Grab Your Doobies and Twist Your Baseball Caps Backwards -- Cypress Hill Are Back!

By Kat Gardiner on 03-10-2009

On April 4, at the Radio City Music Hall, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr -- former members of obscure pop group, The Beatles -- will be reuniting for the first time since 2002 for David Lynch's "Change Begins Within" concert, which benefits his foundation for "Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace."

David Lynch, presumed ghostwriter for such sites as timecube.com as well as numerous Dr. Bronner's soap bottles, has also started his own foundation based on Sting's body movements and transcendental meditation. Turns out David Lynch doesn't only enjoy midget dream sequences, hate the iPhone, make really bizarre commercials full of floating blue lips, but is also a leading promoter of transcendental meditation being taught in elementary schools.

The show also features performances by Donovan, Eddie Vedder, Moby, Sheryl Crow, Ben Harper, Bettye LaVette, Paul Horn, and My Morning Jacket's Jim James. My only hope is that Donovan and Sheryl Crow dress up as John and George and get into a fist fight/make-out session with Paul and Ringo while David Lynch's oversized head hovers 10-feet above the stage, green and holographic, singing "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" to itself in reverse while Moby and Eddie Vedder waltz across the stage complementing each other profusely. Then Bettye LaVette will crawl on stage, smell a bottle of perfume, scream, laugh, cry, and fully climax, before she flies off, stage right, at which point Ben Harper wakes up in a cold sweat, relieved it was all just a dream. "Or was it?" he asks himself as he looks around to find that Paul Horn and Jim James are lying next to him, scandalously, in his California King.

Come on. It's entirely possible that this could happen, and you know it.

By Liz Louche on 03-10-2009

Sometimes a band comes along with a sound that just bowls you over and you think, "Wow, I wish I would've thought of that. I can't believe no one did before! This is -- groundbreaking, sort of." And then sometimes the band members have better haircuts than you and are more nonchalantly "cool." Perhaps right now, that band is Telepathe. Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais, the Brooklyn duo behind the music, are releasing their electro/hip-hop/post-punk/dance debut full-length Dance Mother (TMT Review) on IAMSOUND on April 14 (it's already been released in the UK via V2). The album features guest appearances from TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone and !!!'s Shannon Funchess and was produced by Dave Sitek (TV on the Radio).

To celebrate, Telepathe is taking it to the streets and joining up with The Faint and Ladytron for their upcoming spring tour. They're also playing more than a few SXSW showcases

03.18.09 - Austin, TX - Mrs. Beas*
03.19.09 - Austin, TX - Malverde**
03.19.09 - Austin, TX - Red 7***
03.20.09 - Austin, TX - Waterloo Records
03.21.09 - Austin, TX - Urban Outfitters****
04.01.09 - Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall*****
04.02.09 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue*****
04.03.09 - Chicago, IL - Metro*****
04.04.09 - Chicago, IL - Metro*****
04.06.09 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Theatre*****
04.07.09 - Montreal, QC - Theatre Telus*****
04.08.09 - Boston, MA - House of Blues*****
04.10.09 - New York, NY - Webster Hall*****
04.11.09 - New York, NY - Webster Hall*****
04.13.09 - Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero*****
04.14.09 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club*****
04.15.09 - New York, NY - The Annex

* NY Noise Party

** IAMSOUND/'Sup Magazine & This Is Music day party with Little Boots, Suckers, The Mae Shi, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Micachu & The Shapes, Glasser, and a Sebastien Grainger DJ set

*** Other Music/Heeb Party with Chairlift, Harlem Snakes, Suckers, Nite Jewel, andCrystal Stilts

**** Lemonade, The Chap, Rye Rye, Max Tundra and School of Seven Bells

***** Ladytron and The Faint