Photo by Elise Thompson/LAist The King's Head is arguably home to the best fish and chips in Los Angeles. Sadly, the fish and chips get so much attention that the clam chowder is not given its rightful due. Let me make up for that now. The King's Head Pub in Santa Monica serves the chowder of the gods. All other chowders should bow down before it. Other chowders dare not speak its name. I......

The Blood Arm - "Suspicious Character" Fuck Yeah Fest: Deerhunter, Foreign Born, The Nice Boys, Indian Jewelry, Midnight Movies, The Blood Arm, Great Northern, Darker My Love, Bad Dudes, others @ The Echo Macy Gray @ Hollywood Bowl UB40, The English Beat, Elan @ The Greek The Brand New Heavies @ House of Blues The Real McKenzies, Crosstops, Dynamite 8 @ The El Rey Strunz & Farah @ Catalina Bar & Grill House of......

The Donna's @ The X Games - Honda Center, 2:30pm, $5 VHS or Beta, Gran Ronde @ The Troubadour The Slits, The Icarus Line @ El Rey Rick Springfield, John Waite @ The Gibson Gravy Train, Mika Miko, Sugar & Gold @ The Echo Unwritten Law, Zebrahead, Bullets & Octane, Bangkok Five @ Key Club Earthless, RTX, Entrance, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Titan @ Safari Sam's The Mutaytor, DJ Wolfie, Blue, Porter Tinsley......

June 10, 2006 Dear Diary- Turns out horseracing is harder than it looks. First of all, the beer line is like a mile long and when you get up to the front, the old lady only lets you get two beers per person and I was only one person. You do the math. Second of all, it's hard to pick the winning horse in each race if there are multiple interesting and/or cool names in......

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,......

Venerable French magazine Cahiers du cinema (yup, it's still in existence) today launched its first English language edition, which will be available both in print and online for an annual fee. For $45, English-language readers will now be able to subscribe to a year's worth of the magazine (11 regular issues + 1 special issue). Cahiers will also offer free online supplements. Currently featured on the publication's Web site is a diary about the making......

People always ask us, "how do you always get great tickets to all those shows?" And we say, "we get them the day they come out." And they say, "how do you know?" And we say, "you mean you don't know?" Tickets go on sale Saturday morning (10am) for: The Mars Volta @ Orpheum Theatre, 4/3 The Format @ Mayan Theater, 6/14 Iggy and The Stooges @ Wiltern 4/23 John Legend @ Gibson, 4/6......

Cheap Trick @ The Canyon Dir en Grey @ Wiltern The English Beat @ Key Club James Taylor @ Wilshire Theatre Flogging Molly @ Henry Fonda The Blue Hawaiians @ Lava Lounge The Groovy Rednecks @ Anarchy Library I See Hawks in LA, Mike Stinson @ The Scene The Strays, King Cheetah, The Stranger’s Six @ Spaceland Lady Sinatra, Veruca Salt, The Ringers, Tack @ Viper Room The Deserters, Sin City, Leroy, Tandy, The......

If there's one night you really have to dig down and pony up for the rock it's New Years Eve. Don't ask us why. So today we will put the ticket prices next to each event so you don't get sticker shock when you make your last minute plans. Although the best value appears to be down in the OC, factor in 1) you have to go behind the orange curtain 2) you better......

The Delta Spirit @ Spaceland (free) Bright Light Fever @ Safari Sam's Ioma, Gabriel's Falling, Moxie Tribe, 4 Star Tribe @ Viper The Hellzaboppers @ Joe's Great American Bar & Grill Matu, The Elevaters, Shakespeare, Solomon Cole @ Temple Bar Digital Fridge, Echoes of a Boundless Life, Cat Fur @ The Scene Plastic Fate, How I Became Invisible, Natasha Lewis @ Cat Club Coming up... Wed: Los Lobos @ House of Blues Fri &......

Stevie Wonder, Al Jarreau, Brian McNight, Common, Corinne Bailey Rae @ Gibson The English Beat @ The Canyon John Doe @ Blue Cafe Colin Hay @ Largo Silversun Pickups @ The Troubadour DeVotchka @ Avalon Royal Jelly @ Forty Deuce Dos, Underground Railroad To Candyland @ The Smell XBXRX, Numbers, Shift, Ni Hao @ The Echo Sandbillies, Franki Doll & the Broken Toys, Sharon Needles @ Silverlake Lounge Dressy Bessy, Big Sir, 8mm @......

Golden Smog @ Avalon Spencer Davis @ Highland Grounds Japanese Motors @ Spaceland Paolo Nutini @ Hotel Cafe John W. Dean @ Royce Hall The Black Keys @ Troubadour Ass Pocket of Whiskey @ Harvelle's John Legend @ Roxy The English Beat @ Malibu Inn Louis C.K. @ Comedy & Magic Club Turning Robots Into People @ Whisky Ray Bradbury @ Encino-Tarzana Branch Library Ian Gillan @ House of Blues The New Amsterdams, Mae......