May 2010 Concert Calendar - San Diego

April hasn't quite ended yet but it almost has and seeing as I will be locked in a room with law books for the next 3 weeks, here's May's schedule a little early.

5/1 - Busdriver @ Winstons Beach Club
5/4 - The Hold Steady @ Belly Up Tavern
5/5 - Mastodon, Baroness, Between the Buried and Me, and Valiant Thorr @ House Of Blues
5/6 - MONO @ The Casbah
5/12 - The Besnard Lakes @ The Casbah
5/13 - Tortoise @ The Casbah
5/20 - Caribou @ The Casbah
5/22 - Minus The Bear @ SOMA
5/23 - The National @ Spreckels Theatre
5/24 - Nada Surf @ Belly Up Tavern
5/26 - ISIS @ The Casbah
5/27 - Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings @ Belly Up Tavern

BBC Radio 1 Essential Mixes - Streaming Archive

Ever since the 1993 Essential Mix, a two-hour radio show on the BBC 1 radio station in the UK has brought the best DJs in the world into their studio or to play live.  The DJs mix their 'essential' favorite tracks into one seamless mix for you to groove to.  A while back I found this website that has the streaming recordings of every essential mix dating from the present all the way back to 1993.  It's A LOT of music, and what's more, it's free!  On there you can check out mixes by Flying Lotus, Faithless, The Twelves, Boyz Noize, Four Tet, Deadmau5, Tiesto, The Stanton Warriors, John Digweed, Bassment Jaxx, and Armin Van Buuren among hundreds of others.  I'll try to find a site where you can actually download these for free but until then...

Essential Mixes . net

AoC Plans Your Coachella Weekend

 Conflicts got you down?  Worried about your bad ankle when having to run from stage to stage?  Worried about not even finding the stage because you took too much (insert chemical of choice here)?  Well I've got you covered.  Here's my line-up of must sees for this coming weekend.  See you all out there in the hot-as-shit best weekend of the year.

FRIDAY:
1:00 pm @ Mojave - Jets Overhead
1:30 pm @ Gobi - P.O.S.
2:00 pm @ Mohave - Baroness
2:20 pm @ Outdoor - Deer Tick
3:00 pm @ Main - Wale
3:20 pm @ Outdoor - The Avett Brothers
4:20 pm @ Mojave - Yeasayer
5:15 pm @ Sahara - Aeroplane
5:45 pm @ Outdoor - She & Him
6:35 pm @ Main - The Specials
7:20 pm @ Outdoor - Passion Pit
7:50 pm @ Main - Them Crooked Vultures
8:30 pm @ Mojave - Grizzly Bear
9:05 pm @ Main - LCD Soundsystem
10:00 pm @ Outdoor - Vampire Weekend
10:50 pm @ Main - Jay-Z
12:00 am @ Sahara - Deadmau5
1:00 am @ Campgrounds - Bassface Sessions w/ Daedelus and The Gaslamp Killer

SATURDAY:
12:25 pm @ Outdoor - RX Bandits
1:05 pm @ Gobi - The Almighty Defenders
2:15 pm @ Gobi - Portugal. The Man
3:10 pm @ Mojave - Camera Obscura
4:00 pm @ Outdoor - The Temper Trap
5:10 pm @ Outdoor - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
6:25 pm @ Outdoor - The XX
7:00 pm @ Mojave - Dirty Projectors
7:40 pm @ Outdoor - Hot Chip
8:50 pm @ Outdoor - MGMT
9:40 pm @ Main - Muse
11:05 pm @ Outdoor - The Dead Weather
12:00 am @ Main - Tiesto OR @ Sahara - 2manyDJs
1:00 am @ Campgrounds - Bassface Sessions with Flying Lotus

SUNDAY:
12:00 pm @ Mojave - One EskimO
12:55 pm @ Mojave - The Soft Pack
1:30 pm @ Gobi - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
2:10 pm @ Gobi - Local Natives
3:00 pm @ Sahara - Rusko
3:50 pm @ Main - De La Soul
5:00 pm @ Main - Yo La Tengo
5:35 pm @ Mojave - Julian Casablancas
6:30 pm @ Main - Spoon
7:10 pm @ Outdoor - Phoenix
8:05 pm @ Sahara - Orbital
9:00 pm @ Outdoor - Thom Yorke and Atoms for Peace
10:30 pm @ Main - The motherfucking GORILLAZ

Coachella Artist of the Day #3 - B.o.B.

Rap is getting some good love at this years Coachella with Jay-Z, Dirty South, P.O.S., and the occasionally hip-hop minded Gorillaz all playing.  Also playing is the mixtape maestro (no not Lil' Wayne, he's in jail) known as B.o.B.  The Atlanta rapper has his debut 'The Adventures of Bobby Ray' about to drop on April 27th and he has put out around 5 or 6 excellent mixtapes in the past couple of years.  Notably B.o.B. has excellent samples, such as his use of the Beatles' 'Eleanor Rigby' and The Foundations' 'Build Me Up Buttercup'.  You can find links to download those tracks and more below at Muzjiks.  Just right click the links, and save em to your desktop, drop em into itunes and enjoy!  See you in the desert in 9 days!

http://muzjiksradio.blogspot.com/2010/04/bombs-over-bobby-ray.html

Coachella Artist of the Day #2 - Hot Chip

I don't really know what to make of these guys.  Some of their songs really get on my nerves but others are quite good.  People who wear bow-ties are inevitably weird so maybe that's it.  Supposedly their live show is amazing and pending their performance in the Sahara Tent, this could be an act not to be missed.  Check out their new video for the single 'I Feel Better' off their newest release 'One Life Stand' (link below).  Also, a warning, this music video is weird as fuck.  Like Jesus coming back to life and dancing the macarena with Hitler weird.

Hot Chip - I Feel Better

Coachella Artist of the Day #1 - Local Natives

With only 15 days left until my favorite weekend of the year, I've decided to count down the last couple of weeks with a little feature each day on some of the lesser known acts of the festival.  First up are the Pitchfork'd Local Natives.  Although many people rail against the aforementioned site, 80% of the time they give a great artist or group their big break (i.e. Vampire Weekend, Fleet Foxes, Titus Andronicus, Surfer Blood, and of course Animal Collective).  Local Natives are at the cross-roads of Fleet Foxes falsetto woods-folk, and Band of Horses space-folk, but with more electric guitars and at times more angst.  If you are a fan of either of those bands I guarantee you will love Local Natives debut 'Gorilla Manor'.  Stoked to check them out in a few weeks.


Here's a track:

Wide Eyes - Local Natives