Today we chat with legendary bassist and Yes founding member Chris Squire about his upcoming 2009 summer tour with Asia, Rock Band The Game, Six Flags, Bobby Fischer and much more.

Tough questions first. You had leg surgery back in February, which cancelled the remaining dates of the Yes tour at that time. After you recovered, we got the announcement of the tour with Asia taking place this summer. And now, most recently, we have an announcement that Jon Anderson will be apparently touring, solo, over in Europe this summer. Here’s the big question I’m reading on a lot of message boards: Is this an indication of you guys finally saying, “I don’t know if we’re going to be able to all tour at the same time” ? Or what’s going on, here?

When you say he’s touring Europe, I think he’s going on vacation to Paris, and he’s just doing a couple of odd shows here and there, just keeping his foot in the water (what do I mean?)…just him and acoustic guitar, from what I know, so it’s not really like he’s touring.

Actually he’s announced nine or ten dates as of now.

Oh, he has? I didn’t even know about any of that. I got the impression he was just doing some odd casual shows. Like, I believe he did one up in the central coast last weekend, actually. Just kind of impromptu appearance in a bar, with his guitar, sounds like that’s what it is. But, I don’t know. (laughs) Enlighten me; if there’s more of a tour going on, I don’t know about it.

The YesWorld website has finally added a link to his tour dates underneath your tour dates, so it definitely looks like two different tours going on this summer. Thus all the chatter.

Oh, ok. Yeah. Well, as I’ve said, as far as I know, he’s just keeping his hand in really, I suppose, while he’s still in recovery.

It sounds like you guys are happy with the lineup that you have right now. What do you say to sort of placate the people that are worried that you have the “Jon understudy” (Benoit) and Oliver Wakeman instead of Rick (Oliver’s father – ed) out there? Or do you not even worry about any of that, and just go out there.

»continue reading Chris Squire of Yes: The Losanjealous Interview

Sung’s first photo shoot for Losanjealous was Patrick Wolf at the Troubadour on May 16, 2007.

HEADS UP
Elvis Costello @ Amoeba Records Mon Jun 22

Monday the 22nd is shaping up to be a big night – we’ve just added Elvis to the calendar, all three of our listings have the coveted thumb at present and we have yet to add all the usual free Monday weeklies that transpire all over town. From Billboard and the Amoeba website:

Elvis Costello is giving his fans more than a new album this month. The singer-songwriter will perform two free shows at indie retailer Amoeba Music in San Francisco and Hollywood, Cal. on June 22 to celebrate the launch of his new album “Secret, Profane & Sugarcane,” released last week on Here Music. The Amoeba gigs – at Noon in San Francisco and at 8:00 p.m. in L.A. – will occur between Costello’s tour dates with his current band the Sugarcanes and follow a secret show the artist did in New York on the day of his album’s release.

» Elvis Costello To Toast New Album With Free Amoeba Shows (Billboard)

PICK OF THE WEEK

Telepathe
w/ Abe Vigoda, Nite Jewel & Blue Jungle
w/ DJ Heather Gram
Sat, June 13
The Smell
Info
 

Camera Obscura
w/ Future Static
Tues, June 9
The Glass House
Info
THE CONTEST HAS ENDED.
 
Arts at the Park After Dark
Benefit for Summer Night Lights
Wed, June 10, 7-10P, Barnsdall Park | Info
Chris Pierce, Warpaint, Audible Mainframe, and DJ Jeremy Sole (KCRW)
THE CONTEST HAS ENDED.
 
Rhett Miller
Q&A + new song preview
GRAMMY Museum
Wed, June 10
Info
THE CONTEST HAS ENDED.
 
Au Revoir Simone
w/ Antlers, Princeton, Findlay Brown
Thurs, June 11
El Rey Theatre
Info
THE CONTEST HAS ENDED.
 
