Here's something worth getting excited about as we toil through this waking life. Portland, Oregon's Dandy Warhols are coming to the Glass House in Pomona just a little under a month from now, on June 5. Tickets are on sale this Saturday (May 9) at noon, $20 at the door, $18 in advance. I'm pretty psyched, the Dandys are definitely in the list of "bands that I dig that I've never gotten to see live before." They're touring behind last year's ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols..., and a new remix EP a
I used to be friends (metaphorically speaking, at least) with the Dandy Warhols, a long time ago.OK, it wasn't that long ago. But I haven't really taken to their latest album, Earth to the Dandy Warhols... yet. (It looks like I'm not alone there.) Regardless, I'm still totally stoked to be seeing Courtney Taylor-Taylor and the gang tonight at the Glass House in Pomona, as they're in my "one of my favorite bands that I haven't actually seen live" category, or, at least, they were until today (uh,
Yeah, we weren't able to send a photog to this one. iPhone photos!Friday Night: The Dandy Warhols, The Meek at the Glass House in Pomona; June 5, 2009.Better than: Checking out the second night of all-ages dance night Club Matinee going on simultaneously at the nearby Fox Theater in Pomona, although anyone with a Glass House wristband got in for free.Number of on-stage bathroom breaks: Only one. More on that later.Friday was a good night to be in Pomona if you're a Dandy Warhols fan. They played
Teehee, "Train tickets."At the end of the month, October 27 to be exact, Train--you know, "Drops of Jupiter," "Meet Virginia" Train--will release their first new studio album in nearly four years, Save Me San Francisco (named after their city of origin). Just two days before that, Train will play the House of Blues in Anaheim, and that's just one of several shows that Live Nation, in their latest "buy concert tickets! please!" promotion, is offering for 2-for-1 this Wednesday. (We joke about
The Glass House has been on a pretty good run of shows lately, what with the Dandy Warhols on Friday and the Eagles of Death Metal on Saturday.But wait--there's more! Tonight, Scottish pop heroes Camera Obscura are playing the Pomona venue. Tickets are $15. They just released their fourth full-length, My Maudlin Career, two months ago, read OC Weekly's review by the ineffable Tami Fertig here. And for more in-depth Scottish pop goodness, read Thomas Bond's musings about that recent release, and
A festival-type show on a Tuesday? Hey, sure, why not? That's the day of LA 101, a concert put on by our sister paper, LA Weekly, up north at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City.
