Tony Pierce

There are no flaming sirens on the worlds most popular sortablog, but the Drudge Report has been having a field day over-hyping the already-tragic Southland fires. With all-caps screaming headlines like "HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS FLEE SOCAL INFERNOS" to "HELL COMES TO MALIBU", Drudge has taken the dramatic news and blown it up so much that he is almost making it unbelievable. Those of us here in Southern California know how bad it is, but...

The Go! Team - "Ladyflash" The Go! Team @ Amoeba (6pm) Firey Furnaces, Pit er Pat @ The Troubadour The Jesus and Mary Chain, Soulsavers, Evan Dando @ House of Blues - Downtown Disney Limbeck, Annie Stela, David Harrington, Megan Palmer, Terrene @ The Hotel Cafe Castledoor, Twilight Sleep, The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, The Monolators @ The Echo Oliver Future, Something For Rockets, The Satin Peaches @ Spaceland I Make This Sound, Rademacher, Model...

Imagine our surprise when we discovered from the LA Times' Buzz Bands blog last week that our friends Rocket were not only on the new tv show The Next Great American Band but they had made it pretty far already. Rocket is the all-female pop rock band from East Hollywood who we first told you about during the summer of last year when they were playing shows almost every day in LA. Then this...

The only thing hotter than the Southern Californian fires on the web today is a company in Irvine, who, unfortunately, are being recognized today for something that they probably don't want. The amazing lucky streak of the Colorado Rockies came to a halt today when they released World Series tickets exclusively online - and the site crashed. Paciolan runs the site. So all those ravenous and loyal Rockie fans who unanimously said WTF all...

The Go! Team - "Grip Like a Vice" The Go! Team @ The Echo The Eagles, Dixie Chicks @ Nokia Theatre Bobby Vinton @ Cerritos Center Carlos Guitarlos @ Liquid Kitty First Wave Hello @ Troubadour Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, The Audition, We the Kings @ House of Blues Pierced Arrows, Jail Weddings, Devon Williams @ Spaceland The Go! Team - "Junior Kickstart"...

The Go! Team - "Doing it Right" Tell me this isn't the best single and video of the year Silversun Pickups @ The Wiltern Eagles, Dixie Chicks @ Nokia Theatre The Go! Team @ The Glass House Weird Al @ The Greek J. Lo, Marc Anthony @ Honday Center Jill Scott @ House of Blues Harry Dean Stanton @ The Mint Paul Green School of Rock @ The Roxy West Indian Girl @ Spaceland...

Who are these people who credit the controversial religion Scientology for changing their lives for the better? One of them is tv's Jerry Seinfeld who told the typically worthless Parade magazine that the church helped him communicate early in his career so that he could control his audiences. I last really studied, oh, it's almost 30 years ago. But what I did do, I really liked, in terms of it's very...it was interesting. Believe...

They are the Go! Team. They are from Brighton, England. They sound like a group of cheerleaders dancing to Motown at the end of a tunnel while you're on acid listening to Sonic Youth. It's impossible to take in everything they're throwing at you at one time, but it gets you and you dance and you smile and you jump around. Then you love them, then you see them play everywhere. Even China let...

The Angel City Drive-in is more of an abandoned lot in downtown LA than a traditional drive-in - but what a better place to watch Evil Dead and Evil Dead II? Tonight! Gates open at 6:30pm Evil Dead 8pm Evil Dead II 9:45pm - Food provided by Weeneez . Walk in/Bike ins Welcome . DJ Morgan plays swell tunes before and after the feature . FM Transmitter puts the sound into your car! ....

On Sale Saturday at 10am Tool @ Nokia Theater, 12/10 Aimee Mann @ El Rey, 11/30 Mary J. Blige @ Nokia Theater, 11/20 Suagarcult @ House of Blues, Anaheim, 12/20 On Sale Now Neil Young @ Nokia Theater, 10/30 Regina Spektor @ Grove of Anaheim, 10/31 Neil Young @ Nokia Theater, 11/3 Yo La Tengo @ Ivar Theater, 11/3 Gwar @ Glass House, 11/24 Shonen Knife @ Glass House, 12/8...