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Cosmic Love Ball 2012Returning this year to the fabulous San Francisco Fillmore the 2012 Cosmic Love Ball, now in it’s 7th year, is going to be the biggest, boldest, futurist-est lovetasm yet! The massively sassy music you’ve come to expect will be comin in hot with EOTO, MATERIALIZED, and Love in the Circus. Vau De Vire Society will be dancing and dazzling; Klown Korps will provide romantic mischief and much, much more fun!

Tickets: $29.50
Limited VIP Packages available: $75.00
VIP Includes: Special ambient viewing area, private access, poster, treats, and surprises!

FESTIVE ATTIRE PLEASE

EOTO will drop their mad dance machinations while MATERIALIZED brings their big Love Ballin’ best with special appearances by Brian Jordan on guitar (Karl Denson, Lauryn Hill), MC Radio Active, and Robin Coomer (Loop!Station) singing her heart out. The super cool Love In The Circus will be here from LA and the fun just keeps comin’!

Don’t miss the mad mad fun. GET THERE EARLY! Vau De Vire Show in the Poster Room STARTS AT 9PM SHARP!! The great DJ Funklor will be spinning at 8:30 and the fun won’t stop till last champagne pops!

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ABOUT THE BANDS:

EOTO
“With no two shows alike, fans have come to expect the unexpected. Changes in mood, energy, and inspiration are reflected—in real-time—by rhythmic and melodic shifts in the music as EOTO makes their way through a plethora of tools and techniques. The duo moves effortlessly from choppy dubstep to whip-smart, four-on-the-floor house to psychedelic trip-hop. It’s a dance marathon, but everyone’s in it together.

MATERIALIZED
Materialized is an ongoing musical collaboration built on the core of a lifelong friendship between Grammy Award winning keyboardist (Mighty) Dave Pellicciaro and drummer Dale Fanning.
Based in Oakland, CA the band builds their energized sound on big beats and sonic scapes. To keep the music constantly growing they engage a revolving cast of talent for their live shows ranging from a powerhouse two-man match to trios, full band with a horn section, singers, video and dancers including their main associate, Cuban-born bassist Carlitos Del Puerto (Bruce Springsteen, Herbie Hancock).
Materialized has released their EP CD “Songs About Music” and are dropping three fresh singles on Feb 1st. Check these high octane adventures on iTunes, CD Baby, Spotify and Pandora.

Love In The Circus
Love in the Circus features unique and seductive melodies that combine and blur the lines of electronica, rock, jazz and blues with sultry, edgy, museful hooks.
The group was formed by singer/bassist Leanna Rachel and producer/guitarist Chris Brickler. Curtis Cunningham joined the group on drums, Eric Hargett on keys/saxophone and Cha Chi on percussion/synths. The High Priestess and Leah Zeger add beautiful textures on the harp and violin, respectively.

On February 9, Primus performed a couple of tunes on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon including “Lee Van Cleef” from their most recent album, Green Naugahyde. Check it out:

In case you have not heard, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recently opened the doors to its libraries and archives located in a new four-story, $12 million building on Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, OH. The collection, catalogued over the last few years, includes more than 3,500 books, 1,400 audio recordings, photos, albums and covers, oral histories, scrap books, and 270 videos. A few of these music artifacts include personal letters from Madonna and Aretha Franklin and a 1981-82 video of the Rolling Stones tour. Library and archive Director, Andy Leach, has stated that they will be adding thousands more books and recordings and hundreds of videos will be added as previously stored items and new donations are catalogued. Leach went on to state the following:

“We hope to serve music scholars, teachers, students and the general public. We hope to see all of them here.”

Fans and scholars will not be able to check out items from the library or the archives, but anyone can use the library reading room to browse through books, listen to audio recordings and watch videos. A smaller archives reading room allows supervised access to certain cherished items.

Now is the time to go and enjoy the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame libraries and archives as they were opened to the public with very little fanfare. They will most certainly be more crowded after April 9th when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hold their actual grand opening. It should be a grand affair!

Madonna [2012 Tour Dates]

Posted: February 8, 2012 in News
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Madonna will tour the United States in 2012.

In anticipation of the March 26th, 2012 release of MDNA, Madonna has announced she will (drumroll please!) … wait 8 months to go on a North American tour.

Yep, the good news is Madonna is touring, but not until the very end of August 2012. After her electrifying performance at the Super Bowl – which was somewhat upstaged by a stray middle finger – she’ll continue the sports theme, playing the stadiums of the Lakers, Yankees, and Celtics. Twenty bucks says she wears the hometown logo in all three towns.

