PRNewswire — Greyhound is offering a $39 round-trip fare for customers traveling to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. This one-time discounted fare is available Thursday, April 16 through Tuesday, April 21 for customers traveling to Indio, Calif., or Palm Springs, Calif., from several Southern California cities.

“We are excited to be able to provide transportation to music and art enthusiasts who want to travel to the Coachella Festival,” said Gary Graley, vice president, revenue development. “We understand these are difficult economic times and customers are looking for ways to save money, and Greyhound has a long standing history of providing safe and economical travel.”

Discounted tickets for the festival are available in the following cities in California only:

* Anaheim
* Claremont
* El Monte
* Glendale
* Hollywood
* Indio
* Los Angeles
* Long Beach
* North Hollywood
* Norwalk
* Palm Springs
* San Fernando
* Santa Ana

The Black Angels

MP3: Black Lipstick – B.O.B. F.O.S.S.E.
MP3: Black Taj – L.A. Shift
MP3: Black Angels – Better Off Alone
MP3: Black Moth Super Rainbow & The Octopus Project – Elq Milq
MP3: Blackball False, Truth! – Knives Chau Luvs LCD

John McCauley III of Deer Tick

Interesting choice of songs that John covers.

MP3: Deer Tick – Beautiful Girls (Sean Kingston)
MP3: Deer Tick – Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon)
MP3: Deer Tick – What Kind Of Fool Am I? (Anthony Newley)

Related Posts – New Deer Tick Track ‘Easy’ (Click Here)

Download:
Deer Tick – War Elephant (iTunes)

By Antony Bruno, Denver – Billboard
“Music social network MOG relaunched today to become, in the words of founder and CEO David Hyman, the “Huffington Post of the music business.”

Billboard sat with Hyman to discuss the relaunch, the strategy behind it and what’s to come for the social network.” Continue Reading

David Hyman

Related Posts – Rollo & Grady Interview with David Hyman (Click Here)

Dinosaur Jr. is coming to town for two nights in June. They are scheduled to play at the Troubadour on June 22nd and 23rd. J. Mascis and company are releasing their forthcoming album, Farm on June 23rd via Jagjaguwar. I expect the 23rd to be a special show. For ticket info (Click Here).

Keep in mind that Wilco is playing the same nights across town at The Wiltern.

MP3: Dinosaur Jr. – Almost Ready (Live)

From VatorNews:
In the midst of record labels cracking down on Online music piracy, (like last week’s announcement of Seeqpod filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy while facing lawsuits with Warner and EMI), a new company is once again trying to change the way users consume music on the Web.

The company seeks to, ‘reinvent radio for the Internet generation,’ by providing its users a free platform in which they can create their own radio stations, similar to Online radio pioneers Last.fm and Pandora. The company will be ad supported. Continue Reading

The Indio Police Department has issued a traffic advisory from 10 a.m. Friday through midnight Sunday during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo grounds.

Jefferson Street, southbound, from Indio Boulevard to Avenue 52
Monroe Street, southbound, from I-10 to Avenue 52
Highway 111 at Jefferson Street
Highway 111 at Monroe Street
I-10 exit eastbound at Jefferson Street
I-10 exit eastbound at Monroe Street

Road closures:
Avenue 49 at Monroe Street
Avenue 50 between Jackson Street and Madison Street
Hjorth Street between Avenue 49 and Avenue 50
Madison Street between Avenue 49 and Avenue 50
Roads will be converted to one-way after 11 p.m.
Roads adjacent to the event will be converted to one-way to facilitate exiting traffic at the conclusion of the festival each evening.

Avenue 52 will be eastbound only from Madison Street to Monroe Street.

Capsula is a band from Buenos Aires that currently resides in Bilbao, Spain. Capsula, Spanish for Capsule, is named after a lyric from the David Bowie classic ‘Space Oddity.’ The group has been around since 1997, and have toured the world extensively. They recently played SXSW, where they caught the eye of Rolling Stone magazine critic David Fricke. He became an instant fan and selected them as one of his Fricke’s Picks.

I’m digging their new album, Rising Mountains. Highlights include ‘Magnetic Brain’, ‘Wild C’, ‘Original Is Dead’, ‘Found & Lost’ and ‘The Sea Cave.’

Related Posts: Rollo & Grady SXSW – Watchlist – Volume #2

MP3: Capsula – Girl! Whip Up the Sound
MP3: Capsula – Run Run Run (Velvet Underground)

Download:
Capsula – Rising Mountains (iTunes)