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  • Smoosh: They're 14, they've been rocking for years. We interviewed them in April. Touring America is what they're doing for their summer vacation. What are you doing for yours? The Pipettes are equally cute, but in a very different (and legal) way @ The Troubadour Juliette and the Licks @ Spaceland LCD Soundsystem, Yacht @ El Rey Theatre Thailand, Repeater, Death to Anders, Expo 70 @ Silverlake Lounge Hymns, Mezzanine Owls, The Parson Redheads,...
  • LAist could have covered this final season of The Sopranos, but we intentionally didn't. We've covered other tv series's but The Sopranos is holy. Which is why God put it on Sundays. The finale was just as controversial as the best moments of the groundbreaking HBO drama. The kids on the message boards on the Interwebs are irate. And some of us feel like it was even more perfect than could be expected. We'll...
  • This weekend we were enjoying televised entertainment when we happened to notice Prince doing a Verizon ad. Does Prince even do ads? Whatever, it worked on us, we watched, we enjoyed, it was great. Until the end when it seemed like the ad company totally ripped off LA gossip blog Pink is the New Blog by stenciling a light-colored purple "Be A Music Hunter" on its final image. Unless PITNB's Trent is being paid...
  • The Sopranos finale was awesome, and there will be a review forthcoming. In the meantime here are two videos and the lyrics to the two most important songs they played tonight. Journey - Don't Stop Believing Just a small town girl, livin in a lonely world She took the midnight train goin anywhere Just a city boy, born and raised in south detroit He took the midnight train goin anywhere A singer in a smokey...
  • While walking through Los Feliz yesterday we spotted these hot tshirts at Y-Que on Vermont. Not only do you have your choice of the Free the Bitch or Keep the Bitch tees (depending on which side of the law you're currently on), but apparently there's now a Free the Bitch Again shirts. Y-Que, of course, being the store that has the sweet-ass MacArthur Park tshirts that we love so. But back to Paris... yesterday...
  • - Today is visiting day at the Twin Towers facility where America's most famous inmate resides - The Atwater Village Street Fest is still happening till 4pm - They've turned a roller rink into the sweetest named museum in all of Long Beach, The Molaa - The Sopranos finale comes on at 6pm if you're lucky enough to get the east coast feed of HBO - LCD Soundsystem is at the El Rey tonight...
  • Joan Jett, Berlin, Josie Cotton, Martika, Rough Trade, Bitter: Sweet, The Start, Ann Magnuson, Debby Holiday, Taxi Doll @ LA Pride The O'Jays, Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill @ The Greek The Airborne Toxic Event, The Happy Hollows, Radars to the Sky @ The Troubadour Onesidezero, Vokee, Slow Motion Reign, Red Snow @ El Rey Ghost Machinists, Crooked Cowboy, Kind Hearts & Coronets, 8-Bit @ Mr. T's Bowl High Like Five, Die Trying, Coda Vesta,...
  • Now that classes have wrapped up at UC Santa Barbara, this is the best time for a weekend getaway 90 minutes north of LA in Isla Vista. If parties are your thing, this weekend should find Del Playa and Sabado Tarde sprinkled with farewell bashes as the kids pack up for a summer back home. But if peace and quiet are your thing, cruise up the 101 in a week or two when pretty...
  • Tears, shrieks and wails broke out in the LA courtroom where Paris Hilton was sent back to jail just moments ago. Crying, "MOM! MOM! MOM!" the heiress was lead out of the downtown court, the nexus of mayhem, hordes of press, and gaggles of paparazzi. L.A. Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini told the media that Judge Michael T. Sauer had heard from the County Council's office (representing the Sheriff's Dept.), the city attorney, and...
  • - Are you a racist? Are you sure? Take this quiz and find out - Harvard.edu - Two Chatsworth High baseball players drafted in the first round of the MLB draft - Daily News - Lede of the day: "Two false eyelashes. A maroon-colored toilet. Brandy snifters, burning candles, a Viagra three-pack and a box of Mylanta tablets. These formed part of the tableau de l'amour that cops and coroners found at Phil Spector's...

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