Would you buy tickets to a summer festival…lineup unseen?
The only confirmed band on Lolla 2009 in Grant Park, Chicago is organizer Perry Farrell’s own Jane’s Addiction.
Tickets are Early Bird priced at $175 ($850 VIP) and there is no lineup on the official website.
I’m going to start the completely unfounded rumor that the original Smashing Pumpkins are going to be there. Even though Jimmy Chaimberlin himself quit the new incarnation for it being so far from the original vision.
If anyone wants to buy me a ticket and airfare I’ll totally go.
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READ: I AM GIVING AWAY SHOW TICKETS FOR FREE. READ ON, MY FRIENDS…
(Contest over, thanks for playin)
Sorry I turned into Kanye for a second there. I can’t go to this show, so some lucky feller gets my tickets. It’s next Friday, April 3rd at the Double Door. Show starts at 9 and trust when I say I wish I could go. If I thought I could drag my mom along, I would consider it. Hell, if I stuck her at the bar, she’d be happy, but it’s a bit loud for her taste.
Anywho, I really wanna give these tix away to a deserving individual and Filter Mag really wants me to also. White Lies are an awesome group, and I’ve heard good things about them live, especially their SXSW performance. The video is “To Lose My Life” off of their album of the same name. Check out their MySpace page for more info on them.
No ticket pickup needed, I’d just have to get your name on the list with a +1 in time for the show. So here’s the sitch:
There’s not a lot of time for fun crazy contests this time around, so basically the first person who replies to this post with their contact info (I do need some way to actually contact you) gets their names on the list. Repeat, if I cannot contact you in some way, no tix for you. Now think about it folks, don’t email me if you can’t go. Lemme give these tickets to someone who wants to and can go see them next week.
I know a couple peeps in this video. And Cursive killed it live at Spaceland a couple weeks ago. They are on fire right now with the addition of 2 new members, if they are coming anywhere near you, I highly recommend you see them.
Only Joking. Although I’m not a true fan of John Mayer‘s music, I’ll admit to singing along to “No Such Thing” in my car and I’ve always thought the guy himself was pretty cool. He seems really funny, he can really play and he pulls in some pretty insane kuze (I said it, it’s a word. Is that the spelling we decided on? Kooze? Cuze?). And now I have first-hand confirmation that he is in fact a very cool guy.
Last night a friend and I were just sitting around watching the 30 days where Morgan Spurlock went to Prison. During which she was refreshing Twitter and asked me to put in a twitpic address into my iPhone cause it wasn’t loading for her. I put it in and the picture had a couple guys in it and I thought, “Hey, Isn’t that the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf 2 blocks away on Sunset Blvd?” I didn’t say all of that outloud but for expositions sake lets say I did. We looked at each other and grabbed our shit and in 30 seconds were out of the apartment. 2 mins later we were telling a couple tall guys, “Give me my damn tickets.” They called up someone (you know who) and we were handed a little card which on one side said JOHN MAYER and on the other had a phone number and instructions to call the Ticket Fairy.
The 2 guys were Carl Mayer and James Smith, brother of the singer-songwriter and an Austrailian Comedian. We snapped a couple photos, they got our info and said adieu, ok so nobody says that. They were very tall, nice guys.
“One Splendid Evening will be held on board the new Carnival Splendor, Carnival’s largest and most innovative ship, while the vessel is docked at the Port of San Pedro in Los Angeles. Guests will enjoy dinner, an open bar and additional live entertainment throughout the ship. The next day, the ship sets sail on a special four-day music cruise – the “Mayercraft Carrier 2: Even Craftier” voyage. Proceeds will help restore instrumental music education in America’s public schools and raise awareness about the importance of music as part of a child’s complete education.”
Special Guests: Gavin Rossdale, Jordin Sparks, O.A.R., Sara Bareilles, Guster, Erin McCarley and DJ Logic. Many Twitterers are jealous.
From the shows beginning, an involved viral marketing campaign has been central to True Blood‘s popularity. It’s a good show, don’t get me wrong (or my co-author will kill me). I think had they not done things like giving samples of TruBlood and replaced their posters with defaced anti-vampire slogans, enough people might not have watched the show and it would have gone the route of John From Cincinnati as a One Season Wonder that died before it’s time.
Their latest campaign is a wooden poster sized flat with stakes cut out at the bottom for people to break off and the tagline, “In case of Vampire” with a diagram of stabbing a vampire in the heart. Clever. I haven’t seen these yet in L.A. and I kind of fear that people will actually get stabbed or mugged with them. Nobody wants to be poked by a stick! “Gives me your money or i’ll pokes ya!” The homeless down in Hollywood might try to build a shack out of them (this applies to the forclosed in Beverly Hills as well). But it looks to me that the stakes have been screwed down for just that reason. HBO has a great legal department, did I mention they are also VAMPIRES!
After the masked and suspendored band members had broken through the fabric finish line of their set and screamed their name, the first words out of my mouth were, “Holy Fucking Shit”.
