Weekend (the band, not the vowel-impaired R&B singer) have announced a few shows in California in February:
02/01 – Oakland, CA – The New Parish (with The Soft Moon)
02/11 – San Diego, CA – The Loft at UCSD
02/12 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo / Part-Time Punks
We’ll happily point you to tickets, as well as a preview of what’s in store: check out “Hazel” off of the Red EP, the followup to 2010’s excellent full length debut, Sports:
Love Femi Kuti and his father’s work.
We’ve been keeping our watchful eye on the Grammys, because for every snub (Kanye’sMBDTF??) and bunk nomination (Bruno Mars??), there are stories of well-deserved recognition that straight up warm our hearts. For his underdog Album of the Year nomination, Bon Iver becomes this year’s Arcade Fire, right down to the hilarious reaction blog that pays homage to the original.
On a more serious, less Internet-A.D.D.-related note: we’re also stoked on Femi Kuti’sAfrica for Africa, nominated for best world music album at the 2012 Grammys. Femi carries the torch for his father, Fela Kuti, an innovator and a figurehead for Afrobeat music as well as a dedicated political activist. We were recently directed toward this excellent performance of “Africa for Africa,” filmed by La Blogotheque on a rooftop in Paris. It’s an excellent introduction to Femi’s passionate approach to politics in…
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We just posted the initial lineup for Noise Pop 2012; it had barely rolled off our fingertips before round two landed in our inbox. We’ll keep this quick: The Dodos, Wye Oak and Talkdemonic are among the highlights of the second lineup announcement. Latest additions are below:
20 Minute Loop
Bare Wires
Big Freedia
Brilliant Colors
Carlos Forster
Chapter 24
Dirty Ghosts
Talkdemonic
The Dodos
The Soft Pack
Tyler Lyle
Wye Oak
Yalls
And if you missed it, here’s the initial lineup (a.k.a. the rest of what we know so far), with some notable old-school appearances from Archers of Loaf and Built to Spill:
Archers of Loaf
Bleached
Born Gold
Budos Band
Built to Spill
Christie Front Drive
Craig Finn
Cursive
Die Antwoord
Disappears
Grimes
Imperial Teen
Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames
Laura Veirs & the Tumble Bees
Mount Moriah
oOoOO
Pickwick
Porter Robinson
Surfer Blood
Taxes
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Blink-182 stopped by Conan last night to perform their new single from Neighborhoods, “After Midnight.” Check out the video below.
The band plans to release an official music video for the track very soon.
I’ve always loved Warped Tour. Can’t wait!
Bayside, Chelsea Grin, Sleeping With Sirens, Memphis May Fire, and Silver Comet are the first five bands that have been confirmed for the 2012 Vans Warped Tour. Check out the dates for the festival!
Sat Jun 16 Salt Lake City, UT
Sun Jun 17 Denver, CO
Wed Jun 20 Las Vegas, NV
Thu Jun 21 Irvine, CAFri Jun 22 Pomona, CA
Sat Jun 23 San Francisco, CA
Sun Jun 24 Ventura, CA
Wed Jun 27 San Diego, CA 0 0
Thu Jun 28 Phoenix, AZ
Fri Jun 29 Las Cruces, NM
Sat Jun 30 San Antonio, TX
Sun Jul 01 Houston, TX
Tue Jul 03 Dallas, TX
Thu Jul 05 St. Louis, MO
Fri Jul 06 Detroit, MI
Sat Jul 07 Chicago, IL
Sun Jul 08 Minneapolis, MN
Mon Jul 09 Kansas City, KS
Tue Jul 10 Indianapolis, IN
Wed Jul 11 Cleveland, OH
Thu Jul 12 Pittsburgh, PA
Fri …
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Just announced: the Noise Pop 2012 lineup! Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the San Francisco-based music festival features Cursive and Built to Spill as headlining acts, with appearances from Die Antwoord, Grimes, and Surfer Blood representing a particularly solid early lineup this year. The festival, known for its genre-bending bills, will take place across multiple venues and dates from February 22-25, and will feature upwards of 150 artists in total.
The inimitable Shepard Fairey, founder and creative mind behind the Obey brand, is responsible for Noise Pop’s graphic design this year, which can only mean one thing: the 20th anniversary Noise Pop merch will be incredible.
Full lineup as it’s been announced so far:
Archers of Loaf
Bleached
Born Gold
Budos Band
Built to Spill
Christie Front Drive
Craig Finn
Cursive
Die Antwoord
Disappears
Grimes
Imperial Teen
Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames
Laura Veirs & the Tumble Bees
Mount…
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Apparently, for three years multiple government agencies from around the world could have been hopping on your computer and seeing what you were up to. Yup, it appears that a British company called Gamma International had been marketing software called, FinFisher, which has been used to hack into machines running Apple’s iTunes.
Gamma International say they offer “zero day” security flaws, which have not been publicly disclosed, so attempts to exploit them are unlikely to be detected by anti-virus programs. They created the FinFisher software to exploit a vulnerability via a bogus update to iTunes, which is installed on more than 250 million machines worldwide. They then marketed this software to government and police agencies all around the world, including Egypt’s feared secret police, to spy on specific targets within the general public.
The crazy thing is that Apple was informed of the flaw in their iTunes software three years ago, in mid-2008. Seeing that Apple usually fixes security flaws within about 90 days, it raises questions as to whether Apple was willingly allowing this government hacking to take place or not. Seems that the hacking has been stopped for now though. Recently, Apple issued iTunes update 10.5.1. This update explained that, “a man-in-the-middle attacker may offer software that appears to originate from Apple”, adding that the “issue has been mitigated.” We’ll see.
I’m just glad that I have recently started using Spotify more!
This might pay for my dinner one night!
You read that right: if you purchased any ticket from Ticketmaster between the dates of October 21, 1999 and October 19, 2011, you’re entitled to a retroactive refund of $1.50 per ticket. If Ramen is your main dietary staple, congrats! You won’t go hungry for another week.
The news comes from a class-action lawsuit filed against Ticketmaster for deceptive practices (shocking!), profiting off of “processing fees” which were misrepresented to customers. Ticketmaster also got knocked for shady hikes to UPS express delivery charges, a subclass of the suit which rewards you with a cool $5 per ticket on your past orders that were shipped via UPS Express. Both refunds come in the form of vouchers redeemable against future orders (max two per order).
Full information, including eligibility and redemption procedures, can be found on the Ticketmaster Refund Litigation site. You’ll have to be a little bit patient, though – refunds won’t…
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Morrissey’s PR sent us an email informing us the singer’s show in Oakland tonight has been cancelled. Drummer Matt Walker suffered an eye injury which prevents him from playing tonight, though none of the other tour dates are in jeopardy.
We’ll update when we have information on how they’ll offer refunds.
The remainder of Morrissey’s 2011 tour dates go like this (mostly south of the border):
12/5 Monterrey (Mexico) – Arena
12/7 Mexico City – Plaza Condesa
12/8 Mexico City – Plaza Condesa
12/10 Puebla – Auditorio del Complejo Cultural Universitario
12/12 Guadalajara – Diana
12/13 Guadalajara – Diana
12/17 Chicago, IL – Congress Theater
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