Modest Mouse opened for REM at the Hollywood Bowl this Thursday. It seems safe to say that it's been just long enough for their big hit "Float On" to have passed its airplay over-saturation and be ready for a mini-comeback. Well, maybe just a one-time refresher listen.......

If there is a more beautiful place to see a concert than the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington please direct me to it. Each year, this is the home for the annual memorial weekend blowout known as the Sasquatch! Music Festival. A short two-hour drive east from Seattle takes you to the Gorge, built on the side of a cliff, overlooking the Columbia River. The scenery is as gorgeous as anywhere, when you add in some......

Is the word Hipster even allowed to be used anymore without disdain dripping from the user's tongue? Is it outdated? What about the connotation - good, bad, both? The Anti-Hipster's Guide to LA is a listing of people, bars/clubs, musicians/DJs, artists, installation, etc etc that may be deemed hipster-centric but don't really carry the negative connotation of the word (meaning pretentious, inaccessible, you get my drift). Sitting in Cafe 101 on Super Bowl Sunday, drinking......

Last August, Aimee Mann, Joan Osborne, Rob Laufer, Ian Ball from Gomez, and Al Jorgensen joined Cheap Trick and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra to recreate Sgt. Peppers on it's 40th Anniversary. They'll do it again June 28th. We're four months out from the official start of the 2008 Hollywood Bowl Season and the schedule is nearly complete. Single tickets won't go on sale for a couple months but the Bowl is offering 16 different......

A sad week for LAist as they lose their trusted and amazing editor Tony Pierce to the LA Times, but what a blast his last week was. He shared his 25 Favorite CDs of 2007 and wrote a great review of just a good movie, No Country For Old Men. At UCLA, thousands of students celebrated the end of their quarter by running around campus in their undies (lots of photos in a two-part......

One look at the bill for Night Two of KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas one might think with all of the INDIE flavor that that LA's "other" rock station was behind the programming. But alas it was KROQ and Night Two featured great performances by Modest Mouse, Muse, Feist, Silversun Pickups, Jimmy Eat World, Spoon and a surprise unannounced performance from the Killers.......

"Knights of Cydonia" - Muse (One of the best videos of the year because we can relate to it via Guitar Hero 3 and we love Western themes. That and it's a great song.) Abstract 3's Armenian Folk Jazz @ The Baked Potato Muse, Feist, Jimmy Eat World, Modest Mouse, Silversun Pickups, Spoon, The Shins @ Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal Citywalk The Cult, The Cliks @ House of Blues - Disneyland Heavy D @......

I've always been intrigued by other "best of" lists, but this year I decided to take it to a whole new level. I e-mailed a handful of bands that I've seen this past year in order to unearth what exactly captivated them in '07. As music listeners, it is our duty to take a keen interest in our favorite musician's influences. After all, they rocked our little world, might as well see what rocked their......

LAInk 7:40pm The Princess and the Warrior IFC - A chance to see alternathottie Franka Potente in something other than Run Lola Run or the Bourne Identity. 9:00pm Big Brother CBS - It's veto time and we know Tony's all over that action. 10:00pm LA Ink TLC - Evidently Kat Von D had enough of Miami so she's come to LA to set up shop. PREMIERE - see clip above. 10:00pm i-Caught ABC -......

The premise of CBS' upcoming Kid Nation may be the BEST idea for a reality show I have ever heard in my entire life: a group of 8 to 15-year-olds are plunked in a remote locale and forced to create their own society. Awesome! So awesome that William Golding's estate ought to sue for residuals, right? Too bad spineless CBS execs already f*ed up the show by allowing kids to leave when they want and......

A Word or 52: TV icon Bob Barker is retiring and is getting a big sendoff from CBS. Lost will be killing us by not giving us any additional info about Locke. Idol will knock another one off. There are no decent movies on TCM or IFC to go take refuge from regular broadcast TV tonight. Tonight - Wednesday - May 9, 2007 Angels @ Mariners (Fox Sports, 7:00 p.m.) Cardinals @ Dodgers (PRIME,......

Dinosaur Jr., Awesome Color @ The Troubadour Modest Mouse @ Greek Gibson Fairport Convention @ McCabe's Dios Malos, Free Moral Agents, Todd Congelliere @ Alex's Bar Broken Needle, Circle One, Death Party @ Safari Sam's Ariel Pink, Soft-Boiled Eggies @ The Echo Los Kung Fu Monkeys, Defied, JBL, Final Summation, Squatters in Paradise @ Knitting Factory......

Dear LAist, Any idea whether or not modest mouse will still be playing the greek this Sunday? Love, Andrea of Burbank Dear Andrea, One of the great things about being LAist is we have the email addresses of everyone important. And we took your email and forwarded it to one person and that person replied in seconds and said that due to the fire, the Modest Mouse show on Sunday, as well as the......

Tonight - Tuesday - May 1, 2007 NCIS/The Unit (CBS, 8-10:00 p.m.) This week the gimmick is a blind photographer - dude, what's your Flickr site?/Parachute malfunction Brando (TCM, 8-??) Biography of Marlon Brando followed by several of his films, starting with A Streetcar Named Desire. Dateline NBC (NBC, 8:00 p.m.) Boys confess to 2004 murder of 12-year-old girl Gilmore Girls/Veronica Mars (the CW, 8-10:00 p.m.) Lorelai eating, drinking, shopping, karaoke/Veronica investigates vandalism of......

