On Friday night, The Damn Sons (MySpace), BlackBlack (MySpace), and The Like (MySpace) performed at the 6th St. Warehouse in Downtown LA. By the time BlackBlack went onstage, the warehouse air was hot and heavy, reeking of cigarette smoke, and the restroom was out of toilet paper. But that didn't deter the all ages crowd, nor The Cobrasnake, from enjoying the show and taking photos. Speaking of photos, during The Like's set, the number......

On Wednesday, local band (and Cobrasnake favorites) The Like (MySpace) reemerged from nearly a year-long hiatus and performed at Club 86 in Hollywood, with a half hour set consisting entirely of newer songs (with the exception of "Release Me"). In attendance were the bandmembers' families (Tony Berg, Mitchell Froom, and Pete Thomas) and friends, which combined with the choice of venue, made this show feel like an intimate "living room" performance. Afterwards, Thomas and......

After a long hiatus, The Like are back tonight. | Photo by WishByNight via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr "I've never seen so many people dancing on stage throughout a band's set," described LAist News Editor Andy Sternberg, who went to the Foxboro Hot Tubs' show at the Roxy last night. "Billy Joe was loving it." Tonight, the Green Day side project heads down to Alex's Bar in Long Beach. The website says no......

Just in time for St Paddy's Day, we check out some of the Irish coffees around town. Screw green beer. That stuff will kill you. After drinking many Irish Coffees in the name of serious scientific research, I have discovered a good Irish coffee relies on two relatively simple elements: the freshness of the coffee and use of real heavy cream #1 Tom Bergin's Tom Bergin's is known as the home of Irish coffee, at......

Ever try to get in the left-hand lane hoping you'll get that green arrow, but only end up waiting thru one series of lights after another? Imagine you drive a truck for UPS and you find yourself in that situation day after day, year after year. Then multiply those trucks by the tens of thousands. Think about how much gas is being wasted and how much CO2 is being released due to idling. The......

Itching to get out to the latest restaurant or coolest foodie event this weekend? Here's a quick round-up of where to eat this weekend that will have you talking all week. Find out what's going on with LA Mill's soft opening -- this coffee boutique planned for a Silver Lake location has testing out its goods at a clothing store in West Hollywood, but the owners are very tight-lipped about the next steps --......

Last night I headed to Silverlake to see The Like at Spaceland. Z, Charlotte, and Tennessee have been playing together for about six years now. They started playing together when they were fifteen and are finally old enough to order drinks at the venues where they perform. As I watched them debut a series of new songs, it got me to thinking about how many kids I meet in LA that love rock music. Seventh......

loop: false, initialScale: 'fit', videoFile: 'http://www.archive.org/download/iamtryingtobreakyourheart/MVI_0518.flv', }"/> Wilco @ The Greek The Like, Chow Nasty @ Spaceland Meiko, Katie Herzig @ The Hotel Cafe Faraway Places @ The Echo Mae, As Tall As Lions, Dear & the Headlights @ Roxy Driveblind, Back Door Slam, The Black Summer Crush, Infantree @ The Troubadour Coyote Shivers, Augustana, Lady Dottie & the Diamonds, Skybombers @ Viper Room......

Jeff Tweedy of Wilco would probably prefer it if you didn't talk on Wednesday Spinal Tap @ Avalon, tonight Joss Stone @ Greek, tonight Metal Skool, Shapes of Racecars @ Key Club, tonight Stevie Wonder @ Santa Barbara Bowl, Tues Gogol Bordello @ Henry Fonda, Tues Wilco @ Greek, Weds. The Like @ Spaceland, Weds Los Lobos @ Santa Monica Pier, Thurs Kronos Quartet @ California Plaza, Thurs Mat Kearney @ House of Blues,......

Beastie Boys @ Wiltern (Gala Event) Earlimart, The String Dream Team @ Echo Park Rec Center Studios Echoplex Foreign Born, In Waves @ The Echo Peter Himmelman, Rebecca Pidgeon, Eric Himan @ The Mint The Mormons, Fuckass & the Grease Patrol @ Mr. T's Bowl The Watkins Family Hour @ Largo The Like @ Cinespace The Go, Apache, Thee Makeout Party, Sweet Evil @ The Knitting Factory Kissing Cousins, The Garden Angels, The Pete's,......

