And pray to the Wrong-Eyed Jesus THU 9/29 Amid the calamitous ruins left by Hurricane Katrina, there’s one cover that should have been blown off long ago — New Orleans’ famous “party town” façade. Only now is the world having to face the rampant poverty of the American South. There’s…

HorrorPops bring it on SUN 9/25 After years of enthralling European fans with their ghoulish-yet-lively stage shows, Denmark natives the HorrorPops took up residence in Los Angeles. The move paid off; the band landed a spot touring with the Offspring, managed to sell out the Troubadour in West Hollywood, and…

Hip-hop’s happy-happy joy-joy SAT 9/17 First of all, it’s not “meena-meena”; it’s “m’nah m’nah” (like “phenomena”). The name of the Atlanta-based foursome Minamina Goodsong comes from the 1976 song “Mahna Mahna,” sung in the first series of The Muppet Show by a creature called a Mahna Mahna and two Snowths…