Snow. It's great when you're watching it from inside a heated room, like magic dust bunnies dropping from the celestial ceiling. It's much less magical when you're trying to strategically pee inside your car door to defrost the locks. Call it lifestyle differences, we Angelenos prefer our holidays merry and BRIGHT with a high of 72. The following local heroes offer proof positive that a white Christmas is not a requirement for high spirits.......

Redd Kross, Santa Monica Pier, 1982 Redd Kross @ The Echoplex The Bronx, The Mercy Killers @ Safari Sam's The Polyphonic Spree, Rooney @ Henry Fonda Yo La Tengo @ The Ivar Dropkick Murphys @ The Wiltern Jon Brion @ Largo Mezzanine Owls, The Black Kites @ The Echo Dax Riggs @ Spaceland Ferraby Lionheart, The Hundred Days @ The Bordello Low Vs Diamond, Something For Rockets @ Viper Room The Monolators, Correatown, Frankel,......

The Pogues @ The Wiltern - Tonight ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead, Dethklok @ UCLA - Tonight Redd Kross @ Echoplex - Tomorrow The Polyphonic Spree, Rooney @ Henry Fonda - Tomorrow Yo La Tengo @ The Ivar - Tomorrow Low Versus Diamond @ Viper Room - Tomorrow The Bronx, The Mercy Killers @ Safari Sam's - Tomorrow Rodrigo Y Gabriela @ Henry Fonda, 11/3 Yo La Tengo......

You may have noticed a new button on our left-hand column with the title We See The Best Concerts. It dawned on us the other day that we really do go to the best concerts and we usually write about them the next day or a few days later. So here's a wrap up of all 37 shows we reviewed this month, with links to the posts just in case you missed it. Chris......

After the amazing Redd Kross - Sonic Youth show at the Greek, we all headed over to an afterparty at El Cid. Thurston had asked punk legends Saccharine Trust to perform their classic album, Pagan Icons. The album thing was kind of a theme. If you want to know where bands like Nirvana got their inspiration from, in addition to Daydream Nation, you really need to add Pagan Icons and Born Innocent to your......

The double-header of Redd Kross and Sonic Youth completely blew my mind Friday night at the Greek. I had fantastic tickets (because my husband's online kung fu is the best), a photo pass (Thanks to the kind people at Nederlander Productions) and I was even on the list for the after-party (Thanks to Saccharine Trust and Dave Markey). I have seen Sonic Youth a number of times, starting with the Gila Monster Festival in 1984,......

If I had to make a list of my top 100 albums of all time, Redd Kross' Born Innocent would at least make the top 20. I can't even begin to describe how excited I was to learn that this album was going to be performed live as the opening act for Sonic Youth at the Greek. I had to get tickets for the show. Nothing against Sonic Youth, who would have rocked the roof......

Sonic Youth - "Kool Thing" (yes we know tonight they're playing Daydream Nation in its entirety but surely there will be an encore, right?) Sonic Youth, Redd Kross @ The Greek The Dwarves @ Safari Sam's The Bird & the Bee @ El Rey Pigeon John @ The Troubadour The Cribs @ Amoeba (6pm) Boz Scaggs @ The Canyon Jon Brion @ Largo Cool Britannia @ Hollywood Bowl Johnathan Rice, Whispertown 2000, Everest @......

Have a beer with Fear! Slam at the Cuckoo’s Nest! Grab an Oki Dog with Pat Smear! Thursday night at 7:30 pm., The Silver Lake Film Festival will be screening Dave Markey’s seminal punk rock film, The Slog Movie. The Slog movie isn’t an outsider’s documentary of punk rock as a movement. It isn’t a bunch of grainy, archived clips edited into interviews with punk rock legends reminiscing about the Masque. When you are......

It's weird. We get super excited when a new White Stripes record is about to come out. When it does we listen to it non stop for a month. Then we put it away just like it was some huge bag of candy that has now made us sick. We haven't heard any reports of the new White Stripes cd (due out in June) costing them $1,000 to record, like last time, we haven't......

Because we have the greatest boss ever who just let's us do whatever we think is the right thing to do, we gladly accepted his invitation to post on Austinist this week while we're at SXSW. So yesterday we told the nice people here of Texas what we thought the best LA bands were who were playing. One commenter was negative to our suggestion that Har Mar Superstar was worthy of inclusing. Well last......

To celebrate KROQ's Rodney Bingenheimer's star on the Walk of Fame today, The Donnas, Redd Kross, Channel 3, and the Nymphs will rock in his honor @ Henry Ford Fiona Apple @ Largo Sebadoh @ The Troubadour Razorlight @ El Rey The Nice Boys, The Time Flys, The Tyde, Japanese Motors @ The Echo Squab, Level Seven, Phenik, Kill Me Now Kiss Me Later @ The Scene The Wailers, Culver City Dub Collective @......

Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, Redd Kross, !!!, Blonde Redhead, Of Montreal, The Like, The Blood Arm, others @ LA Weekly Detour Fest, Downtown LA Monsters Are Waiting, AfroBeat Down, The Japanese Motors, Jesca Hoop, others @ Eagle Rock Music Fest, Center for the Arts The Killers @ Wiltern Paul Simon @ Santa Barbara Bowl E-40, Too $hort @ Orange Pavilion Saccharine Trust @ Mr. T's Bowl Margaret Cho @ Largo Willie Clayton......

This week we held a contest for three pairs of tickets to the upcoming LA Weekly street fest. Congratulations Richard, Aileen, and Marisa. They will be downtown on Saturday, October 7th on Main and 1st, rocking out to Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, and Basement Jaxx, with additional performances by Peeping Tom, Redd Kross, Blackalicious, Blonde Redhead, !!!, The Like, The Elected, OH NO! OH MY!, The Blood Arm, Everybody Else, The Howling......

Before we announce the winner of yesterday's contest, we're proud to say that we have two more pairs of tickets to the LA Weekly festival starring Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, Redd Kross and others. So congratulations aileen, you are the winner of the first pair, you will be rocking out on Saturday, October 7th in Downtown LA! Since we have two more pairs to give away, post in the comments the two......

Every week we've got something sweet to stoke you, the gentle LAist readers with. Last week we sent a lovely lady a pair of tickets for the Vegoose concert; today we're gonna bro someone with ducats to the First Annual LA Weekly Detour Fest. Saturday, October 7th on Main and 1st in Downtown LA, locals will rock out to Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, and Basement Jaxx, with additional performances by Peeping Tom,......

Ahhh time lapse photograph... what won't you show us? After the jump, Shonen Knife doing the song "Redd Kross". Don't ask why.......

Life isn't fair. Learn it. Live it. Accept it. For if it was fair Thelonious Monster and Bob Forrest would be just as well-known as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and X would be just as rich. The same can be said of Fishbone, Redd Kross, and Lone Justice. All local '80s bands who had just as much talent and chops and soul. It was just different soul. LAist was there in 1986 when......

For us there is no better LA street fair than the Sunset Junction annual event in the Silver Lake stretch of Sunset Blvd. One can enjoy eating chicken on a stick and drinking a beer while peoplewatching the hipsters, the kids, those of alternative lifestyles, and the random tourists who don't really know what they've stumbled into. The volunteer "donation" is now a hard $15 admission, but for all the good music, good food,......

Probably the most-overlooked great band from LA, Redd Kross had a reunion last month but the videos we've seen haven't done them justice. So we figured tonight's Midnight Movie should be an oldie and a moldie. "I Was Born To Love You" takes you around Hollywood and reminds you what power pop is all about.......

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......