Use Last.Fm? Thanks to LAist reader, thecoloured, you can join our new LAist Last.Fm group! If you're staying Westside tonight, check out the hybrid jazz-alt-folk band, 1921a, at McCabe's Guitar Shop. They'll be there with Matt Taylor and his Laurels. Cat Power and the Dirty Delta Blues @ The Wiltern MSTRKRFT With DJ Z-Trip, La Riots and Diabetic @ Henry Fonda Spindrift, Spirit Army, Moonrats, Restaurant @ Spaceland......

CAT POWER - Werewolf &righticonhover=0x333232&text=0x333232&slider=0xF2F2F2&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0xFFFFFF&loader=0x838383&soundFile=http://aprodxn.com/laist/Cat Power - Werewolf.mp3"> GUANA BATS - Werewolf Blues &righticonhover=0x333232&text=0x333232&slider=0xF2F2F2&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0xFFFFFF&loader=0x838383&soundFile=http://aprodxn.com/laist/guana batz - werewolf blues.mp3"> BUSH - Mouth (American Werewolf in Paris) &righticonhover=0x333232&text=0x333232&slider=0xF2F2F2&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0xFFFFFF&loader=0x838383&soundFile=http://aprodxn.com/laist/Bush - Mouth - An American Werewolf in Paris.mp3"> HALLOWEEN SOUND EFFECTS &righticonhover=0x333232&text=0x333232&slider=0xF2F2F2&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0xFFFFFF&loader=0x838383&soundFile=http://aprodxn.com/laist/Halloween Sound Effects - 17 - Werewolf at Midnight.mp3"> CRAMPS - I Was a Teenage Werewolf &righticonhover=0x333232&text=0x333232&slider=0xF2F2F2&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0xFFFFFF&loader=0x838383&soundFile=http://aprodxn.com/laist/The Cramps - I Was a Teenage Werewolf.mp3"> CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Bad Moon Rising &righticonhover=0x333232&text=0x333232&slider=0xF2F2F2&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0xFFFFFF&loader=0x838383&soundFile=http://aprodxn.com/laist/CCR - Bad Moon Rising.mp3"> VIOLENT FEMMES......

How the two best shows happening tonight are still not sold out is beyond me. If you dont wanna be outside listening to the pretty music coming from the pretty boys of Air you really should check out the Rentals at the Music Box. Word is there will be some special guests. The Rentals, Goldenboy, Copeland @ The Henry Fonda Air @ The Greek Cat Power @ Avalon Muse @ Irvine Meadows B-52's @......

Happy Monday. Here are cat songs. And since racist stereotypes know no species boundaries, and psychedelic jazz is as much for cartoon felines as it is for the children who love them, please also watch the post-jump video and behold Eva Gabor in all her boho wonder. France is swinging y’all. Dylan Hears A Who - The Cat In The Hat &righticonhover=0x333232&text=0x333232&slider=0xF2F2F2&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0xFFFFFF&loader=0x838383&soundFile=http://andysternberg.com/laist/TheCatInTheHat.mp3"> Squeeze - Cool For Cats &righticonhover=0x333232&text=0x333232&slider=0xF2F2F2&track=0xFFFFFF&border=0xFFFFFF&loader=0x838383&soundFile=http://andysternberg.com/laist/03 Cool for Cats.mp3"> Bruce Springsteen -......

Jesse Harris, New York based singer/songwriter’s new album Feel, definitely has one doing just that. Not only is Feel his 7th album to date, he just recently wrote and composed, but not performed the entire soundtrack to Ethan Hawke’s film The Hottest State. While the soundtrack for the film has Harris performing just two of the songs and the likes of Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, M.Ward, Norah Jones and Cat Power taking hold of......

Remember being young and in total desperate I’m going to die without you love? That exact and exquisite pain is what The Hottest State, Ethan Hawke’s film based on his first novel (out in the 1990’s) is all about. Hawke produced and directed the film that meanders its way through present day, 1970’s flashbacks, music sequences, and hot sex scenes through the eyes of William Harding, a sensitive and emotional twenty-one year old actor trying......

Money Mark -- cohort on keys and unofficial 4th member of the Beastie Boys -- walks a sunny and winding road on his latest solo effort, Brand New By Tomorrow, out today on Brushfire Records. Mark’s brand of Atari-Americana incorporates the sort of warm, mellow, tra-la-la, quirk you’d find on Wilco’s Summerteeth or Josh Rouse’s 1972 but dots it with arcade flourishes -- sometimes funky, sometimes punky -- over lo-fi, Beatles-esque melodies. The result......

It’s difficult to argue that KCRW, 89.9 FM, isn't one of the better things we, the citizens of Los Angeles, get to experience firsthand. Yeah, the station offers podcasts and streaming radio, but it’s not the same as actually living in the city the station is broadcast from. Not only does the station play some of the most innovative and unique music in the world, but broadcasts daily news and cultural information unable to......

