Guerilla Union fresh off of doing the Paid Dues Festival, has announced the line up of the Rock The Bells Festival Tour. Jesus, after this, they have the newly announced return of the SmokeOut Festival! While the lineup has been announced, the dates of the stops have not. We’ll drop you a line when they do. Click the link to see the full lineup!

On Twitter, you can see inane babble between The Emperor and The Hottness. That’s right over HERE
You know the drill for MySpace, though we have trouble taking high angled shots of bands when we are four feet below them.
And we even have started a Flickr page for our photos! We just uploaded a bunch of great shots from the Paid Dues Festival! Also check out Ludo, Chiodos and more!
So go peruse, leave us comments that your band is playing a show a thousand miles from us or whatever it …

PAID DUES INDEPENDENT HIP HOP FESTIVAL
Saturday March 28, 2009
Atmosphere, Tech N9ne, Living Legends, Brother Ali, B-Real, Grouch & Eligh, Cage, Eyedea & Abilities, LMNO, The Bayliens, VerBS, DJ Val the Vandle, hosted by 2Mex with special guests Slaughterhouse
The annual Paid Dues Independent Hip Hop Festival boasted record attendance in its fourth year. Outdoors for the first time at the NOS, the event brought many of the expected Southern California Hip Hop heroes together along with the staple Rhymesayers acts and also threw a few curveballs in on the lineup …

Work. Eat. Sleep. It seems the average Joe’s life is a monotonous rinse and repeat. Boring and bland; lacking spice of any sort. They are always looking at the other end of the spectrum- the celebrity spectrum, that is. In comparison to the common life, superstar life appears to be more amazing. The celebrity life glitters; the nobody life dulls. To us, the VIP life is a 24/7 party, free drinks all around! Over the past week, the famed life had its share of make-ups, break-ups, and potential lock-ups.
Jennifer Love-Hewitt …

ISIS
Wavering Radiant
Ipecac Recordings
10/10
Considering the way this band’s general sound has discreetly evolved over the span of their career, leading up to their 2006 melodic masterpiece In the Absence of Truth, I was cynically unprepared to enjoy Wavering Radiant nearly as much as I do (that’s not to say I expected it to suck – I generally trust anything these guys spit out). I think this is their best, most mature album to date. It comes off as a more structured piece, flowing together nicely from beginning to end in a …

Golden Bear
Everest EP
C-Side Records
7/10
Golden Bear’s new EP has a unique harmonizing effect between the voice and the rhythm guitar, on the first track anyway… The guitarist seems to have a knack for playing in a chord range the singer’s voice harmonizes well with. This makes me wonder if that’s why they call it, “Pop” music- where the voice is amplified by the harmonizing of the guitar with the voice. The music scholar inside laughs at this, and continues to listen to the album.
The guitarists take some interesting departures at …

Flying has always been an escape for me. Ever since I was 12, I’ve always looked forward to the prospect of taking to the air and touching down hours later in an unknown city, urgently awaiting the street to give up its secrets the moment I encountered ground transportation. Such was my expectations during an indirect flight to Seattle earlier in April. Departing one fine morning, I had high hopes of letting the cacophony that is Pike Street wash over me the same way that countless other cities have done. …

The Great Buck Howard
Bristol Bay Productions
6/10
The world of “The Great” Buck Howard is one of bad suits, toothy grins, outrageous claims, and faded has-been memories. The one thing Buck knows though, is that everybody loves a good show. Both Buck, played by John Malkovich, and the film deliver a fun and entertaining experience. At first Malkovich may seem like an unusual choice to cast, but he successfully brings humanity and intensity to a role that could have easily been reduced to an empty caricature and …

Take Action Tour 2009
featuring Cute Is What We Aim For
with Breath Carolina, Meg and Dia, Every Avenue and Anarbor
Newport Music Hall
March 31st, 2009
Columbus, OH
First things first: the Take Action Tour Myspace page stated the show would begin at 8pm. So I stroll up at 8:30 and make my way inside, figuring the opening band should go on soon. No one is on stage and all the lights are on so I assume I was just in time when five teenage boys dressed like Rev. Norb from Boris the Sprinkler (but …