Prince Coachella ’08 by Brian

Welcome 2 America 21-Night Stand
Prince @ The Forum Thurs April 14 (Last Night)
Prince @ The Forum Thurs April 21 (On Sale Now)
Prince @ The Forum Fri April 22 (On Sale Now)
Prince @ The Forum Sat April 23 On Sale Friday April 15 (today) 12pm PST

More on-sales to be announced soon

Rollins & Fucked Up, Coachella ’09 (Both by Sung)

Exclusive Vinyl 4/16 RSD Offerings Will Be Available At Amoeba Records Hollywood
Line forms 8am; exclusives stocked behind counter.

11am – 4pm (or until they’re gone…)
LIMITED EDITION RSD T-SHIRTS FROM ANTI- & EPITAPH RECORDS & FAMILY INDUSTRIES
For the 3rd year running we’ll have live silkscreening of exclusive Record Store Day at Amoeba designs! Make a $5-$10 sliding scale donation to Doctors Without Borders, choose your design, and get your limited-edition t-shirt. It’s that easy!

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 60 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe. Right now they’re treating people in Japan, Libya, Ivory Coast and beyond…
12 Noon – EVIDENCE
Kicking off the day with music from his personal collection for his Record Store Day Mix and signing albums and giving music recommendations.

2pm – HENRY ROLLINS
The KCRW DJ will spin records and then sign copies of his spoken word and music releases at 2pm on April 16.

»continue reading Record Store Day Events at Amoeba Records Hollywood: Record Store Day Is This Saturday, April 16

The Growlers @ FYF Fest 2010 by Sung

Exclusive Vinyl 4/16 RSD Offerings Will Be Available At Origami Vinyl
Check the list here.

Saturday, April 16th
RECORD STORE DAY
Shop Opens @ 10am
2pm – Secret Guest
4pm – Nick T. from Islands
6pm – Hanni El Khatib *CANCELLED
8pm – The Growlers

» Origami Vinyl Record Store Day 2011

» Record Store Day (official site. tons of info + list of participating stores)

Exclusive Vinyl 4/16 RSD Offerings Will Be Available At Vacation Vinyl
Check the list here.

10-12. DJ Eyad
12-3. Special Guest: Matthewdavid (Dublab,Leaving Records)
3-3:30 listening preview of the new Danger Bird release from One AM Radio album hosted by Hrishikesh Hirway
3:30-5. M.Geddes Gengras (Not Not Fun. RVNG Int)
7-9 . Amanda Brown (Not Not Fun, 100% Silk)

» Vacation Vinyl Record Store Day 2011

» Record Store Day (official site. tons of info + list of participating stores)

Exclusive Vinyl 4/16 RSD Offerings Will Be Available At Coachella
Check the list here.

4/16 Daily Signings:
ERYKAH BADU * CAGE THE ELEPHANT * SHPONGLE * ELBOW * DAEDELUS * DELTA SPIRIT * FOALS * WIRE * THE LOVE LANGUAGE * FREELANCE WHALES * THE JOY FORMIDABLE * TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB * TRAMPLED BY TURTLES * TALLEST MAN ON EARTH * PHOSPHORESCENT * HERE WE GO MAGIC * SLEIGH BELLS* CULTS * BOMBA ESTEREO * ELECTRIC TOUCH * RAPHAEL SAADIQ * RYE RYE
Follow @ZiaRecords to stay up to date on signing news.

Once again this year, Record Store Day falls right in the middle of the festival on Saturday, April 16th! ZIA will be celebrating in style by having great music exclusives and special RSD pieces available at the ZIA tent. There are some incredible exclusive products being made available for this very special holiday including releases from artists and bands performing this year at Coachella!

»continue reading Coachella 4/16/11 Zia Records Pop-Up Tent Agenda & Events: Record Store Day Is This Saturday, April 16

April, as the man sez, is the cruelest month, because it looks nice out but it’s really ball-shrivelingly cold, and there are all kinds of snails and whatnot underfoot, which is kind of gross. You know who said that? Shakespeare, emm-effers! DF knows that because he is smart, and also because he is well-read. And do you know what Shakespeare’s favorite sport was? Why, it was roller derby, of course! Don’t believe? Watch, I’ll prove it.

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. –Macbeth. Well, here the Bard was clearly trying to do a little preview of his own, referring to this weekend’s bout ‘twixt the Sirens and Fight Crew as something wicked awesome that is coming this very Saturday. As for the thumb-prick part, this clearly suggests Shakespeare was into some weird sexual shit, but hey—let’s not judge the guy, and we all know that writers are kinda freaky on that front.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair. –Macbeth. Ah yes, here Bill S. was clearly taking a shot at the refs, suggesting that their judgments are inconsistent. Apparently Shakespeare is a Tough Cookies fan, and is still smarting over their upset loss against the Varsity Brawlers a couple weekends ago. But that’s no reason to be a whiner, Shakie—the Brawlers won that one fair and square!

