The Monday Show Low Down (Or "My Chemical Impulses Told me to Come Here. WTF?!")

Man, I swear that the ants in this town can strip your arm to the bone in five minutes flat. It's like something out of an old William Shatner movie in my kitchen right now...

But enough about my pantry, you can tell from looking at this week’s line-up of music that Thursday is going to be a special night for young people. I mean, The Bedroom Walls have a free in-story at seven at Amoeba Music, then Tandemoro and Everything Now! play The Silver Lake Lounge, Jolie Holland appears at Safari Sams, and Jenny Lewis and Lavender Diamond are Spaceland. And on both Thursday and Friday, Built to Spill will roxxor The Troubadour and a little band called Radiohead will perform at The Greek.

And then, yeah, Band of Horses and Mt. Egypt are at The Echo on Friday. Finally. (I've had tickets for that for, like, ferevah.)

In Related News:

- The Movies are taking a break from recording their new album to play a night at The Derby on Thursday, July 20th. (Read more about that album here.)

- One of LA’s best rock acts, Foreign Born will play an acoustic show at Tangier on Sunday. July 30.

- Alt-country bad-asses The Drive-by Truckers have been added to the line-up for Sunset Junction on Sunday, August 27th. (Buford T. Pusser better not come around.)

- If you missed The Duke Spirit when they played recently, you can catch them on September 26th or 27th when they open up for Snow Patrol at The Wiltern.

- Wolfmother has joined the bill for the first day of San Diego’s Street Scene on Saturday, August 4th.

- Imperial Teen, who sadly rarely play out any more, will be here in LA on Saturday, July 22nd at The Knitting Factory.

- The following bands have also announced shows here in LA (see yon fair right-hand column for details): The Minor Canon, Apollo Sunshine, The Happy Hollows, One Trick Pony, Central Second Collective, Tandemoro, Everything Now!, Jenny Lewis, Becky Stark (of Lavender Diamond), Eagle & Talon, Cat Power, The Silversun Pickups, Fishbone, Bedroom Walls, The Grates, Electric Eel Shock, Dengue Fever, Peter and the Wolf, The Transmissions, Bodies of Water, Donita Sparks, Loverlee, Repeater, The Buzzcocks, The New York Dolls, Beth Orton, Devo, Silver Jews, and Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings.