Spaceland is A Place To Bury Strangers | Photo by Redboy via the band's MySpace. More great concert photos by Redboy here SambaLá @ Blue Cafe (Long Beach, Upstairs Room) The Ditty Bops @ McCabe's (Santa Monica) Pigeon John @ Malibu Inn (Malibu) Grizzly Bear @ Walt Disney Concert Hall (Downtown) Aceyalone @ Temple Bar (Santa Monica) Bad Religion @ House of Blues (West Hollywood) Holy Fuck, A Place to Bury Strangers, In Waves......

Astra Heights, who is this week's iTunes Latino “Single of the Week,” will play tonight at The Echo. Lemon Sun will also be there. Yesterday was Xena: Princess Warrior picket day at the WGA Strike. Tonight, Xena herself, Lucy Lawless, will be bashing heads and belting out songs over at the Roxy. And earlier this morning, we interviewed Talib Kweli who will be at the House of Blues down the street from the Roxy......

The Angel City Derby Girls prepare to get their art on Here at LAist, we know that everyone loves a Derby Girl. So we’re pretty sure that this Saturday night, when the lovely ladies of Angel City Derby Girls pair up with Meltdown Comics to hold an art auction, Eat Your Art Out, it promises to be a good party. It’s free to get in, local artists will be showcasing their work (check out......

We didn't think there would be any Tonight in Rock column today, but we were wrong. Vault 350 in Long Beach is hosting a night of hip hop and rap starting at 8:30 p.m. Twenty bucks at the door. Headlining Murs Also 2Mex Self Scientific Pigeon John "LA" music video by The Murs......

Etta James & Chuck Berry - "Rock n' Roll Music" Etta James and the Roots Band @ Wiltern Stevie Wonder @ Nokia Theatre Les Savy Fav @ El Rey Snoop Dogg's Smokin' XMAS Party @ House of Blues Mellowdrone @ The Echoplex Greyboy Allstars @ The Troubadour Lamb of God @ Long Beach Arena The Nightwatchman, Jill Sobule, Low Stars @ Hotel Cafe Andre Legacy, Dirt Nasty, Beardo @ Safari Sam's Mike Stern Quartet......

Every so often when we feel so inspired to do so, we feature a photo from a photographer in the LAist Flickr Pool. It's another way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention that they deserve. Everyone knows Santa Monica College has a radio station (KCRW 89.9). And CSUN (KCSN 88.5) and CSULB (KJAZZ 88.1) too. Even Pasadena City College (KPCC 89.3) and USC (KUSC 91.5) have theirs. Where is UCLA's?......

Justin Timberlake @ Staples New Pornographers @ Henry Fonda Theater Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Elvis Perkins @ Troubadour Peanut Butter Wolf, Pigeon John @ Roxy Joe Frank @ Largo The Vacation, Kennedy @ Viper Room The Dilettantes, Run Run Run, After Midnight Project, Jake Smith @ Safari Sam's canceled: White Stripes, Cold War Kids @ Forum Amy Winehouse @ Wiltern Jesca Hoop @ Ivar Theater......

Pigeon John is so LA that he doesn't neglect the South Bay, like so many others choose to do. That's why he's gonna be at Venezia in Redondo Beach tonight, bringing the love to all the bitches, as per usual. We love Pigeon John, partly because he can make non-hiphop people stop and say, "Hey what's that? Turn it up!" The Luminaries will be holding it down closer to LA if you're not down......

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......

Packing the house, Pigeon John got silly-tastic his first time headlining the Troubadour Friday July 20th (yesterday). He had DJ Chief XL, of Blackalicious fame, keeping the beats-a-bangin and the wax-a-scratchin. The above video is from almost the end of his set, of which was an hour long, and fun as hell. Pigeon John is the kind of hip-hop show you would bring your non-rap friends to, so that you could convert them into......

Sonic Youth - "Kool Thing" (yes we know tonight they're playing Daydream Nation in its entirety but surely there will be an encore, right?) Sonic Youth, Redd Kross @ The Greek The Dwarves @ Safari Sam's The Bird & the Bee @ El Rey Pigeon John @ The Troubadour The Cribs @ Amoeba (6pm) Boz Scaggs @ The Canyon Jon Brion @ Largo Cool Britannia @ Hollywood Bowl Johnathan Rice, Whispertown 2000, Everest @......

After suffering an enormous hiphop-deficit in the beach cities, some relief is on the way via Pigeon John. Have you heard of him? He's that clueless, sister-dating, blues-singing, summertime pool-partying rap star from Los Angeles. Yeah that dude with all those dapper duds on. Now you be with it.So check it, that dude is gonna play that new hotspot The Shore, in Hermosa Beach on June 27th. It's some kinda KRCW Presents type thing,......

RJD2, Pigeon John @ Henry Fonda Insane Clown Posse @ Grove of Anaheim Sarah Silverman @ Largo Metal Skool, Shapes of Race Cars @ Key Club Bodies of Water, Kind Hearts & Coronets, Muso, Lava Children @ The Echo Dave Gleason, The Twains, The High Society @ Silverlake Lounge Gliss, Augie March, The Melismatics, The Moderates @ Spaceland Dirty Royals, Upstanding Youth, The Ugly Sticks @ The Gig Eric Lindley, The Health Club, Crash......

