Austin City Limits 2009 Lineup announced

Here it is kids...

Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Beastie Boys, Kings of Leon, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Thievery Corporation, John Legend, The Dead Weather, The Levon Helm Band, Ghostland Observatory, Sonic Youth, Mos Def, Toadies, Flogging Molly, The B-52s, Lily Allen, Citizen Cope, Arctic Monkeys, The Decemberists, Coheed and Cambria, Andrew Bird, Girl Talk, STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), Phoenix, Bassnectar, Bon Iver, !!!, Avett Brothers, The Airborne Toxic Event, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Clutch, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Grizzly Bear, Heartless Bastards, Passion Pit, White Lies, Dan Auerbach, The Walkmen, The Scabs, Reckless Kelly, DeVotchka, Blitzen Trapper, The Virgins, Here We Go Magic, Eek-A-Mouse, K'Naan, Asleep at the Wheel, Dr. Dog, The Raveonettes, The Knux, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, State Radio, Los Amigos Invisibles, The Felice Brothers, Federico Aubele, Raul Malo, Daniel Johnston, Poi Dog Pondering, Brett Dennen, School of Seven Bells, and many many more....

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Live 105's BFD lineup announced

Live105's BFD was announced for June 6, 2009 at Shoreline Amphitheater. While I loathe this venue, i have a need to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Airborne Toxic Event this year since I missed Coachella. Also, Crystal Castles, Does It Offend You, Yeah? and DJ Mike Relm will be playing live in the Subsonic tent. Should be a good time.

The Offspring | 311 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Dead Confederate | Taking Back Sunday | Alkaline Trio | Rebelution | Metric | Mute Math | Glasvegas | Anberlin | Airborne Toxic Event | Cage the Elephant | Audrye Sessions

Crystal Castles (live) | DJ AM | Does It Offend You, Yeah? (live) | Villains | Steve Aoki | Mike Relm | Paparazzi | The Limousines (live) | Designer Drugs | DJ Omar | DJ Miles MC Lars | Music for Animals | Wallpaper | Odawas | Dizzy Balloon | The Catholic Comb | Ambience | Solid State Logic | Fighting the Villain

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April Archive shows

04/01 - RATATAT + Tussle (Fillmore) <-- THS
04/02 - RATATAT (Fillmore)
04/03 - Snoop Dogg @ Mezzanine <-- did not attend
04/04 - Lily Allen (Warfield)
04/14 - Devendra Banhardt (Independent)
04/14 - Fleet Foxes (Fillmore)
04/15 - Los Campesinos! (Slims) <--- THS
04/15 - The Tings Tings (Fillmore) <--- did not attend
04/16 - Junior Boys (Bimbo's)
04/17 - Band of Horses (Fox)
04/17 - COACHELLA <-- did not attend
04/17 - The Action Design (Bottom of the Hill)
04/18 - COACHELLA <-- did not attend
04/18 - Noah and the Whale (Independent)
04/18 - The Black Keys (Fox)
04/19 - COACHELLA <-- did not attend
04/19 - Kimya Dawson (Rickshaw Stop)
04/20 - Black Kids + Mates of State (Independent)
04/20 - Bloc Party (Fox)
04/21 - Mates of State + Black Kids (Independent) <-- THS
04/24 - Vivian Girls + Abe Vagoda (Independent) <-- THS
04/28 - Cold War Kids (Fillmore)
04/29 - Ladytron + The Faint (Fillmore)
04/30 - Ladytron + The Faint (Fillmore <--THS

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Lollapalooza 2009 Lineup Announced!

