Tony Pierce

The Dimebag Darrell Art Tribute & Auction, featuring The Little Kids Rock Band, Aaron Lewis, Brent & Jasin, Nick Bowcott, Black Tooth Jam @ The House of Blues Mickey Avalon, Dirt Nasty @ Key Club Ben Gibbard, David Bazan @ Royce Hall The Blasters, Lady Dottie & the Diamonds, Creepy Creeps @ Viper Room Ozma, William Tell, Kaddisfly, New Year's Day @ The Troubadour King Kong @ Spaceland Whitestarr, Poets & Pornstars @ Roxy...

Some may consider Bill Clinton a liability to Sen. Hillary Clinton's bid to be the first female U.S. President, but the most famous porn star of all time says that when she looks back at Bill, she smiles. At the end of a long interview conducted by a press release website and posted today, Jameson is not asked about her struggle with cancer that lead to a miscarriage, instead she is asked about politics:...

To celebrate the fact that they didn't completely fuck up their first debate, the Democrats have announced that they're going to tempt fate six more times around the country, ending up here in the city of Angels July 23, 2007: YouTube/Google and CNN in Charleston, SC August 19, 2007: ABC in Des Moines, IA September 26, 2007: NBC News/MSNBC in Hanover, NH October 30, 2007: NBC News/MSNBC in Philadelphia, PA November 15, 2007: CNN...

In one of the worst-publicized but most delicious days on our calendar is Dessert Day up in Westwood. What the Farmers Market lacks in web presence or marketing they're making up in that sweet stuff today, as the new-to-us goCityKids site tells us: Westwood Farmers Market lures dessert connoisseurs with delicacies ranging from Asian Pear Raspberry Cobbler to Dark Chocolate Carmel Corn. Visitors can indulge in 30 different tarts, cobblers, pies, cheesecake, scones, and...

Feel like returning to the scene of the crime with the Mayor of LA and help him protest his own police force? This evening at 5:30pm at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church at Wilshire Boulevard and Berendo Street there will be a short town hall meeting followed by a 10-block march to MacArthur Park where there will be a rally to denounce the LAPD behavior during the infamous Mayday Melee. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Assembly Speaker...

Patrick Wolf, Bishi @ The Troubadour Ziggy Marley @ Ventura Theatre MSTRKRFT, Lazaro Casanova @ The Roxy Pu$$ycow, Steel, The Fuxedos, Bang Sugar Bang @ Safari Sam's Bugs in the Dark, Gemmeloosen, Sub Rosa @ Silverlake Lounge The Lieutenants, Hearing Things, The Slingshots @ The Scene The Vultures, Abe Vigoda, Bark Bark Bark, The Mae Shi @ The Smell Storm Large & the Balls, Thriving Ivory @ Viper Room The Brombies @ Viva Cantina...

+ Rumors of the new Beastie Boys cd being all-instrumental are starting to come beautifully correct - Stereogum + Hey, our favorite Wilshire Blvd. Mason Hall is up for sale - Curbed LA + They put an Effiel Tower in Japan? - The Cobra Snake + Earthlink's plans to make for a wi-fi Anaheim are being foiled by the thickness of the walls in Starbucks; only 72% reliability in the 20 spots that should...

The kids really do get everything. Earlier we told you about a Dodger fan who heckled a future Hall of Famer out of his jockstrap. Now we're getting verification about a rumor we heard that Fall Out Boy were autographing some stuff In Blood! Is that emo enough for you, whiners? Lizy who works extensively on FOB's friendsorenemies here in LA took pictures and had this to say about the scene: "About a month...

Billy Corgan got the band back together, sorta, and the Smashing Pumpkins are really going to have a new record this summer. James Iha probably won't be on it, and our girlfriend D'arcy or our other girlfriend Melissa Auf der Maur will probably also be replaced, but Billy and Jimmy Chamberlin didn't do us wrong on Zwan, and that rhymes with bring it on. LA street art pioneer and Obey founder Shepard Fairey's official...

Yesterday on tv someone said, "Wherever Jerry Falwell ended up today he's probably surprised." But let's hope he's not too surprised. Jerry Falwell knows he deserves eternal damnation of Hell. As do all the people who pretended that he was a decent man, and the hateful and damaging things that he said and did over the years was just business. As if what you say on TV and do behind closed doors isn't you,...