Hey, lady, you're going the wrong....Uh oh. A woman driving eastbound in the westbound carpool lane of the 118 near Simi Valley around 1:30 this afternoon collided with a motorcyclist. The bike rider was sent to the hospital to be treated for his injuries, but the elderly driver of the wrong-way car was unhurt. See kids, learning is fun! A 5th grade class at McKinley School have made a model of their home city......

It's a rockin' Friday night in LA with Stevie, Van Halen, RZA, and R. Kelly in town, a XMAS Sweater Party at Crash Mansion featuring local indie up'n comers, and cow punk comes alive at Safari Sam's, with X side project (since 1982) The Knitters....

There's still time to win Tori Amos tickets -- the concert ends tonight at midnight! To enter the contest, leave a comment telling us what your favorite Tori song is. Get over there and put the damage on! An update on the Sherman Oaks apartment fire that left one person dead: authorities have ID'd the victim as a 63-year-old man who died at the hospital after receiving second- and third-degree burns. There was another......

It always seems that Coldwater Canyon Blvd. is flooded. Early this morning, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported an 8 inch broken main causing "severe" flooding between Ventura Blvd. and Mulholland Dr., shutting down the canyon traffic corridor. Muholland Dr. is also closed down between Coldwater Cyn. and Benedict Cyn. due to mud and debris. Then at 6:45 a.m., the most unusual and seemingly non sequitar update from the fire department came in:The flooding......

Van Halen @ Staples Diana Ross @ Gibson Mary J. Blige @ Nokia Silverchair @ Wiltern Raine Maida @ Viper Room Isis @ Troubadour Trans-Siberian Orchestra @ Honda Center Solare, The Knux, Letter Burning, No One Goes Home @ Key Club Meiko, Katy Perry, Alana Sweetwater, Noah Stone, Fun Tree @ The Hotel Cafe......

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......

Unintentional cacophony at it's finest. The pre-taped keyboards kick in a hair faster than they're supposed to, throwing the entire song into a beautifully out of tune dissonant noisefest. What does the band do? Finish the song, of course. All 6 and a half horrible minutes of it. If this was Ashlee Simpson, you would have heard about it by now. But this is Van Fuckin' Halen!......

Earlier today we noticed that none of the Van Halen shows in LA sold out yet. In fact all but four on the whole tour appeared to have sold out, so we wrote a post and within hours the first Staples show had sold out. You're welcome. In that post we also made a joke about how Santa Barbara band Nerf Herder should be opening the show and that would help sales, no offense,......

Wait a damn minute. You people demanded that Van Halen get rid of the Red Rocker and reinstate Diamond Dave. Sure Michael Anthony had to step down so as to get replaced by Eddie's boy Wolfgang on bass - but doesn't that make for better rock? Not according to slow-as-molasses ticket sales here in the Southland where none of the four Van Halen shows at Staples or the Honda Center have sold out. [Update:......

Eddie Van Halen still sorta is the greatest guitarist alive. And maybe you don't like your rock gods to be a little looney and close to death, but we do. And if we learned one thing about David Lee Roth it's that he aint no morning man, which is fine. What he is is the only front man that Van Halen should have ever had, and we're glad that all the nonsense was able......

You’ve probably whizzed by his 17-foot image dozens of times or been stuck in traffic behind one of the many trucks that he rides on. The Little Man with the Hammer, the trademark of The Western Exterminator Company was born in 1931. The creation of telephone company artist Vaughn Kaufman, “The Little Man” has been used as the trademark for this family-run company (celebrating it’s 86th year) ever since. The Los Angeles icon known over......

Eddie, Alex, and Wolfgang Van Halen are teaming up with "Diamond" David Lee Roth for a new incarnation of Pasadena's greatest export, the band announced yesterday at the Four Seasons. Wolfie is 16 and the rest of the fellas are in their 50s. On paper it's a disaster in the making, what with Eddie fresh out of rehab, Roth rebounding from his failed attempt to fill Howard Stern's shoes on NY morning radio, and......

Bad news: Al Gore was caught speeding at 100 mph in Laguna Nigel this morning at 2:15am. Good news: It wasn't the guy who invented the Internet, Al Gore, it was his son, Al Gore III. Bad news: The cops also found that he had an ounce of weed as well as some Xanax, Valium, Vicodin and Adderall. Good news: Now the President has a perfect person to pardon because brah didn't have a......

What a better way to enjoy the longest Monday of the year than to enjoy free ice cream while listening to the mellow funky goodness that is The Mix Up, the new album by the Beastie Boys? In a deliciously and deviously cool way to get you to listen to their new collection of all-instrumental jazzy grooves that come out tomorrow, the three bad brothers you know so well have arranged for two listening......

Memorial Day Weekend 2007 wasn't just all about Lindsay's crash and arrest, there were other celeb items in the news..... One of, if not the most beautiful baby in the world, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt turned one this weekend in Prague alongside the rest of the Jolie-Pitt litter - Celebitchy Looks like its the official end of the unlikely match of John Mayer and Jessica Simpson as these photos from Cabo reveal - Flynetonline Nicole Ritchie looking......

