All Means Necessary, Stereo Suite, Weapon of Choice @ Key Club Alison Ray, The Trophy Wives, Venus Envy, Ladyfox @ The Gig Clark 8, The Breakups, La Micaela Bastidas @ Mr. T's Bowl Anavan, Captain... more ›

What NME wrote about local band Mere Mortals yesterday: The hotly tipped LA-based band are known for adeptly combining elements of Britpop and psychedelic rock reminiscent of Primal Scream or The Jesus And Mary Chain, earning them 'best unsigned band' accolades left and right. Mere Mortals @ Spaceland The Fuxedos @ Safari Sam's The Wreckers, Kate Voegele @ The Roxy Eleni Mandell @ The Bordello Intervention, Mathew Jordan, Anaura, The Dimes @ The Mint... more ›

LAist gets and listens to a Lot of music. You can see the bands we like in the concerts that we review, the Tonight in Rock listings that we compile, and in the cds that we review. But we realize that we listen to way more music than we review so we figured we make a list once a week letting you know what we're into. week ending 4/13/07 Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Self-Titled... more ›

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... more ›

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 @... more ›

Wanna' know what's hot and fresh on our playlists? Look no further. Here's the 411 on what your favorite LA-centric blog is listening to. Whether it's sick and twisted or straight up embarrassing to mention -- it's all here: more ›

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. more ›

Do you hear the wind howling his name? Ken Layne is coming back to Los Angeles. That's why the gods are washing off the streets and blowing the smog aside. Wonkette's West Coast Bureau Chief began this year at the helm of the ridiculously funny and mindbogglingly weird Sploid. Instead of burning bridges, Nick Denton shuttered Sploid and moved the hilariously cranky Layne over to Wonkette in a rare move by the Gawker head,... more ›

Everyone loves an outlaw and David Allen Coe is as bad as they get. Practically born in prison, Coe has been slinging around racial epithets and dirty songs before it became trendy. And thanks to Red Peters and the fact that he can't be fined, Howard Stern has been playing one of Coe's classics "Fuckin in the Butt". Beneficiary of an opening spot from a recent Kid Rock tour, DAC is showing a new... more ›

The Mere Mortals, who LAist has written about before, continues to climb up the charts despite being unsigned. Their self-made "Rebel Radio" EP continues to rise on the FMQB album chart , one that tracks national airplay on new music radio shows. Currently the Mere Mortals are #3, just behind And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 's "So Divided" (Interscope), and The Kooks' "Inside In/Inside Out (Astralwerks). They're outpacing such... more ›

Any struggling A&R rep ought to take advantage of this holiday season and jump on the Mere Mortals while Hollywood naps. Their self-made "Rebel Radio" EP is climbing the FMQB charts that track national airplay on new music radio shows. Not only are the Mere Mortals the only unsigned band on the Single chart where they're #15, but they're #10 on the Album chart. Last year Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Gries (Uncle Rico) checked out... more ›

Mere Mortals @ Silverlake Lounge Cheap Trick @ The Wiltern Peter Frampton @ The Canyon Regina Spektor @ Avalon Shelby Lynne, The Watson Twins @ El Rey Moving Picture Show, Castaneda @ Spaceland Robert Randolph & the Family Band @ House of Blues Drewfest, Big Moves, Juanita Mannequin @ Viper Room X-Ray OK, Letting Up Despite Great Faults @ Little Pedro's Mouse on Mars, Birdy Num Num, Carmen Rizzo @ The Echo Hijos de... more ›

Rocket, Catfish Haven @ Spaceland (free) Mere Mortals, Neuromance @ Viper Room Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians @ Henry Fonda Antigone Rising @ El Rey DJ AM @ Vault 350 The Dope MCs @ Dragonfly Metal Skool, Amp’s Choice, Modus Dei @ Key Club The Hold Steady, Sean Na Na @ The Troubadour Other People, Fireball Johnson @ The Gig You Me & Iowa, Controlling the Famous, Mon Frere @ Knitting Factory Bird... more ›

Magnolia Electric Co., Bottomless Pit @ The Knitting Factory more ›

Giant Drag, The Thermals, Envy, Dios Malos, Tussle, Silversun Pickups, Darker My Love, Foreign Born, Toys that Kill, Brother Reade, Whiskey Biscuit, Rolling Blackouts, Strange Boys, The Minor Canon, Sleeping People, Subtitle & Friends, Graf Orlock, Chuck Ragan, Hit Me Back, Carry the Casket, Upsilon Acrux,Shapes and Sizes, Thee Make Out Party, Michael Runion, Life with an Astronaut @ Fuck Yeah Fest more ›