The night started off badly for me. I’d never been to the Echoplex, but I’d looked it up on Google Maps before I left and thought that it seemed easy enough find – right off the 101 at Sunset and Glendale Boulevards. Turns out that Sunset doesn’t actually cross Glendale, and the entire Echo Park neighborhood is an intertwining maze of diagonal streets that end and begin again suddenly. As if that didn’t make it difficult enough, the venue isn’t marked, you’re just supposed to instinctively KNOW where the damn thing is. I drove all the way down Sunset until it turned south. Then before I knew it I somehow ended up downtown. I headed back north circling the same old strung-out hooker on the corner of Sunset and Park until I finally spotted a tiny sign …
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The Mirror revealed today that Manchester, UK rockers the Stone Roses have scheduled a alleged 21-show reunion tour for the UK and the States. All band tensions aside, let’s hope frontman Ian Brown and guitarist John Squire can set aside their differences long enough to complete their comeback tour…
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“Young Folks”, the catchy pop tune that the ITunes Music Store named as the number one song of 2007, hit the internets via myspace and youtube in 2006 and then the international airwaves thereafter. Filled with cute whistling and a catchy melody that contained a burgeoning love dialogue between a girl and a boy, the song was the creation of a 3-piece indie-pop band from Stockholm, Sweden. The world was introduced to them at that moment, but with 3 albums already under their belt, they were unknowingly already veterans on the indie scene. Peter Bjorn and John has no flashy band name. They come as themselves. And with their new album, Living Thing, they are looking forward to showing the world that they are more than just a pop, rock, or indie band for that matter. …
Apple Corps Ltd., Harmonix and MTV Games unveiled today their plans for a Beatles edition of the video game craze Rock Band, marking the first time the Beatles’ tracks will be available in the digital realm. Available on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii, “The Beatles: Rock Band” will showcase the Liverpool foursome’s classic tracks. The game can be played with all of the previous peripheral intsruments, however a limited edition premium bundle including replicas of McCartney’s bass, Lennon and Harrison’s guitars, and Starr’s drum kit will be avilable for $249.99. A rather optimistic Paul McCartney shared his thoughts on the game, saying “it will feature different periods of the band — you get early days, Liverpool, then psychedelic, and on from there. It’s very cool. And I like the idea that the game introduces kids …
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