Colourmusic are the rarest of musical rarities- a band from the isolated hinter portions of America's Heartland (Also known as "The Sticks") that not only doesn't suck, but actually turns out to be pretty great. And not in that sort of special olympics, everyone's a winner, "well, they're good for [insert your tiny state here]" kind of way, but actually, honestly, for realsies good. Kind of like how The Flaming Lips are so good......

Sy Smith will be at the Temple Bar tonight | Photo by Marlene Fisher/fatmeatgreasy.com It's a quality night in Echo Park with Super Furry Animals and Holy Fuck are at the Echoplex and if you can swing it, right there at The Echo you'll find The Kooks and The Morning Benders. In Hollywood, Grammy award winning Dirty Vegas front man Steve Smith is slated to play acoustic tonight at the Hotel Cafe (but is......

Got a bit more of a schedule tonight: the Winter X Games are starting up, and there's a bunch of stuff at 8:00pm. I was sick on Sunday so I'm looking forward to catching the rebroadcast of Breaking Bad on AMC. 6:00pm Winter X Games ESPN - Special. This will be re-broadcast at 10:00pm. I'd be kind of into watching this if it didn't have all this stupid snowmobile crap in it. 8:00pm Ramsay's Kitchen......

Coming your way in the next week are Ulrich Schnauss, who was interviewed and whose album Goodbye was reviewed on LAist this month, and and Welsh minstrel Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals fame. Gruff Rhys will be playing on Wednesday, October 3rd at the Rec Center Studio in Echo Park. UIrich Schnauss will be performing at the Troubador on Friday, October 5th, with Manual and LA's own Fleeting Joys. LAist had a chance to......

by Jeff Baum for Gothamist Gothamist headed down to Manchester, Tennessee with over 80,000 other music fans from across genres and across the world to take in Bonnaroo 2006. Three days of some of the best bands around from Jam to Jazz to Rap to Rock. We were up bright and early Friday morning to get the weekend off to the right start. Our first stop was to check out talented multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird......

TUESDAY • The legendary Donovan brings his 40th Anniversary tour to the Wilshire Ebell Theatere tonight at 8 PM. Tickets range from $38-43. • Super Furry Animals and Caribou are at Avalon tonight at 9 PM; tickets are $20. • At Tangier, check out Mia Doi Todd, Inara George and Holcombe Waller starting at 8:45 PM. Cover is $10. • The Disney Concert Hall features the program "Mostly Mozart," featuring members of the LA......