Sara Bareilles - Little Voice (Epic) Velvet Revolver - Libertad (RCA) Iron and Wine - Boy With A Coin [SINGLE] (Subpop) Various Artists - Transformers: The Movie Soundtrack (Warner Bros.) 2 Many DJs - 50 Million Soulwax Fans Can't Be Wrong [LIMITED EDITION] [IMPORT] (Waxed Soul) Rilo Kiley - The Moneymaker [SINGLE] (Warner Bros.) Queensryche - Mindcrime at the Moore [LIVE] (Rhino) Face the Music - 2007 Encores! Cast Recording (Drg) Widespread Panic- Capricorn......

yes. even if we had $3,000+ to pay to see Prince, we'd see the Donnas and their friends at Safari Sam's tonight The Donnas, Donita Sparks, The Binges @ Safari Sam's Prince @ Hollywood Roosevelt LA Guns, Love-Hate, Little Caesar, Rhino Bucket @ The Knitting Factory Steve Winwood @ House of Blues Widespread Panic @ Orpheum Moving Units @ Music Box Colin Hay @ Largo Battles, Ponytail @ The Troubadour Motorycle Black Madonnas, Backbiter......

Prince @ Hollywood Roosevelt Bad Religion, Tiger Army, The Vandals, Pennywise, The Used, Circle Jerks @ Warped, Pomona Andre Williams, Flash Express, Shapes of Race Cars, Boatel @ Safari Sam's Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine @ The Derby Sluts For Hire, Bimbo Toolshed @ Mr. T's Bowl Feist, Grizzly Bear @ The Wiltern The Veils, The Comas, Asher @ Spaceland Busdriver, Shwayze @ Montmartre Lounge Soccer Mom, 419, The Dedication @ 14......

Just because SXSW and Coachella get a lot of love from LAist (because we seem to think that the between the local fest and the one in Austin most of your rockfest needs are met) doesn't mean that we aren't impressed with the gaggle of bands who have been wooed by the farmlands of Tennessee. Bonnaroo is a four-day festival held in the middle of June in Manchester, TN. It's sorta the east-of-the-Mississsippi version......

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......

Do you realize that The Replacements' "Let It Be" is 22 years old? Indeed, if "Unsatisfied" was a chick, she could buy you a drink at the swinging party. In 1997 Warner Bros put together a 34-track double disc of Replacements "hits" called "All For Nothing / Nothing For All" but none of their earlier groundbreaking Twin/Tone material was included. Today the skies have parted and the angels are looking down lovingly on us......