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Tuesdays are usually slow nights in LA for music and as bands prep to head Texas-way for SXSW, we'll probably see even fewer choices like tonight. But fewer doesn't mean worse. Mountain Goats and Jeffrey Lewis (great video below) play at the Troubadour tonight (and tomorrow), Working For A Nuclear Free City is back with another concert, this time at Cinespace (though it's a private premier party. Crash?) and LA Weekly says to head over to Glendale and check out The Scene. more ›

Back in 1996, Mary J. Blige provided vocals to the hook of "Can't Knock the Hustle," the second single off of Jay-Z's debut album, Reasonable Doubt. 12 years, 12 Grammys and 70 million records sold later, Jigga Man and MJB are back at it again, co-headlining 25 shows across North America. more ›

If any film cried out for a comprehensive DVD this year it was . more ›

Susan Diamond signs What Goes Around 7pm @ Dutton’s more ›

If you hit boredom this weekend, maybe a movie about overcoming boredom will suit the bill. Duck Season is a Mexican indie comedy where the XBOX breaks, the neighbor girl comes over to bake, and the pizza boy won’t leave (we wouldn’t pay a 30 minute delivery guarantee if it were 11 seconds late either!). Duck Season plays at the Laemmle’s Sunset 5, Monica 4, and the Playhouse 7 in Pasadena. more ›

LAist discovered the films of Guy Maddin through a friend—a fan—and has since been enthralled by the Canadian filmmaker's aesthetic, inspired by revisiting what Maddin calls the "largely disused film vocabulary" of silent movies, like tinted stocks, deliberately-scratchy soundtracks and title cards. His fims, much like those of Hershell Gordon Lewis, are so bright and colorful, so strange and wonderful, that they become sinister and otherworldly and magical. more ›