As I sat in the Troubadour balcony, looking down on Moistboyz singer Dickie Moist screaming to a crowd of roughly 70 people like a stadium full of Billy Graham disciples, something occurred to me: Rock 'n Roll used to have real power. It changed society, outraged moralists, defied suppression and even affected the way artists in other music forms approached their compositions, and this was during the 50s, when the average Rock song was either......

Queen Latifah @ Royce Hall Travis, Maximo Park @ Wiltern Correatown, Pity Party, Merrick, Everybody @ The Bordello Suicidal Tendencies, Municipal Waste, Black President @ House of Blues MC Frontalot, Schaffer The Dark Lord @ Knitting Factory Married In Berdichev, Gang Wizard, A++, Transcend this Earthly Shell @ The Smell Whispertown 2000, Michael Runion, Franklin for Short @ Tangier......

Suicidal Tendencies, Gwar, The Devil Wears Prada, Goatwhore, others @ Verizon Wireless Clay Aiken @ The Greek St. Vincent, Josh Haden, Death Vessel @ The Echo The Bronx, Qui (with the Jesus Lizard's David Yow) @ The Echo, benefit, early show (5:30pm) Billy Bob Thornton @ El Rey Theatre G. Love & Special Sauce, Ozomatli @ Pacific Amphitheatre Tift Merritt @ McCabe's Radars to the Sky, Bedroom Walls, Rademacher, Death to Anders @ Spaceland......

While we spent our weekend Halloween partying at a house party featuring people in costumes that looked oddly similar to LA.Com's party at Spider (including someone dressed as Jack and many a sexy girl scout and sailor), some of you were at the Olympic Auditorium causing trouble. Now, we loved Pat Smear's powerful guitar in the 90s as much as the next guy or gal but LAist doesn't think that would cause us to......