Tony Pierce

Every day people attempt and succeed at suicide. Some of those people are very bad and we're better for it, but most should be given reasons to stick around one more day, because things WILL improve. Hopefully. Maybe. Probably. No it will get better. Relax. It will. What's keeping us alive is knowing that Jack Black has teamed up with Michel Gondry, kickass director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Mos Def,...

Cheap Trick - "Magical Mystery Tour", Tokyo '92 Cheap Trick, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra @ Hollywood Bowl (some Beatles thing) Great Northern, The Comas, Twilight Sleep @ Spaceland KC & the Sunshine Band @ The Canyon The Adolescents, Channel 3 @ Safari Sam's Tim McGraw, Faith Hill @ The Honda Center CunninLynguists, Tonedeff, PackFM @ The Roxy Guitars & Saxes, Warren Hill, Diane Schuur @ Rainbow Lagoon - Long Beach Jazz Fest Raine Maida,...

Not since Magritte was in town at the beginning of this year have so many people talked about an art show. Featuring dozens of controversial pieces from a variety of artists like Jackie Beat, Angus Oblong, Plastic God, Mad Puppeteer, Jim Winters, Austin Young, Selene Luna, Jtodd Irby, Chris McKim, Garilyn Brune and Gay Bigfoot, who knew that a topless painting of Bea Arthur that was bought off eBay for a little over $100...

Arrested Development - "Mr. Wendal" Arrested Development @ Santa Monica Pier (free) The Bloody Hollies, Restaurant, Muso @ Spaceland The Redwalls, Bang Lime @ The Roxy Sierra Swan, Carina Round @ Largo The Most Powerful Hand, The Young Sixties @ Mr. T's Bowl Potential Pillows, Grid, Safe Haven, Brutal Force, Last Hours @ The Whisky Emily Wells, Queen V, Fishtank Ensemble, Dawn Landes, The Maldives @ The Hotel Cafe Summers End, Rosemary's Billygoat, Dead...

Rocket will play at the Knitting Factory tonight as part of IPO Jackshit @ The Baked Potato Harry Shearer @ House of Blues The Fuxedos, Quazar & the Bamboozled, Renfield @ Safari Sam's Ari Shine, The Slowtime Mondays, Rocket @ The Knitting Factory Electrocute, On Nova, Meals for Children, Nephews, Hank May @ The Troubadour The Stevenson Ranch Davidians @ The Echo You Am I, The Redwalls, The Wombats @ Spaceland Micah Wolf @...

While Sacramento scrambles to cut hundreds of millions of dollars of funding for public transportation and other programs around the state, a serious group of underground marijuana professionals are offering to pay at least a billion dollars in taxes, if only California would legalize pot. A coalition of California marijuana growers and dealers has offered Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger one billion dollars to solve the current state budget crisis. The group, calling itself Let Us...

Begging the question of "how much does gasoline cost in Riverside", a man was discovered carrying 125 gallons of gasoline in his van when witnesses saw vapors rising from his parked love machine. The fumes were occurring because the gentleman had placed the fuel in bottles like what once contained laundry detergent and other containers not designed to carry gasoline in vans. "It was just unbelievable," Battalion Chief Jeff Dredla told the Riverside Press...

So Barry Bonds hit his big dinger last night, and we hate him for it. But we're allowed to, we live in LA. The Commissioner of Baseball, however, is not allowed to hate Barry Bonds. At least not publicly. Why? Because the Commish is supposed to be fair and without allegiance. All he is supposed to care about is Baseball's Best Interest. But clearly Bud Selig only has one interest: money. The former used...

The attendees of Safari Sam's tonight will leave the Sunset Blvd club in the wee hours and they might have a few things to say about the evening, but "boring" wont be a word you will hear. With a lineup that begins with Renfield, followed by Quazar and the Bamboozled, and then The Fuxedos, the closing band Uncertain is going to have some strange and unusual acts to follow. One of our favorite magazines,...

Hanson - "Go" Hanson @ Viper Room Exodus @ Whisky Fionn Regan, Ferraby Lionheart, James Bowers @ The Hotel Cafe Robbers on High Street, 1990s, Mezzanine Owls @ The Troubadour Blair, Travel by Sea, The Switch, Robert Francis @ Silverlake Lounge The Prix, Astra Heights, Red Button, Unbearables, Io Perry, 17 Pygmies @ Spaceland Boys Night Out, The Dear Hunter, Pierce the Veil, Four Letter Lie @ El Rey The Good Listeners, Miranda Lee...