Here's the Full lineup:

Depeche Mode, Tool, The Killers, Jane's Addiction, Beastie Boys, Kings of Leon, Lou Reed, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Thievery Corporation, Snoop Dogg, Rise Against, Andrew Bird, TV on the Radio, Vampire Weekend, The Decemberists, Neko Case, STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), Animal Collective, Band of Horses, Of Montreal, Arctic Monkeys, Coheed and Cambria, Ben Folds, Fleet Foxes, Silversun Pickups, Kaiser Chiefs, Crystal Castles, Bon Iver, Santigold, Atmosphere, Dan Auerbach, Cold War Kids, Deerhunter, Lykke Li, Robert Earl Keen, Peter Bjorn and John, Heartless Bastards, Gomez, Glasvegas, Federico, Aubele Dan Deacon, Passion Pit, Zap Mama, The Raveonettes, The Gaslight Anthem, The Airborne Toxic Event, White Lies, Ra Ra Riot, No Age, Asher Roth, Los Campesinos!, Bat For Lashes, Chairlift, Gang Gang Dance, The Virgins, Amazing Baby, Portugal. The Man, The Knux, Ida Maria Delta Spirit, Friendly Fires, Manchester Orchestra, Constantines, Ezra Furman & The Harpoons, Hockey, Miike Snow , Alberta Cross, Hey Champ, Sam Roberts Band, The Henry Clay People, Davy Knowles and Back Door Slam, Cage the Elephant, Living Things, The Low Anthem, Blind Pilot, Langhorne Slim, Other Lives, The Builders and The Butchers, Eric Church, Joe Pug, Kevin Devine, The Greencards Carney, Thenewno2

And spinning at PERRY'S
Bassnectar MSTRKRFT Simian Mobile Disco Deadmau5 Boys Noize KiD CuDi Crookers A-Trak Hercules and Love Affair (DJ Set) The Bloody Beetroots (DJ Set) LA Riots Kaskade The Glitch Mob Hollywood Holt Rye Rye He Say, She Say Car Stereo (Wars) Dark Wave Disco Moneypenny Yello Fever Animal Collective (DJ Set)

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And the ever-popular accompanying video... sans puppets.

Lollapalooza Lineup 2009 from C3 Presents Video on Vimeo.

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Coachella 2009 Recaps:

Courtesy of my good friend Jessica Jardine of the Onion's AV Club:

Coachella 2009, Day 1:
Coachella 2009, Day 2:
Coachella 2009, Day 3:

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Los Campesinos! @ Slims

Too tired to write an intelligent post.. but the concert was great. Sky Larkin did a great job opening the show despite reporting that they had tremendous bad luck with their equipment and had to share LC!'s gear. They are definitely fun to watch so look out for them in the future.

Los Campesinos!


Los Campesinos! joined by Sky Larkin for encore


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Outside Lands Festival 2009 Lineup Announced!

Outside Lands Festival 2009 Lineup! Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Beastie Boys... wait, this is 2009, right? not 1994? phew.. just checking.

Alright.. enough with the jokes, heres the much awaited lineup!

Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Beastie Boys, Incubus, Black Eyed Peas, M.I.A, Jason Mraz, Ween, The Mars Volta, Thievery Corporation Modest Mouse, Band of Horses, TV on the Radio, Dead Weather, Atmosphere, Tom Jones, Silversun Pickups, The National, Q-Tip, Brett Dennen, Built To Spill, Mastodon, Raphael Saadiq, Calexico, Os Mutantes, Midnite, JJ Grey, Mofro, Kinky, Deerhunter, Lila Downs, Trombone Shorty, Orleans Avenue, The Dodos, Bettye LaVette, Dengue Fever, Heartless Bastards, The Dirtbombs, Lenka, Akron/Family, John Vanderslice, Matt and Kim, Portugal. The Man, The Morning Benders, The Duke Spirit, Zee Avi, Blind Pilot, SambaDa, Ryan Bingham, West Indian Girl, Extra Golden

Here's the Musical Puppet version..

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Treasure Island Music Festival 2009 Dates Announced

Noise Pop Industries and Another Planet Entertainment announced yesterday that the Treasure Island Music Festival will take place on October 17 & 18, 2009. This is a full month later than previous years. l speculate that the move was done because:
a: Vegoose, which took place over Halloween in Las Vegas, is no longer a competitive threat.
b: it creates a more manageable time gap between Another Planet's other big Festival, SF Outside Lands, which happens late in August this year
c: and it may actually be warmer in mid-October.