Donning a trademark jumpsuit and moon-man helmet, Cee-Lo Green of Gnarles Barkley emerged on stage at USC's Galen Center to the tune of a surging, epic, space-odyssey instrumental. Touting the merits of Danger Mouse, Feng Shui, and Crown Royal, our weeblesque hero warmed up the enthusiastic crowd with a string of pervasive, electro-rock/neo-soul, head boppers. Threatening that the party might get “off the chain” to a bunch of arty-indie-college-punks was certainly the booze talking,......

How to celebrate the New Year? With sexy aliens and hyper Santa Clauses (including LisaNova as Dalmation Benjamin Franklin) sandwiching The Flaming Lips on stage. With Gnarls Barkley singing Crazy in a jumpsuit. With Cat Power. The balloons (see the video below), the space ship, the aural atmosphere. A good year to begin 2007.......

If there's one night you really have to dig down and pony up for the rock it's New Years Eve. Don't ask us why. So today we will put the ticket prices next to each event so you don't get sticker shock when you make your last minute plans. Although the best value appears to be down in the OC, factor in 1) you have to go behind the orange curtain 2) you better......

Why is this LAist reader smiling? Maybe it's because she's going to the Flaming Lips + Gnarls Barkley + Cat Power show tonight at the spanking brand new Galen Center at USC. And she won the sweet new dvd 40 Bands 80 Minutes about the punk rock fest that went down at Il Corral this year. And she won the hilarious new dvd of stand up comedy by Pablo Francisco "Ouch - Live From......

It's not really a dance video, but it's hilarious, and not only did LAist consider it a nominee, but the people came out en masse to help it win the contest in what can only be called a landslide. Joseph Thai, whoever you are, reply back to the email we sent you and claim your amazing prize for this hidden gem. Enjoy your bag! Time magazine totally wimped out by naming "you" the Person......

Didn't get everything you wanted over the holidays? We're having two contests with prizes that might tickle your fancy. First, we'd like to give you Goddess Gwen in the flesh, but we are keeping her for ourselves. Instead, we are giving away an entire bag full of Gwen goods - everything pictured above. For that contest, all you have to do is go to a site like YouTube, Google Video, or Buzznet and show......

The Delta Spirit @ Spaceland (free) Bright Light Fever @ Safari Sam's Ioma, Gabriel's Falling, Moxie Tribe, 4 Star Tribe @ Viper The Hellzaboppers @ Joe's Great American Bar & Grill Matu, The Elevaters, Shakespeare, Solomon Cole @ Temple Bar Digital Fridge, Echoes of a Boundless Life, Cat Fur @ The Scene Plastic Fate, How I Became Invisible, Natasha Lewis @ Cat Club Coming up... Wed: Los Lobos @ House of Blues Fri &......

Before we announce the new Flaming Lips / Gnarls Barkley (pictured) / Cat Power ticket giveaway concert for the Dec 31 show at the Galen Center at USC... we should congratulate the winners of the last giveaway. Congratulations Annie, Christina, and Helen! OK now we proudly present our newest contest - there will be one winner who will get two tickets to the Lips/Barkley/Power show, but this winner will also get a cd sixpack......

Just a little reminder, in case you don't scour our archives or come here every hour (for which we forgive you). We're having two contests right now. First, we'd like to give you Goddess Gwen in the flesh, but we are keeping her for ourselves. Instead, we are giving away an entire bag full of Gwen goods - everything pictured above. For that contest, all you have to do is link to a YouTube......

LAist has had a great year and we've tried to share some of that with you. We've given away box seats to some Hollywood Bowl shows that included picnic baskets and free parking, we've given away tickets to Vegoose, the Dixie Chicks, and we even got a bunch of people into that secret Red Hot Chili Peppers gig... and those were only some of our contests. Today we are giving away a super cool......

Colin Meloy might look like just another guy in line at Radio Shack, but he knows no fear. After being called out by Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report for utilizing his trademarked Green Screen effect, Meloy upped the ante -- and on December 20th on Comedy Central, we will all benefit from the “Decemberists vs. Stephen Colbert Guitar Solo Challenge.” Meloy also accepted LAist's dare of handing over a Top 10 best CDs......

- How To Shock People Without a Lousy Taser - phrets - Cop Tasered in the Family Jewels - Rescue Humor - Fuck Ashton Kutcher and his courtside Laker seats. Please taser him - AP - Amount of douchebags with more than one cell phone increasing - ZD Net - Render upon the Iraqis what is Iraqi: Bring Back Saddam - LA Times - Black Friday sales increased 6% to $8.96 ba-ba-ba Billion, still......

