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3-Dimensional Spring Fever Leads to Ticket Binge

We'll come back to that later. 

Concert season is among us! It seems like every time a browser is refreshed another tour gets announced or lineup released. Choose wisely or you'll go broke. I personally cut groceries out of the budget (not recommended).

Here’s what’s on deck so far. If you're roaming the streets of Southern California, feel free to join us.

Handsome Furs @ Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa this Sunday April 13th

A little 3-day desert party, perhaps you've heard of it, it's called Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA April 25th - 27th.

 

We have a house this year. Really, let's do this. Newsbreak: Prince was just added as a Saturday headliner. The legend. Sure. Why not. Next they’ll tell us Radiohead has a song on the Billboard Hot 100. And Stone Temple Pilots are going back on tour. And a new Beverly Hills 90210 show is coming out. 1994? And Billy Corgan is still an ass.

I won’t even touch this week’s NKOTB reunion news.
 
Of the Coachella throwbacks, I am most into seeing The Breeders. Mountain Battles is a great record. They had a release party about it the other day. Also topping the list of anticipated acts, our space kitten friends, MGMT. Now they already have the video of the year. How could they top that? I guess by making the video of the year in 3D.  I'm serious, get some glasses. And a pair of those pink shorts while you’re at it. Come to the festival. We can match.

Watch 3D Version here
Download it from official page here

The National, Modest Mouse, and R.E.M @ The Hollywood Bowl on May 29th

The real challenge is getting out of work in time to catch "Fake Empire."

Radiohead with Liars @ The Hollywood Bowl playing both August 24th & 25th
I’d give my right arm for the 24th, and my left for the 25th. I really don’t see anything coming between an armless Radiohead experience and me. Amongst all this presale, ticketmaster mess, we'll find a way. Even if we need to go to Santa Barbara, or Chula Vista, or Santa Francisco, then we'll go to Washington DC to take back the white house..yeahhhh

Here's hoping somebody decides to throw around a few beautiful glow sticks again. Displayed here in clip from Bonnoroo 2006's "House of Cards."

We might go to the Crystal Castles show down the street tonight. I don't know if we'll have enough TIME. 

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"This is a friendly music blog from 'that dude that always gets too excited about music and needs tell you about it.' From festival recaps to album hype, he coats it all with your average pop culture-junkie appeal. He's an enthusiast (not an insider) offering a resource for anything buzzworthy." I grew up in NH, did college in Boston, and am having anxiety attacks/sunshine/and professional life in California. Every moment in the journey can be pinpointed and timelined by the particular music I was into at the time. Everyone has a life soundtrack. I talk about mine endlessly. The Objective: At an important crossroads in my blogging here. Is it dangerous to ask for so much from music? Is it healthy to evoke personal ties with the creations of artists who don't know us and perhaps have no intention of us reading into their art in the fashion we do? I would argue that it's not dangerous or wrong, but this is where I must be clear; these are not my discoveries nor would I ever write in a way to claim ownership for them. For example, if a band is the catalyst for "the finest moment in my own collegiate musical exploration/explosion", than that does not make them my band or make me any more informed anyone else. My hope for this outlet is not to present myself as an overwhelming snapshot of indie crap that you look at and say "hmm, he's really into that", but rather the idea is to spread the word, the love, the information, the music!; the overall feeling you get when you declare "i like this band" in other words, i'd love to be a resource in your own explosion time-line. and if we are surfing the same wave of taste, then I welcome discussion and new leads into what you think we could dig together.

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