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!/ For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. –Romeo & Juliet. Shakespeare was a horny old bastard, which explains why he always wore a codpiece. Here, he’s referring to some impossible fan crush he has on a derby girl. Who is it? I’ll never tell—because I honestly have no idea.

So as these three examples clearly illustrate, all literary critics to date saying that Shakespeare wrote about love, or revenge, or tragic flaws were all 100% wrong. Shakespeare wrote about one and only one thing, the greatest theme of all—roller derby! And I have only one beef with the Bard on this score. What the hell is so cruel about April, you high-frilled-collar wearing freak? April is awesome, because there are not one but two eminently radical bouts for your viewing pleasure. Two weekends ago, the upstart Brawlers upset the three-time defending champion Tough Cookies, and this Saturday, April 16, two of LADD’s OG sides, the Sirens and the Fight Crew, will wage war on ye olde banked track. After the last bout, the standings are all in a jumble, so this bout will determine early season supremacy. Tixes are still available here y’all, and as Bill Shakespeare himself might say, “Buy thy tickets now, and hie ye hence to the Doll Factory, to quaff deep of the derby, which is the very stuff of life itself.”

Image by Sinnerama based on a photo by Joe Rollerfan. (C) 2011 by LA Derby Dolls. All rights reserved. Email df at losanjealous dot com with commentary and recommendations for foods that won’t give him diarrhea (and good goddamned luck with that). Then follow DF on Twitter to see if your recommendations worked! (Hint: they will not have worked.)

HEADS UP
Dr. Lonnie Smith Trio w/ Mike Mangan’s Big Organ Trio @ The Mint

No shortage of great shows around town this weekend for those folks not headed out to Indio. This show is no exception. If you consider yourself a fan of the Hammond B3, but have never seen Dr. Lonnie Smith live, this weekend’s your chance to make good.

PHOTO: Dr. Lonnie Smith @ New Orleans Jazzfest 2007 by Ryan
 

 

 

 

Fucked Up
w/ Audacity, Catwalk & Special Guest
Saturday, April 16
Echoplex | All Ages
Info | [ENTER TO WIN TICKETS]

Madeleine Peyroux made it to Cal State L.A.

Notwithstanding Angelino “here we are now entertain us” impassiveness, or the non-intimacy of big venue jazz, we audience members weren’t digging her enough. At least she thought so. Ms. Peyroux began sometime after 8:15pm, moving into position with her band, and most immediately not liking the separation between herself and her audience. It was a few songs into the set before she convinced us, by both her performance and her sound mix, one time even asking us if we could hear ok, that the show had started and we needed to be involved. Some people might have said we were just quiet between songs, and it would have been a tad indulgent for us to put on airs, as we applauded warmly when she won us over, but it can also be argued that her banter wasn’t gratified enough. She wanted something we didn’t know how to give.

In her voice, which you can turn in your mind long after exposure, is the love and pain of a colorful life. Her pure tone wraps its legs around truly witty, inspired lyrics, combative insight and a burdensome happiness, as in “Don’t Wait Too Long” or “Dance Me To The End of Love”. Somewhere between Billie Holiday and Norah Jones is Madeleine Peyroux telling us to cheer up or not get too excited, her coffee house vox populi glazed in smoke and rain, a mezzo soprano from the Great Depression crooning love songs, Bob Dylan covers, even “Martha, My Dear”.

»continue reading Madeleine Peyroux at The Luckman, April 9, 2011

Cement tepee-shaped motel rooms seen from a rolled-down driver’s side window glisten in the rain-soaked sky blue blacktop.

This is not any ol’ motel. Oh no! Wigwam Village is Southern California’s most precious and famous Route 66 landmark.

»continue reading Charles Phoenix’s Slide of the Week: Wigwam Drive By, Rialto, CA, 1957

TONIGHT
Peelander-Z w/ Anamanaguchi, Pour Habit, Katastro, The B Foundation @ The Roxy $12

PEE ALSO
» Peelander-Z (official site)
» Peelander-Z: A primer (Onion AV Club)

Above photos: Peelander-Z, Mohawk Patio, Austin, SXSW ’09 by Sung

Photo: Fucked Up, Echoplex, 2009 by Cassmonster

HEADS UP
Fucked Up @ Ace Hotel Palm Springs Friday, April 15 (Free with RSVP)
Fucked Up @ Echoplex Saturday, April 16 (Tix info TK)

Catch the band one last time before they head overseas…and give us a status update on that self-inflicted crater in the middle of Damian’s forehead, won’t you please?

FURTHER FUCKUPS
» Fucked Up @ Matador 21 Las Vegas, October 2010 (photos by Sung)
» SXSW 2010: Fucked Up, Fader Fort, Thursday 3/18 (photos by Sung)
» Fucked Up @ F Yeah Fest V, Echo Park, August 30, 2008 (photos by Sung)
» Fucked Up @ Fucked Up: Echoplex, February 6, 2009 (Echoplex Review by KXLU’s McAllister)