Cat Power @ Orpheum Al Di Meola @ House of Blues Prodigy, Shiny Toy Guns, DJ Z-Trip, Sage Francis @ Orange Pavilion(3pm) T.S.O.L., Channel 3, The Crowd, Smut Peddlers @ Vault 350 Candye Kane @ Blue Cafe Billy Vera & the Beaters @ Cozy's Bar & Grill James Intveld @ Arcadia Blues Club Witchcraft, Green Jelly, Rosemary's Billygoat @ Safari Sam's Go Betty Go, The New Hotness, Dirty City Brothers @ The Scene The......

“Monday Night Football” (ESPN, 5:30 p.m.) New England Patriots at Minnesota Vikings “NHL Hockey” (FSN, 7:30 p.m.) New York Rangers at Los Angeles Kings “Everybody Hates Chris” (the CW, 8:00 p.m.) Chris gets robbed while guarding the cash register for Doc “House of 1000 Corpses” (IFC, 8:15 p.m.) Get in the Halloween mood with Rob Zombie’s neo-classic. “The Bachelor: Rome” (ABC, 9:00 p.m.) Lorenzo (I can’t believe I’m writing that name) knocks it down......

Congrats Jennifer who won the Vegoose Contest. It was a random pic (since who really can judge haikus since theyre all beautiful) but this is her entry: a band of horses storms the galactic abyss for a special sauce For the rest of youse, Tom Petty, The Roots, Cat Power (pictured), Phil Lesh, The Black Crowes, Fiona Apple, and many many more will be in Vegas for Halloween Weekend so if you like to......

Hey Rockers, our Vegoose Ticket Giveaway ends today at 4:20pm. Vegoose is the Halloween weekend two day rock fest in Las Vegas with dozens of bands and a crowd that loves to dress up in wild costumes. Tom Petty will be headlining, the Mars Volta will be there, the Black Crowes will be there, Fiona Apple will be there, and we want you to be there. So here's how you can enter... go to......

Hollywood's favorite record store lists its top 25... see the top ten after the jump 11. Leslie Hall - Door Man's Daughter 12. Brazilian Girls - Talk to La Boys 13. Thom Yorke - Eraser 14. Cat Power - Greatest 15. Ratatat - Classics 16. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas 17. Mastodon - Blood Mountain 18. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye 19. Roots - Game Theory 20. R.E.M. - Best: IRS Years 82-87......

Love music, free mp3s, social reform, and political justice? If so, you’ll love Protest Records. Established for “musicians, poets and artists to express LOVE + LIBERTY in the face of greed, sexism, racism, hate-crime and war,” Protest Records delivers some of the best politically charged music by world renowned artists. Focusing mainly on the injustices created by the US government, big businesses, and every other bureaucrat out to rape us of our liberty and......

Helen Slater @ Genghis Cohen Wolf Parade @ The Wiltern Circus Diablo @ Key Club Guttermouth @ Malibu Inn Mick Flower @ Il Corral Brian Evans @Tangier The Killers @ Troubadour Scott H. Biram @ El Cid John Mayall & the Bluebreakers @ The Canyon Peter DiStefano @ DiPiazza's Lava Lounge Chris Pierce, Keaton Simons @ Temple Bar Cat Power @ Malibu Performing Arts Center Pu$$ycow, Bang Sugar Bang, Porterville @ Safari Sam's Davy......

Several rock options tonight, there's Beck at the Wiltern, Cat Power at the John Anson Ford, Pink at the Avalon, Mark Knofler and Emmylou Harris at the Gibson Amphitheater, Hawksley Workman at the Viper... or across the street at the Whisky they're throwing a benefit for Arthur Lee, the frontman of the classic 60s group Love. Lee had been touring the world as Love, with the more-than-capable local boys Baby Lemonade as his band.......

Tonight 6/26 Tsar, Hawksley Workman - Spaceland (free) T.I. - House of Blues Corinne Baily Rae - Troubador Metal Skool - Key Club Soccer Mom - Viper Tuesday 6/27 Mike Watt (dj set) - Amoeba (free) Be Your Own Pet - Troubador Beck, Jamie Lidell - Wiltern Les Claypool, The Coup - Avalon Slick Rick - House of Blues Flogging Molly - Molly Malone's Hawksley Workman - Temple Bar Il Divo - Greek Wednesday......

+ Neither Nicole nor Paris fared well with the GoFugYourself gals on Tuesday's Sidekick3 red carpet in front of the Palladium + Speaking of the Sidekick party, the world's greatest party photographer, LA's own Cobra Snake, has an incredible gallery of pics from the bash -- including snaps of Mike Tyson, Paris Hilton, and a nice girl waiting for someone to slide with her. We'll be her slidekick. And hey look they even had a......