Marilyn Manson and Slayer bashed open our collective brains, and feasted on our souls. We in turn worshiped and thanked them for every second of it. Of course, it's a haul getting one's ass all the way out to the damned Irvine Meadows/Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, but where else can these dudes play? Promoters aren't letting all of us head bangers and moshers into the Hollywood Bowl anytime soon. Pffft... we'd destroy that place. The......

Slayer and Marilyn Manson will be rocking the Irvine Meadows / Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine this Friday. The two are doing a summer-long, 41-date, world-tour together, and are going to make us all cry tears of joy and blood. Having seen Slayer several times, I can assure you that seeing them live is priceless. Slayer just released a special limited edition of "Christ Illusion" which originally debuted a last year. The original line......

It doesn't get much better than this. For those of you looking to score a (legal) break on your 2007 taxes, 93.1 Jack FM is offering 50 pairs of tax-deductible pit tickets for "Jack's Second Show." The concert will take place on Aug. 18 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater and will feature Stevie Nicks, ZZ Top, Sugar Ray, Stray Cats and The Pretenders. The first 50 people to purchase a pair of $500 pit......

Suicidal Tendencies, Gwar, The Devil Wears Prada, Goatwhore, others @ Verizon Wireless Clay Aiken @ The Greek St. Vincent, Josh Haden, Death Vessel @ The Echo The Bronx, Qui (with the Jesus Lizard's David Yow) @ The Echo, benefit, early show (5:30pm) Billy Bob Thornton @ El Rey Theatre G. Love & Special Sauce, Ozomatli @ Pacific Amphitheatre Tift Merritt @ McCabe's Radars to the Sky, Bedroom Walls, Rademacher, Death to Anders @ Spaceland......

Tokyo Police Club - "Nature of the Experiment" Nine Inch Chili Peppers @ The Joint Dub Club @ The Echo The Nedra Wheeler Quintet @ Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel Merchants of Moonshine @ Harper's Bar & Grille Rush @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Tokyo Police Club, Dappled Cities Fly, Minipop @ The Troubadour Snowdrift, The Comforters, Cosio, The Jackal Headed Front @ The Mint Conjunto Guama @ El Floridita Jazz at the Movies @......

Now that the dust has settled out in Indio, the world famous KROQ today announced its lineup for its annual spring fling, and just like any weenie roast there are some dogs in the bunch. So the question is, is it worth it to venture down behind the Orange Curtain and put up with annoying high schoolers in order to see The Killers, Bad Religion, Rise Against, Social D, Tim Armstrong and the Silversun......

Art Brut, We Are Scientists @ Henry Fonda Joe Satriani & Steve Vai @ House of Blues Leon Russell, Dave Mason @ Cerritos Center DJ Krush @ Knitting Factory Groovy Rednecks @ Safari Sam's Poncho Sanchez @ Blue Cafe Silversun Pickups, Viva Voce @ The Echo Starsailor, Brothemandude, Peter Walker @ The Troubadour Backbiter, Motorcycle Black Madonnas, Project K @ Mr. T's Bowl Future Pigeon, Very Be Careful, Mezklah, Fatima @ Echo Park Lake......

Matthew & Gunnar Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band @ Cerritos Center Snow Patrol @ Wiltern Sheryl Crow, John Mayer @ Verizon Wireless Drop Dead Genius, Minutes 'til Midnight, Slow Motion Reign @ Viper Room Medeski Martin & Wood @ Henry Fonda Cibelle, Chris Pierce, Shane @ Tangier Curumin, Honeycut, Tommy Guerrero @ Knitting Factory Taj Mahal @ Malibu Inn P.F. Sloan @ Largo Margaret Cho, Venus de Mille, Renee du Jour @ Safari......

For some reason there are hella shows happening tonight so lets get right to it Taking Back Sunday, Angels & Airwaves, The Subways @ Long Beach Arena Steely Dan, Michael McDonald @ Verizon Wireless Pat Benatar @ Grove of Anaheim Sally Kellerman @ Genghis Cohen The Church @ Henry Fonda Johnette Napolitano @ Hotel Cafe Warlords of Rock & Roll Thunder & Lightning @ Mr. T's Bowl PM Dawn @ Malibu Inn Pop Levi......

With all the hoopla surrounding this weekend’s Coachella Festival, LAist almost forgot to mention another upcoming music fest: 102.7 KIIS-FM’s Wango Tango on Sat., May 6 at the IrvineVerizon Wireless Amphitheatre. Now, we usually laugh at the lineup – think Hilary Duff and Jessica Simpson – but when we checked out this year’s schedule, we were kinda impressed. Kanye West -- at the top of the game right now -- and Mary J. Blige......

From bhangra to book smarts, from rock to margaritaville, there's something for everyone tonight. And if you go see Jimmy Buffet, we want photos. We'll post 'em. UCLA Bhangra 2006 6 pm at The Fowler Join UCLA's award-winning Bhangra team in a fun-filled evening of Punjab-inspired modern Indian dance. Outdoors, light refreshments provided. music from AM + free drinks! 6-8pm at the Knitting Factory At the door, say Billboard invited you to Billboard Underground......

Do you remember where you were the first time the Fugees blew up? Their Roberta Flack redo of Killing Me Softly stills reminds this Laister of high school days. Well they've been around since, doing their thang. Separate music careers, attempts at movie careers (Bullworth anyone?) but as most great groups do when they break apart - well eventually they get back together. For the love of the music! Oh the collaboration, the inspiration!......