Tonight (10pm) marks the fifth annual installment of VH-1's Hip Hop Honors, a program saluting the contributions of the genre's pioneers and players. This year's honorees include: De La Soul, Slick Rick, Naughty by Nature, Too Shot and Los Angeles' own Cypress Hill. For the last 20 years, the Hill has been rocking mics with their Cannabis laced brand of genre twisting music that combined hip-hop with elements or rock and Latin music. Sen......

Bloc Party, Justice, Satellite Party, Kinky, Comedians of Comedy, Turbonegro, Teddybears, The Raveonettes, Shout Out Louds, Autolux, Celebrity Skin, others @ Detour Festival Dengue Fever, Mia Doi Todd, Chuchito Valdes, The Pity Party, others @ Eagle Rock Music Festival Kenny Burrell, The Pete Escovedo Family Orchestra (with Sheila E.), others @ Jazz at Drew Natalie Cole, Sheryl Lee Ralph, RuPaul, Linda Hopkins, Loretta Devine, Ann Nesby, Deniece Williams, Jennifer Holliday, others @ Divas Simply......

The Format, She Doesn't Get It First Annual Sunset Strip Music Festival - James Brown's band joined by special guests and fronted by stars like Dave Navarro, Jerry Cantrell, Mellow Man Ace, B-Real & Sen Dog, Vayden, Kings of Spain, Queen V, Kingbaby, others @ The Whiskey They pretty much had our favorite album of last year, they're great live, and they pretty much rule the galaxy, and they're playing at a beautiful theater......

Backbiter, The Bob Lee (Black Sabbath Christmas songs), Hot for Chocolate @ Mr. T's Bowl Kingdom of Ozzy, Seventh Son, Automatic Hotel, Compound X @ Paladino's Jews & Mexicans, Jet Fuel, Big Tone, Black Fuzz, Space Fuzz @ The Scene Scissors for Lefty, Last American Buffalo, The Bloody Heads @ Spaceland Gliss, The Oohlas, The Secret 6, Pop Levi @ The Knitting Factory The Reyes Brothers w/ Mellow Man Ace and Sen Dog @......

Dead Kennedys, Bad Samaritans @ Malibu Inn X, Rollins Band @ Pacific Amphitheatre Dirty on Purpose @ Echo (6:30p), Spaceland (10p) Sen Dog @ Viper Room Warren G @ Vault 350 Say Hi To Your Mom @ Echo Whisky Circus @ The Whisky Sparta @ Troubadour Mika Miko, Party Fowl, Prs Hltn Mthrfckrs The Big Ball Stars @ Knitting Factory The Phyre, Sexohol @ The Good Hurt Sherlock Poems @ The Gig photo by......

tonight New York Dolls @ Tower Records Sunset 7pm (free) The Avengers @ Spaceland Lyrics Born @ Santa Monica Pier (free) Steve Wynn @ McCabes Bones, Thugs, Harmony @ Ventura Theatre Skid Row, Warrant @ Grove of Anaheim Sound of Music @ Hollywood Bowl saturday Warren G @ Vault 350 Dirty on Purpose @ Spaceland Say Hi To Your Mom @ Echo Sen Dog @ Viper Room X, Rollins Band @ Pacific Amphitheatre Dead......