: prince, elton and billy, the grates

the tonight in rock list over at LAist is sooooo long

heres just an excerpt

Prince @ Conga Room (Sold-Out; Show at 9:30 PM)
Prince @ Nokia Theatre (Sold-Out; Show at 7 PM)
Prince @ Club Nokia (Sold-Out; Show at 12 AM)
Tom Morello Justice Tour w/ The Nightwatchman, Slash, Shooter Jennings, Serj Tankian, Wayne Kramer, Boots Riley, Corey Taylor @ Henry Fonda Music Box
Suicidal Tendencies, Biohazard, The Prodigal Son @ Hollywood Palladium
J.J. Cale, Pieta Brown @ McCabe’s Guitar Shop (Sold-Out)
Z Berg (of the Like), Michael Runion, Blake Mills @ Home Restaurant (Free! At the new Home on Riverside)
The Grates, The Gibbs, Top Critter @ Silver Lake Lounge
The One AM Radio, Amateurs @ Space 15 Twenty
AIDS Wolf, White Mice, Bipolar Bear, Okie Dokie @ The Smell
The Underground Rairload to Candyland, Bobot Adrenaline, Holding on to Sound, Vlad and the Impalers @ Juanita’s Restaurant & Bar
Ninja Academy @ Old Towne Pub
New Found Glory, Bayside, Set Your Goals @ Avalon
Shwayze @ The Roxy
Elton John, Billy Joel @ Honda Center
Psycroptic, Decrepit Birth, Suffocation, Veil of Maya, Whitechapel, Carcass, Samael @ The Grove of Anaheim

read the whole list here

just turn off yr lights for an hour

sounds lame, i know, but if the aussies are doing it, then its ok with me

speaking of aussies, the grates play tonight at 8pm at the silverlake lounge (will they turn off the lights at 8:30?) and monday night at 10pm at spaceland

and i wrote about them on Pop n Hiss.

but back to earth hour. its already happening around the world

weird to hear people gasp over flickign a switch, but there you have it