Dillinger Escape Plan

This year, the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival reveals that tattoos are more ubiquitous among social scenes than ever before. A walking museum of quotes and legendary faces from Jesus to Michael Jackson decorates the backs, shoulders, calves and fingers of people fashionably reliving their favorite historical decades at this heat-stroke inducing music marathon…

Dillinger, moving in speeds unfathomable by the naked eye The Dillinger Escape Plan played Irving Plaza as part of an ongoing tour to promote Option: Paralysis, their new LP due out this week on Season of Mist…

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Weinman fall down go boom (more by Justina Villanueva) Never been one to go half ass, The Dillinger Escape Plan have announced TWO separate legs of a US tour in support of Option Paralysis…

Wow…Public Image Ltd, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Grace Jones, Fever Ray, Devo, Hot Chip, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, Mew, Camera Obscura, Gil Scott-Heron, The xx, John Waters, Dillinger Escape Plan, Deer Tick, Gary Numan…

Chris’s camera broke in the middle of shooting Dillinger Escape Plan at Webster Hall last night (12/29). That means no pictures of Gogol Bordello though we did manage to get them from the previous two shows (night 1 & night 2)…

Liam Wilson playing w/ Frodus @ DBA (more by Ryan Muir) we asked lots of people to make lists. this is what Liam sent in… Liam Wilson’s Favorite Things About Philly 1…

Patti Smith @ Carnegie Hall in February (more by Tim Griffin) tonight in NYC * Sure Juror @ Pianos * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * Extra Life @ The Stone * Steel Train @ Maxwell’s * David Johansen @ City Winery * The Bad Plus @ Village Vanguard * Daedelus, Two Fresh @ Highline Ballroom * Disco Biscuits, Daedelus @ Nokia Theatre * Patti Smith & Her Band @ Bowery Ballroom * Dr…

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