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Neko Case - Live in Concert on NPR Tomorrow

From AV Club's Kyle Ryan April 8, 2009

As part of its "Live In Concert from All Songs Considered" series, NPR Music will stream Neko Case's show tomorrow night (April 9) at the 9:30 Club in D.C., where she'll perform with another A.V. Club favorite, Crooked Fingers. Many of the dates of Case's current tour are sold out or will sell out, so this may be your best shot. The free stream goes live at npr.org/music at 9:30 eastern.

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Gogol Bordello, What's Your Deal?

Gogol Bordello has lined up a second leg of U.S. tour dates. After the gypsy-punk band's May and June dates, the group will head overseas for a European run followed by a 10-city summer tour bookended by previously announced festival appearances. Oddly omitted from their tour dates is any San Francisco tour date. They'll be skipping over SF when they go from Santa Cruz straight to George, WA for Sasquatch. They go abroad in June and part of July, and then finish up the month with an East Coast tour that culminates with All Points West before they head to Japan for Summer Sonic Festival. Hopefully they extend their tour into August and September so we may have a chance to see them included in the Outside Lands lineup, as previously predicted.

Gogol Bordello Tour Dates


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Nathan 'Flutebox' Lee - Amazing

Last year I posted the Yuri Lane video of the beatboxing harmonica player. This year, we have Nathan 'Flutebox' Lee. Check it out:



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All Points West 2009 Lineup Announced

All Points West 2009 Line-up:

Friday, July 31: Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, The National, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT, Q-Tip, The Pharcyde, Organized Konfusion, The Knux, Ra Ra Riot, Seasick Steve, Telepathe, Shearwater, Heartless Bastards, Flying Lotus, College Humor Live, Arj Barker, Eugene Mirman and Bo Burnham.

Saturday, August 1: Tool, My Bloody Valentine, Gogol Bordello, Arctic Monkeys, Neko Case, The Ting Tings, Yelle, Crystal Castles, St. Vincent, Tokyo Police Club, The Cool Kids, Kool Keith, Cage the Elephant, Chairlift, White Rabbits, Electric Touch, The Postelles, Black Gold, College Humor Live, Tim & Eric, Judah Friedlander and Jim Jeffries.

Sunday, August 2: Coldplay, Echo & The Bunnymen, MGMT, The Black Keys, Elbow, Silversun Pickups, Mogwai, We Are Scientists, Ghostland Observatory, The Gaslight Anthem, Etienne De Crecy, Lykke Li, Akron/Family, Steel Train, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, College Humor Live, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Showalter and Todd Barry.

Tickets are $89 for one-day, $199 for 3-day passes.

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March 2009 Archive

03/01 - Les Savy Fav (Mezzanine) ** NOISE POP
03/05 - Fujiya&Miyagi + Pop Levi + Project Jenny, Project Jan
03/05 - M. Ward (Palace of Fine Arts)
03/12 - Cut Copy (Fillmore)
03/13 - Asobi Seksu (Independent)
03/15 - Soundtrack of Our Lives - (Indy)
03/20 - Black Mountain (Rickshaw Stop)
03/21 - Karl Denson's Tiny Universe (Indy)
03/24 - Bishop Allen (Rickshaw Stop)
03/25 - OK Go + IO Echo (GAMH)
03/27 - Marnie Stern (Bottom of the Hill)


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Bjork + Dirty Projectors to play Bookstore Cafe in NY

Yikes... this sounds awesome. Bjork and the Dirty Projectors will be playing at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in NYC (Capacity 300) and will benefit homeless people living with HIV and AIDS. Read more about it at The Onion's Decider.





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Beastie Boys, Depeche Mode, and original members of Jane's Addiction to Headline Lollapalooza 2009

Though the line-up of artists is not officially posted on the Lollapalooza 2009 site,
The Chicago Tribune reported:

Depeche Mode, the Beastie Boys and a reunited Jane’s Addiction are expected to headline the fifth annual Lollapalooza Aug. 7-9 in Grant Park.

Though promoters would not confirm the information Friday, multiple sources inside the industry said the three headliners are a lock for the festival. Three more arena-level headliners are expected to be included when the complete lineup is announced next month.