LAist is proud to offer a weekly, chart roundup of Billboard Magazine’s most coveted rankings. Join us as we revel in the conventional standard of musical success. Let us cross our fingers, hoist our lighters, and dream together of the supreme resurrection of artist-driven recordings that will forever eclipse the dark cloud of big label greed, A&R sleaze and disposable audio. Amen. Here are this week’s chart toppers. Behold the #1s. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Billboard Charts......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too,......

On Sale Tomorrow: Daft Punk with Sebastian and Kavinsky, July 21 @ L.A. Sports Arena, $50 - on sale at noon Modest Mouse, May 13 @ Greek - on sale at noon Jamie Foxx, Apr 21 @ Gibson Amphitheatre - on sale 1pm On Sale Monday: The Police, June 21 @ Honda Center, Anaheim - on sale 10am After the jump check out the Police's very unique North American tour. Wrigley, Fenway, and Churchill......

We don't care what you think about Isaac Brock and by the tone of the psychotic laughter punctuating We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank's opening track ("March Into the Sea"), neither does he. Brock grew up in Issaquah, Washington, where he lived in a (reportedly not-so-shabby) trailer home with his parents, who were part of the Grace Gospel Church, which in some way was affiliated with the infamous Waco Branch Davidians. As......

Out Today (The Baby List) Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum (Ryko)) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (Capitol) Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Living with the Living (Touch & Go) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Sony) I'm from Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends [US Bonus Tracks] (Mute U.S.) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Junk Culture (Caroline) El-P - I'll Sleep When You're......

New releases! Now newer every week!! We begin this installment with a boatload of terrifying and perplexing tribute records, followed by noteables in every genre, including some promising rock offerings, a vault of soundtracks, fancy cello-ing, and more Frankie Valli than you can shake a stick at. Tribute Various Artists - Bluegrass Tribute to Modest Mouse (CMH) Various Artists - Bluegrass Tribute to the Shins (CMH) Various Artists - Can You Bring It? Sing......

Tony Bennett's 80th birthday celebration starring Marc Anthony, Kelly Clarkson, Rascal Flatts, George Clooney, Billy Crystal, Quincy Jones, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis and Paul Newman @ The Kodak Deftones @ Avalon Pet Shop Boys @ Wiltern Modest Mouse @ Grove of Anaheim Joseph Arthur @ The Troubadour Vicente Fernandez @ Gibson Ray Parker Jr. @ Vault 350 Ray LaMontagne, David Ford @ Orpheum The Okmoniks "The Worst Band in America" @ Lava Lounge Golden......

Although it might be tempting to stay home tonight to watch the results come in, they won't all be in until early tomorrow morning. So do yourself a favor and look at that list. Look at it. That is probably the best lineup of shows we've seen in LA all year. If you don't see a show tonight, on a beautiful night, pretty much the last day of summer, then well... good. More beer......

Great Northern, Meeting Places, Dead Ponies, Tigers Can Bite You @ The Echo Lucy Schwartz, Katrina Parker, Josh Allan, Paul O' Connor @ Genghis Cohen Let’s Go Sailing, Bedroom Walls, Dappled Cities Fly, The Coral Sea @ Spaceland Black Fuzz, Tristan & the Tramps, St. Jorge & the Dragons @ Mr. T's Bowl Metal Skool, Wrapt in Plastic, She's Your Sister @ Key Club Quirks, The Letter Openers, Kriminal Pogo, Bull Lee @ Lava......

The Who @ Hollywood Bowl Modest Mouse @ Avalon Vincente Fernandez @ Gibson Lloyd Banks, Cartel @ House of Blues Eric Benet @ Henry Fonda Theater Jamie Laval & Ashley Broder @ McCabe's OK Stranger, The Automatic Music Explosion, Tipper @ Cobalt Cafe Leftover Crack, Citizen Fish, The Sainte Catherines @ The Knitting Factory......

The US Supreme Court today issued its much-awaited ruling on the file-sharing software case known as Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Studios Inc. V. Grokster, Ltd.. Basically, the court ruled that producing technology that could, among many possible uses, allow the sharing of copyrighted works, is not illegal, but that that doesn't mean that companies can be hinting or promoting to the public that they can use these services to download free copies of songs by Christina Aguilera......

• The Egyptian Theatre has a special night with animator Chris Landreth tonight at 7:30 PM. Presented in association with the ASIFA-International Animated Film Association, tonight will feature the films of Landreth and pioneering animator Ryan Larkin, in the animated shorts "The End," "Bingo," "Ryan," "Walking," and "Street Musique." An extended Q&A with Landreth will follow the screenings. • Modest Mouse wind up their three-day residency at The Wiltern with Love as Laughter and......

• Modest Mouse continue their three-day residency at The Wiltern with Love as Laughter and Cass McCombs tonight at 7 PM. Tickets are $23.50. • KCRW presents Gary Jules & The Group Rules tonight at The Hotel Cafe with Garrison Starr and Abba Roland, starting at 8 PM. • More Gilliam fun tonight at the New Beverly Cinema, with screenings of Brazil, followed by 12 Monkeys, beginning at 7:30 PM. • At 7:00 PM,......

• At Largo, Sarah Silverman will be performing her own special, heartwarming brand of standup with Louis CK. Doors open at 8 PM. • This month's Monday night resident, Mia Doi Todd, will be performing at The Echo with Damon Aaron, Languis, and DJ Nobody & Kutmah. The show starts at 8:30 PM, and admission is free. [21+] • The Troubadour hosts Eisley with The Elected (featuring Blake Sennett and Jason Boesel of Rilo......