Full Flex Express Tour This July, Skrillex, Diplo and Grimes will hit the road together for dates in Cananda. Pretty Lights, KOAN Sound and Tokimonsta will round out the tour. The Full Flex Express Tour takes its name after the Festival Express tour that featured The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and the Band, whom also [...]
The infamous San Francisco fog gave way to sunny skies and weather suitable for swimwear last Saturday. The temperature was raised even higher at Project Inform’s SwimWear For A Cause runway fundraiser. Project Inform is an organization that promotes activism and leadership to end HIV/AIDS. The organization was founded in 1985 and continues to educate people living [...]
On May 8, Los Angeles’ Silversun Pickups will release its newest LP, Neck of the Woods. The album is the band’s third LP on Dangerbird Records, and is the follow up to the 2009 Grammy-nominated Swoon. If you’re in San Francisco on May 9, be sure to hit up Amoeba Music for a free show at [...]
Adam Yauch died today at the age of 47. One third of the Beastie Boys, Yauch is better known to his fans wordwide as MCA. Mike Diamond (Mike D), Adam Horowitz (Ad-Rock) and Yauch formed the Beastie Boys in New York in the late 1970s. The group first started as a hardcore band. At the [...]
Today is that day of the week that Rebecca Black sings about, Friday, so that means it’s time to roll out another edition of eventseekr’s Best News Ever. There’s a whole lot of new event and tour news announcements out there on the interwebs, and our aim is to help you sort through some of [...]
In the immediate days following Coachella weekend one, post-festival depression set in, and I found myself envious of Coachella weekend two-ers for the first time since I learned the festival would be split into two consecutive weekends. Just as weekend two attendees began their Coachella journey, weekend one attendees and I began to cling to [...]
Welcome back to the eventseekr Best News Ever! Each Friday we compile a shortlist of the newest tour announcements and news on upcoming events that we think that you should definitely know about. Here’s the roundup for the week of April 20, 2012. SF OUTSIDE LANDS This year’s Outside Lands Music Festival is set [...]
The Jean Paul Gaultier retrospective at the de Young museum covers 35 years of work–that’s a lot. You feel it most acutely because the exhibition is an overload of spectacular. JPG-designed clothes in themselves would be enough: each outfit is terrifically elaborate (don’t try to figure out how many hours were spent making them or [...]
Triangle of the Squinches, which premiered in April 2011, is a dazzling work that blurs the lines between human and object, the artificial and the organic. A collaboration by legendary choreographer Alonzo King, architect Christopher Haas and the Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart, the atmospheric space that Triangle of the Squinches creates is one that enthralls. [...]
If you’re reading this, or are at all familiar with our lovely eventseekr blog, you are probably getting ready to go or wishing you could be going to Coachella. Or maybe you never had any intention of going and you’re tired of hearing about the Indio-based music festival altogether. Well, whichever group you belong to, [...]
Friday, May 11, 2012 By Nathan Cranford
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