The Go! Team - "Doing it Right" Tell me this isn't the best single and video of the year Silversun Pickups @ The Wiltern Eagles, Dixie Chicks @ Nokia Theatre The Go! Team @ The Glass House Weird Al @ The Greek J. Lo, Marc Anthony @ Honday Center Jill Scott @ House of Blues Harry Dean Stanton @ The Mint Paul Green School of Rock @ The Roxy West Indian Girl @ Spaceland......

The M+M's are definitely Britney and her girls, y'all, but don't blink because they gave San Diego 14 minutes Tuesday and trimmed it down to 12 minutes last night in Downtown Disney, so if you're in the beer line and hear familiar music you should probably, um, get out of line because before you can say hey-shes-lipsynching-while-chewing-gum the show will be over The M+M's (Britney Spears) @ House of Blues Velvet Revolver @ Avalon......

It was either 1986 or '87. LAist was living in Inglewood within walking distance of the Fabulous Forum. We were young and impressionable. We had heard of the legend of "Clapton is God", but we were also fascinated by a new guy named Robert Cray who was just breaking into the scene with a blues tune that was actually getting played on MTV - something unheard of unless your name was Stevie Ray. So......

Chingy, Lil Scrappy, Lloyd, Cherish, Le Toya, E-40, Rick Ross, T.I. @ Gibson Amphitheater Lucy Lawless @ Roxy Al Kooper @ McCabe's canceled The Whispers @ Grove of Anaheim Carlos Guitarlos @ Liquid KItty Jettson, AM Sessions, The Steve Carson Band, The Relay @ Viper Room Talkdemonic, Carolyn Edwards, Candypants, Jeff Merchant, The Sexies @ Spaceland The Nihil, Partial Failure, Joe Finley, Sterocell, The Placebo Effect @ Whisky A Gogo......

Jana Pants is visiting our city from out of town. We have invited her to go to as many club-sized concerts as she could tolerate. She dipped her pinkie toe into the scene last weekend, and is returning tonight after a brief respite at Big Bear. This was her dispatch that should have been posted on Monday. Whoops. A weekend of music and drinking is aces in my book. What better way to ring......