Tony Pierce

Rocket Quiet Company @ Silverlake Lounge (9pm) Rocket, Gliss @ Spaceland (free) Phantom Planet, Goldenstate, Emma Burgess @ Roxy Cecilia Noel & the Wild Clams, Venice, Young Dubliners @ Topanga Days Magrudergrind, I Object, Bastardass, Ruido, Hit Me Back @ The Smell The Ringers, Nico Vega, Grey Kid @ Viper Room Squiddo, China Smoke @ The Scene Quiet Company...

We know we listed them a few posts below, but this is a band who bears repeating... and hyping. If you recall, in March we went to SXSW in Austin and had a little battle of the bands of sorts. LAist got a few bands from LA, and we invited some bands from Austin to play at the LAist SXSW party. We had never heard of Quiet Company, and quite frankly, their name didn't...

Jill Scott, Lupe Fiasco, Les Nubians @ UCLA Intramural Field John Doe, Pamela Des Barres @ Topanga Days War @ Greek Theatre Go Betty Go, Invid, Red Team Go, Stoic Frame @ Mr. T's Bowl Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys @ The Derby Humboldt Square, The Congregation, Candygram for Mongo, Latham, Dicktastics @ Viper Room The Henry Clay People, Swim Party, Family Tree Analog, Franklin for Short @ All Star Lanes Bizzart, Weekend...

Memorial Day kicks off summer which means we can finally show the world our ripped bodies we've been working on all winter and skateboard down the boardwalk grinding to our favorite summer jamz. City Hall's favorite taxpayer, Zuma Dogg was nice enough to share with us what we would probably hear if we wound up over at his pad sharing mother nature and working on plans to save the world. Sez ZD: Where do...

There are very few companies putting out consistently funnier ads than Jack in the Box. Their latest is a jab at the Angus burger trend that was adopted by Burger King and Carl's Jr., and has recently been picked up by McDonald's. Instead of following the leader, Jack in the Box decided to promote their Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day campaign, hyping their breakfast-served-all-day advantage, and then they tried their...

If it seems like Vin Scully has been doing Dodger games forever, that's because this is his 50th season broadcasting LA Dodger games (1958-2007) and his 57th as a Dodger announcer. He's one of the few major broadcasters who works alone in the booth. No color man needed, no ex-jocks, no sidekick. The only problem with that is sometimes he can casually blow you away with precise diction and perfect tone, and sometimes the...

Pravada: music by Amon Tobin, Cut Chemist, DJ Spooky, Peanut Butter Wolf, J-Rocc, Dublab Soundsystem and others including a ten-piece theremin orchestra, visuals from classic Russian cinema @ Disney Hall Topanga Days: Veruca Salt, Chevy Metal, Minibar, Carina Round, Nutty Nut Nerds, The Tender Box, Spindrift @ Topanga Community House The Love Festival: Swedish Egil, Ladytron, Donald Glaude, DJ Irene, Kid Krazzy, Starkillers, DJ Reza, DJ Sneak, Tony C, Dieselboy, Dara, Aki200 @ LA...

Last night we showed you the Rosie O'Donnell vs Elisabeth Hasslebeck catfight. We felt sorta lame posting it because it was already 14 hours old and figured everyone had seen it by then, but today it was the most popular post all day on LAist. During the onslaught of traffic we got an email asking if we saw what happened to Elisabeth right after the break. Whaaaat? Apparently Alicia Silverstone, despite being a vegan...

Here at LAist we faced a tough decision last year - to cover the Raiders or not cover the Raiders. With no football team, LA is in a rough situation. We pretend like it doesn't bother us and perhaps it doesn't bother some of us, but you know what, if it doesn't bother you then there's something wrong with you. So we were either going to cover the Oakland Raiders or the Chicago Bears...

Although it's probably not true, and if it were, hard to believe, 30 years ago LAist was around 10 years old. And let's pretend that when we were around 10 a movie came that summer out that the newspapers claimed to be "The New Western". Let's also pretend that when you're 10 years old you don't wanna go to any lousy New Western no matter what the tv commercials are showing you - for...