Last night my friend and I had a debate regarding why we liked the bands that we listened to in the 1990s. My friend claims that we liked them because they were good, or at least because they had some magnetism. I say that we liked them just because we didn't have enough musical diversity and choice to have the luxury to discriminate. Sources for new music were limited to MTV and...well...MTV was it......

Here's the thing: we've had a two-week back and forth LAist email about our favorite bookstores. Behind-the-scenes-planning-style. We've waxed poetic about the locations, the staff, the cats (with or without tails), the super-secret nooks and crannies of our best loved LA indies. Why did we email about this? Why were we making a list of favorite bookstores and checking it twice? Because we were going to do a nice little post on Indie Bookstores in......

So here I am, a nice 26-year-old Jewess living in and looking for love in Los Angeles. There happens to be a lot of us here, and meeting that nice Jewish boy your mother has always dreamt about is harder than it sounds, yes even in LA. Harder especially for us ladies who have a penchant for tattooed musicians and tortured artists with their own penchant for alcoholic beverages and the like. There are a......

Bloc Party, The Like @ The Wiltern Rod Stewart @ Staples Center Amy Winehouse @ Spaceland canceled Richard Cheese (above) @ The Derby Evidence @ Amoeba Michael Penn @ Largo Stars & Scars, Oso, The Mirrors @ The Good Hurt Time Flys, The Nice Boys, Birds of Avalon, Sweet Evil @ The Scene The Tender Box, The After Midnight Project, The Hedrons, The Scanners @ Key Club The Helio Sequence, Dirty on Purpose, Besnard......

The Fratelli's doing "The Seeker" with Pete Townshend at SXSW Now that SXSW has wrapped, indie bands and up n comers are scattering around the country like cockroaches startled by the kitchen light. Tonight we have three groups that LAist was lucky enough to see out in Austin. We caught Bloc Party putting on an energetic and uplifting set in the back of Stubbs, we saw The Fratelli's do a light-hearted acoustic set on......

Downtempo electronica artist Rara Avis will have a chance to showcase tracks from his newly released E.P., Shaktified, at a series of shows in Hollywood and Santa Monica this weekend. The multi-instrumentalist’s work features a focus on tribal house/trance rhythms but his blues and Jimi Hendrix-influenced guitar riffs set him apart from others in this genre. Frequently a collaborator with other electronica DJs and producers, such as the Desert Dwellers, Zen Dancing, and the......

He can't help it that he takes better pictures than everyone. He can't help it that pretty girls want to hang out with him and pose. You should be happy that he's bff with Kid Millionaire, and pimping out the white rapper Mickey Avalon. Would you rather that he was hanging out with Joel Madden? One of his interns became an overnight sensation, his tshirts are collectors items, and his website continues to knock......

Wolfmother, Pink Mountaintops @ Hollywood Palladium Starsailor, Taylor Hicks, The Like, Peter Himmelman, Lisa Pompaneau @ The Roxy Fair to Midland (System of a Down's Serj Tankian) @ Whisky PF Sloan ("Eve of Destruction", "Secret Agent Man") Largo Twisted Sister, Van Stone @ House of Blues Vince Gill @ The Wiltern Lemonsun, Satisfaction, Astra Heights @ The Echo Lamps, Pierre de Reeder, Junia May & the Hymns @ El Cid Emma Burgess, Holly Palmer......

Patience Hodgson had no patience. It wasn't even 15 minutes into The Grates' set at Spaceland Tuesday when she ran out into the crowd, made everyone form a circle and started dancing in the center with her ribbon-stick. Controlling the universe with school girl glee and giddy excitement. The happiest music to have come out this year was played in its entirety at the Silver Lake club as every track of the trio's "Gravity......

Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, Redd Kross, !!!, Blonde Redhead, Of Montreal, The Like, The Blood Arm, others @ LA Weekly Detour Fest, Downtown LA Monsters Are Waiting, AfroBeat Down, The Japanese Motors, Jesca Hoop, others @ Eagle Rock Music Fest, Center for the Arts The Killers @ Wiltern Paul Simon @ Santa Barbara Bowl E-40, Too $hort @ Orange Pavilion Saccharine Trust @ Mr. T's Bowl Margaret Cho @ Largo Willie Clayton......

