To Do: All Music Edition
· Green Day performs its "punk opera" American Idiot at the Long Beach Arena. This may seem too far to travel for Green Day, but if Billie Joe Armstrong fully embraces the opera aesthetic and performs in a Viking helmet and surrounded by fat ladies (OK, we learned everything we know about opera from Bugs Bunny), it might be worth the drive.
· Tears for Fears, however, will be right in your backyard at the Universal Amphitheater. If you listen closely enough, you just might hear the chant "Shout, shout, let it all out" drifting over the Hills.
· Blues Explosion (née John Spencer Blues Explosion, but don't worry, he's still fronting the band) play the El Rey with The Gossip.