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What: Power of the Riff Where: The Echo and Echoplex When: 8/14/11 Better than: Listening to records and smoking pot in your mom's basement. The Power of the Riff at The Echo and Echoplex was a study in logistics: 19 bands, 2 stages, 1 day. Put on by Southern Lord,......

WHO: Filter and Saliva WHERE: Key Club WHEN: 7/31/11 Better Than... Staying home for KROQ's '90s weekend. If the 90's were good to you, then you were probably at the Key Club last night for Filter and Saliva. At the packed house the scent of cheap weed overpowered pockets of......

WHO: Rasputina
 WHERE: Key Club WHEN: 7/29/11 Better Than... Your kid sister's recital. Russian religious icon Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin has long been a great source of intrigue, fear and inspiration, and one of those inspirations is New York-based act Rasputina. Back in 1989, members Melora Creager and Julia Kent planted......

WHO: Slaughter Survivors Tour with Conducting from the Grave, The Contortionist, Scale the Summit, Rings of Saturn, Volumes, Structures WHERE: The Key Club WHEN: 7/21/11 Better than... Warped Tour Slaughter Survivors Tour, a blatant spin-off of the Summer Slaughter Tour, is essentially a group of bands that for whatever reason......

A Flock of Seagulls Pershing Square July 16, 2011 British new wave band A Flock of Seagulls took their name from The Stranglers' song "Toiler On The Sea." They were an MTV staple, and it makes sense that the resurgence of new wave would bring them back to popular culture......

WHO: Animals as Leaders WHERE: Key Club WHEN: 7/10/11 Technical wizards Animals As Leaders have quickly grown in popularity. They headlined a sold-out show Sunday night at The Key Club while Joe Satriani and Steve Vai played just down the street. This is impressive, even for particularly powerful wizards. Before......

Bootsy Collins has dedicated his life to spreading the funk. He's like Santa Claus on Christmas, except he gives all year round and what Bootsy brings is far greater than anything your chain smoking aunt hastily wrapped from around her house and left for you. On his way to band......

We caught up with Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp Thursday during a surprise visit to Bank of America in Burbank where he had been invited to come out and greet people. A way for Bank of America to thank their customers. Everyone was ecstatic, some even nearly to tears. An older......