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Chili's Radio: Your Prayers Have Been Answered

Do you go to Chili's for the music? Do you sometimes hear a great song while enjoying a Fajita Trio, and wish you knew who that artist was? Well, the chain restaurant has created an online radio network that allows listeners to have some semblance of the restaurant experience in their own home, which mostly involves discovering what passes for bar rock in 2008. (The answer: white reggae.) Full disclosure: my disrespectful tone toward Chili's may have something to do with the awful 21st birthday I spent there, for reasons too embarrassing to detail. More »

11:30 AM on Mon May 19 2008
By Anthony Miccio
439 views, 6 comments

Latest by n/a: I would like to commend Chili's for being the only chain restaurant that offers beer battered chicken tenders, rather than breaded. Well done; you are the gold standard of mediocrity. more »

jack johnson must have made other plans

Tough Break, West Coast Unwashed: No Vegoose This Year

Aat this point, you're probably so sick of festival news (although the lineup for the London Auto Show has been announced!) that a festival un-announcement at least represents something of a reprieve. So! The Las Vegas mini-Bonnaroo Vegoose seems to be kaput, with attendance in recent years never quite reaching the heights of its 2005 inaugural run. To the organizers' credit, Vegoose ran a slightly different show, with the festival itself running during daylight hours and ticketed concerts taking place in local casinos and theatres at night. Clever enough, but sort of crappy for the dude who spent all day in the sun and then is forced to buy another ticket to check out Dave jamming at the Hard Rock. The acts that have played the festival during its short run are relatively impressive, with Daft Punk bringing its giant pyramid last year. But if you were hoping to check out Widespread Panic this year in Vegas, you may want to start seeing if you can change your flight to another city. [Las Vegas Sun]

11:00 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Dan Gibson
136 views, 1 comment

Latest by n/a: If they didn't know better than to add The Killers (post Sam's Town) to their lineup, they clearly don't deserve another go at this.... more »

overloaded

Somehow, Jack Johnson Is Only Playing Five Festivals This Summer

That's the word from Jeff Leeds at the New York Times, who penned a story on the fact that there may be something of a summer-rockfest glut hitting the U.S. over the coming months. With the lousy economy putting the hurt on potential cabana sales and the overlapping lineups making each festival less of a destination, can America handle "more than a dozen" parties based around the consumption of music? The answer seems to be "it depends on the lineup"—apparently the jam-band-heavy Mile High Festival is selling like gangbusters, while the promise of two Radiohead shows isn't helping tickets to the New York-adjacent All Points West festival move as quickly as one might have hoped. More »

1:45 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Maura Johnston
568 views, 5 comments

Latest by Jay-C: That 5 festivals too many... more »

no jack johnson either (yet)

Bent Festival To Feature Home-Made Electronics, Workshops, Kanye?

Sorry, no Kanye. But the Bent Festival will be hitting LA, New York, and Minneapolis over the next month, showcasing the finest in circuit-bending musical acts, as well as workshops that will let you try it for yourself. "The term circuit bending refers to the act of modifying the circuitry of battery-powered children's toys to create strange, new, and unintended sounds for creative purposes. Instead of merely watching a person's face glowing in the screen of a laptop, the audience can watch performers wrangle squelches, bleeps, groans, and blips out of everyday childhood toys. This is fun to watch, and fun to do." Sure looks like it! More »

5:00 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Anthony Miccio
254 views, 1 comment

Latest by Tenno: Oh that lady dancing... heaven help us all. Circuit bending is awesome though. more »

The Foo Fighters, Jack Johnson, Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails, and Stone Temple Pilots will headline ~~1999's~~ this year's Virgin Mobile Festival, which takes place at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Aug. 9-10. [Baltimore Sun]

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if i agree to stop littering, will that help?

Environmentalism Is New/Old Tiresome Trend In Music

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the next big thing among music artists from the Arcade Fire to Michael Stipe to Jack Johnson is enviromentalism, which means we can expect to hear the word "green" prefacing nearly everything we used to enjoy for the foreseeable future, as well as a number of cryptic metaphors trying to explain complex issues. More »

2:30 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Dan Gibson
516 views, 12 comments

another thing white people like: carbon offsetting

Jack Johnson Tour Neutral For Mother Earth, Less So For Audience

When you wake up at six in the morning (right around the time the freaks in the living room get their stuff and leave) and roam the Web for news items to make pithy comments about, your sense of humor can be a bit compromised. So, when I saw an article titled "Johnson Steps Up Green Efforts On Tour", the immediate options were either "homicidal rage" or "snappy blog post". Guess which option won out, friend-o? More »

9:30 AM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Dan Gibson
424 views, 8 comments

Latest by iantenna: hey, at least the dude isn't, say, having his driver dump raw sewage into a river. more »

And the festival announcements and rumors continue to pile up: Radiohead, Jack Johnson, and Tom Petty are rumored to be headlining the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, which is slated to take place Aug. 22-24. At what point should we just say that Radiohead and Jack Johnson are co-headlining a tour in August? [SF Weekly via Pitchfork]

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lineups

All Points West Festival Banking On Hopes That There Are Lots Of Radiohead And Jack Johnson Fans Out There

The All Points West Festival—from the people who brought you Coachella, and set in bucolic Jersey City—has announced the lineup for its inaugural year, and people who wanted to see Radiohead play a show somewhere around New York City are going to be really, really excited, as the band is headlining two of the fest's three nights. They'll top the bill for Aug. 8 and Aug. 9; headlining the Aug. 10 show is 2008 festival staple Jack Johnson, whose Pollstar page is going to look like a list of every major three-day show happening in the US this summer pretty soon. The rest of the roster, which includes Underworld, the Roots, Cat Power, Youssou N'Dour, CSS, Amadou & Mariam, and the Go! Team, follows after the jump. More »

5:17 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,268 views, 10 comments

Latest by silkyjumbo: I'd consider going to Jersey for this - even with Jack Johnson headlining. more »

who charted

Jack Johnson Wakes Up The Chart (Kinda)

Jack Johnson's Sleep Through The Static became the first No. 1 album with a six-figure sales total in a while this week, selling 375,000 copies during its first week in stores. The strong debut led a slightly better week for record sales, which were helped along by a bigger-than-previous-weeks slate of new releases and people heading to their computers to actually purchase music legally after the Grammy telecast. More »

5:45 PM on Wed Feb 13 2008
By Maura Johnston
745 views, 13 comments

"Rough"-ing It In East Africa

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