Di Rosa PreserveWhen you live in the Bay Area, you are solicited for advice on the regular from faraway friends and family on what to see when visiting your part of the Golden State. Nine times out of ten, when you tell them about the cutty little “not-in-the-guidebook” spots that will give them a true taste of Boca de California, they proceed to ignore that advice and spend large blocks of time at heinous Fisherman’s Wharf tourist traps. Read more

qotsa_color3.jpgWill you be in or near Chicago on Tuesday, July 3? Join ALARM at our release party for Issue 27!

Bring your friends and fireworks to Delilah’s for the celebration. We’ll be playing Era Vulgaris, the new record from Queens Of The Stone Age, and giving away copies of the new issue of ALARM Magazine with them on the cover. PLUS, we’ll be buying all the drinks from 8pm - 10pm thanks to Izze Sparkling Juice and Level Vodka! Read more

Akron/FamilyGiving other blue-collar bands a run at being the hardest working outfit in the ever-burgeoning spectrum of indie folk, Akron/Family have announced fall tours in North America and Europe to coincide with the release of Love is Simple, their second full-length album. Read more

McPherson HellboyWith just over a year until the release of the highly anticipated sequel to Hellboy, the movie successfully adapted from the Dark Horse comic book of the same name, artistic cross-promotion is already being ramped up in the form of limited-edition toys. Read more

David Lynch: SnowmenPresent-day renaissance man David Lynch is set to release a companion collection of photographs as a retrospective of latest - and largest - exhibition, The Air is On Fire, at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. Read more

Erik Mongrain
Fates, the first album by finger-tapping phenomenon Erik Mongrain, is spinning in the ALARM office this week. Read more

QOTSA
Palm Desert, California is part of a chain of sun-baked communities (the most famous being Palm Springs) located in the Coachella Valley about two hours east of Los Angeles. Temperatures in the valley can climb over 115 degrees in the summer. It’s a dry heat. The restaurants set up outdoor misting systems to irrigate their customers like ferns. The golf courses are carefully maintained, but on the outskirts of town you won’t find a single blade of grass - just miles and miles of stony, colorless desert. Read more

Stelios FaitakisStelios Faitakis comes up with some pretty odd characters. A Japanese goth in kabuki-style make-up plays keyboard above a unruly group of onlookers who are perched on a life-sized chessboard; an anguished military man gnaws on his own hand amongst the brambles and piles of sand in an otherworldly desert.

All are eerie and vaguely unsettling, but the artist makes each of them somewhat divine by washing them in liquid gold. Read more

eric robersonEric Roberson has been making music for over ten years and on his latest release, …Left, he showcases that modern day soul still has a heartbeat. His voice is distinctive and strong; his music is personal and meaningful. Read more

Dungen #2
The primary raw material for Dungen’s music is time. By now, you’ve almost certainly heard about the shaggy Swede’s “retro” psychedelic washes, his love for Jimi Hendrix, and his penchant for heady jams that recall the folk, rock, and psychedelia of the late ’60s and early ’70s. Read more

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