Neko Case
w/ Jason Lytle
Fri, June 12
The Greek Theatre
Info
THE END HAS COME (TO THIS CONTEST, THAT IS)
 
 

LoveLikeFire @ Bootleg Theater (2220 Beverly Blvd) Fri 6/19
Girl Talk @ Grove of Anaheim (Free admission with 36 empty Squirt soda cans) Fri 6/19
Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band @ Echoplex Fri 6/19
Stone Temple Pilots @ House of Blues (St. Jude Rock ‘N Roll Hope Show ) Wed 7/1
Eulogies @ The Echo Wed 7/1
The Handsome Family @ Spaceland Sat 7/25
Girlie Girl Catfight Show: Sexy Sixties Spies @ El Rey Sat 7/25
Girlie Girl Catfight Show: Sexy Sixties Spies @ El Rey Fri 7/24
Girl Talk @ Glass House (Free admission with 36 empty Squirt soda cans) Fri 7/24
Glasvegas w/ Ida Maria @ Henry Fonda Wed 7/29
Glasvegas w/ Ida Maria @ Henry Fonda Tue 7/28
Castanets w/ Warmer Milks @ Spaceland Thu 7/30
Los Amigos Invisibles & West Indian Girl @ House of Blues Fri 8/7
Elvis Costello @ Greek Theatre Tue 8/18
The Dirtbombs @ The Echo Thu 8/27
Magnolia Electric Co w/ The Donkeys @ The Echo Tue 7/28
Black Heart Procession @ Spaceland Fri 8/7
Emiliana Torrini @ El Rey Wed 8/19
Los Campesinos! @ Detroit Bar Sun 8/23
Los Campesinos! @ Glass House Sat 8/22
Los Campesinos! @ El Rey Fri 8/21
Green Day w/ Franz Ferdinand @ The Forum (ENTER TO WIN TICKETS) Tue 8/25
Sea Wolf w/ Sara Lov @ Spaceland Sat 9/5
Pet Shop Boys @ Greek Theatre Thu 9/24
Bon Iver @ The Wiltern Fri 9/25
Passion Pit @ Henry Fonda Wed 10/14
Tiger Army @ The Wiltern Fri 10/23
 

TUESDAY
Camera Obscura @ Glass House
The Lemonheads @ Spaceland
The Mars Volta @ Majestic Ventura Theater
The Tragically Hip @ Troubadour

»continue reading Losanjealous Concert Picks: June 8 – 14

»continue reading Peaches, Henry Fonda Theater, June 7, 2009

That’s right. We’ve gone off the deep end dining wagon. This is straight up ghetto. LAist recently did a study of the “fish dogs” at Wienerschnitzels hence it’s only right Losanjealous will now present the $2.99 Big Bite 1/4 pound hot dog from 7-11.

»continue reading Under $5: A $2.99 date with 7-11

“Folks” is hand written on this slide. Do these “folks” realize they left their camera on the hood of their car? The camera is the Argus Seventy Five, mass-produced in Ann Arbor, Michigan between 1953 and 1958. The car is a 1961 Plymouth Fury.

Flaring, wrap around front fenders make this the one of the most spectacular designs ever to roll off a Plymouth assembly line. After five years of Plymouths sporting stylish tailfins the ’61 model year is the first without. But the fashionable front end makes up for it. And this car is parked to show it off! The Plymouth logo, a gold anodized rocket, is centered on the stamped aluminum grille. The black and yellow California license plate gives scale to the delicate wrap around bumper. Among the cars other odd features are the dash mounted mirror and pushbutton transmission. Push “D” for drive or “R” for reverse. His sunshade is up; hers is down.

»continue reading Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: The “Folks” and the Fury, Pasadena, CA, 1964

We started Drive & Find a few years back because, frankly, we were damn intimidated by the vast Los Angeles culinary scene. It’s a simple concept: two Westside dudes are hungry… they pick an area of town… they take a drive … they find an alluring restaurant … they dine there. This concept has brought us all around LA – from seafood to Thai to total crap – nonetheless our affinity for the unknown remains.

