Tony Pierce

Three words: Free Tim Buckley. OK maybe more words are needed. To celebrate the upcoming Tim Buckley dvd "My Fleeting House", there will be a free screening at Molly Malone's. The dvd is a compilation of unreleased performances by the tragic legend. From the press release:The footage spans his entire career, from 1967 to 1974, and includes unreleased video of interaction with Buckley on The Steve Allen Show (1969) and on WITF's The Show...

Pope Benedict yesterday, trying to impose whatever influence he has left on the world, threatened to excommunicate Catholic politicians if they aid in their support of abortion. He also said that they should not receive communion. The Pope was asked whether he supported Mexican Church leaders threatening to excommunicate leftist parliamentarians who last month voted to legalize abortion in Mexico City. "Yes, this excommunication was not an arbitrary one but is allowed by Canon...

John Vanderslice, St. Vincent @ Largo The Rave-Ups, Haymaker, Mulch, Jesse Aycock @ Blue Cafe Funky Nashville, Surfact, Vincent Van Go Go, Outlandish @ Viper Room Peachfuzz, The Make Out Party, Rolling Blackouts @ The Echo The Starlite Desperation, Up the Empire, Pistols Will Air, Icebird @ Spaceland The New Motherfuckers, Softboiled Eggies, Zodiac Death Valley, Hard Place @ The Smell The Ghost Lullaby, Zombies Ate My Nation, Black Current @ Safari Sam's The...

John Vanderslice is playing tomorrow night at the Largo. St. Vincent, who we interviewed this morning, is opening for him. It's sold out and even the scalpers are all, sucks to be you. They were both really funny and very smart. Of the two, Mr. Vanderslice seemed to enjoy answering the questions while Ms. Vincent seemed to enjoy eluding them in witty ways. Vanderslice was originally in the band mk Ultra, had an infamous...

How good was "Lost" last night? Damn! Unlike many of its critics, I was/am happy with this crazy show meandering and wandering and dragging its feet. I don't need to know why The Others are obsessed with babies. I don't bother myself with details such as why the fat guy hasn't lost a pound on that island despite eating better (less greasy, no fast food) and moving around more. And I don't care that...

- Mayor Tony says the fire is under control, it burned 800 acres - NYT - Alhambra, Burbank, Irvine, and Santa Clarita, you've been bad. How else can you explain the misery that's poised to befall you when the unholy alliance of AOL and Linkin Park plan to bombard your movie houses for One Night Only - The Rock Radio - Ted the Titan the huge "Corpse Flower" opened and closed over these last...

- With all the hoopla, you'd think that more than just 200 acres of the 4,212-acre Griffith Park had gone up in flames, but no, 200 is the number in the Griffith Park fire... and zero deaths. Then who's the winner? CBS2, because that's who Drudge is linking to on his banner headline - CBS2 - More pics of the fire on Defamer, blogging.la, and of course flickr - La Habra man decapitates woman,...

Joseph Arthur, Stars of Track & Field @ Roxy Wolfmother @ Grove of Anaheim Sage Francis @ Amoeba (7pm) Kristin Hersh @ El Rey Bone Thugs-n-Harmony @ House of Blues Mother Mother @ Spaceland Grace Potter & the Nocturnals @ The Troubadour That Noise, Kingsize, The Silence @ Viper Room Bury Your Dead, Suicide SIlence @ The Whisky The Alternate Routes, The Matt Ellis Band @ The Hotel Cafe She's Your Sister, The Waking...

Besides being adorable and ridiculously talented, Annie Clark aka St. Vincent is a total smart ass. If we hadn't read her interview with John Vanderslice (who she is opening for tomorrow night at the Largo), we might have mistaken her flippant humor for dry insults. But no, she's being funny and we love her for that. So we asked the former Polyphonic Spree multi-instrumentalist some questions that would throw her, but it appears that...

As the hills in Los Feliz and Griffith Park burn, we passed by this grassy median at Los Feliz Blvd. and Vermont where we saw this gentleman laying on his back watching the fire inbetween snores. We got as close to the fire as they would allow us and we took this video and other pictures below. If you've got photos, upload them on Flickr and tag them laist and we will possibly include...