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The Republic of Loose is only a "new band" to Americans. In Ireland they have been drawing huge crowds, and impressing the pants off of anyone they encounter since 2005. The best way to describe their sound is: if James Brown had a baby with Rick James, and the baby grew up the be a gang-bangin, gospel-singin, cowboy of funk.Last night LAist attended their only Los Angeles show at the Troubadour, which was the 3rd...

Yesterday (Friday) some dead dude was found floating in the water just off shore at 8th street in Manhattan Beach at around 1:00 in the afternoon. The man haas been identified as Stephen Weber, according to Manhattan Beach Poloce officials.There is no apparent foul play, according to MBPD, and is being investigated as an apparent suicide.The dead dude was found by some random person who called the cops, and the dead dude had been reported...

To get from one side of the airport to the other side is always a goddamned headache. You're screwed at every angle. The 405, Sepulveda, Pershing, even Vista Del Mar's a bitch because you're likely to get popped by the cops. Man, what gives? To make things even more lame, if you DO wind up on Sepulveda, and are forced to go under that tunnel, you lose all decent radio reception. As though it...

Megan Mullally, best known as the lovable fag-hag Karen on the deceased series Will and Grace, is the host of a talk show that USED TO follow the Ellen DeGeneres Show everyday. Her show is ok, it's just as much of a suck-ass celebrity-ego-stroke fest as all the other shows that are just like it. Nothing special to report there.But NBC just changed the Megan Mullally Show from 4pm to noon. Is the Megan...

Frank Hoier is a nice dude, and writes great folk music. Although born and raised in Southern California, he's recently moved to the big apple, and has been blowing the doors off of anyone that stands in his way, and has become a sought after fixture in the East Village roots scene. His songs are witty and thoughtful, and his guitar skills are only rivaled by his harmonica riffs. Anyways he apparently checks his email,...

Get on the muscle bus, and learn to love this practically unknown band. Country Muscle just wrapped their first show last wednesday, and i ALMOST remembered to go!! But i do know the band, and when i asked guitarist Ron Ascoli if they were anything like Rockabilly music, he was quick to reassure me that they had NOTHING TO DO with that crapola. So i went to their myspace page, and laughed my ass off.Not...

If you are a "large lady" or "one of the men who loves them", the odds are that you've already heard of Club Moxie, located on the Redondo Beach Pier. For the rest of you who haven't had the opportunity to familiarize yourself, it is a night club that caters to obese chicks, and has a bunch of thuggy chubby-chasers who go there and stir up trouble for our fine beach city.Because I live...

Dear Carl's Jr., Look, it's not that a pastrami burger is a bad idea, and perhaps thought up by some vile criminally insane think-tank... It's that you would have to be retarded or some kind of asshole to buy a pastrami burger from a restaurant that thinks it's selling a six-dolla-burger for $5. That so called sixdolla patty ain't even good enough to use as a coaster for my Keystone Ice. Everything has to...

I wake up to a dry, gray, concrete wasteland every day. It's an industrial wave of man-made landscape, TOTALLY artificial, and ALL built for utility... artistic appeal took a back seat. Some say beauty didn't even ride in the backseat, but got left behind completely. So sad.LAist wants to thank the birdie graffiti person who is decorating south Redondo Beaches walls, newspaper stands, bus stops, and electrical transformers. You're clearly not the most talented...

Those two nuggets in the picture are totally dusted by now, and I'm stuck twirling this horrible weed container, with some novelty name on the lable (Purple Dutch Tree Mini, whatever that means). The question still stands: Is the pot from a Legal Dispensary any better than what you can get from Dealer McDope's living room??The truth is, i don't have any medical problems, and i'm too paranoid about government agents spying on people to...