Headdress plays tonight at McCabe's Guitar Shop | Photo by Briana Purser Photography Har Mar Superstar, Electrocute @ Spaceland Wooden Shjips, Mariee Sioux, Headdress @ McCabe's (read our Interview about Sunday nights at McCabe's) El Manifesto, Orgullo Café @ House of Blues Maceo Parker @ The Roxy (Video after jump) DJ Craze, Klever, Treasure Fingers, Villains @ Henry Fonda Sunday Residency (see all February residencies here) Alex & Sam, Rachel Cantu, Dustin Boyer @......

Whether it’s free bands by the river, obscure films at the Silent Movie Theatre or music festivals featuring great non-mainstream bands, Arthur magazine has improved L.A.’s sullied corporate reputation by organizing eclectic, margin-friendly events that embody the magazine’s mission to represent “transgenerational counterculture.” Case in point: Arthur’s Sunday Evenings series at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, which continues this weekend with eccentric songwriter Michael Hurley and next Sunday evening with psych-rock band Wooden Shjips.......

I've always been intrigued by other "best of" lists, but this year I decided to take it to a whole new level. I e-mailed a handful of bands that I've seen this past year in order to unearth what exactly captivated them in '07. As music listeners, it is our duty to take a keen interest in our favorite musician's influences. After all, they rocked our little world, might as well see what rocked their......

Fuck Yeah Fest has officially ended and it was Fuck Yeah-tastic. I was on my feet for nearly seven hours, regularly traversing Sunset Blvd to see eleven bands perform on Saturday. Between eight rolls of film and hundreds of digital pictures, this is day one through my lens.......

We get a lot of email at LAist. A lot. We reply to almost none of it because then that would double the email, if not triple it. When people are patient, polite, and do us the favor of being persistent if something is truly special, they usually get what they want. And although we might not reply, we do read everything that we get. Today we got something that was just so good......