Not feeling like the wait at a packed Bay Cities for my usual Godmother, I popped into Swingers two doors down on Lincoln. I tend to think of Swingers as reliable diner eats, if not particularly special. Hit a counter spot and went in for the Ahi Sandwich (“seared ahi tuna steak, red leaf lettuce, pickled ginger, bean sprouts, and spicy wasabi mayo on toasted pumpenickel”). $9.95 with a side, tortilla soup in this case. It did me right. Admittedly, this one is right on the edge of the dreaded cute/overpriced/unsatisfying cliff I tend to fall over and get burned, but managed to stay on the good side. Tasty with a decent cut of ahi, done nicely rare, and, comparing that Godmother at $8, not a terribly bad value. I’ll leave comment on the service at Swingers for another time.

Ska legends The English Beat are set to play Air Conditioned Venice tonight. 100% of the proceeds will go to Doctors Without Borders (“Médecins Sans Frontières”) who are sending immediate emergency aid to communities affected by the disaster in Haiti. Venice’s own reggae/ska/punk act Meet Me at the Pub opens the show.

Advance tickets are available at inticketing.com by donation only. Minimum donation is $25; preferred donation: $50; Meet & Greet with the band & show: $100. Doors at 7pm and of course Air Conditioned is 21+.

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Well, here it is. Have at it. How many of you saw Jay-Z coming as a headliner? A lot to discuss. PiL and Family Stone are nice touches. That “????” After Thom Yorke might confuse some into thinking something else is going to later be added in that spot when that’s just how he billed himself on the marquee at the Orpheum. What else…?

FRIDAY APRIL 16

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Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.

SATURDAY, APRIL 17

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Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, MGMT, David Guetta, The Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ’s, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, The xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, The Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, The Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.

SUNDAY, APRIL 18

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Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke ????, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, The Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, The Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, The Middle East, Hadouken!, The Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, One EskimO.

3-Day Passes, VIP Tickets, Camping and Hotel Shuttle (?) on Sale This Friday, January 22.

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PICK OF THE WEEK

The HotRats
w/ Lemon Sun
Gaz & Danny of Supergrass
Tues Jan 19 — Spaceland
Thurs Jan 21 — Troubadour
 
 

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Black Lips
w/ Nobunny & Jemina Pearl
El Rey Saturday
Sat 1/23
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Royal Crown Revue
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Wed 1/20 & Wed 1/27
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HEADS UP
James Lavelle @ Echoplex Sat 2/13
Nomo w/ Orgone @ Spaceland Wed 2/3
Daedelus w/ Nosaj Thing @ Echoplex Fri 2/5
Megafaun w/ Breathe Owl Breathe @ The Echo Sun 3/21
King Sunny Ade @ Echoplex Sun 3/7
High Places @ Echoplex Fri 3/19
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Echoplex Fri 3/12
Laura Viers @ Spaceland Tue 3/9
Scout Niblett @ Spaceland Sat 2/27
Quasi @ Spaceland Fri 3/12
Efterklang @ Spaceland Tue 3/16
The Clientele w/ The Wooden Birds @ Spaceland Sat 3/6
The Clientele w/ The Wooden Birds @ Spaceland Fri 3/5
Chelsea Handler @ Gibson Amphitheatre Fri 4/30
Krishna Das & Deva Premal and Miten @ Wilshire Ebell Theater Sat 3/27
The New Mastersounds with special guest Salvador Santana / Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue @ El Rey Thu 3/11
Kaki King with An Horse @ Glass House Tue 5/25
Kaki King with An Horse @ El Rey Sat 5/22
Dark Star Orchestra @ El Rey Wed 4/28
Moving Units with Rumspringa, Casxio @ Glass House Sat 1/30
Little Boots @ Glass House Fri 3/12
Little Boots @ El Rey Wed 3/10
Fanfarlo @ El Rey Sat 2/20
A Sunny Day In Glasgow @ The Mint Sat 3/13
Anvil @ House of Blues Fri 2/5
Anvil @ House of Blues Anaheim Thu 2/4
John Beasley w/ guests @ Vitello’s Restaurant Thu 1/28
Superfraiche featuring VV Brown , Reni Lane , Love Grenades & Scott Simons @ Spaceland Fri 1/29
Zigaboo Modeliste (The Meters) @ The Mint Fri 2/5
The Mother Hips @ Hotel Cafe Thu 1/28
Ivan and Aloysha, Brown Sugar Sinks & Greg Jong @ Bootleg Theater Sun 1/31
The Wedding Present @ Troubadour (Peforming Bizarro) Fri 4/2
Morning Benders @ Troubadour Thu 3/25
Dawes @ Troubadour Thu 3/11
 

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MONDAY
Vieux Carre Mondays featuring The Kevin O’Day Band & DJ Quickie Mart @ The Mint (Free)
Oren Lavie @ Hotel Cafe
The French Semester @ The Echo (Free January Mondays)
Year Long Disaster @ Spaceland (Free January Mondays)

TUESDAY
Aziz Ansari @ Largo
Olin & The Moon w/ Dusty Rhodes & The River Band @ The Echo (Free January Tuesdays)
The Hot Rats @ Spaceland
The Pee-wee Herman Show @ Club Nokia
White Denim @ Troubadour

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Via Chris Hardwick & Facebook:

“UPDATE:

We will be moving the focus of the rally across the street by the metro station as this rally has grown way more then expected. Feel free to rally in front of Gate 2 as well, just know there is less room there.

We suggest that, if you can, to take the Metro (aka subway) to the Universal City stop, as it’s right there and you wont have to worry about parking.

RAIN OR SHINE! Showing up while raining will only show how dedicated the fans are.

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“Matt Kemp and the Los Angeles Dodgers reached a preliminary agreement Friday on a US$10.95-million, two-year contract, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal, subject to a physical, hadn’t been completed.

The move means Los Angeles avoids salary arbitration with Kemp, who batted .297 with 26 homers and 101 RBIs last season. He also stole 34 bases and won his first Gold Glove in centre field.

Kemp would make $4 million in 2010 and $6.95 million in 2011, with the chance to earn another $500,000 in performance bonuses during the contract.” [TSN.ca]

LAST MINUTE HEADS UP

Dios, Forcefield ON, Bella Novela, Triceratops (feat. members of RX Bandits), Eugene and the 1914 @ Alex’s Bar Fri 1/15

If for some odd reason you are NOT going to L.A. Prostitutes/DERAILED at the Whisky, here’s another hot gig down in the LBC.

Please note this is NOT Rodney James Dio, but DIOS. Please update your listings from DIOS MALOS back to DIOS. They have reclaimed their rightful single-word handle and will no longer yield to Rodney James Dio’s paranoia over the use of their God-given name.