Marleigh Riggins

THURSDAY • Bane are at the Troubadour tonight with Evergreen Terrace, Cursed and Verse. Doors open at 7 PM; tickets are $12 advance. • The Knitting Factory is hopping tonight: in the Main Room, see Helio Sequence, Rogue Wave and Audio Out Send at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $10 advance, $12 at the door. In the Front Room, Afrirampo, Babyland, Scout Niblett and The Pope are performing at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $10. •...

WEDNESDAY • Brit pop sensations Maximo Park are at the Troubadour with The Blood Arm and Troubled Hubble. Tickets are $12 advance; doors open at 8 PM. • Fountains of Wayne perform acoustic tonight at Largo. Doors open at 8 PM. • The Arclight features a special screening of David Lynch's Blue Velvet at 8 PM. Click here for a complete listing of this week's events....

TUESDAY • Architecture in Helsinki is at The Echo tonight with Scrabble and Army/Navy. Doors open at 8:30 PM; tickets are $8. • At The Fold at Tangier, Dustin O'Halloran will be performing solo on the piano, along with Monster and Josh Haden, as well as DJ Rocket Project on the patio. Cover is $15. • Tonight is the return of the montly RESfest, this month screening a retrospective of the directing team Ne-o,...

Little more than 24 hours remain to enter the LAist giveaway to win one of two pairs of tickets to see Video Games Live on July 6th at the Hollywood Bowl. The LA Philharmonic will perform pieces from the games Mario™, Zelda®, Halo®, Metal Gear Solid®, Warcraft®, Myst®, Final Fantasy®, Castlevania®, Medal of Honor™, Sonic™, Tron, Tomb Raider®, Advent Rising, Headhunter, Beyond Good & Evil™, Splinter Cell®, Ghost Recon™, Rainbow Six®, EverQuest® II and...

As the Independence Day holiday approaches—known as much for firearm and recreational sporting injuries as for the camping and partying over the long holiday weekend—the Red Cross is warning that the blood supply in Southern California is critically low. This is a warning we've all heard before, but for some blood types (such as O-, O+ and B+), there is not enough blood in reserve to last the rest of the day, and perhaps...

MONDAY • Former Shudder to Think guitarist Nathan Larson is at Amoeba Music tonight at 7 PM for a free in-store performance. • Gen Art presents a special advance screening of Hustle & Flow tonight at the Arclight. Note: Tickets are currently only available to members (new members included), but the cost of a ticket includes admission to the after party at Mood from 9:30 PM – 11:30 PM. • Foreign Born is performing...

FRIDAY • Dredg are at the Henry Fonda Theater tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $13. • The Echo has Unsane with special guests 400 Blows, Blackfire Revelation and Made Out of Babies at 8 PM. Tickets are $10 advance, $12 at the door. [18+] • San Diegans Louis XIV are at the Avalon tonight with Starlite Desperation and Rock 'n' Roll Soldiers. Doors open at 6:30 PM. • Digital Underground are at the...

THURSDAY • Let's Go Sailing, Say Hi to Your Mom, Summer at Shatter Creek and The Cloud Room are at The Echo tonight at 7 PM. Tickets are $7. [18+] • The Echo hosts another Irregular Wine Tasting on the patio, featuring the films of Verna Bloom along with "A Best-of-the-West Six-Pack of Polite Whites & Rude Reds." Tickets are $18 and the tasting starts at 8 PM. [21+] • At the ArcLight, take...

Since it appears the solstice wiped away June gloom for the time being, this looks to be a great weekend for getting out and about. Fortunately, there's plenty going on: This Saturday is the opening of Supersonic at the LA Design Center, a group show by graduate students in art programs at eight local colleges. Participants include 139 MFA students from Art Center College of Design, California Institute of the Arts, Claremont Graduate University,...

WEDNESDAY • The Like, Jesca Hoop and Blackbird are at Spaceland tonight. Doors open at 9 PM. • The New Beverly Cinema features Born into Brothels at 7:30 PM, followed by In the Realms of the Unreal at 9:15 PM. • Vroman's Bookstore presents David McCullough at CalTech's Beckman Auditorium, discussing and signing 1776 at 8 PM. McCullough will sign one copy of 1776 as well as one backlist title; there will be no...