Batalla de bandas con: Faceless Gray, JAC, MOI, Good$ell, Paul Lemire Band, End to Pass, Thalon, Poets and Pornstars, Drainage X, Metaphor y otros. Whisky a Go-Go, 8901 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. 7:30 p.m. (310) 652-4202.
Secret Machines have just mastered their full-length debut for Warner-affiliated Sire Records, according to guitarist Benjamin Curtis. "We have been working on it off and on since the Spring of '03," Curtis informed Pitchfork through the magic of Friendster.
"However you choose to honor Greg's memory, do it with anything but a moment of silence." Thus declared a press release eulogizing rock writer, label-owner, and superfan Greg Shaw, who died of heart failure Tuesday. He was 55.
Lo-fi king Daniel Johnston was admitted to the Tomball Regional Medical Center in his hometown of Waller, TX last Wednesday after experiencing incoherency and an inability to walk, his website reports.
Diamond seller seeks $1.1 million from his insurer, which says he staged heist at his shop. The way Harry Yildiz tells it, he was alone in his downtown jewelry shop when a man in a raincoat with a gun hidden beneath his umbrella burst in, tied him up and made off with $1.1 million in diamonds and jewels.
Cleveland Indoor Baseball League is accepting registration for its fall league starting the last week of October or the first week of November, depending on the age group. Three divisions: ages 7-8, 9-10 and 11-12. All games will be played at the Lost Nation Sports Park in Willoughby.
American diva Beyonce won top honors at the U.K.'s MOBO (Music Of Black Origin) Awards, picking up the international female prize as well as song and video nods for "Deja Vu," featuring Jay Z. Corinne Bailey Rae was a double winner at the awards, whose name is an acronym for "music of black origin," picking up the U.K. newcomer and U.K. female awards.
Here is a collection of short news items about happenings in the community. The Onalaska Lioness Club is seeking women who want to make a difference in their community.