@jimmyeatworld & @flo_tweet presales!

i'm a tad late on the update, but you should still be able to get in on the jimmy eat world presale. info below...

Florence and The Machine with Group Love
@ The Wiltern [ticket link] on Sunday, November 7

Presale starts: NOW!
Presale ends: Thu, Jul 29 at 10pm
Use Password: venue
Public Onsale: Fri, Jul 30 at 10am

Jimmy Eat World with We Were Promised Jetpacks
@ The Wiltern [ticket link] on Wednesday, September 29

Presale starts: Thu, Jul 29 at 11am
Presale ends: Thu, Jul 29 at 10pm
Use Password: invented or KROQ
Public Onsale: Fri, Jul 30 at 10am

go steady with me

[tegan & sara - on directing music vid]


anyone going to the honda civic tour w/ tegan & sara opening for paramore?

TODAY ONLY: @theswellseason @sheandhim hollywood bowl tix giveaway!

hello y'all:

the fine folks over at the hollywood bowl have been kind enough to offer a giveaway of a pair of tickets via my blog to the swell season/ she & him/ the bird and the bee show happening THIS SUNDAY, july 18, 2010.  please do enter!

email me the following info BEFORE 5:00PM TODAY (i.e. THURSDAY, july 15, 2010), and i'll pick a random reader to win a pair of tix. GIVE ME ALL YOUR INFOS (EMAIL ME @ EMOKIDSBFF(at)GMAIL(dot)com):
- first and last name
- email
- phone number

as i do not have said tickets in my hand atm, i have no idea what seats you'll get. who knows-- they may be better than the seats i have!

please only enter if you are able to attend. if you're the winner (aren't we all), i will contact you... if you don't respond within a reasonable time frame to confirm that you will accept the tickets, i will pick another winner. so STAY ALERT.

PLEASE RT/RE-POST AND SPREAD THE WORDZ. kthx, and happy thursday!

livenation presale: florence + the machine @wiltern

Florence and The Machine
Saturday, November 6
The Wiltern

Presale starts: Thu, Jul 15 at 10am
Presale ends: Thu, Jul 15 at 10pm
Use Password: venue
Public Onsale: Fri, Jul 16 at 10am
[ticket link]

i won't be in town (going to see some awesome people get married... to each other), so buy away!

summer and fall @ the hollywood bowl

guess who i'm excited to see next weekend? check out the spectacular schedule for the hollywood bowl.

July 18th: The Swell Season/She & Him/The Bird and the Bee [tix]
i've never seen she & him live, so my MOST anticipated band for the night vote goes to them.  they'll be backed (in part) by a band called the chapin sisters (check out a free d/l of their song "digging a hole" here, as well as a rad cover of britney spears' "toxic" on their myspace page). i've never seen once (movie site here) but i have heard many a good thing about the swell season, so that should be epic as well.  it'll be my first time picnic-ing at the hollywood bowl, so i'm going to say a little prayer to the weather gods... be good to me, please!

August 29: Chemical Brothers/Chromeo/Yacht [tix]

Sept. 18th: Phoenix/Grizzly Bear/Girls [tix]
seriously contemplating checking this one out. phoenix!

Sept. 19th: Viva Mexico! [tix]

Sept. 26th: Vampire Weekend/Beach House/The Very Best [tix]
vampire weekend was definitely one of those bands that i REALLY did not want to like. i mean, really. i resisted for a really long time. for one, their name had the word vampire in it... and you all know how annoyingly-into-twilight i am (say it out loud... say it). secondly, everyone was raving about them. EVERYONE. which made me feel like this.  now i'm tired of resisting. it's going to be awesome.

Sept. 30: Pavement/Sonic Youth/No Age [tix]

waiting for the day we're both safe in LA

gold motel is greta morgan's (pssst: formerly greta salpeter of the hush sound) debut solo effort. after packing her bags, greta, an illinois native (i mean, according to wikipedia), headed out to the golden coast of southern california to write some songs... songs which would eventually become summer house, gold motel's full length album which was released on june 1, 2010.

you can actually stream the whole album here on their myspace page. purchase a copy of summer house from their webstore or send yourself (or your friends) a personalized (handmade and screen printed) postcard from greta herself. Why? Because snail mail is fun! we should be best friends, greta.

[gold motel - we're on the run (music vid)]


[gold motel - perfect in my mind (music vid)]


spin.com has an exclusive video for "safe in la" here. now, if only it'd start being summer and we'd stop having so much june gloom and random spurts of rain around here...

eclipse

I KNOW, I'M SORRY YOU GUISE, I HATE TO ADMIT THIS BUT: I WENT TO SEE ECLIPSE at a midnight showing and I KIND OF REALLY LIKED IT. THE FILM. the dismembering and decapitating was pretty rad. bryce dallas howard and kstew's wigs were not, however. but i'm very forgiving.

"Eclipse (All Yours)"

METRIC | MySpace Music Videos

i forgot to add: happy birthday, america.