J Mascis, Lou Barlow and that other guy Murph, have announced their spring tour and it officially starts in West Hollywood on May 11. After a warm up show being billed "J Mascis and Friends" down in San Diego on the 10th, Dinosaur will roar at the Troubadour for three straight nights, for your ass. Pre-sale tickets for members of the Dinosaur Jr. web site are available now. Hint: It's free and easy to......

This still May/September romance STILL disturbs me - TMZ I wonder what Whitney will think when in less than two weeks, Vivid Video is set to release video of poor little rich girl Kim Kardashian getting dirty with Whitney's boy toy - Bumpshack Salma Hayek is not only engaged, but preggers! Her soon-to-be hubby is uber rich Frenchman Francois-Henri...is it me or does he look a little like Kevin Spacey? - poponthepop We all felt......

- If you're looking for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in LA public libraries, you will be sorely disappointed - LAT - Right now Eddie Van Halen is in rehab - TMZ - The USC football lockerroom is colorless, says black Trojan running backs and special teams coach Todd McNair, who dubbed the kickoff team The White Nation, and calls the other black coaches Brojans. Controversy brewed yesterday when one of the students created......

The Police aren't the only band to reunite and tour in 2007, and though their twenty-three year hiatus is the longest of the bunch, there is much more nostalgia to be had.... Rage Against The Machine, everyone's favorite rightously angry band, is reuniting to close this year's Coachella festival, which, fingers crossed, will bring about a tour. All four members -- Zack De La Rocha, Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk -- will......

One of the best things about Van Halen reuniting is that finally the legend of Eddie Van Halen can go back to being praised. It's not like Sammy stole any thunder from Ed, he just never added to the two guitar attack that was promised. If anything, Sammy's influence only watered-down the high-flying rock gods. Sure "Right Now" and "Dreams" were acceptable songs to see your little sister singing along to, but they weren't......

The end of times are approaching. There's a female Speaker of the House, an African-American frontrunner for President of the United States, The Police are getting back together, there are no late fees at Blockbuster. So of course Blabbermouth.net scooped the world in December when they were the first to report that Eddie Van Halen wanted to get David Lee Roth back on the mic to front a new Van Halen. One that excluded......

Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K. Stern scrambling to figure out ways not to give money to the father of her child - Defamer - Black dude from Bloc Party probably gay - Towleroad - Trump being sued for ageism - Pop on the Pop - The two people who have no regard for money just out-dummied themselves. On one side you have Pure nightclub in Las Vegas who reportedly had a contract with......

- Katie Couric to her critics: "Bite Me." - People - Laker Fans to Britney Spears when her face appeared on the jumbotron: "Boooooooo!" - Pop Sugar - Vincent Gallo to women who want to have sex with him: "Heavy-set, older red-heads and even black chicks can have me if they can pay the bill ($100,000). No real female will be refused." - d listed - Famous rock photographer Ross Halfin on Eddie and......

In celebration of the mere Rumor (sorry Blabbermouth we need to at least read it on Guitar World), LAist will be dancing the night away to all the classic Van Halen tunes today because of word that David Lee Roth might be rejoining the band. In our iTunes mix will be the classic Nerf Herder tune "Van Halen" which encapsulates how we felt about the original lineup, the break-up, and the Sammy Hagar years......

We don't want to get our hopes up, and we know it's the Holiday Season, the time where miracles and dreams come true, but according to Blabbermouth.com, Eddie Van Halen has contacted David Lee Roth to have the singer rejoin the band that has totally sucked since his departure. "I'm telling Dave, 'Dude, get your ass up here and sing, bitch! Come on!'" Blabbermouth reports Van Halen said to Guitar World. "As it stands right......

Leona Lewis, a contestant on a Simon Cowell + Sharon Osbourne judged American Idol type program, who turns Cowell on so much he made out with Sharon and then dissed Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia, and Carrie Underwood: Across this show, across Idol, across all the other shows. Let's be honest: all the girl singers haven't been very good, until now! You are absolutely the best contestant I have ever had across any of these shows.......

Devo, Flock of Seagulls, Bow Wow Wow, Dramarama @ Grove of Anaheim Scritti Politti @ Roxy Pere Ubu @ UCLA Royce Hall Honky (Butthole Surfer JD Pinkus) @ Alex's Bar Banyan (Stephen Perkins, Mike Watt) @ The Mint The Bonebrake Syncopators (X's DJ Bonebrake) @ The Derby Carlos Guitarlos (Of Van Halen's "Top Jimmy" fame) @ Liquid KItty Fright Night, Friday the 13th @ New Beverly......

The white smoke slowly rose from atop the Angelyne billboard which meant the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce had decided who would get stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007. The lucky winners included KROQ pioneer Rodney on the Roq who was the first d.j. to play such bands as the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, the Cure, Van Halen, Duran Duran, Oasis, the Smiths, Blondie, the Go-Gos, Depeche Mode, the Strokes, the White......

George Bush and John Kerry finally crawl into the ring tonight to do rhetorical combat in one of the most important, historic, meaningful, stupendous, and all-around spectacular television events of all time!! Or so we've been told. In truth, this thing is as scripted as "The Apprentice" and as dramatic as "Lost." With the campaigns having signed a memorandum of agreement that has more stipulations than a Van Halen backstage contract rider (post David......