This week we held a contest for three pairs of tickets to the upcoming LA Weekly street fest. Congratulations Richard, Aileen, and Marisa. They will be downtown on Saturday, October 7th on Main and 1st, rocking out to Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, and Basement Jaxx, with additional performances by Peeping Tom, Redd Kross, Blackalicious, Blonde Redhead, !!!, The Like, The Elected, OH NO! OH MY!, The Blood Arm, Everybody Else, The Howling......

Every week we've got something sweet to stoke you, the gentle LAist readers with. Last week we sent a lovely lady a pair of tickets for the Vegoose concert; today we're gonna bro someone with ducats to the First Annual LA Weekly Detour Fest. Saturday, October 7th on Main and 1st in Downtown LA, locals will rock out to Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, and Basement Jaxx, with additional performances by Peeping Tom,......

I just got off the phone with Helio customer service and I need to rant, so I’m doing it here. It is a true crazy-guy-on-the-internet-style rant. It touches on gadget obsession, Mobile Virtual Network Operators, brand experiences, and shitty fucking customer service. I know a couple of really good people that work for Helio and this is no reflection on them. JUST THEIR SHITTY FUCKING CUSTOMER SERVICE (which ultimately reflects on my experience with......

AFI @ Bren Events Center Chris Elliott & Alan Zweibel @ Skirball James Ellroy @ Barnes & Noble, Santa Monica The Black Keys @ Amoeba The Nightwatchman, Aztlan Underground @ Roxy Army Navy, Ima Robot @ Safari Sam's The Like Young, The Good Listeners @ Silverlake Lounge Nitzer Ebb, Babyland @ The Avalon Silver Jews @ Henry Fonda False Witness, Kings of Spain @ Whisky White Whale, Laura Viers, Karl Blau @ Spaceland photo......

Panic Channel, Sarah Silverman, Suicide Girls (pictured) @ Dragonfly The Grates, The Like, Har Marr Superstar (dj set) @ Spaceland Hit the Lights, Cute is What We Aim For @ Knitting Factory The James Gang @ Gibson James Brown, Angie Stone @ Hollywood Bowl The Zombies, The Holograms, Mooney Suzuki, Phantom Planet @ the Avalon Deerhoof, Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog @ The Troubadour Josh Gracin, Kelly Dalton @ House of Blues Snowden @ Silverlake......

Dear LAist, I know you're all over The Grates, but are you familiar with Kinky? I have been asked by two different boys today to see each of these shows. I don't know what to do. AHHHHHHH. - P. Hilton Dear Perez, Yes it's true we're down with the Grates, but the good news is that even though the Grates play at Cinespace on that Tuesday, 9/5 (by the way, you're quite an organized......

Giant Drag, The Thermals, Envy, Dios Malos, Tussle, Silversun Pickups, Darker My Love, Foreign Born, Toys that Kill, Brother Reade, Whiskey Biscuit, Rolling Blackouts, Strange Boys, The Minor Canon, Sleeping People, Subtitle & Friends, Graf Orlock, Chuck Ragan, Hit Me Back, Carry the Casket, Upsilon Acrux,Shapes and Sizes, Thee Make Out Party, Michael Runion, Life with an Astronaut @ Fuck Yeah Fest Ted Nugent @House of Blues Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker @ Key Club......

The lovable Indie 103.1 dj, Steve Jones, the Sex Pistol guitarist who is known to whip out his guitar during interviews with his guests and jam, is hosting a evening of punk rock and film tonight. As part of the LA Film Fest, Jonesy will broadcast his show live from the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood before the screening of Julien Temple’s incredible documentary of the Pistols - "The Filth and the Fury".......

Tonight 6/26 Tsar, Hawksley Workman - Spaceland (free) T.I. - House of Blues Corinne Baily Rae - Troubador Metal Skool - Key Club Soccer Mom - Viper Tuesday 6/27 Mike Watt (dj set) - Amoeba (free) Be Your Own Pet - Troubador Beck, Jamie Lidell - Wiltern Les Claypool, The Coup - Avalon Slick Rick - House of Blues Flogging Molly - Molly Malone's Hawksley Workman - Temple Bar Il Divo - Greek Wednesday......

Is anybody driving three hours to the desert for this? Two day passes ($167 + $23 in fees) and Saturday tickets ($86 + $15 in fees) are still available. Most of the rock bands have played LA clubs in the past few months. Otherwise you better really like DJs and house music…… Saturday 4/29 Depeche Mode (about 16 years past their prime), Daft Punk (five years past their prime), Franz Ferdinand (the last album......