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• Spaceland Productions presents a special performance by Jolie Holland with guest Sean Hayes at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Barnsdall Park. The show begins at 7 PM; tickets are $13 advance and $15 at the door. • The talented and amazing Paul Westerberg performs the first of two nights at the Henry Fonda Theater at 9 PM. • Clint Conley & Co. are in town, as Mission of Burma takes the stage with 400...

We posted this once already, but we really want to reach as many bands as possible. Please pass on this call for submissions to anyone you know who is in a band in LA. The more, the merrier! We want to hear local bands! LAist is going to start reviewing local bands, so we need demos, CDs, tapes, MP3s or any other form of audio you can throw at us. If you recorded it,...

• Cat Power will perform tonight at the Knitting Factory. The show starts at 8 PM and tickets are $15. • Avalon hosts The Secret Machines, Moving Units and Autolux tonight. For more information, call (323) 462-8900. Photo by Rahav Segev © 1999...

The history of LA punk is a great one, and a story that has been told many times in the twenty-odd years since the initial flowering of the scene. Amidst the many bands that made it up, there's one little band that is often forgotten when looking at the greater whole: The Minutemen, the three-man powerhouse from Pedro. Twenty years after the untimely passing of lead singer D. Boon, We Jam Econo — The...

• At Spaceland, Palo Alto will be performing with Hayes and Aeon Spoke. Doors open at 9 PM. • At 4 PM, Blonde Redhead will be performing at a free in-store appearance at Amoeba Records. • Following that, see Blonde Redhead opening for Interpol at the Grand Olympic Auditorium. Doors open at 8 PM and tickets are $30. • Also courtesy of The Fold, Tangier has Inara George, Jesca Hoop and Kate Earl beginning...

• At the Grand Olympic Auditorium, Interpol and Blone Redhead will be gracing the stage with their delightful blend of post-Valentine gloom. Doors open at 8 PM and tickets are $30. • Tonight at the Troubadour, see The Locust with Ex Models, Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower and Upsilon Acrux. Doors open at 7:30 PM and tickets are $10....

LAist, Warner Independent Pictures and Mandalay Pictures would like to send you and a guest to the February 28th special screening of The Jacket, starring Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson and Jennifer Jason Leigh, with music composed by Brian Eno. One lucky winner and a guest will attend a special screening, as well as the premiere party immediately following the film. Per the film's official site: After recuperating from a gunshot wound to...

• Tonight at the Silverlake Lounge, KCRW presents Sam Phillips with Les Shelleys (Tom Brosseau and Angela Correa) for a reasonable $20. LAist suggests showing up early if you want to get in. • At the M Bar, catch a special "Doomed Valentine" performance by the self-depricating collective known as Mortified, with the tender love songs of John Kricfalusi (of "Ren & Stimpy" fame) opening. The show starts at 8 PM and tickets are...

If you are in a band in Los Angeles, this post is for you. We want to know about you—and more importantly, we want to hear you. LAist is going to start reviewing local bands, so we need demos, CDs, tapes, MP3s or any other form of audio you can throw at us. If you recorded it, we will write about it. So, if you want your band covered on LAist, write to us...

Hopefully the rain will soon be on its way out, so that everyone can enjoy the Chinese New Year festivities planned for this Saturday at The Huntington. The event, celebrating the Year of the Rooster, will begin at 10:30 AM with a traditional Chinese flower market in the Huntington's entrance pavilion, including plum blossoms (symbolizing the beginning of spring), peonies (prosperity), narcissus (longevity), and other blooms such as orchids, forsythia, camellias, and golden mums...