Tony Pierce

The Nightwatchman @ Hotel Cafe James Taylor, Carole King @ Troubadour Café Tacuba @ Gibson Sam Phillips, Joel Hodgson @ Largo MXPX, Dr. Manhattan, Nothing More, Victim Effect @ Key Club Authority Zero, Black President, Pulley, Pour Habit @ Knitting Factory Something For Rockets, Jupiter Rising @ Safari Sam's Oslo @ Viper Room Powerman 5000, The End of Silence, My Sweet Revolt, Amprage @ Whisky...

Right around Labor Day we interviewed KCRW dj Jason Bentley about the 30th anniversary of Morning Becomes Eclectic. Today he provides us with his top ten albums of 2007, and you Radiohead fans will be glad to see that he adds them to his list just like most of his cohorts did. Interestingly when Mathieu Schreyner left Radiohead off his list, not only was he not criticized, but he received many more positive comments...

Ozzy Osbourne @ Staples James Taylor, Carole King @ Troubadour Raspberries @ Grove of Anaheim Travis Tritt @ House of Blues As I Lay Dying @ Wiltern Don Caballero @ Safari Sam's Iron & Wine @ Orpheum Meiko, HoneyHoney, The Sweet Hurt, Jeremy Silver @ Hotel Cafe Rolling Blackouts, Get Up Get Down, Tsk Tsk @ The Scene Tonight We Fall, Patrick Carr, Valentyne, Columbia Circuit @ The Roxy Cipes & the People, Rebelution,...

This week we have been spotlighting KCRW djs and their favorite cds of this year. Yesterday we gave you Liza Richardson, before that Nic Harcourt and Tom Schnabel. This morning we bring you Anne Litt's list. Anne of course is the host of The A Track, and hers is the first list to include the Arcade Fire's Neon Bible. Let's see what else struck her fancy as we continue our parade of KCRW dj's...

Earlier today we got Nic Harcourt's Top 10 albums of 2007. Some of our more snarky commentors were put off that some of Nic's picks included artists who were signed to omg major labels. So as we continue this week to spotlight KCRW dj's favorite cds of 2007, we shift gears to the more exotic world of Tom Schnabel whose picks are a tad more off the beaten path which is probably something to...

Driving down Sunset tonight we saw smoke billowing from what we feared was Safari Sam's. As we got closer we saw that it was not the rock club ablaze nor the 99 Cents store (thank God) but a car in the parking lot. All by itself. As if it had just spontaneously combusted. Because we knew you'd like nothing better than to see a car fire in such an eerie situation we reached into...

Like Daft Punk? Odds are if you like em, you love em. Maybe not as much as these two ladies, but we bet you wouldn't pass up a chance to chit chat with them if you had a chance. What about just chat with them? Well tomorrow might be your lucky day as the mysterious duo will be online answering questions from their fans to help spread the word about their new cd, Alive...

Although most of us here at LAist are gourmet vegan chefs, a few of us (hi!) get our meals via drive-thru's not just daily, but several times a day. So the day after Thanksgiving we found ourselves in the drive-thru of the Jack in the Box on Santa Monica Blvd. in Westwood right near the 405 and we saw this interesting sign. Because we're selfish, lazy, bastards, at first we thought "oh cool, Jack...

Mike Watt & The Missingmen @ Westside Eclectic Johnette Napolitano @ Roxy José González, Cass McCombs @ El Rey Jill Sobule @ Largo Honeycut, The Library @ Knitting Factory Gym Class Heroes, Plain White T's @ Long Beach Arena The Color Fred, Dear & the Headlights @ El Rey The Dirges, Disk Jockey Full of Bourbon @ Safari Sam's Head of Destiny, Killing Jonis, Killing Bees @ The Scene So So Glos, The Black...

Yesterday we started our Best of 2007 list with choices from KCRW's Nic Harcourt and Tom Schnabel. But then we realized we weren't being gentlemen. The ladies of KCRW should have gone first! D'oh! So fasten your seatbelts for The Drop's host Liza Richardson's picks for 2007. Something tells us our comments will be buzzing. Will it be for the inclusion of M.I.A.? Let's hope. 1) Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon...