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Weezer

Jillian Lauren, wife of Weezer’s Scott Shriner, was shot by police and charged with attempted murder after  coming out of her house shooting a gun for an unknown reason and refusing to put down her gun when ordered by officers, who were, at the time, looking for three suspects in the neighborhood.

It is believed that Lauren was shooting at one of the suspects, but that is not clear. She was shot in the shoulder by officers, upon which time she went back in her house and stayed there for a half hour.

Lauren is a New York Times Bestseller, with two books, one, “Some Girls: My Life in a Harem,” about her experience as a call girl for the prince of Brunei. She’s been married to Shriner since 2005 and is the mother of two children.

Weezer is expected to play Coachella, and they haven’t cancelled.

The Marias

The Marias have a new tour coming this year, the “Submarine Tour,” and have released the dates. The tour starts July 10^th in McAllen, Texas and will end on September 24^th in Charlotte, North Carolina, encapsulating shows in Austin, Minneapolis, Vancouver, Nashville, Atlanta and others.

Tickets will be on pre-sale April Fifteenth at 10am, with general sales happening April 18^th.

The Marías 2025 Tour Dates:
04/11 – Indio, CA @ Coachella
04/18 – Indio, CA @ Coachella
07/10 – McAllen, TX @ McAllen Convention Center *
07/12 – Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater *
07/17 – Tucson, AZ @ AVA Amphitheater at Casino Del Sol *
07/19 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl *
07/20 – Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre *
07/23 – Portland, OR @ Theater of the Clouds *
07/25 – Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre *
07/27 – Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater *
07/30 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre *
08/01 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory *
08/02 – St. Charles, IA @ Hinterland
08/03 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
09/19 – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Festival
09/21 – Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater ^
09/23 – Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater ^
09/24 – Charlotte, NC @ Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre ^

* = w/ julie
^ = w/ Momma

Patti Smith

This fall, New York punk scene icon Patti Smith will be releasing a new memoir, called “Bread of Angels.” It will be out November 4^th from Random House (Bloomsbury Trade in the UK.) The memoir will cover her childhood in working class Philadelphia and New Jersety, moving to Michigan, marrying Fred “Sonic” Smith and her grief over his death. The synopsis is as follows:

“God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post–World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbors, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairy tales. We enter the child’s world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises, and searches for sacred silver pennies.

The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years when the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Smith starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic recordings and songs such as Horses and Easter, “Dancing Barefoot” and “Because the Night.”

She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred “Sonic” Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family.

As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life, and, finally, writing again—the one constant on a path driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti Smith on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.”

You can preorder “Bread of Angels” now.