While everyone was partying on the polo fields at this past weekend’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, a very reliable sourcein the concert world revealed that iconic shoegazers My Bloody Valentine will bring their reunion tour to the West Coast this fall.

MBV will play the famed Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in September in support [...]

Everyone’s favorite former drug addict extraordinaire, the incomparable Lou Reed, hits the road this summer in partial support of the soon-to-be-released documentary celebrating Reed’s famous flop of an album, Berlin.

The documentary, entitled Berlin, is the pet project of Oscar-nominated director Julian Schnabel, who filmed the legendary rocker performing the album in its entirety over a series of [...]

Last night, Omaha, Nebraska tap-dancing, stomp-and-clapping, sparkletastic darlings, Tilly and the Wall, returned to Los Angeles for the first time since Spring 2006, performing to a sold-out crowd at the Echo in Echo Park.
The band—featuring regular members Neely Jenkins, Kianna Alarid, Derek Pressnall, Jamie Pressnall, and Nick White, as well as a visiting guitar player [...]

Omaha, Nebraska natives Tilly and the Wall are hitting the road in a few days and are set to release their third album on Saddle Creek’s baby sister label, Team Love, this summer. What a better way to bring a little Tilly back into our lives than a brand new, totally neontastic, Katrina-esque music video?
The [...]

After the surprising ticket demand for their February 29th show at the Henry Fonda Music Box, Canadian electronica duo MSTRKRFT(pronounced “master -kraft”) has added a second show date for March 2nd at the El Rey Theatre.

Known for their super dancetastic, bleep-infused triptronica style, MSTRKRFT took hold of the electronica scene with the 2006 release of [...]

Exposition Park—SketchyTown’s discordant neighbor to the south—and its mismatched monuments and museums rarely invoke images of rampant hipsterdom. Sure, the enormous effigies of a Tyrannosaurus Rex and a Stegosaurus battling to the death along the park’s Exposition Blvd. border are pretty trendtastic and Katrina-approved, but the constant construction and shady visitors which plague the once thriving [...]

For all of you who had tickets to tonight’s Hot Chip concert at the El Rey Theatre, you probably discovered that the show had been postponed due to an illness in the band.
Contact Goldenvoice for more information. The concert WILL be rescheduled, so hold tight to those tickets—or else, we might snatch them from you!

Pennsylvania psychedelic dreamscape weavers Black Moth Super Rainbow might bring their sugary-sweet, retrotastic stage show to a small piece venue near you this spring. The five-piece band based out of Pittsburgh is hitting the road in support of their newest record, Dandelion Gum, released in the Summer of 2007 on Graveface Records.

Black Moth Super Rainbow—or, more [...]

Hot Chip, everyone’s favorite electropoppers from across the pond, release their newest album, titled Made in the Dark, on February 5th.

The album, a follow-up to 2006’s acclaimed hit The Warning, has hit downloading sites with tracks overdubbed by an annoying robot voice announcing the album’s release every thirty seconds. Luckily, we were able to pull some [...]

…and it’s a lackluster one at that.
Click here to see the official Coachella 2008 poster.