Watch Pentatonix’s cover of Macklemore’s Thrift Shop and catch them live March 7th!

16 January 6 Permalink

Yo La Tengo released their album Fade yesterday. To celebrate, they stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to perform Ohm. Check out Fred Armisen on drums!

You can also watch the performance of I’ll Be Around here. Catch Yo La Tengo with Calexico on January 31st.  

16 January 3 Permalink

Wednesday, March 20, 2013
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
with Dan Deacon

General Admission $25adv/$27.50dos | Balcony [general admission]
Doors 7:00 pm / Show 8:00 pm 
All Ages [Balcony 21+] :: $2 Minor Surcharge at Door

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CENTIPEDE Hz is the tenth full length Animal Collective album following the widely celebrated Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) and also the first since Strawberry Jam (2007) to feature all four original band members: Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin. As the album’s opening bars of drum crashes and radio interference on ‘Moonjock’ immediately make clear, having returned as a four piece, Animal Collective have made their most widescreen and fully realized music to date. 

14 January 2 Permalink

ON SALE FRIDAY 1/11 AT 5PM!
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
HOODIE ALLEN
with AER

General Admission $20adv/$22.50dos | Balcony [closed]
Doors 7:00 pm / Show 8:00 pm 
All Ages :: $2 Minor Surcharge at Door

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Putting a bit more pop into the pop-rap of folks like Asher Roth and Sam Adams, rapper Hoodie Allen went from Internet favorite to charting artist with the release of his 2012 EP All American. Born Steven Markowitz and raised on Long Island, Hoodie was frat-rap from the beginning, having met producer RJF during an Alpha Epsilon Pi-hosted party at the University of Pennsylvania. The two would release the street albums Bagels & Beats and Making Waves and win MTV’s Best Music on Campus Award in 2009, but his big hit came with the 2010 track “You Are Not a Robot,” which sampled Marina and the Diamonds’ hit “I Am Not a Robot” and landed on his popular mixtape Pep Rally. A headlining tour across the States followed before Hoodie made his official debut with the All American EP in 2012. Released on his own label, the EP debuted at number ten on Billboard’s Top Albums. 

9 January 3 Permalink

ON SALE FRIDAY 1/11 AT 5PM!
Thursday, March 21, 2013
MAJOR LAZER
with Lunice, Angel Haze

General Admission $22.50adv/$25dos | Balcony [closed]
Doors 7:00 pm / Show 8:00 pm 
All Ages :: $2 Minor Surcharge at Door

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web: majorlazer.com
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Years after the zombie apocalypse ravaged the galaxy, Major Lazer went into isolation after bringing peace and order to Earth. With the help of a mysterious shadow government called Cinco he was cryogenically frozen as a safeguard for the future’s wellbeing. Despite a great many years of pursuing peace on the planet, a new threat began to loom on the horizon and the commando was brought out of sleep by the Committee of Five. This intergalactic group faced an opponent that only Major Lazer could defend against: his former superior and commander General Rubbish. Rubbish had come out of deep space hiding with a new weapon…Terror Lazor and was set out to enslave and capture all of Earth’s allies to seize inter-galactic planetary control and then destroy Earth. With dwindling resources to defend Earth and it’s allies, the Committee of Five brought Major Lazer out of cryogenic slumber. He was assigned a partner, the female assassin known only as Knife Fight. Together they set out to FREE THE UNIVERSE, beginning on the fortuitous date of February 19th, 2013. 

7 January Permalink

ON SALE FRIDAY 1/11 AT NOON!
Saturday, March 23, 2013
OWL CITY
with Echosmith

General Admission $22adv/$25dos | Balcony [general admission]
Doors 7:00 pm / Show 8:00 pm 
All Ages [Balcony 21+] :: $2 Minor Surcharge at Door

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When it came time to record The Midsummer Station, Adam Young’s third album as Owl City, the Minnesota native set himself the following challenge: “Over the past several years I’d become fascinated with trying to capture magic in a jar through simple, concise pop songs,” he says. “I saw it as a great challenge to try to come up with catchy, unique, and memorable songs because it was a new method of songwriting I’d never approached before. I believe artists should never look back or repeat themselves and this was a new frontier for me.” 

To create the instantly memorable, feel-good moments he envisioned, Young sought out co-writers and outside producers for the first time, enlisting his friend Matt Thiessen (Relient K), Stargate (Rihanna, Wiz Khalifa), and the team of Josh Crosby, Nate Campany, and Emily Wright (the latter kn¬own for her work with Dr. Luke). “I made my first two records on my own without any outside help and learned that it’s easy to overthink what you do by allowing yourself to become too emotionally invested in what you’re doing,” Young says. “Initially, I was anxious about letting other people co-pilot the solo endeavor I’d always played close to the chest, but it was exhilarating not having 100 percent control over what happened. In the end for me, it’s all about trying new things as an artist. Working with other writers taught me to care about a song as a piece of art created to reach people versus worrying about getting the final say or having my own way. Collaborating kills off a lot of ego and pride issues and that’s a really healthy thing.” 

7 January 1 Permalink