Closest the British mope-rock kings come to OC is a two-date run at Hollywood Bowl, Aug. 24 and 25. Pre-sale tix are available April 9 and general on-sale April 12.
Grizzly Bear support Aug. 3-15, Liars Aug. 19-28. Radiohead have good taste.
August 1 - Lollapalooza - Chicago, IL
August 3 - Verizon Wireless Music Center - Indianapolis, IN
August 4 - Blossom Music Center - Cleveland, OH
August 6 - Parc Jean Drapeau - Montreal, QC
August 8 - All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Liberty State Pa
Full tour dates have finally been announced for archetypal OC success stories No Doubt's tour with Paramore--we've known for a while that they were going on tour at some point and the first date would be May 3 at the Bamboozle Festival in NJ, but now we've got the whole sched, and the three month-ish tour will close out with two dates at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine--where they had a mini-reunion during the encore of one of Gwen Stefani's solo shows back in June 2007--on July 31 a
For the third straight year, the Vans Warped Tour--46 dates in 2009-will be kicking off at the Pomona Fairplex, this time on June 26. Pre-sales for tickets start April 1 (not a prank), with the "regular" on-sale date being April 18. They've also announced the list of bands performing, though we don't yet know who's performing at what date yet. Names include: Newport Beach's Saosin (pictured), Huntington Beach's The Dirty Heads, Fullerton punk vets D.I. and Thrice, from Irvine, natch. And if you'
OC Weekly (that's us!) ran an article this week on Indianapolis chamber pop band Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, depicting lead singer Richard Edwards as an unabashed grump.Tonight is the chance for you, the reader, to make your own judgments on Edwards and his group, as they're in concert tonight at the Detroit Bar. Because no matter how grumpy Edwards might be, their music is still quite good, as most recent album(s) Animal! and Not Animal attest. Seattle buzz band Telekinesis--playing in
Scott Flanders, just missing the pipe, robe and Depends.Scott Flanders is the president and CEO of Irvine-based, Orange County Register-owner Freedom Communications until July 1, when he becomes the first non-Hefner CEO of Playboy Enterprises. Folio, a magazine/online network for magazine and e-network professionals, did a breezy Q&A with Flanders recently, and what's interesting is what the Money Bunny did not say about his time at Freedom. But first, in light of the possibly fatal woe