DATE: Wednesday May 20th, 2009

RESTAURANT: CAFÉ VIDA
15317 Antioch Street
Pacific Palisades 90272
(310) 573-1335

THEIR SLOGANS: “Food for life” and “A great, fresh taste.”

OUR SLOGAN: “Food” and “A decent, not-everything-but-most-things-are-fresh taste”

DRIVE TIME: 15 minutes

LIKES: Being really the only open restaurant in the area. Complimentary lime in the iced water. Interesting, loud conversation amongst four basketball apparel adorned high schoolers regarding chicks. Quiet streets.

DISLIKES: Identity crisis. A tad overpriced. Boring menu. Peeping Tom waitresses. An ugly dog sitting tableside in a striped carry-on suitcase-like apparatus.

»continue reading Drive & Find: Ep 2: Cafe Vida (Pacific Palisades)

No Age at the Getty; photo by Sung

Attention drivers! Parking at The Getty will soon be free, provided you are not there to casually browse art during daylight hours. Art lovers, pony up:

GETTY ANNOUNCES NEW PARKING FEES

Parking fees increase to $15; parking is free for Saturday nights at the Getty Center and evening events at both sites

LOS ANGELES-The J. Paul Getty Trust today announced parking rates at both the Getty Center and Getty Villa will increase to $15 effective July 1, but parking at both sites will be free for evening programs after 5pm. Admission remains free.

»continue reading Getty to Offer Free Parking For Skinny-Jeaned Concertgoers, $15/Car Everybody Else

HEADS UP

Green Day & Franz Ferdinand @ The Fabulous Forum Tues 8/25 (On-sale Sat 6/6 10 am)
 

If you would have told me in the early 1990′s that Green Day and Pearl Jam would go on become the two most important American rock bands in the year 2009, I would have said, “Get the hell right out of here and close the door behind you, but leave me some of that pizza for later.”

And yet, here we are, nearly twenty years later, and the world is a very different place. We have a Black president, Conan is on at 11:30, our sub sandwiches are now toasted to golden perfection, and we watch According To Jim on our iPhones. And wouldn’t you know it, Green Day and Pearl Jam are right there at the top of the rock heap.

While we have no 2009 Pearl Jam dates for LA just yet (though hopefully expect some around the time they hit the coast for Outside Lands up north in August) Green Day have announced a Forum gig for August 25. Franz Ferdinand, no lightweights themselves, open the show while you are stuck in traffic on the 405.

Tickets are on sale with the usual KROQ pre-sale today at 10 am [password: KNOWYOURKROQ--get it?] with the general on-sale at the traditional 10 am Saturday.

BUT you can win tickets, right here, right now.

HEADS UP
Arts at the Park After Dark: Brian White, Chris Pierce, Audible Mainframe, Warpaint, KCRW DJ Jeremy Sole @ Barnsdall Art Park Wed Jun 10 (hosted by Eric Garcetti)

Join me next Wednesday, June 10, when I’ll be hosting Arts at the Park After Dark, an event in partnership with Generation Obama Los Angeles at Barnsdall Art Park (4800 Hollywood Blvd.) to benefit the Summer Night Lights Gang Reduction and Youth Development Program.

The event will be emceed by Brian White, and special guests will include Chris Pierce, Audible Mainframe, Warpaint, and KCRW DJ Jeremy Sole.

Summer Night Lights is an innovative gang reduction and youth development program that provides arts and recreational programming at city parks throughout Los Angeles during the times when young people are most likely to be involved in or victims of gang violence. Last summer, crime was down in the areas around the parks with this program. We need your help to make it happen again.

Arts at the Park after Dark will run from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. General Admission tickets are $25 and VIP tickets are $150. All donations are tax deductible. To RSVP, send an email to [email protected] or call my Hollywood office at 323-957-4500.

Hope to see you there!

Eric Garcetti is Councilman for District 13 and City Council President.

» Arts in the Park After Dark (show flyer)