The original Jane’s lineup of Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins and Eric Avery headlined the first Lollapalooza tour in 1991, only to break up soon after. There have been sporadic reunions since, but none included all four original members until some one-off gigs last year. A national tour was announced a few days ago, but a Chicago date was conspicuously absent.

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Coming Soon

04/01 - RATATAT + Tussle (Fillmore)
04/02 - RATATAT + Tussle (Fillmore)
04/03 - Snoop Dogg @ Mezzanine
04/04 - Lily Allen (Warfield)
04/14 - Devendra Banhardt (Independent)
04/14 - Fleet Foxes (Fillmore)
04/15 - Los Campesinos! (Slims)
04/15 - The Tings Tings (Fillmore)
04/16 - Junior Boys (Bimbo's)
04/17 - Band of Horses (Fox)
04/17 - COACHELLA
04/17 - The Action Design (Bottom of the Hill)
04/18 - COACHELLA
04/18 - Noah and the Whale (Independent)
04/18 - The Black Keys (Fox)
04/19 - COACHELLA
04/19 - Kimya Dawson (Rickshaw Stop)
04/20 - Black Kids + Mates of State (Independent)
04/20 - Bloc Party (Fox)
04/21 - Mates of State + Black Kids (Independent)
04/24 - Vivian Girls + Abe Vagoda (Independent)
04/28 - Cold War Kids (Fillmore)
04/29 - Ladytron + The Faint (Fillmore)
04/30 - Ladytron + The Faint (Fillmore
05/01 - Asobi Seksu (Great American Music Hall)
05/01 - Chris Cornell (Regency Ballroom)
05/01 - Matthew Dear (Mighty)
05/12 - Deerhoof (Fillmore)
05/16 - Sean Hayes (Independent)
05/19 - The Kills (Fillmore)
05/21 - Kings of Leon + The Walkmen (BG Civic Aud.)
05/24 - Luka Bloom (GAMH)
05/26 - Animal Collective (Fox)
05/26 - Peter Bjorn & John (GAMH)
05/27 - M83 (Mezzanine)
05/28 - Black Moth Super Rainbow (BOTH)
05/29 - Langhorne Slim (Independent)
06/05 - Peaches (Regency Ballroom)
06/07 - Rogue Wave (Independent)
06/08 - Camera Obscura (Fillmore)
06/09 + 10 - Neko Case (Warfield)
06/12 - Datarock (Independent)
06/13 - Bat For Lashes (Great American Music Hall)
06/13 - Jay Reatard (Independent)
06/15 - Art Brut (Independent)
07/24 - Of Montreal (Fox Theatre)

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Snoop Dogg to Play Mezzanine April 3

MEZZANINE & LOCATION415.COM PRESENT

HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS
Exclusive Celebrity Birthday Party For
NBA STAR STEPHEN JACKSON

Featuring Up Close & Personal Performance By SNOOP DOGG

With SPECIAL GUEST DJS

Tickets are $30-$50 and available from Brown Paper Tickets


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M.I.A. to Replace Amy Winehouse at Coachella

From Billboard.com

"Sri Lankan pop sensation M.I.A. has been added to the Coachella festival's Saturday night lineup, the event's producers announced today via their Twitter feed.  M.I.A. replaces Amy Winehouse, who was forced to cancel her appearance earlier this month due to an assault charge in the U.K.

Coachella will mark the rapper/singer's first public appearance since the birth of her son last month and her performance of "Paper Planes" with Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Lil Wayne at the Grammy Awards in February.


M.I.A. joins other late additions to the Coachella bill including Devendra Banhart, the Orb, Chemical Bros., Murder City Devils and Etienne deCrecy."

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Jesus Is My Friend

He is like a mountie, he always gets his man.



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Pitchfork Music Festival 2009

The much anticipated Pitchfork Music Festival 2009, announced the initial artist lineup last Friday.

Friday, July 17 (Setlist by Request).
Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, The Jesus Lizard, Built to Spill
Buy a ticket and you can vote for the songs you want to hear

Saturday, July 18:
The National, Pharoahe Monch, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart,

Sunday July 19:
Girzzly Bear, The Walkmen, Vivian Girls

more artists to be announced. Tickets on sale Friday March 13, 2009



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