Beck @ The Echo (the site says tix may be available at the door, so get in line now) Social Distortion @ House of Blues Chaka Khan @ Gibson Neil Hamburger, Imagine the Band, Abe Lincoln Story @ Spaceland Roy Zimmerman @ Karin Tatoyan, Rademacher, One Trick Pony, Killsonic @ All Star Lanes McCabe's Underground Railroad to Candyland, God Equals Genocide, Shark Pants @ Safari Sam's Peanut Butter Wolf @ Urban Outfitters - Melrose......

Holy jeebus my eyeballs are gonna fall out. There's about a 1/2 dozen series premieres and a 1/2 dozen season premieres tonight. Unfortnately the only new thing calling my name is the Bionic Woman (9:00pm NBC) but that's based on junior high school fantasies and not what I've seen so far of this show. Prime time offers such an overabundance of mediocrity I'm tempted to head off to TCM at 8:00pm and watch the......

So the girls hit the American Idol stage last night, and they proved once again that they can sing so much better than the boys this season. So the question on our minds this morning is whether co-front-runner Melinda Doolittle (heads and shoulders above the pack with LaKisha Jones) is just frontin. Can she really be that meek and unsure about her singing? She comes on stage like a lion and leaves like a......

The first four American Idol contestants were booted last night. While we weren’t surprised at the girls (Amy Krebs left because of her vanilla on vanilla rendition of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” and Nicole Tranquillo tried too hard to be Chaka Khan and Rufus all at once), the guys who left kinda did. We thought for sure than smiley Sanjaya was a goner, but he turned out to be in......

John Fogerty @ House of Blues Killola @ Safari Sam's She Wants Revenge, Brazilian Girls @ Avalon Stellastarr, Monsters Are Waiting, Minipop @ The Troubadour Chaka Khan @ Malibu Performance Arts Brant Bjork, El Paso Hot Button @ The Scene Elke Robitaille, Sam Shaber, Charissa Nicole @ The Gig The Marsh, By All Means Necessary, Absinthe Academy @ The Good Hurt The Mutaytor @ The Knitting Factory......

Heart @ Fairplex Pomona Apollo Sunshine @ Troubadour Feist @ Avalon Jill Sobule @ Largo Headlights @ Spaceland 311 @ Santa Barbara Bowl Bonnie Raitt, Keb' Mo' @ Greek New Maximum Donkey @ The Joint Death House Chaplain @ Mr. T's Bowl Scream, Beautiful Creatures @ Viper Room Supagroup, The Giraffes @ Key Club Tsuyama Atsushi, Kawabata Makoto, Tatsuya Yoshida @ The Smell Lisa Lisa, Zapp, The Manhattans, GQ, The Delfonics @ Hyundai Pavilion......

If you're looking for the biggest bang for your buck this weekend, forget about the movies and head for The 25th Annual Sunset Junction Street Fair. For $10, you'll be able to enjoy a myriad of local and national music acts, including Run Run Run, Jody Watley, Chaka Khan, The Willowz and a formidable list of deejays. The fair is open on Saturday, from 10am-11pm and Sunday from 10am-10pm. It spans the 3600-4400 blocks......

WEDNESDAY • Gladys Knight and Chaka Khan are performing at the Hollywood Bowl at 8 PM. Click here for a complete list of events for the week.......