Jimi sings Like a Rolling Stone in what I believe to be the greatest live set of all time. Something like Jesus making heaven & earth or maybe i'm just that high. Either way, it should be on the soundtrack to your summer ... or at the very least your life!
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I dont think every band is playing at every stop. But they are driving a Veggie Oil & Grease fueled bus; & that's great!
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F Yeah Tour
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Grand Ole Party will be performing in-store at Fingerprints on the nineteenth of June at seven in the p.m.
"They blend a classic Bessie Smith influenced old-time jazz vocal, snuggled up with a fiery indie rock flair, ala Karen O. of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, and all of it nicely layered into a weird early 90s alternative-ska meets current indie rock melange." + Fingerprints
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VISIT FINGERPRINTS:
4612-B East 2nd Street
Long Beach CA 90803
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I post this well aware that The Smell is no longer LA's "underground" indie music venue; it happened a while ago. If you haven't noticed, take a look at the surrounding area ... they've cleaned up.
Regardless this show will be great.
& Abe Vigoda has a BLOG; why not? Check it out.
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No Age
Mika Miko
Abe Vigoda
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In an attempt to document their existence i will briefly review their history. Formerly known as Smash Your T.V. then Business Cats, they are now Thee Dandy Lions. In addition to the originals, Bryan Gerhart & Michael Stein, Felix Chavez will be on the guitar/vocals, and Steven, whose last name I do not know, will be playing drums.
DiPiazza's
5205 E. Pacific Coast Highway
Long Beach CA 90801
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Thee Dandy Lions
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BOB DYLAN'S AMERICAN JOURNEY, 1956-1966
Photograph by Barry Feinstein
"Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966 focuses on the first decade of his celebrated career. From his beginnings as Robert Zimmerman in the post-war industrial town of Hibbing, Minnesota, to his debut on the Greenwich Village folk scene, to his rise to unprecedented fame as the rock star/poet who "electrified" contemporary songwriting.."
The exhibit includes hundreds of artifacts and "a recording of his first concert, which has never been commercially released". - Skirball
ADMISSION:
$10 General
$7 Seniors and Full-Time Students
$5 Children
Tickets available at the door or by phone at (310) 440-4500 or (877) SCC-4TIX or (877) 722-4849. Tickets are no longer available for purchase online. Advance tickets may be purchased by phone (no service charges apply) Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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Skirball
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I've been anticipating this since Potter told me he booked Pterodactyl back in December. 
Pterodactyl has been one of my favorite bands over the last 3 or 4 years. I haven't seen them since they played at the smell [in 2006?] - which, by the way, was an awesome show. Especially since I had no idea they were playing that night until they started playing...it was an excellent surprise. So don't disappoint me Pterodactyl, please don't disappoint me.
-Nerissa Lauren
So the boys of Plastic Little cam back Monday night - and that only meant one thing: JANG HOUSE!! 
It's was good... but Silk City took away some of the turnout. Nonetheless, we got some amazing photo booth sessions in!!
With Love, Nerissa Lauren
THEE OH SEES
So first off, I love John Dwyer. He fronted my favorite band (Coachwhips) of the last 15 years and put out 4 records and a rarities comp, 2 of those albums being total fucking classics. He also created a fictional german bass explosion called Zeigenbock Kopf, and played facemelting noise guitar in the Hospitals, Burmese, and Pink and Brown and is now also fronting a band called Yikes!!. As a young coachwhips fan, I picked up a CD labeled OCS, which billed itself as Dwyers “acoustic and noise collage recordings”. I labeled it self-indulgent bullshit (its great, I just didn’t like acoustic guitars) and went back to my coachwhips records. Fast forward 2-3 years and OCS are Thee Ohsees and have expanded by 3 members to bring you swampy heroin-garage with pretty harmonies and noise breakdowns.
What I’m trying to tell you is that this guy fucking rules and so does his new band. A few weeks ago they opened for (and completely upstaged) Blood on the Wall and Erase Errata. Live the band leans more towards garage stomp, and even do a few coachwhips-y uptempo jams, before Dwyer unplugs his guitar and sticks the cable in his mouth while running it through some pedals, thereby going through the list of basically everything I want to see in a rock show. One dude who’d sharpied spiderwebs on his face was dancing up a storm throughout the set. As it turns out, if you sweat, sharpie runs, so by the end of the set, this guy was workin up a black sweat (apologies to prince). 
