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Last Thursday, local singer/songwriter Meiko (MySpace) performed the second show of her month-long residency at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. During her set, she recalled a rather memorable experience where "I did another photo shoot with Tyler Shields! It started off kinda funky because I was supposed to meet him at his apt.... and I went to the WRONG apt., walked in like nothing, and caught a man on his couch choking his bishop! The...

Part of an ongoing series. Last month, local band Lavender Diamond (MySpace) performed at The Wiltern (MySpace), opening with the Seattle-based Smoosh (MySpace) for The Dresden Dolls (MySpace). Tonight, Lavender Diamond and Benji Hughes (MySpace) perform at The Greek Theatre, opening for Rilo Kiley (MySpace). And next Wednesday, Lavender Diamond lead singer Becky Stark performs a solo show at The Echo (MySpace), with Palms (MySpace), who were formerly known as The Finches (MySpace), and...

Earlier this month, local band The Sweet Hurt (MySpace) celebrated the release of their In the Shade of Dreams EP with a release party at Pehrspace (MySpace) in Echo Park, with Evan Slamka from Marjorie Fair (MySpace), Liz Pappademas (MySpace), and Alex Lilly from Obi Best (MySpace), formerly known as Colorforms (MySpace). The recent amount of local music blogger press about The Sweet Hurt leading up to the show -- at LA-Underground, Rock Insider,...

Last month, the singer-songwriter supergroup trio The Living Sisters (MySpace), comprised of The Bird and the Bee (MySpace)'s Inara George (MySpace), Eleni Mandell (MySpace), and Lavender Diamond (MySpace)'s Becky Stark, performed at the 35th Annual Topanga Days Festival (MySpace). George's upcoming shows are on July 16th and 23rd at Tangier in Los Feliz, debuting a new collaboration with Van Dyke Parks (MySpace). And Mandell's upcoming shows are on June 11th and 18th at Tangier....

On Saturday night, local bands Xu Xu Fang (MySpace) and Film School (MySpace) performed at the Henry Fonda Theater, opening for the reunited Swervedriver (MySpace). Xu Xu Fang's next local performances are at the Manimal Festival at Pappy and Harriet's (MySpace) in Pioneertown on June 7th, Indie 103.1 (MySpace)'s Check One... Two (MySpace) on June 15th, and The Viper Room (MySpace) in West Hollywood on June 16th for their The Mourning Son EP release...

On Friday night, The Damn Sons (MySpace), BlackBlack (MySpace), and The Like (MySpace) performed at the 6th St. Warehouse in Downtown LA. By the time BlackBlack went onstage, the warehouse air was hot and heavy, reeking of cigarette smoke, and the restroom was out of toilet paper. But that didn't deter the all ages crowd, nor The Cobrasnake, from enjoying the show and taking photos. Speaking of photos, during The Like's set, the number...

On Wednesday, local band (and Cobrasnake favorites) The Like (MySpace) reemerged from nearly a year-long hiatus and performed at Club 86 in Hollywood, with a half hour set consisting entirely of newer songs (with the exception of "Release Me"). In attendance were the bandmembers' families (Tony Berg, Mitchell Froom, and Pete Thomas) and friends, which combined with the choice of venue, made this show feel like an intimate "living room" performance. Afterwards, Thomas and...

Last Friday, singer/actress Mandy Moore (MySpace) headlined a sold-out show at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood that included American Pie actor Thomas Ian Nicholas (MySpace) as well as singer-songwriters Curtis Peoples (MySpace), Brett Young (MySpace), and Canadian Serena Ryder (MySpace). During her set, Moore mentioned the Hotel Cafe being her favorite venue for shows in Los Angeles, adopting a new dog named Joni (after one of her idols, Joni Mitchell), and flying the following...

Last Tuesday, pornstar/director Kimberly Kane (MySpace) celebrated the release of her new Vivid-Alt (MySpace) movie Morphine, her second directorial effort for the imprint, with a party at Beauty Bar in Hollywood. Inspired by Kane's experiences working at the Sugar Shack in Portland around 2003, Morphine "...paints a dark picture of a young woman (Audrey Hollander) struggling to leave the tawdry life of prostitution and drug addiction to follow her dreams of being a Nashville...

Part of an ongoing series. Last month, local band The Happy Hollows (MySpace) performed at The Echo (MySpace), opening for The Ruby Suns (MySpace) and Architecture in Helsinki (MySpace). On Sunday, The Happy Hollows' lead singer Sarah Negahdari performs a solo acoustic set at Pehrspace (MySpace) in Echo Park with The Physics of Meaning (MySpace), One Trick Pony (MySpace), and Rademacher (MySpace)'s Malcolm Sosa. Joe from Radio Free Silver Lake raves that "I'm really...