Monday, February 22, 2010 1:30PM - By Carl Pocket
I can remember almost 15 years ago and being a shaggy haired kid being driven to a dumpy all ages venue to catch a new project from members of Slowdown Virgina and Tim Kasher. Before this night I thought cursive was just a writing style they taught in 3rd grade, but at the end of this night I knew that Cursive was a band and one that was doing things I hadn’t ever seen yet. I figured the LA audience was going to be packed with people in their late 20s trying to relive these moments of youth. I was wrong.
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Friday, April 24, 2009 11:00AM - By Lindsey Darden
Check out what’s going on in the world of music below…
- Flipper | Friday, April 23 | 6:00 pm | Free | Amoeba Music, Berkeley, CA – Map| The evolved and reformed San Francisco-based punk band will be performing in observance of the re-issue of four vinyl albums that assisted in catapulting their career from 1979 onward – Generic Flipper, Gone Fishin’, Public Flipper Limited, and Sex Bomb Baby!. For more information, call (510) 549-1125.
- Queensrÿche | Friday, April 24 | 8:00 pm | $45 | House of Blues Sunset Strip, Hollywood, CA – Map | The experimental and progressive metal rock band will be promoting their latest release, American Soldier, and the sentiment that they decidedly kick as much ass now as they did in the ’80s. Click here for tickets.
- Alkaline Trio | Saturday, April 25 | 7:00 pm | $20.50 | Starland Ballroom, Sayreville, NJ – Map | The going-down-easy band is very streamlined in an audible sense (if there is such a thing; listen here). The established band will be pit-stopping as part of their spring fling with the Northeast US, as it were. Click here for tickets.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:00PM - By Emily
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo recently recorded an episode of Decomposed for Stereogum. In the session he performed three songs along with some help from a pianist, Sonia, he hand-selected for the event, flutist Greg Vail, Jermaine Dupri, an a capella ground from Dartmouth college, and five acoustic guitarists and three percussionists he picked up from the bands Crash Kings, Alkaline Trio, Yellowcard, Melee, Reeve Oliver and Ozma.
The result is nothing short of fantastic. Check it out in all it’s glory after the break:
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