Guerilla Union, the mastermind behind The Paid Dues, Spring Gathering and Cypress Hill SmokeOut Festivals announced the line up of their flagship festival, Rock The Bells. In front of a smattering of journalists and bloggers, and for some reason Yours Truly, Supernatural freestyled the lineup the way that only he can.
The theme for this year’s festival seems to be “albums in their entirety,” as head Guerilla Chang Weisberg has somehow convinced Hip Hop legends The Wu-Tang Clan to perform their game-changing album Enter The 36 Chambers, KRS-One to perform Criminal …

At the 2010 Paid Dues Festival, Racketeers Dennis Chung and Gabriel Zuniga took a break from producing videos under the moniker of Original Knockoff, donned their finest coats, Gabe threw on the closest thing he had to bling, and they headed out to interview a slew of rappers that they knew very little about. Here we have the duo meeting up with Tech N9ne and label mates Kutt Calhoun and Krizz Kaliko.
Check the Racket Magazine YouTube Account for more interviews from Paid Dues with MC Prototype, Hopie Spithard, Afro Classics, …

So, we at Racket have done plenty to lurk around on the internet, but now you can download our 48-page Spring 2010 issue and enjoy it at whatever coffee shop that you are doing “homework” at, or when your dog pisses on your modem. With Coachella just around the corner, Racketeers give you the low-down on who to check out, who’s back together & how to avoid chaffing. We also have all the regular stuff you expect from Racket: reviews, previews, nonsense and more.

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GWAR
With uhhhh…some other bands who weren’t GWAR! (Job For a Cowboy, The Red Chord)
The Glasshouse, Pomona, CA
Here is how GWAR went:
- Pick up RacketMike
- Pick up a coupla forties and some single serving wine bottles
- Go to Pomona
- Drink booze
- Get tix
- Hear Job For a Cowboy from outside
- Go to Joey’’s BBQ for a pitcher of beer each
- Go to The Glasshouse
- GWARGWARGWARGWARbloodGWARGWARGWARObamaGWAR
- Go home
- Get bit in the face by a dog
- Booze
- Sleep
Man, GWAR rules.
–Jonathan Yost

     Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Snoop Dogg and DJ Quik concert at Club Nokia. In addition to those performances was the dance crew , The Syrenz, and Snoop Dogg Records artists, Nipsey Hussle and The Hustle Boyz. Apparently, there was quite a lot of hustlin’ goin on that night! But word, I was a little too late to catch The Syrenz and The Hustle Boyz after dealing with the hassle of parking at LA Live. It was pandemonium out there with the Lakers playing at …

FRIDAY
I’ve always considered Chicago to be America’s storage for cold, wind and uhhh, The Cubs. So, what could possibly make me go endure temperatures that I have only read about in books (the low 30’s!)? Screeching Fucking Weasel.
That’s right, Ben Weasel’s wily ass got back up to bat, and you’re damned right I traveled 2,000 miles simply for the chance that I would be able to scream along to “My Right” with one of my childhood heroes. Yes, yes, I know he’s been an asshole lately, but like a spouse …

Men Who Stare At Goats
Overture Films
8/10
Nearly every time I have seen George Clooney in a film, I think one of two things: “He was the WORST Batman” or “I wonder how E.R. ended.” Now was not one of those times. In Men Who Stare At Goats, Clooney and an accent-less Ewen MacGregor take a surreal journey through the borderlands of the U.S. military and the paranormal. I know, it’s fucking weird. However, with the help of a very despicable Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges being Dude-like once more, they pull …

Ludo
W/ Meese, Ha Ha Tonka and Without a Face
The Glasshouse, Pomona, CA
Last time I saw Ludo, they opened for Presidents of the United States of America and riding the high tide of their Love Me Dead single, now they were about to headline the night, and I have to tell you, I was pumped. So pumped I even watched ALL the opening bands.
First up was a tiny kid from Texas going by the moniker Without A Face. Clever, if not goofy, songs. Think Dashboard Confessional at the beginning and a …

The Dear Hunter
W/ Thursday, Fall Of Troy, Touche Amore
Forget the music for a moment. I have never seen so many beards on stage. Then again, I’ve never seen Bon Iver live. Beneath all the hair, The Dear Hunter was undeniably rocking the Glass House for a grand total of thirty minutes. The last time I remember thirty minutes go by so fast was when I got my first decent facial seven years ago. (No, that is not what she said.) Fortunately The Dear Hunter has a handful of dates with …

The Road
Dimension Films
(In theaters Nov. 25th)

The Road, the new film based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel,  played on November 4th at a Gala as part of AFI’s Tribute to Viggo Mortensen. The film was preceded by a Q&A session with the actor who has been a star in such films as A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, and Lord of the Rings.
The Road follows the journey of a man and his son as they make their way across a stark wasteland after an unnamed global apocalypse as they …

Jeff Tremaine is an American film and television producer/director. He, along with Johnny Knoxville and Spike Jonze, created MTV’s Jackass. He directed Jackass: The Movie, Jackass Number Two, and Jackass spinoff Wildboyz. Tremaine is the former editor of Big Brother Skateboard Magazine and a former art director of the influential BMX magazine GO as well as a former professional BMX rider. Jeff was the executive producer on the MTV reality series Rob and Big and now works as the executive producer of Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory and Nitro Circus. Following …

AFI Festival Update
Shorts Programs
I was really taken by the quality of the Lunchfilms set of shorts which did a pretty impressive job despite the constraint of the filmmakers having to use an extremely limited budget. Mike Plante is the mind behind Lunchfilm, a project based on the idea of buying filmmakers lunch and having them pay back the favor by making a movie. The catch is they have to do it for under the price of what it cost to buy their meal. Most were at the very least intriguing …

An Evening with Peaches
At what would otherwise be an age where most musical artists would consider winding down their raucous stage antics, going on hiatus, or perhaps foraying into the world of jazz, the now forty two year-old electro-clash queen Peaches is still on a seemingly never-ending quest to “Whip this party in to shape,” as the dictatorial party anthem “More” would imply. From her entrance to the end of her 2nd encore, Madame Peaches was hell bent on ensuring us that slowing down was indeed not even the last …

Where the Wild Things Are
Warner Brothers
5/10
A bunch of mopey monsters in suits, some daddy issues, and some brilliant on screen images- this is what’s to be expected from Spike Jonze’s latest flick. The adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are was highly anticipated, what with its huge childhood cult following, Maurice Sendak telling anyone who doesn’t like the movie to go to hell, and Karen O working on the soundtrack. This all sounds like the makings of a fantastic fun time for kids and adults alike, but such is not …

The story of Adam Marsland is the story of America.  From humble beginnings as a teenager playing gigs at county fairs, to a successful-yet-tumultuous career in the 1990s, he is Exhibit Number One of how artistry does not necessarily equal laboring in obscurity.  But success has not come without a price- and how staggering it is.  Dropped from two major record labels in the ‘90s and early 2000s, he has endured personal tragedy and professional setbacks on the road to becoming a Horatio Alger story of his own, including a …