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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...

Certain things are just undebatable. Pete Rose was the greatest hitter in baseball, Michael Jordan was the greatest basketball player of all, LAist is the greatest blog about LA, and GG Allin was the most punk rock punk rocker who ever took the stage. He cut himself with beer cans, he shat on the stage and rubbed it on himself, he accepted gay oral favors as he sang, and he kicked fans in the...

David Wells, the overweight, hard drinking, everyman pitcher from Torrance (who has journeyed around the big leagues from Toronto to New York, and now, to San Diego) has always been a big fan of Babe Ruth. So it's no surprise to learn that Wells had purchased a baseball for $7,000 with the Bambino's signature on it. But who would have thought that the big lug would have the smarts to get Hank Aaron to...

The most popular story on reddit yesterday and this morning was this blast from Texas Congressman Ron Paul who denounced the continued, failed practice of the United States to involve ourselves in unconstitutional, undeclared wars. After waving off Mitt Romney who tried to interrupt his roll by asking "what about 9/11?", Paul said that he was in Vietnam for five years and saw how pulling out of there did not end in disaster, neither...

The Wombats - "Kill The Director" The Wombats, Oslo @ Roxy Metal Skool, The Mulhollands, The Automatic Music Explosion @ Key Club Low Vs. Diamond, Nico Vega, Flash By Image, Alamo Race Track @ Spaceland Mighty Six Ninety, Saucy Minx, Run Run Run, Unbusted @ Viper Room Plasticsoul, Kold War, Atomic Bitch, The Trainwrecks, Jordan Zevon @ The Cat Club Chencha Berrinches, Los Creepers, Sweet Sensations, The Scuffs @ The Knitting Factory Manic, Princeton,...

We thought we knew uber-blogger and writer Luke Ford. He's best-known for his probing stories about the porn industry (nsfw), and most recently admired for being the first reporter to state that Mayor Tony's marriage was dunzo. But it wasn't until this week's interview with the Jewish Journal that we learned how real Ford keeps it. From his 300-square-foot Pico-Robertson crib, the fact that he used to live out of his car, or the...

Hanson, "Change in My Life", Hotel Cafe, 6/30/07 Hanson @ Spaceland Whispertown 2000, Oliver Future @ The Hotel Cafe Chris Cornell @ Pacific Amphitheatre Fetus Eaters, The Dolemite Project, Watch Me Burn, Call the Paramedics @ Knitting Factory Static Halo, Frank Barajas & the Shakedowns, The New Strawberry Zots @ The Joint Stonehoney, Tracy Huffman, Leslie & the Badgers, The Hi-Ho's @ The Echo Big Sandy & his Fly-rite Boys @ The Derby Lack...

We hate him just like you do, but Barry Bonds just tied Hank Aaron's career home run record of 755. Bonds went opposite field off a hanging curve from San Diego Padres pitcher Clay Hensley. The game in currently still on at blogtime, which is 9:10pm. If you have cable or satellite and can get ESPN2, the game is tied, 2-2 in the 6th down there at Petco Park. Bonds is still in the...

Parking at a valet is something that many Americans will go their whole lives without ever doing. And yet in LA most of us will do it at least once a week. After we downed some Slippery Shrimp this afternoon in Chinatown while looking at their impressive wall of autographed photographs of state and local politicians (although, curiously, no photos of our Senators) we realized that we were about to retrieve our car from...

This is the story the record labels have always feared. Canadian rocker Matthew Good had been recording professionally in North America for the past 12 years. When his U.S. record deal with Atlantic Records expired, he had some choices to make: try to find a new label that would distribute his music in the States, try to get a new deal with Atlantic, try something totally different, or completely give up on getting his...