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OK Go Video Release Party TONIGHT
If you’ve been anywhere near the internet this week, you’ve probably seen the new, innovative video from local band OK Go. The group is well-known for its viral one-take creations, most notably “The Treadmill Video,” in which the guys did a fairly complicated routine on four treadmills for their song “Here It Goes Again.” To... »
Dana Point: Festival of Whales
Are you looking for an inexpensive family-friendly event to attend this weekend or next? If so, Dana Point’s 39th Annual Festival of Whales may be just what you are looking for. The Festival kicks off tomorrow, Saturday, March 6th at 10:00 a.m. with a parade along Pacific Coast Highway. According to the website all events... »
Babatunde Lea presents Umbo Weti: A Tribute to Leon Thomas
An all-star jazz event occurs March 18th @ SF's Yoshi's when Percussion virtuoso Babatunde Lea brings a quintet feat. Dwight Trible, Ernie Watts, Patrice Rushen and Gary Brown to town. They'll be in SF to celebrate their new CD release 'Umbo Weti: A Tribute to Leon Thomas'. »
Win Tickets to Little Boots Next Week!
I’m a big fan of Caligula. He’s my favorite Roman emperor. By all accounts he was a short guy with tiny feet, yet still managed to inspire Bob Guccione to ask Peter O’Toole and Helen Mirren to get naked on camera thousands of years later. And because Bob Guccione often appears to me in... »
Back Pocket Memory At Chain Reaction In Anaheim
Good morning kids! I wanted to bring to your attention a rock show happening tomorrow night NEXT WEDNESDAY March 10, at Chain Reaction in Anaheim. A band called Back Pocket Memory, or BPM as they’re also known, is going to playing a show at about 7pm. Why am I telling you about some random rock... »
Free tickets to Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale
Unfortunately there’s only two free tickets, and you have to take a short survey to be entered in the drawing to win them. The deadline to enter is March 6. The tickets are for the Friday, March 19, performance, Festival of Choirs: American Roots, featuring Will Todd’s Mass in Blue. Mass in Blue is... »
Win Tickets to The Bird and The Bee’s Friday Show!!!!
Indie rock slash synthetic pop, with electrically charged guitars and pianos, is all the rage (blame Hot Chip). So is an inexplicably newfound turn-of-the-decade appreciation for Hall & Oates (blame our current fascination with the 1980s and/or Hugh Grant in Music & Lyrics). Mash the two together and you get The Bird and the... »
A Plea
Dear Something Corporate, My husband and I were just listening to one of your best songs, “If U C Jordan” and we were wondering if you couldn’t just let bygones be bygones and get your original lineup back together? Smooches, Gina Upated: They will be reunited and performing at Bamboozle Left at Anaheim Stadium this March! OMG! »
Win Tickets to See Midlake Next Wednesday!
Not many things come to us from Texas by way of Europe. Angus beefsteak crepes, maybe. Or ten-gallon berets. And then there’s Midlake. Hailing from Denton, Texas — home to other rock notables like Roy Orbison and Bowling for Soup — Midlake initially made their mark on the British and French rock scenes. They’ve been... »
Win Tix to The Soundtrack of Our Lives Tomorrow!
Epic Swedes The Soundtrack Of Our Lives will be at the El Rey tomorrow night with kickass local Nico Vega. And we’ve got your tickets! To win, just leave a comment telling me your favorite thing that ever came out of Sweden, be it marauding hordes or lingonberry compote. If you haven’t yet heard these... »
The Living Sisters: Humanity’s Last Hope?
If martians invaded L.A. and demanded we turn over our top three musical talents, we’d hand over Becky Stark, Inara George and Eleni Mandell. No doubt about it. I’m not saying it’d be an easy thing to do, but what if the fate of the human race depended on it? Hopefully this nightmare scenario won’t occur until... »
Catch Him If You Can: The Heartbreaking Jimmy Scott
85 year old balladeer Jimmy Scott refuses to quit, while most his age are long retired, he's playing Yoshi's this week Tues Feb 23rd & Weds Feb 24th, and he's recorded some 9 or so albums on a half dozen labels in the last 20 years and added a 5th wife in 2003 to... »
Well, Lookit That: Free Dinosaur Jr. Show
Unedited, just came to my inbox. You lucky bastards. Dinosaur Jr. will be playing a free, surprise show at the Troubadour on Tuesday, February 23rd, thanks to the T-Mobile® myTouch™ 3G Fender™ Limited Edition and MOG. The doors open at 8 p.m. & the show is at 9 p.m. Send an email to... »
Captain EO is back! February 23!!
That’s right kids. The rumors were all true. While it was originally thought that Captain EO would return for the special Halloween celebration Disneyland had in 2009, there simply wasn’t enough time to do it up right. According to the Disney Parks Blog the official date for it’s return is this Tuesday February 23!!!... »
Jewlicious Festival 6.0
Fellow members of the tribe know there’s never been a better time to be Jewish; it’s among the odd list of things now-sexy, formerly-not (like women over 40, people with glasses, and geeks). Beginning tomorrow and running through Saturday, the Jewlicious Festival at the Alpert JCC in Long Beach promises to be a fantastic... »