ERASE ERRATA
Erase Errata are one of those boring 3rd wave postpunk bands. They’re basically one of the bands you see at the smell and forget their name when you tell people who played that night. I bailed after like 2 songs to go bug Dwyer. I feel like a lot of the crowd did. Blood on the Wall are solid. I doubt I’m ever gonna listen to one of their records all the way through, but you can count on them to play some shit you can pogo to. These guys are really stoked on the 90’s and very little else and they play some loudquietloud poppy vaguely punk derived yelpfests that’ll always sound better live than on record but just aren’t all that cool live. I dunno, they’re having a lot of fun and playing exactly the kind of music they wanna make, and the crowd was into it, so what I think doesn’t matter too much. They’ve got one pretty rad song, Mary Susan, which they had the good sense to close with. When we got out of the show my friend turned to me and said “wow, some guy who really wants to be Frank Black found a girl who really wants to be Kim Deal,” which I think sums the band up. It turns out they’re actually brother and sister, which to me would say this band was meant to be if they were better. Theyre definitely a band I thought I’d like a lot better than I did. I dunno, I fucking hated the 90’s. 
PS: Sorry to BLOOD ON THE WALL for my friend yelling freebird. That shit is fucking inexcusable.
- JOHNNY MOTORCYCLE
click flyer to enlarge.
also, cat power @ el rey this friday. i'm still looking for an acquaintance.
-SOULSTAR* [wonders who joshua is.]
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LETS BE FRIENDS
POP NOIR
REPEATER
ON BLAST
MASHED POTATOS
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5000 ANIMALS
DESOLATE
NOSE CANDY RECORDS
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So it's happened yet again. No Age, the duo I've raved about multiple times here, have come to Philly. And yet AGAIN it's been 21+. It sucks when this happens with just about any band, but there's a bit of irony in it happening with No Age. 
Oh well, have fun on the rest of your tour boys - maybe one day soon you'll play Philadelphia all ages. Ya know, the way you usually do back home.
Signing out
Nerissa Lauren
P.S. more info:
No Age
or even, follow them on tour
PPS: They're scheduled to play with Liars in LA on the 22nd at the El Rey - so go support
So it's that time of year again: Yesterday the line-up for Coachella 2008 was press-conferenced in Mexico City [random, but w/e]
AAAAND - here we go
Friday April 25th
Jack Johnson, the Verve, the Raconteurs, the Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan & Sara, Madness, the Swell Season, the National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Pendulum, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Minus The Bear, Spank Rock, dan le sac VS Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santogold, Jens Lekman, John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture In Helsinki, Sandra Collins, Busy P, Cut Copy, Black Lips, Datarock, Professor Murder, Reverend & the Makers, the Bees, Porter, Rogue Wave, Modeselektor, American Bang, Lucky I Am.
Saturday April 26th
Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, Cafe Tacuba, Sasha & Digweed, Rilo Kiley, Dwight Yoakam, M.I.A., Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, DeVotchKa, Flogging Molly, Mark Ronson, Turbonegro, Scars On Broadway, Islands, Enter Shikari, Calvin Harris, Boys Noize, Junkie XL, Cinematic Orchestra, Jamie T, the Teenagers, VHS or Beta, Carbon/Silicon, Erol Alkin, Yo Majesty!, Little Brother, Bonde Do Role, St. Vincent, Akron Family, MGMT, Institubes djs, Surkin Para One and Orgasmic, James Zabiela, Kavinsky, Dredg, the Bird and the Bee, Grand Ole Party, New Young Pony Club, 120 Days, Yoav, Electric Touch, Uffie.
Sunday April 27th
Roger Waters ("Dark Side of the Moon"), Love and Rockets, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Justice, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, The Streets, Metric, Danny Tenaglia, Simian Mobile Disco, Booka Shade, Murs, Dmitri From Paris, Autolux, The Field, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Les Savy Fav, The Cool Kids, Sons & Daughters, Sia, Holy Fuck, Black Kids, Black Mountain, The Annuals, Kid Sister with A-Trak, Man Man, Duffy, I'm From Barcelona, Manchester Orchestra, Deadmau5, The Horrors, Austin TV, Shout Out Louds, Platiscenes, Brett Dennen.
Soooo - who's going? who's not? I can almost gaurantee a no from Aileen and I alike, since we live on the other side of the country and all.
But, check the line up Friday - it's a frickin' dance party [I'm a tad bit jealous].
COACHELLA
Love,
Nerissa
p.s. rumors of a Coachella East have been circulating? in August? maybe? I dunno - we'll seeee.
