photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin

Coachella Day Three is underway and streaming live as I type this (on Sunday, 4/14).

And you saw our pictures from Coachella Day One. Above and below is a selection from Day Two with many more like them at BrooklynVegan.

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photos by Sarah Frankie Linder

"...as evinced by Spiritualized's latest release "Sweet Heart Sweet Light," Pierce has yet to come close to hitting the bottom of this particularly deep well, and as the group ably showed at a sold out Metro Thursday night, Spiritualized has also found a comfortable place balancing bombast with its more subtle moments. That's fitting, as Pierce's songs, too, have long explored various contrasts, the push and pull between despair and salvation, sickness and cure, noise and beauty, the extremes of darkness and -- like emerging from a long, dark tunnel -- the euphoric release of light. At its best and most grandiose, it's quite a rush..." [Chicago Tribune]

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The Cribs @ Bowery Ballroom in 2008 (more by Tim Griffin)

today in Chicago
* The Revival Tour @ Bottom Lounge
* Color Card, Deadbeat @ The Whistler
* Poundcake, High Wasted @ Township
* 200 Years, Axis: Sova @ The Burlington
* The Cribs, The Hounds Below @ Schubas
* Brain Idea, Son Step, Names Divine @ Empty Bottle
* Fucked Up, Lasers and Fast and Shit @ Lincoln Hall
* Slushy, Organs, Big Joy, Bad Bad Meow @ Subterranean
* The All American Rejects, A Rocket To The Moon @ Metro
* Devon Kay & The Solutions, Crunk Witch, Charles Mantis @ Ultra Lounge
* Goldenboy, Kevin Tihista's Red Terror, Kerosene Stars, Open Land @ Double Door

The Revival Tour (Chuck Ragan, Dan Andriano, Cory Branan, Nathaniel Rateliff) makes its way to the Bottom Lounge tonight.

Fucked Up are performing David Comes to Life in its entirety at Lincoln Hall.

You "might" find The Cribs hanging out in Logan Square before their show at Schubas.

Stream the new Spiritualized LP, Sweet Heart Sweet Light, via NPR. They play Metro on May 3.

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Spiritualized @ Radio City Music Hall in 2010 (more)

UK psych rockers Spiritualized announced last year that their new LP Sweet Heart Sweet Light would be out on March 19th in the US via Fat Possum/Domino Records imprint Double Six in the UK. According to SPIN, the album's release has now been delayed and we can expect it to hit stores in late March or early April. Head to BrooklynVegan to check out its tracklisting and hear frontman Jason Pierce's thoughts on making the LP.

The group are set to kick off a brief European tour in mid-March and have just announced a full set of North American tour dates as well. Beginning in Minneapolis on May 2nd, they'll reach Chicago's Metro for a performance just one day later. Tickets go on sale this Saturday (2/4), at noon CST.

All known 2012 tour dates are below.

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