It may seem like distant future, but don’t dally: tickets go on sale Monday, February 13th, 2012 at 10am PST, and you’d be foolish to think they’re going to last.

Madonna 2012 tour dates:

8/28 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
8/30 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
9/1 – Quebec City, QC @ Plains of Abraham Site
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Die Antwoord Expand 2012 Tour Dates

Posted: February 8, 2012 in News
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Die Antwoord release a new video for "I Fink U Freeky"

Following the January 29th release of their hotly anticipated TEN$ION, Die Antwoord – who spurned a major label deal with Interscope to release the album on their own Zef Recordz – have expanded their 2012 US tour dates. They’ll play the dates below, including a Feb. 22nd appearance at the Regency Ballroom for Noise Pop 2012.

Die Antwoord 2012 tour dates:

02-09 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero Theatre
02-10 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
02-11 New York, NY – Irving Plaza
02-12 Washington D.C. – 930 Club
02-14 Toronto, ON – The Phoenix Concert Theatre
02-15 Chicago, IL – Metro
02-18 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
02-19 Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
02-20 Seattle, WA – Showbox at the Market
02-22 San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom
02-24 Los Angeles, CA – Club Nokia
02-25 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues

We previously debuted Die Antwoord’s video…

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Bon Iver [2012 Tour Dates]

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Bon Iver will tour the United States in 2012.

Bon Iver is festivaling it up this Spring, with upcoming appearances at Coachella, Sasquatch and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival booked on the strength of 2011’s self-titled, Grammy-nominated LP. Justin Vernon wants nothing to do with a Grammy performance, but he has scheduled his band for a string of 2012 US tour dates surrounding his festival appearances. Check ’em below.

Bon Iver 2012 tour dates (find tickets):

04-12 Las Vegas, NV – The Joint
04-14 Indio, CA – Coachella
04-17 Davis, CA – Freeborn Hall @ UC Davis
04-19 San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
04-21 Indio, CA – Coachella
04-22 Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
04-23 Tucson, AZ – AVA Amphitheater
04-27 New Orleans, LA – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
05-27 George, WA – Sasquatch Music Festival

He also appeared on SNL this weekend, playing “Holocene

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The Shins will tour the United States in 2012.

The Shins teased some 2012 tour dates on the heels of locking up a featured spot at Coachella 2012, and now the momentum keeps rolling. They’ve tacked on dates in May and June, and they’ll get as far as Ohio in a Midwestern stint. East Coast: no love for you guys yet, but these arena tours tend to roll out slowly so you may catch some good news regarding summer Shins concerts in the coming weeks.

The Shins also debuted “September,” a B-side to “Simple Song” with a typographic video which superimposes lyrics and drawings onto a spinning record. Watch the video and check out The Shins’ tour dates below.

The Shins 2012 tour dates (find tickets):

4/13/12 – Las Vegas, NV – Cosmopolitan Of Las Vegas – The Pool
4/22/12 – Santa Cruz, CA – Civic Auditorium
4/23/12 – Davis, CA – Robert Mondavi Center

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Nicki Minaj – Marilyn Monroe

Posted: February 8, 2012 in News
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Nicki Minaj drops a new track titled “Marilyn Monroe” in which she’s goes the singing  route instead of her usual Barbie Rap. Enjoy.

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Bon Iver turns down offer to play Grammys.

Bon Iver was offered a chance to play the 2012 Grammy Awards, where their self-titled 2nd LP is nominated for Best Alternative Album, but bandleader Justin Vernon turned the offer down, Billboard reports. The Grammy Foundation asked him to duet with an undisclosed artist, but Vernon denied on the basis that he wouldn’t be allowed to perform any original material – though he referred to his would-be collaborators as “awesome people. People that I would love to play a song with…But you know what? Fuckin’ rock n’ roll should not be decided by people that have that job. Rock n’ roll should be the fucking people with guitars around their backs. And their friends. And their managers.”

You have to hand it to Vernon, who is openly appreciative of the widespread recognition of his talent while preserving his artistic motives instead of sacrificing them to the great publicity machine in the sky:

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Jack White Tour 2012

After releasing the first single “Love Interruption” earlier this week from his upcoming album, Blunderbuss, Jack White has now confirmed his first three tour dates for 2012. First, he will appear at Hangout Music Fest in Gulf Shore, AL on May 18th, followed by Sasquatch Festival in George, WA on May 26th, and then at Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend in London on June 22nd-23rd.

Since stepping back from the spotlight with the Dead Weather, we wonder if White will want to endure a long grinding tour as the front piece. What do you think?

And if you haven’t yet heard, you can preview some of White’s new material – listen to “Love Interruption” from Blunderbuss below:

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