The Jesus and Mary Chain, Gogol Bordello, Bjork, Sonic Youth, Peaches, Arctic Monkeys, Stephen Marley, Of Montreal, Silversun Pickups, Satellite Party, Julieta Venegas, Noisettes, Amy Winehouse and others @ Coachella Gwen Stefani, Lady Sovereign @ Gibson Pigeon John @ Malibu Inn Grant Lee Phillips @ The Troubadour I See Hawks in L.A., Horsepainters, Amy Farris @ The Scene The Cinematics, The Heavenly States, Le Meu le Purr @ Spaceland Apes of the New Millennium,......

Blackalicious, Sage Francis (above), Brother Ali, Jean Grae, Mr. Lif, Visionairies, Cage, Zion I & the Grouch, Devin the Dude, Evidence & Alchemist, Pigeon John @ Orange Pavilion As Tall as Lions, Booka Shade, Circa Survive, Cute Is What We Aim For @ Avalon Pat Metheny @ Disney Concert Hall Pitbull, Rakim @ Shrine Auditorium Elvis Perkins, Let's Go Sailing @ Largo The Red Elvises @ Rusty's Surf Ranch West Indian Girl, The Slow......

Bob Forrest @ Silverlake Lounge (5:30p show) Cold War Kids, Parson Red Heads @ Silverlake Lounge Reverend Horton Heat, Junior Brown @ House of Blues My Ruin, Revolution Mother, Flatline @ Whisky Wounded Lion, Arrow Down @ Zamakibo Subtle, Pigeon John @ The Troubadour Terry Bozzio @ The Baked Potato Pretty Boys @ The Gig Odetta @ McCabe's Supernova, Midway, The Make, Golgotha Rock City @ The Scene Ninja Academy, 8-Bit, The Mormons, We......

We don't know about you, but it's friggin cold out there. Well, not for some of you. It seems as though places that are supposed to be cold are warm and places that are supposed to be warm are cold. Or maybe that's just us. Either way, we're freezing. Austinist said goodbye to their co-editor (sell-out) and played rumor monger on the SXSW lineup. And when dozens of dead birds littered downtown Austin, it's......

The first time i saw Pigeon John he was the main act at "the Shack" in Anaheim. Sundays were rap nights, and before i knew it the rowdy crowd of criminals was being charmed by this rapper toting an acoustic guitar, and making wise-cracks at the audience. Pigeon John has come a long way since those days years ago, he is now signed by Quannum Projects, considered one of Los Angeles's most popular rappers, and......

Tommy Sands, Glen Glenn, Ray Campi, Barry Holdship, Dusk Devils, Patty Booker, Lisa Finnie, Candye Kane, Carlos Guitarlos, Rip Masters, The Blasters, Justin Curtis, Danny Blitz, Dawn Shipley, The Fleagles, Count Smokula, Rod & the Tonemasters, Crown City Bombers and others - Annual Elvis Birthday Bash @ Henry Fonda NOFX @ House of Blues The Submarines @ The Echo Pigeon John @ Safari Sam's The Broken West @ Spaceland Metal Skool, Julie @ Key......

Not that we care what they think in Frisco but the SF Weekly (wait, we thought you weren't supposed to call it SF? hmmmm) named Honeycut the Best Soul/Funk Band in town. Well, this isn't your father's soul music. There's Garbage in there, some electronica... modern might be a good way to put it. Sorta sounds like Beck's forays into nu whiteboy funk which is dangerous because even Beck has failed in that world......

WEDNESDAY • David Bazan (Pedro the Lion) and Rosie Thomas perform tonight at Largo. Doors open at 8 PM. • MF DOOM (Danger Doom, Madvillian, MF), Pigeon John and 8 Bit are on tonight at The El Rey. Tickets are $28.50. • It's the Clash of the Tetris Final Showdown at Little Pedro's, featuring music by Little One (ex-Sunday's Best) and Division Day, plus DJ sets by Jimmy Tamborello (The Postal Service) and Pedro......

FRIDAY • Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men, Anne McCue and Mike Stinson are on tonight at the Troubadour. Doors open at 8 PM; tickets are $15 advance. • Irish punk-Celt-Americana darlings Sons and Daughters play tonight at Spaceland with The Blood Arm and Soft. Doors open at 9 PM. • Rondo Bros play tonight with Josh Haden at The Echo at 9 PM. TIckets are $5. [18+] • Bay Area phenom Lyrics Born......

MONDAY • Amoeba Music has a live in-store performance by Living Legends and Pigeon John at 7 PM. • At the Egyptian Theatre, see director Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself, the nearly secret history of LA, at 7:30 PM.......

A piece in the Toronto Star of all papers about the appeal of vinyl records reminds us of one of our favorite local record shops, The Basement. Tucked away on Ventura near Van Nuys boulevard in Sherman Oaks, the hip hop focused record store features some of the coolest and little known live in-store events around town. We were there when Pigeon John and others rocked the mic and the energy of Los Angeles......