Conan O’Brien has come out of hiding and has announced his “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour” hitting 30 cities around the country, including our fair city of Dallas on May 13th at SMU, and also including a stop at Bonnaroo. Tickets appear to be on sale today, most of the dates are on sale here. Full list of dates below.
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Well in honor of STP playing SXSW next week, I thought we would take a gander back at an album I rocked way back in high school, the Stone Temple Pilots’ Core. Not really sure how well this one holds up to the test of time, it still has some songs that rock a little bit, but this album is unmistakeably from the ‘grunge’ era and makes no bones about it, and in that sense maybe it is a little dated sounding. I think their follow up record was probably more popular and maybe better regarded at this point, but this is straight ahead grung-y Marshall’ed out guitars and gruff vocals 101. Regardless, I’m sure that they will have a solid showing at SXSW, and were I to be in Austin it would be worth exploring purely for the curiosity factor. I would also like to go ahead and nominate this Sunday as “Naked Sunday”, that is all.

Stone Temple Pilots – Creep – From Core
Stone Temple Pilots – Plush – From Core

This Saturday, Dallas once again celebrates its finest day of the year, St. Patrick’s Day.  There is no logic or reason as to why Dallas goes so bananas for this particular holiday, but it certainly beats all others in this fine city.  Below is a compilation of events that are going to be happening this Saturday (Dallas only) for the holiday, and I may be adding to said list thoroughout the day or tomorrow, so check early, check often, and I’ll see you Saturday. 

31st Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade | Greenville Avenue | Info
Parking Lot Party | Blackfriar Pub (Their website is useless.)
All Day Tent Party | Idle Rich Pub (Their website is useless.)
Patio Party | Granada Theater (No cover.)
Granada Theater Afternoon Show | Jonathan Tyler & the Northern Lights | Tickets
Granada Theater After Party | Soul Hat (Really?) | Tickets
Party With Elvis (Impersonator, Kraig Parker) | Ozonas | Info
Dick Dale | Trees | Tickets
Salim Nourallah | HOB | Tickets
Tower of Power | HOB | Tickets
80s Night in the Voodoo Lounge | HOB | Tickets
Aaron Lewis | Palladium | Tickets
Ramonahs vs. Miss Fits | Cavern | Info
King Bucks | The Dubliner | Info
Multiple Band Showcase and Party | Barley House | Info
Sueffer Family Players | The Pour House | Info
Pavlov’s Dogs Improv Comedy | Pocket Sandwich Theater | Info

For Grins: Last Year’s Entry

The new album “High Violet” will drop on May 11th, but last night the greatness of The National dropped by Jimmy Fallon to debut a new track from the record called “Terrible Love”. Enjoy.

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Julian Casablancas and the entire Strokes crew will drop LP 4 in September of this year.  In the same article, they report that the sixth headliner for Lollapalooza 2010 will be Phoenix (along with The Strokes, Lady GaGa, Arcade Fire, Soundgarden and *vomits* Green Day). 

Also, Julian Casablancas is a fake name, right?

Here is last night’s performance of “The High Road” from Broken Bells (James Mercer and Danger Mouse) from Letterman.

Here is Yeasayer with their video for “O.N.E.” from their incredible new album Odd Blood, which I recently reviewed (and loved) here on the site.

This is a band that is up and coming and will be hitting up SXSW shortly. They have some good epic, guitar rock kinds of songs, some instrumentals and some more ballad-y type songs on this record. They remind me a bit of Longwave or a band like that, certainly a good ear for a pop hook and a good ear for matching everything together in a very polished way. Some of the songs on the album work better than others, but I imagine their wall of sound approach would be a good one to check out live, especially if you are looking around for new bands to check out in Austin at SXSW, they would certainly be on my list to peep out and see what they are all about. They are from Dublin and have some great shoe-gaze-y, wall of sound/distortion rock songs that work very well, check it out. They have a few major market dates leading up to their stop in Austin, check out the list of dates below.

Butterfly Explosion 2010 Tour Dates:
14 Mar – Pianos – NYC
15 Mar – Crashin In presents @ Cameo Gallery – Brooklyn, NY
16 Mar – Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL
17-21 Mar – SXSW – Austin, TX (showcases TBA)

Butterfly Explosion – Closer – From Lost Trails
Butterfly Explosion – Chemistry – From Lost Trails

MGMT today is offering at their website a free download of new track “Flash Delirium”, which is the first song from their upcoming album due April 13th, Congratulations (and yes, that is the cover art above). Click on over to their website to download it for free, yo!