This is a good time to be a Kinks fan. Last year Ray Davies put out a solo album, then "A Well-Respected Man" and "This Time Tomorrow" popped up this year in movies like Juno and The Darjeeling Limited. And now a Kinks Retrospective box set is scheduled for release in 2008, and NME has announced that a reunion tour for the seminal 60s, fighting-brothers band The Kinks is supposed to take place this year.......

OOOwww! Good evening Los Angeles! Wooo! How you all fee-ull? People. You know! I don't believe the LA Forum has a chimney... so if y'all want Santa Claus to come pay us a visit you're gonna need to raise the roof off this mother!! And I think if all twenty thousand of you flick your lighters in time with the beat we can turn this place into the biggest Christmas tree in the world!......

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......