We have two pairs of tickets to giveaway to see the Pee Wee Herman Show live at Club Nokia on Wednesday, January 13th. Please email us at rollogrady@gmail.com to claim the tickets. For further show information (click here).
Pavement have revealed details about their forthcoming “best of” album. On March 9th, the band will offer Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement, a remastered 23-track collection of their greatest hits on Matador. No unreleased material is included on the album, but includes songs spanning from 1989 to 1999. As yet there is no track listing for the double album. Fans are instead being offered the opportunity to guess which 23 songs will make up the album.
LA WEEKLY // The 10 Best L.A. Albums of the ’00s
10. SILVERSUN PICKUPS – CARNAVAS (DANGERBIRD, 2006) (Buy)
9. VARIOUS ARTISTS – DUBLAB PRESENTS … FREEWAYS
(DUBLAB/EMPEROR NORTON, 2001)
8. FIONA APPLE – EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE (SONY/EPIC, 2005)
7. QUASIMOTO – THE UNSEEN (STONES THROW, 2000)
6. ELLIOTT SMITH – FIGURE 8 (DREAMWORKS, 2000)
5. FLYING LOTUS – LOS ANGELES (WARP, 2008) (Buy)
4. JENNY LEWIS WITH THE WATSON TWINS – RABBIT FUR COAT (TEAM LOVE, 2006)
3. NO AGE – WEIRDO RIPPERS (FAT CAT, 2000)
2. J DILLA – DONUTS (STONES THROW, 2006) (Buy)
1. BECK – SEA CHANGE (GEFFEN, 2002)
J Dilla – The Diff’rence
Silversun Pickups – Common Reactor [Live Acoustic]
Flying Lotus – Roberta Flack (feat. Dolly)
[Via – Bob Lefsetz – Lefsetz Letter, January 4th]
1. Ticketmaster and Live Nation Will Merge
After public outcry lasting a week, people will move on to tracking the exploits of faux celebrities and the two companies will get down to trying to improve their bottom lines. Which will depend not so much on fees, but the artists in the Front Line stable.
Expect innovative merchandising and distribution deals. The ability to stream concerts at home. And a ton of data delivered to acts that will allow them to enhance their careers.
Will this be enough to improve Live Nation’s anemic bottom line? Will Ticketmaster be able to demonstrate growth? Unclear at this time. In a business where the lion’s share of the revenue goes to the acts, it’s hard to grow. But this is their challenge.
And if you want to compete with the behemoth, you’ve got to deliver more. And better.
Independent concert promoters must do more than pay an advance and sell tickets. They too will be forced to go high tech. Government conditions will allow independent ticketing agencies to flourish, but will they? Or will we learn that Ticketmaster does a good job (which Live Nation’s ticketing debacle proved). Or will it all come down to money. How much new agencies will kick back and how little they’re willing to profit.
The Stevenson Ranch Davidians
Recommended Los Angeles Shows – January 4th – January 9th
Monday, January 4th
The French Semester @ Echo (Free)
Tuesday, January 5th
Olin and The Moon @ Echo
Whispering Pines / Old Toy Trains / Space Waves @ Spaceland
Woodsman / Young Prisms / Bipolar Bear / Pearl Harbor @ L’Keg Gallery
The Happy Hollows @ Mint
Wednesday, January 6th
Best Coast @ Synchronicity Space
Brazzaville @ Echo
Thursday, January 7th
The Stevenson Ranch Davidians @ Spaceland
Friday, January 8th
Atlas Sound and Tune-Yards @ Natural History Museum
Sarah Silverman and Ed Helms @ Largo At The Coronet
Saturday, January 9th
Sonic Youth @ The Wiltern Theatre
Tom Rush @ Largo At The Coronet
Lower Heaven / Drew Andrews / My Pet Saddle / Eagle Winged Palace @ Redwood Bar
Tan Dollar / Italic Indians / Weed Diamond / Moon Pearl @ Echo Curio
[Via – Billboard]
“Soundgarden will reunite for concerts in 2010, according to a Twitter message from frontman Chris Cornell which directs fans to a new Web site, Soundgardenworld.com. The Seattle rock quartet — Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron — has not played live since splitting up in the spring of 1997.”
This a good thing as long as it doesn’t involve Timbaland.
