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Music Tool is playing tonight at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (the venue formerly known as Irvine Meadows) with Tricky. There are few bands worth driving over an hour for, and Tool is one of them. Stephanie St. John will be performing at the Roxy Theatre on Sunset Boulevard tonight. BRMC (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) are at the Vinyl tonight. There is currently a lot of buzz surrounding this band. Over at that other school in Los Angeles, B-Side Players are performing at Hahn Plaza today. Modern rockers Fuel and Saliva will share the bill at the House of Blues in Hollywood on Nov. 3 and 4. Queensryche (remember them?) will be at the Wiltern Theatre on Monday, Nov. 5. The Mayan Theatre will have the Beta Band on Tuesday, Nov. 6. Lee “Scratch” Perry will be at the El Rey on Thursday, Nov. 8.

Theater A few months after a devastating attack on America, the country finds a hero in one of their athletes. “Joe Louis Blues,” which takes place not long after Pearl Harbor, tells the story of the famous boxer Joe Louis. The play opens Saturday at the Tiffany Theater at 8532 Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood. For tickets call (310) 289-2999. Film Jet Li stars as a man who must fight off his alter egos from other dimensions in order to become “The One.” The movie opens everywhere this Friday. Also, “Monsters, Inc.” comes out from under the bed to frighten audiences everywhere. It is Disney and Pixar’s most recent collaboration since the incredibly successful “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2.” The Coen Brothers project “The Man Who Wasn’t There” with Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand came to theaters on Wednesday. The film, set in the 1940s and filmed in black and white, is about a barber who attempts to blackmail the man having an affair with his wife. In “Life as a House,” Kevin Kline plays a dying man who aims to build the perfect home before his death.

Compiled by Chris Moriates, Mary Williams, and Suneal Kolluri, Daily Bruin Senior Staff.