Must see tours

(via spin)
This may inspire me to put together my own list of must see tours. For now I will leave you with Spin's must see summer tours.

1) MGMT

2) Paramore who is apparently traveling with Tegan and Sara (Estrogen fest.. I fucking love it!)

3) Arcade Fire (Meh, don't get me wrong i like their music, but trippy bands like them just tend to disappoint live. Personal opinion, take it or leave it. Or tell me I'm wrong that you saw them and they were AWESOME. I'd like to hear that.)

4) Slayer (Wow, really Spin? I'm impressed)

5) Vampire Weekend (See that? Tin the Park? I swear on this blog I will be at T in the park next year. Who's coming?) 

6) Kings of Leon 

7) Crystal Castles 

8) Erykah Badu (I'm so not gonna lie, I have no idea who the hell this is. None.)

9) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

10) The National 

11) Hole (Yes!)

12) Phish

13) Lady Gaga 

14) Hold Steady 

15) Modest Mouse (Always and forever.)

16) Rihanna 

17) Jack Johnson

18) The Dead Weather

19) Robyn/Kelis (Since they are the same person ? ..they don't get their own number.)

20) Kele

21) Aerosmith (Yeeah..)

22) Green Day

23) Stone Temple Pilots

24) Rock the Bells (Lazy Asshole's, Rock the Bells is not a band to see. They just snuck in like 100 bands on one number. This was not a list of festivals to see. 

25) Ozzfest(Again?)

Just some ideas to get you started. 

pearly gate music from sxsw

Run

Vintage Pheonix

Ariel

Ariels pink haunted graffiti at the echo on the 9th. Lets all go!

New MGMT video

(via pitchfork)

Video for 'Congratulations'.

Not too long ago I got into a very one sided conversation with a man at Venice Beach about Pj Harvey, one sided because at the time the name didn't mean jack shit to me, and then went home and immediately forgot about it. Somehow I remembered the other day and decided to do a little research the napster way. And now I really wish I hadn't lost that man's card, because she's amazing and anyone who could rave about her the way he did must be an amazing person.
Oh Polly Jean you are proof that England produces the best music.

Cracks In The Canvas - PJ Harvey & John Parish

Micachu

Recently introduced to me by one of my roommates (who is a wonderful artist in her own right.) Micachu! Being stoned when she said it, I honestly thought she sneezed... An alternative band from the UK, they have a pop feel that's very 'picnic on a spring day'. Maybe they'll make it out of Europe at some point and visit LA??? I'm sure the echo would happy to have them...

Treasure!

Missed out on all the other summer festivals because you're a working stiff? (It's ok, I hear they totally sucked....) Perhaps now you've managed to save up enough to catch treasure island. I haven't, but I'm sure if I pick up dealing now I could pull in 4-500 in the next week or so. Maybe? The line-up includes the Brazilian Girls, Beirut, and MGMT. Some Flaming Lips? Plus, I'll be there. Come party!Or, you can stay home and read about Tom Yorke's new band (a little radiohead love, anybody?) The debut show was at the echoplex last Friday. Lucky for me, I was working. -rolls eyes- Apparently a manic show, I could've announced my love for Flea from RHC, then thrown my shirt on stage and passed out. So many regrets..... Did anyone get to see it?

Peace.


Or not.
Fight Club!?

Kate Nash singing Flourescent Adolescent

A woman singing this seriously adds something.

Do ya have a dollar for me?

Darjeeling

Dunno how The Darjeeling Limited got turned on but I'm not complaining. Wes Anderson's coming out with a movie of Roald Dahl's The Fantastic Mr. Fox, which I'm kinda excited for. Currently more excited to download The Darjeeling Limited Soundtrack which I've been meaning to do for a while.

Dylan

Completely unrelated: I used to try to not go grocery shopping when I was hungry b/c I got tons of things I'd never eat. Now I need to do it b/c I honestly can't afford it. $70 on groceries?!? How did that happen. I actually can't afford that. Its seriously depressing, but I thought maybe with the current depression someone would understand.
I need beer.

And what better to accompany beer. The few people I know in my apartment building are fans of hard rock. Old school stuff, Led Zeppelin and a lot of Bob Dylan. I completely love and appreciate it.

Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan
How could you not love people who get Dylan?








32's go by quicker than 40's...

We Made You

I listen to the radio a lot when I drive, mostly because the crappy pop music is awesome dancing/singing/driving music, but also because I've been too cheap to buy an i-pod radio thing. Boy, I'm technical.
Point is most of the music sucks but I have a serious soft spot for Eminem. Once I pay for utilities, I'll hopefully have enough to buy Relapse (fingers crossed).
I will be pissed if its not a good album.
For one thing, I gotta say whoever did the album art fucking sucks. They took a completely un-extraordinary picture of him and made it even worse. It looks ridiculous and he just kind of blends into the background. That is not what Photoshop is for people, its to make pictures look better and you should have enough creative sense to start with a good photo in the first place.

If Eminem isn't your thing you could always check out the latest black cab session which happens to be VV Brown who is incredible. And if you didn't think so before you will after you watch the episode. Queen of jazzy and soulful. Wish they'd let you embed videos, but you'll have to go directly to the page.

Zero

Been listening to 'Zero' on repeat, obviously because its amazing. What's also awesome are the remixes.

Dead Weather

Dead Weather is releasing their album Horehound in Europe on July 13th and in North America on July 14th. You can pre-order it here.

Everyone's in a band

I always wondered if Taylor Momsen's new look (the haircut, the make-up) was a Marilyn Monroe change (you know 'they put you on a treadmill and they made you change your name') but it seems like she is living up to her rock star persona. By actually pursuing a music career. And she's good too. The band is called Pretty Reckless.
Read an article about the band's debut at Spin.
Wonder which band's more likely to make it Pretty Reckless or Filthy Youth?

Sasquatch Festival

I will find a way to go and you should tooif you don't want to miss out on the Kings of Leon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Decemberists, M. Ward Mos Def and everyone else! Sasquatch Festival.

Limited Edition EP's

12 limited edition Radiohead EP's available now here.

Mean Everything to Nothing

Bat For Lashes

Bat For Lashes just released a new album 'Two Suns'. You can view their tour dates on their website. (In LA June 16th, woot!)