I haven’t been knocked on my ass by a band like that in a long time (Aside from the equally high-waisted Janelle Monae, I’d be embarrassed to tell you whom else). Did I say band? I think that as of right now, that term is no longer relevant. As of tonight I don’t think I ever want to be in another band ever again.
Echo Park’s We Are The World opened the show tonight at The Viper Room and instantly won over the WeHo/Echo hybrid crowd with their blend of throbbing electronic beats, performance art intensity and high energy choreography. Yes, choreography. The hats came straight from Fosse, the bold graphic lycra masks from Grace Jones, the vocals strong and striking like Laurie Anderson or Annie Lennox. Aesthetically, they are like The Locust for theater students. A few in the audience came with an idea of what to expect and the rest of the crowd will probably need a bit of time to absorb what they’ve seen tonight. I’m not sure I know myself, but I want more.
The 4-piece WATW’s Live Setup is largely backing tracks playing through a Mac connected to midi drumpads. The lead singer was masked as she commanded the stage and had piercingly beautiful eyes. The drumming was tight and made creative use of the palette of live sounds available to the band’s sole instrumentalist. The Two backing vocalists/dancers were in constant, voracious motion and altogether it was like watching an engine move in precision.
We Are The World get a 9.5/10. Avant garde and brilliant, this is the line that art shares with music.
Thanks to the Viper Room for the guest access. Add them to your Twitter @ twitter.com/TheViperRoom
We Are The World. You may think I’m talking about the Michael Jackson fronted post-AMA coke party from the 80′s but really I’m talking about more the hipster-art/rave generating a lot of post-indie buzz here in the dirty city. They just so happen to be playing the Viper Room tonight (which I can fucking see from where I’m writing this). And how cool are they you ask? Well their publicist still hasn’t gotten back to me about getting on the list tonight…+1…and a photo pass. Effing Lamers. Somebody remind them that nobody has even heard of them east of the PST!
Check them out because it’s high energy as fuck and the visuals are tripping me out a bit. I think they put some highly subversive art directors on this shit and it makes me want to kill my boss with a bagel slicer. I shouldn’t write that but who am I kidding? When you art direct for 1992 you aren’t going to read this blog!
My roommate and I keep reminding each other that we should be on our way to SXSW this year if it wasnt for my shit job and her sick and vacationing co-workers. Fuck You, Barb. Fuck You, Ed. You love your colitis so much why don’t you marry it.
Again, with the delayed reviews. Damn, I’m doing a lot of massive failing lately. I can’t help it, I’m all stressed, and working, and trying to find a new apartment–you try walking in my shoes for awhile.
Okay, get outta my shoes.
This Black Gold thing was some major crazy. I was supposed to review them back in November. Well, I didn’t realize they were playing first, so showing up 15 minutes late meant catching a whopping song and a half. Not worth a review. I was disappointed, but happy that another opportunity arose when I got word of them coming back around, and touring with Lydia, no less! Lydia’s cool-friend of a friend plays guitar for them and they’ve littered my living room floor on occasion.
Hey hey hey, here’s the long-overdue review of The Little Ones. Part of the reason I delayed this was that I extended the contest a bit longer, and I wanted to do both things in the same post. The other part was because I’m lazy.
This was my first time at Park West, a groovy venue in Lincoln Park that holds almost 1000 concertgoers, yet still seems cozy. I, of course, was sick again but still excited. The Little Ones (actually pretty normal-sized) came out to a fairly full crowd, the non-seat area in front of the stage was littered with kids sitting Indian-style like it was storytime. Ahhh, all-ages shows…They started nice and upbeat, with “Face the Facts”. I can only imagine that most people were there for Brett Dennen, although I’d never heard of the fellow. But everyone seemed to respond very positively to TLO. Well, at least the people on the floor did, I didn’t pay much attention to the boring, sitting people with their fancy cushioned booths and waitress service.
Saw Watchmen last night. I don’t wanna say much in the way of spoilers, but I will say that they might as well call it the big, blue wiener movie. That’s how I feel at least. I wanted more fighting. Again, I’m not gonna review it, or give too much away-I enjoyed the movie, but at the same time, I’m glad I didn’t waste the money seeing it at the IMAX.
Saw trailers for Terminator, Star Trek, John Dillinger, Angels & Demons, Wolverine…and I’m excited for all of the above. It’s about time we got some good action movies.
Starting today (March 1st, which just so happens to be Nebraska’s Birthday!) Cursive is selling their new album online for Just $1. Mama, I’m Swollen doesn’t come out until March 10th but you can download it (legally) through Saddle-Creek.com for the next 9 days but it goes up in price $1 everyday.
I think that cheap pre-releases like this are a VERY SMART idea. The industry is fucked and scrambling to make money off of the MUSIC again and affordability may be the only way to save it. Saddle Creek totally has it right. They’ve been distributing their Vinyl with a free download for years. Once the industry figures out that concert ticket prices and more annoyingly the fucked up “convienience” and handling charges are too high, then we just might have the chance to save music so people can make a decent living at it again.
Next time you are thinking of going to karaoke, go see a band instead.
Would you buy tickets to a summer festival…lineup unseen?
