The Pogues - "If I Should Fall From Grace From God" The Pogues, Ted Leo @ The Wiltern Cypress Hill @ House of Blues Regina Spektor @ Grove of Anaheim Danzig @ The Greek CéU @ The El Rey Ghostface Killah @ Vault 350 Lucha VaVoom @ The Mayan The Binges, Sasquatch, Jessie Deluxe, HDR @ King King Tristeza, Aqueduct, Georgie James @ The Echo Bela, The Mythical Creatures @ The Viper Room The......

Bruce Springsteen & Neil Young - "All Along the Watchtower" We can't recall a more star-studded Tuesday night in rock in LA in a long time. We realize that many of you might be preparing to head out tomorrow night, but friends, tonight is the night to rawwwwwk! And Neil if you're reading this... if you feel like recreating this moment from 2004, the Sports Arena is just a freeway away from the Nokia.........

Ying Yang Twins @ Galaxy Theatre OK Go @ Pepperdine Ted Leo @ El Rey The Mother Hips @ Roxy Relient K @ Avalon Peanut Butter Wolf, Honeycut @ Getty Eats Tapes, Powdered Wigs, Tik Tik @ The Smell The One AM Radio, Ola Podrida, Joel Virgil @ Tangier Los Straitjackets, Devil Dolls, Gamblers Mark @ Safari Sam's 1349, Goatwhore, Nachtmystium, Averse Sefira, Ascension @ The Knitting Factory The Briggs, KOS, Meg & Dia,......

Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 @ Spaceland Ted Leo @ El Rey Bob Forrest @ Blue Cafe Social Distortion @ Ventura Theatre Say Anything, Saves the Day @ House of Blues Very Be Careful, Yo Majesty @ The Echo Augustana @ The Wiltern Golden Ax @ Alex's Bar Ninja Academy, Trio Formaggio, Nick Rosen Trio, Dave Culwell Trio @ Mr. T's Bowl Fu Manchu, Valient Thorr, Seemless @ The Troubadour Pastilla, Kura, Fitter......

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......

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......

Taking footage from the Pitchfork Festival last month, the guys from The Human Giant made this video illustrating how the Tapes n' Tapes hype machine came about this year. Watch out for cameos from Ted Leo, the Inconsiderate Cell Phone Man, and of course, Handbone.......

We have many fond memories from Coachellas past, but right now we're totally jealous of that Lollapalooza lineup. Sunday tickets are sold out. You'll either have to buy a two-day pass or take your chances in the secondary market. Sunday 4/30 Tool (loads of pent up demand, but we haven’t thought about them in twelve years), Massive Attack (influential trip hop), Madonna (ugh), Yeah Yeah Yeahs (double ugh), Bloc Party (guilty pleasure, fun live......

There may still be value to an upper-midsized venue too far west to ever be cool, in terms of packing hordes in and lining the pockets of established bands and Goldenvoice, but the El Rey's got to be the worst-sounding music hall for a hundred miles in any direction. We caught Ted Leo's set at the cavernous, rectangular space last week. It was a wreckage of the great communicator's brilliant licks and juxtapositions crushed......

THURSDAY • Indie up-and-comers Maximo Park are on tonight at the Troubadour with Goldspot and Dirty Little Secret. Doors open at 8 PM; tickets are $13 advance, $15 day of. • The Posies, Oranger and Deathray Davies perform tonight at the Knitting Factory at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $12 advance, $14 at the door. [21+] • Josh Haden, The Section Quartet and Listing Ship are on tonight at The Echo at 8 PM. Tickets......

UCLA's Hammer Museum hosts a reading by David Foster Wallace—author of Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men and Oblivion—at 7:00 PM. At the Troubadour, KCRW presents Mark Kozelek (of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon) with Jesse Sykes and Phil Wandsher at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $15.00 advance. Meanwhile, at The Echo, see McLusky, plus Yourcodenameis: Milo and Division Day at 9:00 PM. Tickets are $12.00 at the door. As mentioned yesterday,......

Okay, okay. So maybe it's time to stop listening to The Cure in a darkened room and move on. We lost, fair and square this time. Maybe we were too hopeful. Maybe we didn't work hard enough. Maybe it just wasn't supposed to be this time. Whatever the reason, we're all disappointed and we have to deal with it. But it's definitely time to put Disintegration back on the shelf and get on with......