Two weeks ago, locals The Airborne Toxic Event (MySpace), declared one of three bands to watch by The LA Times' Kevin Bronson, performed the first of five shows for their January residency at Spaceland (MySpace) in Silver Lake. more ›

Minibar @ Temple Bar more ›

A couple hundred bodies packed Silverlake's Spaceland on Friday night to the "secret", pre-Sunset Junction show by the classic punk band Buzzcocks. The band may have started off with "Boredom" but beer didn't get spilled and bodies didn't start going crazy until "Autonomy" threw the crowd into a frenzy -- at least in the front -- where I got properly shoved and blessed with beer from plenty of enthused fans. more ›

Suicide Club, Totally Radd, Protection, Love Lies Sleeping @ Viper Room more ›

Bad Manners @ Safari Sam's Thailand, Radars to the Sky, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, Fast Computers @ Silverlake Lounge Metal Skool, Inberst, Sound of the Struggle, It’s Revenge @ Key Club Patton Oswalt @ Largo Nomo, The Lions @ Temple Bar Health, Robin Williams on Fire @ Pehrspace Cracker & a Coaster, The Abe Lincoln Story, The Digs @ Mr. T's Bowl Eagle & Talon, Open Air Stereo, Van Gunn, Barcelona @ The... more ›

Tenacious D @ The Gibson Sean Lennon @ El Rey Hot Chip @ Henry Fonda Jody Watley @ Vault 350 Partyline @ The Smell Dread Zeppelin @ 14 Below Mimi Fox @ McCabe's Wayne Federman, Margaret Cho, Paul F. Tompkins @ Largo The Damned, The Epoxies, The Adored @ House of Blues Pato Banton & Mystic Roots Band @ Forbidden City (6:30pm) Brett Dennen, The Weepies @ The Hotel Cafe Girls Play Boys, The... more ›

Milanov, Shrine of Ellora, Lana Now Fell @ Whisky A Gogo more ›

Kinky @ Avalon The Grates @ Cinespace OK Stranger @ Key Club Old Crow Medicine Show @ Henry Fonda The Adored, Army Navy @ Safari Sam's A Band Called Pain, LA Leather @ Whisky The Sparkly Dinosaurs @ Knitting Factory Metal Skool @ Key Club Quetzal @ Ameoba (free) Braille @ Viper Room Character Assassins, Plastered @ Roxy The Great Glass Elevator @ Temple Bar Fangs On Fur @ Mr. T's Bowl Brutus Gets... more ›

He is Angelina Jolie's uncle, Jon Voight's younger brother, he wrote the Troggs (and Hendrix, X, etc.) tune "Wild Thing", Janis's "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)", and Juice Newton's "Angel of the Morning" and gave it all up to be a professional gambler. Now he tours around with a super-hot singer/violinist Carrie Rodriguez. James Wesley Voight aka Chip Taylor is at McCabe's tonight with Rodriguez Dead Meadow, The Ponys, Midnight Movies, Icarus Line,... more ›

If you're undaunted by rain or the rain-induced traffic, you haven't grown soft like so many Angelenos. You know you won't melt! In other cities it rains all the time! Maybe you're just dying to get out tonight, but don't know what's going on. more ›

Fill the space between your ears with info about wind by attending the screeing of Wild Weather: Wind" at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium, 332 S. Michigan Ave. , Pasadena. Show starts at 2 PM but doors open at 1:30. $5 also nets you a post-screening discussion will be led by Shane Murphy, of Caltech’s Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Program is for ages 6 and up so it won't be over your head. more ›

Once described as an LA hipster's wet dream, The Adored's post-punk, mod-influenced sound stays true to their indie sensibilities and can be heard throughout the small club circuit east of the plastic glam of Hollywood. Drew, Max, Nat and Ryan have stayed under the radar from larger crowds in Los Angeles but that is likely to change in 2005 with their V2 Records EP release set for January and a great kick-off to the year as the featured band New Year's Eve at one of LAist's favorite local music venues, The Echo. more ›