Tony Pierce

The Yardbirds circa 1967 Steve Vai and Jerry Cantrell are the only official guitarists listed for this Yardbirds "reunion", but don't be surprised if other legends decide to sit in with original drummer, Jim McCarty, and rhythm guitarist, Chris Dreja. The Yardbirds, The Flash Express, Rolling Blackouts @ The Knitting Factory The Little Ones, Sea Wolf, The Temporary Thing @ The Troubadour De La Soul, KRS One @ The Canyon The Motels, Berlin @...

Remaining a hermit is going to be a lot harder as Mozilla has announced that it will be creating a social networking feature inside browsers such as Firefox. The Coop product will allow Firefox users to "subscribe" to friends in the browser, bringing those friends into a sidebar. Those friends can share content and web pages with you (receive content from you, and send content to you). Adding a friend will mean getting access...

- Jimmy Carter has been in LA building houses for the needy. He's 82 - Voice of America - Brit and KFed settled their divorce: joint custody, he gets $1 million, sorta - Reuters - Economists at UCLA's Anderson Forecast predict a Californian economic slowdown in the near future, but no recession - Daily Bruin - Local woman sues Petco and the food company who made the dog food that killed her pet -...

- The #1 downtown landowner, and major contributer of Mayor Tony's sure has a curious history of allegedly doing some horrible things - LA Weekly - Homelessness up in Downtown! - LA Times - Verizon's "Unlimited" EVDO plan is actually 5 Gigs a month - Cybernet - Keith Richards is now flipflopping on his snorting of coke laced with dad story - MTV - Britney to KFed "You're the biggest mistake I've ever made,...

No piece of video can capture the Mars Volta. No photo graph or online news source or audio tape or mp3 could properly convey each squeal and beat and diversity of sounds that come at you at a Mars Volta show. At first we were all, "wtf why are they playing at a place with seats?", but then we went and were like, "if people are just going to watch with their mouths wide...

- EMI announces that it will offer MP3s on iTunes without the dreaded DRM and a blogosphere rejoices - boingboing - Two bald eagle chicks were born on Catalina Island over the weekend - Daily Breeze - Beverly Hills Unified School District gets nearly $1 million for accepting 159 students into Beverly Hills High who don't live in the district, but are enrolled under a diversity program. Only problem, most of those being brought...

There are hundreds of bands who make their way to Los Angeles to try to make it big, but sometimes it seems like they refuse to learn the lessons being laid down by their forefathers. And one of the greatest rock legends is still doling out the lessons on how to be a rock star, even though he says he's not. In an article published today in NME, 63-year-old Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards...

As you might have seen by our excitement to get the Aqua Teen Hunger Force's music playlist yesterday, we're stoked that the Adult Swim cartoon is going to come out with a full-length movie on Friday the 13th. So we were super excited when they contacted us to tell us that we can give away an ATHF prize package to one lucky LAist reader. Gentlepeople, behold, the package includes: an ATHF beach ball, koozie,...

The Mars Volta @ Orpheum Theater Son Volt (above) @ El Rey Theatre John Legend, Corinne Bailey Rae @ Bren Events Center Killola @ Key Club (free, all ages) Ozomatli @ Amoeba (6pm, free) Don Carlos @ House of Blues Gregory Page, Tom Brosseau, John Doe @ Largo The Lashes, Ambulette, hosted by DJ Andrew WK @ Safari Sam's The Steve Carlson Band, Jake Coco, Leland Grant, Jackie Bristow @ The Hotel Cafe Piebald,...

What are you people waiting for - the Second Coming? We are being told that there are still some tickets available for the Jesus and Mary Chain "secret" show at the Glass House in Pomona the Thursday before Coachella. Even if you are going to Coachella, why on Earth would you pass up a chance to see the JAMC in a small club and save your dance card for, oh Bjork, or Interpol? There...