Wednesday Intermezzo: Fancy Pants
Les Claypool and his Fancy Band are embarking on a major tour beginning in May and wrapping up in July. Up-and-coming rock duo Two Gallants will open most of the shows. The members of the Fancy Band haven’t been announced, but a good guess would be Skerik, Mike Dillon, Gabby La La, and Paulo Baldi. What else?
- The Vapour Brothers website features a video of Radiohead in the studio
- Greyboy Allstars, Lotus, and Galactic are among the bands that have been added to the Trancegression lineup
- Jethro Tull is hitting the states for some dates in the fall
- 17 Dots lists the 20 best Pavement songs
- Soulive has signed with the revived Stax label
- Chris Rockswell of Spank Rock talks with Pitchfork about new projects
- Former Grateful Dead handler, Rock Scully, has produced a one-hour oral history of the Summer of Love
- Little Stevie is getting the vibe that Bruce Springsteen is writing new material for a potential E Street Band album
- Lollapalooza tickets won’t have additional service charges
- Nine music videos featuring animals
- The Beach Boys lost a $60 million intellectual property lawsuit
- Polka Floyd presents an interesting twist on the music of Pink Floyd
- Phanfest 3.0 will be held at Mariaville, NY’s Indian Lookout Country Club
- Gothamist covers Iggy Pop and the Stooges at the United Palace
- Own a piece of the soon-closing Tonic, like an Espresso Machine
- The complete idiot’s guide to John Hiatt
- Check out this hilarious gossip item on The Police’s new album
- Robert Randolph & FB announced some spring and summer tourdates
- Less untz per capita: Disco Biscuits’ Barber goes solo on 4/26
Comprehensive, but let us know if we missed anything in this link dump…











Spank Rock’s “Shake It Til My Dick Turns Racist” is basically the best song title of all-time.
Confirmed
10 Heddy points to Lollapalooza for the all inclusive ticket price. Hopefully some other events will do the same in the future
Recall on tylenol….
Tylenol murders. Tylenol maker. Keep moving tylenol….
Rolex dealers….
Fake rolex. Refurbished rolex. Rolex….