Obama and Clinton onstage last week in Hollywood | Photo © 2008 by Jonathan Alcorn (sundogg) via LAist Featured Photos Pool Everyone's a songwriter when there's something big going on. YouTube is busting at the seams with song parodies of candidates and campaigns; some mourn for better choices, some simply sing their support, and some poke lots of fun at the candidates' foibles. Recently a couple of professional songwriters were asked by Weekend America......

EPMD, People Under the Stairs @ House of Blues The Mountain Goats @ El Rey Theatre The Wailers @ Vault 350 L.A. Guns, The Pegs, Kingbaby, Aces Over Kings, Noyze @ Whisky Heartstring Symphony, Minus the Hope, Signal to Noise @ The Good Hurt The Small Steppes, Mad Lovers, The Kevin K Band, The Hits @ Mr. T's Bowl Beasts of Bourbon, Dallas Crane, Children Collide, Panda Band, MINK @ The Troubadour Minutes Til......

For us there is no better LA street fair than the Sunset Junction annual event in the Silver Lake stretch of Sunset Blvd. One can enjoy eating chicken on a stick and drinking a beer while peoplewatching the hipsters, the kids, those of alternative lifestyles, and the random tourists who don't really know what they've stumbled into. The volunteer "donation" is now a hard $15 admission, but for all the good music, good food,......