The city's Dusk Variations chamber music series kicks off at Millennium Park tonight with Turtle Island Quartet's tribute to the music of Jimi Hendrix. more ›

Braless and wearing an oversized white T-shirt with a hand drawn peace sign and the word "Love" written underneath it, Patti Smith humbly began her set with an extra-Jamaican sounding "Redondo Beach," fumbling some of the lyrics and apologizing to the crowd for being too excited. more ›

LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where do ist editors go when they hang up the 'editorial we'? They take on MySpace, apparently. At least Ben Brown does. Austinist reminds of the just rewards of less savory careers this week and then they witness the Arctic Monkeys and We Are... more ›

Chicagoist admits to a New Duncan Imperials problem since our early college years and therefore in order to help a man who has made countless live shows enjoyable for us, we headed to the Abbey Pub on Friday night for the Gary Shepers fundraiser featuring NDI, Mr. Rudy Day and Diamond Jim Greene. Since the weather outside was frightful, the gathering wasn't that much of a gathering, but each band put on quite the... more ›