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TODAY & WEDS, Select Tickets for Slightly Stoopid's Legalize It Tour in San Diego, CA are $10So Cal. pick up TICKETS for the 7/17 San Diego show TODAY ONLY for $10.00!! Save your money and pick up some party favors for the show. This price is all in so you will pay NO SERVICE FEES. We encourage all of you to grab these discounted tickets while they are still available!
7/17 San Diego, CA - Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre - $10 TICKETS
- Weezer, Cold War Kids, Hot Hot Heat, Bedouin Soundclash, Iration to play at the U.S. Open of Surfing
If you’re planning on attending the 2010 U.S. Open of Surfing next month and you enjoy good music, then listen to this. Several well-known bands will be jamming on the sand on the southside of the Huntington Beach Pier for five days of the big event. They include Weezer, Cold War Kids, Hot Hot Heat, Bedouin Soundclash, Iration, Switchfoot, Cobra Starship, Street Drum Corps, The Soft Pack, Timmy Curran and others.
“This is the strongest music lineup to play alongside competitive surfing in Huntington Beach in 50-plus years,” said Sandy Bodecker, VP of Action Sports, Nike Inc. “It should be a great experience for fans to end a full day of competition with music of this caliber – all on the beach.”
The U.S. Open of Surfing presented by Hurley runs Saturday, July 31 through Sunday, August 8. For more info. check out usopenofsurfing.com.
Yeah boys! Iration looking sharp on that killer line up. It looks like they really pulled out the stops on the band budget this year
- What Twitter Places Means for the Future of Location
Despite the bungled launch and short hiatus, Twitter Places is back in action. The feature has huge implications for the geo-location space and the location-sharing movement.
Places is a big improvement on Twitter’s (
) previous geo-location offering, which was never widely adopted or embraced by the majority of users. Whereas before users had to adjust their settings and agree to posting every single tweet with their geo-coordinates, now Twitterers are presented with an elegant way to attach a place to their tweet, one tweet at a time.Right now Places is a Twitter web and mobile experience only, but soon developers will integrate the Places API into their applications and services. Only then will we see Twitter Places reach its full potential. If Twitter can fix the issues crippling the service, then Places has the power to turn location-sharing into a mainstream behavior and significantly boost interest in applications like Foursquare (
) — not to mention the monetization potential of location-based ads.via mashable.comInteresting. I agree though and don't think that Foursquare is going anywhere. A friend of mine who works over at The Viper Room (@BerkoRules) said that those little badges cost $15K/ MONTH to maintain, that they have 3 months backlog, and that they aren't accepting any new badge applications at the moment. They were looking into them I believe for the Sunset Strip Music Festival.
- 2 buses, 1 free shuttle = LAX in 40 minutes
That was too easy. Flight is at 12. Now what am I gonna do?
- Food stamp usage drastically rises in Gulf region following oil spill.
In addition to the environmental devastation that BP’s oil disaster has caused, the spill has also destroyed the livelihoods of countless people who live on the southeastern coast of the United States who depend on jobs based along the Gulf of Mexico. Florida’s Capitol News Service reports today that food stamp applications have “soared” along the Florida coast following the spill:Applications for food stamps in Panhandle counties have soared since oil began gushing from the broken BP pipe leak. Since May 1st application are up 15 percent. The Department of Children and Families is keeping separate data to track people who qualify for food stamps because the oil has destroyed their careers. Don Winstead is the Welfare Advisor for DCF. He says along with the growing need for food assistance is a growing need for councilors to help families going through hard times.
“Being not only in the food stamp program and other benefit programs but also seen through our mental health program also. One of the things we typically do after disaster is increase our counseling capacity because people are going to be affected in a variety of ways,” said Winstead.
The number of people seeking assistance in coastal Louisiana has reportedly gone up as well. Second Harvest Food Bank in New Orleans tells McClatchy newspapers that it has seen “at least a 15 percent jump in new families requesting services.” Additional funding for food stamps benefits was originally in the Senate’s unemployment “extenders” legislation, but it was removed in the hopes of getting conservative votes — a tactic that didn’t work as the bill once again failed to advance today.
- HARD Fest featured artist: Sleigh Bells
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FEATURED ARTIST
As soon as you mention to your friends that you are excited to see SLEIGH BELLS perform at HARD this July, you will notice everyone starts talking.
Your friend who hasn't heard their album might ask, "Sleigh Bells - is that like Slayer... or like christmas carols?"
Perhaps the best answer here is "both at the same time."
Look at the duo's album cover. A Polaroid of cheerleaders mid-pyramid, their faces eerily smudged out, is a fitting disclaimer of the punishingly mean party-pop duality you hold in your hands. Each song bares its masculine and feminine strengths through Derek Miller's brash sonics and Alexis Krauss' broad range of hypnotics. It's all rhythm and somehow all melody; utterly methodical and wholly unpredictable; totally familiar and yet blazingly fresh.
If you already know the charming back story, you might skip ahead: Krauss (ex-pop-girl-band turned school teacher) and Miller (ex-hardcore-band turned restaurant staff) meet when Derek is waiting tables. Alexis and her mother are having lunch; Derek is their server. Derek's boldness and Alexis's sweetness induce fate. She's the voice he has been looking for. Soon their lo-fi bedroom demos score them a few key New York performances. This builds quickly towards ridiculously exclusive industry showcases. Lines of eager fans stretch around the block in vain.
One of these fateful nights, the duo are proving to another audience of tastemakers that Sleigh Bells, above all others, are the energetic performance that you must see this year. M.I.A. is in this audience. She immediately concocts a plan to sign them to her new N.E.E.T. record label, and succeeds.
Just in time for the summer of 2010, their highly anticipated debut arrives. 'Treats' scores in a big way with fans, pirates, and critics (Pitchfork 8.7, Paste 9.3, Popmatters 9). Reports from the band's sold-out gigs spread nationwide. Their booming show delivers what the laptop era had forgotten -- real riffs come from loud guitars and possessed performances come from powerful singers.
For many of you, your only chance to see this explosive live duo in 2010 is at HARD LA on July 17th or HARD NYC on July 24th. Get tickets for each festival (featuring M.I.A., Die Antwoord, Sleigh Bells and much more) here:
HARD LA / M.I.A. Saturday, July 17th
HARD NYC / M.I.A. Saturday, July 24th
- Rock the Vote: Enter to Win tickets to Slightly Stoopid's Legalize It Tour
Here's the deal: Slightly Stoopid is playing a show in Vegas this Friday and then Phoenix on Sat June 26. You want to be there? You've got to enter the ticket give-away. It's really easy to do. Just fill out the form, hit submit and wait by your mobile phone and we'll text you if you've won.
Oh, there's a slight catch. We've go to get the names of the winners to the ticket booth by Friday at noon pacific. So you don't have much enter. So you better do it now.
Friday night's show: Hard Rock Pool Las VegasSaturday night's show: Celebrity Theatre Phoenix
Want more details on the show? Click here to learn all about.
*Transportation to the show will not be providedClick here for the give-away rules
via rockthevote.com
